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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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Arse Feed  16 Medi 2024

Turns out, XML::RSS::SimpleGen doesn't support putting dates on the items in the feed. A minor annoyance. Maybe someday I'll do something about that. (But probably not.) ... Also, apparently Klompen's post creation doesn't work if the author tag doesn't have an email following it. I may also do something about that, too.

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Introducing the new, lightweight, racing peashooter   6 Medi 2024

Aforementioned material arrived, and it's almost all correct! Apparently, though, I decided to order a piece of 1/2" tube to make the port on the air-box for the air compressor's inlet, when I should've ordered 1". Guess I've just got myself a new lightweight racing peashooter. An air-filter has been ordered, along with a filter housing lid, so I

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Posts for Awst, 2024

So much for productivity  31 Awst 2024

Well, so much for the long weekend, and getting stuff done. Friday: Came down with the sickness. Saturday: I was dead. Sunday: [ugh] Monday: I rose again, cursing profusely. Still feeling pretty rough, but managed to get the intake a few steps

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Posts for Gorffennaf, 2024

A load of hot air   8 Gorffennaf 2024

That's that bit complete! (Will need to put a little protective sleeving on the plastic pipes where they pass right by the braided hose, just to remove any risk of rubbing/melting.) So, we all know what needs to happen now, don't we?

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Posts for Mehefin, 2024

Update between disasters  29 Mehefin 2024

The car is starved for attention, and decided to get some in a potentially dramatic way, with a fairly sudden hot low oil pressure problem. So I went and changed the oil & filter -- no glitter at all (hmm) -- in case it was just degraded. That didn't fix it. So I order bearings, and go to park the car up until I can tear the sump off and investigate. When I park it up, I notice my alignment has gone all to

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