My week this week, my workshop videos!

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Hi Folks,
 The electrician turns up at the house to do the EICR test and we have a few C2's!! correct within 28 days! so I fit a new consumer unit, find a fault and do some odd simple
fixes to the electrical installation. I get back on the D type transmission briefly, and it is beginning to come together! The 5C collet arrives to complete the next stage of the new shaft, so I might get back on to that next week, but the first priority is to get the new tenant happily seetled in to the house!
Phil, in biblical flooding East Yorkshire!

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Hi Folks,
 A short week due to getting daughters picked up from York, EICR's at the cottage and getting my new (to me) car delivered. It arrived, the cottage passed the EICR and My daughter dissapeared to her boyfriends! In the meantime there was tidying up, and antique repairs, with more to come, maybe next week! I lit the boiler in the workshop for the first time this year, and all worked perfectly! Then it snowed!
Phil, In snowy frozen east Yorkshire!

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Hi Folks,
 I spent most of Monday getting my new car on the road, having parked  the Outlander at Langtoft on Sunday, and got a lift back to Driffield! Tuesday and it was time to install the little fireplace woodburner for Lucy,  the new occupier of my Ratten row house. Quite an involved job to do it properly, but the result was very pleasing, although it was a tight fit! The new motor is lovely apart from the eu de dog which permeates the rear cargo space, but I will attempt to get it in the workshopnext week and give it a clean! The only thing not working seems to be the passenger door mirror which does not fold in or adjust, so I suspect a fuse, more may be revealed later in the week!
Phil, in rainy but not cold East Yorkshire!

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Hi Folks,
 The Title of this weeks pathetic offeringis an old familial saying stemming from my Grandmother from the East End who used to say, instead of slip or fall, "don't go a Gaby glide" a popular Dance craze when she was a lass in the 1920's ( she was the Essex Black Bottom champion!) I think the frontispiece was tacked on by my brother Mike! Well my week "went a Gaby Glide" and I got about a day and a halfs work done, in five days. The fix on the Volvo was very satisfying, although it took two of us to get the door off and back on, as they are heavy!! love the way they come off though, 2 bolts and one Torx screw! the build quality of Volvos has always been impressive, but I think the wiring harness on these leaves a bit to be desired, although door link cables give problems on all marques! If I do any more next week I will film it, but it is unlikely as I have a guy coming to pressure clean the central heating system on Monday and the car goes in to Lawson and Tompkin on Wednesday for a service and general look over! I will endevour to enjoy Christmas, as I encourage you all to do! Bah Humbug!!
Phil, in unseasonably mild East Yorkshire

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Hi Folks,

I have finished my annual hibernation and ventured back to the windswept wastes of Langtoft! Two little jobs, and back on the D type replica, workshop is lovely warm and tidy, so unless it snows, and as we come to the end of February thatis less likely, I will be posting videos again, weekly if I can get enough together, Hope you enjoy this weeks bag!
Phil, in cold windy East Yorkshire!

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Hi Folks,
Spring is here, meteorologically speaking, and I hope to soon be back to a video every week! There is upcoming field work as well, to get a head start before it all starts to grow like mad! This week I dive into the D type replica engine fitting, and make good progress. I use the two slot method to get the bearing plate adjustable in two planes and also add a slot for chain tensioning, but I stall out when the only milling cutter I have of the right size turns out to be as blunt as my A*se!! Thursday is antique repairs and another wide variety of antique metalwork to fix and fettle ready for the upcoming antique fair season! Thanks for watching and see you all next week!
Phil, in warmer and dryer East Yorkshire!

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Ok it?s threading for a minute I thought you left the key in the chuck. 

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Hi Tom, I try never to let my hand leave the chuck key without removing it, but sometimes I test myself to see if I am really conscious, or just drifting!!
Phil

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Hi Folks,

Something for everyone this week! milling, turning, Kitchenaid foodmixer rebuild, and a day of antique repairs I start to sort out some of the stuff "downstairs" and start on my Dads old photographic equipment. There a lot going on and its all in here!

Phil, spring has gone cold again in East Yorkshire

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Hi Folks,
After a couple of weeks up and down in the dumps due to colds and covid, I improve with the weather! The D type replica engine is in and the transmission gets more or less finished. Lots of goodies from Temu arrive and I find out what is wrong with the signal injector that I couldnt get a peep out of!Still cold and occasionally wet, but spring is slowly returning after a relapse!
Phil in Windy March East Yorkshire!

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Hi Folks
This fortnight I managed about two days in the field, and one in the workshop, so a very mixed bag of phone and camera footage about as chaotic as my fortnight turned out to be! The rest of my time was taken up with spring chores, family commitments, a day bird watching at our local nature reserve ( a 5-1/2 mile walk in the countryside around our local water works at Watton) etc etc! With Emily now back at uni for the forseeable, I am hoping to get more done! Fun with fires in the field, and a day of antique repairs with Andy, whats not to like? probably most of it!! LOL
Phil, Still jumper weather in East Yorkshire

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Hi Folks!
A mish mash of phone and camera this week, which never works well as my editing software  does not like phone ! Will it start? of course it bloody will! A great relief to all involvedfootage! Commando gardening, bramble eradication, dead tree removal, and starting the Fordson after two years in't hedge bottom!
Phil, in pleasantly warm East Yorkshire

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Hi Folks,
The Fordson goes grass cutting, the Westwood gets its seat fixed to stop Keith falling off the back (again) I take a trip to the top secret Austin Champ Skunkworks to see how the rebuild is going, and much bonfire commando gardening is completed!
Phil, in sunny spring East Yorkshire!

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Hi Folks,
We are completely knackered! another week of field work, to catch up on what we didn't do last year because we were both ill! Health has returned, and with it just enough strength to reverse the  nature takeover bid, and reach new heights of organised chaos!
Phil, in almost too hotto garden East Yorkshire

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Hi Folks,

 A job that has been hanging around in the background nagging at me for some time! GRP is a very usefull repair medium which is excellent for odd shaped repairs and reinforcing of weak areas of virtually any rigid material. this video is a very basic "how to" for GRP ( glass reinforced plastic) Enjoy!!

Phil, in cool and rather overcast East Yorkshire

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Hi Folks,
A mixed fortnight of electronic repairs, field work and drive construction, it was hard and hot work! We ran out of gravel and the good news is there is another three bags arriving on Tuesday, the bad news is that it is going to rain all week!!
Phil, the monsoon cometh in East Yorkshire!

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Hi Folks,
I finish the drive at my Langtoft house, and then get blagged by an old mate to "look at" a Fender guitar amp! I have some experience with guitar amps, mainly humping the bloody things about when I was roady
for a few local bands, and being an electrical engineer, had to jump into the breech and fix them when they started playing up before or during a gigI However my forte is not electronics, and this one needs component level diagnostics, but thanks to some brilliant info on the net, circuit diagrams and signal paths, I got stuck in and faults appeared and will be dealt with! I am awaiting the three capacitors to be delivered, and when they arrive I will fit them, do another test, and see how much nearer to full sound we are. This amp appears to have been driven hard and put away wet!!

Phil, in the East Yorkshire monsoon!