Lancs Lad
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Yep, narrow kerf is your friend
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
's like a hot knife through butter, fair play .... TBH all the Ferrex stuff I've had has been very good for the level of use it gets from me ... the recip. saw especially - use that a lot and goes on forever on a battery - their 20/40v batteries are really good, especially if running 20v stuff ... that little jigsaw I had out the other day is equally as good ... for the money and applications you can't go far wrong and is decently made - the 40v - 5" grinders have had a real caning
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
wanted the above chunk of ply to bolt to the bottom of the upright bandsaw, to, (a) keep the bloody wildlife out of the guts and (b) give it a bit more of a stable, side to side footprint ....
so wound up the 'Drema yesterday and plonked it on the bench
beauty of having such a small bum to her, is I rarely have to move it far for doing stuff on the bench .....
having gotten the ply bolted on - went and got Pam to eyeball the landing for me ....... will be very handy for me by there and easy enough to plug in the VFD -- all me boxes have light and power sockets down their length
and within 10 minutes of moving it it was spitting the threatened rain
so .. chucked a cover back on
must get a bigger tarp. -- 4m x 2m should completely cover it - might even get a pucka cover made for it ... wouldn't be a difficult thing to get done and sussed the measurements not long after it arrived ... summat along these lines'd do a great job -- where did you say you got a cover made recently @6feetdown
Would match Lil' Jakie then
then I had a look at the suds for the horizontal
remembered that I had a couple of these - can't for the life of me recall where I picked them up, but thought they'd make an ideal filtered sump for a pump
found meself some fittings to 'add' to the new little pump(s) that'd arrived
and they were a perfect fit in the filter baskets
gave the pump a test out in a bucket of water with a 12v battery and seemed to be pretty good ... supposedly a 5m head and 800L/hr.
wanted to keep said basket off the bottom of the saw's suds tank, so fixed a long 10 mil. bolt in the side of the tank, to hang it on and give clearance under it --
getting some decent pix was difficult with only a hand sized hole to get the phone into
should keep the bottom and the pick up out of the inevitable tish build up at the bottom of the tank.
so wound up the 'Drema yesterday and plonked it on the bench
beauty of having such a small bum to her, is I rarely have to move it far for doing stuff on the bench .....
having gotten the ply bolted on - went and got Pam to eyeball the landing for me ....... will be very handy for me by there and easy enough to plug in the VFD -- all me boxes have light and power sockets down their length
and within 10 minutes of moving it it was spitting the threatened rain
so .. chucked a cover back on
must get a bigger tarp. -- 4m x 2m should completely cover it - might even get a pucka cover made for it ... wouldn't be a difficult thing to get done and sussed the measurements not long after it arrived ... summat along these lines'd do a great job -- where did you say you got a cover made recently @6feetdown
Would match Lil' Jakie then
then I had a look at the suds for the horizontal
remembered that I had a couple of these - can't for the life of me recall where I picked them up, but thought they'd make an ideal filtered sump for a pump
gave the pump a test out in a bucket of water with a 12v battery and seemed to be pretty good ... supposedly a 5m head and 800L/hr.
wanted to keep said basket off the bottom of the saw's suds tank, so fixed a long 10 mil. bolt in the side of the tank, to hang it on and give clearance under it --
getting some decent pix was difficult with only a hand sized hole to get the phone into
should keep the bottom and the pick up out of the inevitable tish build up at the bottom of the tank.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
and then it lashed it down for best part of an hour
hid under the placcy cover when it eased off a bit and re-wired the 'bottom of cut' micro-switch with a longer lead, to incorporate it into the suds operation - to shut off at bottom of cut and routed it . ... extended the rather short lead the pump arrived with and routed that out of the tank and went and found a suitable lump of pipe to connect to the pump and suds feed in the saw's bow -- once it'd stopped persisting I could get the cover off - get some pix and route/connect the extra wiring into to connection/power supply box ..
added a cable tie for stability
got it all connected up (nice little power supplies these - available in all sorts of sizes/outputs)
and gave it a try out in situ ..
after I'd adjusted the voltage out of the power pack to the full 12v (produces 5 to 12v) and put sufficient water in the saw's tank to cater for covering the pick up - pus a bit
works beautifully , but need some control to each guide's nozzle -
they share a tee-ed supply and the one gets priority, so need to fit some taps to the lines or nozzles to equalise their respective supplies - other wise flood coolant aplenty -
will add some soluble once I've finished all the details ..
