Early Risers.

[Coombe Barton]

Returned from Stoke Mandeville with a dimished bank account and a small bag of bits to show for it.

[polybear]

5 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

Returned from Stoke Mandeville with a dimished bank account and a small bag of bits to show for it.

 

Only a small bag?  You weren't trying.....

[Coombe Barton]

... It seems that the Covid enquiry is causing flutters in government as UK ministers engaged in bitter fight to halt release of Covid secrets ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/05/28/slightly-down-and-what-have-they-got-to-hide/

[New Haven Neil]

Quick look in - TT fortnight innit.  Actually spent the day on the trains with Mrs NHN and Jayne, went to the halfway point of the mountain railway to watch the bikes. 

 

CO alarms - saw a funny one at the pre-TT classic races on Friday, a guy warming up a Vincent outfit, full Rhumm-bahhh job, the exhaust pipes (not a silencer, oh no don't have them on classics) facing sort of into his awning tent thing.  After a minute a white box came flying out as his mate threw the frantically beeping monitor out onto the grass.  Don't need that where they're going.

 

Cracking the flags job today, absolutely gorgeous third day in a row.

[PupCam]

Evening All!

 

Nice chug to the Danish Camp where a suitable breakfast was consumed followed by a nice chug back.

 

I can't remember whether I mentioned the Beeza diagnosis?    Anyway, it wasn't the gearbox it was the primary chain rubbing on a thin headed bolt in the chaincase.  It's thin so that it doesn't rub on the primary chain case .....

 

Primary chain, cush drive and clutch assembly removed.   Big adjustable position  plate that blocks off the gapping hole in the back of the chain case that is held on by the thin headed screws removed, new screws with thinner heads made.   All re-assembled (the clutch bearing is a real b1tch to get in without losing the 32 not very captive balls) checking after each stage until chaincase fully buttoned up.

 

Result = Primary chain rubbing on a thin headed screw.

 

Repeat strip down, fettle, re-assembly

 

Result = Primary chain rubbing on a thin headed screw.

 

Repeat strip down, fettle, re-assembly

 

Result = Primary chain rubbing on a thin headed screw.

 

Puppers is now patently Peed-off and is sulking whilst the Beeza lurks very nervously in the garage hoping-upon-hope that an advert doesn't appear on Ebay along the lines of:

 

"1939 BSA 250 Empire Star(ish), recently re-built engine, new wheels, new wiring, new battery, re-lined tank.  Transmission needs slight attention.  Wonderful patina and full of potential (they all say that ....)"

 

Status = GRUMPY!

[Grizz]

Uho…slippery slope..:😂

 

And Burny’s Big Beavers are smashing it out in the John Harvey Tavern…John Lee Hooker at the moment. 
 

 

 

 

[TheQ]

Evening Awl,

Knackered I am.

08:00 to 12:00 stopping car booters using the village hall car park. Many had driven past the car boot entrance signs. General duties after.

 

One of our club layouts had a major failure when the gaugemaster ddc master unit died.

Another of our layouts left after the show to a new home, and it looks like a second will go soon. We needed that, as we were accumulating too many layouts. This will also make the treasurer***"  a happy bunny.

 

I particularly liked our guest layouts.

 

We had a good attendance, certainly enough  to cover the hall costs. Therefore the second hand stall and tea bar moneys should help keep the club running.

 

Show closed 15:30,, we had dumped everything back in the clubhouse by 18:00.

 

*** Me.

 

Evening meal eaten , can of cider almost gone.. a lie down is required...

 

 

[Ozexpatriate]

9 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

it is a deliberate and cynical ploy to keep the “wrong” citizens from voting….

An awful lot of that does intentionally happen in some places, but I don't think it is relevant to the dress code for photographs implied in the article.

[Ozexpatriate]

9 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

One wonders why Bear Towers needs so many alarms. Surely, PB isn’t that paranoid? Or is it because Bear Towers is so old that it exudes Carbon Monoxide, Argon and other gasses on a regular basis and is prone to burst into flame at the drop of a hat?

Code here requires an operating smoke detector in every bedroom (or enclosed living space) and at least one in the hallway on each level. A carbon monoxide detector is recommended on each level.

 

That's how my home was configured. There are about eight of them (each a combination smoke / CO detector). They talk to each other when alarming, between the horrible shrieking and say "fire" and "carbon monoxide" when tested.

 

For insulation purposes, modern construction is close to airtight - greatly increasing the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning related to faulty or poorly vented combustion appliances (like fireplaces gas stoves, furnaces and clothes dryers). My home has two permanently 'on' extraction fans - one in the downstairs lavatory and one in the laundry (upstairs).

 

There is a lot of talk of mandating suppression systems (like sprinklers) in rental spaces. (They are required in hotels.)

