Comfortably Numb

Posts for Mawrth, 2025

A Manifold Problem  30 Mawrth 2025

Pulled a few things apart yesterday, so I could get in and retorque the head. All of the head nuts turned a good bit, so it did need it. At some point, I should perhaps find (or make) the funny offset spanners for doing that with all the manifolds and rocker shaft on, but for now it took dismantling. In the process, I took the opportunity to put on a nice proper gasket. Truck's rocker cover, clamped upside down in the vice, with electrical tape holding the new gasket stretched out into place

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A little tinbashing  24 Mawrth 2025

Cab roof with sections cut out A sharp chisel works wonders for getting under that lip and peeling all the spot-welds! Cab roof with bare metal cleaned up and primed Curved piece of metal bent up to fit in the hole where metal was cut out Carefully form the new piece

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Roof Patches  23 Mawrth 2025

Overcame inertia for a bit today, only for a few hours, and did a bit more roof patching. Rotten roof-hole, showing what appears to be 2 layers, the inner having rusted between the two Grotty double-layer? Appears to have been patched from the inside. So I cut that out, welded in a new piece, and noticed a pinhole a little further to the right, which I chased around for a few inches before cutting that out too.

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Posts for Chwefror, 2025

A Bit of a Wash, Really   6 Chwefror 2025

Still need to fettle the wiper mechanism a little, but I've got the washer bottle installed. It's not got a great lot of capacity, but I have a plan for that in time. Washer bottle installed behind the dashboard of the Bedford The washer jets were a bit of a pain, though. I planned on using the 'original' jets (they're not original per-se, but they were in the

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Posts for Ionawr, 2025

Wiping and Welding  26 Ionawr 2025

Well, it appears I survived the opening of the new year, just about. I've made a start on deleting some of the natural ventilation in the roof, around the cupola hole. Turns out the cupola is only spot-welded in place, so it's not proving too difficult to work my way around with a grinder and a sharp chisel, with only a little hammer work needed afterwards. Don't hit the pink squishy bits. Took advantage of some semi-decent weather, a little bit of sun making

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Posts for Tachwedd, 2024

Week update  10 Tachwedd 2024

Not much progress made, recently. I've been wrapped up in a body-building project at work that has been sapping my energy. (Also, it's getting cold this time of year!) Very boxy stainless steel heavy recovery truck body, in a shed I do have a week off coming up, and though I'm not making any promises about progress, I'd like to get some stuff done.

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Posts for Hydref, 2024

Widgets and Tank Wrangling  27 Hydref 2024

The floor outside the workshop unit, covered in drifts of fine sand That's ... certainly something to discover when I get there. Looks to have been wind-blown, because -- as I discovered the hard way -- there was a mini sand-dune on every ridge of the roller shutter, which then poured into the unit as each slat rolled over the top.

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Posts for Medi, 2024

Bedford Rehab Continues (Slowly)  21 Medi 2024

Just in a bit of a slump, this past week, but I'm sure it'll pass. Extremely active boss is going on holiday Sunday, so hopefully work should chill out a bit. (Not that it's been particularly bad, but I've been on my feet a lot and oh boy am I feeling it.) ((...that reminds me, I need to book some time off, too, before I get to the end of the year with a bunch of unused holiday days.)) I've ordered some bits n pieces to make new tank-straps; that's all

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