prefer to just get wet ATM, messing with it, without getting oily too ...
may have to fit some splash guarding to the guide heads too --
unlike the Meba's guides which're enclosed and keep the coolant under control, these tend to throw it out of the guide rollers in all directions, when the blade is running ...
some strategically placed/fitted door curtain'd do the job nicely and could keep it tight to the blade, making the coolant simply drop downwards
last one yesterday evening - for @Stock -- more crud recycling
for best part of an hour got it all connected up (nice little power supplies these - available in all sorts of sizes/outputs)
and gave it a try out in situ ..
after I'd adjusted the voltage out of the power pack to the full 12v (produces 5 to 12v) and put sufficient water in the saw's tank to cater for covering the pick up - pus a bit
works beautifully , but need some control to each guide's nozzle -
they share a tee-ed supply and the one gets priority, so need to fit some taps to the lines or nozzles to equalise their respective supplies - other wise flood coolant aplenty -
will add some soluble once I've finished all the details ..
prefer to just get wet ATM, messing with it, without getting oily too ...
may have to fit some splash guarding to the guide heads too --
unlike the Meba's guides which're enclosed and keep the coolant under control, these tend to throw it out of the guide rollers in all directions, when the blade is running ...
some strategically placed/fitted door curtain'd do the job nicely and could keep it tight to the blade, making the coolant simply drop downwards
last one yesterday evening - for @Stock -- more crud recycling
William127
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and within 10 minutes of moving it it was spitting the threatened rain
so .. chucked a cover back on
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must get a bigger tarp. -- 4m x 2m should completely cover it - might even get a pucka cover made for it ... wouldn't be a difficult thing to get done and sussed the measurements not long after it arrived ... summat along these lines'd do a great job -- where did you say you got a cover made recently @6feetdown
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Would match Lil' Jakie then
Cunningham Covers make all the flexible connectors we fit on the acoustic enclosures, all one offs made to order. Sure they'd have no trouble
so .. chucked a cover back on
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must get a bigger tarp. -- 4m x 2m should completely cover it - might even get a pucka cover made for it ... wouldn't be a difficult thing to get done and sussed the measurements not long after it arrived ... summat along these lines'd do a great job -- where did you say you got a cover made recently @6feetdown
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Would match Lil' Jakie then
Cunningham Covers make all the flexible connectors we fit on the acoustic enclosures, all one offs made to order. Sure they'd have no trouble
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
thanks - will drop them an email with a better drawing -- @6feetdown had a cover made locally a short while back and I used to use a Co. in Zooport that were rather good at it too, but he tells me they no longer exist? - do come up on Google search thoughand within 10 minutes of moving it it was spitting the threatened rain
so .. chucked a cover back on
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must get a bigger tarp. -- 4m x 2m should completely cover it - might even get a pucka cover made for it ... wouldn't be a difficult thing to get done and sussed the measurements not long after it arrived ... summat along these lines'd do a great job -- where did you say you got a cover made recently @6feetdown
View attachment 72498
Would match Lil' Jakie then
Cunningham Covers make all the flexible connectors we fit on the acoustic enclosures, all one offs made to order. Sure they'd have no trouble
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
forgot to say that it absolutely lashed it down here most of the night ..
woke up this morning feeling RAF so didn't surface 'til gone eleven ...
not a lot done today, other than a run to town to collect some med.s for Pam.....
and the rest of the day's just evaporated
8 'til 6 kids day tomorrow ...
won't be much done --- other than survive the day
woke up this morning feeling RAF so didn't surface 'til gone eleven ...
not a lot done today, other than a run to town to collect some med.s for Pam.....
and the rest of the day's just evaporated
8 'til 6 kids day tomorrow ...
