Man Tool used at last

My Aldi compressor. Number One Son managed to pick up a nail in the
tyre of his 250, and the compressor was called into service yesterday
evening.

Coo, it makes the job easier. I had one of those little electric pumps
before and while it worked, it used to take an age to get the thing up
to the sort of pressures necessary to seat the tyre bead properly.

On a related note, I was gloomily contemplating the prospect of a
seized spindle and/or buggered fasteners when it came to hoicking out
the back wheel, because I don't think it's been out of the bike for
years and years, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that
everything came undone and went back together smoothly.

 

You used your man tool on number one son?

That answers a few questions, I suppose.

 

Doesn't it just? Soon, you'll find all sorts of other things it will be
useful for and you'll realise you need a bigger one.

 

I gave my little 7l compressor to the mate that gave our daughter the
MZ, not only as a 'thank you' but because I knew he has many wheels to
look after (several bikes and cycles, combo and trailer). He also
agreed how much better / faster it was for tyre inflation (which we
probably all knew but may not have fully appreciated till we got one).
;-)

He then treated himself to one of the Aldi (was it?) rattle guns and
successfully undid 6 sprocket nuts that didn't seem to want to move
with a conventional spanner. He said it took the compressor two goes
to get back up to pressure but at least it worked.

I'm prolly gonna to stick to electric tools for anything I can still
do that way ... like angle grinders and big wire brushes / drills etc.
Running a 3KW compressor on long tasks isn't as economical as a 1500W
mains tool.

T i m

 

Had the bathroom floor tiles up with the Aldi air chisel. Going to have
a go at spraying shortly.

 

TOG@Toil wrote:

Wotcha.

Mine lives in garage No.1 - and I now have enough airline to reach up to
garage No.4. It makes life a lot easier, I wish I'd bought one years ago.

 

<Rubs hands>

A double garage will be mine in about a months time[1], tools such as
this will be purchased - oh yes!



[1] Together with bigger mortgage etc

 

A word here to those who haven't seen Wolfie's Garage Empire.

When I went to collect the MZ, there was a trike poking out of one
garage in the row. Something else in another. The MZ and a ShiteOldBSA
or something equally horrible in the third.

"How many of these lock-ups are yours?" I enquired.

"Oh, most of 'em..." was the careless reply. And he wasn't joking.

 

The Older Gentleman wrote:

Wotcha.

There are eight garages bunged onto the side of my house. I have the first
two, another biker type fellow has the third, the fourth is unoccupied, the
next two are mine, a chap from across the estate has the next and the last
one is also empty.
The garage at the bottom of my garden is not mine { how bloody silly is that
? }- it's not being used, yet the fellow is still paying the rent on it. I
do know the address of the fellow who rents it ( one of our club members
works for the rent dept. ) but I ain't approached him yet.

 

If I could get my hands on a lock up and I was confident it was secure
enough for bikes I'd probably keep my outfit in one rather than
selling it.

 

Try as I might, I couldn't find a lock up to rent last autumn. So I
built a shed at the bottom of the garden. Three solos are squeezed in
there, but an outfit would have required major surgery on the door.

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There's a lane passes by the back of my property, on the way to a
large area of allotments and a couple of rows of garages. As it passes by it
debouches onto a cul-de-sac with a a row of four garages on each side. To
the left, one block of four is surrounded on two sides by my property. I'd
_love_ to buy the block off the local council.

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Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:

Wotcha.

I'd _love_ to buy the block off the local council.

That would be my ideal plan.
The one at the bottom of the garden to start with - then the other eight.

NEXT ------- THE WORLD

<<takes medication>>

I'm alright now.

 

Have word with your local council/housing association.
There are currently several vacant here in the village, you obviously
have to pick a less pikey area. 5.78 per week here.

 

Just think how many trikes youcould have!

<Waits for Woflie to double his meds>

 

There are at least 4 of these still in my local Aldi if anyone is still
after one.

 

The Older Gentleman wrote:

Wotcha.

Just one.

One big one.

One VERY BIG one, wiv lots of cylinders an stuff.

 

An update on the Jump start pack from Lidl / Aldi (I can't remember
which) that I bought a while back.

I got it because one of the long term off airport parking places managed
to flatten the hoooge battery in my diesel Citroen. When my local garage
checked out the car and battery afterwards, the car management computer
had registered that just about everything had been turned on and played
with.

So purchased and not used. Would it work if it happened again?

There are some ex council houses not far from me with all but three
privately owned. They are traditional old Norfolk ones with half acre
back gardens. A single mother and her kids moved in to one of the
council places and their little lad knocked on my door. I had the
feeling he had knocked on each door in to turn.

"Have you got any jump leads and can my mum borrow them?"

So I lent him some jump leads and off he went.
Five minute later he's back. Can we borrow your car as we need the
battery.

"Er No but I see what I can to."

I wander over with my yellow box with leads on it and find she has just
got a new Mercedes diesel ( OK 18 months old )and the kids have been
playing with all the electrical bits radio on etc., plus she said there
was a problem with the alarm system etc.

Anyway I connected up the cheapo box of tricks. Waited for about 3
minutes and said she could try staring it. And it did! Not spun over at
high speed but with enough energy to get it going.

Result!

 

Yep, had one for a few years now and it has pretty well started
anything that was gonna start pretty easily.

The one I have atm isn't very good though, fine if it's just come off
the charger but iffy if it will do what it should if it hasn't. The
trouble is a new 17Ah gel battery (as often fitted to these things) is
more to replace than buying a complete new unit.

I was thinking of getting a sealed small car battery and grafting it
into the back of this current pack instead if the internal one. *big*
bike batteries seem to be loads more expensive.

The one that would start anything is the 12V @ 800Ah battery, as
fitted in my electric car. ;-)

T i m

 

On a related note, I managed to leave an interior light on in the Subaru
and this flattened the battery. Not totally, but enough. The Doctor
couldn't get it to start yesterday, but forgot to tell me and didn't
mention it until 11.30pm last night :-/

Jumped the car off her Micra and gave it an hour's run. Seem OK now. The
odd thing was that the on-board display changed the fuel consumption
from mpg to litres/100km and it took me bleedin' *ages* to figure out
how to change it back, as this vital info wasn't in the manual.