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Thank's a million buddy! The top one looks like mine, off center locknut. Not sure about the others. I think I'll just remove the shackle and check with calipers. Will post my finding here. I phoned DMM after a week, got an answer phone and hung up, but they actually phoned me back an hour later! Customer service had got my email but we're waiting for an engineer to get around to looking at the photo. They requested some video of the sticking gate. Are the gates closing quite right on yours? Not the green tri-lock barrel, but the actual gate and key interface? It scapes as it closes on mine.

....It's on constant with maybe 1second pauses randomly every 20s-1m. I don't hear it at all over the summer, both last year and this year it started within a week of now (last week of October). It tends to start after 10:30pm at night, hear it less during the day but do sometimes. I thought it used to stop earlier but this year I am still hearing it now (9:30) and later into the morning. I haven't been able to tell if it stops suddenly in the morning or winds down.... Your neighbor in one of the attached houses is using a Hitachi MagicWand® (the mains version). Given the extended duration and the commencement in the winter season, it's probable there's a commercial element, something like an OnlyFans streaming service perhaps, which kicks off when the summer job goes quiet.

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Thank's for that, Gand. Good of you to remember. Interesting. Yours is the wide shackle version, mine is the narrow one, but the side view should be practically identical. Yours looks perfectly centered. I'm kinda annoyed about this. I also noticed the gate on mine is catching ever so slightly. I've emailed DMM with a photo, haven't heard back from them yet. Other stuff I've had from them is perfect.

That would be excellent 👍 it's a DMM Director Swivel Boss Locksafe D. The part in question would be the same on any of their "D" swivels.

I'll do that. They do seem to be a great company, I watched a mini documentary on YouTube about them, how they started etc. Heartwarming stuff, long may they last.

I have not, Steve. My first ever DMM swivel. If anyone reading this has one, and could be bothered, please post a similar photo of yours so I can compare. (As payment for your efforts you may also post innuendos)

Just bought this DMM swivel carabiner. The shackle bit looks like it was not perfectly centered, when they drilled for the bolt? Thinner on one side. How much would this affect the strength of the device? Any thoughts?

They were getting testicular cancer untill some doctor figured out the connection and taught his test subjects to wash their nads after work. Apparently this actually worked and sorted the problem. I watched a thing about it... Mind the poor wee lads probably didn't survive too long anyway, due to inhaling the stuff...

I've been doing that since we left port...

Thanks Stubby. I'm 41 so still time to angst about it. I mean, yeah, every time I sweep the flue, I deal with the soot dust, but some of it must be getting into the tanks. That and burning a fire during the rain, when water droplets will surely be picking up some soot as they pass through the smoke... I've tried googling around but there doesn't seem to be anything on this subject, as it's kind of a third world issue, and in the third world they probably don't see it as an issue at all... I'm done worrying about it now anyway, cheers for the reply 👍

Situation: I have a tin roof, low pitch (box profile). Stove flu pipe extends 2 feet from roof, near the ridge. Rainwater runs into gutters and then into my storage tanks, 6000lt capacity. I drink this. Have been for a decade and all my life before that have drunk mountain water runoff. No filters, never have filtered, bar a cheese cloth at the tank mouth to catch big particles and save the plumbing. Now, I've just swept the flue pipe, from the inside with a flexible drill brush. It's left a scattering of soot/creosote particles on the roof, around the chimney. It's raining now, and I've disconnected the gutters from feeding the tanks, so hopefully the rain will wash it into the gutters, where it will probably lodge. I'll get up there with a hose and brush sometime and flush them out. In previous years, I've taken a blower up on the roof after and blown most of it away, or brushed the roof. Some years I remove the whole flue and break it down for a super cleaning. I'm just wondering, if soot particles make it into my drinking water, how much of a health impact could it be? It's a creosote type substance after all, and it's somewhat soluble in water. I'm not the least concerned with biological stuff in the water but chemicals are another thing. If it's a hot week in summer and heavy rain is forecast, I decouple the gutters an let the roof flush for a few hours before filling the tanks.

To clarify about the mom - she had a supplemental oxygen tube in one nostril, taped to her cheek, not a full mask. She wasn't visibly upset about the flat so I guessed she had her condition well in hand, but probably wouldn't be much help with the tyre.

