openspaceman
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Was there some hybrid poplar on the site? First piecework job I had was pruning B&M poplar plantations to 8ft. I have also felled large wolf sitka at the bottom of a wet valley adjacent the A3 at Hindhead, at 57 year old they were over 3m3. 6 years ago I posted a graphic of boring the hinge and why you can get away with it, In your case I see you also nicked out a bit of buttress at the side of the hinge to prevent tearing.
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What a difference an insulated flue makes
openspaceman replied to Woodworks's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Well you are right in that if the flue gases fall below the dew point of tars or water before they exit the chimney they will condense on the sides, my point being if the flame is clean there are minimal tars that get away, water is inevitable so an insulated flue must be better. -
What a difference an insulated flue makes
openspaceman replied to Woodworks's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
It could also be that the parents' stove is left slumbering a lot rather than flaming. When they are running what does the colour and density of the smoke look like? -
UK power networks guy used a fork to find the medium pressure gas main when connecting our yard, got sand blasted when he found it.
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They flew out of Heathrow each evening about 19:00 over my house, very noisy compared with modern jets.
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Okay but something was giving an assist before, how about a broken torsion bar at the front hinge?
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sounds like the seal of a gas strut has let go
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No only on the railway in front of the fencing guys
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Post an image of your stove
openspaceman replied to BowlandStoves's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
It looks like a morso 6140 or a copy of -
This is what I used in the yard, similar but diffrent make, I still used a blower to pile them against a wall first.
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I don't use one any more but we had CScope ones. They do have to be sent away for a calibration check once a year IIRC.
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I know but thieves know better
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A multitool with diamond cutter doesen't make sparks does it?
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That would be theft
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Thanks Gavin, I take it you did one and only the seals needed replacing or were other bits worn and needed replacing as well? I've two rams to reseal as well so will be ordering bits. The thing is a replacement rotator is £600 so if the bits cost more than 1/3 of new I may as well get new.
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Has anyone successfully done this or are bearing parts likely to be worn. I am getting high prices to have this done and thinking I must either reseal the indexator g3 myself or buy a replacement (it's 30 years old so owes me nothing)
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Yes that is what I remember, I suspect it is partly because it has to be quarter sawn as the tangential to radial shrinkage is so great that boards cut any other way will move. There's very little heart wood to it, it often shakes and takes ages to dry (as said above). It made brilliant raw material for pulpwood as a cut and come again coppice crop every 30 years as it is so heavy and straight but not liked as firewood as it rots before it dries.
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It was King Leopold of Belgium did it local to me
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I'm glad at least one other person understands my point
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You miss the point entirely, it's not the inventiveness or technological ability we lacked but the commercial willingness and managerial ability to develop and prosper from it because of demands for short term returns. Whereas Germany has for decades had a policy of encouraging technological innovation by regional banks offering long term credit and family firms not playing to the whims of rich investors who might pull the plug at short notice.
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No, more the lax business ethos inherited from spoils of empire leading to unwillingness to forgo dividends in favour of investing in research and development.
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I don't doubt that but it may well be the reason our leaders of industry didn't evolve the way the German and Japanese ones did, it was too easy to plunder wealth from elsewhere so we've coasted ever since. When things got rough, paying the americans back after the war, industry was not resilient enough to meet the challenge
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my dolmar blower did this and I mentioned it here and the advice was it was coil related, as I had stripped the fuel system and carb. I put it away and forgot about it as coil was too expensive. When I finally got it out to fix it I first put a new plug in, it has rin perfectly since. I keep the dodgy spark plug for when someone annoys me...
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look up oak bracket fungus
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Good drainage, a bit of lime from the cement and little compaction because of the bricks I wouldn't worry much. It would be other contaminants amongst it I would be concerned with.
