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Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Visiting the new Brewdog water filtration ponds being built in Ellon this morning. That's a LOT of rebar and concrete which won't do much for their environmental credentials.
3 huge ponds to be built. Apparently local groundwater goes into the first pond then in a painstaking process over a period of days using reed beds and sand, it's turned into piss which is then bottled! Marvellous!
3 huge ponds to be built. Apparently local groundwater goes into the first pond then in a painstaking process over a period of days using reed beds and sand, it's turned into piss which is then bottled! Marvellous!
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
At a conference as part of COP26. Looks dull, but this lady is from the Dept of Education and they're pushing for all schools to be built sustainably and out of wood basically. I'm dead chuffed that one of the products I champion may bein every new UK school soon.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
I like getting paid to blether
keithmac
Guru
Finished the Lambretta LI 150 this morning, electrics and a leaking gearbox output shaft seal.
Been an interesting journey as I've not worked on many, it's got a new 12v generator and electronic ignition conversion, runs sweet as a nut!.
Lovely customer, just wanted it done properly which makes life a lot easier for me.
Been an interesting journey as I've not worked on many, it's got a new 12v generator and electronic ignition conversion, runs sweet as a nut!.
Lovely customer, just wanted it done properly which makes life a lot easier for me.
gbb
Legendary Member
- Location
- Peterborough
Trouble is, wanting it done properly...costs.
Colleague has something like a late 1950s, 1960 Lambretta, cost him far more than its worth to bring it up to good reliable spec, but he wants it right.
Equally, a former colleague had the rear wheel fall off after he had done some DIY engine work, not a matter of being tight, rather cant afford to pay others to do it for him (and do it right it seems
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keithmac
Guru
I've lost count of jobs that have cost twice as much to complete as they would have done if the owners "mate" hadn't had a go first 
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Had a Thunderace once, cylinder head removed already, all the bits that were in a cardboard box had been tipped onto owners garage floor (cams/ shims/ shim buckets etc).
Took longer to clean all the parts and shim it from scratch than to fit a new headgasket and head back on..
Saying that it keeps me in a job!.
.Had a Thunderace once, cylinder head removed already, all the bits that were in a cardboard box had been tipped onto owners garage floor (cams/ shims/ shim buckets etc).
Took longer to clean all the parts and shim it from scratch than to fit a new headgasket and head back on..
Saying that it keeps me in a job!.
keithmac
Guru
M1200 rear cylinder head removal, 3 hrs in and haven't touched the sides yet, not really a fan of Italian bikes at the moment!.
The engine is basically the frame so I can see the majority of the bike been removed just leaving the lump on the bench.
Only 3,000 miles on it and by the look of it it's been wrong from leaving the factory.
Living the dream!.
The engine is basically the frame so I can see the majority of the bike been removed just leaving the lump on the bench.
Only 3,000 miles on it and by the look of it it's been wrong from leaving the factory.
Living the dream!.
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
Randomnerd
Bimbleur
- Location
- North Yorkshire
When I whistle, she tootles over and licks her lips!
presta
Guru
I stood in the southbound carriageway of the A1 once watching an old MkIII Cortina burn whilst the brigade turned up to put it out. There wasn't much left of it by then. A middle aged couple on the way home from holiday said they'd already stopped at a garage because they were having electrical problems.....
I thought my Carlton was going the same way once, I was sat in the traffic on the way to work one morning when smoke started billowing out from behind the dashboard. Fortunately it stopped when I turned the ignition off. When I collected it from the garage they said they hadn't been able to find anything wrong, then when I drove off it started again 100 yards up the road. Turns out it was the heated rear window fuse melting the fuse box.
