Macpherson

No I think it's 8 since I've been on here..

Also, and still confused about what a ' one year badge ' is.. or any badges for that matter ?

So do I.. strangely enough, anytime I had to bumpstart a bike, which was many, I always did it from the right side whereas I did notice that most folk were the opposite👍

I also find the which handed argument intriguing as essentially when you start you can't use either hand... so as a righty I've spent 52 years trying to get my left hand into line while my dominant right was lazily very much taken for granted, and totally wrongly as I've recently found. In reflection if I was to start again knowing what I know now... would I choose to use my dominant hand for picking or working the neck.. I'm actually not sure, and although all this time that has passed in which as a practical engineering repair guy and would be musician I find myself increasingly more and more ambidextrous, which may be a more balanced natural state if we weren't pigeon holed L or H at an early age. To test this I'm fairly interested in getting hold of a decent LH acoustic of the same ilk of my RH usual's just to see if learning to play the other way is in any way terribly hard.. bearing in mind that now I know what I want the fingers to do To me, regardless of what your led to believe at the early learning stage in life it can all be corrected with intelligent practice of anything. Seems we are similar opposites in that I have a full size Korg electric piano which I would love a solid left hand for but I feel liked a complete novice with... although my right is boogie central with no probs, but I suppose that that's one of the challenges of everyday life when trying to get a grip with music, cheers.

Pretty good, didn't read vid title and was momentarily unaware that this was a cover... but I still think that Randy Hansen is the worlds closest to Jimi. It's interesting that apparently JH was a righty who played left and Randy is a lefty who plays right.. so both used there dominant hand on the neck where the norm would usually be the opposite .. including me. As a righty, trying to play the music of J, Mayer has taught me the importance of the picking hand and I'm very grateful. Sorry to be long winded but if you liked Jimi you really will probably enjoy Randy's take on the songs of the long gone brilliant composer and they're playing now to go to a gig is only around $25

Feckin brilliant, I don't know where you get them all from but most of what you post is 5star👍

Used to be when you bought a motorcycle chain you got a removable spring link and a riveted permanent link the latter being the stronger and more reliable, although it was also known as a soft link in order that it could be home rivetted without special tools which to me made it super prone to be wrongly fitted very often causing this link to be tight and fail prematurely. So from an accuracy of assembly point of view spinning the rivet on a saw chain would seem a much better way of doing it... but as I said before I wonder if the joining link for saw chain could be either after market and a weak point or just assembled by someone who was heavy handed.... or maybe both. I'd imagine that if you take care with your new joining link [ as I'm sure you will ] all will be fine, cheers.

All I can say is that as the joining link was [ and usually always is ] the weakest link in any chain, that would fit exactly with motorcycle chains where this has long since been the story, so if that is all that's happened just re-join the chain with a new link and use it for the rest of it's life, I'd bet the joining link was aftermarket or badly fitted👍

Yeah, watched a bit of it and switched it off.. never rated him anyway but I can't deny the impact the Beatles had at the time but dated now.... controversial I know, but although they as a band had some great songs most of it was middle of the road to me, the guys on stage with him tonight are no doubt world class but just there to play lame music, never the less PM deserves some dues to be still doing it at 80.. which he doesn't look, cheers.

I hope you know that you're probably pronouncing that wrongly, the ' k ' is silent👍

Looks mega. I spent my earlier life rebuilding the originals and I gotta say I think they have done a very good job of continuing the brand into the 21st century .... although I've never ridden one👍

There is a company, Klinger that make all types gasket material that could probably supply something thick enough to suit your requirements.

Hi, I think the previous posts regarding grading of softwood timber are correct for structural construction although I seem to remember that with the likes of Oak framing for instance tradesman is allowed to self assess each piece for defects prior to assembly. If you have your own wood it would probably be worth having a conversation with building control to find exactly what they would accept, in the past I discovered that the phase ' Deemed to satisfy ' is also an accepted method of visual grading when a piece of construction is substantially over size and obviously to the eye more than strong enough... ' Clyde built ' as they say rather than the modern method of getting away with the smallest possible timbers. I suppose the middle ground would be to buy graded timber for the structural stuff and build your own kit and perhaps mill your own cladding which Larch or Douglas would be fine for. For any wood that you want to protect from blue stain or insects whether bought or fresh milled you might like to consider treating it with Borax which is cheap and effective, anything I mill gets this treatment, good luck with your project👍 https://www.hunker.com/13425952/how-to-treat-wood-with-borax

My 1 apple is Discovery.. it's about the size of a grape, so exceptionally small so far😅

I'm with you there, it throws me out of kilter for weeks if not longer.

