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mickeyw last won the day on April 20 2017

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  1. Footwell and bulkhead repairs -these are the exact jobs I used to justify the purchase of my first plasma cutter. Definitely a worthwhile purchase for this purpose. Note that if you choose a model that has pilot arc it won't matter how rusty the material you're cutting out is. R Tech sometimes have "shop soiled" units they punt out at a reduced price 😉
  2. I've never had any luck keeping brass exhaust nuts tight, even with a locking nut behind the. These days I use stainless exhaust studs and BZP plain nuts with a spring washer.
  3. I watched that video last week, just don't have a bandsaw. All very well thought out mods, especially with the table being a fast and tool-less fitment.
  4. Or the early type air con dash? They have face level (ish) vents.
  5. Well I thought that was the best written piece of journalism I've read in quite a while. Grammar and spelling both passed (exceedingly rare these days) while being a moderately amusing read.
  6. To update on my own situation, I ended up buying the proper stuff from IWT, although I did have to wait the best part of 6 months for it. This worked out not much different in price to buying Buffalo board or similar, with the bonus of not having to cut the boards except where they fit around the centre and rear corner posts. A 14' deck requires 3 full boards and a half board.
  7. A chain comes in handy on numerous occasions. When winching vehicles there aren't generally any shock loads, and I would never advocate towing a vehicle with a chain. I will use the chain around a sharp edged bumper of a stuck truck in preference to slicing up one of my tree straps (play days are number one place to find trucks with no decent recovery points) and hook the winch to this . It can also be useful for connecting the rear tow point to a tree strap if I need to use a tree to anchor myself when extracting another truck from a hole. Also very good for putting around tree trunks when moving fallen timber in our woods; webbing and rope doesn't take kindly to being dragged along the ground.
  8. One of these Ross. AKA adjustable winching chain. A chain with a hook that will engage around any of the links to enable the loop to be shortened. https://goodwinch.com/product/adjustable-winching-chain-4-5m/
  9. Most of my off roading these days is as a marshal at our local pay'n'play days. The land is a mix of woodland and open fields. On the front of my 110 is a Goldfish TDS9.5 with 11mm Bowrope and decent sized yellow hook that fits securely around the neck of a standard 50mm tow ball. I've bought all sorts of recovery kit over the years, but the stuff that lives in the truck are 2x swingaway snatch blocks, a shortening chain, 3x flat webbing tree strops, 3x soft lifting slings, numerous rated steel shackles in LR & Suzuki sizes, a spare/extension synthetic winch rope and a 24mm Nylon recovery rope. That tends to cover most situations I encounter. I have a KERR, but it sees little use as we don't allow them at our play days as there are too many trucks with unsuitable attachment points. I have a Hi-lift but haven't used it in years so that stays at home, along with the waffle boards. I'm yet to be convinced about soft shackles as when I've used other folks ones they have always been a PITFA to get undone, especially having been dragged through sloppy mud.
  10. Sounds like you're a fully qualified Womble Mike 😁
  11. I've have one that looks like the Wurth item but has no names on it at all. I've had it for years and years, got it from my local motor factor for about £25. It still works fine, but is predisposed to falling over ALL THE EFFING TIME, which is entirely down to it's design.
  12. I rinse my rope in a big tub of water and agitate it thoroughly, tip the muddy water out and refill and agitate again. I'll do this 3 or 4 times then refill and leave it to soak for several days before giving it a stir, rinse and refill again. It's amazing how just leaving it like this continues to draw more dirt out. Once the water stays fairly clean I hang the rope on the washing line to drip mostly dry before respooling onto the drum.
  13. And that will be where the bulk of the cost is. That's a big moulding from an expensive tool (even if made in China) that would need quite a lot of sales to recoup the cost. It does look like a tidy installation though.
  14. They seem to have partnered up with Ford now and use the Ranger on the beaches.
  15. I think a lot of rescue organisations do tend to hang onto vehicles for longer than many users, possibly because they are quite customised units, and/or maybe they don't rack up the miles that quickly. I know my local St John's Ambulance branch still has a 1989 V8 110 on the fleet, and it was only 10 years or so since I used to see a Gatwick airport fire service 200 Tdi Discovery our local Tesco.
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