openspaceman

Wot no cod liver oil?

Post natal bottles of mackeson were the order of the day, same dose of iron but sweeter

he wouldn't have pleaded guilty of he thought he would be hanged rather than a minimum term and free.

arrested, handcuffed, raped murdered and burned

Shame 'specially considering the current old bailey case

An update on this, I bought a cheap carb from L&S with 2 spare spark plugs, 30 quid all in. I previously had a diaphragm set for the original Walbro but I popped the non genuine one on and it runs perfectly. The throttle cable was badly frayed and gave out, as the genuine replacement is an inner and outer plus the two low tension leads it costs about 30 quid, so I bought a cycle gear cable (2m for £2), silver soldered a length at the trigger end and bent it to the S shape. The other end I made a ferrule from the nib of a ballpoint pen, added the spring from it to close the throttle. I crimped and silver soldered it. It seems to work well but the time involved makes paying the full price more sensible if you are busy working.

So very apposite

In days of old a knurling tool in lathe on an old piston (car) would pucker up the skirt a bit if it was slappping. In this case has the bearing been rotating in the case? Is the hole in the crankcase oval? Good luck with the repair but I wouldn't like to be the person that buys it after.

Martin Lewis says the price cap is currently below wholesale prices and is bound to rise in April. Also no fixed deals are available at less than the cap, so yes my fixed price in March will end and a big jump.

That's killing the goose...

There are ways around that for a big company. At my work there was a pool of cars in which a top of the range Volvo featured, only the boss ever had access to the keys. Remember VAT is not the only element of tax. A pool car is an expense to a company and deductible from the turnover. There are many other benefits a company owner can enjoy at the company's expense, remember Tiny Rowlands, he drew no income in UK yet lived in a large house here, not owned by himself.

I thought warfarin was banned for squirrels 😀 Seriously I'm sorry to hear that, best wishes

I have made no political comment, I did not say what you have put in quotation marks. As we are bound to have tax I suggested a tax which was less easy for the very rich to be able to avoid paying in the way they currently do

Hardly. The point is having a tax that can be levied at the point of production or entry into the country and paid by all so companies do not benefit from reclaiming it, as is VAT on most cars now.

This one?

I'm a bit out of touch with what modern consumers aspire to but high end cars and personal goods for a start.

Yes but it's a tax that rich people make good use of and find ways out of paying it from personal money. Again this is why I like a purchase tax on "luxuries"

Bound to be TPO if they specified a 2.5m reduction. Ridiculous to even TPO such a tree adjacent to a building

Diesel seems to have gone up to £1.47 at the major service stations and short queues, longer ones at the local stations but I didn't notice much change in price.

I'm much the same. Most recent failed project is trying to revive an old Ebike with a new controller which I think I have zapped.

My little freebie garden mowers are 16" and set low they do a fair job on conifer . Even better with a HiLift blade but the most bulk reduction is with holly. I have a vague plan to modify one to vacuum slivers off a stump grinder.

Yes it looks like someone has been picking off the outer bark plates

Me too though I still file freehand

As long as it is just trimmings and no wood over 12mm a collecting lawnmower with sharp blades compacts it well

The guards are quite different, my recent experience is with Stihl but the types look much the same. The saw guard is smaller and mounts tight tp the sawblade, it only covers the rear quadrant and in use you can use it to slowly feed the blade into a thick stem. The mulcher guard sits back from the gearbox and if like the Sihl mounts directly on the stem HUSQVARNA Trimmer Guard 544 10 74 02 FPANDG.COM One thing that used to annoy me with the lads is that they would use the mulcher blade bare and without the cup underneath, Stihl calls it a rider plate. Without this it is too easy to dig the mulcher in the ground and this results in increase wear, more frequent sharpening and increases the risk of flying stones Rider Plate for Stihl FS220, FS220K Brushcutters - 4119 713 3100 | L&S Engineers WWW.LSENGINEERS.CO.UK Rider Plate for Stihl FS220, FS220K Brushcutters Genuine Stihl Part OEM Part No. 4119 713 3100 Suitable for the following...