Ending up not buying the Jimny as it had a 450kg towing limit or somit stupid like that.
The Honda crv was a lovely motor, 2.2D with timing chain & it was a 4x4 shame as the misses said she couldnt park it
in town as its too big & no-one leaves any space to park. I loved it & it drove superb with plenty power.

Advantages of having a 4 x 4 is when u can’t find a parking space just drag them out the way, plus that’s what bumpers are for to make a bigger parking space 🤣🤣
 
Am suprised at the jimney’s as there great little off roaders , seen them go through off road obstacles where the bigger heavier motors couldn’t

See that many of the landies having a towing capacity of around 7,000 ilbs or 3.5T
That's why we bought our first one, not many vehicles easily accessible to ornery folk can tow that weight.
Yours can, can't it?
 
Couldn't you at least fill a kettle?
This is one of the massive disadvantages of not having a huge tank in the loft. As we found out in Froggyland when they stopped the watter. :(:(

When access was tight or not much room I put some of those coffin type water tanks in linked to one another to get a min of 50 x gallons , alas useto see 2 x tanks that were linked piped up wrong as many times where they put the incoming water mains and outlet in the same tank
 
Sadly was a bit premature with the second sewing machine. Despite the geezer advertising it as "working".
And my having tested it as soon as it arrived befofe hiding it away.
When W had finished playing with the other one, fixing a dress and programming it to stitch words onto a piece of material, she decided to make sure the other one was OK.
So she pluggged it, switched it on and the light came on then faded to "out" while a gentle burning smell ensued. :(:(:(:(
So Stan the "not electrical man" swung into action.
Checked the fuse in the plug, seemed OK, plugged it back into the other machine, twas fine.
So she goes off to do the dogs, and our, dinner.
I pop the machine on its back and unscrew 4 screws holding a plate onto the base where the power goes in. Total voyage of discovery.
There I beheld a kind of "pack" which once unscrewed further revealed a transformer surrounded by a circuit board with various resistors, a condenser (I think), what appeared like a glass fuse soldered in, other "stuff", a couple of contact switches, all of it connected to the rest of the machine with a ribbon cable.
I used a circuit tester to see if the coils around the transformer were OK, which they were, if the fuse was OK, which it wasn't or didn't appear to be according to the meter, although visibly it looked OK. All the soldered connections under the board seemed to be OK.
The smell seemed to be coming from this bit but I couldn't be sure. I also noted a slightly moist, maybe slightly sticky liquidish substance, hardly any of it but it was there.

Dinner was nearly ready so I put it all back together and tested it again. No luck.

So, somewhat peeved.:(:(:(

No idea what ohm rating the fuse is at, and not exactly sure how it is mounted. The glass wasn't smoky inside neither.

I won't have time to try and fix it before we leave and, as you know, this isn't stuff I have much clue about.
So it has become a supply of spares for the moment.

One thing though, she didn't press the pedal so the motor hadn't turned, which makes me hopeful the smell didn't come from that.

Ho Hum!

when we come back I think we'll have to find a repair place. :rolleyes:
Could be needing a clean out and re oil
 
Funny u mentioning that as I remember being told ages ago that green ash will still have a lot of water content and cause the chimneys to get more creosote than others that have been seasoned

Was just curious if that’s true or not plse , many thks
Ash has always been a highly prized firewood because it burns green that is when it has been freshly cut, This makes it an excellent fuel as was celebrated by Walter de la Mare .
 

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