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Member Videos / Re: My week this week, my workshop videos!
« Last post by hermetic on Today at 10:12:56 AM »
Hi folks,
A week of rain and shine, and repairs to everything! we forcibly remove the top from the Westwood battery, top it up with steam iron water and give it a charge, and it returns to life! Keith has cracked a rib so is a bit under the weather, so we revert to light duties, and do some shed repairs, and I fix a compressor with a massive earth fault in more ways than one! VIDEO GOES LIVE AT4PM BST!!
Phil, In damp autumnal East Yorkshire
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Member Videos / Re: My week this week, my workshop videos!
« Last post by hermetic on October 10, 2026, 05:53:41 AM »
Hi folks,


Another mixed week of field work and workshop tinkering. The weather proved better than predicted, but that is not going to last forever, and we are almost finished with field work for the year, and the truth is we have almost finished all that we hoped to achieve this year, and probably some that was spur of the moment, unplanned "lets do that"! It is looking amazing!  Friday we tackled a job that should have been done ages ago! The faithful Westwood has been used for several years with no reverse gear, which makes it really hard to get out of tight spots, and impossible to cut backwards, which it will do! The fix turned out to be much easier than expected! Video will go live at 4PM BST!


Phil, in blustery damp East Yorkshire.


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Member Videos / Re: My week this week, my workshop videos!
« Last post by hermetic on October 03, 2026, 02:51:30 PM »
Hi folks,
Monday was new tyres on the Volvo for MOT Tuesday, so my week started on Wednesday with three days of hard physical slog in front of us clearing an area that has probably about 15 years of bramble growth over the top of mixed garbage and timber! It was a hard slog but the worst is over and all we have to do now is undergrowth removal and chainsawing! We will overcome!
Phil, in sunny and a bit too warm for work East Yorkshire!
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Tools / neww mini mill
« Last post by kayzed1 on September 27, 2026, 02:51:46 PM »
Hi all,, i had to get rid of my 626 milling machine this year as i needed the space in the shed.
so i started to look for a mini size machine and settled on the Amadeal/Harry's work shop
VM28H it is a rebadged Weiss machine with uppy downy motor drive plus side to side motor
drive....Plus it runs on ball screws so it will help with my Arthur-rite-us :lol: Trouble is i am
on number two delay now told it will be here with me on the  12th of November.

https://www.amadeal.co.uk/acatalog/VM35L-Ball-Screw-type-Milling-Machine-R8-Belt-Drive---Brushless-Motor--123456754389.html#SID=469
like this one but with the motor drives.
Lyn.   Can't get here fast enough.
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Member Videos / Re: My week this week, my workshop videos!
« Last post by hermetic on September 26, 2026, 09:23:13 AM »
Hi folks,

The week begins on the Frank steam Cleaner which now has a fully functioning water pump, now that I have discovered that water does not flow uphill! the burner needs setting up, all the circuit mods I did ages ago are working, but the burner is poor and smoky, which is down to poor fuel atomisation due to low delivery pressure at the pump regulator, I see a 0-200 psi gauge on my shopping list! All was going well Thursday, I was happily strimming away whilst Keith was grass cutting, and then he drove over to me holding half the mower blade in his hand!  We eventually got it fixed as the blade is a long obsolete pa! Video goes live at 4-00pm BST

Phil, in mellow fruitful East Yorkshire!

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Member Videos / Re: My week this week, my workshop videos!
« Last post by hermetic on September 19, 2026, 02:22:38 PM »
Hi folks,
We get a load more work in the field completed, in fact, further than we have ever got before at this time of year! I strip the hot wash pump, and make a cock up putting it back together! I will have it right!! With lots of Fordson Major action! Rain stopped play late Friday afternoon with only another hours work left!
Phil, getting worked up in East Yorkshire!
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Tools / Re: Old machine tools.
« Last post by timby on September 12, 2026, 06:35:26 PM »
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/772292115716524/?ref=browse_tab&referral_code=marketplace_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks

This Cromwell smallpeice lathe  is for sale in West  London  at a very good price considering the reputation that they have. 
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The Water Cooler / Re: This neck of the woods
« Last post by John Rudd on September 12, 2026, 11:21:05 AM »
Been a while for me too....In fact a general absence for me from other 'boards' too..

Not a lot happening workshop wise either, just a lack of enthusiasm..Loss of a couple of loved ones has sort of killed the 'fire'...
Trying to enjoy life with family in between times....

Once this year is out things might change...one can only hope...

So to y'all out there take care...
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The Water Cooler / This neck of the woods
« Last post by Joules on September 12, 2026, 10:18:05 AM »
Been a while since I last strolled around here.  Enjoying retirement and the car, in the workshop most weeks making Odd's and sods to fix, bodge or otherwise hold the universe together.
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Member Videos / Re: My week this week, my workshop videos!
« Last post by hermetic on September 12, 2026, 10:17:02 AM »
Hi folks,
We start the week with the cleanup after the Wicani Jamboree, the marquee comes down, and all the stuff is put away till next year. Then its back on to field maintenance, removal of some dead Elder trees, some canopy lifting, and a general tidy up of what is virtually the last area of undergrowth that we are going to clear! We stand in danger of finishing all the field work for the year! Video goes live at 4pm BST!
Phil, feeling a bit backendish in East Yorkshire!
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