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Post by misterc on May 31, 2021 12:19:55 GMT
This weekend have been catching up on the the outstanding odds and sods about the place, thought I know I'll cut the grass, my favourite mower just wasn't playing ball at all, bloody thing wouldn't start for love nor money, in fact it was on par with with naim for candidate for who produce the most uninspiring sounds, let me think a bland stark, monochromatic two dimensional ear bleeding sound or whoosh, bang wheeze pop bang, tough call eh? Bottom line, still the same after fresh 100 ron fuel and octane boost and new NGK plug
Nothing for it, check fuel lines and filter, all ok, carb functioning? Arh that be the cause of the issue, nothing for it, had to remove the blighter, far simpler than fist inspection gleaned.
Removed offending item, cleaned grass and much from outside, removed float bowl only to be greeted with what could only be described as best Yorkshire accent on' It was right shite in they lad!'
Fuel must have evaporated long ago over the winter and replaced with a murky brown type substance that had congealed whilst cover over a pin hole in the float bowl. Bugger!
The last time I was tinkering with carb's with a sextuplet bank of 44 DNCF's on a V12 Daytona took around 3 days to fully strip, repair ultra sonically clean and set up that bear satisfactory. Plus a lot of rolling road time. It was worth the wait, a Ferrari V12 coming in cam is like a cacophony of banshees self pleasuring to multiple organism factor 12, its quite something!
After a surprising short time spent hunting for the part I found a complete carb replacement kit with all gaskets, bolts, air filter, plug and brand new Klenien carb for the princely sum of £40.23 delivered totalled amazed. (A repair kit for a single DCOE was more than that back in the day!!
Restores you faith in human nature
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Post by electronumpty on May 31, 2021 13:07:23 GMT
I mowed the lawn today too, 1st time , lots of smoke on start up but the mower ran fine after that. Just as well as I know naff all about motors!
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2021 19:20:00 GMT
This weekend have been catching up on the the outstanding odds and sods about the place, thought I know I'll cut the grass, my favourite mower just wasn't playing ball at all, bloody thing wouldn't start for love nor money, in fact it was on par with with naim for candidate for who produce the most uninspiring sounds, let me think a bland stark, monochromatic two dimensional ear bleeding sound or whoosh, bang wheeze pop bang, tough call eh? Bottom line, still the same after fresh 100 ron fuel and octane boost and new NGK plug
Nothing for it, check fuel lines and filter, all ok, carb functioning? Arh that be the cause of the issue, nothing for it, had to remove the blighter, far simpler than fist inspection gleaned.
Removed offending item, cleaned grass and much from outside, removed float bowl only to be greeted with what could only be described as best Yorkshire accent on' It was right shite in they lad!'
Fuel must have evaporated long ago over the winter and replaced with a murky brown type substance that had congealed whilst cover over a pin hole in the float bowl. Bugger!
The last time I was tinkering with carb's with a sextuplet bank of 44 DNCF's on a V12 Daytona took around 3 days to fully strip, repair ultra sonically clean and set up that bear satisfactory. Plus a lot of rolling road time. It was worth the wait, a Ferrari V12 coming in cam is like a cacophony of banshees self pleasuring to multiple organism factor 12, its quite something!
After a surprising short time spent hunting for the part I found a complete carb replacement kit with all gaskets, bolts, air filter, plug and brand new Klenien carb for the princely sum of £40.23 delivered totalled amazed. (A repair kit for a single DCOE was more than that back in the day!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2021 14:06:52 GMT
Today is ECC83 day. The Tunsgram foil getter has finally been picked up from the post office, and the Mazda 12AX7S-H and a RT 12AX7S-HF arrived in the post. I think I have enough now....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2021 11:08:08 GMT
Today I creamed my pants.....🤫 (tried my new Tungsram ecc83 in my bb3) Today I fitted my new Tungsram ECC83 and PCC88 in my BB3. Sounds simply superb….
