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  1. Could you just brim the box with oil to let it soak in to everything by tipping it on its side so the fill plug is at the top? If it starts working once it has a bit of oil around everything then you could leave it full like that until your ready to run it so it doesn't dry out again?
  2. We work supplying the construction industry, all of our customers are remaining open, so are still operating but on a reduced service. Going down to one person in the office and alternating, home the rest of the time. Factory is fairly automated so changed the workload around. Only making what we need to on a 3 day week and putting people in different buildings so they aren't together. I had flt trainers, a software demo, kitemark audits and flt servicing booked in which i've cancelled. We have containers coming in so the storeman is coming in to unload those. Our shipping company has 32 containers of paper cups in transit and the company who has ordered them have shutdown and aren't taking them. They have no idea where to put them. Do we have to hide away until there is a vaccine discovered, tested, 7bn doses manufactured, distributed and administered or is there another plan? Increase NHS capacity then let more of us catch it or?
  3. Ah 1 and three quarter ells, why didn't they just say that!
  4. What do you want to do with it when you've done? Print it? Create a PCB layout? I haven't done anything for years but there was a free little online program called crocodile clips which is a simulator for circuits but I can't remember if it can output the circuit. Haven't used it for years. I have one somewhere where you create a circuit then it does the diagram and the PCB layout which you can print to etch but I haven't used that for years either, will see if I can find it later.
  5. I'd be over the moon with that, looks good enough for a water tank or whatever.
  6. Anyone who eats frozen chips out of a polystyrene tray is clearly a heathen. I've been keeping away from the news for years, they just try to dramatise everything and send people into a flap. Long gone are the days when it was factual, now it's an extension of eastenders. The government need more of a wartime mentality and realise they need to manage peoples minds. People seem to think if we all stay remote for a few weeks it'll go away. The staying inside is to manage the load on the NHS to reduce deaths, the problem is it will make it drag on longer, business are going to fail, people are going to lose their homes. The alternative is you tell everyone with any weakness to lock themselves away, everyone else carries on, gets it, suffers and the majority get over it. Some don't and the NHS may or may not be able to help them.
  7. I have it pointing up to the sky with the wheel coming down if that makes sense. I need to spend a bit more time on it. I find the torch a bit difficult to hold. I think when I went to R-tech they had me holding it right up at the top rather than on the handle to make it easier, I will have to try that again as I did some really nice welds there!
  8. Possibly, although she is in a clinic so its only people coming in for a pre arranged treatment so not people trying to visit people on wards etc. Still haven't got my 4x4 back after my little accident. 6 weeks so far and probably 3 still to go. They say it's out of paint but needs putting back together. They obviously didn't take photos as they took it apart and put all the bits in labelled chinese takeaway tubs!
  9. They are cutting treatments short and won't allow things like scalp cooling which stop you losing your hair but adds 1.5 hours to your treatment so increases your exposure time. Patients have to come in on their own and are inspected by a nurse before they are allowed in. Wards allow only 1 named visitor for 1 hour a day. Therefore her workload will reduce but depending what happens I guess they might ask her to work elsewhere.
  10. I shaped it to a point, usually I dull the end but with that I kept it sharp as I thought it might concentrate the weld a bit. I was at 50 amps but with a foot pedal so less than 50 amps depending on how I was trying to stop it blowing whilst still welding. The joint wasn't perfect, there was a gap to fill as it was something I had folded so the radius of bend left a gap, maybe that and my speed were the problem. I think the other problem I had was it was a box so I couldn't rest my hand on the bench like I could with a flat piece. I had it resting on the end of a brick and was a bit wobbly. The welder does have pulse but I will have to read into it to use it. I will have another go! I don't think you can complain at that welding FF, I would be happy with that. In the real DIY world you can just let the job cool between welds.
  11. That's why I will never make it as a comedian! My wife is an oncology nurse, all her patients have to self isolate as they have low immunity so she's more likely to catch it from sending the kids to the key worker schools I'm not making her cups of tea any more though, she can drive to McDonalds, save us some money! ...
  12. Yeah I think your right I'm too slow. I can do it on a flat surface but I'm trying to put two pieces together at 90 degrees then weld on the outside of the joint. On the plus I did spend a lot of time practising filling holes.
