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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2021 16:30:29 GMT
I thought the land was always wet in the land of webbed feet people...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2021 16:33:07 GMT
I thought the land was always wet in the land of webbed feet people... Well, that’s as maybe.... we do get the odd sunny day you know! thebfg have you seen this chaps sterling work with old nails? Both two and four wheel related. www.klunkerz.co.uk/www.motorjournal.co.uk/Its like Alice in Wonderland - apologies for the vast amount of useful time you may loose 🤪
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2021 17:01:56 GMT
Oooooo a Claud Butler. I had a fixed wheel CB when I was at school, bloody hard work up hills but very fast down them and on the flat. Got warning off the local plod for "riding furiously" down High Rd between Buckhurst Hill and Loughton, suppose I shouldn't have pulled out and overtaken plod car
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Post by JohnV on Jul 4, 2021 12:41:24 GMT
well after that sojourne among the two wheeled human powered bretheren I shall resume the original diesel powered cantankerous waterborne craft problem solving thread. Over the past forever, I have been gradually approaching the final solution of my ballast increase requirement. You may remember (way back in the days when the only reason you wore a facemask was when the air was so thick with rust you couyldn't see your angle grinder and wire brush) that I purchase a few tons of steel blocks in an attempt to ballast Sabina low enough to get under Heck Bridge on the A&C ...... then everything flooded and the ballast became an island barely visible peeking out of the muddy waters. Eventually the water went down ...... andafter a Christmas break ...... Covid/lockdown/self isolating versus a team of guys working in the boat hauling big lumps of steel .... forget it. After a considerable delay I got the smaller blocks (about half of the quantity) craned through the hatch and I then managed on my own to fit them under the floor and then insulate above them and re-lay the floor. (this left the bigger blocks around 40 Kilos each still on their pallets on deck) I can't lift these so there was no way I could do any more. SAM_3019 by mudlarker, on Flickr That was a year ago !!! and I still have pallets of steel blocks on my deck !!! SAM_3012 by mudlarker, on Flickr One of the problems always was that the access is through quite a small forward hatch. It has always concerned me that hand balling steel blocks weighing 40 odd kilos each through a hatch meant that the person inside was going to have to collect them above his head height. That kind of job rung up all sorts of "elfin safety" alarms ...... although I might rail about the "elfin safety" regime generally, that doesn't mean that I don't look for safer ways to do things. First thing was to enlarge the size of the opening into the forward cabin, this was also something I wanted to do for easier access as an escape route as well. The other week I took down the deckhead covering and cut out the steelwork increasing the dimension of the hatch by nearly 6" for and aft. That still doesn't solve the problem of the height that they will have to be handed down so I have been looking at mechanical handling methods. After spending a long time poring through hire catalogues (and gasping at the prices) and also having considered borrowing a work boat with a crane. I have decided that I am going to modify one of the el cheapo Chinese cranes I bought a few years back, re-mounting it forward and adding an electric winch rather than the original hand ones. Today I have been playing around with all the bits and pieces and I reckon it's do-able. My engineering skills are not in the Gazza or Captain Faffer's league but I reckon that is just about within my bodging skills will continue the report if successful or not
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Post by Jim on Jul 4, 2021 14:00:46 GMT
well after that sojourne among the two wheeled human powered bretheren I shall resume the original diesel powered cantankerous waterborne craft problem solving thread. Over the past forever, I have been gradually approaching the final solution of my ballast increase requirement. You may remember (way back in the days when the only reason you wore a facemask was when the air was so thick with rust you couyldn't see your angle grinder and wire brush) that I purchase a few tons of steel blocks in an attempt to ballast Sabina low enough to get under Heck Bridge on the A&C ...... then everything flooded and the ballast became an island barely visible peeking out of the muddy waters. Eventually the water went down ...... andafter a Christmas break ...... Covid/lockdown/self isolating versus a team of guys working in the boat hauling big lumps of steel .... forget it. After a considerable delay I got the smaller blocks (about half of the quantity) craned through the hatch and I then managed on my own to fit them under the floor and then insulate above them and re-lay the floor. (this left the bigger blocks around 40 Kilos each still on their pallets on deck) I can't lift these so there was no way I could do any more. SAM_3019 by mudlarker, on Flickr That was a year ago !!! and I still have pallets of steel blocks on my