Projects At Home During Lockdown

[swarfie]

This is the new reality, and all you grumpy old cunts crying in your beers can kiss my shiny arse.

This may well be the new reality but that doesn't mean the rules should be designed and enforced by shiny arses that don't have a clue about how shit gets made in the real world. A few years ago one 'manager' wanted me to put a guard around a wire buff/polishing mop on a pedestal grinder. When I pointed out that if the buff or mop grabbed a job which they often do, then it would most likely also jamb your hand in the guard instead of just throwing it on the floor, he saw the sense in that and backed off.
I resemble being referred to as an "grumpy old cunt"...I don't see me being old yet

I had some dopey h&s consultant woman explain to me that I needed to have the lift chains on my roller doors tested.
I explained that they were hand operated & only for lifting the doors & I doubted that I could break them with my bare hands.
Her ensuing argument got her kicked out of the workshop & replaced by someone that actually had a clue.

My point exactly. The other thing that gets my goat (says he, putting his "grumpy old cunt" hat on) is that the 'management' will spend limitless amounts of money on this mostly (and I say mostly because some of the money spent on H&S is totally needed IMO) un-necessary shit and won't shell out for replacement digital readouts on two of the lathes in the workshop (that have been fucked for at least two years) because that comes out of a different budget. Bloody accountants.
Fuck, look at that...I really am a "grumpy cunt"

[Kickaha]

haven't seen it for a while, are they racing smaller trucks nowadays?

No it got a lot more "Professional" and more expensive when people started bring in proper race race trucks and tyres out of Europe, still happens but just not as often and without all the classes they had

[Ian Staples]

as a self employed person i've learnt over time to sometimes spend a bit to save a bit, this is one of those cases where it is worth it. it helps that my mrs is into antiques and therefore it come out of the grocery money, i don't even think she knows where it is though now. there's a lot of polishing in a bottle. still use autosol in the lathe pretty much.

https://automotivetruckparts.co.nz/p...e-metal-polish $34 and just down the road from you

That's More like it !

[HenryDorsetCase]

No it got a lot more "Professional" and more expensive when people started bring in proper race race trucks and tyres out of Europe, still happens but just not as often and without all the classes they had

It amazed me that they raced trucks at Levels... tiny and tight . Fair bit of rubbing too.

[russd7]

It amazed me that they raced trucks at Levels... tiny and tight . Fair bit of rubbing too.

they still do race trucks at levels and i agree, even the motorcycle racing was more of a procession than a race, I haven't spectated there in years

[Drew]

Spent the morning with a block of wood, a ballpeen hammer, and a strip of aluminum extrusion.

Ended up with a front guard...sort of. It's only there because it has to be.

Reckon I'd like to have a go shaping some stuff on an english wheel. Once ya wrap your head around how the sheet will respond, it's not as hard as I thought.

[jellywrestler]

they still do race trucks at levels and i agree, even the motorcycle racing was more of a procession than a race, I haven't spectated there in years

really, i commentate at pretty well all of the circuits throughout nz and it's not like that now, what classes were you watching?

[Kickaha]

It amazed me that they raced trucks at Levels... tiny and tight . Fair bit of rubbing too.

They used to rub wheels and it would fuck the nuts and burr the ends of the wheel studs, might them a right bastard to get off at times

even the motorcycle racing was more of a procession than a race, I haven't spectated there in years

Obviously because it certainly wasn't like that last time I was there

[sidecar bob]

Spent the morning with a block of wood, a ballpeen hammer, and a strip of aluminum extrusion.

Ended up with a front guard...sort of. It's only there because it has to be.

Reckon I'd like to have a go shaping some stuff on an english wheel. Once ya wrap your head around how the sheet will respond, it's not as hard as I thought.

Father in law Roger beats a full set of classic sidecar alloy bodywork by beating it on various hardnesses of the lawn.
Like the sandbag method Wanganui styles.
You can't argue with the results.

[sidecar bob]

It amazed me that they raced trucks at Levels... tiny and tight . Fair bit of rubbing too.

Nothing wrong with tiny & tight with a fair bit of rubbing.

[russd7]

really, i commentate at pretty well all of the circuits throughout nz and it's not like that now, what classes were you watching?

back in end of the 90's when Andy Bolwell was formula 3 champ, watched the cars and trucks race there as well, bikes were still more entertaining,
don't get to the tarmac racing much these days, would have loved to have gone up to the big meeting at levels end of last year but we had been away to moore park and then to Oreti park quite a bit and SWMBO suggested we needed to spend at least one weekend at home. must get to more tarmac meetings

[jellywrestler]

back in end of the 90's when Andy Bolwell was formula 3 champ, watched the cars and trucks race there as well, bikes were still more entertaining,
don't get to the tarmac racing much these days, would have loved to have gone up to the big meeting at levels end of last year but we had been away to moore park and then to Oreti park quite a bit and SWMBO suggested we needed to spend at least one weekend at home. must get to more tarmac meetings

1000's of hours of footage on ctas live you tube

[russd7]

1000's of hours of footage on ctas live you tube

not the same as being there tho, its the same as watching speedway on TV, just not the same.
the noise, the smell, the people.

[husaberg]

not the same as being there tho, its the same as watching speedway on TV, just not the same.
the noise, the smell, the people.

dig out one of those tealight oil burners and put a drop of R in ot or A747 or any of the others that still contain Cator based oils in the water.
https://redcurrent-co-nz.imgix.net/p...1580174185.jpg

looks like you can get it as a roll on as well
https://www.tomsofmaine.com/our-prom...ted-castor-oil

[Drew]

I feel like for stuff I've never done, it might perhaps be advantageous to ask first.

Though, my yard is riverbed so there are no soft spots for bashing plate into shape.