Hippo
Lord Hippo
Engrave yer name in them in several places.
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Eye ain't gorra nap on me cotton sheet. Hence why to balls run so far wiv a little tap. Yer can spend hundreds onner nooker cloff but eye din't know if me setup would wuk so we went for the cheap option. Eye ain't gottid pockets yet. Some creativity wiv cereal boxes has solved this. Board is 8x4 foot so 122cn wide which is a bit wider than most fabric rolls.
Yes thanks for asking.
I have checked that the throttle goes fully wide when fully actuated, and closes properly to the tickover rest position when released.
Since I last posted, I have, this morning, taken the carb totally apart and blown through all orifices with brake cleaner, carb cleaner not being available. Not much muck if any came out and all gaskets, diaphragm etc seem to be in good nick.
also burnt off the carbon on the spark arrestor, as far as I could.
Put it all back together and it is behaving exactly as before, i.e. apprently flooding as it will only run when I deflood it and start it, then it runs like mad for a few seconds before stopping.
I am now thinking it must be the plug, even though that seems to pass all continuity tests and doesn't seem to have a short due to cracked insulation. The gap is correct, it was only a fraction too wide.
(Received wisdom is to change them every year and it is still the original.)
It is behaving as if it is flooded, that seems to tell me that it isn't getting a spark sufficiently big to start it with a richer mixture. The mixture settings not having ever been played with, (although I admit that having made and fitted an air filter that will have richened the mixture a bit, so when testing I left it off) indeed I couldn't even alter the needle screws until I did the butchery yesterday.
The only thing I will not be able to play with will be the timing.
Slinging it down here and will be doing so for the next while.Dry n warm no sunshine yet..... (wishing)
When we came back from the shops yesterday we cast a really critical eye over the rendering on the outside of the house. We have galvanised guttering here and it is leaking all over the place. Flipping stuff, peeps tell us this is very common.
So when it gets dry I'll have to be up ladders with fibreglassing stuff. Yuk!
Am I ever going to get past fixing stuff?
Why fibreglass? If its galvanised tin gutters has it perforated, or is it leaking at the joints?
I have a 1930's galvanised valley (cheaper'n lead) on my roof and it perforated so was weeping into the attic. Roofing bloke gave it 3 coats of a rubberised paint like stuff and it's been fine ever since (Oh, shoot, now I've done it!).
Thanks for the tip!Why fibreglass? If its galvanised tin gutters has it perforated, or is it leaking at the joints?
I have a 1930's galvanised valley (cheaper'n lead) on my roof and it perforated so was weeping into the attic. Roofing bloke gave it 3 coats of a rubberised paint like stuff and it's been fine ever since (Oh, shoot, now I've done it!).
It originally started weeping in corners, now the end of one gutter has come off completely.
I like the idea of the rubberised paint. I'll have to work on what that is called in Frog! But the broken off bit I'll have to use summat like fibre glass to fix.
It looks cool and we thought being galvy it'd last a long time, wish we'd had plastic now! and weirdly it is leaking only on the North facing side. Mind that is the side where we had the Ivy/creeper stuff.
One gutter seems to be very blocked but that one is miles away from any trees. Maybe the down pipe is blocked have yet to go up a ladder and look.
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I have now found a product especially designed to grout/glue/fix zinx guttering, Only €14 and sold in a DIY place in the town we will be going to on Thursday, supposedly. So, happy about that!
It's basically like a mastic and comes in the normal sort of mastic gub tube.
It's basically like a mastic and comes in the normal sort of mastic gub tube.
Not being able to buy a plug for the strimmer until Thursday I decided to have a go at the Bosch dishwasher cyurrently taking up space in the hall.
Couldn't find the exact manual or YouTube for it, so am having to undertake yet another voyage of discovery. But I have established that they do have metal tanks, some of them. They also have a sensor that judges the clarity of the watter which might have had summat to do with why it didn't work.
They come apart and go together very differently to the AEG-Electrolux one. Much more "stick in and twist" rather than "shove a tube over the joint then put back on the circluar clip fing"!
Stopped for dins though. Sausage casserole with pasta!
Yum!
Have a good evening folks!
Couldn't find the exact manual or YouTube for it, so am having to undertake yet another voyage of discovery. But I have established that they do have metal tanks, some of them. They also have a sensor that judges the clarity of the watter which might have had summat to do with why it didn't work.
They come apart and go together very differently to the AEG-Electrolux one. Much more "stick in and twist" rather than "shove a tube over the joint then put back on the circluar clip fing"!
Stopped for dins though. Sausage casserole with pasta!
Yum!
Have a good evening folks!
Forgot to mention that it wasn't obvious how to get even the top off the Bosch DW, once done and the sides removed I found an old mouse nest in it!
The blighters seem to be able to post themselves through the narrowest of holes. I doubt if they'll have done much damage but I'll be looking out for it!
The blighters seem to be able to post themselves through the narrowest of holes. I doubt if they'll have done much damage but I'll be looking out for it!
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I was coming back to the east midlands from Wales yesterday and was delayed somewhat by a massive traffic jam that stretched most of the way around the A5 ring road around Shrewsbury. Eventually we got to the cause of the delay - there was an accident, which seemed to have involved a car and a lorry. What was interesting was that the car inhabitants who were sitting or standing at the roadside were all wearing pyjamas. There were police in attendance, and a man whom I guessed was the lorry driver was wearing a high-vis jacket and utility trousers with pockets on the sides. But the incident highlighted something I hadn't realised amongst modern social trends: the popularity of night attire whilst driving. Of course, the days of such accoutrements as bow ties and open-backed gloves are long gone, but everything's got very casual lately. Maybe they had gone out expecting to have an accident and had dressed ready for the ensuing hospital stay.
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