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« Reply #9090 on: December 12, 2016, 07:47:48 PM » |
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« Reply #9091 on: December 13, 2016, 06:16:47 PM » |
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Had a surprisingly easy day at work today -which just happened to coincide with the local Mayor's annual Christmas visit to the sorting depot -so we were all out delivering early for a change. That meant I got finished on time, so was able to nip over to Wiltshire this afternoon & drop the exhaust headers off at Torque Technique.
Should be ready by the end of the week, but it night be next week's day off, (Friday), before I can get back to collect them.
The masking tape shows where the new bends need to be.
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« Reply #9092 on: December 13, 2016, 06:17:18 PM » |
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« Reply #9093 on: December 13, 2016, 09:39:07 PM » |
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Your paranoid which is what comes with living in a big city/town I'm afraid? You can't stop the buggars but can slow em down,should they decide to take anything  Yeah keep your camera handy and take photos of them all - faces and numberplates! |
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« Reply #9094 on: December 15, 2016, 10:28:55 AM » |
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I've been tempted to, but that'd probably cause even more confrontation. To be honest, it's not that bad, just annoying, & as you say Stinkey, just part of living in a large town. There are people about everywhere, all the time. If I look out of my bedroom window at 2 or 3 in the morning, (I'm a bit of a late night person), there'll still be people walking by in the street outside. I'm starting work early each day in the lead up to Christmas & when my alarm goes off at 4.30 there's traffic outside & other people going about their days. We're a 24 hour, people everywhere kinda society now. I suppose hoping for uninterrupted peace & quiet at my garage in the middle of a large housing estate's expecting a bit much.
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« Reply #9095 on: December 16, 2016, 12:35:58 AM » |
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Have you seen that strange bloke who pushes motorbikes around Basingstoke late at night ? Now that's one strange chap?  |
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« Reply #9096 on: December 16, 2016, 09:12:16 AM » |
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« Reply #9097 on: December 16, 2016, 09:44:34 AM » |
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Some say he has a lair, somewhere down a one-way street.
There are an intrepid bunch of hunters who drive around trying to find him.......
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« Reply #9098 on: December 16, 2016, 11:08:53 AM » |
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They had better hope they don't find him, because, "he knows where you ALL live!"..........................  |
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« Reply #9099 on: December 16, 2016, 11:36:45 AM » |
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« Reply #9100 on: December 16, 2016, 06:55:14 PM » |
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Heard he's a Mean Monkey ?
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« Reply #9101 on: December 16, 2016, 10:47:25 PM » |
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Nah -I heard he's a luvvly Monkey.
Had a call from the exhaust chap this morning to say the modified headers were ready. I didn't finish work till gone 4, but fortunately he lives next door to his workshop so was still around when I finally got there at 5.30, (thick fog around Salisbury this evening).
Up till now, he's done a nice job of welding various flanges & pipes together for me, but I think he must've rushed this job, or given it to the apprentice or something. Didn't notice till I got back home to Hampshire & had a good look at them, that there are some quite deep angle grinder gouges & low spots in the welds. Nothing that can't be sorted with a little more weld & some time with a handfile, but I can't be arsed to go all the way back, so will pay Mr Loony a visit some time soon. Still waiting for a local engineer to drill & pin the kickstart for my bike & Loon offered to weld that for me, so I'll get him to do it all at the same time, (I've got a small reel of stainless wire he can use). I could do it myself, but it's not worth the hassle of running an extension lead from a neighbour's house for a couple of minutes of welding.
Looks like the re-angled pipes will give me some much needed extra clearance for the front wheels though, to reduce the turning circle a bit.
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« Reply #9102 on: December 18, 2016, 12:17:08 PM » |
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you know sorting other people's cock ups costs double! |
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« Reply #9104 on: December 18, 2016, 01:43:02 PM » |
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I haven't had an invite to the new workshop yet -I'll bring flapjacks.
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