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'Living with an old Synchro' and other tales from my shed.
DavidA:
This is the real killer.
Not the financial loss; tho that can be high.
It is the effort that is often wiped out. All for nothing.
And the psychological stress.
There is always that thought at the back of your mind that your privacy has been invaded and it can, probably will happen again.
A few years my car was stolen by someone who actually crept into the house and stole a coat which had the keys in the pocket, and I was sat less than six foot from the coat in another room.
For years afterward every time I walked out the house I half expected the car to be gone and subconsciously prepared myself for the discovery.
I supposed the correct phrase is traumatized.
But after eight attacks of this kind I suppose it is to be expected.
Dave.
tom osselton:
Where I am there is a back alley and then baseball / socker field. Some neighbours got together and put in some streetlights the cost gets split and put on your electricity bill. I had the garage redone on the outside and had this added to the roof for the video cameras I also have two led lights that come on at dusk that light up a good area.
The bad part is the summer people going to their games all looking at what you have!
Not to mention that piss poor lock on every garage! :doh:
DavidA:
When I first reported that my stuff had been stolen I wrote...
..No doubt I will find that some other bits and pieces have also gone. But I won't know which until I need them and can't find them...
and today I went out to get my 1/4" drive socket set. But it wasn't there. And I decided to carry on with the battery charging experiments I had been reporting here.
But there were no batteries in the shed. All ten of the old batteries had gone. Now I know why they stole the wheel barrow.
But there is a glimmer of light at the end of this dark tunnel.
Tonight a relation who has friends in dark places gave me the name of the thief.
It seems that a 'friend of a friend' has heard this villain bragging about his exploits. And the word has now got back to me.
So tomorrow I will go down to the local police station and pass on this info. Clearly I will not say from whom it came, but it may lead to better things.
Things may be looking up.
Dave.
JohnC:
Hello All,
I don't want to hijack David's thread, but I have acquired a Synchro 280 so am after any information. I have the Denford manual - which is not over informative! In the thread there is talk of removing the top cover - is this just held with the four cap head screws? I take it the speed control lever comes off with the cover. Also, is there information on the metric conversion, with a pitch table?
David, you have a pm
Edited to add: I'm on the Denford website and trawling through the mine of information there.
Many thanks,
John
Pete.:
Hi John.
The speed control lever has a nut on the end of the shaft underneath. Remove that nut and the lever will pull out upwards. You might have to release the speed adjuster nuts to effect this, or at least to put it back. Mind you don't lose the spring and plunger when you pull the lever out.
Four bolts hold the top plate down. It's flat underneath so you can actually undo the bolts and spin it out of the way without removing the lever. It might be stuck down with gasket sealer.
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