  13. Looks fun, be a nice print at home project, but I got a 1/10th for not that much more with locking diffs and high and low box!
  14. People keep going on about distancing from other people, I've been doing that for the last 37 years.
  15. I was trying to weld some 1mm and kept blowing holes. Was going to try to put a big lump of steel behind it but then thought if it blows through then I've just welded it to the big lump of steel! Think I just need to put the time into practising.
  16. That's every project I start! Interesting to see your using 1mm rods, I assume also a 1mm tungsten? I have been using 2.4 so maybe I need to go thinner...
  17. Looks like a great place, you've taken on a big job but looks like your getting on with it. A friend has a barn like that, it's 3 story, there is a door in the long side going to 3 horse stalls all still in tact with the proper floor, doors at the end to the 'garage' for your posh carts, a tack room and an office at one end for the manager, the second story is storage for feed etc with chutes down to the horses feed troughs then the third story was accommodation for stable hands and visiting stable hands and so on. The floors are held up with solid oak beams, must be a foot square. Problem is although it's in tact and a listed building it's also quite dilapidated so I don't think he knows what to do with it. I think if you got heavy handed with it it would fall down.
  18. You could blend that into the hillside and have a nice veranda on top. Or go 2 stories and have a workshop above!
  19. I think there is a difference between dealer level diagnostics, dealer level diagnostics where you don't need to go on a course to understand what it's telling you and understanding how to diagnose a problem when you've changed the sensor which it says is wrong and the fault is still there. I'm all for it, just depends how well done it is. For the range rover I had a land rover manual which was about 2" thick. It told you the resistance to check between pin and sensor and so on so led you through finding the fault. It needs that information in it in the form of a pdf manual or something to be user friendly. Teslas have everything on the touch screen. Of course it's all automatic too so their theory is the car knows best and you don't need to touch anything anyway.
  20. If he gets shirty and it will go in the back of a vito van I can collect and store.
  21. I don't think a touch screen is a problem for things like diagnostics or satnav programming, so long as there are buttons for common things like controlling the radio, turning the lights on etc. People already do the diagnostics on an android stereo anyway but hopefully they will come up with a more user friendly front end. Either way it still doesn't get around the dodgy connection causing a false sensor reading, you still need to be able fault find. Be good if it had a full workshop manual loaded on, especially if you could print pages for when your laid under it.
  22. I did it whole to avoid hassle, it's work stripping it, sorting it, posting it, lots of dodgy people coming and poking around your house / garage and getting rid of the stuff that no one wants. I think I was about 20% down financially but that's before I have to pay for dozens of listings on eBay or cost of postage so I think the pounds versus the hassle it was the best way. If you can sort all the bits per vehicle I think they will sell as a lot, people love a project, plus it keeps a whole Land Rover on the road. I would keep the runner for now, if you can sorn it and shove it in a corner, see what happens.
  23. For going straight I found turning the work at an angle made it easier, so your following the arc your arm takes from your elbow. Be good to hear some tips. This is my second go with my tig since I got it. Not happy with it, it's plenty strong enough but I haven't got the technique yet. I think I just need to do straight runs for a while to try get the hang. My father in law is a welder on pressure pipes so is going to give me some tuition next time I see him, which will probably be Christmas. I'm left handed but have been holding the torch in my right hand, not sure if that's the best way, might try it the other way. I have done some aluminium and there is more to setting the machine but the technique is about the same. You have to back off the power more once you've got a puddle so I guess a foot pedal makes it easier than using the button. You have to use a different tungsten, white I think, and set the AC % to get the cleaning which depends on the grade of material and effects the strength, and you can adjust the width of of the pool, and it's harder to do on hot material for whatever reason. I need professional help... in more ways than one
  24. The Rover would make a good Targa rally car... no, no, no more projects
  25. At one time Land Rover planted so many trees for every car sold as part of their carbon offsetting. I prefer that concept to a tax imposed by the EU as atleast there is a direct environmental benefit from it. What they should do is buy land with the tax money in areas that would otherwise suffer deforestation. Stops them being cut down and is a future investment for a time when there is a machine to replace trees
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