openspaceman

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

Well I am no expert and I use caustic soda gel and place it with a cotton bud, it takes ages and repeat applications but gets there. I don't think it reacts strongly with nickel

Nikasil is a deposit on the aluminium that is only about 20 thou thick so rubbing or honing is only really to scratch circumferential micro grooves to hold oil. The big thing is to remove all the aluminium which has been picked up from the piston and melted onto the bore with chemicals and only lightly hone after. IME the nikasil hardly wears at all on a saw but, from what @adw has posted in the past, stone cutters with poor filtering make short work of it with concrete dust. I am still using 30 year old saws for the little firewood I need and at most they need a new ring as long as they haven't seized.

Actually that was more than 50 years ago, nylon 3 strand was ubiquitous by 1969 and natural fibres were not used at all (okay some rock climbers used hemp coils as a waist loop but they were old school). The only leather was on spike straps, chainsaw trousers were not available till around 1980 in UK but I always had the hat, visor and muffs from 1974. I have never known of anyone being aerial rescued in that 50 odd years, known several fatalities in that time though and none of those involved hanging from a harness and needing rescue.

No I remember it being in the fields at Egley road but then it was attached to the dairy at the farm where I helped Gerald. I also remember bring the herd with William up to the farm for calving. Iain leading William by the nose up the A320 and me at the back with a short length of hose to gee stragglers up. I doubt drivers would put up with it now but then it couldn't happen as the fields are a school and the farm a redundant golf course.

Hey that's where I started milking cows many years ago, the railway cutting was landfill , now the Bluebell runs through it again.

Stitchers go through ridge

I'll take that as your considered opinion that roof work cannot be undertaken safely by rope access then 🙂

Apart from the single line is there anything bad about doing this? Okay @AHPP was probably doing personal work rather than business so no HSE consideration. I have never used srt but my interest stems from watching the roofers hoisting PV panels onto a roof. All the firms specify scaffolding, which adds about 1500 quid to the cost of fitting two strings on adjacent hips. The roofer doing the work rocks up, lifts tiles and fits the bars, makes good any tiles removed and then stands the panels up at the bottom of the scaffold, thence he lowers a hook, snags a panel and hauls it up, fixes it with clamps, does the same with the next but this time plugs the connector to the first und so weiter. It took him less than a day to fit 13 panels and I think it could all have been done by rope access from an anchor the other side of the building.

Manna ash

I assume you are being sarcastic. The thing is in the event of an accident from a piece of PPE failing following an incompetent inspection HSE will visit the employer to establish the circumstances and he will be liable for the kit failure. The employer then is likely to make a case against you (though a civil one rather than the criminal one) so your PI may come into play (though not if you are joined in a criminal case). IANAL

I don't think so, this will just dilute the alcohol and create more waste. You are just trying to change the phase of ethanol from solution in petrol to solution with water, ethanol is miscible in all proportions with water. 2% should do it but it would be an interesting experiment to measure. What will you do with the ethanol-water solution?

Far too well embedded for me and I don't think Roughie pops in here much. These little mills do interest me, I liked the finish of the trekkasaw but far too much work. The cantilevered woodmizer I didn't so much have niggles but more outright frustration, I was just too busy with harvesting to properly learn how to use it. This Logosol looks more like the big Foresters and Dankaerts in sawmills I used to supply but how accurate are those narrow blades compared with wide bands? I realise they cannot cut as fast. I guess if I were cutting dimemsiones softwood I'd stick with a lucas but even that ends up with a lot of lifting.

Will it find it is warm enough as you go further north?

It was the interesting form of accounting that was used to reborrow money. Also I'm all for renewable energy but the chief exec dreamed up a scheme whereby reported savings from RE were taken out of the general account and used to invest in more RE which was a bit of a stretch. This funded firms which were owned by the council to do developments like the gas powered CHP electric car charging power station. I would love to know if the chief exec's emoluments and pension were in any way linked to the size of his budget. The interesting thing will be who will buy the tower block that cost £700M of borrowed money and has now been written down to £250M? I'm particularly miffed that a piece of wild wet heath was urbanised with lakes and paved walk ways in order for the new occupants of the tower block to exercise, which they were free to do anyway.