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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2020 20:38:01 GMT
Helm station.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2020 21:28:47 GMT
No thread is safe from the swipe of the crayon 🤦🏼♂️ Fair play JohnV I’d have given that wiring a swerve! I’ll have a little update later - a few things have been on the go; one of which has highlighted I need to go to the opticians!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2020 21:29:43 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2020 9:03:44 GMT
While Ross has been irritating folks and dreaming of the day he can once again change his oil some of us have been busy. I knocked a new strainer up for Vanguard, the old one was a Hillbilly affair made out of galvanized 1 1/2" pipe. Outlet was braised on and a washer braised inside to stop the filter falling into the valve. I've made a couple of strainers like this now. The tube is some schedule 40 2" nominal bore pipe left over from a previous installation, the base is an M30 washer with a 1 1/2" weld on nipple. The strainer element is the one I made a couple of years ago machines to accept larger flanges to stop it rattling about in the new larger stainer body. This is the job that showed my eyes have deterioratied somewhat, I struggled like buggery with the intense TIG arc. Oh well, over 40 and I am gonna need glasses sorting asap. I still managed to turn a good item out, just shocked me a little at how my vision had dropped off in a relatively small amount of time.
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Post by JohnV on Nov 5, 2020 9:43:41 GMT
heh heh ..... I knew I needed glasses when, wiring a fuseboard up in a confined space, I found I couldn't get my head far enough away from it to read the bloody numbers
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2020 10:03:31 GMT
heh heh ..... I knew I needed glasses when, wiring a fuseboard up in a confined space, I found I couldn't get my head far enough away from it to read the bloody numbers I felt like bloody Mr Magoo!
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Post by Jim on Nov 5, 2020 13:01:41 GMT
While Ross has been irritating folks and dreaming of the day he can once again change his oil some of us have been busy. I knocked a new strainer up for Vanguard, the old one was a Hillbilly affair made out of galvanized 1 1/2" pipe. Outlet was braised on and a washer braised inside to stop the filter falling into the valve. I've made a couple of strainers like this now. The tube is some schedule 40 2" nominal bore pipe left over from a previous installation, the base is an M30 washer with a 1 1/2" weld on nipple. The strainer element is the one I made a couple of years ago machines to accept larger flanges to stop it rattling about in the new larger stainer body. This is the job that showed my eyes have deterioratied somewhat, I struggled like buggery with the intense TIG arc. Oh well, over 40 and I am gonna need glasses sorting asap. I still managed to turn a good item out, just shocked me a little at how my vision had dropped off in a relatively small amount of time. Well, it looks well done. Brazed not braised, I'd steak my youngest grandspawn's life on it.
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Post by JohnV on Nov 5, 2020 13:03:51 GMT
While Ross has been irritating folks and dreaming of the day he can once again change his oil some of us have been busy. I knocked a new strainer up for Vanguard, the old one was a Hillbilly affair made out of galvanized 1 1/2" pipe. Outlet was braised on and a washer braised inside to stop the filter falling into the valve. I've made a couple of strainers like this now. The tube is some schedule 40 2" nominal bore pipe left over from a previous installation, the base is an M30 washer with a 1 1/2" weld on nipple. The strainer element is the one I made a couple of years ago machines to accept larger flanges to stop it rattling about in the new larger stainer body. This is the job that showed my eyes have deterioratied somewhat, I struggled like buggery with the intense TIG arc. Oh well, over 40 and I am gonna need glasses sorting asap. I still managed to turn a good item out, just shocked me a little at how my vision had dropped off in a relatively small amount of time. Well, it looks well done. Brazed not braised, I'd steak my youngest grandspawn's life on it. but there's no need to get in a stew about it
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Post by naughtyfox on Nov 5, 2020 16:09:25 GMT
heh heh ..... I knew I needed glasses when, wiring a fuseboard up in a confined space, I found I couldn't get my head far enough away from it to read the bloody numbers I felt like bloody Mr Magoo! Go and get some glasses then. You shouldn't even be at work if you can't see - a hazard to yourself and fellow workmates, and everyone else on the roads.
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Post by phil70 on Nov 5, 2020 16:27:28 GMT
Gazza, that strainer reminds me of the one on our Broads cruiser, it was a chuffing great brass thing in a 2.2 BMC commander. I found that one day we were running hot so investigated and found a small perch firmly fixed by its spines, it was a devil of a job to remove. Phil
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2020 16:46:27 GMT
I had a bullhead in the intake on the barge once. Very awkward to remove it.
Luckily for me the bloke who built my little superyacht Dulcinea decided to use external keel cooling as a solution for both of the BMC 1.5 cooling circuits so no raw intakes and no jabsco pumps. And no holes in boat below waterline. Nice.
For cods hake I hope all this fish talk doesn't start to get contenchus.
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Post by Jim on Nov 5, 2020 17:31:49 GMT
I had a bullhead in the intake on the barge once. Very awkward to remove it. Luckily for me the bloke who built my little superyacht Dulcinea decided to use external keel cooling as a solution for both of the BMC 1.5 cooling circuits so no raw intakes and no jabsco pumps. And no holes in boat below waterline. Nice. For cods hake I hope all this fish talk doesn't start to get contenchus. Sorry? Could you repeat that? I'm hard of Herring.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2020 17:32:37 GMT
I'm like "OH MY COD".
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Post by JohnV on Nov 5, 2020 17:37:55 GMT
I'm floundering to find a reply
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2020 17:53:31 GMT
It's quite small scale so far. This seems quite a sensible app roach.
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