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Series axles aren't much different to rebuild than Defender ones, different bearings, seals etc but the basic idea is the same. Major differences would be universal joint in the front hub rather than CV joints. Don't think there are any compatible components between the two but they all fit in pretty much the same way, if you have done one you should have any issues with the other.

Have to say there is a degree of honesty there in that they aren't taking money until they actually send something out, it would be more annoying if they took the money and then did nothing. Not great with the time span though!.

The problem with having a vehicle on a "questionable" registration and having apparent modifications, could as you say be someone reporting it and creating problems but more seriously if you are involved in a serious accident (it doesn't have to be your fault) with people injured or even killed the Police (and your insurance company) are going to go over the vehicle very carefully anything not standard WILL be picked up and potentially brought up in court where you need to prove it was good, safe and legal. If the insurance company get a whiff it might not legally be the vehicle they insured they will disclaim and that's just the start of the problems. This has happened, there was well publicised case a few years back where this happened, I don't know the fully details of what happened there but there were "issues" with the vehicle (110 station wagon I think) which featured in the court case. If you are picked up in a vehicle which is decided is NOT the vehicle in the documents then you can face charges of no insurance, tax, and MOT, this happened to someone I was at university with, to be fair it was a ringer, he switched the plates from his dead vehicle to another that was same make, model and colour as his but with no MOT (it was better than his though which did have an MOT!), he was almost certainly reported by a neighbour. I can't see the quality of the workmanship for the pictures but looks go so going to assume it is fully up to scratch, but can you prove it, qualifications etc. By buying from a reputable company you can move any blame of something not being up to scratch with the defence that you bought it in good faith from a known company. My own 90 is rebuilt on a new galvanised chassis and has lots of modifications which are all declared to the insurance company and in the case of the engine change registered with the DVLA, so not against doing a rebuild just make sure it is fully legally covered.

Is it a heavy duty nibbler?.

I have seen that before about only connecting direct to the motor, I don't know how but the ones from Drives direct do allow switching on the machine, they claim you can effectively use them to create a 415v 3ph ring main (provided you are careful with power requirements), the info from the front of mine is below. I use it to run a 3hp mill in plug and play mode and a 7 .5hp lathe in direct to the motor mode. I know in the direct mode the motor runs up to speed gently to avoid a start up surge and the converter will run a motor up to its stated power. In plug and play mode it needs to be able to accommodate the start up surge so will only handle a motor up to about a third of its rated load, I think this depends on the sort of load the motor has on it when it starts up. I have the converter going to a wall socket and each machine wired to a plug so there is no chance of disconnecting them whilst running or connecting them both at the same time, I switch the converter off at its input switch before changing plugs over, I think if I tried plugging the 7.5hp lathe in with the converter powered up it wouldn't end well. I I never quite understood how all this works, just that it did and the info on the site went over my head so would be quite interested in an idiots explanation. I do know that what you said about there being a price premium is correct though!, this one has now done over 10 years with no issues and the cooling fan is the only real noise it makes. Some not very scientific testing with the household power monitoring meter indicates it doesn't draw much power when on but with no load on it, the workshop lights draw significantly more.

Yep should have added that, I have a inverter type and 1ph in 3ph out which also makes it more expensive. I believe some 3ph motors can be run in 230 3ph which takes one step out but not something I have any knowledge of beyond what I can see on google.

I use a VFD to power a lathe and milling machine in my workshop. Not going to claim to be any expert but this is what I found out and has worked for me. There are basically two ways to connect one up: Wired direct to the motor, this means you will be using the VFD to start and stop the motor not the controls on the machine, the advantages of this is the drive only needs to be the same capacity as the motor (or a bit bigger for safety), it can be used to start the motor gently to prevent a start up surge, the controls on the drive can be used to change the speed of the motor. Downside is to shut it down you need to use the VFD controls, you can get control remotes to mount on a machine, the machine shut downs / emergency stops etc will be bypassed. I am sure someone with enough knowledge could work the wiring to over come some if not all the problems. Using the machine controls, not all set up will allow this, the drive will need to be at least 3 times the power rating of the motor, this is to handle the start up draw surge, as drives get bigger they get a lot more expensive but all the original controls can still be used. In my set up I do both, the lathe is powered direct, it is a clutch driven lathe so the motor run continually and the spindle is engaged via a clutch. The milling machine is connected as is and I use the machine controls to stop / start and change rotation direction. The lathe is three times the power of the mill so this works for me but I have to physically unplug the machines to change from one to the other. I got my set up from "drivesdirect.com" and found them helpfully and advised me on the set up options I could use, I use a 240v single input to 415v 3 phase output drive rated at 10hp, it wasn't cheap!.

