guess where i've been today
JD agents ... £136 .... yanny dealer 78 quid
.... JD really do take the piss .
and guess who
didn't snap the short bolt holding this on, trying to fit the new one
What's left
outside the pump, suitably modified as a guide to centre up the drill, to try and get t'other bit back out
bloody nightmare location to get at
..... job for tomorrow sometime
... after we get the heated vac mixer re-assembled, which is what I went there for this morning.
hadn't been there 5 minutes and the maintenance guy at Simon's brother's factory was on the phone ... could he have some help with an auger feed. New auger flight had arrived and could not see HTF to fit it
.... to replace a recently deceased flight
never having seen this thing before, let alone assembled I was scratching my head for a bit
'specially as it seemed about 18" too bloody long
Habing learnt that the predecessor had been slung in the skip, we then spent half an hour looking for it ... well 2 minutes to find 95% of it and the rest looking for the tail that'd snapped off, necessitating a new one
once I could see it I'd a better idea of how the new one ought to look and the bit that looked too long weren't far off ....
ten minutes measuring up the drive system, which was still 15 ft above the factory floor and still wired in, Id sussed that things weren't as bad as they seemed ... the drive end was right ... but the flight was too long over all
so assembled the business end ....
to suss the issue at t'other end ....
bit of judicious hack sawing and removed this bit
adjusted the 'new end' for the spigot to fit and made said spigot fit the flight tube
end refitted ....
and job sorted
..... whilst the maintenance guy and Simon were still pondering HTF I'd arrived at the 230mm that had to come off
...
before we'd actually re-assembled it (I'd worked it at 235 mil - but was close enough)
left the maintenance guy and jis side kick to hump this back into spot and fit the hoppers .... we had a date with a vac mixer and the day was disappearing quick
beautiful building this is all in ... prob.s about 2/3 of an acre of concrete with a lid on .... the guys who laid the concrete achieved a near mirror surface on it apparently .... then the guys who came to paint it, said "way too smooth" and scarified the bloody lot .. badly ..... it is some shed !!
