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Pigeon_Droppings2
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They look so real ...how do they get the silver paper to cover the chocolate so smoothly
.I've not had a proper chance to look yet (FBMP Purchase 125 miles away, and only got back late last evening, so no real time to examine it) but it appears there are 3 bolts each at 120deg which must secure it to the top collar somehow.
Jelly_Sheffield
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Mate's son just passed his apprenticeship, employer gave him a tool budget to replace all his test equipment with fancy Fluke gear that connects to a tablet.
So I bought his old MFT off him for effectively beer money.
It's still in calibration for the next 6 months, but for my purposes it doesn't really matter.
Basically with us selling the house and it being old with an unusual electrical setup, I want a recent, clean EICR before it goes to market.
Rather than have one done, find multiple faults, then pay the sparky to fix it in a hurry, I would rather:
- do the same testing they would do in advance,
- fix any faults (within my range of capabilities and time/resource availablity),
- pay a sparky to do any repairs that are beyond me, then do the EICR.
Farside
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A mate had a multi-bladed knife like that.
It was funny hearing the blades go 'ping!' every time he used one.
Jelly_Sheffield
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Synthetic winch rope for the Hilux.
The wire rope has been rusty since before I bought the truck, and has obviously signs of being mistreated when used for skidding logs by the previous owner.
I uhmmed and ahhhed about whether dynema was durable enough for certain situations but ultimately decided that the cost of a rope protector would be a lot less than buying a new rope every couple of years due to corrosion.
I need to clean up the rollers on the fairlead before it's installed, but that won't take much.
Not sure where I am going to find a 30M long flat space to tension it onto the drum though... Might have to do that by pulling against a mate's car in a supermarket car park late at night.
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When I fitted a winch to my RR I just fixed the end to a lamp post and winched myself towards it and when I did the Landy a mate came to give me a hand as we had to lift a bumper/bullbar complete with winch up so when it was on I hooked the rope onto the towhitch of his Sherpa van and with the handbrake clicked on a couple of notches pulled it back towards me.
Jelly_Sheffield
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It's the space to do it on the flat so that it's not under an excessive load whilst the first layer goes round the drum hat's the issue... Bloody hills!
I did debate doing it off a lamp-post, but this triggered a memory of a mate at uni accidentally pulling two lamp posts down by building a gigantic swing between them with rope...
Turns out lamp posts are not always very well anchored in the ground, and it was about 4.5k in early noughties money to reinstate one.
(Said mate had to pay the uni for both lamp-posts before he could get his degree certificate issued.)
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You could halve the distance needed by using a snatch block.
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I get several parcels every day and if I posted them all here each time I'd break the thread 
Some slightly interesting parcels today-
20w solar car battery charger kit (Bananas NOT included)
Stihl service parts from Germany. A chainsaw universal chip for electronic ignition conversion and a 08S flywheel removal kit which suspiciously says Yamaha on the packet
And new bumper brackets also from Germany aftermarket source for my C124 merc restoration
Some slightly interesting parcels today-
20w solar car battery charger kit (Bananas NOT included)
Stihl service parts from Germany. A chainsaw universal chip for electronic ignition conversion and a 08S flywheel removal kit which suspiciously says Yamaha on the packet
And new bumper brackets also from Germany aftermarket source for my C124 merc restoration
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Jelly_Sheffield
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I am extremely curious how that's fitting into the workshop, I seem to remember it's a wee bit tight there.
Unless you've now finished your move, or discovered that one of the tooling cupboards has a portal to Narnia at the back of it!
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To be honest, if I bought another screwdriver and took it into my workshop there would be nowhere to put it, I am struggling to fit my current stuff properly. No, I have access to another workshop not too far away and I now keep all my welding and cutting gear down there. I am very hopeful that my new Canon barrels project will fit between centres, Then I am off and running.
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Thank chuff that's not just me.
My missus is trying to open her own satellite Amazon warehouse here I am certain of it. The only reason I am selling stuff is to get rid of the cardboard.
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I think it's a brake shoes riveter conversion
