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Dec 22, 2023 17:05:31 GMT
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Now thinking maybe using the 5 basic colours and using permanent markers to add the trace.....? Using the basic colours is a reasonable (and cheaper) compromise, I wouldn't bother with permanent markers (they are not as permanent as you think) I would use this type of number marker not expensive and available for different wire diameters e.g. LINKYI'd second the few basic colours and these numbers, I've used a few different types at work and these have been the most likely to still be legible after years. Labels under clear heat shrink are second choice but only really work on thick cables. I deal with all the same colour and poor/no numbering at work, this bearable if you have drawings. At home however I continue my colour blind dads habit of using whatever colour is at hand from my recycled car looms. Both these have contributed to my hair loss and make me question my life choices. Just on Wednesday there a colleague ask where my radio was as I was talking away to no-one, I had to confess I was just explaining the wiring to myself as I wired an "all the wires are black and un-labelled" system up. Single colour systems cause madness.
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Sept 24, 2023 16:03:21 GMT
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Bodywork, especially welding and filler. I hate doing it, but its quite satisfying once its done and you look back and think "oh that wasn't so bad" Yeah... I've never had the last bit, my skills result in me looking back and thinking "god that looks awful"
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Aug 30, 2023 11:54:18 GMT
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Sounds like another great adventure grizz, thanks for sharing! The distances involved in a "road trip" are just mad, a 30 mile journey is considered "a long way" by my friends and family!
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Aug 25, 2023 17:07:22 GMT
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Page numbering on the forum and in threads is a bit funny on my Amazon fire hd10 tablet with Chrome. Overall the look is an improvement though, nice job.
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Aug 13, 2023 12:27:33 GMT
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That is beautiful and fascinating because of its history, Sorry but, if at all possible, it deserves to be restored or at least have its current issues remedied, Nigel We certainly don't want it falling down but it'll be a challenge to maintain. All the sheds are built on top of each other with every building sharing a wall of the neighbour. This building must have been the first built, the walls are a lower quality to the next oldest building which is much more straight and neatly put together. I think it's only survived as it shares too many roof and walls with the neighbouring sheds! This is the view looking in from the "barn door" end, the floor is in two levels making the far end gable wall very tall. The tarp collects drips from the leaky roof, this joining section is slate roof, I attempted to repair it last year but the timber boards are rotten so I wasn't able to properly re-attach anything. There was also a wasp bike up which made the job a bit spicy, this year the wasp have moved into the house... The lower area has the first clues to the water wheel: This hole and frame work alluded to something being different with this building. The concrete blocks were likely for something completely different, the property has had many owners and apparently many uses over the years. The 60's/70's electrical installation with industrial fused switches names this shed as the "Turnip store". apologies for the picture quality, my camera skills and camera are terrible... The floor in the lower section is a very smooth concrete, made in different sections, some of them at slightly different heights to each other. We've had bee's nesting in the holes in the floor the past couple of years. There was only ever 2 or 3 bees though. They would come out the hole and fly in a spiral up to the roof before climbing out the gaps in the tin. When they returned they'd do the same spiral down to the floor and then wander about the floor until they found their hole. They didn't appear this year but instead another couple of bees have moved in to the next door shed and do the same. This is the view looking back out the to the "barn doors" end. Through the regular door you can see the stairs up the the grain loft. This loft space was probably a later addition as the stairs blocks what would have been a tie up point in what was probably a milking parlour. The shared wall connecting to the other sheds has two small square windows, one of which is behind the Thresher. The other is bricked up but would go into the next long building. This bricked up hole looks more like a purposeful hole rather than a window. I've seen cattle sheds with a small door like this to throw muck through onto a midden, maybe this had a purpose during the mill phase. One really odd features of the tall gable wall is this curved joining/bracing section in the corner, it looks like it's straight out of a castle! It also looks like it isn't really connected to the gable end wall very well. The opposite corner has had a door added at some point that allowed access to the next shed, this was done during a time that concrete was the height of fashion but before the farm went full dairy mode as the other side of this door was blocked by concrete cattle feeders. Old hake move out the way: Door latch is operable from both sides. A wooden door latch The now blocked side of the door Rudimentary hinges and a rotten frame. All of the human sized doors with existing frames have redundant hinge rings like these
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Aug 11, 2023 20:55:42 GMT
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later... Here's the view in thought the little church window: we've got a built in Threshing mill, complete with grain elevator up to the loft. I'm assuming the wee church window was used to run the drive belts outside to the power source. all the belts are present but mostly perished and shrunk. All the wheels still turn by hand though. As far as I can tell the mill wheel and the Threshing mill existed in different time periods and arn't actually linked. The Thresher may have been added quite late as we have an aerial photo from 1967 where the roof section that the elevator and conveyer run through to the loft next door is missing. Bonus points if you can identify the cars in the photo. The mill/hay shed is the top most shed (the one in the same orientation as the house) and the grain loft is the shed with the double doors and the black car in font of it. in this photo from 1973 the roof is now joined. Also what's the lorry, I can't tell if it's a float or a van? As a side note the current tin roof had newspaper draft proofing/packing added, those papers were from 1975. There is also a huge amount of broken pieces of everyone's favourite fire proof fibre board so I'm assuming the shed had a roof made of that at some point also.
