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ebinmaine
2 minutes ago, Stormin said:

By 'eck, Eric! Are you looking over my shoulder? :blink:

Yeah, why?

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ebinmaine

Amazing what world wide technology will do for you isn't it.

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Stormin

Yeah! I posted. Blinked! And you posted :handgestures-thumbup:.

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lynnmor

What did I do?  Watered some plants and filled the bird bath, then got back inside.  My thermostat reports outside temperature is 102.

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WHX??
16 hours ago, lynnmor said:

outside temperature is 102.

Worked on the super C wiring some more... did I mention the shop is air conditioned? :D Perks of the trade! 

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Mickwhitt

Bathroom fitting today.

Had a good session, built and fitted vanity unit, enclosed cistern toilet, plumbed them in, wastes fitted and all working. 

Put bath in place and sorted waste and taps, 

More plumbing tomorrow to get the shower feeds and bath connected, then its all cosmetic fitting. 

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Stormin

 Spent the day over at my mate Dunc's in Scotland. Bought the place early last year and the house has been gutted and they should have been in, in May. Corvid 19 put the mockers on that. Nearly finished now and plan is to move in week on Friday.

 There's about 8 acres of ground. Two large fields and lot's of trees and future firewood.  More than enough for him to see too, so it looks like I'll be over there on a regular basis to assist.

  While there I tuned the carb on his C-125. Runs as sweet as a nut now. Should now be better on fuel. Speaking of fuel. Well pleased at the mpg the Santa Fe is returning. 39.3 mpg the trip said when I got home. 104 mile round trip. Just over an hour each way.

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Dan.gerous

Spent all morning laying concrete, one slab in the piglet shed and two bases up in the garden for a greenhouse shed complex - there will be another base joining them together.

 

Forgot how hard pouring concrete can be, rakes and wheelbarrows. I never thought to use the tipping trailer and the wheelhorse!

 

Put the plow on the C-125 after lunch and cleans out the pig pens.

 

Busy day followed by a BBQ and a few beers.

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Stormin

 So that's why you didn't answer my call. Looks like I'll be over there toward the end of next week.

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Dan.gerous
3 minutes ago, Stormin said:

 So that's why you didn't answer my call. Looks like I'll be over there toward the end of next week.

Shouldn't be busy for the rest of the week, today was just one of those days. Glad it's all done now, can relax!

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ohiofarmer
On 6/30/2020 at 10:44 AM, Tractorhead said:

Because of some stress with front brake calipers on last road approval, i decide to changed today several frontaxle parts on the Car.

 

2 new ballbearings left and right with 2 new ancorplates,

2 new brake discs and a complete set of brake pads.

- nearly a new Frontaxle - 

 

I have the ability to do that at my Buddy‘s Workshop.

Because of Covid on Friday is next roadapproval schedule.

curious what‘s happen this time, last time on test, the right brakecaliper arrests in brake position and cannot be released

just with extreme external force. Than i hear a - clank- sound, and all releases.

We tried again, but brakeforce where too differently - so no approval.

 

I changed again the discs and pads but still 28% difference on frontbrake.

we decide they must be breaked in and than we give it another try.

 

after that clank sound, it works for a month absolute normally as nothing where happen ever.

i keep the Jack in the car and tested several times, if the brakes releases and they do.

 

Few weeks later, i’m driving bit faster on Autobahn, where i loose speed and i wonder, what the heck is that now happen.

it felt like a loss of Engine torque.

I stopped on a sideway and the brakedisc on right side changes its color to blue and a very strong smell occurs.

its extremely hot...  ok, another brakedisc blastin.

So i decide to change this Antichrist of caliper to a new one, but when i do, i do it on both sides.

 

 

normally this compactbearings rusted so strongly in and need a hammer and a flat chisel to loosen the outer ring than they come in one part out but i had a bad feeling.

 

left side where until screws loosen felling out of in felt thousends of parts arround the bearingcage.

The backside of bearingcage itself was that penetrant rusted in and takes a massive bit longer to convince to go out.

i never seen sometimes before.

A compactbearing that rips arround in the middle section and all outsideparts are just fragments they stuck only together

as long as the Screws are tight.

When i loose them with the impact wrench, ploink -  a felt 100 part puzzle.😳

 

Sadly i let the ipad at home, because i know it will become a dirty work.

but now i wish, i had it with me for few Picts.

 

 

Gladly i see that before this bearing give up on the Autobahn with Topspeed.

 

Edit - 

Ok, do quick a Testdrive to do several brake in and verify after,

Brake work as it should no eek eek or other noises and it bytes really agressive also from Topspeed to 0

Only the tyres whine for mercy.