Well you'll not starve then.. luckily the Bullfinches missed 1 bud on my apple trees but it'll need to grow a feckin big apple if I'm going get a pie😁

Interesting to have the simple maths of tree planting and the limitations laid bare, although I think that using territorial emissions for the UK and linking them to a steady decrease in Co2 over the last few decades can't be a true indication of much. Our industrial past may have been substantially diminished but we consume more than ever, so while on paper we may look to be improving our dirty business is just being done elsewhere and where we have no control of industrial practices or emissions. I find it hard to be objective on this subject { amongst others } as I suspect the whole picture is skewed by the interests of the very large and shouty climate change industry which is worth trillions and is probably unstoppable whether right or wrong. Also I've read a good bit on this and many would claim that the climate figures used by the IPCC, much of which are supplied by NASA are exaggerated to back up their story and don't match up with other ' ignored ' scientists findings... Where else have we heard a similar story recently ?.. another unelected anonymous global mouthpiece the WHO. Don't get me wrong, I'm not in denial of the fact that as a species we're trashing the planet, but I just smell a rat when there's money to be made. The climate has always varied and will continue to do so regardless of mans activities. Cheers

The only thing I macro dose on these days is beer... but I can still vaguely remember my younger times 😁 I've got St J W growing all over my garden although I 've personally no need for it. Had to look up imbibe🙄

Aye, I've no idea what on earth could be funny about this subject and as someone close to me suffers from depression I've had a keen interest in this subject for some time and there would seem to be many anecdotal reports of folk getting off antidepressants by micro dosing with Psilocybin.. they don't take enough of it to have any effect other than raising their mood slightly. As far as I'm concerned pharma do their best to conceal or bury any treatment from nature that may give relief in as they can't patent it / them... we'll never know all the things that may well have made a difference in untold numbers of peoples lives... either hidden when discovered or long since lost to memory. St John's Wort is another natural alternative remedy for depression banned quite a while ago by the EU no doubt at the behest of big pharma and their push to make us sick and keep us sick $$$$$

Yep I've done a bit of reading and it's the dowels that I've been looking at I'll just need to get my hands on a decent fresh log or two. Not much Oak or Beech readily available here unless a tree comes down.. but I'll keep my eye out and the next bit I get my hands on won't go for firewood, no difficulty finding somewhere damp up here. 👍

Hi, any advice is welcome as I reckon there's a lot to learn 👍

I've just been thinking about trying to grow mushies using plugs and was contemplating which wood to use, locally Chanterelles seem to grow well next to the base of Beech trees and that's what I had in mind but maybe I should rethink Oak.. better do some reading🙄

Another graduate of Schwab's young world leader brainwashed brigade as is Putin👎

I can see your a Villiers buff, the engine in the test bed proves that.. So I kind of understand the lure of these old and forgotten utility engines which developed into bikes, the thing is as you will know, they are a type of 2 stroke engine that produced power in a way that's not common today, and quite enjoyably different.. the large external flywheel provided a torque equivalent to many of the small single cylinder 4 stroke they were in competition with at the time. The main quirk of some of the 11e's was the self starter built into the flywheel coils along with 2 setts of points one set BTDC and another set after to the same degree... so in order to reverse you stop the engine, flick a switch and restart it in the other direction. If I had 1 main bug bear about these old engines it would be the old 2T oil mix.. I'd be interested in how these oldies might of run on modern oil at say, 50 / 1 fully synth. I run my old outboards 100 / 1 Stihl ultra 👍 .

Yeah, serves me right for being a smart ass and I do vaguely remember that Villiers carb.. screw on floatbowl or just held up in the centre by a brass nut and fibre washer? I might remember that wrong, but thinking about it I'll go for the latter. I don't remember ever seeing a 10e but plenty of 11's... it's so long ago. Many of the Villiers engines that I had contact with back in the early 70's were in go karts or invalid carriages, they had more torque than the average 2 stroke due to the large brass flywheel, the first engine I ever stripped down was a 6e.. the Albion gearbox had 3 forward gears + reverse👍 I think I've still got a Villiers 150 cc that came out of a James. Cheers.