Today I acquired...........

[4String.]

A shiny van:




One of my truck driving mates has started his own detailing business and as the camper conversion is moving on apace I thought I'd give the outside some love. There was some reasonably heavy rusting on the passenger door, courtesy of the muppets who recently fitted the windows and didn't clean up the jigsaw swarf, and on the bonnet, courtesy of me not watching where the sparks were going from a recent session cutting flat bar with a slitting disc , but no more. The difference in before and after is night and day, and the clay bar routine has cleaned all the paintwork.

There's a few dings and scratches on the van but considering she's 9 years old and I'm the fourth owner, I'm very pleased with how she looks now, and it's nice to help out a mate.

 

[8ob]

Get one of the tapered screw type slide hammers for removing the stuck injector seals , that can be a b#**#d to remove sometimes

Ordered Always managed to pick them out,that tool looks like it will make short work of that task.

Bob

 

[droopsnoot]

I used to save my pocket money to buy railway modeller in the 60's and read them cover to cover a few times.

I have a lot of those that my Dad got from somewhere when I had my layout set up, back when I was in school. There's a 4' pile of RM in this stuff, some of them fairly new, and the rest are a mix of some I've heard of, and some I haven't. I've just put them out of the way, for now.

 

[Geoffm]

Do you still have the wse200?

I do, but I am in New Zealand. As much as I woudl love to have a holiday in Europe to personally deliver it, I can't get the time off (or money) at present - otherwise you could have it.
issue with the WSE200 here - https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/wse200-tig-boards.142460/#post-2561634

 

[Memmeddu]

I do, but I am in New Zealand. As much as I woudl love to have a holiday in Europe to personally deliver it, I can't get the time off (or money) at present - otherwise you could have it.
issue with the WSE200 here - https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/wse200-tig-boards.142460/#post-2561634

PM sent

 

[Melvyn Best]

Ordered Always managed to pick them out,that tool looks like it will make short work of that task.

Bob

Most of the time they come out easily but when you get a stuck one they work in seconds . I reduced the length of mine as it was originally too long to get under a scuttle panel , think the vehicle was probably French?

 

[Gregb23]

A small mower from the tip before it got handed over. Topped up with oil as chap had emptied it for travel. New fuel hose and starter handle and we're away! Just need to replace the starter cord on the free flymo next.

 

[Bki26]

A gift package directly from Kopparberg, Oscar approved

 

[JOEPRO]

A gift package directly from Kopparberg, Oscar approved
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Going by the look on Oscar's face he plans on drinking those himself!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Another one.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Saw this being taken to a skip, so I offered to help them, gave them some folding money.
£10.

 

[Craig-SM]

Today I acquired a Dewalt Drywall Prop or at least that is what it was advertised as. Luckily the seller didn’t think it was that good so hardly used and was selling it cheap.

 

[bricol]

Another one.


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Mine's very inaccurate, even over the first link. By the time you are out to one pole, it's completely wrong.

 

[Bki26]

Going by the look on Oscar's face he plans on drinking those himself!

Should see the zoomies and flopping like a fish he does on the sofa after drinking water, can't imagine the carnage on cider

 

[Bki26]

Also acquired the "ahh that hard..." part of "how hard can it be" to strip and repair this hilti te80

I don't think it's meant to be banana shaped lol

 

[Turbo]

Also acquired the "ahh that hard..." part of "how hard can it be" to strip and repair this hilti te80
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I don't think it's meant to be banana shaped lol

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Don't volunteer to strip and service the 3 speed gearbox on a makita cordless drill. It is a complete bstd to put back together.
Dewalt drills have a similar 3 speed box but it's a lot easier to assemble.

 

[Pete.]

Also acquired the "ahh that hard..." part of "how hard can it be" to strip and repair this hilti te80
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I don't think it's meant to be banana shaped lol

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Those TE80's turn themselves off at service time and have to be re-set. If the spanner light is on then even once repaired it might not run. The earlier TE76 you could re-set the service light by powering it up disconnected from the motor and give it some sequence of trigger squeezes but I don't think you can do it with the 80.

 

[Bki26]

Those TE80's turn themselves off at service time and have to be re-set. If the spanner light is on then even once repaired it might not run. The earlier TE76 you could re-set the service light by powering it up disconnected from the motor and give it some sequence of trigger squeezes but I don't think you can do it with the 80.

Got this te80 and a te60, both power up and spin the motor but neither hammers or drills, the conrod is broken so that solves the hammer part and as for the drilling I think the last person to "service" it put it back together wrong so gears weren't meshing and the bore the hammer piston slides in had the pressure holes on the wrong way so it was pretty much running like a diesel and thus pressure broke the nylon conrod!

*edit - I can just bypass the sh*tty service circuit worse case it turns out but since they haven't hit it yet I'm just gonna get it working and sell it on, turns out I can buy replacement conrods from aliexpress for half the cost on ebay etc

 

[Olderisbetter]

A 3" tyre gauge MA&TA Birmingham maker

 

[JOEPRO]

Some white powder for the weekends