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Weak clutch springs overheating the drum on idle??

I thought that full tracks were a bit of overkill for most chipping jobs and remembered the Ford 4000 with half tracks pulling a trailer with FMV crane, it could go anywhere the County would. So a cage driven by the same hydraulic motors as the feed rollers and a lightweight steel (or plastic) band track which could be put on around the road wheels and off quickly.

The thing about an updraught fire is that the initial kindling burning is fairly complete, the conditions have not yet got hot enough for a CO2 to CO reduction to take place, this heats the layer above which produces the white smoke. Yes the pyrolysis products will have a little CO but it will be mostly just tarry volatiles, this is a good thing as they are particularly acrid so give good warning if they get into the room. At the end of a burn when there is a thick layer of red hot coals but the draw from the chimney lessens as less air is sucked in at the primary level then the CO rises. At this stage there are no volatiles or smells so if there is an escape into the room the first sign, in the absence of a CO alarm, is lobster pink bodies.

It's probably because the chimney is a bit cold when you start the fire so rather than push the cold slug of air up the chimney it takes an easier route out the vent. More modern stoves do not have this vent direct from the room but rather the air is preheated by the back of the stove and is ducted to the same point just below the flue exit and slightly below the baffle (this is so any unburned gases have a chance to meet some air before passing up the chimney. Once the chimney is hot air should be sucked from the room through the vents. It does seem a bit worrying seeing as how the baffle is not quite the same as the original design, do you have a CO alarm? Can you shut the top vent during lighting? The main problem would be if the fire dies down to coals and the chimney becomes cold, allowing carbon monoxide into the room The white smoke is a mixture of pyrolysis offgas and partially burned wood/paper. This is because a fire at the bottom of a heap is hot enough to pyrolyse the wood above and create offgas but the conditions are not hot enough to support a flame. One way round this is to light a small heap of kindling on top of the main logs. It tends to be a little slower to heat up the stove but creates less smoke as a flame establishes at the top.

I have not been involved for 6 years but we had transit trucks of 2002 to 2011 era, I cannot remember when they changed to common rail injection but they were all 2.4 durotorque engines and chain driven overhead cam. I think most were dual mass clutches but when the clutch went they were changed to ordinary flywheels. I cannot remember much trouble below 100k miles but the common rail pumps needed replacing on some soon after. We had one timing chain snap, I think when someone slipped it into 3rd instead of 5th on the motorway. We fitted a new chain kit but something else went wrong within 12k miles, probably because out workshop wasn't clean enough for engine work. After that it became more economic to put a complete new engine in a newer vehicle as they were about £2000 but you had to fit £500 of new parts, belts, hoses etc.

Yes I use one after cutting garlic and onions, works well but I don't know any science behind the phenomenon

Yes, the holdings around here which used to be productive vegetable growing when I started work are golf courses and a car factory now.

I agree, especially of the "hope" land all around the M25, hundreds of acres left idle and owned by people that either expect to develop it or just want a large buffer around their properties. Not to mention all the open spaces which would have been grazed in the past.

It looks a bit like Iron chloride or sulphate, if so then it's the underlying corrosion to worry about. We had this sort of corrosion in a boiler that was burning shredded flat pack furniture returns where one section of ss flue got pinholed because it was too cold and the hydrochloric and sulphurous acids from combustion were condensing.

It is regarded as rot resistant heartwood and forest grown produces clean knot free, lightweight, strong timber. Port Orford cedar to the timber trade. In my youth archery arrow shafts were imported from north america.

Does it rest on that ledge under the flue and slope up toward the front, resting on the little spigot top left of the second picture? I would buy a sheet of 20mm vermiculite board and cut it to fit.

Go to the naughty step Marcus but don't talk to Kevin.

No this is marketed for women I had to raid my Xmas present stash for this shot

Naughty of you but I agree with what you say

Caesium137 and strontium90 are significant sources resulting from uranium235 fission and they emit high energy electrons (beta particles), even those that decay with helium nuclei (alpha particles) are still a danger when the dust is inhaled, then depending on the half life (strontium90 about 25 years) they continue to emit the particles inside you or the sheep and that does the damage.

Yes but in my case I considered it prudent to pay for it in view of my trade being one with amongst the highest accidental death rates.

I know that it is used to inoculate a healthy gut flora/fauna into the intestines of patients who have had an intense course of antibiotics that have killed all bacteria except the resistant ones, like clostridium difficele. Otherwise the resistant ones have a monopoly and destroy the small intestine, causing the patient to starve to death. I saw my father die this way before the problem was recognised 18 years ago.

I wonder if this was dropped as a result of the various mis selling of financial services because it always seemed part of the mortgage deals. It was part of mine and I also had £50k simple life insurance until the youngest was 18. Accident, injury or loss of income had too many get outs apart from being expensive so I did without. My eldest daughter had to bail me out for a few weeks after I crushed my pelvis and femoral nerve.

I used to carry one of those costco 80 quid 2t generators and a 5" grinder for getting wire off of the rotor. Came in handy just after I had signed the MOD RAMS which specified no hot works or 240V tools and they found the locks had been superglued, the range master, Chico, had to give me a special dispensation rather than pay the firm's cost for the day.

Yes the next blip was young american mechanics from sticking oily rags in their pockets.

Back in the days of the last whole earth catalog it was suggested to leave a gap between the run off and the collection so that the first drops of rain washed off the accumulated dust and then as it turned to a torrent the water could jump the gap. I think is is well to be wary of soot after all it is Products of Incomplete Combustion and includes Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons many of which are known carcinogens. The first recognised industrial disease was testicular cancer found in young chimney sweeps.

The same here, not really needed to light it but after a rainy day it made the evening cosy.

Well yes but Paul is about the only member of the "establishment" willing to answer most questions so no need to frighten him off.

Except it will mean moving much more lower temperature air, I tried this initially and it didn't warm the other room noticeably. It should work if the duct is well insulated, I guess it would best be incorporated into a Mechanical Whole House Ventilation System but my house is probably not airtight enough for that. My little fan was about 60 quid and ducting is cheap enough as are plastic grills.

Yes mine is a 100W 150mm ventaxia steel centrifugal inline fan with a few speeds, I only use the lowest. This sucks hot air from the convection vents of the morso s11 through two home made aluminium manifolds and 50mm flexible exhaust pipes and through a hole in the wall then vents 30C warm air into the room 3 metres away at floor level. We did not use gas for space heating last year as a result but burned about 8m3 stack of mixed wood.