Today in the workshop .....

sardine · Saturday at 5:20 PM

I've only gone and invented the Vice-O-Table , many years research and development have gone into this ( two offcuts and 3 screws )

RichardM · Saturday at 5:26 PM

Robotstar5 said:
As long as you're not going to backcharge me for over speccing

If he does you can always go and loosen a couple of wires to bring it down in spec! :whistle:

oldbikedavey · Saturday at 5:37 PM

Cato said:
Yeah the discussion with the customer about the fault went :-
"It went bang."
"What sort of bang?"
"Like a gunshot."
"Handgun or cannon?"
""

One of the best owner diagnoses that I ever received was ' It's gorn fingy-bob.... '
Which really narrows things down....

Robotstar5 · Saturday at 5:40 PM

sardine said:
I've only gone and invented the Vice-O-Table , many years research and development have gone into this ( two offcuts and 3 screws )

View attachment 533889

Just need a couple of Vice-O-Chairs to go with it now :thumbup:

Red'n'Black · Saturday at 5:43 PM

oldbikedavey said:
One of the best owner diagnoses that I ever received was ' It's gorn fingy-bob.... '
Which really narrows things down....

Some years ago when I was in the PC repair trade, I got sent to our office in the Netherlands to help out for a week.

The same Dutch phrase kept appearing on the job tickets. I asked one of the guys what it meant.

"It means 'Doesn't work' ".

The same the world over it seems.

Farside · Saturday at 9:39 PM

Red'n'Black said:
Some years ago when I was in the PC repair trade, I got sent to our office in the Netherlands to help out for a week.

The same Dutch phrase kept appearing on the job tickets. I asked one of the guys what it meant.

"It means 'Doesn't work' ".

The same the world over it seems.

For ages the Irish Polis were baffled by the widespread recklessness of a Polish guy named Prawo Jazdy.
They kept taking his name but he never showed up in court.

Cato · 2026-03-23T11:10:03+0000

Mechanic from '67, music from '68 and bike from '69.

Groovy. :thumbup:

Cato · 2026-03-23T13:10:32+0000

Well the new loom has sorted out the gremlins, so it's running again now. The carb settings are all over the place though, and needless to say there are oil leaks :vsad:

So I've sent him a video of where we're at and asked if he wants me to take the next step in the "I've been meddling with everything on it can you sort it out for me?" cascade of bodgery.

Oh and the tracked barrow that want "Bang!" was flooding, so I presume it was the fuel igniting in the exhaust that caused the unplanned one gun salute. :laughing: