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Bilbao is about as far south as I could stand, I can read spanish reasonably, speak next to none and understand very little of it when spoken but was sorely tempted.

The lad managed to undo all the screws to the seat box without problems. It is a remarkable vehicle as it hasn't run since 1980 and has been barn garaged since well before that by the second owner. A water company had it for the first 4 or 5 years. Strangely the chassis is painted green over a zinc rich base and not a spot of corrosion on it. It will be restored to it's 1965 spec but not pristine, the lad has a sensible approach and likes some of the "patina" (including the list of telephone numbers on the visor but he will repaint the steel bits after treating any rust spots.

Isn't it used for beehives?

Yes I vaguely remember carbon thrust bearings and similar the bolt on MOD cross member, this one is coming out upwards. The boy has got all the seat base out and I expect he will have it out before I get back there on Monday.

No they are tiny and as I said may have completed their life cycle. I looked up this old thread which shows similar damage.

This one will be a DIY rebuild but the son of my mate who owns it wants to drive it in the mean time. The series 3 gearbox seems fairly common as a take out , the series 2 both rare and expensive.

As Paul says it is the live bits you need to keep an eye on, if it is little critters they will have gone after feeding on the green bits. They also tend to go for conifers that have been clipped late in the previous season In the old days they would spray with lindane at the first sign of the beasts in late April/May but that is banned now. As I have mentioned in another thread soapy water can be quite successful in removing them, further confirmed by my plant pathologist friend but she says the best method is to add some ladybirds as a biological control.

Do any of you aficionados know if fitting a series 3 gearbox and transfer into a series 2 is straightforward. I can see an obvious difference that makes me think the series two bellhousing will need to be kept but are the gearbox bolts and size of the first motion shaft the same?

If you do add a bit of soap as it is supposed to lower the surface tension and block their airways. I grew peppers last year and used a water pistol to keep aphids off but then I was doing it regularly not as a one off.

Is there another service the pump operates? If it reaches the same pressure on both the problem is likely the pump. To be sure you can cap a port on the block to see if it reaches the blow off point of the relief valve.

Having visited three of my close family near the end I have instructed people not to visit me once it is clear I cannot remember who they are, by which stage I will have lost any executive ability and won't be me.

Do as Bob suggests but if a flow/pressure tester is not available can you get to the hose that is on the return side of the ram? If so get the machine warm and a clean bucket. Put a rock in to stall the machine as in your video and then run the pipe in the bucket and power up the ram to stall, if oil still flows into the bucket when stalled then the ram seal has failed. If not then it's likely the pump isn't managing to get up to pressure.

LeeGray flavoured bacon butties anyone?

Nor me, thanks Stere

Which is why I gifted my kids all the cash I had saved to secure them houses, though one is still paying a mortgage and the other will need to pay IHT in the house provided for her. I'm also gambing that I will not need care before 75 but die before then, as I have not crystallised my pension pot and it will go to them (or their progeny in my younger daughter's case) free of IHT If I'm still alive at 75 I shall cash the lot and blow it.

£450k if it's a your main dwelling you hand on.

Good idea. I used https://www.lascarelectronics.com/software/easylog-software/easylog-usb/

I'm retired and agree with you. Apart from today when the weather is too bad to want to be outside I keep busy, Diy, vehicle repairs and sporadic forays into the garden plus jobs people ask me to do and I wonder how I had any time to be at work in the office for 12 hours 5 days a week. Even though physically fit health problems and lack of stamina mean things do take a lot longer than when I was working, I have to acknowledge the fact that old age is debilitating. I count myself far luckier than the generation that taught me who seldom lived long after 65 if indeed they reached it to draw a pension.

I would have loved to complete your questionnaire Nick but cannot as I am retired. I just wondered why you are posting from the dog's account? Andrew

It is good when you consider a litre of diesel has 10% more calories in it than petrol, so a petrol hybrid is equivalent with 59.5mpg. I was given a 2008 Honda civic hybrid 18month's ago as it had a faulty IMA battery, replacing it was more than the car was worth with 100k miles done, my old primary school fried who took it on regularly gets over 60mpg and 70 on his regular night time visit from Brighton to Wellingborough even with charging losses to the battery My works pug 206 1.4 diesel seldom dropped below 70mpg even at over 300k miles. A lot is to do with driving style and the hybrid probably benefits a driver who hammers up to junctions rather than someone like I. BTW the late Prof, David McKay predicted the raw materials problem for batteries in his 2009 book "sustainable energy without hot air"

I'm not common enough This thread was the first I was aware of the word

I don't think you can just replace the bulb, I forked out 9 quid and put a new complete one on but if you have just a bulb and it is a snug fit over the old one why not try gluing it on with sealall or uhu which are petrol proof, I have yet to try everbuild stixall with petrol but that is my general purpose sealing glue now.

I had the job of demolishing a Victorian brick wall for my brother near where I live. It had been pushed sideways into a precarious state by a large old coppiced bay tree. This had been removed a few years ago by a local company who had an attempt at stump grinding but gave up. @aspenarb bob very generously offered me the use of his little T Mech grinder over a weekend but I was thwarted by lack of anything to transport it with and my brother's reluctance to upset the neighbours at a weekend. I think it would have been a bit much for it but I would have liked to try it working. I had mentioned the stump to someone I labour for occasionally and by chance he had another grinding job nearby and was able to come in with his Dosko this afternoon. The machine performed admirably, I used to dislike using it in the past as it is such hard work, the last grinder I used was a carlton 8015 which would have minced the stump in less than an hour but probably have damaged the wall plinth. Before picture complete with this year's regrowth and after 2 hours later. I have a few bits left to chop off the wall. I'm not a fan of unnecessary stump removal but this thing was an ongoing problem with the wall and many attempts to kill the regrowth. I had a reminder of the importance of old stumps in my garden last week where I decided the cherry stump left by my shed door was hindering access, so I deployed my non patent stump burner and burned out the core of the stump to the subsoil. This left me with 3 125mm laterals which I drew out with a Hi lift jack. In one I found 3 stag beetle larvae, which is why I like a few stumps left to decay. Surrey , and my garden, is one of the last refuges for stag beetles. I gathered the remaining roots with one larva still attached and two loose in my other hand and placed them into the bottom of my holly hedge when one of the ungrateful blighters gave me a nip good enough for me to shake him off in surprise. Anyway all three are now under the hedge with the roots and a few saucepans of chainsaw chipping covering them, I hope they can feed peacefully for a few years before emerging for their brief lives as warriors.

Yes but often the stain runs vertically from the contaminant so it may be possible to take a few boards off and detect it, then run the cut either side and wedge the board apart to avoid cutting the iron.

Sweden apparently takes a fair amount of our baled plastic waste for burning in their combined heat and power/district heating schemes. I think exported plastic waste is the chief source of ocean plastic forests, the people are paid to take it off our hands and simply dump what they cannot use into the nearest river. This export should never have happened as the rules were that waste had to be dealt with locally, it seems it was the "packing recycling credits" that were allowed to breach this ban by claiming the waste was recycled and hence no longer waste. The more insidious micro plastic which is now found in marine creatures and us if we eat them is more likely from the waste water from washing machines which beat little fibrils from our clothing as it is washed.