meadowfield

I've started my next project and ordered some laser cut discs 12mm x 181mm. Based on my careful measurement of my lathe swing... Doh!

saw this and thought of Koen

all very cute!

Went in the workshop a few times yesterday and could smell petrol. After tea it was annoying me and had a good hunt around, the fuel tank on bendy spontaneously split open and emptied itself .... thats a a new one to me...

Great work Richard, it'll be too nice to use when done!

We reused the old brushes after cleaning the commutator. Replaced both beatings for around a fiver

Interesting... its a peerless box, the kind of thing I could use... esp with that right angle box....

Mad!

That's why paul will know

Ha, both are in mr Mackellow's collection I bet.... its definitely not wheelhorse!

Spent some time on Jakes tractor adding some gauges...and USB socket Told him to fit the panel and he's just rocked round the corner after finishing work with this! pimp my horse!

Definitely earth leakage, is there a neutral in the wiring? Should just be three wires and and earth. Your incoming should bring neutral in as a tap from the transformer. my lathe is a 4 pin plug, of which one is earth. The motor is delta configuration and uses three wires. Any combination works, if the motor spins the wrong way then swap two. sounds like a simple wiring issue (hopefully)

I'm not getting any younger and everything I work on gets heavier.... picked this up the other week for £30 and with some recycling of an old American bike rack that was built like a tank. Ive got this A handy crane with a 4ft boom that swings inside the workshop

welcome to mom, nice machine!

Pulled up the floor in the downstairs loo today. Needed some help.... Finn to the rescue, any excuse to hook up a trailer. He's really good at reversing it too.

I just bought from the states, cheap enough and quick delivery.

Spent a bit more time, fork done. Just the actuator to sort. I've tested the pulley at fixed settings, and manually pushed the fork with the engine running.

On the rule of one out, one in.... (Ewan is off to uni) here is our latest family member. meet myrtle

Well as you all get nice weather down south, we get the summer storms.... so much water, my workshop wall has melted!!!! three frames of the webcam outside catching lightning in the same second how flat the grass is from the surge the remains of the second bridge in the field stuck in the pipe yes that's the stream - yes it was that wide!!!!

burnt my finger badly on the GT14 choke cable at the weekend wtf I hear you ask... well the fuel had leaked out and I refilled it, as I was cranking it through I though I could see smoke from the carb So I stopped, could see anything but lifted the hood and cranked again - yes it was the cable smoking... So I did as any numpty would and checked if it was hot! Turned out despite there being a lot of metal on a GT14, I had a poor earth for the starter and the path it chose was the choke cable!!!!!

Thought they could earn their keep... The horses too Here's jakes freshly restored C-121 on sickle duty gratuitous pic of Finn stripping the quads back brake drum - start em young GT14 got an airing - there's another story and was put on roller duty of course we needed to let our hair (whats left) down....

Nice pics, looks like a good show!

Happy birthday Andrew