Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Nicknoxx That's the theory, but I can't make it happen. Perhaps my eyes are fucked. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer As featured in Performance Bikes WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer
Cheapest bike lifts around are from Machine Mart. Specially on their vat free days/evenings. They cost 300 quid vat free. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
You have to blink 50 times a second, although I suspect 25 times a second with alternate eyes would also work.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Switters And a right **** if you drop a tiny pingfuckit. My workshop is floored with loft boards over 1" battens with the spaces below filled with 1" expanded polystyrene. The boards are painted. Nice and warm and (if I could only see the floor) relatively easy to find dropped stuff on. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer As featured in Performance Bikes WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ Probably depends on the carpet. In the 'pre-Mrs WUN' days when I had my lathe and workshop on my spare bedroom I used to find that stuff buried itself in the carpet. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer As featured in Performance Bikes WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer
We have presses wot make things on rolls and have to ber particularly choosy about the lighting - if the flicker rate matches the (variable) rate of the machine, it can appear static. I've had it demonstrated. This effect could apparently cause untold personal damage if the operator didn't realise the press was running. HOW THE OPERATOR WOULDN'T REALISE THE PRESS WAS RUNNING GIVEN THE FUCKING RACKET THEY MAKE, is beyond me. I'll ask our spanner monkey if he has any numbers. -- Dnc B12, ZZR11 A6 2.5TDi V6 Quattro Sport MIB#26 two#54(soiled) UKRMMA#26 BOTAFOT#153 X-FOT#003
With guards or covers on them if possible. Garage lights tend to get whacked occasionally and you get showered in glass shards.
High noise environments (even with hearing protection) can be disorientating, especially if the operator is doing a repetitive job.
Not fast enough. You need to put a strip light over a pedestal grinder to see an accident waiting to happen.
Cue for pingfuckit story. I was working on the jetting of the new carbs for the Nordie and was altering the needle height. Tiny little pingfuckit that clips on to the needle decides to go AWOL. Not to be found on the bench, so I spent ages grovelling about with a bright torch on the nicely painted garage floor trying to find it. Started emptying out various open containers within pinging range having had previous experience of the uncanny ability of such little blighters to unerringly take a trajectory of the most unlikely direction. Gave up and decided to regroup to consider bodges with bits of wire and the like so as to be able to compete the next day. As I was taking off my overalls said pingfuckit emerged from my trouser turn-up. So a properly equipped workshop should feature turn-up-less overalls fashioned from smooth textile. When once foolishly doing some work in a hurry on the lad's KX65 in a dirt surfaced hangar I also found a metal detector a godsend. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Moto Guzzi Mille GT/Squire RS3 Gilera Nordwest | | Gilera GFR Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
Or you can get one of their trolley-jack style bike lifts for even less. I think I paid about 130 quid for mine. They're rather good if you're removing forks and stuff like that...
Oddly enough I've just asked a similar question on the chopper builder forums as I want to stick a compressor in my garage, mainly for painting bikes. Let's just say that the comments from some people regarding the machine mart stuff was a tad less than favourable, especially as MM doesn't seem to quote the FAD numbers (that's the actual air output, they do quote the 'how much does it suck in' numbers). Bloke wot knows suggested that to drive my 4cfm HVLP gun, I'd need a 1hp compressor, for a 6cfm DA sander, approx 1.5hp. From looking at plenty of sites, you'll get up to 2hp on single phase, above that you're pretty much looking at three phase. If you do have 3p in the garage, I'd get an ex-industrial compressor... As to tanks, the rule tends to be the bigger the better... I'm actually trying to find one with an upright tank because they take up a lot less floor space. Unfortunately they're a lot rarer as well.
An alarm (keep the pikeys out) an Electric Heater, and a variable speed drill. When you are still out there at 2.00 am, trying to be quiet they are a must have. Brian Day
