Hamish Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 That grey thing sticking out of your back pack will slow you down a bit !!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 Day 89. Far from the maddening crowd... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 Day 90. Coffee break on the ride back home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted April 1, 2019 Author Share Posted April 1, 2019 Day 91. April, the end of the BBQ season, back to the kitchen for a hearty pasta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6Steve Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 On 3/31/2019 at 3:42 AM, GT6MK3 said: Been out of internet range for a few days. Can assure you that I'm Craig, not Steve (he's a lot better at building cars than I am, but he did do the odd skydive!). I haven't found the ad your referencing, but I doubt it's me unless someone's used old footage without my knowlege ;-) I think they were still using B&W celluloid when I was skydiving LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted April 2, 2019 Author Share Posted April 2, 2019 Day 92. Anyone need any tools blunted? I'm a specialist... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 5 hours ago, GT6MK3 said: Anyone need any tools blunted? I'm a specialist... Have you been in my garage...…. ………. or do I have a local specialist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 The blunter the bit the harder you press —— simples Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 Day 93. Hostilities have recommenced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 Brakes..... or wiring? Tool mix could suggest wiring.... PS. I got to "play" with a scootery "thing" on Sunday. Teenage transport in the form of a Peugeot. Watercooled, electric start, electronic choke, CVT trans, disc brakes and loads of flappy plastic bits (mostly attached with zip ties). So relatively high tech, but still your basic smelly, cantankerous 2 stroke underneath. This one further compromised by "de-restriction" mods by the PO...... It has running issues and occasionally refuses to proceed above walking pace, usually after it's been running a while. Then magically repairs itself at the sight of a screwdriver, making it resistant to permanent repair. It has one of those vacuum-operated auto fuel cut-off valves, which remains my number one suspect in spite appearing to function when tested..... Belongs to a neighbours offspring and ntdwm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted April 4, 2019 Author Share Posted April 4, 2019 Grr. Tool mix is actually a reflection of one of my worst habits and one I fight against. Have been working on numerous problems at once rather than being methodical and killing one at a time. Result is a dogs breakfast of unfindable tools, and no floor space. Read your post this morning, kicked myself, and went and put every tool on the garage floor back in the cabinets before I got back to work (3 hours later!). much better... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted April 4, 2019 Author Share Posted April 4, 2019 Day 94. Julz buying me dinner for another lap of the sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtuckunder Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 4 hours ago, GT6MK3 said: Result is a dogs breakfast of unfindable tools, and no floor space. been there twice this week, but only tided up once so far! problem is when your grabbing an hour here an hour there and you are getting close to a strategic point its hard to stop and tidy, its only when you have spent 10 mins searching for the second 7/16 spanner you have lost in an hour and are seriously contemplating using the nearest equivalent metric, that your brain goes TIDY UP! at which point you shuffle back on the floor and inflict pain as you kneel on the missing item, which if it can will be pointy side up! and then you are back to square one, finish bolting up as you found it, or stop and tidy up alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Try it when you've got two in the workshop competing for tools and hiding them from each other...... usually me that gets to tidy the aftermath of those sessions - indeed has to in order to make any progress . There is then the occasional third random agent who slinks in and lifts a tool you were in the middle of using tool for cycle repair purposes when your back is turned........ All this in addition to the usual phenomenon of tools randomly popping into another dimension for an indeterminate period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtuckunder Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 9 minutes ago, Nick Jones said: All this in addition to the usual phenomenon of tools randomly popping into another dimension for an indeterminate period its probably what Peter C's UFO's/Aliens are all about, its our decendents desperately looking for the 7/16 spanner they had an hour ago, and overshooting on the jump back trying to locate it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumblebee Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Add to that the "favourite spanner" syndrome when you realise your favourite 1/2 spanner is nowhere to be found and have to spend 20 minutes finding it, despite the fact you have another 3 you could use. Finally you locate it still hanging by the ring end on the bolt side of the nut you were doing up with your ratchet. ..... Or is that just me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 19 minutes ago, Bumblebee said: Add to that the "favourite spanner" syndrome when you realise your favourite 1/2 spanner is nowhere to be found and have to spend 20 minutes finding it, despite the fact you have another 3 you could use. Finally you locate it still hanging by the ring end on the bolt side of the nut you were doing up with your ratchet. ..... Or is that just me? We must be brothers from a different mother...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 I found a lost spanner still attached to a nut securing my roll bar in the rear inner wing. It had survived a road trip too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted April 5, 2019 Author Share Posted April 5, 2019 Day 95. Spending birthday gift cards... “One of everything thanks!” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted April 6, 2019 Author Share Posted April 6, 2019 Day 96. Engage neighbour annoyance mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerguzzi Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 On 4/4/2019 at 6:20 PM, Nick Jones said: Try it when you've got two in the workshop competing for tools and hiding them from each other...... usually me that gets to tidy the aftermath of those sessions - indeed has to in order to make any progress . There is then the occasional third random agent who slinks in and lifts a tool you were in the middle of using tool for cycle repair purposes when your back is turned........ All this in addition to the usual phenomenon of tools randomly popping into another dimension for an indeterminate period. Hello Nick The easy answer is more tools! I have a set hanging next to the work bench another set hanging next to the ramp and a third set in a tool chest on wheels(plus all the odds and ends next to the lathe and miller etc) Plus a set in Spitty Houston I think I have a problem? Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDerbyshire Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 I found a Halfords professional vortex ratchet that had been lost for over a year...... in the bilge of my previous yacht! rusted up of course so i needed a replacement took it to halfords to buy a new one, ‘lifetime warranty’ they said and gave me a new one for free :-) steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 I wondered what a "vortex ratchet" was, so I Googled it. Isn't "Vortex" a trade name of the Draper brand? Halfords most generous! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 Day 97. Management, previous management, managerial advisors. Dinner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted April 9, 2019 Author Share Posted April 9, 2019 Day 98. Re re re re reading a quote that could possibly send me broke if I get it wrong. No pressure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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