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  1. phedders
    The blades on multitools are not cheap - but they are incredibly handy for many things. In the case of your pipe above - I'd go to the angle grinder - if a hacksaw blade just went blunt, you'll spend a fortune on multitool blades since you've a much shorter blade length.
  2. phedders
    Two words for you guys: Bulldog Bone. Stay safe
  3. phedders
    Arbtalk needs a "thanks" or "like" button...
  4. phedders
    Just be careful of using 4wd and mixed (front/rear) rolling cirmcumferences and hard surfaces - you can pop diffs. Not a likely configuration on the average defender mind.
  5. phedders
    Is it the four stroke 430? The first few years they sold it with a **NYLON** cam. Yes the cam melts and the timing goes. First symptoms are that it wont start from hot and loses power. Other models might use cheese. Ryobi never acknowleged the problem or would fix it for people. They wont even supply replacement parts! They changed the design to a metal cam I believe.... but too late - never a Ryobi or homelite for again. Once bitten.
  6. phedders
    Not quite sure why you're blaming him for your indescision, but seems a bit unfair.
  7. phedders
    I've had one since August... its still brilliant. Made myself a second one to play with dimensions (pivot lenghts/ratios) a bit to use on a lanyard. The design is simply brilliant. Just wish I was an arb and got to use 'em every day Adam - email Gordon - you will not regret it.
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    If we were to go properly green... do you think we'd still _make_ laptops, tablets, smartphones - a global comms infrastructure and city sized datacentres running web sites and search engines? Would we be generating enough electriciity to run them? Would ArbTalk exist and be acessible? Would we still make and run cars trucks chippers and chainsaws? LR's even? Would you even still be able to get Silkys made in energy intensive proceses abroad and shipped or airfreighted here... or have to rely on saws made by your local blacky? True Green sounds nice... at first. (Time to crawl back into my bunker.)
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    At the w'end we were warned about blizzards and and such. Barely got below 5 C's here just south of London - never a flake of sleet. I really think the met office have succumbed to "blame culture" - they over dramatise every remote possibility so that they can't get blamed for warning about something happened. I think every forecaster has the ghost of Fish haunting them... "Today there might be rain, sun, tornadoes, ice-storms, heatwaves, ice, fog and indian summers, and tomorrow it might be the same, or different." Of course the gritters were out anyway getting their overtime and spending our taxes on vehicles, diesel and spanish salt... and making the roads as slippery "as ice" with the overload of grit, and rotting our cars from the anodic and hygroscopic effect, making driving hazardous because windscreens become opaque with a film of NaCl... grrrrr.
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    I've been blown away with Convoy C8 XML U2-1B 7135*8 8 Modes white light LED Flashlight - US$14.50 SOooo cheap - and brilliant. It's a thrower with decent spill. Uses 18650's and gets a decent life. Heck of a lot cheaper than running D cells and much better torch life. Read the review on BLF http://budgetlightforum.com/node/19710 For close up work I love the zebra 90' flood range such as Zebralight H302 Flood Headlamp Cool White | Flashaholics.co.uk. I've got the older model and use it all the time. Amazing amount of light and everything in front of you gets lit up - not a spot burning your eyes out!
  11. phedders
    I've mentioned it in another thread - put PM me if you'd like to swing by and try flying the bone. You'll want one... (I'm either in CR5 or TW16 normally, but Peebles/Torrance for a weeks soon.)
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    I have the fast version - Very comfortable for my use, but I'm not in it all day every day. I'm not sure I'd recomment it for a full-time arb if only because it has no bridge. I've hacked one on... although I'm not using it much yet.
  13. phedders
    Blue tongue and Compact Bulldog Bone... even better (and mid-line at-detachable to boot.)
  14. phedders
    Blue at Gust: Yale Blue Tongue Gustharts
  15. phedders
    Seriously consider the roperunner or Bulldog Compact Bone. Both are mid line attachable which the ZZ is not. Neither have been known to crack - which the ZZ is...
  16. phedders
    Just to say I have one of the new compact bones too - and it's awesome. I can't compare with the RR and I am not an Arb or professional climber so you might want to take my opinions with a pinch of salt. But if anyone wanted to see/play with one and is near Coulsdon (home) or Sunbury (work) then shout. Cheers!
  17. phedders
    He's got balls... but brains?
  18. phedders

     

    <p>Hi there - are you selling RR's at the moment? If so what is the price (inc UK shipping)?</p>

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    <p>Cheers!</p>

     

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