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My hammer will get oil on the brake easy when it runs out of the shaft, I have to give it a wipe every 30 mins before it reaches the brake, when I am finished with it I jam a rag where the drip comes from, brake cleaner is good for getting the oil off the asbestos

A guy who replaces the bricks at the crematorium offered me a drum full of knee and hip replacements and pins and plates that were dug out if the ash pit.

You could fire the desert eagle one handed but probably pistol wip your self

A flint lock takes 2 hands to operate

Is your leg all good now? 

See Frosty the gun slinging attitude is alive and well

I have not been able to get this welder to work, the AC motor is about 3kw or more, my 11KW VFD will run it but as soon as you strike an arc the VFD shuts down. The rotory phase converter just stalls when an arc is struck, super annoying as I allways wanted a lincoln DC welder, I was thinking about converting it to run off a petrol engine.

Had to escape to the wife's folks place in japan. 

Finally got new half nuts feed, its an Atlas long bed made for the export market outside the usa.

I got given a whole lot of titanium bar the other day, not sure what to do with it

Good the rod worked out, we had an aftermarket crank pin fail the other day, got another made and it was 2.5K NZD, bike should have been at the pukehoe festival.

Bet no one knows where I am lol

I would need a certificate if I did fit a roll bar and seatbelts to show the work is upto standard and I have the original hood irons and canvas top witch is now fitted.

By law I can't fit rollbars or seat belts. It does over 70MPH, National park still shut to tourists and non residents which is good, roads are empty, beach is empty, the law prevents me from peddling anything I make around here to unless its through the gallery

Locals have dug this out with diggers, there is a 300ft drop now

That is the problem, people dont want to get there brand new tessla dirty when I am drifting round dirt roads in a car worth more than a brand new one.

On 3/2/2023 at 10:46 AM, Scott NC said:

  You can ride your motorcycle over those busted up roads, not?

I have been riding the motorcycle but I can get the car out now.

I was joking a bit but they do make it look good for tourists, I live in a very pore area, a friend of mine moved here from Texas and thinks its a bit of an lol,  The good things is we have a social welfare system and hospitals are free, I am getting money from being trapped by the cyclone but the council can't afford to fix the road 

On 2/20/2023 at 7:32 PM, George N. M. said:

Yeah, the only difference between you and Japan is that you are where the Pacific Plate goes under the Australia Plate and Japan is where the Pacific Plate goes under the Eurasia Plate.  That will make little practical difference when it comes to things like volcanos and earthquakes.  I'll still take my blizzards.  But I do REALLY want to visit NZ someday.  And if I ever got too fed up with the USA NZ would be close to the top of my list of where to immigrate, even with cyclones, volcanos, and earthquakes.

GNM

You probably wouldn't like to live here, its the Detroit of the south pacific

Talking about eruptions, some of the mountain are about 800 years overdue for an eruption, we have been getting a few earthquakes, we are on the same faultline as Japan.

Lucky I got a generator 2 years ago, its made life so easy as we get a powercut probably every month for 24 hours sometimes, I need to keep the fridge cold and the water pump lights going.

I have lived here for almost 30 years but in the last 7 it has been very hard with storms.

Our district just got hit by the worst cyclone NZ has ever had, many people lost houses, huge foods, our house and my workshop are fine but we have had no power or roads out and are getting air dropped food, we are way out on the coast, I had a 1949 BSA motorcycle in the shed that had been sitting for 12 years I got it going and was able to get through the slipped roads. Because we live on a small pore island the roads will be like this for probably years.

You can still find new old stock rolls of asbestos brake lining, they sell the modern equivalent to, if you can find a clutch and brake shop they have all different sizes, just wear a mask and do it outside.

I got x2 of those flywheels, the drill press had one under it S a base to.

Cleaned up the vice, was a super dirty job cleaning the threeds, at some stage soon I will forge a mount with the keys.