I have a very minor oil leak from someone around the swivel, probably form the swivel seal. We’re talking over the course of a week perhaps a few drips. Annoying but not a disaster, I had put new oil into the axle and swivels a year or so ago, so I will drain out the oil and replace it with “One Shot” grease, this should to be thicker and hopefully not leak out. I left the oil draining over night so as to get most of it out. Drained the oil out, it looks a little emulsified. The seal and swivel look okay, perhaps the seal is just old and failing to press against the swivel well enough. Next job is do the refill with the One Shot stuff.
Pan break
This is a pan break that I modelled and produced the drawings for so that a friend could make it. Someone else designed this here: http://users.beagle.com.au/lathefan/panbrake.pdf Here is the link to the original Onshape cad workings: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/4e084330c4bb2c72d9c473c3/w/7f1fe66a99922d5bb992e55a/e/e9faf74864547b1cbc168896?renderMode=0&uiState=625fe846beff82562db9b28d Here is a PDF export of the drawings:
The fire place and chimney breast is drying nicely. That’s Friday early morning and later on the afternoon or evening, Saturday morning and afternoon and then Monday afternoon.
I managed to get a Golder sign from the old Bourne End office before they tossed them all in the skip.
We have had Jason from Burnwood Chimneys in to do the rip out and creation of the opening for the stove. Me rremoving the wall paper before Jason arrives. Day one, the demolition was mostly completed. Day 2 rebuild in progress. Drying well.
Hannah found that she had accidentally brought a tortoiseshell butterfly into the house. We think it came in on a bag that wound up in the bathroom.
The bike trailer that we have used to have a clamp arrangement that was meant to attached to the rear trailing arm right before the rear axle. This worked just about okay on the Claud Butler, short of the fact that it struggled to grip the small bore tube that the bike was made from. Then Dad kindly gave me his bike, so I tried it on that and it wouldn’t fit in the right location due to the disk brake calliper being there. So I set about making a custom mount. First off I stripped off the existing clamp arrangement. I forgot to get a before photo. It just so happened that there are two threaded holes at the rear of the frame that I guess might be for things such as a mud guard, pannier rack or kiddie seat. So I utilised those and just bent a bit […]
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