Abigail asked for an electric car quite some time ago, so this Christmas we thought we’d make that one happen. I bought an old mobility scooter and set about seeing how it could be modified into something she could use around the garden. I bought an 2.4 x 1.2 meter sheet of 12 mm thick hardwood ply to make the body from. I used timber I had salvaged from our old bed and an old sofa mainly for the structure. I modified the seat, and dropped the handle bars down to suit her height. She chose this colour in B&Q and we got it mixed for her. It was all a bit of fun really both for me and her getting it. She’s learning fast how to reverse and maneuver it. All in all it was less than £200 to build, but took 15 to 20 nights of a couple […]
I had some wire wool and tried to shine up those two pennies. Then I applied a coat of lacquer in an effort to make them shine a little. You can now clearly see the date on that one. I’ve probably increased the value of the vehicle by a factor of 2 or more.
We visiting Ringstead Bay last weekend, it’s a very pretty part of the world, we also happened to catch a lovely sun set too. Don’t go and visit, as it’s currently quite unspoilt!
I have set about designing and making a gearbox to correct the speedo in the Land Rover. The speedo currently reads about 5/8th the speed which it should, this is due to having the LT77 5 speed box rather than a series box. So I need to increase the speed by about 1.6 times. I have chosen some brass gears off ebay, I have a 45 and a 30, which gives me 1.5, so that speedo reads slighly lower than my real speed similar to what car manufactures do. I have put a 28 tooth gear between the two gears to make the output turn in the same direction as the input. I set about getting Ben’s 3D printer out and trying to get it print well, but it was taking ages, this was my best result, which was about 96% the size it needed to be. As you can […]
I had a hole in the wing, guessing it was there for the wing mirrors, had it not had the later type mirrors. It’s covered over now, nicer than the rubber grommet on the other side. Hopefully that two pack epoxy glue sticks them solid.
At Apple Day (at the orchard) I got the opportunity to use to traditional drawknife to shape a blank for the making of a wooden cutlery knife.
We paid to visit to Chesil Beach yesterday, it was a lovely day (when the sun was shining).
Usually I keep and eye on the local river level since i like to go driving through it when it floods. The “check for flooding” website hadn’t updated the river levels since 5am, and I felt like we’d had enough rain for it to be at road level. So I took a ride to see and was sorely disappointed. I was told today by a friend, that the depth marker is nothing of the sort. It just tells you meters above sea level. Useless. This the rive level down at Maiden Newton, I use it for an idea of what’s going on at the bridge on St. Helen’s Lane. https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/station/3278
I found that the brake peddle would pulsate when I pressed it, after fitting the new discs, I wasn’t sure why this might be, so just ran it for a while to see what might happen as it all bedded in. Nothing changed, so I took it apart last night. Having gotten the disc off, cleaned up the mating faces and put it back, I realised that perhaps the disk is sitting on the protruding stud splines and not onto the face of the hub. But by that time it back together, so tonight it’ll be coming off again to see.
3 cubic meters of logs cut to between 8 and 10inches long (like the mix of units?) turned up in the back of a tipper. It took me a hour at the time when they turned up (12:00 noon), then another 3/4 hours before we went out (16:00) and another half an hour or so later on (20:00) when we came back to get them all stacked, which was 3 times longer than I hoped it would take to stack them all in.
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