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carbide bits are very brittle and fragile. If possible support it with a sleeve which fits in the bolt hole. Once you start a hole with it you could try an ordinary HSS left hand drill, with the drill in reverse and it may snag and wind the remaining thread out.

Yes I had forgotten too, I was disappointed as Dylan could only whisper, oddly of the oldies McCartney was the well performed set, we had to start away when Clapton was on, I wish I had left my wife listening and gone home with the other girl we were with.

There are normally other telltale signs of heat damage, often sunken areas of bark where the rest of the trunk has continued to put on increment, let alone charring.

Do they sign a receipt or invoice you though? The thing is it is the employer who will be visited by HMRC to pay back tax and NI contributions if they are not kosher self employed and paying their contributions.

I was thinking soil made up on that side for that very reason.

My understanding is that an earlier sting sets up the immune system to react so that the next sting makes a big immune response that drives the body into shock, the antidote to which is adrenaline. When orange was chosen as the Hiviz for working on the railway one of the reasons given was that the yellow attracted insects.

It is strange that L&S don't list the part for the hedge cutter but do for some saws https://www.lsengineers.co.uk/hose-stihl-part-no-1121-358-7705.html

Alanis Morrisette too, it was the last concert I went to

Cheeky whippersnapper

Back in the very old days crosscutting was an issue so wood was handled in 4ft lengths, also often burned in this length by using andirons to keep just adjacent tips burning, pushing the sticks together as they burned. A measure of this wood was the cord, a stack of these lengths 8ft long and 4ft high. This was all well and good when we hand loaded everything. Even oak tops could be well stacked on a lorry as you could cut out most bends ("half a bend is no bend at all") and still achieve 70% stacking efficiency. Later as grapple loaders predominated they needed longer lengths, first 2 metres, then 2.4 and nowadays 3. This becomes a problem with bent tops, often referred to as cordwood as they do not stack neatly. Roundwood is the term more used for straighter lengths and softwood.

it looks like a Portuguese laurel, there was another post here recently of one with dieback, it looks like a fungal attack but who knows what?

This could be a group lightning strike, it can happen that there is no sign of damage but the sudden current passing through the ground kills off near surface roots.

My preferred splitting axe is like that Stubai and still on its original handle 25 years since my daughter's then boyfriend gave it to me for xmas. Overstrike protection is a whipping of sisal baler twine glued on and the cylinder of a bath foam container heat shrinked on with a hair dryer.

I never felt comfortable using acid so haven't experience of it.

Ash, round it off with a stail engine and then steam it and fix it in a stail brake for the curve (easier said than done)

They are a spring made with steel of a diamond cross section. In their at rest state they are a larger diameter than the hole that has been tapped to take them, if you have the correct insertion tool it fits through the helicoil and engages with a tang of the spring that has been formed across the diameter of the thread nearest the piston. In the picture the tang which you drive it by is at the top, this end goes in the hole first.As you rotate this the normal way to screw it into the hole the torque winds the spring and shrinks its diameter. Once the helicoil is level with the bottom of the thread you snap the tang off (there is a preformed notch in it to facilitate this). At this stage there must be no part of the helicoil proud of the flange the spark plug seals on. This is why you have been told to check the length. Once the tang has broken off the spring is expanded against the thread and will bind on the thread to resist removal. The helicoil must not have any part of it poking out of either end of the thread as snagging a loose end will pull the helicoil out like a loose wire.

Yes they are higher quality pictures but I have to download them and open them in gimp to see them.

Looks like it may have been blossom wilt but I cannot see any recovery from whatever it is now.

Crikey and I never managed one, three miles of cross country at school was my longest.

I was thinking it was slime flux, the weeping is a symptom of a bacterial infection that has got in, possibly through a wound when the fence was put in. Not likely fatal but birch is a short lived tree and other pathogens can take advantage.

Yes it does depend on how badly it has stripped. If you can still wind a plug loosely in then it's a cinch to use the stepped tap tool, not familiar with 555 but done a few Stihl and Huskies and a car or two. If the hole is badly misshapen and you need to drill and then tap conventionally you need a steady hand. It is possible to do it with the cylinder in situ if you bring the piston up past the top of the exhaust port and fill the cylinder with grease. The helicoil has to be exactly the length of the thread or a fraction less as it must not extend into the cylinder or have any thread left out above. When done you break off the driving tang and then expel the grease, tang and swarf.

I don't know what the blackness is but it may be some pick up from the rings or some species of metals in the aluminium alloy. When you dissolve the aluminium pick up with caustic soda it turns it to sodium aluminate which is soluble, so it can be washed off. The fizzing is hydrogen being given off by the reaction. Aluminium oxide is insoluble in water

I look on mine as an expensive present that I think I should make some use of 🙂

I sometimes wear a Garmin fenix 6 and average about 2400 calories, 12-18000 steps but restricted strenuous activity, try and keep heartrate below 150.

It's amazing what a standard 16" motor mower will pick up and condense