openspaceman
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Dunno but I may have to find out as Granddaughter has acquired a 14 plate RR sport with the SV6 diesel and I dread anything going wrong with that. My Ford IDS software worked on some LR products up till Ford got rid in 2008 and I don't know what dealers used after that.
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Does the Battery Management System need resetting on these when there is a change? Else your middle name is Jonah
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More bullshit legislation and regulations J I think in every day life we have enough of that already. A good idea and compulsory are two different things
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Me too but I don't agree with much else you pontificate on the subject.
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Very good fault finding and analysis, well done your son will be proud.
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Chalara fraxinea - Generic thread
openspaceman replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
"In particular, we identify that under a certain ash density, the disease will remain mild." This fits in with my observations, the ash woodland I did some volunteering in has been devastated as have the self seeded ash in my mate's paddock as it re wilds, yet I have an ash in the garden, presumably brought in as seed with logs, which is 3 seasons old now and showing no signs. This village is on a light sandy soil and very few ash locally. It would seem that individual trees may stave off (and compartmentalise?) a single spore entry through a leaf but become overwhelmed with multiple infections, much like the current viral load concerns. -
Fomes annosus, in my day, now heterobasidon something
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It looks like a tree of heaven, ailanthus altissima to me, the white on the bark may be a scale insect but give it a week or two and look at the crown again.
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We did and there was often a wisp of blue from the chimney, it was the owner's chief exercise foraging wood with my old silky. Also I'd say the engines tended to be a bit smoky compared with cars. I never considered it particularly significant but then we were mostly nowhere near towns.
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If you are slicing off short fixed lengths is there any reason a bandsaw blade cannot be sharpened to cross cut? It isn't hard to find a vertical bandsaw with a 24 inch throat so 18 inch at 8 inch deep could be doable with a rocking table
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Wet wood doesn't get hot enough to produce NOx, formation is favoured by high temperature, excess oxygen and often pressure, hence why diesels emit it at certain engine loads.
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Or something transparent to get some greenhouse effect and hence some more solar energy input. Too right, that was my mistake and yes I do still bang my head.
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It's a disturbing graph as it would seem to indicate the disease is not being contained until you realise that up to mid April it only showed people hospitalised with the disease, then they added medics and carers who tested positive and latterly tests for over 65s, carers and medics who thought they had symptoms so it it began to indicate the extent of the disease in the wider community. Of course it does show that the risk of getting it is still higher than most of us expected even though only a fraction of a % of the population are known to have or have had it. On current trend it doesn't look like it can get below mid march numbers before end June, if ever.
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Mower engine needs fuel pump button pressing
openspaceman replied to cryptogram's topic in Maintenance help
I suspect this is a bit like the B&S engine that has no choke, the primer not only fills the carb but squirts excess fuel into the choke tube. I have a mountfield which is just the same, I leave it ticking over for a while before using it seriously. Old british bikes with Amal carburettors had a "tickling" device for cold weather starts which lowered the float to let fuel spill into the intake, over use was a sure fired way to wet the plug. -
Mower engine needs fuel pump button pressing
openspaceman replied to cryptogram's topic in Maintenance help
=Robin Subaru? -
It doesn't, world problems aren't going to be sorted on this platform so feel free to mske your opinion known or not. It has always fascinated me that we brits think we have a system with integrity and justice yet I see loads of examples of people manipulating it and breaking the rules in a manner that they are unlikely to be brought to book. I think it's because de minimis rules apply, such that as long as most sheeple do as the law provides...
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Well it would be 6 in that case because it's probably a civil matter but that's not the point, we know there is much corruption in our private and public services. Whatabout replying when you've slept it off?
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That's 7 year old news, I'm more concerned about who got to write this new app for £250 million and not tendering because it's an emergency measure. Mind I read for the first time that there seems to be some acknowledgement of "viral load" being a factor in the spread because it seems to work on distance from a person, measured by bluetooth signal strength AND time within that vicinity.
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Because the chain tension flexes the clutch toward that spot when cutting hard. Any wear in either bearing would make it worse. Was the cover plate washer mounted on the crankshaft? Just out of curiosity does anyone know how this pump differs from the one on the pole saws as they look the same and both shown as .55mm (is this the stroke?) but different part numbers.
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Cheeky whippersnapper, I've tried and failed more times than you've had hot dinners.
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I wish Trouble is too many of us follow the Adam Smith model and act like yeast in fermenting beer, expanding more and more until they pickle themselves in their own effluent
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my current one still does
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Home schooling - anyone else had a bit of a shock??
openspaceman replied to Squaredy's topic in General chat
nitrogen triiodide I expect -
Corrugated Fasteners 6x1 SC - fixings - corrugated fasteners - Corrugated Fasteners 6x1 Sc - Timber, Tool and Hardware Merchants established in 1933 WWW.SWANSEATIMBER.CO.UK Corrugated Fasteners 6 X1 Steel - Timber, Tool and Hardware Merchants Established in 1933. Specialising in Ironmongery... I used to see these a lot joining corners of boxes, they seem to have fallen out of fashion now, I hadn't thought of using then to prevent splitting. I had assumed the ones in the original post were hard plastic, like the timber tag shown, but never seen them either. Interesting idea but wouldn't thy just move the stress crack elsewhere? Mind we do weight wood while seasoning to control movement...