won't be much done --- other than survive the day
Powerfab
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They're a good crowd to deal with. Nothing's too much bother.and within 10 minutes of moving it it was spitting the threatened rain
so .. chucked a cover back on
View attachment 72492
must get a bigger tarp. -- 4m x 2m should completely cover it - might even get a pucka cover made for it ... wouldn't be a difficult thing to get done and sussed the measurements not long after it arrived ... summat along these lines'd do a great job -- where did you say you got a cover made recently @6feetdown
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Would match Lil' Jakie then
Cunningham Covers make all the flexible connectors we fit on the acoustic enclosures, all one offs made to order. Sure they'd have no trouble
Jimbo69
Well-known member
That’s where I got my trailer cover from, perfect fit and well made.and within 10 minutes of moving it it was spitting the threatened rain
so .. chucked a cover back on
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must get a bigger tarp. -- 4m x 2m should completely cover it - might even get a pucka cover made for it ... wouldn't be a difficult thing to get done and sussed the measurements not long after it arrived ... summat along these lines'd do a great job -- where did you say you got a cover made recently @6feetdown
View attachment 72498
Would match Lil' Jakie then
Cunningham Covers make all the flexible connectors we fit on the acoustic enclosures, all one offs made to order. Sure they'd have no trouble
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Diggerdavey
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I know people keep saying it but you really do need a decent size workshop so jobs can continue despite the rainand then it lashed it down
View attachment 72514 hid under the placcy cover when it eased off a bit and re-wired the 'bottom of cut' micro-switch with a longer lead, to incorporate it into the suds operation - to shut off at bottom of cut and routed it . ... extended the rather short lead the pump arrived with and routed that out of the tank and went and found a suitable lump of pipe to connect to the pump and suds feed in the saw's bow -- once it'd stopped persisting I could get the cover off - get some pix and route/connect the extra wiring into to connection/power supply box ..
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View attachment 72510 added a cable tie for stability View attachment 72509
got it all connected up (nice little power supplies these - available in all sorts of sizes/outputs)
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and gave it a try out in situ ..
after I'd adjusted the voltage out of the power pack to the full 12v (produces 5 to 12v) and put sufficient water in the saw's tank to cater for covering the pick up - pus a bit
works beautifully , but need some control to each guide's nozzle -
they share a tee-ed supply and the one gets priority, so need to fit some taps to the lines or nozzles to equalise their respective supplies - other wise flood coolant aplenty -
will add some soluble once I've finished all the details ..
prefer to just get wet ATM, messing with it, without getting oily too ...
may have to fit some splash guarding to the guide heads too --
unlike the Meba's guides which're enclosed and keep the coolant under control, these tend to throw it out of the guide rollers in all directions, when the blade is running ...
some strategically placed/fitted door curtain'd do the job nicely and could keep it tight to the blade, making the coolant simply drop downwards
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last one yesterday evening - for @Stock -- more crud recycling
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Lancs Lad
Well-known member
We've given up telling himI know people keep saying it but you really do need a decent size workshop so jobs can continue despite the rain
Rain ?? What rain . Not seen a drop at home for 2.5 months from my rough reckoning.
Looks like that may change come weekend tho...
1RB
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These lot used to be in the same yard as me but have moved up north now but they used to make bespoke covers to fit all sorts of things & were good quality
Canal Navvy
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the reg. would've been such an easy option, if it hadn't been for all the bloody obstructions, to get at the damned thing ... really tested my tool kit selection for working in very tight spaces
TBH I really could not see how the hell you'd get the alternator off - no access whatsoever
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Time and space is of the essence.
Take off the front right hand wheel and carry it a good five paces away, next remove the arch liner and rest it against the wheel, keep removing bits and leaning them against the last part until the trail starts to trip you up and at that point it's pretty straightforward
(Feeling particularly grumpy at the moment with a virus that would sound familiar to you so my judgment of VW is probably unfair)
TBH I really could not see how the hell you'd get the alternator off - no access whatsoever
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Time and space is of the essence.
Take off the front right hand wheel and carry it a good five paces away, next remove the arch liner and rest it against the wheel, keep removing bits and leaning them against the last part until the trail starts to trip you up and at that point it's pretty straightforward
(Feeling particularly grumpy at the moment with a virus that would sound familiar to you so my judgment of VW is probably unfair)
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
the reg. would've been such an easy option, if it hadn't been for all the bloody obstructions, to get at the damned thing ... really tested my tool kit selection for working in very tight spaces
TBH I really could not see how the hell you'd get the alternator off - no access whatsoever
Time and space is of the essence.
Take off the front right hand wheel and carry it a good five paces away, next remove the arch liner and rest it against the wheel, keep removing bits and leaning them against the last part until the trail starts to trip you up and at that point it's pretty straightforward
(Feeling particularly grumpy at the moment with a virus that would sound familiar to you so my judgment of VW is probably unfair)
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PMSL - love the humour
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
15 years ago today, 28th May, at 10.00 a.m. ....... I took possession of Chez Druid
summoned the kids home for the weekend - they all thought -- wedding!! ..
Shut shop and took the day off - spent the day shifting bits an' pieces of stuff from Pam's in the village
no one other than the sellers, our respective solicitors and us knew we'd bought it.
