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Thanks Steve, that was absolutely amazing well worth the 1 1/2 hours, not wasted at all.

Gren.

Welcome back Ryan, great work on the Tich please keep the posts coming you have inspired me to continue working on mine after about the same amount of inactivity.

Gren.

Fantastic work Rod, keep it coming.

Gren.

Excellent setup Joseph, makes mine look a bit feeble at 1.2kW but it works well.

Gren

fantastic work Pat love the post glad you persisted, what a result keep up the good work.

Gren.

+1 for Danny's idea I have a large box full, more than adequate.

Gren.

I think it would be most unlikely that PA testing could have destroyed the circuit board unless as Michael stated "depends on the test characteristics" most modern approved PA test sets short together live & neutral and apply a 240v test between this connection and ground, the 500v test being used for 3 phase equipment, some of the very old sets did use 500v with mixed results, if the service engineer in the OP had eight failures in a short time this to me would point to a design failure unless all eight had been tested with the same PAT machine,

Gren.

+1 for the air fed visor, I have had a Sundstrom helmet for a couple of years and its the best thing since sliced bread, has a clear lexan visor under the welding visor so can be used dual purpose for grinding/ metal prep. & welding.

Gren.

Thanks Steve absolutely fantastic video well worth the watch.

Gren.

+1 for John's suggestion thermal inertia of filament lamps is to great for the eye to detect, neon lamps are the best but suffer from intensity, xenon tubes are better as used in industrial strobe units.

Gren.

Fantastic news!

Gren.

I think it may be an OHL tension indicator, overhead lines and catenaries expand and contract at different rates due to temperature fluctuations and the device indicates the effectiveness of the end of line counterbalance weights, the upper part of the disc is connected to the support catenary wire the lower to the OHL conductor.

Gren.

1966 paper round, up at 5am two hours to complete, good pocket money at the time, 1968 apprenticeship with British rail Doncaster plant works just missed being taken as an apprentice electrician, only six out of 84 I was seventh, not to worry after a month one of the apprentice electricians left to join HM Forces and I moved into the "cream" of apprentices, 1969 awarded apprentice of the year and awarded a £3 premium bond prize (which I still have) and it's still worth £3, fantastic! left BR in 1979 to join Crompton Parkinson Doncaster motor division because there were lots of lovely ladies working there on the production lines, went to university of Derby to gain a BSc in Igneous & metamorphic petrology at the age of 50, finished up for the last 15 years as site Electrical Engineer for Bombardier Transportation Derby and retired two years ago, apart from that it's been a little quiet but not boring.

Gren.

excellent work, keep it up!

Gren.

This may sound stupid but could it possibly contain a fire hydrant, just looking at the bottom pipe size!

Gren.

Bruce,

do you have any photos of the motor in question, I worked for Brook Crompton Parkinson fractional horse power motors division in Doncaster up to 1993 and may recognise the motor, Martin OW is possibly correct but as Dave H said, "fitted due to variations in tolerances", don't forget these motors were not precision items.

Gren.

I am with AJW on that one, I wipe my feet on the way out if I can find the mat!

Gren

You could try salt instead of sand, do the bending and flush out with hot water after.

Gren.

I'm with Oldiron for SikaFlex, held my Landrover together for 10 years +

Gren.

have you checked to see if you have a live and neutral at the RCD socket either one missing could result in a no reset.

Gren