deck !!! SAM_3012 by mudlarker, on Flickr One of the problems always was that the access is through quite a small forward hatch. It has always concerned me that hand balling steel blocks weighing 40 odd kilos each through a hatch meant that the person inside was going to have to collect them above his head height. That kind of job rung up all sorts of "elfin safety" alarms ...... although I might rail about the "elfin safety" regime generally, that doesn't mean that I don't look for safer ways to do things. First thing was to enlarge the size of the opening into the forward cabin, this was also something I wanted to do for easier access as an escape route as well. The other week I took down the deckhead covering and cut out the steelwork increasing the dimension of the hatch by nearly 6" for and aft. That still doesn't solve the problem of the height that they will have to be handed down so I have been looking at mechanical handling methods. After spending a long time poring through hire catalogues (and gasping at the prices) and also having considered borrowing a work boat with a crane. I have decided that I am going to modify one of the el cheapo Chinese cranes I bought a few years back, re-mounting it forward and adding an electric winch rather than the original hand ones. Today I have been playing around with all the bits and pieces and I reckon it's do-able. My engineering skills are not in the Gazza or Captain Faffer's league but I reckon that is just about within my bodging skills will continue the report if successful or not What you need is an expert in magnetic lifting tech. If only that young flibbertigibbet wasn't faffing about on the Thames, he could cruise up the salty route to help.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2021 19:28:58 GMT
Spurred on by the mask thread.... Two bedrooms and the living room to go, the green stuff is Bostick Plasterers primer, it’s green so you can see where you have been, has plastic grit in to provide a key and more importantly needs no stirring and goes on easy unlike Febond Bluegrit. I’ll be glad when the plasterer has been and bloody gone - big bill or no!
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Post by JohnV on Jul 14, 2021 20:10:31 GMT
First stage of the crane move. I have modified the mast tabernacle and bolted the crane base to it.
I have used smaller bolts than the 25mm ones on the main deck mountings 16mm are easier for me to drill here and as the base is a tight fit into the tabernacle I reckon they are well strong enough as the maximum loading on the crane will be less than 50 kilos
Next job is to fit the ram and the extending arm. I'm not sure what is going to happen with the electric winch, I have been told of the possibility of a very cheap second hand 24v winch (from a trailer that has been converted to 12V with a new winch ....been told that the 24v one might be mine for a very few beer tokens) If it doesn't turn up been thinking of this one from machine mart
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2021 10:03:46 GMT
A minor disaster yesterday - caused by a small prick with a screw...... 🙈 Our house has suffered a little at the hands of less than skilled tradesmen - when the heating was done in 2009 they must have used a road hammer to get the floorboards up, as a result we have a few squeaky boards on the landing - no problem, I’ll pop a few screws in. Only trouble was I started where the dickheads had left a couple of nails out, no reason to suspect there would be water pipes running directly below as it should have been the continuation of the joist...... Bugger! Assumption being the mother of all cock ups etc 🤬 Oh well. Roll your sleeves up and sort it out boy! Luckily I had a pair of solder ring 3/4 x 22mm couplers along with a length of 22mm pipe - as it’s a mix of imperial and metric in this house not every job is straight forward! The cut off 3/4 on the right is a redundant feed to a long gone hot water cylinder, lazy bastards have stripped nothing out 😩 I hit that one first, as it was a dead leg it wasn’t noticeable at all - the next one with 3 bar behind it soon made its presence known! All this just as the plasterer arrived; luckily my neighbour kindly allowed us to put the garden hose on his outside tap so the spread could carry on while I set about putting it right 🤗 I’ve still a little to do under there - 3/4 pipe with the 22mm compression coupler (bodged with ptfe to take up the slack) next to my repair is the old open vent into the loft tank, it’s capped off over the tank where it’s it should have a stop end in the 22mm branch under the floor - I haven’t got a 22mm pushfit stop end in stock, it’s got to be push fit for ease of fitting due to the crap way they have teed into the hot water circuit. here is the mess they have made of the floorboards - all bar the ones under the door jambs are not far off firewood, the whole lot needs replacing, it will give me a chance to see where the pipes are though! Super thick underlay and carpet did a good job of hiding that horror. One step forward two back! On the plus side Guy the god is worth every penny - glass smooth ceilings all done downstairs, this is the living room which isn’t yet fully dry - two bedrooms and the landing to do 👍 Then it’s decorating 😩
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Post by peterboat on Jul 21, 2021 10:17:48 GMT
