My week this week! My workshop videos.

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Hi Folks, After a couple of weeks up and down in the dumps due to colds and covid, I improve with the weather! The D type replica engine is in and the transmission gets more or less finished. Lots of goodies from Temu arrive and I find out what is wrong with the signal injector that I couldnt get a peep out of!Still cold and occasionally wet, but spring is slowly returning after a relapse!
Phil in Windy March East Yorkshire!

 

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Hi Folks This fortnight I managed about two days in the field, and one in the workshop, so a very mixed bag of phone and camera footage about as chaotic as my fortnight turned out to be! The rest of my time was taken up with spring chores, family commitments, a day bird watching at our local nature reserve ( a 5-1/2 mile walk in the countryside around our local water works at Watton) etc etc! With Emily now back at uni for the forseeable, I am hoping to get more done! Fun with fires in the field, and a day of antique repairs with Andy, whats not to like? probably most of it!! LOL
Phil, Still jumper weather in East Yorkshire

 

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Hi Folks! A mish mash of phone and camera this week, which never works well as my editing software does not like phone ! Will it start? of course it ****** will! A great relief to all involvedfootage! Commando gardening, bramble eradication, dead tree removal, and starting the Fordson after two years in't hedge bottom!
Phil, in pleasantly warm East Yorkshire

 

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Hi Folks, The Fordson goes grass cutting, the Westwood gets its seat fixed to stop Keith falling off the back (again) I take a trip to the top secret Austin Champ Skunkworks to see how the rebuild is going, and much bonfire commando gardening is completed!
Phil, in sunny spring East Yorkshire!

 

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Hi Folks, We are completely knackered! another week of field work, to catch up on what we didn't do last year because we were both ill! Health has returned, and with it just enough strength to reverse the nature takeover bid, and reach new heights of organised chaos!
Phil, in almost too hotto garden East Yorkshire

 

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Hi Folks,
A job that has been hanging around in the background nagging at me for some time! GRP is a very usefull repair medium which is excellent for odd shaped repairs and reinforcing of weak areas of virtually any rigid material. this video is a very basic "how to" for GRP ( glass reinforced plastic) Enjoy!!
Phil, in cool and rather overcast East Yorkshire

 

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Hi Folks, A mixed fortnight of electronic repairs, field work and drive construction, it was hard and hot work! We ran out of gravel and the good news is there is another three bags arriving on Tuesday, the bad news is that it is going to rain all week!!
Phil, the monsoon cometh in East Yorkshire!

 

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Hi Folks,
I finish the drive at my Langtoft house, and then get blagged by an old mate to "look at" a Fender guitar amp! I have some experience with guitar amps, mainly ******* the ****** things about when I was roadyfor a few local bands, and being an electrical engineer, had to jump into the breech and fix them when they started playing up before or during a gigI However my forte is not electronics, and this one needs component level diagnostics, but thanks to some brilliant info on the net, circuit diagrams and signal paths, I got stuck in and faults appeared and will be dealt with! I am awaiting the three capacitors to be delivered, and when they arrive I will fit them, do another test, and see how much nearer to full sound we are. This amp appears to have been driven hard and put away wet!!
Phil, in the East Yorkshire monsoon!

 

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Hi Folks,
Football maybe a game of two half’s, but this was a week of two days due to me being down with a stomach bug! Thursday I finished the Fender Guitar amp, and it has gone back to its owner, and Friday I went to my mates house in the wilds of Easy Yorkshire to fix a three phase spindle moulder which had developed an annoying intermittent fault! Looks like the monsoon is almost over and its back to scorchio summer weather!
Phil In the wet oven of East Yorkshire!

 

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Hi Folks, We got some field work in before it got to hot, and then Andy arrived Thursday with his usual batch of antique repairs including some lathe and milling work, and some unfeasibly small mig welding that worked a treat!
Phil in super scorchio East Yorkshire!

 

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Hi Folks, Three days of chainsaw and burn gardening, followed by some machining and welding antique repairs! To round off the week my SIL and I fix up and electric scooter for her to zoom around the private estate where her husband works. It was abandoned in a stairwell with a knackered battery, and flat tyres, and we managed to turn it into a goer! A fun week, I do like to see a pile of junk arrive and a working machine leave on the same day!
Phil, in hot and sticky East Yorkshire!

 

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Hi Folks, It has been so hot! Almost as hot as the seventies!! Last week we did some field work, but I have not included that in this video as when I looked over it, it was same old, so it was going to be Andy's antiques Repairs, but when I got back and sat down at the computer, it had quit! long story short, it was actually the monitor, but it's all in the video, including antique repairs on a global scale!
Phil, in still scorchio East Yorkshire!

 

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Hi Folks, A short week but a long video! Only two days in the Workshop, a long day of antique repairs with camera shy Andy, an analysis of what went wrong whilst trying to concentrate in 27 degree heat in the workshop, and fitting a rebuild kit to my Rothenburger blowlamp which TBH has never lit reliably since being new, all will be revealed!
Phil in superscorchio dry East Yorkshire.

 

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Hi Folks, Another short week as the local council closed the road for two days to resurface it, and I could not get to the workshop! The Peavey amp is a see if you can fix it job! and it turned out very well indeed! Got some more D type done, and apart from the exhaust, the chassis is finished! It has been very hot here, and hard to work, certainly working outdoors was not an option, but it will soon be cooler, and then I will be moaning about that too!
Phil In the East Yorkshire desert!

 

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Hi Folks, had an interesting Monday digging a hole looking for a potential leaking water pipe, and couldn't even find the pipe, let alone find a leak! Luckily the rest of the week was filled with far more pleasant workshop jobs, and Friday was a day with Andy fixing antiques! He brought his tethered race car to show me, but it's not for sale!!
Phil, monsoon 2, wet again in East Yorkshire