Youtube hearted comments of SeanBZA (@SeanBZA).

  1. Best part of the pen design is that the hexagonal shape fits a compact cassette, so allowing you to wind up a tape that is loose, without damaging the player, plus you could rewind a tape without wasting precious battery power.
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  2. Numitron backing is grey because RCA used what they had in spades, the sheet steel with aluminium coat that was used to make anodes and internal structures for thermionic tubes, and this was proven to survive the glass sealing and gettering operations. Thus they used the standard tools they had in the tube plant, the flat anode sheet, slightly formed to be a stiff backing, and punched out the holes needed to hold the filaments. Then used the technology they had to make glass beads with wire in them, and sealed those into the holes, making the filament supports, and then simply used a flat section of that steel wire that was bent over to hold a length of thoriated filament wire, also a common item in the tube shop. Length and diameter calculated for the brightness needed at the applied voltage, and then simply placed in location, the ends folded over, then spot welded together to trap the tungsten wire under slight tension. Then at the rear spot welds to a lead frame attached to a standard off the shelf 9 pin glass base, and you have the complete unit. Glass top attached, and then evacuated with the standard roughing pump, and as a bonus because of the low voltage, and no need to maintain an ultra low vacuum, the roughing pump and the heat sealing of the tube is all that is needed to operate, no need for a getter to be installed, and no need to flash it, just a RF heating during sealing to get a high vacuum, then seal. Incidentally there were small versions made, the same size as your common 7 segment LED displays, and they were very popular, as they ran off 5V, and interfaced with logic. They worked best using CD4049/50 CMOS level shifting buffers, as those would source or sink 50mA no problem. Using a buffer/inverter per lamp, and a BCD decoder or counter per digit allowed those displays to be bright, and as bonus you could also use the blanking input on the drivers to use PWM to dim them. Project to replace those displays with LED ones worked, just that it really did not drop display current use, it was still 5A of current at 5V, though it was good in that at least you had a display that now was available, using a tiny HP 7 segment red display. Do one conversion and you had 16 numitron displays to use to fix others, so we only converted 3 boards to the LED version. Biggest problem was the resistor value selected was too low, so the LED displays were running way too bright, so had to be dimmed. Rather than destroying the cordwood board made to fit them, I simply used 2 6A silicon diodes in the common line, to drop the voltage seen by the LED displays down from 5V to 3V8, which made them dim to exactly match the old displays. Those 2 diodes were hard to fit in the limited space left on the display board. Users liked the new crisp displays, the bright version got complaints that it was so bright it was unreadable at night with dark adapted sight, and it lit up the entire cockpit. Display dimming had to match the other display, and that board used unijunction transistors, and had a disconcerting habit of the power transistor unsoldering itself from the wire leads, it ran so hot. Base lead unsolders itself, transistor is still conducting, runs hotter and lamp blows. Select spare lamp and it also blows, unless enough time for transistor to cool below 200C junction temperature. Would have been nice to have had some of the more modern mosfets that can handle 50A, but not at the age of that design.
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  3. Saying 1500 hours is akin to saying learner drivers have to have 150 hours of driving experience before they are allowed to drive on the road, but in the same breath saying that they cannot drive on roads to gain this experience, so either have to drive on parking lots, or pay to drive on special roadways instead.
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  4. My mother was a refugee in Tehran during the war, a Polish refugee from a Siberian camp. Her parents are likely buried there in the Polish cemetery.
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  5. South Africa with an 87% non compliance rate, where the vast majority of people do not pay, and have no intention to ever pay. the standard way they used to detect was to simply have a list of valid licenses by street, and simply see which ones had more than 5% of houses without one, and drive past at peak viewing time, and knock on the doors, to see if there was the tell tale flickering light and the sound. But now those are no longer done, mostly because the ones doing that knock are sort of becoming an endangered species, and doing it in most areas will result in them becoming very unhealthy very rapidly.
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  6. Box is an electrical switch refurbishment kit, which while it is for the water distiller, those switches and parts would have been common throughout the U boat, so that kit would have been used all over, for switch and control maintenance, as the switches are a common ship part, and the ceramic parts used to contain the brass and silver contact blocks, and those do wear with use. That it was in the front was just that it was probably last used in the torpedo room as a tool kit, and then it stayed there, till it would be needed again for the water distillation plant, or there was more need for it at the front, or at least space to store it there, as often tools would be stored all round the ship, where you had a space free. BBC later on amalgamated with the Swedish Asea group, and then became Asea Brown Boveri, and later on also dropped the names, becoming ABB group. I have used Brown Boveri relays, they are an incredibly popular item in German built equipment, all the way through to this century, as they are both very reliable, and also very robust, with a lot of the relays going well past the rated million cycle guarantee, and some probably went well past the hundred million cycle point before they physically wore out.
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  7. note the chipped corners and edges of those tungsten carbide blocks, pointing to them having being dropped many times before.
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  8. The tool bag is very good though for the car tools, which are very often the thing that gets you out of a bind. Also useful when you are at home or out doing DIY, as it can hold a lot of tools for small jobs. Well worth using, saving you from either not having a screwdriver or pliers on the road, or to carry stuff when at home.
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  9. That is why i have 2 chairs. One for me, one for the cat, with his blanket on it. I sit on my chair, he sits on his, and when I am finished with mine he sleeps on it as well. Tapping my arm looking for treats now, but he will just have to walk to eat his food, like she should. No cat treats till evening.
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  10. Heat transfer compound is a 2 component mix, that is poured in at final assembly, to fill all the voids. Stays flexible and somewhat sticky, as it will slowly flow with heat to help ensure all the voids are filled. Similar to the thick thermal pads used in equipment, in that it ensures better heat transfer from hot areas to the case, though it is not as good as a proper aluminium heatsink, but as it is cheap, insulating, and also helps with minimising creepage on the board, it is used.
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  11. that act is so broad and vague you could be arrested if you walk or drive across that kind of land, and leave with dust on you or your vehicle, or a pebble stuck in your shoe or wheel.