Yeah, you read it completely backwards pal, but maybe that's my fault, I could have given a more detailed explanation... As the situation commenced, I didn't offer to help as it *could* have been insulting to the kid. He was driving, so around 17 I'd guess. I stayed in my van and monitored the situation. As it became clear he wasnt up to the challenge, tool wise, I tactfully offered some tools, which were clearly needed. The male ego, especially the young ego, can be a delicate thing. One doesn't want to "overhelp" another man, unless asked. It's not polite, in my view. So, I sat on a bench on the sidewalk and watched. Would you have preferred I got back in my van and watched from there? Or stood right behind him as he worked on the tyre? I had to position myself somewhere, after all. Bench seemed like a respectful distance, not crowding, not unavailable should he ask for help. My proximity on the bench was a message to him that I was available to physically help if requested. So I let him get on with it, as I'd prefer a stranger to let me get on with it. Only after it became clear he was out of his depth, and he confessed he never changed a tyre before did I offer advice. TBO I forget at which point in the undertaking he said he had never changed a tyre. Could have been at the start, could have been when he was figuring out the jack, but whatever - at the time I took the admission to be a request for direction. I got the strong vibe he wanted to do it himself, and was asking for advice, not physical assistance. Just how I read the situation and I could have been wrong. It's a great gift to let someone conquer a challenge on their own. Verbal direction doesn't take much away from the victory and in this case it was needed. A fine line between shoving my oar in and emasculating the kid, or mentoring him to exercise his own capability. When his dad rocked up, I could see the disappointment in the lad's face, plain as day. Daddy was an impatient, take charge, dominant type. The family dynamic playing out before me, was this lad had never been allowed to try on his own. One time, a friend wanted to learn to butcher a deer. He asked me if I ever found a roadkill deer to call him and let him try. The day came, and we went to work on the carcass. He had a go, but I skinned and butchered 90% of the job myself, as the flies were gathering and I didn't want to be there all day and also didn't want him to make mincemeat of it. I was going to eat this animal after all. He was crestfallen, and he let me know. He made me promise that if he ever acquired a deer of his own, I would stand by but let him do it all on his own, even if he made a hames of it. I felt damn guilty about it, as I'd robbed him of a valuable learning experience... Not quite the same as the tyre thing, but you get the idea...

Wow. But did it last the 15 years? I think you're saying it did, and the problem was sorted then, and is still sorted now, 15 years later - but I'm not sure? Was it a one-and-done permanent cure, is what I'm asking.

It's a bloody sad state of affairs. I consider myself blessed to have grown up in a time and place where that cotton wool culture didn't affect me, at least not in the physical work side of things... Your comment about letting the kid get on with it and figure it out himself, hit home... Some weeks ago, a car broke down next to my van in town. Flat tyre, mother and teenage son in the car. Mother had an oxygen tube up her nose and the son was messing around in the boot. He was clearly struggling, so I offered him my toolbox. "I've never changed a tyre before" he said. I didn't offer to do it for them, as this was clearly a golden opportunity for him to get stuck in. I sat on a bench and watch him thrashing the car around with the tyre iron. "Try putting the hand break on". He couldn't get the jack to work. "Try feeling under the car for a ridge - the ridge goes in the slot on the top of your jack, that way it stays put"... "Try loosening all the nuts a bit before you jack up the car, that way the wheel won't spin..." And so on. He was making progress, and you could see the excitement of defeating this problem on his own, a few hints notwithstanding. Then dad showed up, in another car, and stole his thunder. Dad changed the tyre, thanked me for the tools, gave a bob for a beer and they drove away... Saddest thing I witnessed in a long time.

Curious to know did the operations "take" or did you ever have to go back? You mentioned it was 15 years ago? Weird how some people's joints blow up and others not. Saw a thing on YouTube about an 80+ year old guy who still does big wall rock climbing every single day.

Untouched by Time's turning pages, Those beloved, hated faces, Which once were great and graven, Are floating on the tide. Lost in multitudes of meddlers, Who beach and rot before the noonday sun. Each wave loading on befoulment; Promenaders cheer them on. Give us a household name, oh Sea! - or do we wait in vain? Send storm, and clean the sand of stink and stain. Or send ashore the kraken; end the game. - Haironyourchest Byshe Frost

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Just the trench cut or the full "shark's gill"? If the sharks gill really works I'll start using it.

PM sent. Here's the link anyway. Sorry, tried to post a text link but it posted the video and won't let me delete it. Trench cut at 5:00 minutes in. Sorry for cluttering up your thread, Eggs. And I admit the Stories are shit. Glad I don't have to vote for them.

They're supposed to be a "relief" cut, to give the collapsing fibers on the compression side of the hinge somewhere to expand into. Gives you a tad more bending in the hinge before it breaks, or that's the theory. Something I picked up for YouTube the night before. Figured it couldn't do any harm. Reportadly it's what they're teaching now in standard felling in "Europe" (?).

I hear you. And I'd agree completely - if this was a normal cyclical recession like all the others. Sadly, the time to take financial responsibility was five to ten years ago. It might very well be too late for the majority. Think Soviet Union collapse, western style. But what do I know... Maybe it will work out. I hope so. Might be some big sociological changes though. I'd like to see the peoples of Europe find a renewed purpose and vigour, maybe a dose of real hardship would be the tonic we need.

The Swedes are keeping schtum about their findings. "Confidential". Still, I wonder would any scrutinization of the blast damage even point to this side or that?