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It was also so tight it wouldn't turn. Think I've done him a favour taking it off him!
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It was also so tight it wouldn't turn. Think I've done him a favour taking it off him!Winchboy here, Winchmans son. One of the bigger things I've bought from eBay (had to get one up on Winchman for biggest thing bought on ebay) and can't wait to go camping with it, alongside the 3L mercedes engine inside it (rivet counters look away). Any advice would be appreciated as well as spares etc hoping to do a mild restoration of it , knock dents out, re-paint, tart up some of the rougher repairs on the body work where its been plated. Just paid for not yet collected however as its 300 miles away on the south coast, just getting my ear defenders and warm coat ready for it. Luckily we've got an AA membership and it should do 30mpg.
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Bought a dinky little hydraulic bender off the bay of thieves for bending smaller diameter thickwall tube and bar.
Thought I would test it on some 12mm bar, handled that no problem, goes up to 3/4". Pleasantly surprised https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hydrauli...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Thought I would test it on some 12mm bar, handled that no problem, goes up to 3/4". Pleasantly surprised https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hydrauli...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Nice little motor, I have a td5 and a 300tdi. What's the chassis like is the most important question to start with I guess
As a “thank you” from the manager of the factory this morning, for finally clearing his yard of a (supposedly empty...) 40’ container that fought me all the way and put the Hiab to 99% of capacity loading it.
2 boxes containing 24 packets of chocolate covered “mallow bites”, and half a dozen each of flapjack bars and packets of mini shortbreads.
Sadly there’s been a few casualties over the last 100 miles
, and the diet is well and truly down the pan this weekend .
2 boxes containing 24 packets of chocolate covered “mallow bites”, and half a dozen each of flapjack bars and packets of mini shortbreads.
Sadly there’s been a few casualties over the last 100 miles
, and the diet is well and truly down the pan this weekend .Not acquired, but bought last week from one of those nameless generically God-awful motorway service areas that the UK delights in producing, Tebay and Gloucester services excepted.
On offer at 2 for £10, no idea how much they are normally, but hopefully more than £5 each, this stuff is superb at cleaning windows and mirrors. Think they started out aimed at the obsessive truck drivers who clean their tyres with a toothbrush, (worryingly, these people exist. I like my motor to be clean and tidy, but it gets filthy at times and I refuse to sweat over it...), but they now stock their excellent range of cleaning products in a lot of outlets.
I have my van/truck windows down to some degree most of the time, summer and winter, and they consequently get grimy on the inside, but this stuff really shifts the muck. I’m so impressed with this stuff I wish I had as much money as Victor Kiam.
On offer at 2 for £10, no idea how much they are normally, but hopefully more than £5 each
, this stuff is superb at cleaning windows and mirrors. Think they started out aimed at the obsessive truck drivers who clean their tyres with a toothbrush, (worryingly, these people exist. I like my motor to be clean and tidy, but it gets filthy at times and I refuse to sweat over it...), but they now stock their excellent range of cleaning products in a lot of outlets. I have my van/truck windows down to some degree most of the time, summer and winter, and they consequently get grimy on the inside, but this stuff really shifts the muck. I’m so impressed with this stuff I wish I had as much money as Victor Kiam
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eLuSiVeMiTe
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Usually stop at Gloucester in my way back from Devon. The only services I do.
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Praise the lord for Gloucester and Tebay, a relief from Moto, etc.Not acquired, but bought last week from one of those nameless generically God-awful motorway service areas that the UK delights in producing, Tebay and Gloucester services excepted.
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On offer at 2 for £10, no idea how much they are normally, but hopefully more than £5 each
I have my van/truck windows down to some degree most of the time, summer and winter, and they consequently get grimy on the inside, but this stuff really shifts the muck. I’m so impressed with this stuff I wish I had as much money as Victor Kiam
IIRC, The CB Shack at Lymm have it at £7.50 a bottle or 3 for £15. I’ve stopped buying the little bottles however, and get the 5l tubs from Lymm - about the only thing going for the place.
Lymm *shudder*...
Stopped at Gloucester s/b a while back with a 24 metre rail crossing on board to find 2 artic bulkers from Essex in the long load bay. Parked alongside them, booked off for 9 hours and put the kettle on. Sure enough, had a knock on the door 10 minutes in asking me to move.
Me - No, I’m done for the next 9 hours.
Mr Clever - Me and my mate can’t get out.