If you want the drills sharpened let me know, I have recently acquired this, its and Archdale drill sharpener, old and very very heavy. Just got it working with a new motor, the old one probable works but was 3 phase and 550v which is what the transformer was for (any one want a 3 phase 400 to 550v transformer and motor?). It does up to 3" diameter drills, so far I have tried it successfully up to 1 3/4", does a nice job, very strange action, the bit rotates and the grinding wheel spins and moves side to side and in and out. It doesn't do a split point on web thinning, but with a drill that size you are normally going to have drilled a pilot hole any way. Just need to get a coolant feed set up for it. It even came with a free extra, I think it had been there for a while!

I would very much hope the x-ray source has been removed!, I think most newer machines use a electronic x-ray generating system rather than an actual RA source and I would expect they would be controlled to prevent potential misuse if they are still live. It would probable have some lead screening installed though which could add a bit of value to the scrap price at least.

On the safety theme, this has been credited to various people and places but is free to copy as far as I am aware. Anyone who has been in the unfortunate position to see a serious accident or has in the poem walked past a dangerous situation and then heard about an accident there will understand. I COULD HAVE SAVED A LIFE THAT DAY I could have saved a life that day, But I chose to look the other way. It wasn't that I didn't care; I had the time, and I was there. But I didn't want to seem a fool, Or argue over a safety rule. I knew he’d done the job before; If I spoke up he might get sore. The chances didn't seem that bad; I’d done the same, he knew I had. So I shook my head and walked on by; He knew the risks as well as I. He took the chance, I closed an eye; And with that act, I let him die. I could have saved a life that day, But I chose to look the other way. Now every time I see his wife, I know I should have saved his life. That guilt is something I must bear; But isn't something you need to share. If you see a risk that others take That puts their health or life at stake, The question asked or thing you say; Could help them live another day. If you see a risk and walk away, Then hope you never have to say, “I could have saved a life that day, But I chose to look the other way."

I've tried that stuff but never had much success at getting the smoke to go back in, tried wiring harness, grinders and drills, maybe I got the wrong type?.

It is unbelievable how some people just assume you will help them and then get up set if you don't. I had a Mercedes driver get stuck on the beach and come up and inform me I had to recover his car as it was stuck, since he had just driven past me onto the beach and been told by the driver of an old Subaru pick up I had just towed out (he asked nicely for help) not to drive on the sand as it was soft, and been told we couldn't stop him there wasn't a lot of sympathy and he was informed I didn't have to do anything. We relented in the end and with the aid of the driver of the Subaru driver I winched him up just as the tide was coming in and the water was coming up over the sills, it was very tempting to leave him there, where he was stuck would have been about 6-7ft deep at high tide, so we could have just watched his car go under.

Aluminium powder needs to be treated with some degree of caution anywhere, in the wrong (or right depending on what you are doing) conditions it is highly reactive. Other than just iron oxide it can be blended with other commonly available ingredients and greatly increase the the power of an explosion, not going to list what or I will be describing how to manufacture explosives but I expect many people will know what they are anyway, one was demonstrated spectacularly fairly recently!. Making explosives is easy (and highly illegal), I worked on a mine and did it legally, setting them off more complex, setting them off safely and not being there at the time more difficult again with out the right gear!.

To envision what is happening with a triangular shock arrangement take and elastic band and stretch it between two finger and your thumb on one hand, the two fingers are the chassis mounts so keep them the same distance apart and move your thumb up and down. The elastic in the sections going round your thumb will change length just as shock absorbers do, they will also change angle at the top and bottom (chassis and axle) on a vehicle this will be taken up by the shock bushes. Hope that makes sense, I have always found it easier to envision things or explain them with an actual example.

Not seen the clip but be very careful using sand, there is a reason garnnet is used in these unit and supplied as media, not sure if silica based blasting media can be bought but I expect any that is would be for controlled industrial use or inside cabinets. Silica dust (quartz based sand) can be inhaled and once in the lungs can result in silicosis of the lungs, this is serious just goggle it for details, in the mining industry dry drilling was banned or strongly controlled quite some time ago. Face masks can be used but they need to be good quality ones (canister filter type) as the inhaled dust that ends up in the lungs is small enough to pass through most of the cheap ones, also its not just you but any one down wind that could be effected. I know there are a few people on here with good medical knowledge who could probable fill in more details of effects and precautions needed than I can.

