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This is great work.
It’s usually the trigger that breaks on the originals.
On the weight saving - that’s an easy way to get half a kilo. Plenty of owners believe in the Church of the Lightweight (impactbumpers reference).
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Am sure there are buyers for this part if you wanted to do more - either on Pelican or impactbumpers.
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I also don’t rate Hermes. Read their T&Cs - if they’re unable to deliver on second attempt they just return to sender, i.e. no local facility to collect from.
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I think you can just use Reader View on your iPad or iPhone?
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Mar 12, 2018 21:40:01 GMT
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I had one and I sold it cos it was so unreliable. You have to have the pump just at the right angle and make sure it's all, primed. Plenty of support on boat forums . Sold mine for £150 not working. Intrigued to read this, as diesel to air ones are normally very reliable and certainly the install manuals for Webasto and Eberspacher are detailed.
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Mar 12, 2018 21:02:35 GMT
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Spraying it on - loads of kit suppliers for two part products. A lot of trouble and expense for occasional nights out though, and it will never generate any heat.
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Insulating a van well is harder to do than it seems. To avoid promoting corrosion you have to avoid air spaces between the insulation and the back of the panel - otherwise condensation may form and be potentially trapped. People do seem happy to use Rockwool etc. but I found the moisture rotted through a pair of rear doors in no time.
Using expanding foam to create a solid panel / insulation structure is one of the best methods - so long as it’s thick enough to fox the dew point (at least 75 / 100mm). The cavities may not have enough depth to do that.
Honestly, I’d just fit a cheap night heater and forget about insulation for occasional use. Easy to swap one into subsequent vehicles, as much heat as you want, one fuel source (the vehicle's tank).
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Jan 22, 2018 18:08:23 GMT
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Nice work Mike.
Just curious, might there be better insulation methods do you think? I used Rockwool once and the outer panels rotted out within five years. Am guessing due to restriction of airflow / dew point / condensation etc.
Think I’d spray foam if repeating the excercise.
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Jan 10, 2018 14:17:31 GMT
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I prefer a face mask. Easier as a glasses wearer, and less possibility of a stray spark / piece of shrapnel making it’s way around to your eyes.
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Have another look - code 01.
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Nov 25, 2017 21:23:37 GMT
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There already is!
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Nov 15, 2017 16:02:25 GMT
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There's a list of legitimate exemptions (that one on radius from base was increased to a hundred kilometres recently). You'd fully understand what they all are when going through your transport and operator management compliance. The original question was in the context of the obligations to do everything legally as a business - you get out of much of that as a private individual. Yes, exactly, the original question was about operating as a business, and that exemption applies to business use, making that what you said, and I quote: incorrect. Thanks - I was confusing recovery / specialized / breakdown specific vehicles with transport related operations (i.e. not involving one of those vehicle types in their own context). The DVSA's own guidance does say that... "...The rules on EU Drivers’ Hours and tachographs exist to govern the driving hours and rest periods of drivers who drive commercial goods vehicles, which can include some recovery vehicles."It then seems just to focus on the exemptions that apply widely!
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It's more complicated and costly than you might think. Tacho:If the towing vehicle has a max gross more than 3500kgs, or you use a vehicle and trailer combination with a max train weight over 3500kgs in connection with carriage of goods or burden you must have and use a tachograph. This part only applies if you are travelling more than 50 miles (or maybe its 35 miles) from your base. There's a list of legitimate exemptions (that one on radius from base was increased to a hundred kilometres recently). You'd fully understand what they all are when going through your transport and operator management compliance. The original question was in the context of the obligations to do everything legally as a business - you get out of much of that as a private individual. Key thing is if the car's not yours the probabilty is the carriage would not be regarded as private or without reward.
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how much does it cost to get the license and cpc tacho It's more complicated and costly than you might think. From a standing start a new O licence application would take at least six months (probably over a year) and around £3,000 plus just under £8,000 in reserve for the first vehicle. There's no guarantee either that an application will be successful - you could jump through all the hoops and still find it refused if some aspect falls short. Actually there are three different types of O licence, two for Hire and Reward (domestic and international) plus one for moving your own stuff around (Own Account). Separate out the two for a moment: "O licence" and "tachograph". O licence:There are some exemptions from Operator licensing for vehicles used only exclusively for recovery, but some will still be required to have it. The flow chart on page ten explains it: www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/210144/guide-for-recovery-operations.pdfTacho:If the towing vehicle has a max gross more than 3500kgs, or you use a vehicle and trailer combination with a max train weight over 3500kgs in connection with carriage of goods or burden you must have and use a tachograph. It's not VOSA any more by the way (even though their own guidance advice still says that!). VOSA and DSA merged to become DVSA. At that time both lost a lot of their central government funding. Perhaps not surprisingly that was about the same time that DVSA increased their minimum fine for minor infringements to £85 and - according to some opinion - have become far more aggressive in their enforcement of regulations. They have stated themselves that they are now actively targeting a wider variety of vehicles, including vans and vans with trailers. I think this is partly because large hauliers can't be anything but fully compliant these days, and also because technology makes it so much easier to detect offences and infringements. Any police or DVSA traffic officer will sniff out a driver flouting the rules in two minutes. It's their job, they're good at it. In short - do your homework.
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Oct 19, 2017 18:35:46 GMT
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You're not trying nearly hard enough with this so far. I did all of these over about a ten year period. I got it up to another fifty thousand or so on top of this: The guy I sold it to has added over another six hundred thousand. Spoke with him last week, it currently reads just under 500,000. In other words it's around the clock and coming up to one and a half million.
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You might find demand for those window latches if you're able to reproduce them.
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Sept 28, 2017 5:52:50 GMT
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That is so much better than the usual engine block design.
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Back in the early 90s Performance Bikes did a feature asking the same question. Think they big bored a GSXR750 and Ohlins-ed another. Think they concluded handling to be preferable on that occasion.
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Aug 19, 2017 21:24:54 GMT
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Love this, especially the Strosek bumper!
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I'll guess Morse code sender, from the third quarter of the eighteenth century?
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