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As fridge said: check the coolant temp. If everything checks out and you get no joy playing with the resistors, fit an adjustable fuel pressure regulator and knock a few psi off until its about right. Even with lambda sensors working, it'll only fuel trim at idle or light cruise anyway.

I wonder why the change. I've always used collapsible spacers as that's what the manual used to say and was supplied with the Ashcroft kits. The fixed spacer is a better, but far less convenient solution.

That's pretty much already happened. Its called social media and free market capitalism. I think our measured approach is OK. I don't see why parks are being closed, though, when most people are obeying the rules and keeping distance. People in groups should simply be dispersed and/or fined if warranted. Otherwise, you're restricting an area which is vital for many and actually very safe so long as people are passing through at distance and not mixing. Coming down hard on those that are flouting the current guidelines in a deliberate or aggravating way would be far more effective that trying to lock everyone away or keeping them out of wide, open areas. Treat the few idiots as such, and don't penalise the rest of us, I guess is what I'm saying. Won't take long for word to get around, and I'm glad to see that's what seems to be happening. There are some ways in which we could do better, though. Very good use could be made of drones for keeping an eye on behaviour in parks, for example. A birds eye view is worth putting dozens of officers on the ground. Just needs a bit of lateral thinking, which is distinctly lacking in the leering "lock em all up. Shoot on sight" noise that seems to have taken hold among many.

Yep. And orders of magnitude more more lives will be lost/destroyed because of it. The big picture is being lost in the noise of media coverage. Tragic for the individual cases, by far more due to the response. It mirrors the virus: the over the top response is worse than the virus itself.

I bought the cheapest of cheap Prusa I3 clone a few years back, it's been brilliant. Don't get the absolute best quality prints, but perfectly good enough considering the price! The Ender looks great, I'd say go for it. I would have if it had been available at the time. Few notes: The machine is dumb as dumb. The slicing engine to generate the tooling paths you use makes a huge difference. My preference, for what it's worth, is Ultimaker Cura. Use good quality filament. Over here, I swear by rigid.ink. I upgraded mine with a new brain. Turned a mediocre printer into an great machine. Quieter too using clever stepper motor drivers. To be honest, once you've got a handle on how it works I reckon you'll knock up a welded metal frame to mount the hardware in. These things are marketed at "makers" who are usually not engineers or metalworkers, and certainly don't have access to a welder... Rigidity and having everything orthogonal, as Fridge mentioned, are key to quality.

Happily I'm running a Mallory dizzy with a Powerspark electronic points conversion, not the usual Lucas garbage. It's been absolutely spot on until now, only let down by the leads. I didn't renew them when I did the engine swap for some reason.

Ah, I'd forgotten about them. My crimper will probably do them too..... Ah well. I ended up buying the NGK - I'll report back.

Thanks guys

Hi She started misfiring a little when driving in the wet, which means it's time for some new leads. I'm inclined to buy genuine, but it's getting to be a bit of a lottery with genuine parts these days... You never know what's been bagged up by LR and flogged for a premium. Any suggestions? There's an NGK set available for a reasonable price. Any other brands to look at? Cheers!

Just use a VFD, unless you really need proper 3 phase. My 2hp bridgeport is running really nicely off an Eaton De1.

Get the lathe running, pop it in the 4 jaw! Nice and rigid, plenty of torque and perfect speed for a hole saw when in back-gear, and you can finish with a boring bar. Or just drill as big as you can and bore out. Doesn't take long. I keep a large drill that fits directly into the morse taper of my tailstock that's used almost exclusively for opening a hole large enough to get a decent size boring bar in. I'm no fan of home saws, I avoid if I possibly can.

I'm looking carefully through the numbers I can get. I'm not convinced this lockdown is either effective or going to "save" any lives if you take a broader view and factor in economic, mental health, societal and quality of life to name a few. I have a suspicion Sweden has it right, we have it wrong: we're into diminishing returns locking people in their homes, with a disproportionate - and far reaching - effect on every other aspect of life. The books don't balance...