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Aug 11, 2023 20:18:17 GMT
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Spent today clearing out what we use as our hay shed. I've wanted to get some pictures of it before it properly crumbles away so today was a good time while it wasn't packed with bales. I know so of you love a good historic retro building so here's a few pic's: This is the back of the building, if you think the gable end looks a bit wonky, that's because it is. Along this wall there is a buried culvert that would have been the outlet of a mill wheel that would originally have been in the fenced off area. The hole is at least 5ft deep This hole was filled with a lot of rubble but at the bottom there is a smooth curved base. At some point it was filled in, the narrow hole have been made by placing stones into the original lade and capping with big flag stones. I dug out the mill wheel last year but have partially filled it in as the wall is bulging out in a number of places. I found that the building has been built in the traditional North East Scotland method of not having any foundations. This section of wall only goes so deep as it keeps the water from the lade and culvert out. After the hole for the wheel the wall is just build on the soil. Upstream from the wheel, this section is really starting to bulge out, I stacked up a pile of bricks from the gable end here, also dug out and tried to underpin the wall. These bricks came from the previously bricked up barn doors that was on the "new" gable end that replaced the previously previously knocked down original gable end. I first took the bricks off the top of the door lintel and replaces that section of roof with a timber frame and aluminium panels wombled from an old Rice horse box. Plans are afoot to fit a new lintel and doors. What's the timber thing, and also that small hole in the brick wall? I'll have to update the thread later...
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Jul 12, 2023 21:30:18 GMT
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I've not been involved with smaller boats for years but back then it was a bit like trying to shift an abandoned car without the owners permission. The harbour had to get legal permission to shift it if owner was not found. It was easier to let them sink and then it could be removed as it was a hazard to other boats. Bindura was my dad's last boat, retro qualifier - she was built in the 70's, we had some great adventures in it, lots of "don't tell your mum this has happened" near catastrophes and silly happenings. spot the retros on the quey side, ours was a Rover 214 (not sure if that is the right number)
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Jul 11, 2023 11:53:10 GMT
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I reckon you get a call in a week or so!
The wife's granddad had a v6 saloon from new, think he racked up 34,000miles in the decade and a bit he owned it. It got all the services in the book though he would stress for weeks before hand over the cost of services vs use it got. It always got the work done in the end. It had a coolant leak that he also stressed over for months. Comfy to sit in but the interior was this cream/yellow that looked like margarine, plus it just looked like it had been styled by a group of Victorian men.
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I wonder if the shelves were inspired by the same Readers Digest book of DIY projects that my dad used to construct a very similar built-in unit in me and my brothers bedroom back in the day. It was over-engineered in much the same way but he used laminated chipboard instead of ply. We used to spider man up the shelves to reach the top ones.
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Jun 22, 2023 19:14:21 GMT
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From my experience with Mitsubishi's I'd highly doubt there would be wiring installed just waiting for the sensors. More likely the sensors would come with their own wiring to connect to existing bulkhead connectors and extra sections of wiring to connect between those and fuse and relay boxes, also the control units probably arn't fitted. With enough googling you should be able to find Mitsubishi technical manuals online but they arn't easy reads. This was me trying to fix some dodgy wiring on my (sorry it's as retro as I can go here) 2003 3.5 litre petrol Shogun.
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Apr 21, 2023 13:51:20 GMT
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Thanks for yet more useful insights!
I have an old old house which has received some of these concrete "fixes". Would modern harling do similar to the outside of a stone/lime mortar wall?
I have a room with a concrete poured floor and an exposed wall section where the original harth was. The wall appears to sweat there, making the mortar crumbly. Other parts of the house are floor boards with vented voids but there are damp patches on the plaster walls in them as well.
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You guys should try the oil industry one of the first rules as an engineer's assistant was "Always check the units" as different departments used metric or imperial. Even the metric Europeans used inches for drill pipe sizing.
