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openspaceman

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  1. I don't know but guess it is the way the browser identifies the file. I see it as an audio only but in firefox I can right click on it and save it, I can then play it in a video player.
  2. Then about 3 months before your 70th you will get an invitation to renew your licence, if you have none of the medical problems listed and you can read a number plate at 20 metres you will just need a current photo or the photo on your passport record to get a photo driving licence valid till you are 73 then I guess you have to jump through the same hoops again. If you want to keep your licence a to include heavier (C1, D1) vehicles then you need to do the medical. I let my c1 and D1 entitlements drop.
  3. Do you still wish to drive vehicles weighing over 3.5 tonnes or buses carrying more than 8?? people?
  4. My thoughts too, I think of all the out of rotation coppice I heaped onto bonfires in the past. Hazel is a good firewood but simply doesn't seem to dry much when left as cord. I have some 6" and down stuff felled last February and 35%to off the scale on my moisture meter (though it still burns cleanly in a hot stove). In fact any wood is best processed into final sizes asap but of course this leads to handling problems and increase in volume. Chunked to 4-6" with the accompanying micro splitting and it must dry fast.
  5. I do want to try one of those, but not just for kindling, the B&S engine puts me off. I don't think I'd bother with splitting stuff but I imagine I would need twice the log storage volume.
  6. Yes but if you just want to try it without altering your computer you can run it live from a CD, though it will run much slower. You can also load it onto a new hard drive, leaving the old hard drive in the computer and then change the boot order of the computer, which essentially is what I have recently done. I have used Linux for about 15 years and mint 17 for the last five and now Mint 20.
  7. new piston rings perhaps
  8. Interesting, if when it's running you see no smoke then you're getting all the heat of combustion out of the log, smoke is unburned fuel. So as long as the flue temperature is around 150C and no air leaks then I'd guess no benefit. Air leaks and excess air are the biggest wasters of wood heat because of the extra mass flow up the chimney. However the Jotul 602 I replaced with a morso 11 was less efficient, wasted heat up the chimney and smoked a fair amount of the time, especially after reloading. The modern fires with firebrick insulating combustion chambers burn hotter faster, so unless I cock up my fire is smoke free withing about 15 minutes of top lighting.
  9. Yes worth noting for the unwary, especially if not VAT registered, that adds 45% to the bidded price
  10. Yes and I wonder how much that is due to a general reduction in rabbit population, whereas roe and muntjac seem to have increased but less damaging?
  11. Lovely butts @lewiswood and very tidy work. I could never afford to buy parcels as good as that.
  12. If you go down the ceramic route never sharpen it with a stone or diamond, the effect is the opposite. Polish only. I prefer steel but do use sabatier stainless knives for carving and dicing veg, even though carbon steel can be sharpened more keenly.
  13. Pressure relief valves absorb most shocks, port relief valves on individual spools if the shocks are from external loads.
  14. No question in my mind there is no other way that's not discriminatory.
  15. Yeah I went back and looked again on iplayer and saw it was already broken. I certainly wasn't disparaging the skills of the workers. I am aware of the filmmaker's desire for hype and drama. Okay, we would often have to skid big butts out but would stick longer (up to 40ft) bits on a trailer with the wheels set right back, to avoid mud getting on the timber. This did reduce the weight, and hence traction, on the county wheels so front weight had to be added in the form of a big log extended in front of the blade. Where possible timber quality oak would be felled about now till March and brought out when the ground was better in May. Shame, ask for the footage. I am aware of how much ends edited out as I was involved in a day's filming a long time ago, I think only about 15 seconds ended up in the film but at least my 10 axe blows and the tree coming down was kept in. How are the sawmills feeling about strength of diseased ash once milled?
  16. So the alternator runs about 1.5 times engine speed?
  17. L&S supplied me with an aftermarket carb for my Stihl long reach hedge cutter at just over the cost of a carb kit, it has been faultless so I wouldn't discount them. In this case it is not necessary as I put the carb back on the saw, set the screws to factory 1 turn Lo and 3/4 turn Hi, primed it with the purge bulb with hardly any bubbles of air and it fired first pull. Started on tickover and after quite a few seconds of fluffing revved up and cut well. Idle is 3500 and Hi idle 12500 rpm. I don't know what caused it to change but it may have been the carb cleaner. I only replaced the tank filter, fuel line from tank to carb and two lines from purge bulb And I forgot the pump and metering diaphragms and gaskets.
  18. Is this just a TFL thing? Is that just in a zone or return journey? Not that I have much intention of visiting the smoke I think my little used bus pass only works on buses.
  19. Please explain that for a pubtransphobe
  20. I masked off the two holes, applied carb cleaner to the H screw hole and it all squirted out of the jet in the choke tube. I shall put it all back together and clean out the fuel lines and see what happens. I checked out those cheap carbs on ebay but the nearest match to the C1Q-S192 seems to be ZAMA C1Q-S269 which fits the ms181, is it likely to be much different from what I need?
  21. Stick a smaller inline fuse in then, remember the fuse doesn't protect the stress control it protects the cable and gubbins upstream if something shorts in or near it.
  22. Interesting and the chaps felling the ash knew where they were at; felling it flat on the fork to stop it splitting down the butt. It would have hammered over but they made the mistake of adding the tractor pulling for entertainment and they miscalculated the rope length, it cost them a back window by the looks . I wonder if they reported a tree falling on tractor under RIDDOR. It seemed strange they would skid logs out on that flat ground, even stranger to see a mill yard that muddy nowadays. We only supplied beech to Smiths for Ercol but did attempt some woodmizered ash squares for another company that imported from the states
  23. If you fancy a bit of restoration I have a very tatty 1164, not a nasty flat floor model.
  24. Yes a complete anachronism but very british
  25. Thanks, I will also go and read the whole thread . This carb has a white plastic plug there. Thanks I'll try Spuds idea and I'm not bailing just sitting back for a bit. I have some fairleads to fit on the County and see if I can get the exhaust manifold off. The earlier thread mentions an after market carb which I will investigate.

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