You've already identified the biggest pitfall, being the stagnation area behind a square vehicle at speed. I've seen some modeling on race machines showing that flow actually reverses in some situations in a totally non intuitive fashion, which explains some oddly shaped louvers on Le Mans P1 cars. Without modeling it, it's impossible to know what's going to happen unless you're Adrian Newey! All sorts of odd pressure gradients and suchlike on a brick shape. How about tape some ribbons on it and see what's going on as it is, then maybe tape some temporary ducting in somehow and see what effect that has before cutting anything? Or if you fancy being really cunning, we could design up a scheme to use the exhaust as an ejector to create draw over the rad... Plenty of waste energy to be harnessed from 5.7 litres huffing down a tube! Added advantage that it works harder the harder the engine works.

An excellent post, Monkie. I don't know about anyone else, but I've got far more anxiety about the economic impact than the death rate. The lockdown has already devasted my income and despite government care packages, I reckon 2/3 of my customers will be gone if measures last longer than a few months. That's my business gone, and I'm hardly in a unique situation. Lives are valuable, but not infinitely so. If we're not careful, we end up in a world that's not worth living in for a majority to save a minority. To be clear, I'm not saying no action should be taken, but the benefits need to be measured objectively. We've also just opened the door and walked into a dystopian nightmare police state with severely compromised freedom, lapping it down eagerly and asking for more. I'm not particularly comfortable with that, it concerns me greatly. Not the immediate effect, but that it shows governments how easy it is to scare entire populations into asking to have their freedoms forcibly removed. On a lighter note, Belarus just had a "You think Trump is a moron? Hold my beer" moment. The Belarusian president claims the virus isn't there because "you can't see it flying around, can you?". You couldn't write it.

Tells you everything you need to know about modeling. Even links to some interactive tools so you can play around with strategies yourself.

Shout with what you need milled, I'll get it done for you.

You need EFI rated fuel hose, but that's absolutely fine.

This may be the one shining light: Irrefutable climate and pollution data, the likes of which would have been unthinkable three months ago. Likely a collapse in cheap flying, and hopefully less stuff pointlessly shipped around the planet because its "cheaper". One can but hope.

I'll very much be looking forward to updates

This. I'm envious of those worrying about rice, bog roll and not being able to go to the pub: I can see what's coming and it isn't pretty. The loss of life (in every possible respect; not just people dying) will be orders of magnitude worse than the virus itself. None of us are about to have the life we thought we would. Sing it with me? How sweeee-eee-eeeet to be an idiot....

Not a new thing... Plenty of people don't think the rules apply to them, or are simply too stupid or selfish to care. I mean, it's a collective decision, right? Carry on regardless: Lots of people die, possibly yourself included;, health service overwhelmed, long term economic prospects far worse. Do you understand?.. "I'll have a pint and a packet of crisps, and book me a holiday to Spain please". You'll never get through to these kind of *insert expletive here*tards. Collectively, we're really too stupid to deserve to survive. #facepalm.

I don't really know why they don't preload by angle tightening tbh. It's easy to find when you've taken out any clearance with a test indicator, then a certain angle change on the nut gives a desired preload. Anyhow... I've always set mine up a tad on the tighter side one the grounds that there's a good bit of give in the case, and it's likely to settle as the new bearings bed in. All have run nicely. Possible the teeth have worn a little when running with a collapsed bearing and now they're noisy when running "correctly". It's incredible how much abuse a failing bearing will suffer and how long they hold on before totally letting go. My old LT85 was running quite happily with a cage that had split, it was just noisy AF.

Or the clutch not aligned with the pilot, meaning the input hasn't seated properly and is getting rammed into the box. Something like that... I've had a new clutch on an M20 where the splines were so tight the input would not seat properly. It was impossible to select a gear with the engine as the friction plate was rammed so hard up against the flywheel it was like the clutch just didn't disengage.

That's definitely not right. Look for some kind of misalignment or tightness. Clutch splines or pilot bearing would be where I'd be looking.

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