Today I mostly .....

[excossack]

Collected a BT Home hub V2 off freecycle....Lets see if I can reflash it to work with any ISP.

[rob-o]

Put my French modded transfer case back together only go find I need to take about 0.5mm of the centre diff. Disassembled and back to the lathe... And it was going so well!

Rob

[Neil Chowney]

.... attended a private party in the Spinnaker tower, Portsmouth. Whole thing to ourselves for 2 hours. (well us plus the caterers obviously).

[excossack]

Was that the grand opening of Lada Parts UKs new HQ?

[Neil Chowney]

Welll I was tempted to put in an offer whilst I was there but deceided against it as the showroom would be a bit had to get to...... and there was no racking, or forklift access....

[rob-o]

Rebuilt my new transferbox (again!) went together perfectly this time. Seems a little stiff to turn by hand but I'm hoping this is because I've mixed different gears, from different boxes, with a mixture of new and old bearings etc etc.

Rob

[excossack]

Worked some OT at work.
Migrated some servers from one Virtual Environment to another.
Re-did some network cabling
Replaced some batteries on a UPS. Turned the UPS(APC 5000) back on and it tripped the circuit breaker in the machine room. In the end had to swap out the UPS with a spare (APC 3000) and this time didn't trip the circuit. So will have to arrange to get the sparks in to replace the breaker with a less sensitive one. Then replace the UPS with the correct UPS.

When I got home, I had a look to see why the drivers door on the Landy felt like it was not closed properly....The reason being was because one of the bolts that holds the striker plate in place had sheared so the striker had moved...So new bolts. For now I have take the ones from the back door., and finally oiled the seat runners

[Neil Chowney]

Got a couple of Halon ones if you're up for a challenge......

[excossack]

The last Halon's we had in work got set off by the guys replacing some of the roof tiles....Bang.! ceiling tiles fell out and some of the server ingested some of the dust from the tiles...Now we have some other system in place.

[excossack]

18 year old Highland Park £6.50 a shot....Yummy

[excossack]

Yep. home tomorrow.

[Zelandeth]

Collected and assembled a friends new recumbent tricycle for them.

Reckon a test run may be in order later on.

[excossack]

Collected a front loader for a MF35 tractor, loaded with a telehandler and unloaded by hand, well 4 people!

[excossack]

It was OK, hotel was nice.Not much in Girvan itself. Very little rain, no falling snow and some ice.
Some snow on the ground coming through D & G forest and over the hills.
Isle of Arran was wet....
Then came back down the coast, Cairnryan, Stranraer and down to the M74 > M6
Overall a good break.

[excossack]

I also picked up a 3hp Briggs&Stratton horizontal shaft engine, am thinking of ideas for it, use it as a compressor motor, have it run on hydrogen, use it to run a compressor motor as a portable petrol powered compressor etc.

A backup to the Peugeot engine?