Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

[V8Druid]

Pam's been playing macrame with 'em this morning ... jury is still out

then it pee-ed down

I thought it was about time i hauled this out from under the bench this morning.....

and had another go at getting the lil' bar steward to start ... usually very good, but last time i tried, it would not have it .... so, knackered, I stuck it away for a n other day .... I would like to be able to use it .. really good little, portable set .... have had it years ...

well I pulled my guts out on it .... to the point that me spleen is complaining - A LOT this evening. ......
plug out ...pulled and pulled 'til there was nowt emanating from yon plug hole with the fuel turned off ... all dry, crank cases empty ... plug had a cooking on a few occasions, with a mini blowtorch and it'd aaalmost have it.

anyway ... went and picked up Clara from one of her full days at nursery, at 3.15, entertained her for an hour plus, 'til mum arrived and she went home. Wandered back up to lock up, as it was still pee-ing down and thought ... quick shufty ... what am i missing ???? ..
well i'll admit it to you lot ... but don't tell anyone else ☺

when I put it away last time, I'd thoughtfully put a bung in the carb's bell mouth ... keep out any unwanted visitors, etc. ......... pity I hadn't remembered that this morning ...... but was a while ago ...
no wonder yon plug was so wet ... every time it came out
I am hoping for a more fruitful outcome tomorrow .... after I deliver Clara to nursery ........... assuming I'm in any fit state to pull the bugger in the a.m.

I heard that ...... which of you buggers laughed

 

[Cyberprog]

Sounds like you need to just make a adaptor for a battery impact gun to turn the bugger over Druid.

Brain over brawn

 

[V8Druid]

Sounds like you need to just make a adaptor for a battery impact gun to turn the bugger over Druid.

Brain over brawn

I agree ...... but nothing to drive on unfortunately ..... would have to strip the pull starter off it and it's mechanism ...... should pull over a bit easier with the carb's venturi open to atmosphere ..... t'other end of the crank has the disc valve assembly for the carb attached to it ..... thought I didn't remember it being such a sod to pull ...... a very senior moment Alex

 

[Cyberprog]

You need to attach one of these to your bung

 

[V8Druid]

You need to attach one of these to your bung

would have to remember to look for it first can't believe I did it TBH, but it's several months since i last had it on the bench ... if or when it stops absolutely lashing down here, I'll go give it a try .... without said bung

 

[Cyberprog]

Well, you attach a long enough string to the tag to remind you - wrap it round the handle and you'd follow it back naturally...

 

[V8Druid]

well I was supposed to be out Saturday, slinging again ...
had planned to go to Engcon's dig day, 'til it came up ......
and then it got cancelled 10 oclock Friday evening ......
they hadn't got the roof off the building for the morning!!

Their H&S guy didn't like the way they'd got it scaffolded and made 'em re-do it all again !!!!!!!!
job's on for two weeks time and theoretically the following Saturday for the re-install

so both plans for Saturday got scuppered. Spent some time on the lil' Mosa again ....
carb off, stripped, cleaned, fuel system drained and cleaned then all back together, fresh motion lotion, crank cases blown out whilst the carb was off with 150 PSI through the disc valve ....
all dry, plug cleaned, gapped, checked for sparks .... all back together and....

can get it to run, for 10-20 seconds, but will not rev .... weird throttle linkages on it ... controlled by engine speed AND a solenoid actuator which picks it up on demand ... plenty of fuel getting through ....
it had me stumped .... and knackered again .....it still takes some pulling WITH the venturi open to atmosphere.

Got pee-ed off with it eventually, after several fruitless hours ... it's rare I'm beat by a lil' petrol engine, but this one has me .... ATM!!!

anyone knows anything about these Del Auto carbs ... please share ?

Spent some time over the weekend having a sort out of old files that I've had to keep ... (7 years after closure of biz) ...
anyway ... their time was up and it was time to meet the burning bin

tha's 12 months worth from one steel stockholder !!

and some more

took a while to burn this lot, plus a load of other stuff
'Nother two years and it'll all be gone ......
filing cabinets are emptying quietly

Squeak has also recruited Sparty to my desk of an evening ....