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Post by Bigman80 on Jun 5, 2021 11:48:30 GMT
Today I creamed my pants.....🤫 (tried my new Tungsram ecc83 in my bb3) Today I fitted my new Tungsram ECC83 and PCC88 in my BB3. Sounds simply superb…. Fantastic! Mine is in piecs AGAIN....going into the casework, so i am on the final strait. Glad the valves have worked out well.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2021 11:57:17 GMT
They are not too shabby. Just need to decide if TFK PCC88s are really worth paying €100 for two, and if they will be better than the Siemens. I am spoilt for choice now on the ECC83, but I think I am almost at a point where I stop spending on equipment, and buy more vinyl, once I work out where to keep it.
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Post by Bigman80 on Jun 5, 2021 12:24:25 GMT
They are not too shabby. Just need to decide if TFK PCC88s are really worth paying €100 for two, and if they will be better than the Siemens. I am spoilt for choice now on the ECC83, but I think I am almost at a point where I stop spending on equipment, and buy more vinyl, once I work out where to keep it. There is a quad of 4x PCC88 in Germany, for not too bad a price. However, the seller won't ship to the UK. One of our members is looking for a pair, so maybe a little collaboration between you two could work out and save a bit of cash?
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Post by electronumpty on Jun 5, 2021 12:40:34 GMT
They are not too shabby. Just need to decide if TFK PCC88s are really worth paying €100 for two, and if they will be better than the Siemens. I am spoilt for choice now on the ECC83, but I think I am almost at a point where I stop spending on equipment, and buy more vinyl, once I work out where to keep it. I find the Siemans to be very clear and precise. A clean sound, the teles have a bit more tone and dynamics I think. Both sound very good to me, it's probably a question of what sound you prefer. I switch between the 2 quite happily. Now I use either a pair of Siemens or a tele pcc88 + a tele pcc189.
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Post by misterc on Jun 5, 2021 14:45:35 GMT
Started a new power supply and with an upgraded MC3+ for a customer, this afternoon servicing the good lady's 'popper' as she calls it, I forgot what a PIA the air filter boxes are like on these big v's, the right hand bank is a real entraining so in so. However nearly done!
In around an hour I shall be walking to the local hostelry for a well deserved cold one.
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Post by electronumpty on Jun 7, 2021 13:20:33 GMT
Today I rescued bee number 13 from death by skylight. Or it could have been the same bumble 13 times....
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Post by electronumpty on Jun 8, 2021 16:39:56 GMT
Today I am going to be evicted...😬
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Post by firebottle on Jun 8, 2021 17:22:21 GMT
Do they make for fart? I don't need anything, it just happens...
I do have a good excuse though.
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Post by robbiegong on Jun 9, 2021 21:15:57 GMT
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Post by Bigman80 on Jun 9, 2021 21:38:30 GMT
Today I saw musical history etched in a tree. I do t like vandelism, but this just spoke if a time and an era. Quite cool I thought.
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Post by nonuffin on Jun 10, 2021 6:33:56 GMT
Today I am completely knackered.
Spent the last two days digging up bamboo roots in the garden. Never known roots to go down three feet and more into the ground and I know that even a scrap of it left behind will grow like crazy again in a heartbeat. Bastard stuff should not be sold to the unsuspecting public and this plant is more evil than anything else I can think of.
We are starting to feel the effects of brexit and the pandemic now. Finally having a hardstanding built for a mobility scooter at the front of the house and got a local builder in to do the heavy work. Soil scraped out with a mini digger, hard core in and whacked down, formers in place, only to find that there is a cement shortage so no concrete can be laid. Builder says he won't pay £18 a bag just for cement, but I reckon it will rise much higher than that so told him to bite the bullet and get it at that price before it gets really silly.
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Post by Bigman80 on Jun 10, 2021 6:55:11 GMT
Today I am completely knackered. Spent the last two days digging up bamboo roots in the garden. Never known roots to go down three feet and more into the ground and I know that even a scrap of it left behind will grow like crazy again in a heartbeat. Bastard stuff should not be sold to the unsuspecting public and this plant is more evil than anything else I can think of. We are starting to feel the effects of brexit and the pandemic now. Finally having a hardstanding built for a mobility scooter at the front of the house and got a local builder in to do the heavy work. Soil scraped out with a mini digger, hard core in and whacked down, formers in place, only to find that there is a cement shortage so no concrete can be laid. Builder says he won't pay £18 a bag just for cement, but I reckon it will rise much higher than that so told him to bite the bullet and get it at that price before it gets really silly. yeah, very similar to my moms new bungalow. Merchant wanted £30 per panel for panels. Said Covid has pushed all the prices up. Fair play to him though, he told her to wait if she could as eventually everything will calm down a bit.
