What prevented you from working on your bikes today

[berger]

at last the morris hate/morris mmmmm has got its differential back in and prop shaft connected  , just before it hammered down with rain. I am now rained off . I wanted to get drive shafts in, wheels on , drop it down,  set handbrake and tighten shackles up and job DONE!! oh not forgetting the diff oil of course . so what can I do now? I know I will go to the pub

[madsens]

redoing/updating insulation, would rather be checking out the bike, but guess what, thats next on the agenda 😉

[RDfella]

berger - glad to hear you're on the home run. Those sorts of jobs can wear you down.

[Greybeard]

redoing/updating insulation, would rather be checking out the bike, but guess what, thats next on the agenda 😉

Who you gonna call!?

[Sav]

Saw the whisiowackerist over the new hip and told him I was targeting New Years Day club run for being back on a bike.

Was informed of the error of my ways and am now targeting Easter

[lawnmowerman]

Saw the whisiowackerist over the new hip and told him I was targeting New Years Day club run for being back on a bike.

Was informed of the error of my ways and am now targeting Easter

Hope you are back on your bike soon Sav. I am a Men of Kent VMCC member but have not been able to get to any runs this year due to a total rebuild of my kitchen 
Perhaps I will see you at the Wagon and Horses.

Jim

[Sav]

Cheers Jim, several weeks before I can drive and my lot from the Eastern extremities are not fussed about the W & H as it's 30 miles away.

[Swarfcut]

   Laid the base for a new shed last week, finished it with a raised edge.  Covered it with a tarp to keep off the weather. Heavy rain for the last few days....just went out, it looks more like a paddling pool. Like bergs and his axle, the rain lately has been real cause of frustration. It's a cheapo metal storage shed, so should go up pretty quick before the next rains. Famous last words......

Swarfy.

[muskrat]

PLEASE send that rain down here! I'll point it in the right direction. 35C forecast here on Friday and it's only mid spring!
Working on other peoples bikes 
Cheers

[lawnmowerman]

Plumbing the kitchen sink and water softener - and you thought that the oil circuit on an A10 was complicated 

Jim

[berger]

water softener??? your water must be well ard or you have a boiler house and power plant up here in Derbyshire we have lovely soft water -ish. depending on the additives they put in.

[lawnmowerman]

I am not too far from the white cliffs of Dover and the South Downs so loads of limescale. The good thing about the softener is that over time it actually descales the hot water tank and the pipework in the house.  It also seems to eliminate the smell of chlorine in the water.
Very clever piece of kit. It runs on water pressure alone - no mains connection, and has two filters, one in use and one on standby which has been automatically backflushed ready for use when the water flow meter decides to switch filters. It just needs to be topped up with two large salt blocks periodically. I think it uses osmosis to clean itself and flushes the waste products down the drain.
Damned expensive though 

Jim

[Black Sheep]

My water comes from a well. Soft water, no chlorine but I do wonder a bit when the farmer next door spreads slurry close to the well head...

[RoyC]

up here in Derbyshire we have lovely soft water -ish. depending on the additives they put in.

It's well ard here in Stafford, god knows where it comes from. 

[RoyC]

Been putting a new neck on a Stratocaster.