Comfortably Numb Archive

Posts for Ionawr, 2024

Put a bung in it   15 Ionawr 2024

Bung. And a little bashing.

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Posts for Rhagfyr, 2023

Merry Shitscram   30 Rhagfyr 2023

Well, folks, I hope you've had a nice restful festive season, and you're looking forward to the new year! I've done a little poking the megasquirt stuff, mostly combing through

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*Pained Groaning*   24 Rhagfyr 2023

Earlier on in the year, I booked off from the 18th up 'til when work closed for giftmas, figuring that'd give me -- on top of extending the holiday nicely -- plenty of time to tinker with the truck and maybe run out to a coupla places to grab parts as needed. Well that sure didn't work out! Thursday the 7th: fuel pump dies in my car just as I get

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Posts for Tachwedd, 2023

How the Bedford's Brakes Work   22 Tachwedd 2023

generallee writes:

So are all the air brake gubbins just for pulling a trailer, or are the service brakes air over hydraulic? Or full air? Sorry if I missed it...

The truck's service brakes are air-assisted hydraulic; they'll work without air pressure, as fully manual hydraulic. (And they work fairly

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Pipes n Lights   22 Tachwedd 2023

Wednesday, my air--pipe -- and some of my fittings -- arrived, so I put a bit of time into running more pipe, and connecting up a few more things.

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I see a red crane and I want to paint it black   13 Tachwedd 2023

Told you :3 It'll still want a second coat, at some point, but it's a lot better now than it was. Other progress today was getting the bottom of the vent duct welded

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A little gentle painting   13 Tachwedd 2023

Today's gentle fun: Remove the old air-tank. I'll have to find my little borescope camera and check out the inside of it; maybe it's still okay enough to reuse, but the little tiny bit I can see doesn't inspire much confidence.

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It's on the wonk!   10 Tachwedd 2023

Not particularly much to report since last. I did some more rolling around on the floor, connecting air-pipes up, and ended up taking an hour-long nap while I was there. Last weekend I couldn't really find the motivation to do some more bodywork, so instead I decided I'd take the front tow point off that ... crude crossmember.

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