What have you done today thread?

[Silly Car]

Day three - contortionist exercise of adding fillets and tape to the joint between the hull and deck whick involved squeezing my head, shoulder and arm into the various holes in the deck.

Next was sanding the hull and rounding over the chines (joints between the planks) before covering the hull in fibreglass and resin. I also managed to build the hatch surrounds and covers.

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Tomorrow's tasks are to sand the deck and round over remaining chines, more fibreglass and resin, add the combing (cockpit surround), and finish off the hatch covers.

[ZRX61]

I have no idea how a 750 GPz750 fairing ended up on the bathtub

... but it is very clean now.

[Count Steer]

Given a significant chunk of the house tinted windows.

Read a few days ago of some bright spark that has (effectively) made shutters for his home using 'space/emergency blankets' on the outside. 'Actually, that's quite clever' goes my brainium....so I bought a bunch.

Today, stuck 'em on the windows at the back of the house with dobs of Blu-tac, cut to size so that I can still open the windows.

Well, colour me impressed! You can see through the stuff just like the thin layer they tint car windows with. Nearly baked in the reflected sunlight putting the stuff up - probably set fire to the garden Can just pull 'em off and stick 'em back up as required. (ie before it gets windy otherwise there be mysterious sheets of thin shiny stuff all over the village. Arf!)

Oh. It works*.

Bonus: The government can't scan my brain 'cos the house is now a tinfoil hat.

* So I've just done a window at the front too.

[gremlin]

I have loads of them in my FA kit.

I also have the one-time cold packs which, when used on the non-air conditioned train get you strange, then somewhat envious, looks.

Plus a bottle of water in the freezer at work will see me right for the 40 min journey*.


* on the proviso that I don't get on the train and suddenly realise that it is still in the freezer, at work.

[Yorick]

I have loads of them in my FA kit.

I also have the one-time cold packs which, when used on the non-air conditioned train get you strange, then somewhat envious, looks.

Plus a bottle of water in the freezer at work will see me right for the 40 min journey*.


* on the proviso that I don't get on the train and suddenly realise that it is still in the freezer, at work.

Wouldn't sir be in the air-conditioned first class carriage?

[Count Steer]

I have loads of them in my FA kit.

I also have the one-time cold packs which, when used on the non-air conditioned train get you strange, then somewhat envious, looks.

Plus a bottle of water in the freezer at work will see me right for the 40 min journey.

As proof of concept I got the cheap as chips ones from Amazon at ~£6 for a box of 6 (they sell boxes of 100!). They're a lot lighter and thinner (in this case a Good Thing) than the one that I gave excursions to up and down umpteen lumpy bits of geography for about 30 years and never had to use ).

Fortunately (although I don't actually care) they're deployed where the neighbours and passers-by won't see them but the postie will probably think we're a set for a low budget remake of some 60s sci-fi series.

So impressed with the performance I've future-proofed before the idea catches on (and I'm ready for the next few years) and ordered another 12.

[ZRX61]

Had big plans for the GPz750 today (fit carbs/pods, oil/filter change & get the bugger running), but instead I'm staying home & will be investigating the coolant leak on the ZRX11.

Then Dr's appt at 14.50 to figure out WTF I did to my left shoulder about 2 weeks ago... or at least get a referral to the right quack.

[gremlin]

I have loads of them in my FA kit.

I also have the one-time cold packs which, when used on the non-air conditioned train get you strange, then somewhat envious, looks.

Plus a bottle of water in the freezer at work will see me right for the 40 min journey*.


* on the proviso that I don't get on the train and suddenly realise that it is still in the freezer, at work.

Wouldn't sir be in the air-conditioned first class carriage?

Southestern Railways give fewer comforts to their passengers than livestock being taken for slaughter are entitled to under animal welfare law, me thinks.

[Noggin]

Forgot my plan to go to the local butcher and to the market today! Woke up hot (heatwave was on reprieve for the early part of the week) and my brian never recovered

So I drove up to resort and met a mate for coffee and a snack lunch (he had a wrap, I had guacamole - didn't "need" much food, so figured at least that ticked a lot of healthy boxes!!)