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  12.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  It is a lovely measuring tool, and very useful as well, especially if you are going for close enough measures.
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  13.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  That one needs to be called Big homie, as it wags it's arse just like Homie does when excited.
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  14. Or was too quick to pull it out of the oven, not allowing enough soak time for the relaxation. Probably might have relaxed after a week at red heat. Just the original length, being the end, had the most stress from being constantly the part hit the hardest in the rollers every size reduction, giving all the stress variations in the rod. So it has all sorts of crazy stress in the metal, and as it rolled during the foundry process it got each different one give a stress in a different orientation. Thus as you cut away a diameter the stress relaxes in a different manner.
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  15. Got one in power down mode next to me as well, as usual sleeping comfortably.
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  16. So that is the accident that happened to the outside table, these sort of got cut out of the missing chunk. Those 6 offcuts I foresee will be repurposed soon as washers for the mounting bolts that will be needed somewhere.
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  17.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  And that is on a good day.
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  18. Sorry, not up to Cat standards, no fisheyes or runs in the paint, no welds with bumps and ripples, and aligned correctly, so definitely not the standard CAT gets from the OEM shops who make for them. Was thinking that 8mm drill bit with half metre extension bar would be a shop made tool, seeing as it will be useful for a lot of drilling.
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  19. The birds keep them down, plus he is far away from a garbage dump and keeps the bins clean, so no flies. Bet there are a few red top fly catchers far downwind though, just for the stragglers.
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  20. Such a transformation from a bridge troll cat......
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  21. Turbo would be overkill on there, biggest improvement would be just to put a silencer on it, and also upgrade the hydraulic lines to the lift cylinders, improving lift speed. Then fix the Donaldson, and put a cover over the engine. 2 rolls of masking tape, 5l of yum yum yellow, and it will be a brand new crane again.
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  22.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  That engine is still being made, at least in India and Pakistan, as well as in China, as it is reliable, low tech, and sodding reliable, so is still being used in the tens of thousands, and made by the hundreds every year. Plus no high tech to fix it, and you can literally overhaul it on the side of the road with minimal tools.
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  23. Hope you put some oil on those felt pads, otherwise those bushes are going to be very dry, especially after being scrubbed in the ultrasonic like that. They need 5 drop or so of 10W 30 engine oil added to each pad, which will then soak into the oilite bush and lubricate for a long time. Yes please get some crimp on ferrules, especially for cables like that, they will come loose otherwise. The common crimp on ones can also be soldered if you remove the red, blue or yellow sleeve, and then use some heatshrink tube after soldering, to make them both more robust and able to fit small places easier. Cheap eBay pack (throw the flimsy horrible crimp tool that comes with the kit away, all you need are the crimps, and some decent crimp pliers) and you will get at least 20 of the most common size hole lugs, in all 3 common cable sizes. Then you see which ones run low first, and buy packs of 100 of them.
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  24. Very nice, was wondering why you did not make the shaft larger, then saw the clearance at the top. Would suggest as well getting a thrust race for the top, will make working with it better, or just turn a bronze washer to act as bearing, saving wear on the top of the machine. Like how the missing capscrew was replaced with the one removed for thread sample, when fitting that nice clamp. Suggestion would be to add in a small venturi in the feed line, so that you can have the option for air or coolant cooling, or by adjusting flow rates have coolant mist there, so that deep work with the tooling had the ability to remove chips fast so the finish is better. Just needs an air line and regulator, with non return valve in the air feed by the venturi, to allow this to run.
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  25. Or when the initial measuring tool is a hand, and then you go to a finger after the first round, because your dial indicator does not have enough travel.
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  26. I have 2 that have a special call just for me, because I gave them eviction papers twice, and demolished the house they were making. But other than taking the jondolo away, I do nothing to them, the smart birds are nice to see, plus they do a valuable pest control service as well.
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  27. A video of how you do the CAD work will be nice, those parts all look like they took a lot of work to get perfect.
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  28. The small taps are a "just how many of those per banana did you say I need?" moment. But they are great, the most common taps I have broken off in holes wereM6 and M8, so I have broken tap extractors in those sizes. Only improvement would be to stamp CEE and the date on each one. The shorter length and the step makes it more rigid, the step keeps it on the tool post, and the lack of length does nothing for clamping force. Would say it does not need any angles relief on the sides either, button is wider, but the pocket does transfer load well. Plus now you have all the tools needed to make other more custom ones, probably you will have a job soon where these are too short, so need a really long one, which will need a deeper tool to stop chatter, and that would be easy to make now. Next will be a button insert boring bar, to hog out material in holes, basically this one on it's side.
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  29. Belt squeal you can use belt dressing, but chalk works just as well. Tip for the VFD is to make a stand for it, because you will find a lot of other uses where you want a variable speed, so having a nice sturdy wheeled stand for it, to hold it at face height, with a lockable set o castors, a flat tray at the bottom, and a small er one half way up to hold parts, and a hook for an extension cord for power, plus a surface mount 3 phase outlet to plug the motor in. If you want get your brother to take a 2 button pendant, put in a KM start stop assembly, with the VFD inputs for stop start, and a separate speed control pot, as the VFD will operate remotely easily. Short cable to attach, and you have all the options for a simple small remote control, and still have the display readable, or get a remote box and cable for that removeable pront panel, though that will mean putting the VFD in an enclosure, as the wiring is at mains potential on the display. Do not ask how I found that out......
