Routy56 - can you just....

[Stroppymonkey]

Those 316 stainless ones with the blue bands could look very lovely on show
Do like to see tidy installation

Think those are Mapress..possibly KFM fuel variant. the blue band is just a press indicator ie a strip of plastic that comes off to show the fitting has been pressed . We recently carried out a plant room and uses the Stainless FKM fittings on the Kero lines . Will find a photo . Does look tidy to be fair

 

[Routy56]

We have been using press fit on domestic since 2009. Quicker and cleaner and safer and more reliable than endfeed. Less contamination to flush out in heating systems ….
Only down sides are cost of fittings - easily offset by labour saving, and they are bulky and not really suitable for anything left on show .
Think we have about £15000 worth of press tools spread around the vans. And half that again in fittings.

Plumbing isn’t a cheap hobby.

Makes sense for you professionals to go down this road
Think I’ll stick to my nice end feed soldered joints and a nice wet rag to clean up
My apprenticeship and training was with soldering cables and electronic components. I actually love soldering stuff

 

[Giles]

Had to be like this to get signed off for connection then became this once connected

Valve, non return, drain off, stop

 

[Gecko]

Do you know if they available as a 90 deg fitting?

They are availible as a 3-way T. You could blank off the unwanted port.
The 3-way are not a full flow design though.

Love the lever valve

Also a fan of the quater turn ball valve - love the fact you can see from a distance if it's on or off

 

[Gecko]

Apparently what you want is called an L-Type (it comes with one port capped)

 

[pettsy]

I’ve got the press kit and carry a fatmax box with various fittings, but don’t really use it much. I find the fittings are pretty bulky in tight spaces.

 

[V8Druid]

I love a nice full bore ball valve too .. got loads 'in stock' in all sorts of sizes, acquired over time from various 'strip outs' and sales - mostly S/steel

now this is what you call a ball valve

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[Routy56]

Last week Jack was with me for a few days. One of the jobs we did was to finish filling in Terry's fishpond. The concrete draft walls have already been folded into the hole. And we simply backfilled it with subsoil and rubbing dirt then topped it with good top soil.
Terry lives opposite us so easy convenient job

First few loads of subsoil/rubbish soil going in. Our house is in the background. The one with the solar panels

12 x loads of subsoil later we bought in the topsoil....

Topsoil levelled and given a tracked finish ready for grass seed.
Twas a hot day and the material was nice and dry making it easy to work with.

Terry, who will be 90 next year, was so pleased. Don't forget he fell in this deep pond a few weeks ago. We re-homed the fish and now have made it safe

Jack is coming over this week, so we will pop over to rake in the grass seed....

 

[Routy56]

Popped in to see Terry the other day after our late summer holiday. He's the one whose pond we filled in after he fell in it.
Pleased to see that the grass seed is coming along now......

Terry is still fettling the grass with soil, seed and fertiliser.
"In a few months you will never know that there had been a pond there"

And then walked up the road to 'site visit' another Rob, another 'new' neighbour.
"Dave, can you just run a new water pipe up the garden for me"
He has over 3 acres and his 50m roll will not be enough!

Spotting that shared user Electricity pole I said,
"Ok, I'll pop with my CAT and Jenny"

A week later, it was a technical dig for the first few metres

There's lot going on down there - Power, broadband and old telephone cables...

But we avoided them with careful 'safe digging' and here we are curving it round the hot tub beside the rainwater harvesting IC.

And I even made time to give Rob a few operator lessons. He soon got the hang of it. But having to think about each move, he was sooooo sloooow.
Us guys rely on 'muscle memory and get the job done. Mind you I have to stop and think when I explain to others how to do it

Another job jobbed

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Popped in to see Terry the other day after our late summer holiday. He's the one whose pond we filled in after he fell in it.
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Terry is still fettling the grass with soil, seed and fertiliser.
"In a few months you will never know that there had been a pond there"

And then walked up the road to 'site visit' another Rob, another 'new' neighbour.
"Dave, can you just run a new water pipe up the garden for me"
He has over 3 acres and his 50m roll will not be enough!

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Spotting that shared user Electricity pole I said,
"Ok, I'll pop with my CAT and Jenny"

A week later, it was a technical dig for the first few metres

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There's lot going on down there - Power, broadband and old telephone cables...

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But we avoided them with careful 'safe digging' and here we are curving it round the hot tub beside the rainwater harvesting IC.

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And I even made time to give Rob a few operator lessons. He soon got the hang of it. But having to think about each move, he was sooooo sloooow.
Us guys rely on 'muscle memory and get the job done. Mind you I have to stop and think when I explain to others how to do it

Another job jobbed

Nice and dry there... brave working around services with teeth on!

 

[Routy56]

Nice and dry there... brave working around services with teeth on!

Yep totally agree with that Ben.
My 9” had no teeth until that morning. And seeing how dry and hard that clay soil was it was a no brainier to bolt ‘em back on
Mind you we actually hand dug around the services carefully giving us a good workout

 

[Routy56]

Busy weekend in the workshop and helping our grandchildren with their cars and stuff

A few weeks ago Ryan said, "Granddad, can you help me check over my car before the MOT test. I know the brakes are going to need doing"
So I did an inspection and made a long list of stuff to be done.