A minor disaster yesterday - caused by a small prick with a screw...... 🙈 Our house has suffered a little at the hands of less than skilled tradesmen - when the heating was done in 2009 they must have used a road hammer to get the floorboards up, as a result we have a few squeaky boards on the landing - no problem, I’ll pop a few screws in. Only trouble was I started where the dickheads had left a couple of nails out, no reason to suspect there would be water pipes running directly below as it should have been the continuation of the joist...... Bugger! Assumption being the mother of all cock ups etc 🤬 Oh well. Roll your sleeves up and sort it out boy! Luckily I had a pair of solder ring 3/4 x 22mm couplers along with a length of 22mm pipe - as it’s a mix of imperial and metric in this house not every job is straight forward! The cut off 3/4 on the right is a redundant feed to a long gone hot water cylinder, lazy bastards have stripped nothing out 😩 I hit that one first, as it was a dead leg it wasn’t noticeable at all - the next one with 3 bar behind it soon made its presence known! All this just as the plasterer arrived; luckily my neighbour kindly allowed us to put the garden hose on his outside tap so the spread could carry on while I set about putting it right 🤗 I’ve still a little to do under there - 3/4 pipe with the 22mm compression coupler (bodged with ptfe to take up the slack) next to my repair is the old open vent into the loft tank, it’s capped off over the tank where it’s it should have a stop end in the 22mm branch under the floor - I haven’t got a 22mm pushfit stop end in stock, it’s got to be push fit for ease of fitting due to the crap way they have teed into the hot water circuit. here is the mess they have made of the floorboards - all bar the ones under the door jambs are not far off firewood, the whole lot needs replacing, it will give me a chance to see where the pipes are though! Super thick underlay and carpet did a good job of hiding that horror. One step forward two back! On the plus side Guy the god is worth every penny - glass smooth ceilings all done downstairs, this is the living room which isn’t yet fully dry - two bedrooms and the landing to do 👍 Then it’s decorating 😩 Been there done this^^^^ and got the wet T shirt
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Post by phil70 on Jul 21, 2021 10:43:21 GMT
But not green!!!
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Post by JohnV on Jul 21, 2021 10:51:14 GMT
A minor disaster yesterday - caused by a small prick with a screw...... 🙈 When I first left the sea, sometimes did burglar alarm installs. Two of us just finished a nice tidy install and we were doing the final clearing up. The guy I was working for at the time was just putting the doormat back down when he noticed a nail standing proud. Being quite keen on always leaving everything finished and "proper" he grabbed a hammer from the toolbag I was carrying past him at the time ....... and banged it home
Don't have to tell you what happened do I
not everyone can have a water feature to greet them as they step throught their front door
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Post by mouse on Jul 21, 2021 10:52:10 GMT
A minor disaster yesterday - caused by a small prick with a screw...... 🙈 here is the mess they have made of the floorboards - all bar the ones under the door jambs are not far off firewood, the whole lot needs replacing, it will give me a chance to see where the pipes are though! Super thick underlay and carpet did a good job of hiding that horror. One step forward two back! I have seen floorboards in much better condition than that in old terraced houses that have been plumbed and wired several times after initial build!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2021 20:03:09 GMT
Dusty pink isn’t acceptable neither apparently - I keep trying to tell Mrs Gazza it’s the natural look but she’s having none of it 👍😜
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2021 20:04:08 GMT
A minor disaster yesterday - caused by a small prick with a screw...... 🙈 here is the mess they have made of the floorboards - all bar the ones under the door jambs are not far off firewood, the whole lot needs replacing, it will give me a chance to see where the pipes are though! Super thick underlay and carpet did a good job of hiding that horror. One step forward two back! I have seen floorboards in much better condition than that in old terraced houses that have been plumbed and wired several times after initial build! The plumber must have turned up on a horse rather than in the usual Transit van!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2021 20:04:30 GMT
A minor disaster yesterday - caused by a small prick with a screw...... 🙈 When I first left the sea, sometimes did burglar alarm installs. Two of us just finished a nice tidy install and we were doing the final clearing up. The guy I was working for at the time was just putting the doormat back down when he noticed a nail standing proud. Being quite keen on always leaving everything finished and "proper" he grabbed a hammer from the toolbag I was carrying past him at the time ....... and banged it home Don't have to tell you what happened do I
not everyone can have a water feature to greet them as they step throught their front door
Doh!
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