Including some ukrm appropriate workshop danger scenes.

https://youtu.be/wjGzUWlCK5s

ps, somehow, my videos [1] have had over 0.25 million views, thank you
for watching, commenting and sharing.

[1] although the most popular one is about a sewing machine

--
/Simon

siwilson <siwilson@nodamnspam.hotmail.com> wrote:
> Including some ukrm appropriate workshop danger scenes.
>
> https://youtu.be/wjGzUWlCK5s
>
> ps, somehow, my videos [1] have had over 0.25 million views, thank you
> for watching, commenting and sharing.
>
> [1] although the most popular one is about a sewing machine

That's impressive- I'll have to watch more of your stuff.

I thought I was hot stuff when Google said one of my photos has had
more than 50 000 views.

https://goo.gl/maps/LJ3p9JH8MiKurW8W9

https://goo.gl/maps/ryQ3F3JU5oNQhEjUA

The whale watching company consists of 3 brothers and a restored wooden
boat that was originally built by their father (and is now named after
him). Recommended if you want to whale-watch from Akureyri. 2nd pic
is one of the brothers, named Saevar.

I can also highly recommend the Opal, sailing from Húsavík, where
we had much better success in seeing whales, plus of course it's a
sailing ship which is a really neat experience in itself.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/t7B1Q2R1J9U2XwUD6

https://www.northsailing.is/the-boats/schooner-opal/

--
FJR1300A, GL1000, KLR650A6F, EX250J9A, DR200SE, Vespa Ciao

On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 12:19:03 +0000, siwilson
<siwilson@nodamnspam.hotmail.com> wrote:

>Including some ukrm appropriate workshop danger scenes.
>
>https://youtu.be/wjGzUWlCK5s
>
>ps, somehow, my videos [1] have had over 0.25 million views, thank you
>for watching, commenting and sharing.
>
>[1] although the most popular one is about a sewing machine

I had to fit & ream a small end for my first Guzzi after I, ahem,
trashed it through stupidity while doing other work. Think it was the
time a cylinder seized.

Luckily, Guzzis have split big ends, so I put an adjustable reamer in
the lathe chuck and clamped the big end to the tool post, or someting
like that.

I forget the spec for the parallelism with the big end, but it might
have been something like 0.1mm in 200mm.

I did it by eye and the engine ran fine for thousands of miles
afterwards.

--

-Pip

On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 11:02:44 PM UTC, Pipl wrote:

> I forget the spec for the parallelism with the big end, but it might
> have been something like 0.1mm in 200mm.

I believe it's actually 1 RCH in a furlong on Velocettes.

--
WUN

On 21/12/2021 23:21, WUN wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 11:02:44 PM UTC, Pipl wrote:
>
>> I forget the spec for the parallelism with the big end, but it might
>> have been something like 0.1mm in 200mm.
>
> I believe it's actually 1 RCH in a furlong on Velocettes.
>

Hah. There's one guy on a Velocette FB group having kittens that's it's
going to blow up on me. <Proud>. I have ordered a bit of ground rod to
put through it and I'll see if I can measure any difference in height
from one side to the other.

--
/Simon

On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:23:48 +0000, siwilson
<siwilson@nodamnspam.hotmail.com> wrote:

>On 21/12/2021 23:21, WUN wrote:
>> On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 11:02:44 PM UTC, Pipl wrote:
>>
>>> I forget the spec for the parallelism with the big end, but it might
>>> have been something like 0.1mm in 200mm.
>>
>> I believe it's actually 1 RCH in a furlong on Velocettes.

I had to Google that.

>Hah. There's one guy on a Velocette FB group having kittens that's it's
>going to blow up on me. <Proud>. I have ordered a bit of ground rod to
>put through it and I'll see if I can measure any difference in height
>from one side to the other.

I suspect that anything other than a sportsbike will be pretty
tolerant.

--

-Pip

On 21/12/2021 23:02, Pipl wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 12:19:03 +0000, siwilson
> <siwilson@nodamnspam.hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Including some ukrm appropriate workshop danger scenes.
>>
>> https://youtu.be/wjGzUWlCK5s
>>
>> ps, somehow, my videos [1] have had over 0.25 million views, thank you
>> for watching, commenting and sharing.
>>
>> [1] although the most popular one is about a sewing machine
>
>
> I had to fit & ream a small end for my first Guzzi after I, ahem,
> trashed it through stupidity while doing other work. Think it was the
> time a cylinder seized.
>
> Luckily, Guzzis have split big ends, so I put an adjustable reamer in
> the lathe chuck and clamped the big end to the tool post, or someting
> like that.
>
> I forget the spec for the parallelism with the big end, but it might
> have been something like 0.1mm in 200mm.
>
> I did it by eye and the engine ran fine for thousands of miles
> afterwards.
>

I reamed the small end I got made for the Giubeleo 98 'in situ' with a
hand adjustable reamer. That was after already drilling the oil holes. I
even managed to get them lined up.