Anxious hour last night, when the old girl refused to respond to the helm!! .... eventually sussed that the mouse had sort of died ??

cursor was fine and'd go where ever I put it ..... left click wasn't working though .... but took me a while to realise it .... thought the old girl had frozen for the last time.

A n other mouse installed and problem solved ... in fact it's even improved things a bit ..... could have been having unseen issues for a while ... she's turbo charged today !!!!!

this morning was at least dry .... not the clear skies forecast, but drier than last night ...
Pam was off to a funeral for 10.45 ... and I decided it was time to have a 'discussion' with Ollie's trailer's tow bar

jack leg off first .... as it was welded across the raiser block for the tow eye...

followed a little while later by the block ....

not quite what I was expecting to see .. or how I'd have done it .... and a PITA to get off

but it's off and cleaned up ready for the next phase

Have a suss on the next stage too

 

[Cyberprog]

I'm looking forward to binning all my paperwork. 2 years out now since I stopped the hosting biz officially. Still dabble here & there tho, but nowt that would concern owt

 

[Rob65]

Druid,
My guess is that your Mossa has got leaking crank case seals. What you are describing are classic symptoms. When you blew compressed air in was the piston at the bottom of its stroke? If not crank seals will almost certainly be toast.

There is a way of testing for crank case leaks but I can’t remember how to do it now. My mis spent youth playing with 2stroke motorbike engines was a long time ago now but I’m sure Google will be able to remember better than me.

With all this talk of mice on your desk it’s little wonder the cats have arrived on the scene

Rob

 

[V8Druid]

Druid,
My guess is that your Mossa has got leaking crank case seals. What you are describing are classic symptoms. When you blew compressed air in was the piston at the bottom of its stroke? If not crank seals will almost certainly be toast.

There is a way of testing for crank case leaks but I can’t remember how to do it now. My mis spent youth playing with 2stroke motorbike engines was a long time ago now but I’m sure Google will be able to remember better than me.

With all this talk of mice on your desk it’s little wonder the cats have arrived on the scene

Rob

they were one of my first thoughts TBH Rob, when it became troublesome
crank was at bottom, disc port full open and no obstructions to free passage of air ... no carb in place and plug out ... wanted to remove any excess fuel from the cases to know I was starting with a 'dry' scenario.
Gonna be a wet day on the bench strip down BTLs, but it's going to be an interesting one as the genny and crank cases are all one big ali casing as far as I can tell/see

as for cats .... you may well be right

 

[V8Druid]

I'm looking forward to binning all my paperwork. 2 years out now since I stopped the hosting biz officially. Still dabble here & there tho, but nowt that would concern owt

31st May 2021 is the day ...... has taken up a LOT of space ..... five x four draw filing cabs, plus several boxes ... down to one and a half, roughly, now ..... aside from all the storage grief, the 'sword of Damocles' is an ever present concern ... no issues that I'm aware of, but the grief would be more than I need .... and the more time that passes, the fainter the memory grows, of what's what, etc.

 

[Cyberprog]

31st May 2021 is the day ...... has taken up a LOT of space ..... five x four draw filing cabs, plus several boxes ... down to one and a half, roughly, now ..... aside from all the storage grief, the 'sword of Damocles' is an ever present concern ... no issues that I'm aware of, but the grief would be more than I need .... and the more time that passes, the fainter the memory grows, of what's what, etc.

Don't worry, if the inspector comes knocking just bury him under one of your boxes.

 

[V8Druid]

Don't worry, if the inspector comes knocking just bury him under one of your boxes.

trouble is Alex ..... you can end up the subject of interest through no fault of your own

Had a guy in the office one day, sorting his paperwork for a trailer he'd just bought. Got talking, as you do,- never seen him before - and he tells me he's 'under the microscope' , 'cos some fella he'd done a lot for, FIVE years earlier, was being gone through with a fine tooth comb ...

painter and decorator and the stasi were asking him Q.s like ... "what do you do with paint left over if you only use half a can on a job?" FFS !! He'd understandably had a titsfull .... and no fault of his own (apparently) .... was extra wary of strangers after that encounter ..... so... you never know what's 'round the corner

 

[V8Druid]

phase two ......