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Post by optical on Jun 10, 2021 8:24:32 GMT
The last time I was tinkering with carb's with a sextuplet bank of 44 DNCF's on a V12 Daytona took around 3 days to fully strip, repair ultra sonically clean and set up that bear satisfactory. Plus a lot of rolling road time. It was worth the wait, a Ferrari V12 coming in cam is like a cacophony of banshees self pleasuring to multiple organism factor 12, its quite something!
I for one would like to hear more about this sir! Seems we share some similar passions, although your exploration and education in the fields quite simply dwarfs mine! All I can offer in retort is dismantling and cleaning the diverter valve and installing some custom mandrel bend intercooler pipework on my highly modified Audi S3, not a patch on a V12 Daytona but 400+ hp from a 4 banger will do me for now.
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Post by misterc on Jun 10, 2021 8:32:08 GMT
Hello Optical In another life time, I used to run three Italian car franchisees, a race engine building engineering company and part time team manager for a winning UK club race team. Sill build the odd engine for friends, current toy 840@wheels with around 1400lbs of torque (without the 300bhp nitrous boost) oh and its a diesel
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Post by optical on Jun 10, 2021 8:41:22 GMT
Hello Optical In another life time, I used to run three Italian car franchisees, a race engine building engineering company and part time team manager for a winning UK club race team. Sill build the odd engine for friends, current toy 840@wheels with around 1400lbs of torque (without the 300bhp nitrous boost) oh and its a diesel Probably get over 30mpg still too! Rolling coal for the win then! Haha, those numbers are just stupid. Although I do remember doing some work on a 3.0tdi and being rewarded with 1000nm of torque quite easily, all standard internals and turbo etc. Wow, fair play to you mate, sounds like you've followed your passions and been rewarded for it indeed. I can certainly take some inspiration from that.
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Post by misterc on Jun 11, 2021 14:29:31 GMT
This morning I bumped into Brain May coming out of our local M&S, very 80's trendy look skinny as rake and genuinely nice person smiled and said hello as he went back to his car.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2021 10:12:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2021 10:15:11 GMT
3 - all in the UK.
Spillers, Rubadub, Rough Trade,
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Post by macca on Jun 12, 2021 10:48:30 GMT
Rough Trade, that's it.
Never even been to the countries that most of them are in.
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Post by Bigman80 on Jun 12, 2021 10:56:51 GMT
O - None
Amazon and Ebay though.....too many times to count
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Post by macca on Jun 12, 2021 15:31:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2021 18:41:03 GMT
Today I got stung by a wasp. I am waiting for the sun to go down to serve my revenge.
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Post by Bigman80 on Jun 13, 2021 18:44:21 GMT
Today I got stung by a wasp. I am waiting for the sun to go down to serve my revenge. 😮 What's the plan?
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Post by misterc on Jun 13, 2021 19:05:06 GMT
I have a great solution for wasps, invert a can of butane duster, it then becomes a liquid freeze spray, see the devious little shits freeze to death a fitting end to such pointless insect imho. Though if you have to deal with a few of them, just turn the can the right way up apply a heat source and hey presto instant mini flame thrower, I can say from experiance both are very effective at insect exterimation. On a more light nighter note, the good lady and myself took a trip around Blectchly Park, one of the best facilities I have ever seen at a public museum, just about ever base covered, superbly interesting and a total mine of information. A great place to visitPlus we stopped for a our first meal out in fifteen months can whole heartily recommend this place 100% Superb ultra fresh food cooked with passion and rather tasty
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2021 19:10:52 GMT
Today I got stung by a wasp. I am waiting for the sun to go down to serve my revenge. 😮 What's the plan? Wait until the sun goes down and give them a blast of insecticide whilst they are all cosy in their home. If it is a ground nest, pour petrol in, and then light it. The nest they have (now had) is between the fake bitumen tiles, and the wooden surface underneath. Petrol would be a disaster. The butane duster sounds fun though.
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