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. The arthritis and sciatica are hiding and I'm not looking for them! Still feeling tired from yesterdays exertions so not doing anything that requires any effort. 

[southern42]

' evening all from red dragon land.

 

Slight change to plan this morning. Realising I needed to use the beat box (playing A=440 to get me in tune), I decided to forego any chance of recording so that I could get back into using the beat box. Er....why do I leave things so long? Hm. I asked that question, this morning! So, two things to use more often. 

🤣

Using the beat box was a bit of a ffaf to start with. The beat was too fast for the new song and and the amended speed was too fast for the other songs. I set it up for the new song, and used it for about an hour. Yup, the 8-beat line of music repeated over and over for an hour!  A few more sessions, without the beat box, and it is becoming more fluent. I did not say it was going to be easy... What I have found, right the way through, so far, anyway, is that the first bit, whether a song or an exercise, seems to take much longer to learn than the rest of it.  

 

 

[Two_sugars]

southern42 . . . . keep it up . . . those of us who still strive for the next tune, on whatever we play, . . . salute you.

 

 

John

[Coombe Barton]

3 hours ago, polybear said:

You weren't trying.....

I am VERY trying ...

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said:

I am VERY trying ...

 

Is that a professional opinion or just a personal comment. Just asking for clarity.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

Another day has been spent carrying out repairs to the workshop. By the time I packed up for the day, I’d given the south wall a second sanding, I then applied filler to the small cracks that were in some of the wooden pieces. I then made a start on the west facing wall. This wall has the door and windows in, so there’s a lot less sanding to do, but I did need to remove a section of decking to get at the lowest edge of the bottom pieces. Thankfully most of the paint on this wall is sound, so only a couple of small sections needed to be stripped. I shall carry on again tomorrow. 

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[southern42]

Just popped in, while my mugacocoa cools down a bit, to say, 

' night all and nos da.

[Coombe Barton]

3 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

Is that a professional opinion or just a personal comment. Just asking for clarity.

The only opinions of those who didn't think that way came from my dogs, and even then they were a bit undecided.

[BR60103]

Recent article in newspaper about the new underground streetcar line in Toronto.

toronto star may 16

 

The line is 19km along a pretty straight main road. They've been working on it for 12 years. There's no admitted finish date yet, although there are receding estimates.

This is the line that was built to P4 but they just found 800 meters to EM gauge.

 

If you can't access the article, a brief summary

CN Tower: Three years

Landing a man on the moon: Eight years

Canadian Pacific Railway: Four years

Hadrian’s Wall: Six years

The Roman Colosseum: Eight years

Panama Canal: 10 years

The London Underground (first line): Three years

The Channel Tunnel: Six years

War and Peace: Six years

 

 

and a few things that took a little longer -- I won't list them here.

 

[Ozexpatriate]

3 minutes ago, BR60103 said:

The [Eglinton LRT] is 19km along a pretty straight main road. They've been working on it for 12 years. There's no admitted finish date yet, although there are receding estimates.

Perhaps it will be completed before HS2 Phase 1 - currently planned for 2029-2033.

[roundhouse]

7 hours ago, Grizz said:

Uho…slippery slope..:😂

 

And Burny’s Big Beavers are smashing it out in the John Harvey Tavern…John Lee Hooker at the moment. 
 

 

 

 

We have sat in that corner of the pub a number of times.  Need another visit to Lewes in the near future.

[jjb1970]

There seems to be a general problem in much of the developed world in delivering infrastructure programs. 

 

We have design and manufacturing tools earlier generations couldn't dream of and computational power that allows analytical work that would once have consumed teams for weeks to do a tiny fraction of the calculations which are now done at  the press of a keyboard. We have far better control of materials technology, joining techniques, much more capable lifting gear etc.

 

Part of it is better health and safety management, but that can't account for all of it. More rigorous environmental controls, but again it can't account for all of it. And if I look at quality and longevity of a lot of old infrastructure relative to modern stuff it clearly isn't that we build to higher standards.

[Erichill16]

Morning All,

Early riser today through choice,  even though I’ve been awake most of the night.

Had breakfast etc and waiting to to pick bil and nephew up for trip to the big smoke. We’re going by coaches put on by the football club which are departing from the club at 7.00am for a ko at 3.00.

It going to be a long day particularly if the result doesn’t go in our favour. I’m a really bad loser, it’s not the ‘winning’  of the prize (moving up a division), its more not losing to (ie beating) the De-da’s from down the A61.

Anyway better get a move on, don’t want to miss the bus!

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl,

A poor nights sleep I doubt I've had 4 hours.

 

Part of the problem is aches and pains from the undercarriage. Cramp this morning just trying to put the trousers on.

A slow patrol with Ben the now sleeping Collie, as I hobbled about.

 

Plans for today counting my  the MRCs money. , I doubt legs will permit much more.