Lord Gruntfuttock

Yep, check cable operation/condition, adjust and oil, should be all good...

Oh boy. Sturmey Archer chat. There's heaps online about how different generations of them have different characteristics. Some of the earlier ones would find 'neutral' and disengage while pedaling leading to ball damage (rider not hub)...

Is the metro basically a twenny with bigger wheels?

With my boring sensible hat on, aren't spray booths supposed to have explosion proof fittings to avoid sparks igniting fumes...? You're prob fine if just drying parts in there tho...

Some big screws straightened things up a bit. Waterblasted the sheepshit and slaters off the old palings and it came together ok. Rough but sturdy, and at the back of the house so nobody will see it...

Got a bit of waste ground by the back door that's only good for weeds, so just banged up a woodshed that'll save a trip to the big one. All scrap timber from an old fence so only cost me some screws and a bag of cement... Got the piles perfectly level then discovered the 100 x 100s were warped AF...

1/24th scale hornets/nest in engine bay pls. They always seem to find em in American shows...

^ Those weird cutouts are for soldering gear, but normal tools quite easy, just cut to depth req'd and peel out shapes...

@h4nd's Weller soldering iron post reminded me I've been sorting tools lately. Bought a stack of tool foam from Temu, got half it as freebies, satisfying work. Just need a pen, ruler and scalpel...

How does one encourage their offspring into such things pray tell...?

Get into bonsai for further realism/wasting your life making silly little things...

Looks like my one. You can still buy different sized tips for em...

Just found them, were in my toolbox. Think I grabbed a yard or so of them from the engine room at a previous workplace. No idea if you can still get them but they're super comfy under a helmet...

How good... Sounds awesome. Weekend of tunes upcoming... Could be some albums getting an ultrasonic bath too.

Reason I got it out is I won a record on the radio, so keen to get my beer crate of albums out. I've ordered a new stylus for $30 and looking fwd to traumatising the kids with arcane music and the rituals in playing it... I've even got the smoked glass doors somewhere I think. Be good to refit them and experience the satisfying magnetic closing 'clunk' again...

Dug out my old Sanyo stereo system, circa 1981. Tape deck is koozed but rest of it makes a great sound. The cabinet however looked terrible, all the lamination had peeled in the sun. I pulled the entire top off, discovered it had a rough finish so smeared on some filler, sanded, brushed on some varnish and sanded again before applying some Temu woodgrain vinyl and trimming with a scalpel. Looks much better...

Which was east of Britain. Must have used the German description...?

Have you considered recreating the western front in your garage...?

That's brilliant. Question from a numpty. Can you simulate dents like you'd get on a working truck? I'm imagining using heat to create a lifelike fold in panels/bent grills etc. But sounds risky/easy to fuck up...

Scale model pest...

Greatest scene in cinematic history...

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE...

I've been creating...

Hope she made ring-ding-ding noises...

Lifeless, Leaky, Leyland...