Recent content by Rural53

The worst sound in the workshop is when you drop something in an engine bay and you don't hear it hit the floor!

It looks nearly factory made because I didn't make it :D A guy on our biggest 4wd forum about ten years ago, pre FB, made a few of them for himself and his mates. Someone posted one on the forum and so many people wanted one he made about another fifty of them and sold them.

"Pin Socket" to undo/do up the lock rings on Nissan Patrol front wheel bearings.

The British generally didn't produce steel or have heavy industry in India. They had a protectionist policy and used India as a market for their factories at "Home".

I've worked with some fairly good contractors. Generally they get it right. The consultancy I work for are the bridge managers for a Highways Agency. Until recently I ran the bridge maintenance contract. The issue I had occasionally was the contractor not actually being able to fit the rebar in...

@kbuhagiar, necromancing an old thread! Did you work out what it was?

Does it have a number on it? If no one can identify it in the Workmate thread I'm temped to say it is not a Workmate item but something from an entirely different industry that just happens to fit in the Workmate holes.

And their answer had better be "Rip it out and start again".

At ten years old I'm wondering if your Viair 444 is just tired. My on-board air system used two Bushranger compressors. It got pulled out when I sold that vehicle. If I was building that system again I would probably splash out on an ARB twin motor high output (6.1 cfm) compressor or two of the...

As others have said you need to keep the water off the road. We build our sealed (paved) roads with 3% crossfall and unsealed roads with 5% crossfall. As for material, for an unsealed road you need to have enough fines in it to bind the material together. Regular grading is a must.

While we are talking boat motors... For a ski racing boat.

I'm also afraid of heights, but I find working off a scaffold a piece of cake. Even when it is hanging scaffold 40' in the air....

Be very careful, Alfas can be addictive. This is the part of my old boss' collection that won't fit at this house and he has to lease storage for in the same building we use to park our work vehicles.

Don't try and grind with a cut off disc, when they explode they will go though 3/8" fibrolite (asbestos) sheeting. Edit: outside of the garage!