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  30. Linkage you are asking about is a universal joint. Cameras would have failed in high radiation mostly because the radiation damaged the semiconductors in the amplifiers for the vidicon tube, the actual tube itself would degrade slower, simply because of the larger mass of the photocathode meaning it would take much more to damage it. You would get ghost images from radiation off the video entering through the housing gap by the lens, but mostly for radiation all you would get was noise as the amplifier transistors got cooked. Same for the digital logic making the video signal, where ironically a few generation older cameras, all tube based, would have survived for hundreds of hours more, till the radiation finally changed the values of the components enough. Those would have been seriously radioactive then, as you would had made a lot of highly radioactive isotopes of all the metal parts, and would have a lot of noise on the video from the radiation interfering with the actual electrode structures. But they would survive short term, a few days, looking into the most radioactive parts of the reactor, provided you kept them cool enough. But the failed cameras, once removed and cleaned externally, would decay back to background levels in a few months, as the isotopes created from the gamma radiation and neutron bombardment all have relatively short half lives.
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  31.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  The only thing you have to keep is the original serial number and plate, the rest is replaceable.
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  32. Got similar birds by me. The Ibis is the standard, but also ringnecks, rock rats and then the geese, peafowl and the blue cranes, and the pelicans and storks. Then you get the kites and the fish eagles.
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  33. My one is also looking at Taz......
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  34. Bet now it is fixed the replacement machine will be put off for another decade, and you will see this machine come in again for repair. But a nice job there, looks like it was just off the factory floor, aside for the plate at the end.
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  35.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Time to make some casting moulds, and make CEE shaving epoxy coasters. Those should sell well, as you have enough chips to work it. That way you can have a sideline with Karen doing the odd batch of them.
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  36. Little chirp sounds as well. My one does the same, i just have to remind him that those ibis are bigger than him, and have long beaks, and that the monkeys are also bigger, and have much bigger teeth as well.
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  37. Pretty reliable, once you remember the correct operating condition for the contacts. They run best with 24V across them when open, and 20 to 100mA of current when closed, which helps by keeping the contacts free from oxide, as they wipe across each other, and this make good metal to metal contact. You get a totally different switch, with thick gold contact faces, for low level signals, such as those from the hundreds of thermocouples and platinum resistance thermometers that were used to measure temperature, and the hundreds of bridge type pressure transducers as well. Those AZ-5 switches look like they break before make, so while you operate there is a brief period where all contacts are open, so as to prevent shorts. Others will be make before break, where you do not want interruption, while say changing the range on a meter. The mirror galvanometrs are very interesting, with them not only showing up as readout, but also being a simple interface to the SKALA system to be able to input state information without needing complex extra converters, and also associated programming on them as well to set limits. Just built into the existing display, annd an easy way to show if nominal, or which way the deviation is. Likely there is a further phototransistor there that also acts to inform that the lamp has failed, and print it out for a repair operation. 28VDC lamps, run on 24VDC, probably with a series resistor as well, so as to drop voltage to around 22VDC, so leading to greatly increased lamp life. The type of lamp is classed as prefocussed beam, as the optical path is fixed in the lamp construction, so that in use no further focussing is needed during changing the lamp, as all of them are adjusted in the factory to have the filament in exactly the same orientation and plane, so you simply swap the failed lamp out, and close the panel up.
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  38. Friend landed up in hospital after that. Go visit him after the day, and he asked just one thing. Take the shop van he drove to hospital with, drive to the base, get the section keys out of the duty room, and go into the locker room, get his clothes, his car keys, with his room keys, and most importantly his cigarettes and wallet. Did that, left the work van at the gate inside, and drove his car back to him. Next day got off the bus at the gate, and drove the van back to the section for his boss. 2 weeks later discharged, after giving birth to a 5 pound baby. Doctor tried enema, soft food, safe laxatives till eventually RN grabbed him, told him to swallow this, and to never tell the doctor ever. Rough and tough laxative, normally given to horses to "get them moving", and an old home remedy. 3 hours later Atlas moved the world.....
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  39. Bet he also is munching on the tasty fresh grass as well, just like mine does.
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  40. Typical cat, listens, and only does if he wants to. Because you stop he carries on, looking every so often to make sure you are there still.
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  41. Best tip I can give to clean those oiled surfaces is a wooden outdoor broom, which you cut into small blocks, so you have 6 or so out of a single one. Hard bristles easily shift the dirt, and only a tiny amount of solvent needed.
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  42.  @mwhelan53  Don;t forget that the pins will go back in, though likely this time with a new grease fitting on them, and working grease points to provode lubrication as well. Bet that the body will soon enough move to the grass, where that section will have the junk water media blasted off, and then given a primer coat, so the new body fits perfectly, and no more rust there. Needs to have a good seat in the new cab, time to find a good condition drivers seat from a Toyota Hilux in the scrap yard, and put that in.
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  43. Any other manufacturer would have been using 1mm steel, and the tack welds would have been all the welding done, relying on paint to hold it together. But CEE puts the same mass of weld down as the metal, and double the thickness of metal. Tip for the weld blanket is to grab some clothes pegs, or bulldog clips, to hold it to the extractor bottom. Will help keep the overspray down, and make it easier to clean up. Would also suggest putting an extension cord on the base with the extractor, to save looking for one each time. Long enough to reach the plug, and it will always be there. Cutting saw if it is single phase motor time to change the capacitors, or the start contact is worn out. If 3 phase you have dropped a phase, either in the plug, or more likely in the switch. Magpie swoop is most likely just asking for food, they know you now, and expect food, so are swooping hoping you would share......
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  44. So you went a little over budget on what is the most important part of the crane, and the part that will see the most use, in order to get the best life you can out of it.
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  45. One of the uses was as plating on phonograph needles. Still have a part box of them with the big slogan of "Osmium Plated" across the front of the box.
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  46. Yup, and as soon as you finished gouging the end off, the rain stopped for the day....... Say hello to homie, he definitely is living the good life there, though you do need to train him how to stalk crows, so he can have some real chicken, and not the plastic type.
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  47. Those shop made tools look better than the OEM part, and yes that nitriding came out great, lovely surface and no imperfections at all, and a perfect fit on the threads as well. Going to bet the most expensive part was those 4 bearings per side. Close tolerance bearings are expensive, as I have had to order some for machinery, but seeing as the originals lasted 40 years, with no grease applied to them for a long time, due to burst and clogged grease lines, and they only got replaced because one was scored, but still had no measurable play. Those will still be there when your grandchildren are running the shop.
