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Talk about thread drift, I thought I was bad but my views are as Steve's and my experience in Massachusetts as Rich

It's normally by the spool near the solenoid. It's not too bad a job, just a matter of removing the ram and dismantling it to replace the piston seal. First you need to establish the reason. You can pressure check the pump by removing the connection from the ram and putting a gauge there, if the pressure doen't rise when the relief valve is adjusted the pump is worn. To check if the ram seals are leaking you'll need to put a tap in the line but as most rams are single acting a leaking piston seal normally means oil is seen leaking from the ram.

Yes but that is what gives a religious bigot and warmonger the chance to usurp a party and change its politics to the right, look what happened in 1994.

Yes this is entirely the point but it's still worth burning wood as cleanly as possible to keep its impact as low as possible. I think you should be able to to burn wood with 30% moisture cleanly but it may just be that in any basic stove that it's difficult to burn sub 20% wood badly. What is worth a thought is that Methane is a very simple molecule and relatively easy to burn just to CO2 and H2O yet domestic gas burners have a fan and a balanced flue yet we have a complicated mixture of compounds like wood and expect it to burn cleanly in a basic box and simple heat exchange surfaces.

Yes but it was not unknown for people to break the lead seal and open up the rack in days of yore. Valmet's forwarders did this a lot as standard if you booted them, I did an assessment on one of FC Ae's forwarders and got marked down by Mr. Coombie for saying it was a machine fault.

I could write in depth but you wouldn't read it, pearls before swine ? I'll get the bike out then, Honda or Kwacker, decisions decisions...

Which bit doen't work??

If you look at Hans Rosling's work you will see the only way to address new excess births is to increase the wealth and education of the very poor, this isn't going to happen as fast as it was in Trump and Putins' new schemes. Anyway it's the very rich that cause the most pollution per capita and the old, like you and me, that are the biggest burden on society.

but whilst it is unacceptable to ban them as some people won't learn and their rights to self harm are inviolate the practice has become expensive and socially unacceptable in public places because that right does not extend to polluting others' air space. I can well remember yoofs being tackled by old fogeys for smoking in the Nosmo King sections of trains and the old guy being ridiculed, people don't do that now and it was that social imperative that made it possible to bring the law in.

That's an interesting point, my bet would be if you see white /yellow smoke you are just smouldering with no flaming combustion, black smoke then the fire is well air starved, blue smoke the fire is quenched or not up to temperature. I'd love to see sampling done if you truly cannot see any smoke but would say it's as clean as you're going to get. Yes there will always be particulates but if you saw that Economist graphic you will note there is always a background particulate level that is not attributed and since 1990 this has become more significant as other sources have been controlled (especially look at how agriculture's contribution dropped so dramatically, presumably following the straw burning ban). Consider also that all particulates are not equally toxic, these surveys do not discriminate whether particles are of a more damaging type, like asbestos, infectious spores or containing PAHs, also the risks are not directly proportional to the concentrations, they go up dramatically if you smoke for instance. Now I accept that breathing in particulates is damaging, I once worked out that over my lifetime I have probably inhaled over 2 grams but I am approaching my biblically allotted span. I almost certainly have loss of lung function, after all I sat behind a dies which emitted blue smke, from glazed bores I suspect)and worked near many bonfires. This is the worry to me about how theses cause and effect are being attributed. premature deaths and Disability-Adjusted Life Year effects are based on a cohort of all who have died up till now. Many of these people will have lived, breathed and existed in industrial pollution from years back, you can see from the graphic cited above that even since 1990 we have made significant improvement and before that we had the clean air act. I hardly ever see dark smoke nowadays and when I do it's often a shady industrial yard illegally burning off old tyres etc.

I don't know enough about modern tractor hydraulics but assuming the flow and pressure are enough to power the grapple loader then yes but I am not aware of any case where you should use the standard return to the tractor spool as it is too restrictive, take the return to an unrestricted port, normally directly to the rear axle. Do any tractors have closed centre hydraulics nowadays? I just wonder because it means you can have a more sophisticated control of the loader hydraulics.

Isn't this @Pinkfoot's field? What's happened to him

When I last saw her she was at Richmond's, twas also the the second time after the APF

This depends on what cost you decide to put on which pollutant emitted. Most of the current drive is to reduce particulates, also with some input from the mayor of london who has a personal interst in breathing difficulties. So if you mean particulates per kW of heat delivered into a home I'd say electricity from fossil fuels and natural gas win hands down. Carbon dioxide is another matter.

I agree with Steve and it is called a curved hur

Cheers Bob I think the splines may be shot also. I'll get it out over the next week or so and maybe show you for your opinion.

Okay thanks, have signed up and will search site before asking newbie questions

Has anyone here had to replace a hilux front propshaft or are there still firms that re manufacture them? I ask because having crawled under a friend's which has recently failed the MOT on "prop shaft bearing likely to break up" amongst other things it looks like the UJs aren't serviceable. I had this on my 1987 one but a chap refitted the spiders and managed to fit 2 circlips. Else Milners want 300 quid for a new shaft. I have a couple of other questions if anyone here is experienced with Hilux of this era.

A bit more long winded than (assuming MS Windows of some flavour): 1. Install Irfanview 2. Open Irfanviewthumbnails 3 Select folder of pictures, select those pictures you want from folder (use CTRL and click each one) 4 . File menu create contact sheet from selected files 5 Print

Ours were firm's issue so the cheapest kit on the market

I'm not criticising, if it works... I'm just too tight to risk ruining it, I still have several orange hi viz rail standard jackets, they only last about 15 minutes in the rain so once they are all wet ...

I liked mine with a few drops of Angustora bitter ( it goes well with just soda water too) it's been just short of a year since though. Stubby I'm the same but I tend to eat a bag of crisps quite frequently so never add salt to cooking or meals but like you I did get cramp in the hand concessionally when using a saw.

I too use paramo but wouldn't dream of wearing it at work.

I de blossomed my tree to try and break the codling moth brown rot cycle so have no crop but if I did I would try to make some fruit jerky as shown on telly this evening.

Many firms take advantage but most garages will be made of a cement reinforced with less than 10% chrysotile asbestos. As long as you take proper precautions this is not a notifiable process whereas the fluffy asbestos and insulation boards are as they contain blue asbestos. When I last dealt with this about 5 years ago we dismantled the roofing as carefully as possible after first wetting the roof. The guys wore disposable overalls and simple respirators. All the material was put in hippo bags and then wrapped with Damp Proof Membrane, the coveralls and respirator filters went with the roofing. We delivered it to a licensed site for disposal and it only cost twice the rate for normal residual landfill, though there was a minimum charge for 3 tonne and the £30 cost of a conveyance note. It's worth being wary as I have lost 2 cousins from lung disease contracted while working in the Devonport dockyard in the 60s.