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I actually have a toolbox in the kitchen so I don’t have to go out to the barn or one of the garages/outbuildings to get tools when inevitably someone starts a sentence with ‘Oh can you just.....’
Of course that usually means that the particular tool I need is not actually in that box 🙄
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swampy76
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My drawing paper , sketching out some tattoo designs for when all of this is over !
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v8ian
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Apr 17, 2020 11:37:43 GMT
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I have just been chased off the living room Table, I have had the Dash from my van stretched out for 2 weeks now, while I sort out the wiring and other things, Pics May follow....
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style.
Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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MiataMark
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Apr 17, 2020 13:55:27 GMT
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Finally decided to face my non-automotive nemesis of a few years ago - The JBE-Mk3 record player! Was given this in exchange for fixing a computer and it needed the tone-arm rewiring - A tricky job considering the width and strength of the wires involved and it was a lot more difficult than I thought. Inside the tone-arm was balsa wood which was a challenge to remove but I persisted - Bought a new cartridge and needle, plugged it into the amplifier it came with and nearly blew the speakers out with BUZZZZZZZZZ - curse word. Must of done something wrong with the tone-arm and decided to just forget about this for a while, until now.   Thankfully, the lead between the record player and the amp had shorted, creating the buzz. My wiring was fine! Now just need to replace the power switch on the players control box and it will be running sweet! Amplifier is a LEAK Stereo 30 which had a slight buzz during use - Will see if there is anything I can do about that. Lovely equipment, nice to see a SME MKIII (?) arm I had one to replace a Hadock GH221 (which I recently sold for £130). I do vaguely rememberer that turntable, I had a STD305 turntable replaced with a Pink Triangle PT1 that I still have. That Leak should sound lovely when you get rid of the buzz.
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Apr 17, 2020 18:31:58 GMT
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Brave brave souls... i would have my balls in my pockets if i brought anything car related into the house let alone put something on the table!! Yup, about the only thing I would be left to do after being caught would be to fashion my stretched and battered scrotum into a hat....... |
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Jem45
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Apr 17, 2020 19:32:03 GMT
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Finally decided to face my non-automotive nemesis of a few years ago - The JBE-Mk3 record player! Was given this in exchange for fixing a computer and it needed the tone-arm rewiring - A tricky job considering the width and strength of the wires involved and it was a lot more difficult than I thought. Inside the tone-arm was balsa wood which was a challenge to remove but I persisted - Bought a new cartridge and needle, plugged it into the amplifier it came with and nearly blew the speakers out with BUZZZZZZZZZ - curse word. Must of done something wrong with the tone-arm and decided to just forget about this for a while, until now. Thankfully, the lead between the record player and the amp had shorted, creating the buzz. My wiring was fine! Now just need to replace the power switch on the players control box and it will be running sweet! Amplifier is a LEAK Stereo 30 which had a slight buzz during use - Will see if there is anything I can do about that. Lovely equipment, nice to see a SME MKIII (?) arm I had one to replace a Hadock GH221 (which I recently sold for £130). I do vaguely rememberer that turntable, I had a STD305 turntable replaced with a Pink Triangle PT1 that I still have. That Leak should sound lovely when you get rid of the buzz. I've got a massive record collection but alas, know next to nothing about high end hifi stuff. That is the coolest looking turntable I've ever seen! Edit - just gone a-Googling and found this helpful little vignette: zstereo.co.uk/2014/03/16/jbe-series-3/ |
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^^^ I’m glad to see that you have the most important tool when fixing a landy georgeb , as shown in the first picture 😀 And quite a delicate one too, used for drifting the pins holding the pedal fork out. Brave brave souls... i would have my balls in my pockets if i brought anything car related into the house let alone put something on the table!! In my case, easy peasy. "Here sweentness, have some money. Why don't you and Lheng Lheng go shopping and then a massage later?" This secures Madam out of the way until at least the following morning. "Hello Tania, how was school? I know you won't mention the stuff on the dining table, or you'll go hungry tonight."  "What stuff? What dining table, Daddy George? So, what are you cooking?" "Whatever you want, my clever, silent, darling child!"  Perfect!  P.S. This was also the MO when I used her large pan to do an oil change. |
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While not the kitchen table, tonight's project is this big old beast of a Pioneer reciever, 1973's flagship, the QX-747.  The reason for it to be in bits?  The little volume scope thing had quit. New illumination courtesy of 4 deep green LED's. I put the lid on and the STEREO bulb for the FM burned. Sigh. Phil |
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^^^ I’m glad to see that you have the most important tool when fixing a landy georgeb , as shown in the first picture 😀 Pretty sure it's the fifth picture that shows the most important tool. No, not the mug, the pink one.  |
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^^^ I’m glad to see that you have the most important tool when fixing a landy georgeb , as shown in the first picture 😀 Pretty sure it's the fifth picture that shows the most important tool. No, not the mug, the pink one. Shhh, we'll have sweetpea coming down with the vapours again! |
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Pretty sure it's the fifth picture that shows the most important tool. No, not the mug, the pink one. Shhh, we'll have sweetpea coming down with the vapours again! I thought you meant the Marlboro Then I thought ‘hang on, Marlboro aren’t pink!’ If I was rebuilding a p38 air block I’d need something stronger than that, I do have the kit to do mine, but fortunately * the engine blew up first😬 |
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I thought you meant the Marlboro Then I thought ‘hang on, Marlboro aren’t pink!’ If I was rebuilding a p38 air block I’d need something stronger than that, I do have the kit to do mine, but fortunately * the engine blew up first😬 It's one of those jobs where, if you are in the mood, the stars are aligned and the beer is cold, is very satisfying. If not, it's 16 floors off the balcony! |
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samta22
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Stuck in once more...