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  48. Instead of float switch use electric float switch and an old washing machine fill valve, or one from a scrappeed fridge with water dispenser, which comes as a bonus with all the fittings for that pipe as well. Then you just need to put a level switch in the tank, and control the valve, which makes it fill slowly, then shut off when full, exactly as you want, and the low flow rate means even a fault will only result in the pond getting a little more water in.
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  49. A lot of insurance companies now will tell, based on age of the vehicle (ie if it is in or out of warranty) to put the cheaper aftermarket parts in.
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  50. Tiddles did a swan dive from 8 floors, onto the concrete pavement, after failing to negotiate a jump from one window to another. He survived, though he did break both front legs and his jaw. Lived a good number of years afterwards, just was very wary of windows then.
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  51.  @lbochtler  Yes the older type tubes had issues with slow response to bright light, as the phosphor got saturated. Backlighting, and then using a black level clamp to restore the video level back to black, removing the offset at the expense of dynamic range, did help a lot. Of course in TV studio use they simply blocked the iris way down, then put in a lot of light ( 10kW plus on a set was minimum, some went as high as 20kW for what was essentially a 2 desk wide area), so as to both have backlighting on the tube, and also limit peak white, so you could expand video level to a point below smearing, but still have a fast response with minimal smear. Using for CCTV you had more problems, but there again auto iris was welcomed, or manual iris and accept muddy video.
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  52. That, or the drive itself is one that failed QC as a 2G drive, so got programmed as a 1G drive with only the good blocks allocated, leaving the 2G drive controller ( which would be the same controller per generation) with it's much larger cache in there, but with the reduced main memory capacity. Another is that they ran out of the lower capacity chipsets, so instead ( probably as it is a single pick and place item, with a stacked die inside) simply substituted the larger cache chipsets instead as they are layout compatible, or they have depreciated the older controllers with the new higher capacity cache version, and there is a blend of the different size cache controllers currently in the supply chain, so they are refraining from updating the spec sheet till they are sure all the older versions have been sold off in the supply chain.
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  53. Does he also sleep with a paw over the eyes like mine does....
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  54. Container in sy poes geval, definitely South Africa....
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  55. Toyota of that era has a reverse polarity diode in the feed to the ECU, which can also be blown open circuit. Normally in the fuse box as well as a plug in module.
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  56. Guess the farmer wanted to not have his head baked in the sun, so built the cab to do this. Farmers are if nothing ingenious, and in general handy with tools.
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  57. Merch store sale items, genuine Franna bolts and nuts, and genuine Franna used spares.....
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  58. Lovely to see the dual purpose gauging block for the taper thread, that also serves as drive shaft, proving the taper is perfect by not having any slip at all. Great work there, and also on getting all those measurements spot on. I would guess the piston that is recoverable would be good to machine up as a temporary "get you out of a bind" unit, so the mine owner can have it on the shelf to put in while waiting for the fix, with him knowing that this one will fail after a while, and not worry too much about the worn cylinder and rod, as those will all have to be done together, but at least he is not a machine down for a week or two, just 4 hours to replace a cylinder with a more or less working one while Kurtis does his magic and makes the old and busted shiny and new again.
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  59. Frozen cat treat is very nice for him. Gets some cold and some water as well.
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  60.  @spawnod  A lot cheaper than a new one for sure, and also going to be more than capable as well.
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  61. Mine does the same, though I have to remind him that the birds are bigger than him, and the monkeys also are bigger, and have much bigger teeth as well. He still wants to chase them from indoors.
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  62. Got to rank as one of the worst welding positions I have seen you in, but a great job afterwards as well, even if you were welding with pretzels for arms and hands. Was wondering why you were taking it back to OEM, as I know that CAT does do oversize bushes for the machines, then you explained why that the operator wants it all standard size so spares are less of an issue.
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  63. Thumbs down probably the salespeople who are not selling them a new one.
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  64. You can get a custom LCD made in China, which is a product that has dropped in price, though you might have to reverse engineer it, and order 100 of them, but you can always sell the other 95 to recover the cost, fixing other units that used the same display. But as it is likely a 4 digit common backplane display, and those are still common parts, should be easy to find a modern drop in, though you might have to do a little work to make the pin spacing closer, as the modern displays are considerably narrower, so the pins will all need a spacer.
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  65.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Till he gets a family, then he will be coming in to get homie's pellets daily, and Homie will just let him.
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  66. Yes and remember as well WD also uses another older technology on the silicon as well, in there being an embedded 6502 processor, with 64k of ROM and RAM, which is used to bootstrap the main processor, feeding in the configuration file and doing housekeeping, as the core is now royalty free to use, and there is a lot of tools to develop for it, and it is both also RISC, and also incredibly small as well, fitting well in the RISC architecture. So small you can fit it into a ultra cheap processor sold as a toy.
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  67. One thing to add, when upgrading memory often you will find the slots are full of dust, so a can of contact cleaner is very useful, and often a non woven wipe soaked with it used to gently clean the inside of the slot and the memory module will result in good contact, as you wipe off the dust and the film of dirt that has built up there. Same for adding in cards, the slot can easily have a build up of dirt in it, which is not visible easily, but a spray and wipe with the non woven cloth and contact cleaner does wonders.
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  68.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Yes probably a failed unit from QC, and sent out to the refurbisher to fix. So they cut the friction weld off, and then pit in the spigot so as to keep as much material on the ends, filling up with weld to get the length overall in tolerance.
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  69. Australia has laws about importing the better beers, they have to settle for xxx or Fosters.
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  70. Simple engines once you remove the emmisions stuff, but that is the most expensive part. When you go for high power, and maximum power output per kilo of engine is where you run into issues. VW made millions of the smaller 4 cylinder and 5 cylinder engines, and they are pretty reliable.