It ran OK.

--
Moto Morini 2C/375, Moto Morini 2C/350
Gilera 175 Sport, Husqvarna 401 Svartpilen
1937 Sunbeam Model 14 250 Sports
"Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in the reality"

On 22/12/2021 23:16, Pipl wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:23:48 +0000, siwilson
> <siwilson@nodamnspam.hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 21/12/2021 23:21, WUN wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 11:02:44 PM UTC, Pipl wrote:
>>>
>>>> I forget the spec for the parallelism with the big end, but it might
>>>> have been something like 0.1mm in 200mm.
>>>
>>> I believe it's actually 1 RCH in a furlong on Velocettes.
>
> I had to Google that.
>
>> Hah. There's one guy on a Velocette FB group having kittens that's it's
>> going to blow up on me. <Proud>. I have ordered a bit of ground rod to
>> put through it and I'll see if I can measure any difference in height
>>from one side to the other.
>
> I suspect that anything other than a sportsbike will be pretty
> tolerant.
>
Or Good enough for St Phil Irving prolly - or knife-edge jig, orv block
and dial gauge. See pp 92-93 Tuning for Speed (1960 edition).He actually
cites Velos in that chapter (The connecting Rod and Big End). See also
'Truing and Balancing Flywheels'.

I heard a tale of an AJS single that had it's big end reassembled by
using a fire engine and a hydraulic jack.

--
Moto Morini 2C/375, Moto Morini 2C/350
Gilera 175 Sport, Husqvarna 401 Svartpilen
1937 Sunbeam Model 14 250 Sports
"Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in the reality"

On 22/12/2021 23:16, Pipl wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:23:48 +0000, siwilson
> <siwilson@nodamnspam.hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 21/12/2021 23:21, WUN wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 11:02:44 PM UTC, Pipl wrote:
>>>
>>>> I forget the spec for the parallelism with the big end, but it might
>>>> have been something like 0.1mm in 200mm.
>>>
>>> I believe it's actually 1 RCH in a furlong on Velocettes.
>
> I had to Google that.

Me too.

Talking of units, I ws surprised[1] to learn on the project I am working
on that the unit of chains is still in regular use.

[1]Sweller won't be

--
/Simon

siwilson <siwilson@nodamnspam.hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/12/2021 23:16, Pipl wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:23:48 +0000, siwilson
>> <siwilson@nodamnspam.hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 21/12/2021 23:21, WUN wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 11:02:44 PM UTC, Pipl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I forget the spec for the parallelism with the big end, but it might
>>>>> have been something like 0.1mm in 200mm.
>>>>
>>>> I believe it's actually 1 RCH in a furlong on Velocettes.
>>
>> I had to Google that.
>
> Me too.
>
> Talking of units, I ws surprised[1] to learn on the project I am working
> on that the unit of chains is still in regular use.
>
> [1]Sweller won't be

Unfortunately it appears that chains are not directly convertible:

https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html

--
FJR1300A, GL1000, KLR650A6F, EX250J9A, DR200SE, Vespa Ciao

On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:24:40 +0000, siwilson
<siwilson@nodamnspam.hotmail.com> wrote:

>Talking of units, I ws surprised[1] to learn on the project I am working
>on that the unit of chains is still in regular use.

Most summer Sundays up and down England, for a start.

It's also still used as a proper nautical application, being
relatively simple to visualise for close-ish vessels. How far is that
ship away? Err, 50, 60, 70m, can't be sure, but roughly 3 chains,
close enough.
--
Ace
http://www.chaletbeauroc.com/

siwilson wrote:

> Talking of units, I ws surprised[1] to learn on the project I am
> working on that the unit of chains is still in regular use.
>
> [1]Sweller won't be

It's quite a useful distance - especially as the railway is marked out
in 20 chain lengths.

--
Simon

Ace wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:24:40 +0000, siwilson
> <siwilson@nodamnspam.hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Talking of units, I ws surprised[1] to learn on the project I am
> > working on that the unit of chains is still in regular use.
>
> Most summer Sundays up and down England, for a start.
>
> It's also still used as a proper nautical application, being
> relatively simple to visualise for close-ish vessels. How far is that
> ship away? Err, 50, 60, 70m, can't be sure, but roughly 3 chains,
> close enough.

When driving, I tend to measure distances in lorry-lengths.

