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I found leaving the fuel tank cap off on the lawnmower over winter stopped the tank sweating and therefore rusting. Not the same as a small bore pipe though.

I do indeed have filters on my compressor for that, only £20 or £10 for the decorative ones that sort of work..

I wondered about steel boiler water treatment for the last steam up, but have no idea what that would do to copper boilers

Edited By Dave Halford on 04/10/2023 16:29:46

And the voice of hypothesis is of course the voice of the equipment supplier who ought to know what he's selling and why he's saying it.

Engine cranes sometimes won't go high enough without extending the arm to max and then the capacity drops.

The wheels aren't really meant to carry the weight so they stick a bit, then you push or pull harder and the crane goes with a jerk but the mill lags so everything starts swinging and bouncing.

If you do have to use a pump up pallet truck, overlap your boards if a wheel drops in between the two it won't come out in a hurry.

Assuming you already finish the year with a hot blow down would not running on air for a while get rid of any leftover water?

These days Billet, mostly due to the car modding world usage has come to mean anything not made from a casting, but whittled from the solid. So by extension any old lump of non cast metal becomes a billet, though round and flat bar & sheet have remained the same providing they still look like bar and sheet.

English has a nasty habit of moving on without us innit.

Someone once said there was an issue with under-driving a VFD so much. The earth leakage may be huge

If they are all 250v 3ph then a 4hp unit is all you need.

Now that is a very good point and one that annoys me no end.

Mikes link appears to be written by early doors AI for Amazon, in places it sounds like a bad interpreter .

• Add water to thin paint
• don't bake paint on steel, but alloy is OK
• Generally, it would help if you only baked paint for small projects to put the painted object inside the oven.

Does anyone know of a water based high temp paint?

You were supposed to bake Sperex for exhaust manifolds to cure it back in the day.

As far as faster goes If you apply heat to wet paint there's a chance you will seal solvents under a hard skin, which will blow the coating off as the trapped solvents expand

The motor power is not directly comparable

lifted from the Mini forum

Well, 1 mile = 1.609344 km, so 800TPK would mean 800 x 1.609344 = 1287 TPM

Which has no direct swap though the 1280 is close

Look at the site I linked to

If you input your current wheel size.

Then do as I suggested to get your final drive ratio and input that.

Then try each gear set in turn on the drop down and see if you get a speedo match in the results.

If you are still miles off, try a different wheel size etc etc

Hopefully your speedo will be a match to the rsult

If nothing matches you have something really odd

I guess you have seen this already Mini Speedo Calculator, how accurate is your speedometer? - Tom's Mini Site (tomsminisite.co.uk)

Yes they do, however if you buy direct from China and you have a failure the return postage is interesting. Buy from Vevor UK and you are covered by UK rules which means you can't buy an inverter drive for a motor any more as they aren't legal, but if you could it would be covered for failure. Their dro were also removed from UK sale for some reason.

It just depends on how big a gambler you are.

Assuming 4th gear is 1:1 ratio stick it in gear, mark the tyre with chalk, take the plugs out and rotate the flywheel 1 rev and see what the wheel rotations are. That will give you the final drive ratio of your box.

That said all you really need to do is track down the correct gear set for your car and fit it.

There's no harm in Ivy - ALLEDGEDLY

I put off glasses as long as I could, but eventually my arm wasn't long enough to hold a book and focus on the words.

JD2 you are just lucky with your genetics and you should consider that not wearing sunglasses (most have UV filters as do ordinary glasses these days) exposes you to macula degeneration due to UV damage.

All the above said the old belt drive Major is hard to break, but a pain to shift gear.

Having seen a Major in someone's garage it has to be said it's a big ole thing so check your workspace first.

Too long is otherwise known as too much waffle. Just try getting away with that in the workplace.

Some do, usually the difficult bits to achieve or hard to film

He comes on here from time to time