I put in two 4.8kwh Pylontech batteries last year with a 5kW Sunsynk inverter and about 6K of solar, total bill including them replacing the corrugated steel roof it went on was £15k ish.
It's been absolutely brilliant! I'm on an Octopus tariff that allows me to export at 15p/kwh any time of...
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Have just bought myself a Milwaukee band file to replace the old black and decker power file, it’s a great bit of kit but I need to get some more belts 13x457mm
Ordered some from Amazon and they’re 451mm even though they were advertised at 457 so they don’t fit. Looking at the Amazon...
So I've got 4 or 5 milwaukee drills, mostly two different ages. What seems to be common between them all now is that none of them run true, doing some googling it seems to be a common complaint and is down to the chucks, seems that folks with other brands have the same probelm too so it's not...
Just to follow this up, got the new shafts back today, took some advice from here and had the diameter reduced slightly between the bearing journal and the spline.
They’ve been done from EN36T in the end.
Has anyone ever bothered to get their wrenchs calibrated? I've got a lovely old Britool one that's about a 600mm long but it's clearly off it's calibration, not sure if they can be adjusted or if it's a replace it job once they're past being accurate?
Where in the country are you? I know a man who builds some of the best xflow race engines and he will be able to advise or even sort you out with a replacement.
Some of the cars with a live axle always break the same side, the one that's a bit shorter, guessing the longer one allows for a little more twist before failing.
Thanks for all the comments guys.
It's not as simple as just swap the diff out for something else, the packaging is extremely tight, there's certain ratios I need to have available as we change them for certain tracks, it needs to work with independant suspension and ideally it wants to be as...
This is the other side. There are some slight marks where the engagement finishes on the diff, not sure if they were there before the diff was changed.
Planning to replace both sides and keep this one as a spare.
So I’ll ask him to drop the diameter slightly between the end of the spline and...
Haven’t had a look at the diff to see what it’s like but it’s not very old.
The output shafts themselves are probably about 30 years old and have had a fair few starts on them, the torque and power went up a bit a couple of years ago when we changed to a zetec, they’ve had maybe 15 starts on...
I bought one of those ebay rams for my engine hoist, seems to do the job ok although haven't used a huge number of times as I put a chain block in the mezanine floor steel work instead.
It does have a LSD although it's a torque biasing one rather than a plate one because I wanted to try and prevent exactly this failure knowing it was the weak point on the car, it's what 6700 rpm and dropping the clutch does.
Hi all,
Hoping we have some folks on here that are clued up on their materials.
I'm running a race car that has 200 BHP and large slick tyres, at the last race we broke a diff output shaft on the start line, no fatigue signs on it just an instant failure. I don't know the history of them but...
Think it depends on what the application is, I've had a nightmare with rivnuts on race cars where someones put them into the chassis and they've then started spinning in the chassis tube and you have to rip them out. I try to use the steel ones now and once they're in put a tiny dab of TIG weld...
An interesting article on designed in redundancy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
Phillips, Osram and others back in the 20s teamed up to fix the cost and reduce the life of light bulbs...
Made a new brake pedal, after some advice from here on machining the bronze and made some new mudguard brackets.
Finally rigged up some pulleys in the roof space to store some bodywork from another car, needed to make some space.