AVAS.. Poor Yorick! ♥️🎱

[tooSavvy]

Bootiful Day 🌅

..... nothing strenuous 🚀

Up through Creswell [Creswell Ices 🍦, double sugar cone 😋], on to Alnwick, then Bamburgh Castle.... Lots of mist, quite gothic tbh!

Steam back down the A1....

Joys 👍

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[tooSavvy]

Today, I have been mostly...... Doing spacers 😮

Problem with the Astra fwbrg is that it rotates front and back, the bolt in carrier must be 'suspended [on pillars]/spacers+long bolts' if you want to spin the bearing 😐

It took a while, and lots of jiggering about, to get the hub secured in place on the B&D drill stand... the T-Slots were a help, pre cast into the base 👍

Once I had the bearing cranked up tight, I dropped the disc on [back to front, in this situation] and swung the power drill around, locked the Carbide Cutter in the chuck >> I need the drill mount to swing at the fixed cutting height BUT need to lock it to ensure a precise cutting pass around the disc 'inner dia' (of the bell... It's 1mm a side too small to go over the hub 🤬)

I have a piece of steel clamped on the vertical pole and it serves to hold the drill/cutter dead on height for a pass.... Rock On 🚀

By the time I got all this set up.... Lunch Time 🍽️👀

..... I've put it all away now and can pick a *sunny day to finish off 🛠️

Helpfully 😉... When I've completed the cutting pass = flip disc over and PROVE it now fits ✔️

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[tooSavvy]

Carlisle, slow jaunt....

Bootiful Day.... Tizz true 🏝️

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[tooSavvy]

..... Absolutely Stonkinn 🏝️

Lunch sorted, now away to Penrith 🛣️

So warm, So bloo....

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[tooSavvy]

79k oil + filter coming up....

Mannol £18.95, filter £6.95.

Looking sunny in the coming weeks 👍

Up ramps + @loserone AdBlu tub 😉

*first crank of my *modified Oil Filter Socket 🔧

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[tooSavvy]

Completed my 'buzz/skim' of the new discs.

They both fit nice & neat on the Vx hub! 😉👍

..... now to sort out Kev, for the bearing + discs/pads ✔️

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[tooSavvy]

Following my *successful 'buzz/skim' of my new discs.... My faithful [and VERY old] 400w drilling machine conked... with an impressive 'exodus of Lucas smoke!' 🫤

My trusty charge card, never to sleep in my hand, was brought to bear on this item...

£20 $hite, obvz.... But it has a metal gear casing/variable speed knob/fixed trigger hence a shoe-in for pillar drill duties 🥂👍

Will report further, when doing mods to my Lathe 😋 project.

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[tooSavvy]

Pillar drill sorted.... 🔧👀

Steel 'rod of truth' checked to be central in base/perp 👍...

Custom retainer, to fix drill into frame...

And wire hose clip holds the drill hard against the body stops ✔️

Now ready to do modding on the Lathe project 😋...

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[tooSavvy]

Had 'insp' pop up on the dash trip....

Utoob hitup....

Brake ON, Button IN >> Ign....

W..A..I..T.. >>&.     - - - -  bars 👀👍

Sorted 🛠️

*Miles 78,860 = oil drop @79,000 due 🔧

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[tooSavvy]

Given the weather forecast, over the coming days...

@loserone AdBloo tub to the fore >>>>

My *custom shortened Oil Filter Socket performed admirably 🥂

My c/htg copper pipes, joining my tx oil cooler bodge-up, are looking weathered but resolute 👍

Slight top-up to the coolant but likely evaporation near 20k 😮

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[tooSavvy]

Had a run out today.... Lovely weather 🏝️

Out A69, past ExSycamore Gap, at Greenhead the fuzz had access onto the main A69 blocked off... All traffic our way sent round by Birdoswald! 😮

We carried on straight through to the back of Brampton, right towards Longtown and then a left down towards Carlisle.

Doubled back towards Newcastle along A69 but fuzz blocking the road still... Sending us all back down the back roads to Gilsland 🙄 >> fu#k that!

Left turn and back along to Low Row (crossing the rails twice), right back to Carlisle then turn up @Lanercost cross roads, up towards Alston...

Take the road to drop down into Haltwhistle >>> back into cruise mode along A69 dual & home.

163 miles...

 Fab run out (... and I know all those roads 😉)

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[tooSavvy]

Carter bar.... En route to lunch 🍽️😋

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