poxon
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Mate I can relate to this got a daughter in college now she’s not taking it seriously we had a word with her last week she said ok this week the last 2 days she was meant to be in college before braking up for Easter she decided she didn’t want to go in I get emails from college saying absent when I spoke to her she told me none of her mates went in then started giving me a load of shit about what she feels me an my misses went scorched earth at her I told her a few nasty home truths that she didn’t like I also told her I’ll be taking the phone I pay for I spoke to my old man (dad) her grandda
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Can always do English and maths at college mate that’s what I did when I left school I left with no grades couldn’t get a apprenticeship and couldn’t get on a mechanic’s course my first year I did English maths and information technology I done electronics an woodwork to fill the gaps in lessons throughout the week then welding in the evening for the first year by the second year I got on a mechanic course as my grades were correct probably about 8month in to the course I had to get work experience in a garage wasn’t long in to the work experience that the garage wanted to take me on as a appr
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Defo a good skill to have stood me in good stead knowing how to weld I’ll definitely be getting a tig welder for my little workshop but it’s at the back of the list for now as there’s a few other things I want to do first like rinsing my spare money on titanium and billet parts for this kx factory themed race bike I want to build my pocket money is taking a proper hammering
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I’ve done quite a bit of welding went to evening classes when I was at college doing my mechanics course it was a decent course I really enjoyed doing it there was a farmer on the course we got pissed off with welding flat bits of clean metal we ended up getting the farmers dads sheep panals in an any gates that need mending. Learning to weld is a good skill to have mig is a pretty easy skill to pick up and arc welding is pretty easy just make sure you clean/grind or cut back to clean metal and have a good earth or else is spatters I wouldn’t bother with gasless welding it’s pretty cheese I wa
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oven cured mate i heat taped were the bearings fit as I didn’t want it playing about with the tolerance an sprayed one hub at a time to make sure i could get round everywhere the hardest part was getting a covering we’re the spoke heads sit as you got 2 head position pointing one way an one the other as these talon hubs have a strange spoke pattern not like normal wheels but was definitely a enjoyable process I’m gunner be doing a few other bits soon when I restrip the bike down like brake calliper,power valve cover,clutch side caseing
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That’s what the link dc posted on Wednesday was saying mate its a load of shit ain’t it I can’t see how someone that keeps a small flock for eggs is a problem tbh I can understand these large commercial units having to register as there’s ££££ an someone has to foot the bill for losses or subsidys or contracts not met but with the amount of migrant birds carrying it there never control it plus the amount of poultry products imported that have lower standards than the uk it’s all a waste of time I personally think it’s a form of taxable control coming to the normal man that wants to live
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Cheers fella I done these ones all even hand nipped up then marked the first spoke up with a bit of masking tape near we’re the valve for the inner tube then tightened every 3 spokes quarter of a turn with a spoke key till I’m back to the original spoke then add another bit of tape to the next spoke and go round every 3 again till the beginning this process is repeated 4 times you don’t have to wrench on the spokes just nip them bit by bit evenly or when you come to true the wheel on a trueing stand it’ll be all over the shop up down side to side you gotta remember if your over tighten say 12
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Yes mate bit fiddly and time consuming
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There the excel rims I’ve had powder coated
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Party time hope they turn out half decent burnt bronze is the colour I went for
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Anything I want to do or want to see how it’s done I use utube it’s a brilliant tool for insight an information.Good on ya mate that’s the way gotta have a crack your self if not your paying silly prices for someone else to do it
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suppose to be real hard durable stuff on the read ups I’ve done on it your have to pop some pictures up once it’s done mate
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Cheers mateMate we all gotta learn somewhere I watch a lot of how toos on utube it’s like a lot of these specialist skills once you see how they do stuff you think to your sen that don’t look to hard to do bet with a bit of practice I could do just a good a job. Nowt wrong with the rattle can stage king just had flashbacks of my youth talking of rattle cans many of dodgy£10 bmx bikes were sprayed black
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No not done any of that king . these ones were gold anodised but they were aged and golds not really my bag tbh I’ll have a look in to anodising might be a new skill to learn for future I want to learn how to zinc plate next for my next bike I get as a lot of bits are becoming unobtainable for some of the old 2stoke motocross bikes I see you can get DIY zinc kits on eBay so might get one over the summer to play about with
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Not really had a lot to do with hares as we ain’t really had any on our land for about 20 yrs but me an a mate dropped on some on our land we see 8 on this massive field they’d obviously been dropped off there at some point and had been breeding as it’s keepered land we’d had a shit night we thought it’d be rude not to take a run each we were expecting a long descent run each for our dogs they were caught with ease to be honest i didn’t think there was anything sporting about it they ran strange like they were lost or didn’t know we’re they were going couple of turns an they were done the bit
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Vaseline works well to trapping red mite I used to breed red canarys for the show bench and I used to use wooden box breeding cages originally before going over to Italian wire cages the wood ones are bad for harbouring red mite I used to use Vaseline on the back of the nest pans when breeding and on the end of the wooden perches
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It’s expensive stuff I bought a little kit it was £200 you get 3x 4oz bottles of colour plus a syringe of hardener
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Any of you lads ever done any ceramic coatings on guns/cars/motorcycle's? I’m gunner be having a go at coating some billet wheel hubs at the weekend it’ll be my first time using the stuff I’m a little nervous because I want to make a really good professional job of it I’ve glass media shot the hubs in the sand blast cabinet keeping the bearings an dust seals in so to not play with tolerances I’ve degreased them then baked them in the oven repeated twice to make sure for no grease I’m looking for any hints an tips would be appreciated? I think this is a good a place as any as I know many on her
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Sounds abit like another form of control over people that keep a few for eggs tbh
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My misses dad used to do his fence every summer religiously he’d probably not done it for about 5yrs before it was removed he’s getting on abit he’s in his 80s but was still a solid fence when removed used to crack me up when I used to go up there in the summer there used to be a stong smell of creosote you’d look at the fence it’d look like it was bleeding of creosote. I do like the smell of the stuff though
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Brilliant stuff mate nothing wants to eat in to it or f**k with it he said paint it on on a hot day so the wood don’t contain any moisture it draws it in. he reconned that’s what the original telegraph poles are done in sort of makes sence as they have a long life span
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Good to keep red mite at bay when I was in the poultry trade we use to do the roots bars with it
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My misses dad used to mix used engine oil and creosote he made a fence out of old pallets at the back of there garden the bloody thing stood nearly 40 years till my mother inlaw decided it was time to get some fence contractors in to put a modern fence up.he was pissed when he realised he couldn’t get proper creosote no more he said this fence will be rotted out within 5-7years he recons the modern stuff shit
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That’s what I said mate
