I finsihed off the top mesh sides part last night and made a lid that will be hinged on the top. I now need to buy some hinges and perhaps a latch as a means securing it shut to stop the cat getting in or the gerbils out by some fluke stroke of luck, be it good or bad luck depending on who’s viewpoint you take. I also had to file down the heads of the rivets where it sits into the glass tank, it is now a tight fit.
I have now made the 4x sides of the top bit, it needs the top mesh putting in now and a door constructing for the side, and perhaps one for the top. not sure how this will work. I had two rivits break like this, I have no idea why this might have happened, could be a faulty rivit or I supose it could be the jaws in the rivit gun doing something they shouldn’t.
We were at Mole Valley at the weekend and they happened to have the right size gate posts. So we had them deliver 2 yesterday. As such today I got keen and managed to get one out. Given how rotten they appear, they’re actually quite solid. The post would rock back and forth but I couldn’t lift it up. Only after getting the high lift jack and drilling a hole for the tang of the jack to gain purchase on was I able to pursuade the post to rise from its setting. I hope the other one is easier.
We bought a fish tank, that will form the base of the cage. I went and picked it up last week for 15 quid. I cleaned it and removed the paint from the exterior. I aam using angle and flat aluminium that I recovered from the greenhouse that I had for the glass. I did have to buy some weld mesh.
I ordered a coupler/bush, to adapt from some female metric thread to 1/4″ BSP male thread of thew air line. I guessed it was M10 ish thread on the inflater thingy. I guessed wrong. It was perhaps M12. I don’t know, and now it doesn’t matter anyway. The metal filler stuff, similar to plastic padding came out and resolved the issue permenantly.
After driving the Land Rover on the beach the other week, I was prompted to think about my tyre pressures. I could easily reduce them but of cause re-pressuising them is harder. I had in mind that I could added a quick coupler to the air system that is used to operate the diff and then I’d have access to about 5 liters of 100 psi air. I had previously purchased a coiled air line and a tyre infalter thing, but hadn’t thought about how exactly I’d do it. In the end I just got on with it and did it. Done. One full tank will do one tyre from nearly totally flat to 20 psi, it’s unlikely that my tyres will be that flat, but the compressor will have to run at least a couple of times to do all four tyres.
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