I took a trip to do two fords on Gascoyne Lane this afternoon. I had been struggling to find these based on my poor local knowledge. This is the first ford that I came to, very pretty with a good gravel bed and perhaps not that deep, maybe 18 inches or so. This YouTube video is of the same ford. Then I drove on to the next bit of the River Frome here, this is less wide, but faster flowing and deeper, particularly near the bridge where it is more then 2 feet deep. I used a handy stick to dip it as it looked deeper than that and I didn’t want to get wet feet today. This ford was good too, similar to the first one, both lacking a depth marker. I set my tripod up to record this crossing too, dashed back to the land rover and drove […]
Today we visited the village of Moreton where there are many things, but for me, there is just one thing of great interest. There is a ford of some reasonable size: Today i guessed it was about running about 450 mm deep at the deepest parts, over the majority of width it was probably about 300 mm deep. I am looking forward to returning in the Land Rover. While browsing www.wetroads.co.uk I came across another ford down near/in Weymouth; Rather than the route I have proposed in google maps, image driving the river, that is apparently possible too.
I went into the garage the other day, flicked the lights on as it was dark out, seconds later there was an electrical crack and the darkness was back. So I ignored the situation by carrying on with the battery power work lights. I gave the issue some thought and decided that since I thought the noise had come from one of the lights at the far end that I would start by unscrewing the individual covers and see what they were looking like inside. I was imagining that I’d find a stray wire, or a spider or something else creating a short circuit. I took two covers off before I found one that had water in it. I cleaned it up and sprayed it with WD40 as that I felt would help with any water ingress. I put it all back together and tried the lights again but with […]
That drill bit I bought (wrote about it here: https://bhhh.co.uk/new-drill-bit/), for a mere £3, well, it wasn’t worth that much. This is the second time I have made this mistake. I shall try not to make this mistake again. Perhaps cutting tools should always be purchased from reputable suppliers and good money will buy something that will function well. This drill bit was simply not sharp right from the get go, it wasn’t even like it went blunt fast, it just didn’t, and doesn’t cut aluminium. Also the solderless glue stuff that I got hasn’t worked to stick the bit onto the rear windscreen. I have resolved to taping it to the window with some of the glue stuff as an electrical contact. I have yet to see if this will work. perhaps it’ll work. Otherwise I am not sure how I will fix this. This was not stuck well, […]
The rear screen heater had failed to function. I wasn’t sure why until I opened the boot lid to find out how the bumper unbolted and spotted that the connector to the heating grid had come away from the heating pattern on the window. So I not really knowing how to re-attach it I bought some electrical glue stuff on ebay. It turned up in the form of some silvery paste in a hypodermic syringe arrangement. Lethal I am sure. Here are the instructions that are on the back of the packet exactly word for misspelled/incorrect word: Usage method:One: Workshop production line, combined with the actual situation, the conductive silver paint can be printed directly on the circuit board, can be used 100-140 °C below the barbecue 30 minutes to complete the curing, suitable for LED lamps and low-temperature paster components circuit board production and development.Two: Repair button/keyboard/circuit board/and personal […]
The temperature in the garage last night was about 3° at 8.45 pm. The copper slip grease was pretty hard and reasonably unpleasant to apply with ones fingers. I’m not really sure why I applied it, I do not serious expect to be taking the bumper off again in the life of the car. But, then again, who knows what the futures holds. Not me clearly. All bolted up, but I had to leave the brackets loose to see how fitted, the holes are slotted and so the bracket can be adjusted left and right to sit the bumper centrally on the car. So this was one of those, do it twice jobs, fit, check, take off, tighten brackets, refit and see how it goes. A bit of back to black applied to the bumper to turn it from it’s usual grey to a shinier black for the photo. Shame […]
I painted the steel parts from the bumper last night. Let them dry over night and then fit them the day after, though the over night temperature was probably not really above zero the paint did set hard enough to be handled with care.
I think that quite a number of years ago I reversed into something or clipped something hard enough to bust a small plastic clip that retains the forward coming part of the rear bumper. I found the motivation to set about fixing this the other night. First off I got the bumper off, which I didn’t know how to do, so that was a minor challenge. Bumper gone and plastic clips removed. I removed both so that I could make my new part match the other non broken one. 3 mm thick aluminium cut to fit inside of the broken bracket and shaped to match the bit that’s missing. The new bit made up and shaped etc vs the non broken one. Bracket in place on the car. Having got the bumper off I plan on painting the brackets etc that site behind the plastic part before refitting them.
Some ttime ago I bought two cheap drill bits online.. https://bhhh.co.uk/got-what-i-paid-for/. Then I spent good money in Screwfix and got a decent one. Now I have done it again.. This is a genuine question at the time of writing, I have not yet used it. I like the look of the tip. I hope that the part which is a slightly different colour is something super hard…
Abigail complained on one of our trips out in the Land Rover that the door/window was leaking. It hadn’t done this before, but having replaced the window channel it has started to leak. So I had a tube of silicone sealant and filled in around all of the joints to stop the water from percolating through and coming out of this window stop latch thing. I actually removed it and put a good bead behind it and re-riveted it on again. Filled the external gaps.. I’ll be back here again if it continues to leak, but if not, you’ll likely not hear another thing about it.
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