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Jan 18, 2018 22:07:38 GMT
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Nothing wrong with welding in a wooden garage, I do it myself. I reckon you are more likely to set fire to the things in it than the garage itself. By the way did I mention I chopped my finger off with a simple trailer winch cable? 38 years of messing about with cars and working in a engineering workshop, following all the H and S rules as you do. Then only to lose a digit in seemingly a simple moment at home where a situation conspired to catch me out unawares. It happens!! You're right about setting fire to other things - the only accident I had so far was a car cover going up from a spark. It's a big old barn with loads of cracks and around here they're paranoid about it goin up from a hidden spark. I always wait one hour after welding as there's a house attached with tenants - look... safety! I've got a wife, four kids.. I'm interested in self preservation. I run my grinder at low speeds, no guard - don't do it kids!
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Jan 18, 2018 19:51:11 GMT
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Do what your comfortable with at the end of the day. Hopefully what ever you curse word up kills you so your not wasting NHS money tho.. Straight to the black ambulance please. Is that you Jeremy Hunt? This thread is really starting to grind.. better put some ( beer) goggles on
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Jan 18, 2018 19:30:59 GMT
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@grumpynorthener prophesized from the mountain Have a nice glass of Dinitrol luv and put yer feet up.
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Jan 18, 2018 14:51:55 GMT
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As for anyone willing to run a disc of any type / size / rating on a machine without a guard - one word 'IDIOT' None of my grinders have got guards. I didn't remove them, just never had them. I use Würth Master grinders which I can only buy second hand as they're trade only. Würth wouldn't sell me the guards - ten years of cutting and grinding later , no mishaps or accidents and now I never think about it. Also, you get a better 'line of sight' without a guard I started using the Würth grinders for their hand release and speed adjustment - this is more important for safety. A regular grinder runs way too fast for fine work often in restricted places. I had more mishaps beforehand with normal grinders running too fast and 'bouncing'. A while back this bloke gave me a long 'health and safety' rant about my methods - welding in a wooden barn particularly got his knickers twisted . Last year he fell off a ladder while changing a light bulb. He landed on his head and bled to death before anyone found him. No, I didn't push him but maybe he should have been wearing a helmet 24hrs a day? I'm off to weld in a wooden barn..
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Jan 17, 2018 21:25:23 GMT
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Nice surprise. Never seen it. Looks fantastic.
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Jan 17, 2018 21:13:20 GMT
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What is a German doing flying a Spitfire? The best model too. Next time you're in the Bodensee area drop us a line.
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Jan 17, 2018 19:02:10 GMT
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If they smell alright and still taste good?
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Jan 17, 2018 11:47:17 GMT
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This gets more Wild Geese by the minute. Time for a regime change.
I didn't touch da rabbit! Those ladies only had eyes for the blokes who operated the water ski-tow or the 'pirates' of Treasure Island though they were all sweetness when they wanted a free Cornetto.
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Jan 17, 2018 11:04:54 GMT
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daslandroverman suggested I was trying to maintain radio silence but I have some irrelevant info : In the 1980s, while still at school, I worked two summers at Thorpe Park on catering mobiles - ice-cream vans and bikes and kiosks. My moment came when I was chosen to dress up as a gorilla for an Um-Bongo promotion. I rode out with the Thorpe Park rabbit and her beautiful assistants for the day in their golf-cart. Neither the rabbit nor I could see behind us in the suits hence the assistants. A great sweaty day ( in that suit) with the lovely young ladies of which there were a few working at Thorpe Park. No, I didn't get to keep the suit. I've said too much.. now I'm going to have to kill you. greencarfritz you've got a great scene going on there. Those tyres have got a bit of tread on them eh?
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Jan 16, 2018 21:19:21 GMT
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Hey alter? Looks like the Wild Geese. Let's form a convoy of all your Alters and go and bring 'democracy' to a sub-Saharan state.
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Jan 16, 2018 13:08:09 GMT
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Hey alter ( alter means older in German but used as a greeting between teenagers around here), that's some Action Man antics going on there and now you've got a whole convoy to take down to The Cape. Can't you airbrush that Multivan out of the post though? That's what the middle-class mumsies drive their kids to kindergarten with! Don't want to think you're a weekend warrior so maybe a camouflage vest too?
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Jan 16, 2018 10:53:00 GMT
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greencarfritz said Don't you mean 'The Cape' and back? Cmon man, gotta set your sights on something a bit further out now you've got it all rigged up for adventure.
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Jan 16, 2018 10:39:03 GMT
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Just to prove there is still stuff going on behind the scenes. Though with jobs, apprenticeships and uni, finding the time is proving difficult. Students are meant to have vices. And you've got proper ones.
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Jan 15, 2018 18:58:36 GMT
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The father of a girlfriend had a little side earner in the '80s exporting these to Japan. These have got the folding picnic tables in the back?
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Jan 15, 2018 16:19:55 GMT
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The interior is like a another world compared to the outside. That bonnet looks like rice paper. Try these people if you don't know them already? They might have some clues? Dutch Celeste Club
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Jan 15, 2018 14:03:59 GMT
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Your Superminx looks great. Really like the stance and banded steels . I had a 1962 Superminx convertible when I was nineteen. I was a student and just in too deep with this one. Leaking roof and rust - I had no garage or expertise in those days. Parked outside the old Bendy Toys factory between Ashford Surrey and Shepperton Sept 1989. Now demolished Outside the Three Horseshoes, Shepperton.
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Jan 15, 2018 11:46:04 GMT
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yes! great thread idea!! I have played bass sinse i was 11, and have owned the same one all that time :-) (17 years) I have a 1979 Fender Precision Bass. One of my most prized possessions :-) needs a bit of a regeneration now tho, have used it well over the years! That must be a American one? That was before they had production in Japan ( 1980?) It must have been quite a stretch playing that when you started? Sounds like a nice piece. Do you have a picture? young offender said I've never played 'traditional' punk - sounds funny but you know what I mean? The late 70s/early 80s two chord stuff. I can appreciate it and enjoy it live. Death metal I find enjoyable live, especially that it's the opposite of what it appears to be - often very amusing and light-hearted despite the heaviness. I heard this on the radio yesterday while I was doing some DIY. Really enjoyed it. I would call it punk? But it's got a bit of The Specials Two-Tone shuffle/ska sound.
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Jan 14, 2018 17:00:10 GMT
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That is a fine building you've made - should be a horse drawn coach parked in there. I hope you're not doing all that work just for that newish VW thing pictured above!
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Jan 14, 2018 10:59:24 GMT
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That bra was looking like a gimp mask! They do have their uses in certain countries. The lovebugs in southern USA, along the Gulf Coast really stuff up car paint. I did a 5000 mile road trip from Mexico to New York in 1990 in a new Mexican Beetle and the front got coated from the collected bug life each day through the south. That was our daily duty cleaning that. They also corrode the paint. We quickly saw what a bra was for. Merc looks spot on.
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young offender wrote Thanks. Yes, I'm content. I struggled to 'make it' as a musician for years and can relate to not being able to afford strings. In the early 90s we used to boil our strings to give them a new lease of life or take a whip round in the practice room to buy one string for whoever had broken one! Go round to Frank's on Coldharbour Lane and buy one string. What sort of music are you playing? I saw the Ramones poster and the style of the guitars suggests - rock/punk?
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