Kids were all home by tea time and bundled 'em all in the disco, ostensibly heading out for some food at a local 'hostelry'
Said I'd just got to make a short diversion, to see a customer, for 5 minutes and dived down our 'new' drive.
Josh was the first one to notice that, sat on the patio, of the place I'd just stopped at, (supposedly a customer's place), was our patio furniture.
shocked did not even begin to describe the reactions
first 'meal' here ---------
wasn't the warmest of evenings
the weekend then followed, with plenty of labour for house moving, from Pam's in the village and my place in Aber. -- was a busy weekend
dunno WTF the last 15 years have gone, but we've done a lot here with the 'blank canvas' I bought .... especially considering less than 3 months later I was in hospital in ICU seriously wondering if I was ever coming out!!
Never been 'properly' ill in my life ... but ... never know what's around the corner
summoned the kids home for the weekend - they all thought -- wedding!!
.. Shut shop and took the day off - spent the day shifting bits an' pieces of stuff from Pam's in the village
no one other than the sellers, our respective solicitors and us knew we'd bought it.
Kids were all home by tea time and bundled 'em all in the disco, ostensibly heading out for some food at a local 'hostelry'
Said I'd just got to make a short diversion, to see a customer, for 5 minutes and dived down our 'new' drive.
Josh was the first one to notice that, sat on the patio, of the place I'd just stopped at, (supposedly a customer's place), was our patio furniture.
shocked did not even begin to describe the reactions
first 'meal' here ---------
wasn't the warmest of evenings
the weekend then followed, with plenty of labour for house moving
, from Pam's in the village and my place in Aber. -- was a busy weekend dunno WTF the last 15 years have gone, but we've done a lot here with the 'blank canvas' I bought
.... especially considering less than 3 months later I was in hospital in ICU seriously wondering if I was ever coming out!! Never been 'properly' ill in my life ... but ... never know what's around the corner
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
and 11 years ago today 30th May 2014, I completed the sale of my yard to McCarthy & Stone ... handed them the keys at 10.00 a.m. after a massive effort to clear the place out on time.
end of a chapter - end of an era
they were a bit miffed when they realised that they'd only contracted to buy the plot and building - not the palisade boundary fence - I'd sold that -- had to get it hoarded PDQ - 1.02 acres --- 10,000ft2 building
seems like a lifetime ago now
after a massive effort to clear the place out on time.end of a chapter - end of an era
they were a bit miffed when they realised that they'd only contracted to buy the plot and building - not the palisade boundary fence - I'd sold that
-- had to get it hoarded PDQ - 1.02 acres --- 10,000ft2 buildingseems like a lifetime ago now
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
and today ..
finally completed on the sale of Vicki's (Pam's old house) down in the village after a bit of a marathon with the buyers -
10 a.m. 'the funds' still hadn't showed up at the solicitor's and theirs was saying it was gonna have to be postponed
45 min.s later their ppl are back on to ours saying their mistake - funds on way -- FFS
sorted by lunchtime thank ****
have had some tish with this ..
sacked off one lot of agents for not performing last year -
received several close and then an acceptable offer and they didn't follow up on it -
W
s -
second lot ain't been a lot better -
intro-ed these buyers as 'cash buyers' -
negotiated on that basis and a quick sale -
last ****ing September ...
Agents did not perform due diligence on funding sources -
turned out one half of the couple was cash -
t'other half was mid way through selling her's, which has dragged on and bloody on, due to it having an ancient CPO against a tiny bit of the garden, for a Welsh Office road widening scheme, that never went ahead and had never been 'extinguished' !!
you could not have scripted it ...
only thing that kept us 'hanging in there' was that I knew the guy/we knew each other, and they genuinely, desperately wanted to buy it.
anyway it's their this evening.
end of a.n.other era, so to speak - Pam's owned the place since early '90s ...
one less headache to stress about !!
If I was a drinker, I would be getting hammered tonight
celebrated instead by massacring the grass - I've not been well enough, or it's been wet, for the last 12 days, to get it done and it'd just about gotten out of hand again .. lorragrass off it all this afters - any longer than 6 days and it's 'a cut' --
tater-ed tonight
..finally completed on the sale of Vicki's (Pam's old house) down in the village after a bit of a marathon with the buyers -
10 a.m. 'the funds' still hadn't showed up at the solicitor's and theirs was saying it was gonna have to be postponed
45 min.s later their ppl are back on to ours saying their mistake - funds on way -- FFS
sorted by lunchtime thank ****
have had some tish with this ..
sacked off one lot of agents for not performing last year -
received several close and then an acceptable offer and they didn't follow up on it -
W
s -second lot ain't been a lot better -
intro-ed these buyers as 'cash buyers' -
negotiated on that basis and a quick sale -
last ****ing September ...
