I had made up dash ends way back (https://bhhh.co.uk/dash-eend-bit/) in March. Now I really liked the brushed aluminium that I made them from, but I found that there is a good reason why dash boards in cars are usually black, if they’re not you get reflections in the windscreen, which is super annoying. So I have painted those bits black now:
I did my second volunteering day at The Kingcombe Centre on Monday. I had great fun doing odd jobs about the place. Stop a door from jamming on the frame. Put up 10 “Please close the gate” signs. Weave more hazel branches into posts for the compost area. Dismantle a tree guard and recover the timber. Build a couple of shelves in the workshop. Add some lower bars to two gates to stop the sheep escaping. Mow around the garden area where I had previously mowed and also the paths. Trim some over grown plants off the path. Move chippings back up the access drive way to the overflow car park. They had a few sheep turning up to help turn an area into a meadow. This meant I had to jump to the sorting the gates promptly. This was unforeseen, but the fella who’s sheep they were said that […]
Tonight i changed the brake shoes on both rear drums. So that’s a good job done. My phone battery went flat so I didn’t get many photos. I cleaned a lot of muck out of the near side drum, that’s the amount in the dust pan. The other side was far cleaner. New shoes went in pretty easily, plenty of copper slip was applied to all mating surfaces. So it should all come apart again just fine. I shall have the fronts off in the next day or two just to see the condition.
WSP UK allows/encourages it’s employees to take two days a year to carry out volunteering activates for local charities. I chose to take my two days to work for Dorset Wildlife Trust at The Kingcombe Centre. I did some grass cutting and then a little light DIY work during my day there. I really enjoyed being outside and doing some real work. I should have taken some more after pictures, I got plenty of before photos.
On my way to do my volunteering day at the Kingcombe Center, I thought I would take a more direct route that might be fun. The lane was very scratchy from the beginning to over half way. I will not be doing this one very often, although the bottom most part of the lane was fun and pretty clear. I had to cut back a few branches to get through easily. I may return one evening and do some more significant clearing.
I had noticed that there was a grinding noise from the rear brakes a number of weeks ago, and hoped it was just grit and muck in the drum. I finally got around to taking the drum off and having a look yesterday. It was as I had imagined, not grit and muck, but the shoe was worn right out. This tells me that I should have looked ages back. I shall have to fettle the drum a little and remove some of that grooving. The depth of wear is not great, I’ll roll out the angle grinder and a flap wheel and just take it down a little. I’ll get shoes for the rear axle and do the other side while I am at it.
I picked up a second hand sickle at the Steam and Vintage show, I wanted one as I keep going on local walks and finding that I am cutting back foliage with my pocket knife, which is tiny and not really up to the job. It would be far faster with a sickle. I need to make a sheath for it though, as I am certain that it’s an offensive weapon and so should probably be holstered to avoid trouble. I have been wanting to buy one for ages, but a very cheap new one on Ebay is about 7 quid including postage etc, but that seems cheap and has a plastic handle but then a second hand one seems to be up nearer £20 or more with postage as they’re collectors items or something. So I saw this one with a price tag of £20, and got it for […]
We went to Chickerell Steam and Vintage Show at the weekend. I really enjoyed it. I think we all had fun actually.
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