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  71. Normally once it is in lockout it is a 30 minute timer, that has to sit with power on, before it will allow a single code entry, and then again 30 minutes if wrong.
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  72. Yes I had the same issue, just the fuse block burned out on 2 of the fuses, so I went for the cheaper alternative of 2 inline fuse holders and crimped them into place, then used a ring to provide power to them. As VW on this one integrates half the loom into the fuse holder, a lot cheaper than the buy a new one alternative.
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  73.  Frank Dilson  Recessed so it does not get smacked off by the first errant rock. Recessed at least has no sharp corners from Kurtis that act as stress raisers, and the sharp edges now are deep in the material where that will not have enough stress to form a crack before the surface does. Going to bet the failure now will be the shaft snapping at the weld edge, or the pin breaking inside the bearing.
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  74.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Love that jack though, I will bet it is about to become a well used tool in the workshop, as it seems to have a nice lift range, and will probably be in a video at some point holding up a job being done on the welding stands, and also holding the same up on a lathe.
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  75.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Funny thing is every aircraft has hundreds of them in the wiring looms. Big difference is they are installed correctly, as they are not at all forgiving. Yes I have messed them up in install.
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  76. Taz saying I like the attention, but too much scratching, more just let me chill next to you......
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  77. Nice machine and a bonus in that you now have common tooling for the other machine as well, so you do not have any issues where you wait on consumables for the one, but have for the other. Take it Homie has learned not to mess with George, having found that beak is sharp, and hurts. You know that come next summer you are going to have George, and the children, visiting you every day as well.
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  78. Remember the sinkex ships have all watertight doors opened and locked there, so they will sink fast. In active conditions all would be closed, so they would take so much more to sink them or disable them.
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  79. Drive it for about 30km going for as many shifts up and down as you can, especially on hills and with varying speeds. That way the controller will learn the shifting pattern and timing of the new valving, which should fix a lot of those issues, and also bleed the solenoid circuits properly as well. Otherwise see if the VAG tool can set the controller to relearn, which is the same thing, just less fun.
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  80.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Even came in handy a few times as starter for the BBQ charcoal......😀
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  81.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Neighbour we are taking her car in to trade in today. 9 year old vehicle, not even the equivalent of 9000 miles on it. But full service history on it.
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  82. Totally 100% CCCP made, as the same parts, in different grades of quality, were made for the military, and thus the consumer and industrial equipment used the lower grade parts, and after they started doing commercial production they simply kept on making the same parts, using the same machinery. USSR tech was always on the trailing edge in a lot of respects, as they had to both make the machines first, and then were loath to upgrade them to make newer versions. Some parts were utter junk though, especially capacitors, where they routinely used parts designed in the 1930's, when much more modern parts existed, but because the machinery was still working they made the old ones, despite them being shorter lived, and also making poorer quality parts. Got some old Soviet era metal can capacitors that are identical to the 1940's versions, but made 50 years later, and they are as unreliable as the originals were, degrading even when not used. westerm made units updated over the years, to make them much more reliable, and in many cases closer tolerance and better performing at the same time, and also improved material made them much lighter and smaller.
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  83. Old spark plugs fishermen here by me use them as sinkers, as they pull nicely through marine growth, and are free, plus are environmentally friendly, though mostly because they are low cost, especially if you have a neighbour or cousin who is a mechanic, and has access to tons of old ones for free at work.
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  84.  @ricebike  Well, try now and see if they will come out. There is such an issue with them that you get plug removal kits for some engines, and they are needed if the plug breaks off inside. Change early, and put the new ones in with some anti seize. The only plugs I have seen coming with a coating are some specialist ones, the vast majority just come with the standard steel finish and a coating of oil from the factory, thin, to keep it from corroding in the box.
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  85. Probably the wire was nicked during manufacture, and then this part of the loom got to spend time under water, due to leaves blocking the drain, and thus get water in when the vehicle was parked, causing the corrosion to grow. Hopefully the loom there got a spray of water repelling fluid before the tape application, so as to keep any other insulation problems from causing further problems. Also probably tell the owner not to park under trees, or at least to clean the leaves out, but that likely fell on deaf ears.
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  86.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Yes, never seen that use before. Have done the bronze plate though, to fix up bores that were somewhat less than good, to get them to the point the shafting that ran in them, or at least the new shoulder bolts I used, would be a tight fit. Holes wallowed out, and the original pins were under 5mm diameter at the wear points. No way to get spare parts, seeing as the manufacturer, still in business, no longer supports a machine they made in the 1970's, and have less than a clue, though the parts likely are still on some of the modern versions, seeing as they likely use a similar version of the linkage. But the braze and drill was both faster and cheaper, and the shoulder bolt was $3, off the shelf. Now to get some flexible pneumatic cylinder shaft couplers for it.
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  87. Still many thousands of those Citigolfs running on the roads here in South Africa, even though they are all getting a little old, but the aftermarket spares are still around, and you can get almost the entire vehicle as second source parts.
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  88. Going to say 9 rolls of wire are a minimum, plus an additional one with only around 2 turns left on the roll at the end.
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  89. No, he recycles them.....
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  90. BTW Tubalcain MrPete222 is holding a Starret sale, perhaps you might get that full line of tooling there, all of them well loved and tested, for a good price.
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  91. Take it the slings were a little past the use by date, and would not pass as CEE slings, even if the only use was as Homie toy use.
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  92. When you opened the box, and I saw the thick plywood, proper box with metal corners, and then the heavy strap holding it, in addition to screws, that is a company that wants only the best product. Very good qality, and it should hold up well with the loading you place on it, and seems to have large holding faces all round to not have issues. Probably just by cleaning and setting up your cross slide again, you have improved repeatability a bit as well, just from getting all the wear out, and fresh lubricant in the system as well. Guess the rainy season in your area is around, seeing the background was all rain on a hot tin roof.
