The tower was open for people to go to the top on Saturday. We booked our visit and went up, the weather held and we had pretty spectacular views, though an extra 22 m on top of 240 mASL isn’t a huge amount, but it does get you above the hedges and shrubs. We also had a bit of a walk about.. And inside… On google maps:
I have finally made a new centre bit for the steering wheel. Just a wooden thing with a leather cover that jams into the opening and covers the retaining nut.
I bought some paint for the Land Rover. I wanted some Nato/olive green, this kind of colour: And I am pretty sure that was description on the eBay advert. In person and in good light it’s quite bright! Oh well, next time..
There is a WSP logo where the letters scramble up and remake again. People have it in their email signature.. So i thought id re-imagine it a little.
Well, I did get a little concerned after watching back the video I took last week of the Land Rover trying to cross axle. I thought that the front axle was doing nothing at all, then I thought that it was not doing enough and perhaps being restricted by the damper or that the front springs where too stiff. I found last night that everything is okay. I was wrong, it’s actually all working perfectly. I concluded in that video that everything is okay. Tried to set up some cross axle action without leaving the garage. Front wheel is 300 mm off the floor. I then went around and measured the gap from top of wheel to wheel arch. Front Off Side 195 mm, Front Near Side 100 mm, Rear Near Side 220 mm and Rear off side 10 mm. So from that we can deduce that the front wheels […]
I had some fun today at lunch time, delivered some books to a fella outside of the village, normally I’d take my bike, but it looked like rain, so I took the Land Rover and did my trick of videoing it. Also found a spot to try to test the prop travel.
Eddie (Friend and colleague in Canada) told me about ChatGPT yesterday. What is ChatGPT I hear you ask: https://openai.com/about/ I have been asking it stuff and just seeing what it can do so far, I thought I’d ask it to act as a writer and re-write my blog entry from yesterday in the style of an early 1900’s news article: In the bustling metropolis of Cattistock, a peculiar sight was witnessed as a gentleman attempted to salvage a damaged technological device. The artefact in question, a Samsung Galaxy Note8, was reported to have experienced issues with its visual display, rendering it partially inoperable. However, the ingenious mind of the aforementioned individual discovered a novel use for the ailing device. By mounting the phone in a fixed position, it could be utilized as a rudimentary dash cam to capture footage of one’s journey. Using aluminium to construct a makeshift frame, the […]
Okay, that title is little rich. I have some old phones which have only partly given up. This particular one (a Samsung Galaxy Note8) has an issue with the screen where it fails to light up the screen, so that it will accept input via touch, but you can’t see what you’re doing or it does light up but the bottom bit flickers really badly, as per the pictures. The camera and apps all work perfectly otherwise. So it occurred to me that I could mount the phone such that all I had to do was it turn it on and leave it recording and I’d have a dash cam! I folded up a bit aluminium (notice that I haven’t even taking the plastic backing off), used a hammer to beat the edge around the phone, risking smashing the phone even more. I realised as I was doing this that […]
I thought I would just have a test of my welding skills, to see if I think I am of a reasonable skill level to take on the repair to the church gate. I have been asked to repair a gate hanger at the church. I have taken advice from a building conservation specialist who suggested it was best to make the repair as permanent as possible and also in keeping with the original design. So I shall be welding in some new metal to beef up the worn out pin. This is rather than drilling and tapping out the pin and using a bolted connection. The result of the welded option should be better in his opinion. Of cause if the weld doesn’t take well then I can always revert to drilling and tapping. These two welds were at very different amps, the lower left one was at about […]
Having fitted a new front prop-shaft I felt it best to go around with the grease gun and put new grease into all of the other places that have grease nipples, such as the steering joints and rear prop.
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