Now these Corsa cars are renewed for breaking springs and the last few MOT advisories were for front shocks leaking. For a few quid more we could buy a pair of complete struts. They were only £139 complete for a nice pair of new ones.
Easy job with Ryan and Jack doing most of the spannering

And then we did the front discs and pads. The old pads were wearing very evenly with only about 1mm of friction material left. Big wear lip on the discs
New NAPA kit was only £60.34
Then at lunch time the boys called it a day and cleared off. Next weekend we have the rear shocks and a rear drum brake inspection to do.
Ryan has been describing how the car drifts around corners, sort of floating. It's not surprising with all 4 shocks absolutely knackered. Further report to come once we have done the rears which were only £29.95 a pair.
This Corsa which we bought last year has been a good buy for Ryan. He's doing about 20k miles a year now that in his second year there's no Black Box restrictions. The company pay for his fuel. And they have put his through his various tickets, 360 Excavator in the next few weeks

 

[Routy56]

Now our Sophie who only just turned 17 and is a 6th Form Student doing Business Studies passed here driving test with flying colours

So last week she said to me, "Granddad, can you just help me find a good first car"
My search included Toyota Aygo (which we bought for Pascale), Peugeot 107/8 or a Citroen C1.
Lot of rubbish out there with a budget of no more then £1500. High mileage and rusty etc.
So, on Friday, we was out in Colchester doing stuff and had stopped to have lunch.
"Hey granddad, lookout this one that has just popped up on FBMP"

So we whizzed over to Clacton to have a look at it, and yes I did crawl underneath it in the rain
Only 49k miles, good MOT with only silly advisories for tyres etc over the last few years.
The seller was a lovely older lady who has owned it for 11 years and is moving to Spain. Turns out that I know here SIL who advertised it. We had a deal there and then and agreed to collect it on Sunday.

Deal done and Sharon took us over to Clacton to collect...

We arranged a great deal with insurance via Confused.com with Hastings Direct - £1092 with breakdown cover etc and me as a named driver.
I drove it away, usual clutch pedal a bit high, to garage where Sophie filled it up. Then Halford for oil and filter. The owner was serving it every two years and the old was low, so an oil service was due.
Then Sophie drove very well from Clacton to my World HQ Central - about 20 miles

So straight into my workshop for a safety inspection and oil service.
Brakes are like new and looks like they have only just been replaced.
Tyres all good but are now getting old and will be replaced very soon.
So proud of Sophie, she is very confident and gets stuck in to the practical stuff after asking the right sort of questions

 

[V8Druid]

Josh had a C2 for a few years and was a great little car -- 'til he tanked it with 32l of petrol late one night on a Tesco forecourt in Warwick - out of the diesel pump (which he had a receipt for, for 32l of diesel) .. we fought them for months trying to get the resultant consequential losses from them ... eventually had to give up fighting the ba**ards - like pushing treacle uphill, in a heat wave, despite being in contact with several other folks who'd suffered the same issue that night

 

[pettsy]

That looks pretty straight for a C1, possibly had the front bumper repainted at some point in its life?

The main thing to look for is rust on the sills, engine wise they’re pretty strong Toyota-sourced unit. We’ve only ever replaced two when racing, one when the driver decided to go from 4th to 1st and throw a rod out of the block! We did a full swap in an hour and half. The other cooked because of a failed fan. I believe one of the cars we look after has something like 18k race miles including a 24hr race.

 

[hiluxman]

That looks pretty straight for a C1, possibly had the front bumper repainted at some point in its life?

The main thing to look for is rust on the sills, engine wise they’re pretty strong Toyota-sourced unit. We’ve only ever replaced two when racing, one when the driver decided to go from 4th to 1st and throw a rod out of the block! We did a full swap in an hour and half. The other cooked because of a failed fan. I believe one of the cars we look after has something like 18k race miles including a 24hr race.

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I've a toyota iq, same engine but electric throttle ect. I'm not one for giving things hard work but it owes me price of a clutch and I've given it no love from day one and I'll take it places I wouldn't take my pick up.

Had a couple of 107s too. Cannot fault the engines in them at all.

I'd love a go at racing them

 

[Routy56]

That looks pretty straight for a C1, possibly had the front bumper repainted at some point in its life?

The main thing to look for is rust on the sills, engine wise they’re pretty strong Toyota-sourced unit. We’ve only ever replaced two when racing, one when the driver decided to go from 4th to 1st and throw a rod out of the block! We did a full swap in an hour and half. The other cooked because of a failed fan. I believe one of the cars we look after has something like 18k race miles including a 24hr race.

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Thanks for your posting Matt. I'd better not show Sophie the photos of yer race cars
Yes it is very sound with only surface rust underneath. When doing the oil change gave it a dose of the wire brush, primer, paint and waxoyl.
I think if we catch it now, it will last a few years for Sophie
Engine is strong on this one and the three cylinder unit makes lovely growl when pushed hard
Sophie called in on her way home from College yesterday complaining of a strange smell. Fearing the worst after she had stalled it a few times I checked the clutch, which I know are weak. But it was fine. "Have you been going through stinky puddles?"
"No but that's the smell" Air conditioning - she was giving it large yesterday afternoon 'cos it was sunny.
So I have her some Air Conditioning cleaner from my cabinet- "Now takes this and read the instructions"

 

[Canal Navvy]

We had a C1 join the family recently so my corsa van isn't the smallest anymore. Did the service as soon "her" daughter had driven it a couple of times and I was happy with it.
Junior tapeworm on the L plates was struggling with the stalling/high clutch but fortunately the spark plug change made things considerably better. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the spark plugs were the ones it came out of the factory with