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Nah, I have more pressing things to do in my life
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Well if I ever need to replace the spring eye bushes on the Landrover again it will be a piece of cake. In the back of the workshop I had the original springs I took off my 76 short wheel base. As I was on my own I cut the end off one of the scrap springs to make for easy handling. I dont know if the bushes were original but prior to wire brushing they looked well rusted. As i didnt have any mandrels I had to resort to sockets, DONT TRY THIS AT HOME sockets have been known to shatter, although one was an impact socket. I am in no doubt a 10 ton press would have done it just as well, but this was just another little play exercise. I pressed it back in just to complete the exercise.
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Log splitter johnphilip, now there is a project for the future.
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Her paper thong would be like chewing jerky.
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Some people go train spotting, I go out with my rifle or play with metal.
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Made up a rough tool for folding angle brackets, not that I want to make any brackets, just playing. Just had a few scrap ends lying about, 2, 3 and 6mm, it handled the 6mm without effort. I am pretty happy with the way its turned out
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Big Mat said. You didn't collect the bar from an engineering shop with the big white doors on harecroft road did you? I sure did Big Mat, is it your place of work. Some impressive CNC machines in there.
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What you doing on here, your supposed to be fettling your Land Rover, get on with it.
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That should tidy up nice
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Get um in there hawkeye i will man the handle
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Bit of fine tuning, The press bar had just a tiny bit of end float, a couple of pieces of 1mm brass sheet sorted it. Time to go through the scrap heap for some pressing tools.
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Anyone crossing the channel on a flight path to Stansted will have a good display.
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You and me both.
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Paint almost done, soon be ready for another test run.
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Finished the welding today. Went to buy a tin of red paint. Cor blimey, had to pay £9-80, tell you what i didnt buy any undercoat, it will get 2 coats of red. Thats my pension gone for this month .
