Cyberprog

Sorry to hear that Jason - Keep the black dog at bay mate!

The Green Oval clearly runs deep in your Veins Jason. Glad you're feeling better, and congrats on the getting married front. Life really is what you make of it

I planned for her stuff, she has a rack in the corner dedicated to her, and the table where my toolbox sits is for her to work at when she needs to

That's a handy trick. But as it would involve removing all the gear, I doubt it'll happen

Just an industrial floor paint. Was done by the builders, but it's coming up already in places which is annoying. But it's just one of those things and I wasn't particularly kind to it when I first moved in, dragging things over it. I'll probably put down another coat in the summer if I get time.

I know that feeling all too well. I'm in awe of the awesome mac tools cabinet my indie mechanic has though, he says he'll leave it to me in his will tho Need to track down my roll cab chest that was loaned to a friend a while back, before he had a breakdown!

Yep, they protrude very little into the building (indeed, probably less than the buttresses halfway along the wall anyway) and keep things a little more secure from prying eyes. I need to fit some locks to them however, as they can be lifted from outside (due to being very lightweight) although I may have a play with solenoid bolts at some point The only thing you lose is a window ledge. You could always affix a shutter to the outside and cover the entire window, but your shutter box will be external and the whole thing will protrude from the building quite a bit. It's a shame nobody does a full window frame and kit for this sort of thing...

Welcome back Jason, was only thinking of you the other day as I fitted my LED lights from the last group buy. One of these days I'll get round to fitting the light bar!

I'd encourage you to go as wide as you can. 5.5 will probably be ok for a 90, but a 110, or disco will probably take up most of that 5.5m. If you can squeeze another half metre, I think you'll find it worth it. Book says the Disco2 is 4.7m long, Disco 1 is 4.54m long, but add a half to metre workbench at the rear and you'll be limited on space to work.

It's about 6m x 6.5m, height at the apex is just enough for me to stand up more or less - so about 2m. I couldn't have asked for a better size, save maybe a little more depth and width (and the land would have allowed for it at the time of building back in the 80's as the neighbour tells me his extension is fairly new... I have nearly a metre to the rear, and that again to the side to the boundaries. Plans for a lean-to at the rear are afoot

Yep, handy as hell, mobile welding platform adjustable to height, and it lifts my toolbox in and out the landie!

The shutters were supplied by www.auto-roll.com - and cost me £936 inc vat for the pair. The 5m shutter cost me £1095 inc vat. The openings were cut to size, and the shutters installed to the front of the opening (which was a single breeze block width). The windows were then designed to fit the internal dimensions once fitted, and the housings for the shutters only protrude about an inch or two from the window opening. It's then sealed round with expanding foam and silicone.

So late last year we moved house, and as part of this I gained a lovely double garage which I've fitted out as a workshop and store. Here's what it looked like before; I can't find the interior pics atm, but the garage was open beams, and basic 80's metal framed single glazed windows in either corner. The floor was un-leveled (ridged) concrete). So as my first test with the Landie on the garage doors nearly removed my wing mirrors, I resolved to have a wide (5m) roller shutter installed: I also had the attic area boarded, and a insulated ceiling installed (as well as insulation in the roof also) And here's the finished result: Inside, we've had a leveled floor laid, and painted, and electric roller shutters over the window openings; So that was the state of play as we moved in (as we had the place before selling the other house). Here we have the racking starting to go in: The next job was to re-do all the electrics, and Lighting: And finally, after getting fed up with waiting for the builders, I wound up installing the windows myself: And I finally got round to trial fitting the Discovery in the other day; Loads of room Oh, and one final shot of the new Drill that has arrived; Hope you guys like it, there is still a bit of work to be done (more sockets and more storage on the walls) but we're 95% of the way there now

Proper impressed with that gantry crane system. My man cave has some holes in the ceiling for electric hoists, but they're more intended for dangling nubile young ladies, than tonnes of equipment And they only go up and down...

Maybe look at getting some flexi pipes made up?

This is why I'm installing one of these: http://www.mobilecentre.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=732 when I finish some of my mods on my truck. My phone uses a standard micro-usb lead, and I always keep a few of those in the truck as the TomTom uses the same connection...

They have, it's called a Unimog

Sounds like a standard resolution system really, you should consider suing the people who installed it - they will have insurance for failure to perform, if they specified and fitted the system and it didn't do what it was designed for, then they're liable. It's a Vivotek unit, about £500ish quid, installed a load for a client and wound up buying one myself cos I was so impressed

Before you go messing round with cameras and the like, think about resolution. Standard CCTV Cameras are nowhere near good enough these days, the evidence they provide is very poor. Here's a still off my CCTV the other day: And here's another still off an older CCTV camera: As you can see, there's a world of difference between the two, the first is a megapixel camera, the second simply a VGA camera.

Hi Ryck, Disco2, the electrics are pretty good on this truck, so don't think it's a wiring issue. Will give it a look though. I suspect a fault in the motor TBH... Alex.

I've toyed with this project myself, and I think you may be able to use them without resistors if you play with the settings in the BCU. I may have to buy some and try it though...

Hi All Is there a common fault with the Rear Wiper Motor that is easily fixable, or cheaply fixable? Whilst I can't see much out of mine (dog guard + metal grille on the back window) it is getting a bit grubby now after nearly 6 months of it not being working. Now, I know what you'll say, "Why don't you just wipe the window Alex?" - well, that would be a slippery slope, if I clean the back window, it would look odd, so I'd have to clean the rest of the truck, and well, I really can't be bothered. Ok, so fixing the rear wiper would take longer and probably cost more than washing the truck too, but it's the principle at hand dammit! So, any clever info would be appreciated. Cheers, Grubby, From Bristol.

There are always going to be bad examples out there, but if you don't mind the simple electronics that the TD5 uses, then it's easy enough!

It's not been unknown for rouge electronics (door openers etc.) to transmit on the wrong frequencies and block car alarm fobs from working. Often it just involves a quick tow down the road, and by the time you get back the offending electronics have either moved, or changed state/frequency and are no longer problematic. Strange but true.

I love my TD5, had it for about 4 years now, and I don't see myself getting rid of it anytime soon. If it breaks, it'll be fixed, I've spent too much on it