Ship I once worked on, Detroit Diesel 12v71 motor running a big LMF air compressor, it consumed 12 gallons of engine oil a day. A screaming, howling, whirling dervish of an engine, two blowers, four turbos, 48 intake valves, piston ported exhaust………..
No wonder they were phased out. :laughing:
And there’s always the chance water is leaking twixt the tiles, due to moss growth in the rain grooves, then running down the felt, where it then sneaks out and pretends it’s the flat roof causing the problem.
Do you hold your torch in one hand? I’ve tried that before but I just can’t keep it steady enough, so almost always use both hands on it. Or at least one hand supporting the other, a bit of triangulation.
Googles will give you a burnt face in very short time if you use them for more than a couple of minutes welding, or less. ETA. Wozzaa beat me to it.
I bought a pair a couple of years ago just for the occasional weld when I couldn’t get my helmet in to see, but I couldn’t see properly with...
Stafford bike show is next weekend I think, if I’m going I need to write a shopping list, flap discs, cut off discs, metal stock, cheap aerosol paint etc. Normally I forget, and when I’m actually there I go total air head and can’t think of a single thing I need.
I only live 4 miles from it...
Friend of mine has a CCM Bobber motorcycle, the frame is tig welded and then just clear coated, not painted, so the welds are on display. It’s four years old, and all the newer ones are painted, because the frame welder apparently retired and they can’t find anybody who can weld good enough, and...
My sisters boiler is in an upstairs bedroom, with a condensate pump that sends water up to the roof gutter. Except whoever installed it made a mess of it so it would blast into the gutter then spray gutter poop all over the garden, like a golden shower….
A hotel I stayed at in Spain had an...
The captain of an oil survey ship I worked on started out his nautical career on North Sea trawlers, aged 14. At the age of 60 he was eventually ‘let go’ when our company was taken over by Schlumberger, and it turned out he had no papers, nothing, to prove he was a captain…..
He did show us a...
To be fair, it was the rental agent who turned it all into real drama. The girl in the office decided it had been ‘capped off’ somehow, and when I phoned BG, from the Philippines, they explained nothing had been capped off, they had just given the same warning about age, obsolete, and lack of...
Great pics.
I lived in Tattershall when I was about 3, dad was in the RAF at Coningsby.
That was the winter of deeeep snow, I do remember it despite being so young.
Has it a really been condemned and turned off, or have they just told her it’s old and not up to modern standards?
When I was renting my place out I went through a similar saga, with the agent telling me there was now no heating, the gas had been capped off, they needed a new boiler urgently...
Yes, I’ve worked on a few like that, where the motor has got to be disconnected and moved, just to get the oil filter off, or change the Jabsco pump impeller. :doh:
I fried two alternators on my old Z1100 by forgetting to connect them up after having the casing off for some reason. First one was a daft mistake, second time was just stupidity…..:ashamed:
Apparently when running open circuit they have nowhere to send the energy they produce, so they melt...
I bought an R-tech 160 several years ago, planning to practice for a couple of hours and start laying down roll of coins ally welding….
….but after a couple of days I gave up and unplugged it, for two years. :(
Then a few months ago I pulled it back out and decided I would make a point of...
Hydrogen embrittlement became a fashionable term a few years ago, in relation to chrome plating. Everybody who was anybody raised it when chrome plating was mentioned, but nobody ever seemed to do any research on exactly what it was and how it occurred.
As I understand it, it affects high...