Genny started first flick

forgot a pic of the next bit ... but can see the result .....

same both sides turned around in't saw ....

genny started the second time ... first flick

after I'd set up the plasma ready for some exercise ....

forgotten just how nice a tool the old plasma was ... ate this

had to use the saw for the two vertical cuts as i had no guaranteed idea of where the eye tail was -- whether it was a long un or a short un ... available in two lengths usually ..... t'was a long un .... but just cleared it . ...

not the most impressive of installations and improved on it a bit with some extra weld, here and there .....

re-used the tapered end inverted

then it was time to have a suss

looked ok, so back to the bench

and nailed that taper on, on the bench ....... fore transferring it all to the back of the patch

had intended to just stitch it on and make it mobile enough to shift about, but way too windy for yon MIG today, so got carried away with the Caddy and it ain't coming off .... still want some MIG time with it, to just tidy up some of the verticals ..... hell of a gap in them in places for a stick job , do the overhead, underneath it and attach some re-enforcing plates, either side and underneath, when I get 'em cut.

job for another day .... BIL's dad's funeral tomorrow ..... but at least it's easily moved about now and could do with having it a bit further in the air for comfort's sake and an easier job underneath it ........ getting too old to be lying on the deck under that ... back's in half this evening, as it is, down there with it this afternoon

now have a 52" length, to eye centre, too ..... tow bars need to be half the towing vehicle width plus a couple of inches ..... 'Drema's 100" overall inc. the leg feet .. no chance of catching a corner on a severe lock

 

[V8Druid]

one to make you 'smile' ....
this makes it one all 'tween me and the missus ...

some may recall ... I took us to the wrong hospital last year - honest mistake .. paperwork came from me usual clinic..MRI suite was in a different place, t'other side of Cardiff

so ..... left here in good time Wed.s for said funeral .... Pam's organised what / where / when ... times, etc.

we get to the Crem. half an hour before the stated time of 1.15 .... looks a tad quiet??
I park and have a wander over to the 'You are here' board / map and buggered if I can see 'Calfaria Chapel' on it???
walking back I notice on a lamp post, a notice stating the batting order for the day ..... our 'team' is scheduled for 2.15 ?????

"check that text from yer sister Pam" says I, as I get back in't car ...... "there's no Calfaria chapel here and that notice over there says 2.15 "

She hadn't noticed the "1.15 " between the words "chapel " and "crematorium 2.15" ...... fook ... we're in Merffa ... a place we do not know and only go to once in a blue moon, with no idea WTF this chapel is ?????
Her sister and BIL will both have their phones turned off by now ... ditto Pam's neice !!

"OK ...head back to Anne's place and we'll ask " that was the easy bit ... get back to Cefn Coed and dive in a shop .. never heard of said chapel !!
"where did Gareth's parents live Pam ? "
" er heel summat "
"Heol Gerrig by any chance? "
" that sounds familiar "

'S maybe 15 years since I last had to navigate Merffa .. 's a big-ish place and has changed massively ... grabbed a posty for some directions .. he lost me after the fifth mini roundabout, but it must've sunk in 'cos ten minutes later we're heading into what used to be Heol Gerrig village on t'other side of the valley from where we'd just come .... grabbed another posty for more directions ... 'nother half a mile ... straight up the significant hill we're on ... 's gonna be up in the clouds at this rate !!!
Anyway .. we get there, park and leg it down to Calfaria Chapel about 30 seconds 'fore the cortege arrives and dash inside

I never knew her BIL was a welsh speaker ..... nor did Pam !!
90% of the service was conducted in Taff, all bar one hymn ... so stood/sat there like a dummy for 50 minutes, watching the clock thinking, ...

'this is gonna be a bloody fast trip to the Crem.!!!!! '

Was for us ... we just tagged on to the back end of a line of cars .... heading in the opposite direction we'd arrived from (and the hearse was pointing) ...
" don't 'spose they're all going home do you ? " ....
"not unless they all live in the same place Pam " .....

after a ten minute, semi-guided tour of the back streets, we emerged exactly where I thought we'd end up and I was away, heading for yon Crem. .......
Cortege was well late .. but he had a damned good send off ... must've been 250 folks there ...... bloody good job they'd not all come to the 'Chapel'

Finding the wake venue was a.n.other story ........... but no time constraints on that one .... I got us there though ... all in all was a bloody loooooooong day ... didn't get home 'til damned near 8 in the evening

 

