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He was a Matelot , but had Radar-directed auto-firing weapons , carronades existed well before Ardy's time in the Andrew.
A thick yoga mat might do the trick.
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A yoga mat would probably be fairly close to the density of the foam that I just ordered, which arrived yesterday.
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Got the Makita DA4031 working, turns out someone had **Language**ing the brush and shoved an extra spring in thus it wasn't touching and cross threaded the brush holder cap so I had to chisel it out in bits to test with a ball bearing pushing it down under the tape lol, new ones ordered.
The problem here, admirably illustrated is that some people have no understanding of their own limitations!.
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When you have water and milk spraying out the side of an APV pasteuriser you just know you have a frustrating couple hours ahead of you.
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It looks like you had either the wrong quote or the wrong attribution for the quote.
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It looks like you had either the wrong quote or the wrong attribution for the quote.
Now fixed
I don't even know how they got the extra spring in, cross threaded the cap AND screwed it all the way in!
At least it's only £5 for two new caps so I can replace the other one being brittle due to ten years old.
Fixed the wastage of cutting discs from the stihl petrol saw, it uses a 20mm arbour (9" is 22mm) and normally +6" left due to the design of it so printed some spacers and use a slitting disc stub so now I can get my moneys worth and it worked for several hours cutting 
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The bloody AGA again.
Would like to say a big thank you to @waddycall for his posts from a while ago on how to set these up.
I had adjusted the valves as it was over fuelling, but didn't get any better, turns out the adjustment screws work opposite way to what manual says and was flowing about 12cc on low!!
Now got it set up to Low = 4cc per min (8cc - 120sec) and high = 8cc (16cc-120sec) with a 5mm oil well height,
seems to be burning a lot calmer now without all the pooping and breathing sounds.
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Would like to say a big thank you to @waddycall for his posts from a while ago on how to set these up.
I had adjusted the valves as it was over fuelling, but didn't get any better, turns out the adjustment screws work opposite way to what manual says and was flowing about 12cc on low!!
Now got it set up to Low = 4cc per min (8cc - 120sec) and high = 8cc (16cc-120sec) with a 5mm oil well height,
seems to be burning a lot calmer now without all the pooping and breathing sounds.
Fixed the wastage of cutting discs from the stihl petrol saw, it uses a 20mm arbour (9" is 22mm) and normally +6" left due to the design of it so printed some spacers and use a slitting disc stub so now I can get my moneys worth and it worked for several hours cutting
I run my 9" discs down until they fit into my 4.5 & 5" angle grinders. Then I run them down as far as possible......
Fixed the wastage of cutting discs from the stihl petrol saw, it uses a 20mm arbour (9" is 22mm) and normally +6" left due to the design of it so printed some spacers and use a slitting disc stub so now I can get my moneys worth and it worked for several hours cutting
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So how do you get a 20mm disc onto a 22mm arbour?
Back when I was young, broke and knew no better I bought a stack of used quick cut discs from a scrapyard closing down sale.
I discovered that if you removed the metal washer from the disc you could squeeze it onto a 9" grinder and then a 4.5" to get the last bit of disc used.
I didn't know about disc rotation speeds and it could have ended badly but those discs kept me supplied for a few years!
Well this is a 12" with about 6" left shoved onto the 9" grinder till it can go on the 4.5"
I believe you can buy the inner nut for a grinder which has 20/22mm on either side so you flip when needed but all I did was put the remains of a slitting disc on so it took up the 22mm arbour and provided a large enough support surface, then the 3d printed spacers went on and they're 14mm id 20mm od so locate on the thread then I put the 20mm disc on and clamp it against the 22mm one.
Well this is a 12" with about 6" left shoved onto the 9" grinder till it can go on the 4.5"
I've just remembered I've got a chop saw with a 14" blade. That's going to be run down until it goes in the 9" grinder......
Win, win, win!
There will somebody along soon to tell you that you are spinning them too fast.
Yeah, but when did I ever listen to advice......