 

While i check all again i was able took a quick Pic,

because i know nothing happens without Picts...

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  Since you are in germany, we need to know the brand name of your car and a picture of the entire car

 

 

 

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Tractorhead

It‘s a Opel Astra G - 

Opel is formally a GM Daughter until 2020.

 

Opel (or Vauxhall in GB) where sold in begin of 2020 from GM to PSA Group

I preferr since several years just GM Brands or Mercedes as Trucks.

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In the Background the previous (White) can be seen, what killed by a Marten chewing up the Engine Wireharness.

 

 

 

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And Katis Opel Insignia.

 

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Pullstart

We’ve been in Puerto Rico with two friends for a week.  Today, I figured during our layovers I’d work on a new mask.  
 

I hacked up a handkerchief and got a cheap sewing kit that was allowed through TSA security.

 

 

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Lee1977

For the last few days I have been working on storm drainage . Had two bad afternoon thunder storms Monday and Tuseday.  Did pickup the concrete and morter.  After two bad storms it didn't dry up enough to do anything much today but pickup dead limbs from the storm. 

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Lee1977

Back at it today. put two 80 lbs of concree in the bottom and 38 bricks and a bag of morter. Isn't very pretty kind of hard laying bricks down in a hole.

 

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Pullstart

I finished my mask yesterday, kind of...

 

 

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Pullstart

Now I am helping my father in-law do the drain plumbing in their new house.  January of 2019 their place burnt during the polar vortex and they are hoping to be in their new home before winter.

 

The house is a pole building where 1/2 is living quarters and 1/2 is motorhome storage.  There will be a floor drain and motorhome dump too.

 

 

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Tractorhead

I will try to reglue the Digitizer later with a heatgun and hope i can reuse my ipad tomorrow back as usual.

 

Robbed the last parts from the White Opel (Alu Rims and Trailerhook ignition line MAF sensor and several other needable Parts)

and prepare it for trashing, maybe out local firefighter like it as a trainingobject for cut it down on a person safe training.

 

That could give it a last good sense for Emergency life saver training.

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JPWH

I started installing the compressed air system for my shop. There will be two compressors feeding the system that will have four drops. One for the blast cabinet, one on each side of the shop and one under the lean to.

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ebinmaine
2 hours ago, JPWH said:

I started installing the compressed air system for my shop. There will be two compressors feeding the system that will have four drops. One for the blast cabinet, one on each side of the shop and one under the lean to.

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How big a tank?

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JPWH

@ebinmaine One 20 gallon and one 30 Gallon.

This is when I was pressure testing the tanks.

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Mickwhitt

Been a busy few days so just a few headlines.

More bathroom work at my brothers, its getting there. 

Tidy team day on Thursday ckeaned all the gutters and pavement of weeds.

Fred needed gear change fixing after it came loose, also packthe muffler with glass matting and it sounds quieter.

Bought a scrap mower for 20 pounds, put 20 pounds of parts into it and it purrs like a kitten 😸 

Weekend of quiet reflection ready to start again Monday.

 

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lynnmor
On 7/21/2020 at 5:12 PM, Dan.gerous said:

Spent all morning laying concrete, one slab in the piglet shed and two bases up in the garden for a greenhouse shed complex - there will be another base joining them together.

 

Forgot how hard pouring concrete can be, rakes and wheelbarrows. I never thought to use the tipping trailer and the wheelhorse!

 

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Apparently you used this video for guidance. :ychain:

 

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Dan.gerous
23 minutes ago, lynnmor said:

 

Apparently you used this video for guidance. :ychain:

 

Lol, no!

 

We actually backed a huge cement mixer truck up to the fence, it was the excess from laying the floor in one of the barns. The is another slab to go in between them, will shutter that up tomorrow so I can get on with building the stuff on top.

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Tractorhead

Doing Today a Service Day for some of my Toys.

 

Firstly i cleaned the Carb on the Pushmower and fit it with an external huge Fuelfilter.

i don`t like after each 3x refilling with canisters a complete clean the Carb.

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Later i checked my provisorium fix on the Pushrod of my Horse - it looks and it works better than i expected.

Think i keep it until my 656 is ready to rumle. ( let's see how long it lasts, if it fail, i allready ordered 6x 1/2" Heim Joints)

 

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at Least i give today the Car an upgrade and prepare for Trailerhook mount.

Full Service and a Wash with a followed Polish.

 

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Looks much better now with the Clim Air and the Alu`s

 

 

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