--
Geoff

sweller wrote:

> siwilson wrote:
>
> > Talking of units, I ws surprised[1] to learn on the project I am
> > working on that the unit of chains is still in regular use.
> >
> > [1]Sweller won't be
>
> It's quite a useful distance - especially as the railway is marked out
> in 20 chain lengths.

That's something I miss with the Metric system, the human factor,
length of your thumb, foot etc, area based on how much a horse can
plough in a day. What sounds better, kilowatt or horsepower?

--
Geoff

"geoffC" <me@home.nl> wrote in news:sq4pf3$8rb$1@dont-email.me:

> Ace wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:24:40 +0000, siwilson
>> <siwilson@nodamnspam.hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Talking of units, I ws surprised[1] to learn on the project I am
>> > working on that the unit of chains is still in regular use.
>>
>> Most summer Sundays up and down England, for a start.
>>
>> It's also still used as a proper nautical application, being
>> relatively simple to visualise for close-ish vessels. How far is that
>> ship away? Err, 50, 60, 70m, can't be sure, but roughly 3 chains,
>> close enough.
>
> When driving, I tend to measure distances in lorry-lengths.
>

is there a standard unit of lorry? Rigid, artic, 6 wheel, 8 wheel?

On 12/24/2021 7:42 AM, geoffC wrote:
> sweller wrote:
>
>> siwilson wrote:
>>
>>> Talking of units, I ws surprised[1] to learn on the project I am
>>> working on that the unit of chains is still in regular use.
>>>
>>> [1]Sweller won't be
>>
>> It's quite a useful distance - especially as the railway is marked out
>> in 20 chain lengths.
>
> That's something I miss with the Metric system, the human factor,
> length of your thumb, foot etc, area based on how much a horse can
> plough in a day. What sounds better, kilowatt or horsepower?
>
Is that a Shetland pony or a Clydesdale horsepower?

--
The erstwhile Thomas
FJR1300, R1200GS, ST1100 (in memoriam)

Turby wrote:

> On 12/24/2021 7:42 AM, geoffC wrote:
> > sweller wrote:
> >
> > > siwilson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Talking of units, I ws surprised[1] to learn on the project I am
> > > > working on that the unit of chains is still in regular use.
> > > >
> > > > [1]Sweller won't be
> > >
> > > It's quite a useful distance - especially as the railway is
> > > marked out in 20 chain lengths.
> >
> > That's something I miss with the Metric system, the human factor,
> > length of your thumb, foot etc, area based on how much a horse can
> > plough in a day. What sounds better, kilowatt or horsepower?
> >
> Is that a Shetland pony or a Clydesdale horsepower?

Welsh pit-pony apparently

--
Geoff

wessie wrote:

> "geoffC" <me@home.nl> wrote in news:sq4pf3$8rb$1@dont-email.me:
>
> > Ace wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:24:40 +0000, siwilson
> >> <siwilson@nodamnspam.hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Talking of units, I ws surprised[1] to learn on the project I am
> >> > working on that the unit of chains is still in regular use.
> >>
> >> Most summer Sundays up and down England, for a start.
> >>
> >> It's also still used as a proper nautical application, being
> >> relatively simple to visualise for close-ish vessels. How far is
> that >> ship away? Err, 50, 60, 70m, can't be sure, but roughly 3
> chains, >> close enough.
> >
> > When driving, I tend to measure distances in lorry-lengths.
> >
>
> is there a standard unit of lorry? Rigid, artic, 6 wheel, 8 wheel?

Rigid=12m artic=16.5m drawbar=18.75m (max) and I suppose I tend to go
for the artic sort of length, say about 50ft and a bit, just seems a
comfortable unit to estimate middle distance for me.

--
Geoff

On Fri, 24 Dec 2021 20:02:59 -0000 (UTC), "geoffC" <me@home.nl> wrote:

>Turby wrote:
>
>> On 12/24/2021 7:42 AM, geoffC wrote:
>> > sweller wrote:
>> >
>> > > siwilson wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Talking of units, I ws surprised[1] to learn on the project I am
>> > > > working on that the unit of chains is still in regular use.
>> > > >
>> > > > [1]Sweller won't be
>> > >
>> > > It's quite a useful distance - especially as the railway is
>> > > marked out in 20 chain lengths.
>> >
>> > That's something I miss with the Metric system, the human factor,
>> > length of your thumb, foot etc, area based on how much a horse can
>> > plough in a day. What sounds better, kilowatt or horsepower?
>> >
>> Is that a Shetland pony or a Clydesdale horsepower?
>
>Welsh pit-pony apparently

Being Welsh should make them great choral singers, but they're just a
little hoarse.

--

-Pip