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  93. Went to the dealership this week, they have changed things up a lot, hand sanitiser, wiping the vehicle down inside before they take it, wipes available all over, and then they wipe it down afterwards when you are collecting it.
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  94. Will add that using Virtualbox is one of the non free softwares, it is free for non commercial use, but, being Oracle, the demonstration here can be classed as being commercial use, though Christopher using it for educational purposes might be enough to get out of having to pay Oracle an annual fee to use it, though IANAL, and Oracle is well known to be very litigatious.
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  95.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Did mine this last week after washing, and it made a big difference doing it to all the plastic, including headlights.
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  96. Ugh popcorn finish, the grottiest worst ceiling finish.
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  97. Mine does not have a cat bed, he sleeps on my bed, and allows me to share it as well. Otherwise he sleeps on a chair, covered with a dog themed blanket. Currently wants treats of course.
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  98. They need it if you are driving in anything where there is wet weather, so they can have no water ingress. The new coils came pre greased, while the old ones look like they did not.
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  99. So the auction house literally paid you to take the machine away.......
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  100. My second last car when i went to the dealership I took a cardboard box with, to lay down and look under with a torch, all round. Yes minor accident damage on it, but repaired well, and for the price well worth the deal. Had it for 10 years, then sold it, and got my current one, also knowing the history on it.
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  101. With it being a manual box while you have the clutch out, and if it is at all worn slap in a new clutch plate, or at least a new release bearing and pilot bush, as you have it out already, and putting in a new one is zero extra labour cost, and so much better for reliability.
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  102.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Pleasure Meg, glad to see you are going well, and your husband is a great teacher as well, with his great ability to explain things, and willing to learn new stuff.
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  103. One day soon Kurtis will be working on the big lathe, with one of those birds sitting on his shoulder, wanting to comment on the work.....
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  104. Whoever supplies your welding stuff must have you as the biggest user in the district.
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  105. One of those old rods is going to have to be recycled as the pole to hold the postbox at home some day.
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  106. 99% sure that every single one of the shop built fixtures in the shop have, as part of building them, a piece of either recovered, or left over, shaft steel from a hydraulic cylinder.
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  107. Always is that if it has driveability issues it comes in on fumes. If it has a bad fuel pump or level sender it comes in with an absolutely full tank.
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  108. So around $5k overall, a big saving, and a lot better in having it running Monday, as opposed to running according to calendar Christmas time.....
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  109. Looks better than the factory ones.... Homie enjoyed his ears, that piggie did not come home from market for sure.....
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  110. Ever since you put fuel in it...................
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  111. One day soon George will be riding on homie's back.......
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  112. Remember as default formatting a drive as ext2/3/4 (or ReiserFS, with the warning that there is no way to undelete on this file system) the owner of the newly formatted filesystem there is root, so you need to change ownership of the folder as root to be user 1000 (the default login user, normally you) before you can use it. Formatting as FAT or NTFS does not do this, as these are non native Unix Linux file systems, they are mounted normally using FUSEFS, and many older distros could not read them, unless you added in a module to allow this, which was eventually included as part of the kernel by default. Also beware of compatability between different versions of EXT filesystem, older ones cannot read newer ones correctly, so you would need to use a compatible version, or format on the old system first, as the new one will read and write it correctly.
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  113. Love how in the outtakes the jacket changes colour, compared to the CAT yellow, in just about every shot.
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  114. There is a history of them down the road from me at the Natal mounted rifles, standing there as gate gargoyles and yard decor.
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  115. Bolts are easy, plus the different lengths for steel versus alloy rims are hard to do in a stud form, either they stick out far, or are too short depending on the wheel type. Not much difference from each other, just that bolts at least have the wearing part easier to change, plus broken ones are, because the tension is now off them, are easy to remove, provided you have not left them on for ages to rust fast. Studs on the other hand are a PITA to change, especially when you have no clearance behind to remove them, and have to take a hub apart to do so. Smaller heads as well on them, so smaller diameter possible on the wheel boss, while still having enough strength and fatigue life to last.
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  116. Big nut ( M12) placed there with a fender washer will enable that home made press to get the bushing all the way in without needing it to be hammered and dented.
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  117. Mine I did use a waterproof additive in the grout, plus used it on the walls before tiling, and in the tile adhesive. Lip by the shower door, and sealed with silicone as well, plus the weep holes in the premade unit. Of course no problem with mould and peeling wallpaper, as the entire building is concrete and brick, plus the bathroom is tiled. The original tiles were a bear to get off, as they were put in properly, back bagwashed with cement slurry, and then laid into a freshly plastered wall, followed by the rest of the room being plastered to the same thickness. In general you just use a jackhammer to chip away the old tile glaze all over, paint with 2 coats of bonding liquid then place the new tiles over the top, because the old tiles only come off with the plaster and a bit of the brick surface. Old buildings, old building codes, the newer ones you just use a scraper and peel them off, if they did not already fall off.
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  118. I remember one day walking in town, and seeing 2 boy racers at a light, next to a truck tractor, belonging to the railways. Nothing special about the truck, just the tractor, Mercedes Benz, with the then standard Atlantis Diesel engine and Eaton box. Boy racers were in the then new VW Golf GTI Mk1, and a new 330i BMW. They were revving engine, waiting for the green. On the green the truck driver floored it and left rubber, screaming that ADE engine up to 2200RPM red line, spinning all 8 rear tyres, and leaving the GTI and BMW in the dust. He was at the next light, and stopping, before they were even half way down the street. Both boy racers simply slunked around the corner, quietly and slowly, thrashed by what looked like any old truck. Yes they likely would have beaten the truck if the next light was 1km away, but at 300m they got eaten badly. Also Steve, in his Mk1 GTI, put money on a fighter pilot he could beat him in a quarter mile (500m) drag race. So one night while we were on night ops, they lined up, pilot on the runway, Steve on the taxi way next to it. On the flag off they both go, GTI easily being in front for the first 200m, jet on full afterburner and 20 tons mass, with extra fuel in 3 drop tanks, far behind. 300m and the jet is catching up fast, 400m and the jet passes the GTI, then flat taps at just under 200kph (Steve had a ticket or two showing he could get to there), with the jet putting a lot of forward stick to hold it onto the runway. 500m and the pilot pulled back hard, just left the undercarriage down for an extra minute while limiting speed, so as to allow it to cool down before selecting wheels up. Steve lost his money.