That was pretty much my understanding, if the chassis has never been registered on another vehicle and is the same type then all is good if it has it remains the first vehicle and you would be building a vehicle onto it. From a slightly more pragmatic view in this case as most new chassis don't have chassis numbers stamped into them if this has never been done then no one is actually going to know it has been on another vehicle, if it does have a number stamped on it then you would need to change the V5 to reflect this new number which is likely to cause problems with the DVLA as above. Running a vehicle where the chassis number doesn't match the V5 or has been ground out and modified will open up a whole lot of problems about what the true identity of the vehicle actually is potentially resulting in all the paperwork being declared invalid as they don't actually refer the that vehicle. I have seen this happen to a guy from university he changed the number plates and slam panel plate along with the engine and gearbox from his broken down but taxed, MOT'ed and insured car to another the same year, make, model and colour, he was stopped and the police checked the stamped in chassis number, he was charged with no insurance and pleaded guilty on the threat of multiple other charges. The check was probable the result of complaints from and information supplied from a neighbour. As far as other components scoring points for originality I have always read it as original type, so new leaf springs can be fitted to a series but fitting coils looses the points (parabolic's are questionable?), 2.25 petrol with recon engine of the same type and capacity, is good 300tdi is not etc. The most blatant breaking of the rules is when there is a "series 2 diesel" tax exempt but rebuilt with a new chassis from a 90 along with new axles, engine, gearbox steering etc etc from a 90, so basically it is a 90 on false plates!.

Not going to pretend to have any legal knowledge but is there any case for things to be automatically cancelled if they fail to reply or provide information within a given time frame?. Potentially you might be able to take them to the small claims court to reclaim any costs but I doubt it would be worth it and if they can suggest they were doing all they could in the circumstances you may not win anyway. I am in a similar situation with TNT, got a delivery from China in January, got sent the invoice for the VAT and duty in Febuary and paid it, March they send me another bill for the same amount for the same delivery, got through on the phone to query it and was told the phone operators can't access bills etc to check and to send and email. Since then I have had automated responses followed by another invoice every few weeks which has been sent back with copies of the previous email and my bank statement showing it has been paid. Finally had a reply from there complaints people last month which stated they had check the VAT and it was correct, since I was asking why I was being billed twice it wasn't a very useful reply, they language was not good for a while!. After an hour managed to talk to someone who said they would look into it and put me on hold, after 45 minute on hold the line was disconnected at there end, 2 hours later on the phone got through again to a person (sometimes you think you are going to get through, you come off hold and it rings but then it goes to a silent line for a while and disconnects), this time they actually were helpful, looked into it asked a few questions and agreed with what I already knew, it was duplicate invoice and it would be sorted out. Yesterday got another email with another invoice for the same delivery demanding payment. What is really annoying is it is very obvious that no one has actually read any of the emails I have sent in.

What you need to put the base back in is one of these 😁. Tighten the bolts and relieve the stress on the circlip and it comes out or goes back in much easier. The grease nipple would need to be fitted after the circlip but that should be no issue. As regards pumping grease in, is it possible the spring is compressing the ball into the bearings enough that the grease isn't getting past to grease the top part?, might be worth seeing if you can move the joint about a bit whilst putting grease in and see if that helps.

When I was driving mining trucks they had disc brakes but for normal use we had a retarder brake which I think worked via shutting off the exhaust which was operated via a lever on the steering column, if you used the foot brake heading underground it didn't take long for the front brakes to overheat and catch fire. Going down was normally about 30-45minutes at 40mph (top gear with engine on the limiter) which was an experience until you got used to it, in places there was less then a foot of clearance over head and on either side and lots of twists and turns, up could take 2 hours if loaded heavily, foot to the floor all the way!. One noticeable problem was you got used to driving using a lever on the steering column to brake (I didn't have road car at the time), jumping into a hilux was a bit of a change, none of the hilux's on the mine had indicator stalks left!. The trucks were Cat 768C's modified for underground work, from memory empty tariff weight with fuel and scrubber water was about 40tonnes and I regularly hit weight bridges over 100tonnes sometimes up to 120tonnes if it was high grade ore.

Sometimes they can get a bit silly but quite entertaining, A while back at work I got called to come up to run a TBT to discuss a JSA and RA and requirement of a PTW for loading a RA in a LWD tool. Obvious to me but since the tannoy for me literally called it out as above it would have actually been easier to say it in full!

For follow up parts it would be good to know what caliper, pads and disc's are used, they don't look like LR items although I could be wrong. Custom parts are fine but can cause issue later when pads etc are not longer available depending on where they are from.