Me - What part of “Abnormal Loads Only” don’t you understand? There’s plenty of room in the normal bays for you, you’re either too idle to use them or just another inconsiderate t**t who thinks the world revolves around him...
Mr Clever - (puffing out his chest and trying to look menacing) Move it or else!
Me - (looking at him over the top of my glasses with a slightly amused expression) Hang on a minute son.
At which point I pressed dial on the phone, number already entered, and rang his boss to complain about his aggressive driver that’s blocking the abnormal load bay, and left it on speakerphone. The guy’s boss played merry hell with him while he stood by my door, and finished off by giving him a verbal warning!!! The pair of them then had to reverse out from the bay, made worse by a wobble box that had pulled in behind them
. Laugh? I almost wet myself watching it all unfold, but the pair of them subsequently slunk out of the services hiding behind their half closed frilly curtains .
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Yes, it is.
A bit pricey for some stuff, but it’s clean and well kept. On another plus note, it doesn’t stink of pee, which is sadly the norm in services. I mean who wants to walk 400yards to the loo and back again?
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Yes, it is.
A bit pricey for some stuff, but it’s clean and well kept. On another plus note, it doesn’t stink of pee, which is sadly the norm in services. I mean who wants to walk 400yards to the loo and back again?
Yes, I like that one. It is pricey but it’s real food instead of prepackaged stuff.
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Yup. Kids always enjoy it there. Play areas are nice too
All service stations are exoensive. Don't mind so much if the product is nice
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looks straight enough, if its on the original box id bin the merc engine as youll be left with a handy container to hold the remains of the gears in. if it hasnt already got them, put some 3.54 diffs out of a 200tdi d1/rangerover classic, itll give it more legs. check the chassis for rot, and do a good job of sorting it if there is any.
i wouldnt bother chasing dents out etc, an old truck like that always looks better with a few battle scars than a freshly painted truck, and in any case they never came out of the factory that straight.
id get a 2 or 300 tdi dropped in it, cheap, decent economy and incredibly reliable, and you can get parts whereever you are
Thanks, currently running with series 3 diffs, the gearbox is a bit noisy like most series 2a boxes, fingers crossed I will get a good few thousand miles out of it before any real trouble, if it all goes to pot I'll just buy another 2a box and fit that. The Mercedes OM617 engine is really quite good especially compared to the original, very very reliable and known to do 500,000 miles before needing a rebuild. probably not as good as a 200tdi but I'm on an apprentice budget can't really afford to dump a 300tdi into it. Just looking for (nearly) new tyres and hoops for the canvas top, or at least a set i can use as a pattern and make my own, electrical conduit springs to mind.
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youll pick up a rotten disco for 500 quid for the lump in it. that merc engine will chew boxes apart unless you drive like miss daisy. even a tdi is a bit much for a series box unless youre sympathetic tbh. @8ob might have an engine lying around if you talk nicely to him. whatever you budget for with a landy, double it. my 110 is kicking my arris at the mo, not helped by next to no work available and therefore no money!
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Today I acquired knowledge of an unknown tool. I was in Lidl looking in the merchandise isle when I noticed what at first glance was a pop rivet kit, but it had wall anchors in the box, and upon closer inspection I saw there was a tool in the kit. In the 40+ years I've been involved with construction I have never seen a tool for installing and expanding this type of wall anchor. As I have boxes and boxes of these anchors I bought the kit just for the tool.
I also acquired a lot of stress today, as I received a computer notice from YODEL that my parcel from overseas has been delivered, and delivered "to my safe place". We were home at the time it was supposed to have been delivered, so they DIDN'T deliver it to my address. Yodel was closed by the time I got the message, so I went to every street in the area which had my house number and got lucky; they delivered it to the wrong street.
Anyway, the Columbian Gyro Vise is now safely at home.
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I also acquired a lot of stress today, as I received a computer notice from YODEL that my parcel from overseas has been delivered, and delivered "to my safe place". We were home at the time it was supposed to have been delivered, so they DIDN'T deliver it to my address. Yodel was closed by the time I got the message, so I went to every street in the area which had my house number and got lucky; they delivered it to the wrong street.
Anyway, the Columbian Gyro Vise is now safely at home.
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I have no idea how many screens I have put up with those fixings (not Lidl branded usually Fischer) but always use the correct tool to set them, so much faster than trying to use a screw driver bit which can all to easily chew up the screw or rotate the fixing in the board causing it to cork screw rather than umbrellering them.