Agents did not perform due diligence on funding sources -
turned out one half of the couple was cash -
t'other half was mid way through selling her's, which has dragged on and bloody on, due to it having an ancient CPO against a tiny bit of the garden, for a Welsh Office road widening scheme, that never went ahead and had never been 'extinguished' !!
you could not have scripted it
...only thing that kept us 'hanging in there' was that I knew the guy/we knew each other, and they genuinely, desperately wanted to buy it.
anyway it's their this evening.
end of a.n.other era, so to speak - Pam's owned the place since early '90s ...
one less headache to stress about !!
If I was a drinker, I would be getting hammered tonight
celebrated instead by massacring the grass - I've not been well enough, or it's been wet, for the last 12 days, to get it done and it'd just about gotten out of hand again .. lorragrass off it all this afters - any longer than 6 days and it's 'a cut' --
tater-ed tonight
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
and like a fool spent 6 hrs on the strimmer, pushing to do a lot of the bits I can't get at with the mowers yesterdaycelebrated instead by massacring the grass - I've not been well enough, or it's been wet, for the last 12 days, to get it done and it'd just about gotten out of hand again .. lorragrass off it all this afters - any longer than 6 days and it's 'a cut' --
tater-ed tonight
-- mistake -- been absolutely ****ed all day today .... not recovered as much as I thought I had ...... soooooooo frustrating
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
and repeat - yesterday --
not a lot done today, apart from take the girls to school first thing (much too early a start !!) and get a lot of rubbish generated yesterday burnt this afters
did get 99% of everything under control and flattened yesterday though
if I was still 'working' I would be on my way to see this tomorrow ...
it may be late 80s, but Sedgewick made proper gear and a 10ft x 1/4" power folder for 1500 quid is a gift -- basically Sedgewick's version of a Keetona Hydraform which are rarely 10ft, (usually 8ft) and five times the price
swing end too
not a lot done today, apart from take the girls to school first thing (much too early a start !!) and get a lot of rubbish generated yesterday burnt this afters
did get 99% of everything under control and flattened yesterday though
if I was still 'working' I would be on my way to see this tomorrow ...
it may be late 80s, but Sedgewick made proper gear and a 10ft x 1/4" power folder for 1500 quid is a gift -- basically Sedgewick's version of a Keetona Hydraform which are rarely 10ft, (usually 8ft) and five times the price
swing end too
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
as said elsewhere last night - was researching one of these, that I've tripped over reeeeeeeeeeally bloody cheap and local-ish ....
last iteration of these in the early '80s were £28,000 and change - £30k with taper turning, new ..
Kearney & Trekker/CVA toolroom machines - much sought after and impressively accurate, with some very nice features.
yes I know I have the Harrison, but these are at the DS&G / Holbrook level of good and are only going up in value.
and it was my birthday yesterday
might be a road trip on the cards
on other things ..........
picked this up in Aldi earlier in the week ... thought I'd give it a try and have to say, 'tis very effective at getting the bird sh1t off the Kia, crud out o' the arches and moss off the patio slabs ('bout all I tried it on)
got a 5" out earlier in the week too and gave the birdbath it's annual clean up, as it was nice and dry, followed by a good coat of yacht varnish (with a.n.other to follow tomorrow) ... came up nice as usual
and this little fella is really becoming quite the house cat ..... unless the kids're about - then you won't see him for dust
last iteration of these in the early '80s were £28,000 and change - £30k with taper turning, new ..
Kearney & Trekker/CVA toolroom machines - much sought after and impressively accurate, with some very nice features.
yes I know I have the Harrison, but these are at the DS&G / Holbrook level of good and are only going up in value.
and it was my birthday yesterday
might be a road trip on the cards
on other things ..........
picked this up in Aldi earlier in the week ... thought I'd give it a try and have to say, 'tis very effective at getting the bird sh1t off the Kia, crud out o' the arches and moss off the patio slabs ('bout all I tried it on)
got a 5" out earlier in the week too and gave the birdbath it's annual clean up, as it was nice and dry, followed by a good coat of yacht varnish (with a.n.other to follow tomorrow) ... came up nice as usual
and this little fella is really becoming quite the house cat ..... unless the kids're about - then you won't see him for dust
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