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Mar 26, 2023 19:24:37 GMT
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The Final Decision Time for an update, I've not done much work on my Landy as I've been busy with just about everything else. I've done a good bit of thinking though and come to the conclusion that I'm going to sell my Series 3. Not today like, but some time in the future. There are a few reasons I've come to this conclusion, one being when I took it off the road in December 2021 I said to myself "but I like working on it more than driving it so this is ok" then I only worked on it a few times in 2022. ...And I only did that because the engine was getting in the way all the time so it was easier to put it back in that store anywhere else. Here's the current state: Another reason for selling came where I cleaned up my "parts shed" and realised that I have most of another Landy in there. I also have another slightly more whole Series 2 else where so I'm not short of projects to ignore. Only the most hopelessly optimistic people can spot a Land Rover in this picture... The plan for the Series 3 is to put as much of it back to standard as possible as over the years I've added my own weird and wonderful touches which I don't thing add anything that any sensible person would like. For starters there is the wiring, this is just a small part of my additions, there are 3 relays for the electric fan, 1 switched by the temperature controller at the radiator, one to switch it on manually and another one which I cant remember the purpose for (hence the removal of all this stuff). Also in this mess is the relay for the O2 sensor, relocated starter solenoid and an extra fuse box, including a fuse for the inverter in the rear. Being an absolute wally I found that I had wired the noisy electric fan in without any plugs or sockets so the whole fan and wiring loom had to come out at the same time. As I'm mad hoarder I have all the original parts to put back in so I'm not going to have to buy anything, just find it in the stash. I definitely have the 4 garden trowels mechanical fan somewhere. Next up on the list was to take out this rear seat. I made up the a frame to hold a standard Land Rover unsecured cushion and fold-down back rest but I've never been happy with the seat belt arrangement so it's never been used in anger. It was made in time for the last trial I did where the Landy clutch broke and I used the L200 instead so it missed it's one chance! Kinda annoyed that I've drilled 6 holes in the floor for nothing now but happy to remove this. After that I'm going to remove this electric fuel pump and it's wiring and replace with a refurbished mechanical pump, it was only installed as the mechanical one was leaking and I had this to hand. The original battery tray will also be welded back in so I can fit the original air cleaner mount. Restoring it back to standard has given me some motivation to work on the thing again as I was kinda stuck with what I wanted to do with it. On one hand I wanted a tidy car with a decent radio (I have added wiring for more speakers and a sub woofer) and the other I wanted an off-road toy but with carpets and a decent heater. I also wanted a "farm truck" but have now realised that the modern L200 is actually the spiritual successor to the Series Land Rover, it shares so many of the bad point of a Land Rover it's uncanny! The paint is pretty scabby these days so eventually I'll get on to that too. I'll probably still own the thing this time next year but I have a goal that I am working towards now so feels better than just having a large lump sitting in the shed gathering dust.
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Feb 26, 2023 21:48:08 GMT
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Jesus, Marketplace is suck a bag of dicks. Search for "car" less than £750 and I can getting wedding hire cars, "£750 deposit on a new car", private plates, furniture, lawnmowers, and a bunch of people who advertise their car for "£1" or "£123" because they are too stupid to know what its worth.... Market place is the worst. I find the filters and algorithms really annoying, it returns different things for the same search based on mobile or desktop. I did find this though while just entering "car", I'm not a vw guy but like the look of this beasty:
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Feb 21, 2023 15:10:50 GMT
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Yes, it is and probably the main reason I brought it, looks just different enough. Never mind the 4 litre noisey sports car engine. It's got three windscreen wipers! Looks very nice, good find!
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Feb 21, 2023 12:56:54 GMT
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So I brought this It's a V8 and has been restored/rebuilt, but came with a dead boiled engine. Excuse me for the nerd moment, but is that a single piece windscreen conversion with 3 wip wipes? *pushed glasses up nose* Oooft
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Feb 10, 2023 17:36:01 GMT
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It's always the component with them most legs/ most fragile/ prone to heat damage that you solder in the wrong way...
Nice work though!
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Awesome work! I used to run Ruston turbines back when I worked offshore. Those things were a nightmare to start, it took two people on the controls (all 1960's technology), one at the front of the panel to push the buttons and one in the back to pull out wires and put links in to keep gas on longer and hold certain valves open/closed. You would sync your watch to the moment the "start" button was pressed so that you could fault find on the scabby logic diagram and listen to the breakers switching to know when the starter motor had disengaged and the Ac lube oil pump had come on. Getting the 4 "burners lit" indicators and 8 thermocouples within temperature tolerance on a first attempt was a rare moment of joy!
While you were crawling over the controls the whole control room would be filling with the noise of the turbine winding up and if the curse word started you got the rumble and vibration of the crude oil pump that it turned driving oil down the pipeline.
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Jan 31, 2023 16:11:21 GMT
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weird air cleaner, is the engine out of a sherpa van or something ? It's a Ford air filter, off some super crusty 3 box Ford, I wanted to lose the standard hose and elbow as I'd read somewhere that those were one of the limiting factors on air flow. And I'd chopped off the mount for the standard filter back when I did the engine swap so was easier to slap that on. I have the screen wash bottle from the same Ford fitted, that probably does as much for performance as the air filter!
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