[Cyberprog]

one to make you 'smile' ....
this makes it one all 'tween me and the missus ...

some may recall ... I took us to the wrong hospital last year - honest mistake .. paperwork came from me usual clinic..MRI suite was in a different place, t'other side of Cardiff

so ..... left here in good time Wed.s for said funeral .... Pam's organised what / where / when ... times, etc.

we get to the Crem. half an hour before the stated time of 1.15 .... looks a tad quiet??
I park and have a wander over to the 'You are here' board / map and buggered if I can see 'Calfaria Chapel' on it???
walking back I notice on a lamp post, a notice stating the batting order for the day ..... our 'team' is scheduled for 2.15 ?????

"check that text from yer sister Pam" says I, as I get back in't car ...... "there's no Calfaria chapel here and that notice over there says 2.15 "

She hadn't noticed the "1.15 " between the words "chapel " and "crematorium 2.15" ...... fook ... we're in Merffa ... a place we do not know and only go to once in a blue moon, with no idea WTF this chapel is ?????
Her sister and BIL will both have their phones turned off by now ... ditto Pam's neice !!

"OK ...head back to Anne's place and we'll ask " that was the easy bit ... get back to Cefn Coed and dive in a shop .. never heard of said chapel !!
"where did Gareth's parents live Pam ? "
" er heel summat "
"Heol Gerrig by any chance? "
" that sounds familiar "

'S maybe 15 years since I last had to navigate Merffa .. 's a big-ish place and has changed massively ... grabbed a posty for some directions .. he lost me after the fifth mini roundabout, but it must've sunk in 'cos ten minutes later we're heading into what used to be Heol Gerrig village on t'other side of the valley from where we'd just come .... grabbed another posty for more directions ... 'nother half a mile ... straight up the significant hill we're on ... 's gonna be up in the clouds at this rate !!!
Anyway .. we get there, park and leg it down to Calfaria Chapel about 30 seconds 'fore the cortege arrives and dash inside

I never knew her BIL was a welsh speaker ..... nor did Pam !!
90% of the service was conducted in Taff, all bar one hymn ... so stood/sat there like a dummy for 50 minutes, watching the clock thinking, ...

'this is gonna be a bloody fast trip to the Crem.!!!!! '

Was for us ... we just tagged on to the back end of a line of cars .... heading in the opposite direction we'd arrived from (and the hearse was pointing) ...
" don't 'spose they're all going home do you ? " ....
"not unless they all live in the same place Pam " .....

after a ten minute, semi-guided tour of the back streets, we emerged exactly where I thought we'd end up and I was away, heading for yon Crem. .......
Cortege was well late .. but he had a damned good send off ... must've been 250 folks there ...... bloody good job they'd not all come to the 'Chapel'

Finding the wake venue was a.n.other story ........... but no time constraints on that one .... I got us there though ... all in all was a bloody loooooooong day ... didn't get home 'til damned near 8 in the evening

I remember a similar dash for Helen's Nan recently. Half hour between the service at the chapel and the crem slot. Mad dash as it's a 25min drive...

 

[V8Druid]

I remember a similar dash for Helen's Nan recently. Half hour between the service at the chapel and the crem slot. Mad dash as it's a 25min drive...

dare say you had some idea of WTF you were headed though .... I can not remember the last time i was in Merffa .... but'd have been in a crane ..... 's not a place I'd choose to go 'for a day out' ...other than a trip to Trago, on the outskirts, maybe 2 years ago ......... Oh and guess where we ended the day ... as we were up there

 

[Cyberprog]

dare say you had some idea of WTF you were headed though .... I can not remember the last time i was in Merffa .... but'd have been in a crane ..... 's not a place I'd choose to go 'for a day out' ...other than a trip to Trago, on the outskirts, maybe 2 years ago ......... Oh and guess where we ended the day ... as we were up there

I had no idea at all, just booting it in the Discovery with her cousins partners following the twat-nav.

 

[V8Druid]

I had no idea at all, just booting it in the Discovery with her cousins partners following the twat-nav.

regrettably ..... mine was in my office, here at home ...... I knew where Llwyd Coed crem. was

 

[Cyberprog]

regrettably ..... mine was in my office, here at home ...... I knew where Llwyd Coed crem. was

Luckily built in on the D3.