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The Bearded Explorerslater
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Nov 22, 2022 18:43:36 GMT
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He's not an urbexer he's a youtuber.
Sadly many youtubers have latched onto the exploring idea as a way of making some cash from YouTube subs etc. Unfortunately most are not capable.of finding or accessing anything of any interest and have to resort to old houses and rusty old cars.
I've been exploring (properly) 20years and can assure you no real urban explorers go around breaking into peoples residences and have little to no interest in photographing old cars unless it's in a historically significant car factory such as longbridge.
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Hobby blaster gunsslater
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I think its fairly factual that unless your time is worthless it's better to pay someone than struggle along with the wrong equipment for the job. It's not exactly a pleasurable job is it?? Problem is most people don't have the experience to relise just how slow and inappropriate for the job their little compressor and suction cabinet usually is.
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Identify this toolslater
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Nov 19, 2022 16:20:46 GMT
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It's a setting gauge for something or other made by marconi.
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Nov 19, 2022 16:17:25 GMT
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It does depend a bit how deep the curbing is but fron the photo I reckon that will clean up. With painted wheels you can always use a bit of filler to fill the low spots.
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Hobby blaster gunsslater
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I'm not quite sure why they even make them as they are completely useless.
Big rules of blasting is, Unless you have professional equipment them pay someone who does!
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R-Tech 180 gas flow settingsslater
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It depends what kind of joint you're welding. An open corner will need more than an internal corner.
In reality if its important use more. If it's less important don't waste so much.
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In what situation? Usually on a shell you have to use an encapsulator like hydrate 80 as you just cant remove rust chemically without it being immersed for a length of time. There are gelled phosphoric products that can work in some situations but needs alot of applications and agitation and personally I wouldn't reccomend.
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Pull the worst out then filler it?
I think if I wanted a minter I'd cut it out and replace the section as its virtually impossible to shrink the stretch out but if I just wanted it to look respectable I'd just filler it.
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i have one of the £12.77 type, but its just 4 holes in a bit of brass tube, the sealy one is a slit around a tube. I don't know if it makes much difference, but i don't get how the sealy one is so expensive compared. I did wonder about 3d pringing a nozzle for my one. Well I don't get what you're after then because that's the tool for the job. Fill it with wax. Stick it in the hole then slowly pull it out while holding the trigger. Slight rotation back and forth doesnt hurt either. Better off investing on a proper cavity wax like dinitrol than fancy guns.
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Schultz/ underseal gun off ebay should be no more than 20quid. Make sure it's one that comes with an injection hose. Make sure the wax is nice and warm and liquid and they work fine.
Yeh, just looked cheapest one is £12.77
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I'm relly surprised any hobbyist can make the BOC rental system work economically. Think if I had all my bottles off them I'd have a £500 a year bill to pay before I'd actually bought any gas! We found even the acetylene was uneconomical from them nowerdays. Barcoded bottles killed thier viability.
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First thing I'd do is see which supplier is local. I use SGS which you get through motor factors such as motor parts direct. They are cheap no frills but its probably best to go through whoever is closest as it's a pain in the to have to drive distance to get a refill. I belive some do deliver (Adam's gas maybe) but it comes at a cost. Ive also used Hobbyweld in the passed but find they are more expensive. Cost depends what sized bottle you want. Bigger bottles mean cheaper gas but the deposit is higher. Personally I have the biggest they do. But if space and money is tight you might want smaller. You can always upgrade next time. If you're used to disposable bottles even a 10L bottle will seem to last a lifetime tho. Some bottles come with integral regulators. Avoid if I were you. The deposit is much higher and you run the risk of the reg going wrong and wasting a bottle full of gas. Regulators are very cheap on ebay etc. Make sure you keep all receipts and paperwork you get as you will need them when you come to trade the bottle back in. Only problem I have had is trying to trade a bottle back in after moving to the other side of the country. Ended up having to go back to the original supplier which was a bit annoying. As for which gas, you want argon mixed with 5% CO2 for MIG welding
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Oct 24, 2022 13:39:59 GMT
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Www.Howmanyleft.co.ukYou will have to add up all the verious different models the robin would have been sold/registered under. (Then take it all with a pinch of salt.) At a glance quite a lot tho.
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If you brim it then the pipe will be full?? Not sure I get the question!
Does the pipe fit to the top of the tank or the side?
If it's the size you will have to drain the tank to fit a new one obviously. Top you might get away with it.
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This is pretty much exactly what our current 'energy from waste' incinerators do. You burn waste which is mainly plastics with the addition of natural gas in a properly designed furnace with proper flue gas scrubbers etc and you run a power plant off the residual heat. It's a win win situation really. You get rid of waste and get power from it. All the nasty organics are destroyed the only real issue is the ash which will contain heavy metals etc but even that could be recycled if there was an economic incentive. While we still burn gas for fuel the co2 side of it isnt an issue. If we got our act together all plastic waste including tyres would be delt with in this way. Might even get to the stage where tyres are worth money for their energy content. Think of a world where plastics have a scrap value like metals do. Would go a long way to solve the plastic pollution problem.
It's also possible to pyrolise plastics which is basically the same only you heat them in the absence of oxygen. All the volatile compounds boil off and can be collected and used for fuel both liquid and gas. Same theory as old coke gas works. It's not as good an idea imo as the resulting fuel is pretty toxic. Probably not somthing you want going into public use but it still goes on in eastern europe and countries with less regulation. Pretty sure that's where alot of our used tyres end up.
People use tyres as an argument against car ownership but like usual they ignore all the convenient engineering solutions to their problems!
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Turbo vacuum solenoid hoseslater
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Vaccume tubing. Samco and the like do silicone stuff but I'm pretty sure you will find it on ebay and the like under that. Usually 3.5mm I think.
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I remember a prototype power station which was fueled by burning tyres a few years ago, never heard anything more about it. I guess the environmental concerns put paid to it, but I'd have thought with the correct filtration it would have been fine. Also remember the row about heating a swimming pool with heat provided by the local crematorium, the NIMBYs soon put paid to that one....🙄 Years ago an engineer explained to me that when they burn tyres release sizable amounts of PCBs, which are extremely carcinogenic (and also a "forever chemical"). He went on to say that the preferred way to dispose of tyres was as fuel for the kilns involved in cement production – apparently at those temperatures the PCBs end up binding to the clinker. Maybe there are other methods now, but I wonder if just filtration of the flue gases might have been deemed to be extremely difficult/expensive and/or unreliable/unsafe? PCB are a persistent organic pollutant but are very simple to dispose of with proper high temperature incineration. Were talking 1000c furnaces rather then chucking them on your bonfire tho.
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Aye but once you cut them up they fit in the wheelie bin. Thank you for making your problem our problem. 🙄 Same for the idiots who burn tyres. You clearly know nothing about waste disposal. It all ends up in the energy from waste incinerator which is exactly where old tyres need to be. That or being pyrolised for fuel.
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Bear in mind that you typically have to pay to get rid of tyres these days, which spoils the cost benefit equation.... Nick Aye but once you cut them up they fit in the wheelie bin.
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Living the Dream slater
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Oct 17, 2022 13:06:53 GMT
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Anymore updates? Loving this thread! Will try and get another one in before the end of the year. Not been a massive amount of progress but done a few bits and now trying to tidy up so I can crack on with sorting downstairs with is basically a dumping ground atm. As always too many projects too little time.
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