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.
I now have the gutter on the garage, just in time for the rain. I got a little footage of the gutter working shortly after installing it:
The last 3 roofing sheets turned up today and I got them on just in time for the weather to turn tomorrow. Next I need to go to Mole Valley Farmers for some 200×22 mm timber for the fascia boards to cover the top of the wall all around and then fit the gutter.
I think I now know why this pump was on the scrap heap. it seems that the cylinder end cap which is of nasty die cast aluminium construction had opened up. This was causing it to fail to enagged with the threads on the brass cyclinder. I tried to gently tap it closed with a hammer, but wound up caused fractuers in the die casting. I concluded at this point that it was either junk or it would need to be bodged, since I wouldn’t be getting a new end cap. So bodged it was. A shame, but such is life, at least it should be usable, which was the real aim here. While I had the pastic padding out, I filled a couple of holes in the Land Rover floor:
I changed the oil on the Citreon C4 Grand Picasso on Saturday. Easy job. Next time it’ll be easier since the hole is now drilled in the under engine guard thingy. Although I’ll be disappointed not to find another snap on wrench.
I found these brackets in the garage we bought, (in this post https://bhhh.co.uk/forged-and-wrought-iron/) they’d been languishing on a shelf, which was too much irony for me.
I finished the work bench shelf. Though I had to unscrew the members I put in yesterday, put the plywood shelf-top in and then put the horizontals back again. Winner. Still need to find a better place for some of the long lengths of timber and the two bikes still need a proper home, but progress is being made. One day I might have a tidy garage, or not.
I spent a couple of hours last night tidying and working on the bench. I made a couple of plywood hooks to hang two of the bikes from. I managed to strip the concrete that one of the hold down bolts was going into, so had to make up my own chemical anchor solution using a but of tile grout and some water, than ran the bolt into that. I hope it does something. I was only bolting it down so that when I have the vice mounted, I can apply an upward load on it and not have the work bench rise with it. The addition of the shelf was going well until I realised I couldn’t put the ply in because the black shelves were in the way, so now I’ll have take all of the members out, put in the ply first and put them back.
The Ford has made some intermitant squeeking metal on metal type of noises ever since we’ve had it. I took it into a garage for a check over shortly after buying it to find out what issues it might have. But they didn’t pick up anything untoward. Hannah noted that the squeeling had gotten worse the other day, so i checked the pads on the frontl, outside, where i could see. They were low, but not disastrous, so i felt that couldn’t be it. So i checked the back, same story, however the noise was still there. So i took the caliper right off to see if there was a stone in behind or something. But i found the inner pad was all gone. So i treated it to some new pads. The pads came with instructions which mention not breaking hard if you can avoid it for the first […]
I have decided the call the V8 engine in the garage, my Hedge V8, as it lived in the hedge for about 15 years. I started to tear appart the inlet manifold and carbs the other day.
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