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- Tue Jan 06, 2026 9:37 pm
- Forum: Shed / DIY / workshop / Gardening
- Topic: Swisstrax lookalike workshop flooring
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3168
Re: Swisstrax lookalike workshop flooring
Google roof protection tiles. Hard wearing used on balconies and walkways. You might even find a few cheap from a local roofer if he overstocked
- Tue Jan 06, 2026 9:31 pm
- Forum: Motorbike chat
- Topic: Punctures…
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3173
Re: Punctures…
Beancounter attracts punctures like flies on a fresh cowpat on a hot day. Think his record for puncture repairs in one tyre is 6 would have been more but i've seen more tread on a boiled egg.
- Tue Jan 06, 2026 9:27 pm
- Forum: Motorbike chat
- Topic: Any Bike Changes for 2026?
- Replies: 97
- Views: 4705
Re: Any Bike Changes for 2026?
Like Didge long time Burgman 650 owner owned one for 14 years not the same one mind. Generally always owned 2 bikes in case one broke but in December decided to own just one and as the burg weighs more than a dingy full of migrants decided on the Forza 750. Quite pleased with it
- Sun Nov 02, 2025 6:59 pm
- Forum: Motorbikes for sale
- Topic: Burgman 650 2014
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2958
Burgman 650 2014
Grand bike wants for nothing. A sofa on wheels
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/bike-detai ... 0117070063
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/bike-detai ... 0117070063
- Thu May 08, 2025 9:19 pm
- Forum: Mechanics, spanners, twiddling and twirling tools
- Topic: Miracle laser welding - Phony or real?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 847
Re: Miracle laser welding - Phony or real?
There's a guy on YouTube got one it's nowt but a soldering iron fecking useless one at that
- Sun Feb 23, 2025 4:20 pm
- Forum: Shed / DIY / workshop / Gardening
- Topic: Lathes
- Replies: 4
- Views: 389
Re: Lathes
For rust cleaning I found a recipe on YouTube which worked extremely well. 1L water 100g citric acid 63g of baking soda after 45 minutes and a swipe with a wire brush everything cleaned up like new.
Is that a case of adding the Baking Soda 45minutes after you've made the citric mix, or do ...
- Sun Feb 23, 2025 2:39 pm
- Forum: Shed / DIY / workshop / Gardening
- Topic: Lathes
- Replies: 4
- Views: 389
Re: Lathes
So turns out the lathe was a bitsa head and tail stocks of a prism lathe and bits and pieces cobbled together. I donated it to a chap who can use some of the parts gear wheels etc. For rust cleaning I found a recipe on YouTube which worked extremely well. 1L water 100g citric acid 63g of baking soda ...
- Sat Feb 15, 2025 3:09 pm
- Forum: Shed / DIY / workshop / Gardening
- Topic: Lathes
- Replies: 4
- Views: 389
Lathes
So got given a lathe. No idea on lathes and :banana-dance: one is a box of bits. Can't find any info on it as it pre dates life as we know it. I believe it's 1920's as the only thing I can find relating to the maker is one leaflet. It's a Carson made in Halifax Canada.
No idea if it's all there ...
No idea if it's all there ...
- Mon Feb 03, 2025 8:59 pm
- Forum: Shed / DIY / workshop / Gardening
- Topic: re laying old quarry floor tiles?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 400
- Sat Jan 04, 2025 12:14 pm
- Forum: GENERAL MAYHEM
- Topic: 3D printing
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1434
3D printing
Anyone had some stuff 3D printed? Is it expensive? My company runs transit custom vans and the panels below the fuel filler disappear regularly due to a shit design of the clips. Ford want stupid money for them just wandering if 3D printing was a option.
- Wed Dec 11, 2024 5:34 pm
- Forum: GENERAL MAYHEM
- Topic: Hip ops
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1832
Re: Hip ops
*Not a typo :-)
I've been struggling with Osteo in both hips for about 18 months now, diagnosed about 6 months ago by xray.
Been doing physio and taking neproxen and most of the time doing day to day stuff it's not too bad but get cramps that wake me up and it a bit of general stiffness now and ...
- Sun Dec 08, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: Motorbike chat
- Topic: How's yer driveshaft
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2657
Re: How's yer driveshaft
Drive shafts breaking. Know if one lad 57 plate GS whose shaft snapped smashed the swingarm and spat him off at 80 mph he survived with missing skin and broken fingers
- Sun Dec 08, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: Motorbike chat
- Topic: How's yer driveshaft
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2657
How's yer driveshaft
So BMW have told USA owners of certain models their driveshafts could be a bit meh! Anyone in UK been notified of this small problem?
https://www.advrider.com/bmw-will-repla ... iveshafts/
https://www.advrider.com/bmw-will-repla ... iveshafts/
- Thu Jun 27, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: Motorbike chat
- Topic: Suzuki TL1000s - specs, questions!
- Replies: 62
- Views: 2535
Re: Suzuki TL1000s - specs, questions!
I had a 99 version sexy black. Carbon cans K and N air filter officially dynod at 115bhp at the wheel so not too shabby. V994ENT. Would post a pic but no clue how to.
I owned it in 07/08 it's still taxed so still on the road
I owned it in 07/08 it's still taxed so still on the road
- Tue May 21, 2024 8:56 pm
- Forum: Mechanics, spanners, twiddling and twirling tools
- Topic: Tool for checking sparks....
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2972
Re: Tool for checking sparks....
Twist a bit of wire round the plug body make a hook on the end stick the HT lead on, hook it onto a convenient point
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:10 pm
- Forum: Shed / DIY / workshop / Gardening
- Topic: Getting glass really clean
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3029
Re: Getting glass really clean
Try CT1 good shit as the sealer we use it at work.
Sticks like the brown stuff on a blanket
Also.
CT1 with its unique hybrid polymer formulation has no solvents and therefore will not harm any fish that nibble on the sealant, which is often the case. Many aquarium repair and installers use CT1 and ...
Sticks like the brown stuff on a blanket
Also.
CT1 with its unique hybrid polymer formulation has no solvents and therefore will not harm any fish that nibble on the sealant, which is often the case. Many aquarium repair and installers use CT1 and ...
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 6:38 pm
- Forum: Staying Alive / Survival Skills
- Topic: A day out in Devon
- Replies: 6
- Views: 570
A day out in Devon
Safe link
- Thu Feb 09, 2023 11:09 pm
- Forum: Mechanics, spanners, twiddling and twirling tools
- Topic: Recommend Me A Drill
- Replies: 19
- Views: 760
Re: Recommend Me A Drill
Makita Sds plus a Jacobs chuck for normal drilling mines 25 years old and done site work and core drilling still going strong.
- Thu Feb 09, 2023 11:06 pm
- Forum: GENERAL MAYHEM
- Topic: Insurance peeps help
- Replies: 4
- Views: 283
Insurance peeps help
So had a bad accident in November non fault broken bones yada yada yada still off work. Still no settlement offer on bike or clothing. Injuries will take forever. However asked the insurance Company to get a settlement for my clothing but "they" say the rules say you need a medical before any ...
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 4:19 pm
- Forum: GENERAL MAYHEM
- Topic: Car park fine and debt recovery agents?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1052
Re: Car park fine and debt recovery agents?
The Popla act 2012 allows the theiving bastards to go after the registerd keeper if they can't identify the driver. So they resort to ghost ticketing by putting a ticket on the car taking a photo then remove the ticket. A month later they send the registered keeper a letter telling them it is now ...