Wheels wear out after a time and lots of use, for normal cars the loads are low enough its rarely a problem, in your case as others have said it is likely to be because at some point they have been fitted badly and driven on, the wheel is now scrap, I think I would scrap the nuts as well. On HGV's with higher loads and higher mileages than normal cars it is fairly common for fitters to check the size of the bolt holes in the wheel each time a wheel is removed for any reason, the have "go / no go" gauges to do this (I made a batch for a local workshop a few years ago), a fail and the wheel is scrap. This was bought in after cases of wheel coming off vehicles in use with serious consequences.

From my trips to the US and working with US people, as said it is a big cultural thing, there is a historical element of the citizens being able to over throw a corrupt or controlling government, US civil war wasn't that long a go, there have also been several workers risings where armed workers have stood up to exploitation which amounted to almost slave labour by employers, often the same employers were the government of the time in that area and used military forces to support personal gain. This type of thing hasn't happened in the UK for a very long time, as a separate point the original firearms legislation in the UK was not done to prevent crime but was bought in towards the end of WW1 to prevent a possible revolution by returning WW1 soldiers by disarming the population, with the revolutions in Russia and Germany the aristocracy which made up most of the Lords and parliament at the time were scared. As for what they are allowed to own this varies state by state but there is a general feeling that if they allow restrictions in one element there are powers with there own goals (conspiracy theory in part but not entirely unreasonable) which will use it as a step to push there own goals and move progressively towards a complete ban. History in the UK says this is basically what is happening here, individual horrific events are used to push through laws on a backlash, which mostly wouldn't have actually prevent the incident anyway, which would have been prevented if the laws that stood previous to the incidents had actually been used, (Micheal Ryan and Thomas Hamilton both held licences that shouldn't have been issued if the laws previous to the shootings had been upheld, why they were broken to issue the licences has never been investigated officially). This is getting seriously off topic and away from anything LR related also a bit political so if mod's want to delete this feel free.

You always have to be careful looking at any statistics, if they are come from other countries you need to be even more careful. A higher rate of testing will result in more positive cases being diagnosed for people who only have mild symptoms, if you only test those admitted to hospital (as per UK until recently) then you are only testing those who are already in a bad way so the apparent death rate per positive test is significantly higher. Even death numbers can be affected by the way results are recorded, are you counting those who die WITH the virus or OF the virus, in the extreme someone involved in a road accident and dies but is found to have the virus has die with it but died of being run over by a HGV, this is obviously the extreme but there is always a grey zone. I will openly admit I don't have enough medical knowledge to say where the line is or should be drawn, others judging by there posts are obviously involved in the medical profession so I will leave that to them. As most people will remember a few years back there was a big thing in the UK about banning bull bars (frontal protection systems) on vehicles, statistics were produced that people were more likely to die if hit by a vehicle with a bull bar than a vehicle without, it was very hard to pin down how the statistics were produced. In the simplest form all accidents involving PLG registered vehicles were looked at, in that case its not difficult to see why you are more likely to die in accident involving a vehicle with a bull bar, most vehicles with bull bars will be 4x4's and weight about 2 tonnes or more, the average PLG vehicle will be a hatchback or saloon car weight about 1 to 1 1/2 tonne with a much lower front end, the results for an accident involving a Ranger Rover or a Citreon C1 are not comparable regardless of whether a bull bar was involved. This is nothing to do with the current situation but just an indication of how statistic which are correct in the numbers and can be verified as accurate can be manipulated by the way the results are collected and the data pool used to give the results someone wants them to show.

I am sat at home at the moment waiting on a decision on whether I will be needed for work, a lot of others will be doing the same I know, except I live in Devon but for work I need to fly to Aberdeen (not allowed to drive at all by company rules, got to be public transport so taxi then train, bus, flight another taxi, hotel over night, taxi, then helicopter) and then fly in a very cramped helicopter for several hours with a bunch of other guys who will have also come from all over the country, not the best of situations. My more major concern if it happens will be coming home and potentially bringing the virus with me or getting whilst travelling home and infecting people locally. Whole process sounds like a good way of spreading infection around the country. Still waiting for official information from the company, but if asked I will have to go or face a disciplinary warning, at a time when the price is low and redundancies quite likely refusing anything is something I need to think about and only do for very good reasons. Oil industry is considered essential so by the rules we are allowed to travel but not sure if its a good time to be starting new projects (I work drilling new holes not with production), I expect there will be a lot of meetings going on but it would probable take official intervention to stop new projects and just man installations with a minimum operating and maintenance crew.