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Wow ,how does that work then?

Wow , that's an entire years engineering education course neatly wrapped up there. I don't have the luxury of a proper heated rod oven/store, but all rods remain in my airing cupboard. New boxes go straight in there sealed, opened boxes never leave it. I only ever take out as many loose rods as I estimate I'll need to do the job. I used to waste so much time fighting to strike and maintain the arc with ones left on top the welder for months, and then was taught by an old boy, to treat the rods with more respect than the work I was doing.

Have you ever considered writing a novel, or poetry perhaps? I've done a fair amount of oxy acet welding and stick welding to a reasonable standard. But hell, you've made it sound sexy ! Yep most important technique is preparation before even switching on the welder, and control and monitoring the weld pool.

Holy f@@k, you are one of the luckiest guys alive to have been rescued before all blood and life was lost. Dear God if this isn't the best education to all workers to respect their machinery. Truly horrific, but sometimes we need a good shake up. Well done for posting them and keep on talking to us as you rehab. Hope your family is well, and looking after you and coping with I would guess massive mood swings Shaun

I had a mcdonald's the size of a half inch socket 😉

Ok. Sorry

I'm sorry for your loss of understanding. Experience of 3 of these dreadful machines has taught me to leave them well alone. Yes the mechanics of them is perfectly sound!, the materials they're made from is unfortunately of really really poor standard. Look at the low grade studs that barely secure the exhaust onto the block - soft unstressed steel that continuously stretches to make a poor fit that stretches the first time it gets used for real hard work. Bar studs also made of similar low stress steel. There's a really strong reason why these machines are a third of the price of quality kit, but I think you know that already - a quick buck which hopefully you can pass on as quickly as possible, . I now refuse to service them anymore even for friends, - torque any component up to the correct level, and either threads strip out , or the fixings actually shear . I realise the disappointment of what should be a great business opportunity. Sure there's bucketloads of customers desperate to get their equipment mended, having used them for maybe a couple of weekends, and finding customer services impossible to contact or get any viable resolution from when failures start to occur. If you become a trader in used ones, you will also have a duty of care to service and maintain. Simple advice from long experience without insults.

If your going to be a trader in saws that really should remain in the skip, then you'd best stock up on a good quality set of taps and dies to rebuild and strengthen all the fittings made of chocolate and cheese. There's a damn good reason working guys, whose businesses depend on being able to do a day's work use only top quality or best affordable kit. Cheap disposable householder stock is just that- disposable! Rebuilding and selling on this tripe is only going to break your heart as your 'clients' will be bringing this shit back to you for more and more infuriating repairs as the next bit vibrates loose and falls off. Mick is spot on with the best course of action. Oh, and his membership is honest and impressive I believe. Xx

Nice methodology. If we all followed this approach and worked out which component was failing each time, at least half of us wouldn't be on this forum, and the other half wouldn't have a mass of bits they'd forgotten how to put back together.

Yep been there with an eezi-out snapped off in the hub flange of my landrover. Hidden from the vehicle test inspector with a bolt head riveted over from the inside for 15 years now. Not a chance of drilling it out - I tried with drill bits skating all over the surface, then snapping. Will one day buy a complete new hub for it !

Oooooh.....took a very long time to spot that. Am I cured yet?

Rats chewed away all of the rubber shroud over the spark plug on my blower. -Oh the delight of it rolling over my thigh, going at full chat. I thought I'd hit a wasp nest ( again!). Running around like a mad thing, until it zapped me again and I spotted the missing cover. Little bastards also ate the plastic handle of my 4' husky felling lever.

Aaaaahhhh, now I see it, after 25 mins of zooming in and out, and thinking WTF. Clever illusion /perspective. The mind is a lazy old thing and will tell you exactly what you want to hear.

I've never seen much benefit in winching downhill, especially if you can reverse up it and either push with blade or as said here use the logbullet. At some point gravity will always take over and make a kinked rat's nest on the drum, making a real ballache to hand haul on the next run

There's one day only when you stop learning.....your last

Not sure I've ever seen any yew with that degree of soft punky wood before, and out of bogs here in west cork tends to harden fibre rather than soften. ☹️

Don't tighten membrane too much, to allow a natural valley to form, carries water away from woodwork and speedily away.

Simple and cheap solution, cover roof area with a tyvek type membrane, to drain away condensation to outside wall area, battens on top then a standard uninsulated galvanised or coated corrugated top layer to weatherproof. Works great in my workshop with no dripping.

You're all too hard on the dear chap. He obviously has a faulty keyboard, that omits the decimal point. £5.95. There you go , seems a fair and honest deal now doesn't it?

Shouldn't split the pith ever in a board. Workout your cuts to keep it in the centre of a board's depth to balance tensions as it dries

Has your dad's volvo given up the ghost now? Poor long suffering, abused thing....the loader that is, not him , God rest his soul. Shaun

Thanks for that quick reply. It would have taken me half a day to one finger type out that lot ! Not entirely keyboard averse, but fairly close to it. Gosh, I hadn't realised the initial stumpy attack was so long ago, which makes the rehab time even more necessary for operators of any machinery to appreciate, when things go bad. That is certainly a fair list of procedures to endure, to reach where you are today. Well done to everyone along the way for their inputs, no matter how small, from the dog walkers with their life saving tourniquets, the paramedic calling woman, through to the surgeons, nurses and your family for believing you can be rebuilt. Sound's like there's still a considerable journey to go. When you get angry, pissed off, despondant, or jubilant with another milestone reached, drop me a line, or shout out in arbtalk to let it out, and let us know. Regards Shaun

Hey there, its been over a month since you posted about your disaster. It's just been brought back to my mind by a like reaction to my post in your thread. Ashamed that I haven't checked back in with you to see if and how your recovery is going. I hope there is some improvement, and small glimpses of a positive light at the end of a tunnel. Are your family good, and getting used to you being around more frequently, than when you were spending all your time being the bread winner? Let us know what your precious and almost lost, life looks like now. Still wishing you the best Shaun

Cool, thanks for giving an explanation, and improving my education. The things we learn on arbtalk.👍

What, so you get some skinny little fella to drop down inside the tube, trusty makita in hand, pop through a couple of holes and hammer some roadpins through the sides? You've got us interested in the mechanics here, of something we don't know about or understand. We now need more details now You've set the ball rolling! 🤯