While I was waiting for him to cycle up from one of the lower villages, I got stung (bitten?drilled?) by a bastard horsefly First time I've been got by one of those in decades (lived on a farm as a kid, we had horses and a few cows, so often got bit then )

The cafe owner heard my squeal when I realised I was attacked, came and shooed the horsefly away telling me it was a tong and don't worry (it sounded like tong, its spelt taon!!) - he they explained what that was by saying it's a fly that normally bites the cows and since the cows have gone back up the mountain, there's a risk of them. Cue some laughs when I said - are you saying I'm a cow?? Took him a moment to laugh, so I didn't follow up with, I'm a mad cow, but it's not the same thing!!

Think I got away with it as I got an ice cube and just put that on the bite point until it melted - but not ideal!

Bought some full fat milk on the way home cos my stuff to help make the yoghurt arrived It's just too hot to contemplated doing anything else now, so the milk will stay in the bottle until tomorrow

30 degrees at 2000m - way too hot for a ski resort, even in summer

[ZRX61]

30 degrees at 2000m - way too hot for a ski resort, even in summer

39deg here at 750m.

[Yorick]

Prepped and painted the pool surround. Funny how a small job takes 3 hours.
Was nice to get half way round and into shade as sun was beating down.
The floor was too hot to even put hands on in thin gloves.

Painted the inner side by crafting a floating platform to hold paint tray and catch drips. Pool is 30c and was OK for the hour I was in there.

The special paint are through thin latex gloves i was wearing.
And the spills are impervious to white spirit.
I'll try petrol tmrw.

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[Noggin]

30 degrees at 2000m - way too hot for a ski resort, even in summer

39deg here at 750m.

Well yes, it's around that where I live which is 740m - but it very very rarely hits 30 degrees back up in resort, which is why I commented on it !!

[ZRX61]

Investigated coolant leak on ZRX11.. absolutely no sign of a leak anywhere, even pressurized the system. Bugger.

[v8-powered]

Pool is 30c and was OK for the hour I was in there.

Only 30c? Pool back in blighty is 31c today

[Taipan]

Investigated coolant leak on ZRX11.. absolutely no sign of a leak anywhere, even pressurized the system. Bugger.

I hate problems like that! I'd rather a flat than a slow puncture etc...

[Yorick]

Pool is 30c and was OK for the hour I was in there.

Only 30c? Pool back in blighty is 31c today

Is that with assisted heating?

[v8-powered]

Pool is 30c and was OK for the hour I was in there.

Only 30c? Pool back in blighty is 31c today

Is that with assisted heating?

Nope - heat pump hasn't ran in about 2 weeks, all solar gain...

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[ZRX61]

I hate problems like that! I'd rather a flat than a slow puncture etc...

I noticed coolant had sprayed onto the front/left of the gastank after I got home from the RockStore Kaw meet last month. There was also evidence on the frame down tube & top of the left fork tube between the triples. I cleaned it off & then on a recent 6-7 mile got a bit more on the frame tube.
There's is ZERO evidence of a leak around the engine, on the radiator, the hoses, thermostat housing etm.

So I guess another ride is on the agenda, I'll take it to the local bike night meet at Cycle Gear next Tuesday.

[Taipan]

Do people still throw chalk dust/flour over engines to find the tracks of the leak?

[Silly Car]

Day four - got to the workshop this morning to find the hull plywood had gassed (created bubbles in the finished fibreglass from air taped in the plywood released as a result of outer veneer softening slightly from resin and heat) so I've got around a dozen bubbles to sand out and patch before deciding on weather to paint or varnish the hull.

The only way to have solved the problem was to have cranked up the heating in the workshop to higher than the outside temperature (26°C) before the resin had started to cure to force out the trapped air and to pierce the bubbles and push them back down to the ply surface, then watch for any more appearing (repeating the same again) until resin had sufficiently cured to lock in any further issues.

Today, we sanded and glassed the deck as early as we could so we could keep an eye on it as it cured before applying a fill coat to cover up the weave of the fibreglass. A bit of a shame as we'd go the fabric on pretty much perfectly and the pattern was carbon fibre esq.

Fitted and clamped the combing ring, epoxied and glassed various components for fitting tomorrow.

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You can never use to many clamps! The grain of the sapele looks gorgeous and iooks very close to what it will be like when finished with varnish.