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Apr 21, 2020 13:37:18 GMT
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Err, what doesn't fit / hasn't been built on the dining room table is probably a more appropriate question in my house at the mo  and in case you are wondering - I have form even before the lockdown, front suspension was done before the NEC show last year  |
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Apr 22, 2020 23:48:22 GMT
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 Got all the lights working in all the indicators, including putting the 2CH and 4CH lights to closer the color they should be (orange-ish). Buttoned up now hopefully for a good long while. Phil |
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Finally decided to face my non-automotive nemesis of a few years ago - The JBE-Mk3 record player! Was given this in exchange for fixing a computer and it needed the tone-arm rewiring - A tricky job considering the width and strength of the wires involved and it was a lot more difficult than I thought. Inside the tone-arm was balsa wood which was a challenge to remove but I persisted - Bought a new cartridge and needle, plugged it into the amplifier it came with and nearly blew the speakers out with BUZZZZZZZZZ - curse word. Must of done something wrong with the tone-arm and decided to just forget about this for a while, until now. Thankfully, the lead between the record player and the amp had shorted, creating the buzz. My wiring was fine! Now just need to replace the power switch on the players control box and it will be running sweet! Amplifier is a LEAK Stereo 30 which had a slight buzz during use - Will see if there is anything I can do about that. Lovely equipment, nice to see a SME MKIII (?) arm I had one to replace a Hadock GH221 (which I recently sold for £130). I do vaguely rememberer that turntable, I had a STD305 turntable replaced with a Pink Triangle PT1 that I still have. That Leak should sound lovely when you get rid of the buzz.
It will almost certainly need the capacitors replacing at that age. |
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1948 Standard12 pickup SOLD
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Apr 23, 2020 12:24:16 GMT
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It will almost certainly need the capacitors replacing at that age. They'll be all leaky. Phil |
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MiataMark
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Apr 23, 2020 13:00:22 GMT
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It will almost certainly need the capacitors replacing at that age. They'll be all leaky. Phil That wasn't me (it was crockpot) your quoting is wrong. I'm using an old NAD 3020 amplifier connected to the PC that I really should do a capacitor change on. |
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Apr 23, 2020 14:38:02 GMT
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By now, the silicon in my seventies stuff is beginning to get either noisy or failing altogether.
It manifests as either a slightly modulated hiss or what I termed "electronic weasels", because it sounds like the whistling warbling noises ferrets and weasels make when they're unsure about what they're sticking their nose into.
Buzzing growl is just filter capacitors with high ESR, only fix is replacement.
Phil
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melle
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It'll come out in the wash.
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Apr 24, 2020 22:24:15 GMT
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I've been working in Spammy spam spam spam, no thank you, man., bathrooms and living rooms as long as I can remember. I simultaneously live in England and Ireland and my workshop is in the Netherlands; been living away from it for well over a decade now and I only have a few weeks of "proper" workshop time per year. I usually bring tools and small parts from my workshop car projects like carbs etc. home to overhaul, or I work on stuff I buy off eBay. I don't shy away from slightly bigger projects either, I've for example restored a (bloody heavy!) Wolf Jahn LL toolmaker's lathe in the kitchen and I've overhauled a few air compressors there as well. I currently have a Ford 2.9 V6 EFI manifold and plenum soaking in bins in the bath. In our Dublin flat we have our bicycles parked in the living room and that's where I fix them as well. Never had any issue with my girlfriend about it.
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melle
South West
It'll come out in the wash.
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Apr 24, 2020 22:49:44 GMT
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Spammy spam spam spam, no thank you, man. Where does this come from?! I certainly didn't write that, I wrote 'k.i.t.c.h.e.n.s'! |
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www.saabv4.com'70 Saab 96 V4 "The Devil's Own V4" '77 Saab 95 V4 van conversion project '88 Saab 900i 8V
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