What happened to that little old van you bought locally, did it ever get up and running?A monkey would be enough surely? Anyway I know there are bills to be paid..just curious.
Sell him both engines for 600, one for spares (ostensibly free).
After all they are only BMC 1.5's. It would clear up some shelf space, for a genuinely old or interesting engine :scared:
Mains Lidls, dangerously powerful until you find the speed control.
Do not wear any gloves, long sleeves or beards, a hoodie drawstring would be life-changing..the bits turn at very high rpm and are razor-sharp, you will not flinch quick enough.
Very very useful for £25 + bits.
Welcome on board!
Clean off the maker's name and jaw sizes with wire wool and some oil, take pics and put them on here in the For Sale section. Somebody will have a genuine use for them. Large English spanners will always get used.
We converted a trawler to a floating nightclub, the 2 diesel bunkers held about 40 tons each side.
One got turned into a bar, and I remember my pal Joe gas-cutting out the serving hatches etc, from the inside of the tank. Sparks and hot swarf flying all over the place.
While I tended the...
I wouodn't use one
Probably right unfortunately; they are not to blame, it is what it is, but there are generations of younger people alive with no knowledge or hands-on experience of physically burning solids and liquids to keep warm, unless it is all automatic, controlled and regulated by...
Not really warmer, it just doesn't conduct the heat out of your skin as quick, so it 'feels' warmer.
Like the difference between touching wood or aluminium window frames.
(I bet it is sold for GRP boats as well for some fantastic price..)
Is it painted? Since that is a cosmetic repair, why not use body filler, epoxy putty, milliput or something similar?
I would be concerned that heat could distort it.
Dry powder can hurt you in other ways:
A yacht I used to crew on (Nic 36) was put ashore as the prop shaft coupling was not gripping the shaft.
Access is very tight, but a local boatyard engineer mamaged to carefully worm his way in there past the various sharp and awkward sticking-out bits in...