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  119. He still loves his biggest toy........
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  120. Take it the safety dog was looking around by the lathe for that big bell to chew on......
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  121. LED tape simplest, because it is separate lines, is to make a set of 3 DC current sources, or a simple adjustable power resistor per line, to provide a easy to adjust source for each LED colour.
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  122. When you hog of 5mm at a time the big piece becoming very close to finished dimensions does not take long. The final passes take as much time as the rough ones.
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  123. That sand blaster just paid for itself, in not needing to either spend hours cleaning, or send out to have it done. Rest of the crane it will definitely save hours of time as well, though Curtis will be getting a nice tan for sure, seeing he is playing in the sandpit at the beach.
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  124. Condenser looks like it is just old, fins rotted off from road salt and grime that eats the thin aluminium away.
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  125. Garbage in garbage out. If the grounds are poor, or the sensor in the shifter is failing or corroded, then the ECU does not know gearshift position, or has unreliable info, so definitely will throw a wobbly. you would definitely need to have this done via a tool, and reading the inputs from the gearbox and engine.
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  126. Guaranteed diagnosis cost is at least 100 times the price of that relay though. Other fault codes likely just from the failing relay going intermittent, and of course the transponder error is always going to show up randomly, key in a different orientation, ring obscuring it or such.
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  127. Saw one today, same crank no start. But also water damage, so they are going to have to clean all modules, connectors and hope they get all the water out of them, otherwise the vehicle, like a few thousand, straight off the Toyota assembly line, are destined for the crusher from flood damage. They were flooded, in many cases to roof height, no way to fix other than replace entire electrical loom and ECU, and replace all fluids as well, along with complete interior.
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  128. Done mine, though having basically a Golf 1 makes it easier, just have to undo starter to get the new one in. Just have to do the transmission one to finish it, but they were not worn, just 18 year old rubber. Cheap as well, and work well enough being "second source", and funny enough the agents also use them as well.
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  129. Going to bet 6 bent inlet valves, and probably also 16 lifters will get changed, as they probably will show, like the ones from the oil fill, severe wear on the rollers. Friend had it occur twice, both times the day before the service, which was also to change said belt.
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  130. Nice for both the Monday video, and also to see a machine that does not get as much airtime as well.
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  131. Good news with getting the second lot is you only have to clean the lathe and mill once now.........
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  132. Going to guess the other 2 ground leads are for headlight that side and the side marker and indicator, so it is likely there is a headlight code as well.
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  133. Just remember this is a small machine, you cannot take your normal half inch cuts with it......
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  134. I see you found a good use for the old slings, where they can be used safely.
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  135. Mine has his gorilla I gave when he was a little kitten, and still will play with it. His little Tigger from McD is still invited to share food.
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  136. Charles, just had a 21 year old VAG coil finally pop, off my old VW Polo. $30 for the pattern part, 3 minutes talking nicely to it with a 10mm spanner, and away it went again.
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  137. Next to replace the entire brake system. Luck that is all still available, from the pedal to the drums.
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  138. One day Homie will be coming in with George riding on his back...... You do not normally think of M10 capscrews being the fusible link in a product, but here they definitely are. Going to guess they are also a use once item as well.
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  139.  @HumbleMechanic  I found it, and another one, plus 2 10mm spanners. Now, to find that 13mm spanner, I know I had at least 5 of the darn things, but all I can find are 12mm sockets, and only some bolts fit.
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  140. Good job on that cylinder, not only did you save them $17k for the new one, they also saved $1 million in lost production as well, provided that cylinder survives the rechrome it is about to get. Well done to the safety officer, he is now well due for his celebration, just wonder if you are seeing the little bits of blue in the poo.
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  141. Most common place I see those is on the dumpsite, where there are a few machines with them, used both to compact the layers, but also with a dozer blade to move big piles, as they do grip well. Most of the time the wheels are caked with mud and plastic bags, the scrapers help, but often they just get turned into big balls of plastic as it winds around them.
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  142. Shocked a CEE shop built tool did not use a section of hydraulic cylinder as an integral part.... ;) But a great build, and probably even better than the original. With the aluminium versions probably best improvement while still keeping them would be to drill out all those threads and put in timeserts instead, or make up some stainless steel inserts to provide a better thread. With the rain, good on you for not getting flooded out, and look on the bright side, no need to water the garden till next summer, it is well watered now. Just have to spend a few minutes and make a nice set of new sharp blades for the lawn mower, because it will be running a lot more now.
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  143. That winch has never been that clean, even when it was being assembled by Franna in the factory.
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  144. With the tone tracer it works best if you connect both leads to the loom, for that 2 wire sensor connect both green and blue. As it is a twisted pair the break is very easy to find, as the break will cause a very sharp drop in volume level of the tone. For others use the suspect wire and any other wire from the same sensor, as those will be next to each other in the loom. Single wire sensors connect the one lead to ground, as that will result in a better signal into the wire, making the break easier to find when you trace along the loom. Note that large looms you might find the signal nearly vanish when the wire is buried deep, you need to scan all the way around the loom to find the best signal closest to the wire. The probes were originally used for phone lines, but are useful with any large and complex wiring looms in industry as well.
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  145. Easiest thing for the floor is to simply rent a buffer, and clean it using the rotary brush attachment, water and detergent in the mix tank, followed by a rinse, then simply use a commercial liquid polish to seal it, probably 3 coats applied with a flat mop. Will seal the concrete from spills and stains, and will at least keep the dust down, plus easy to patch as all you do is strip with polish stripper, wash, let dry and then apply another coat. Do every year as a maintenance task, and it will still allow you to have bare concrete look, but a little more resistant. Downside is if you want to do epoxy afterwards you will have to diamond grind off a millimetre more of the surface to get to bare substrate, so add an hour or two to the epoxy job.
