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  1. openspaceman
    Not wanting to go out to play in the rain I took the walbro wt840a 748 carb metering diaphragm off When cleaner is squirted through the HI adjuster screw hole it comes out of the main jet and through the red circled check valve. Rowena don't list the wt840a this high in the series so I don't know if the check valve is available. I suppose I should just screw a self tapper in to the check valve to pull it out? A google shows this carb is used in radio controlled cars
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    Fixed with a chinky coil. It was a problem with the plug cap I think.
  3. openspaceman
    Okay my mistake for not reading the thread thoroughly. As it is a system flue the joints should be fine and the exhaust should flow at a fairly constant rate, without any cold brickwork or convolutions to cause any eddying back. So I can only assume it is something to do with the location as being insulated twin wall it should warm up quickly.
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    Yes that is sweet chestnut especially with the ring shake in the stump
  5. openspaceman
    What diameter is the flue passage in the chimney and is the register plate well sealed where the flue enters the chimney?
  6. openspaceman
    Interesting but I need correction for astigmatism too.
  7. openspaceman
    They are but it was mean not to annotate them 😉
  8. openspaceman
    Smell is a good confirmation either way because both are distinctive. If you look at the knot in the bottom log of the second photo you will see the heartwood is very small but there is a broad band of sapwood and few very wide ings. Sweet chestnut is mostly heartwood often with only one sapwood ring.
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    Willow killed by honey fungus then?
  10. openspaceman
    The cheese shaped wedge cut out of the front face of the tree to control felling direction, sometimes called the gob.
  11. openspaceman
    So the soil gets put on top of the cut stems?
  12. openspaceman
    I doubt it, tap it lightly with a hammer to see if the sound suggests it is not attached, a hollow sound, around the tree.
  13. openspaceman
    First picture seems to show some exit holes higher up so the damage may be from an animal, maybe badger?, scratching the bark off to get at grubs. It does suggest an underlying problem with the tree.
  14. openspaceman
    Yes and the only stage performance I saw was outclassed by McCartney on the same bill,
  15. openspaceman
    Again didn't like the ziggy stuff but Heroes strikes a chord for me
  16. openspaceman
    I tend to agree but I like about 3 of his songs, even if just for the zeitgeist, seeing him in East Berlin dancing in the dark with the happiest girl in the world at the time.
  17. openspaceman
    Much as you appear to value the tree you should appreciate that if it is in fact 160 years old it is a veteran and removal will be getting more expensive over time. I cannot comment whether it could have caused subsidence this is down to soil type but if the discussion goes against you and the TO would not agree to react to a 211 notice by serving a TPO then turn the discussion to the engineer's report only apportioning some blame on the tree and consider a "without prejudice" offer for them to pay for tree work. Yes it is a lovely tree and a public visual amenity but it is no longer in its original environment.
  18. openspaceman
    I think you are safe for a couple of months between charges, it's leaving it in the glove compartment for a year or so that is bad but I too like the idea of a supercapacitor one
  19. openspaceman
    Don't leave it to self discharge, my daughter's got left and wouldn't accept a charge. I recovered it but it has lost most of the oomph after 4 years.
  20. openspaceman
    Don't let my wife hear that, he visited her in hospital when she was 16 when it was a two person band, transferred her affections to clapton after and she's off to town with the rest of the decrepit groupies when he does a gig at the albert hall.
  21. openspaceman
    No not really I couldn't get it fine enough which is why I used millie. This thread reminded me to get it out and clean it, I still have about 8kg of rye. Still wet but loosely assembled
  22. openspaceman
    I have not tried sourdough baking but a year ago I had to cut my way into a patch of ripe rye a tree had fallen into, I brought home some ears , threshed and ground them in a coffee grinder. Added to whole strong wheat if caused the bread to be flat but I liked it. Next time I went back I asked the farmer if I could have a bucket full from the combine. A friend long term lent me millie, a french quern. 15 minutes of grinding just about makes enough rye flour for a loaf. Milling got suspended for a bit while I dealt with a mouse infestation ;-).
  23. openspaceman
    I see so the lining extends from the register plate to the top of the reduced chimney breast and then the twinwall carries the flue up through the roof. I wouldn't worry as all the heat lost from the lining just heats the brickwork and gets back into the house. I depend on the flue gas heating my concrete lined chimney for retained heat once the fire goes out.
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    please explain? the flue liner is normally continuous from the register plate to the chimney pot
  25. openspaceman
    I don't see why not if the correct steel is used so much more is known about metallurgy now. One of my billhooks, a standford severquick, is laminated. Some previous owner has hammered the back and it has split to show it. In years gone by the big firms would forge weld two strips of iron or mild steel with a thin strip of high carbon steel in between, this high carbon steel when hardened then tempered forms the cutting edge. They also supplied the laminated steel to smaller makers. I have never owned a yorkshire bill hook but the long handled slashers we used when I started in forestry were that style.

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