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I've been trying to clean out the cutting paste from the gearbox today. I tried flushing it with MTF (as that's what I had to hand) and it came out the bottom quite rapidly. It's a shame the casting doesn't have a lip around the input shaft, as then it could have a well of oil in its base that...

I'm not up on ancient lubricant specs, but I googled some of the numbers listed in the manual and, whilst you mention "grease", the lubricants in the manual (or those that still existed) seemed to be being sold in oil style containers. I may have got this wrong - I'm on my phone now and it's...

Its not something that i need to think about right now, and there is also little chance of me spending £500 on a gear, when it would be cheaper to get one custom made.

I found another photo from when i took off the lid - ...so someone had been enthusiastic with application but with a poor end result. Scraping through that top layer revealed perfectly yellow grease everywhere except for around the gears themselves : ( And here are a couple more photos...

I opened up the gearbox cover on my bao/s to find a load of pretty solid grease, that was entirely yellow everywhere other than the single area where the gears were turning, where it had turned into a metallic looking paste : ( Ie there had been no mixing whatsoever. On looking at the spec of...

Rayburn hearth Log burner hearth Large step Selection of window sills Outside threshold step thing Total cost - £30 on one full size snooker table and cues. The seller has previously tried to give it away but noone could move it.

They are damaged, but, if your machine is missing the parts, they would be a lot better than nothing - (fractures in outer skin, top and bottom, inner skin fine - would be good for brazing, i suspect) (you can see the damage - i may, possibly, have the bits, but im not sure) I have...

I'm on some plastering forums and, whilst it's not flawless, you would be astounded by what some people get stung for. On your job it looks like the corner bead hasn't come down the whole way to the lintel. This could be an error or it could be that the wall was imperfect and the bead, if...

I'm curious, for a selfish reason, how you chose the plasterer and what went wrong with the job? (I do bits of plastering so it's market research, I guess!)

Have either of you looked up the cost of OU degrees recently?

I said before how evreyone on benefits has the latest iPhone and people got upset with me. At least you agree.

I think the people of this country have had enough of experts

My mate down the pub. He works for MI5.

Year on year growth is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme. There's some numbers as to the number of tonnes of "stuff" a society needs to, basically, pull out of the ground to maintain X growth... You can argue about the numbers, but the undeniable reality is that above a relatively small number...

Yeah they do. With their latest iPhones, and designer trainers. Don't get me started on immigration. Do you know they get given a brand new car as soon as they say they have a child?

A lot of the builders yard slate currently is Brazilian. It comes in crates made out of some sort of Brazilian hardwood... I don't make stuff from pallets, but I think the snobbery around doing so is shameful. If the end result is attractive, I would suggest that the journey is up to the...

Superfire 2 if you want to spend money once. A cheap one that looks like a Superfire 2 if you're going to use it infrequently enough to only spend money once. I've had my Superfire years and years. I left it out in the rain once and the ignitor failed. I called rothenberger and the sent me...

I thought I'd try a stud extractor the other day. I've never had much success with them in the past. It was on a broken bolt on a turbo. I set up a, kind of, jig thing so I got a small pilot right down the center of the broken bolt. I enlarged it and screwed in the stud extractor. It...

You can install oil yourself, but not gas. If the works are the swapping of one old oil boiler for a new one, I'm not sure it's notifiable. BC are there to stop people doing crazy stuff but it is still tedious and frustrating to have to pay someone to come round and tell you that you've done...

I care for my tools, but, even still, if you're doing gypsum all the time, you'll get build up on the trowels. I guess gypsum has so many washing cycles, and you're always trying to get things done quick... Anyway, if you then soak a trowel with gypsum residue in water overnight, you can wash...