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  146. Carbon deposits are from both too long between oil changes, and from not allowing the turbo to spin down before shutting the engine off. Long oil change intervals allow the oil to form sludge, which, combined with the turbo spin down with no oil generating enough heat to degrade the oil, blowing the breakdown products into the piping. The return line is larger, so the restriction will be less noticed, but the supply pipe is small diameter to regulate the oil flow into the turbo, so it will clog first. Solution is to change the oil at the "harsh service" intervals, as noted in the owners manual, as the only way to get the oil to survive the regular service interval is to drive the vehicle like the "old granny driving for a Sunday country drive, and enjoying the view at minimum speed limit" all the time. If you are driving to enjoy the acceleration change oil more regularly, it is a lot cheaper than the 2 turbos.
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  147. Venter is pronounced Fenter.......
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  148. Probably related to either ground issues or to water in connectors.
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  149. Going to guess the careless renter is going to have a much higher rate next time, plus the deposit is forfeited as well, and next one is much higher as well.
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  150. Documentation is great, because you will not remember what you did a year ago, but having it all written down is a big help when you get the same or similar problem again.
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  151. Nice to see first and foremost Kurtis is good at rigging for safe handling.
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  152. Time to set up a box for old unwanted clothes and toys, so that you can help all that come around to your door.
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  153. That adaptor plate you made will probably be black anodised, and used as it is on the helicopter. 8 M5 bolts to hold the camera, not going to be a very heavy unit then, probably under 50kg. Yes those vibration mounts are nice, till they get a little old, when you start to find snapped wire rope ends in the mounting area, which start off as single, but rapidly grow to failure of whole wire rope rings. Not too expensive though to replace, except when you have to buy the exact same part, that MM Carr sells, but with the OEM aircraft manufacturer putting it in their box.
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  154. George is showing off to the ladies, bringing them the shiny stuff so they can see he will be a good father, and the food to show he will provide. Need to leave him some Homie pellets out to grab.
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  155. From the looks of the bore they had removed a hose for some reason, and it dropped into the dirt. Did not clean it all out, and a few pebbles sneaked into the hose, to do this kind of damage.
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  156.  @HumbleMechanic  Grease the parts of the pin that go in the bushings as well before putting in, along with a bit inside the bushing. That way the lubricant is actually where it is needed, and not just on the surface, unlike the factory that put them in bone dry before the paint shop, and afterwards showed them a drop of lubricant is passing, leading to them wearing. Sagging door I have in the past used the car jack to gently bend up to be a better fit, was just sagging because cabrio and heavy doors but not worn pins. Soft body panels have moved with age, moving the hinges along with them.
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  157. Just need to add a fire extinguisher ( dry powder, and if possible a CO2 next to it as well) each side of the garage door, and another by the other entrances. That will at least give you some time if there is a fire, and your insurance rates will require it as well.
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  158. My guess it was there from the assembly on a jig by the loom maker, where it was cut as the sharp ends of the sleeve were put on. Passed the initial testing, and worked on the line, and worked till the vehicle was driven in water, which leaked and was held in by the loom there, and then the wire, combined with the voltage on the sensor, caused it to slowly corrode away. Best trip for doing those kind of joins is to use adhesive lined heat shrink over the solder join, and shrink it down to bond the hot melt adhesive to the wire, making sure to lightly sand the insulation at the area to get clean fresh non damaged plastic insulation, making for the most waterproof join possible to the sleeve and insulation. Liquid electric tape is also good, cover with that, then 3M insulation tape over, tightly wrapped, then again liquid electrical tape over that. Works well on boats to keep stuff in good shape.
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  159. Tip if you want to not drill into the tool boxes is VHB tape, it will pretty much hold better than the paint, and also gives a small amount of compliance in the joints. Will also stick to the wood nicely, just make sure both surfaces are clean, dry and oil and wax free.
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  160.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  And probably found them both about 2 hours after you had finished, and were putting the new ones away as well. That is how I ended up with 4 12 inch adjustable nut rounders, and a new 12 inch Stillson wrench.
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  161. Next add on for the new weld positioner, a nice folded asbestos blanket, so that when Kurtis is using it as a chair his ass is not going numb.
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  162. Taz leaves because he killed the furry beast......
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  163. SAE tooling for that banjo bolt because they are still an imperial thread, and you will never be able to change that, as it is a 1/4 inch pipe fitting. Just remember your caliper bolts, brake fitting threads and all hydraulic fittings are a metric equivalent fitting, because the old stuff was changed to nearest size. 2.5 and 4mm hex keys, very common in industrial machinery, though I will tell you that, if they do get seized fast, the easiest way to get them out is to have a few of those ultra cheap 30 piece 1/4in hex driver sets, and look for the Torx bit that will just not fit in, and tap it into the damaged hex head, so you can turn it out. Will get it out, and if you do not have a replacement capscrew, you can put it back in again with it, and wriggle it with a pair of pliers to get the bit out, making it into a Torx head. Done that very often, because you might need that machine to run right there and then, and driving to get a new one, adding an extra hour of breakdown time, is often not an option. Make a note to keep that size as spare parts, for the next visit. I go through a lot of those size, M4 and M5, as they are a common thread, and you find often the stainless steel will gall fast to the aluminium parts if you do not use a thread sealer on them, especially if they get hot. I also have the thread repair kits for those sizes in various lengths, and the extractors for the broken screws, though you really burn through cobalt drill bits doing that, especially for the 8.8 high strength variant, and the left hand thread version drill bits are stupid expensive, even in plain HSS. Ridgid do make a really nice extractor set, but sadly the lifetime warranty does not apply by me, so I have had to buy some replacement sets along the way, because I always break the smaller sizes.
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