slim_boy_fat
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They are good, aren't they? I have a Pela 14ltr one, had it for years and wouldn't be without it.
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They are good, aren't they? I have a Pela 14ltr one, had it for years and wouldn't be without it.
My ER32 2MT chuck wasn't very good at holding milling cutters in the Centec and the nut only screwed on one thread before it started to tighten the collet! So I measured the taper and found it was 2mm smaller diameter than any of the other ones 
. Lets see how hard it is, started with Carbide boring bar (don't think I really needed to
} and finished with HSS tool for the finishing cuts
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. Lets see how hard it is, started with Carbide boring bar (don't think I really needed to} and finished with HSS tool for the finishing cuts.
Melvyn Best
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My old splitty back in 74 didn’t have a gutter to attach a roof rack, I swept most of it up and put it in the dustbin!Got the ladder back from the galvanisers Friday,so after the usual fettling,found some wood with radiused arris’ to protect the poor paint on the gutters.Note the stowing area behind the pop top.
Damn! just noticed 2 rungs off parallel.doh.
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Vee-blocks will show a problem - just can't measure it correctly - runout, circular or total, is relative to the axis, which vee-blocks can't give you. Caused us some enormous problems recently - not helped by the talyrond going in the skip some years ago . . . not that many (any?) of us knew how to use it correctly!
Inspection in vee blocks was supposedly giving us runout well within tolerance - but actually in use it was pants for what we needed. Getting it checked in a proper chuck/collet set-up showed it up straight away. Learnt something after 25 yrs of assuming I already knew it.
Wasn't the only part of my knowledge of BS GD&T that was blown apart!
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Indeed but that is not what I was disagreeing with. You said:
When in fact it will show considerable runout. Not only will the axis of rotation of the shaft move up and down, it will also move left right so if you "clock" it, it will be all over the place. While the 50p is a shape of constant width, it has an odd number of sides so that if it is placed in a 90degree V it will clearly exhibit runout.
I like to geek out on geometrical oddities plus I am happy to have been able to help another forum member - by using V blocks on the crankshaft journals. I consider that to be a perfectly acceptable solution under the circumstances so am unwilling to accept your criticism, especially when the 50p scenario is incorrect.
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I dripped Basso on the thread & nut mating face on my chuck as well as back file the slots in all my collets to a tiny chamfer for it was well past hand sticky in parts of the thread & collet slot edges to tighten things up .My ER32 2MT chuck wasn't very good at holding milling cutters in the Centec and the nut only screwed on one thread before it started to tighten the collet! So I measured the taper and found it was 2mm smaller diameter than any of the other ones
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A couple of hours or so later , everything deburred & polished smooth , I was able to spin the retaining nut on hand tight with a collet in place , only needing the " C" spanner to make the final 1/2 of a turn to get everything really tight
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My sisters combi boiler went wrong so the first part i looked at was listed as a common fault, changed the relay on it for £2 rather than pay £50 for a new one, sadly not cured it bit at least i know it is not that part now 
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My sisters combi boiler went wrong so the first part i looked at was listed as a common fault, changed the relay on it for £2 rather than pay £50 for a new one, sadly not cured it bit at least i know it is not that part now
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check the capacitors or better still, replace all of them. If the unit has been temperamental recently, it could be a low power supply voltage due to failing capacitors.
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Fixed the EML on the Shogun. Inlet manifold caked in crud preventing pressure sensor from working.
Watched the videos, read up on people’s advice who’d done the job. Supposed to be a 6 hour job that turned into two days mainly due to hidden brackets and other fiddling bits.
Rebuilding it on the second day was delayed further with a bout of butter fingers and the sound of ding as a bolt or socket fell into the engine bay, also the torch whilst trying to find lost parts.
Filthy job but now sweet as diesel can be, much more responsive and no EML.
Watched the videos, read up on people’s advice who’d done the job. Supposed to be a 6 hour job that turned into two days mainly due to hidden brackets and other fiddling bits.
Rebuilding it on the second day was delayed further with a bout of butter fingers and the sound of ding as a bolt or socket fell into the engine bay, also the torch whilst trying to find lost parts.
Filthy job but now sweet as diesel can be, much more responsive and no EML.
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Back in the early 1960's you could go to Halfords & buy a tube of stuff called , " Holt's de coke paste " . Itcould be used with steel or aluminium engines & manifolds ( I'm not sure what the ingredients were but it cleaned up my fathers gummed & coked up Phillips " Gad About moped " .
IIRC you remove the plug or injector , squeezed in the suggested amount and then put the bits back correctly , then take the motor for a 30 mile run using the gears to get varied loads . Over the next week or so the deposits turned white & powdered and were eventually blown out the exhaust . Is it or a similar product still available and if so can it be used for jobs like yours
IIRC you remove the plug or injector , squeezed in the suggested amount and then put the bits back correctly , then take the motor for a 30 mile run using the gears to get varied loads . Over the next week or so the deposits turned white & powdered and were eventually blown out the exhaust . Is it or a similar product still available and if so can it be used for jobs like yours
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1960's you didn't have all the emissions sensors and devices you do now and that’s probably the reason why such products can longer be used. Most likely weren’t many health benefits to using the product either.
The upper and lower manifolds along with EGR valve and pipe were cleaned out with plastics scrapers to remove the bulk of the crud, enough to fill up a 2 ltr ice cream tub. Then soaked in Mr Muscle Oven Cleaner for 20 mins before jet washing out and repeating. After the second clean they’d come up pretty well
The upper and lower manifolds along with EGR valve and pipe were cleaned out with plastics scrapers to remove the bulk of the crud, enough to fill up a 2 ltr ice cream tub. Then soaked in Mr Muscle Oven Cleaner for 20 mins before jet washing out and repeating. After the second clean they’d come up pretty well
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Where's the thread for stuff you've tried to fix today?
Clio II, 1.6 petrol, power steering and air con. Eventually fought the starter motor out, bloody nightmare.
New starter motor, well, it's half way in, but no further. Just won't go.
Spoke to local garagist, he had the same issue, ended up pulling the transmission shaft.
Really, don't want to do that...
Want to cry....
So inaccessible...
Clio II, 1.6 petrol, power steering and air con. Eventually fought the starter motor out, bloody nightmare.
New starter motor, well, it's half way in, but no further. Just won't go.
Spoke to local garagist, he had the same issue, ended up pulling the transmission shaft.
Really, don't want to do that...
Want to cry....
So inaccessible...
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That’s French cars for you
Barking Mat
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I'll get the pry bar out tomorrow, a crow bar, and a lump hammer........
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Not as bad as the sport variant, that engine is properly shoehorned in there, everything is a nightmare.
Barking Mat
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I'm putting it off till tomorrow, clear head, and all that.
Scrapped a Volvo 440, as the starter motor was UTTERLY inaccessible, not even Volvo would touch it....
