Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

[Lancs Lad]

never any mistaking a Monday in Druidville ....
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just hope next Monday's the same ...... need a delivery between now and then

spent the rest of the day working out how to route that cable ........ and then how to terminate said cable in the engine bay to marry up to the FL4's pump control
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more on that one tomorrow ............ could've done with another 6" of length on't cable really .... see if this works first, then maybe see if I can get a longer Bowden inner/outer from somewhere

Keep safe Druid! Yes looks like medical stuff will still flow ok..
I've a feeling this next few weeks is going to lead to some incredible ingenuity and fettling...with not been able to "nip out" it's takes us back to "mekkin it work" if wasnt for the stress of the financial situation it would actually be enjoyable in some ways.back to basics like . Farms got milk and eggs, wife's got plenty flour, nippers got her baby powder, we all set.

 

[V8Druid]

Keep safe Druid! Yes looks like medical stuff will still flow ok..
I've a feeling this next few weeks is going to lead to some incredible ingenuity and fettling...with not been able to "nip out" it's takes us back to "mekkin it work" if wasnt for the stress of the financial situation it would actually be enjoyable in some ways.back to basics like . Farms got milk and eggs, wife's got plenty flour, nippers got her baby powder, we all set.

cheers Boyo ... will do me best .. all gates locked and post box moved to far end of the drive
My treatment pharmacy delivery people tell me there shouldn't be any issues - ATM - but it's made in the USA

As for the fettling .... been trying me hand today

throttle lever persuaded into spot .. out the way ..

took some juggling into spot

Ajax got a bit of an airing

creating a capture / mount for the Bowden's outer .....

....... and inner

then it was time to create an end ...

bit of pisser, having to drag the Caddy out for a couple of quick flashes ...... but had to be done .... would've liked some grub screws, instead of the SHCS,s but didn't have/couldn't find any so these got lopped down and lightly drilled the end of the thread to grip the cable, like a grubby would

getting the lengths right was a tad tedious, but got there and it got installed

believe it or not that is full travel .. plus about 6mm ... not a lot of movement at all ... can see how little the auto throttle's ram needs to move to give four differing settings AND tickover ...... must be one techy lil' actuator/ sensed ram !!

left its cable attached to it and secured the flying end in the engine bay, so's it can't get up to 'no good' .... will extricate it from its hiding place when I'm feeling enthused [a] .. about looking at it and .. ..when I'm feeling enthused enough to get at the little sod ... it's not exactly easily gotten at .. engine bay belly plate off job, looks to be the easiest access

found this, this morning ....

on the floor 'bout 10 ft from the 'Drema's door .... sure as **** wasn't there last night when I packed up ... and have no 'kin idea WTF it has come from ? .. can only conclude we had unwanted visitors last night, but couldn't see anything out of place ??... apart from the appearance of the above ???
it's certainly nothing to do with me ... don't recognise it at all ... and I could not have missed it ... first thing I noticed this morning !!
May have to sleep with one eye open tonight .......... an' a couple of barrels hanging out the bedroom window ... ALL my gates are locked and I've not sent out any invitations for nocturnal visitors .... so's they'm fair game as far as I'm concerned .... BANG!!

 

[Cyberprog]

Not got any CCTV then?

 

[V8Druid]

don't know why .... but the last few lines of the post above refuses to be anything but BOLD have edited it half a dozen times, but every time I press save it ends up as seen above ... so given up ????????

 

[Cyberprog]

Check your square brackets. Might be the problem.

 

[V8Druid]

Not got any CCTV then?

it's pitch ****ing black out there Alex and who wants to/whats the good of, looking at a bunch of hoodie wearing tw*ts ...... now man traps'd be the thing

 

[Cyberprog]

There are ways to help that, IR flood emitters for one.

 

[V8Druid]

Check your square brackets. Might be the problem.

yeh was using them " [a] .. about looking at it and .. .. " ......... should be a b between two square brackets in between the .. ..
what's the issue with them then ????

 

[Cyberprog]

yeh was using them " [a] .. about looking at it and .. .. " ......... should be a in between the .. ..

Remember it uses square brackets for formatting.

 

[V8Druid]

There are ways to help that, IR flood emitters for one.

prefer man traps as an idea .... and two barrels

 

[V8Druid]

Remember it uses square brackets for formatting.

huh? ... I'll swap the bracket type then ??

 

[Cyberprog]

prefer man traps as an idea .... and two barrels

Ah, the personal touch.

 

[Cyberprog]

huh?

The forum uses square brackets for formatting, so if you out some odd bits in them, that might embugger it.

 

[Komatsu]

it's pitch ****ing black out there Alex and who wants to/whats the good of, looking at a bunch of hoodie wearing tw*ts ...... now man traps'd be the thing

Lights Gra, lots of them, they hate them and as Alex said IR on the cameras

 

[Komatsu]

found this, this morning ....
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on the floor 'bout 10 ft from the 'Drema's door .... sure as **** wasn't there last night when I packed up ... and have no 'kin idea WTF it has come from ? .. can only conclude we had unwanted visitors last night, but couldn't see anything out of place ??... apart from the appearance of the above ???
it's certainly nothing to do with me ... don't recognise it at all ... and I could not have missed it ... first thing I noticed this morning !!

OR.....this made the news last year, old boy thought he was going mad or had a ghost....turns out it was a mouse having bit of a tidy up each nite

 

[Quattromike]

Are you sure it's not the lens from your glass eye?

 

[V8Druid]

OR.....this made the news last year, old boy thought he was going mad or had a ghost....turns out it was a mouse having bit of a tidy up each nite

Industrious lil' bugger you'd have thought WTF ? if it was yours too

having discussed it at length last night and this morning, we have considered it might have been dropped there by a crow ... was one out there yesterday morning making one hell of a noise .... can't think of any viable explanation otherwise, for just a single piece of what looks like a beer bottle ??

I used to have two crows in my yard in work, used to sit on the Rapier's mirror stalks and beat the hell out of the mirrors, one a side. They'd sit there half the day knocking seven bells out of their reflections .. amazed me that they never broke the mirrors

Crows, Rooks, Jackdaws and Magpies are known for their like of anything shiny ... so we're goiNg with that one for now .. all quiet last night and as I've said many times before ... gonnawannabe BRAVE coming down here .... and I always make it known about the area that I'd have no qualms in shooting anyone I find on my property, uninvited ... can't do any harm and it's true anyway .. BANG BANG!!

 

[V8Druid]

Are you sure it's not the lens from your glass eye?

nah ......' be rose tinted, not brown

 

[V8Druid]

Lights Gra, lots of them, they hate them and as Alex said IR on the cameras

got plenty of lights up there already, but switched, not on motion sensors ... putting them on sensors isn't so easy, as there's plenty of wildlife milling about up there ... aside from our two cats

some wireless ones attached to a buzzer in our bedroom might be an idea if there is such a thing about ... but same wildlife issues ... we'd never get any sleep !!!!!!!

 

[Komatsu]

got plenty of lights up there already, but switched, not on motion sensors ... putting them on sensors isn't so easy, as there's plenty of wildlife milling about up there ... aside from our two cats

some wireless ones attached to a buzzer in our bedroom might be an idea if there is such a thing about ... but same wildlife issues ... we'd never get any sleep !!!!!!!

Black out blinds??