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| udderlyoffroad Member Since: 18 Jul 2011 Location: Bristol Posts: 124  
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I stripped down an air rifle on the dining table the other day...I'm not a complete heathen though, I did remove the table cloth first!
Missus: "Why can't you do that in the garage" Me: "Because the workbench is full of dirty Land Rover bits, and guns need to be kept clean" Missus: <sigh> Matt Real trucks don't have spark plugs |
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19th Dec 2013 1:02pm |
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| Will.I.AM Member Since: 16 May 2013 Location: Hertfordshire Posts: 413 
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i have an r380, a diff lock rebuild and a 1.22 gearset going in in my bedroom, also this is where i keep my ms 880 coz it could get nicked!! My bedroom is the only one upstairs in our house, so i get the luxury of space!!
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19th Dec 2013 1:21pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17372 
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I am rebuilding a very old and very large steam crane, and as a result my kitchen has seen a range of unusual overhauls (steam turbogenerator, injectors, feed pumps etc). It was interesting getting the overhauled bottom block/hook assembly out after overhaul - it weighs about a ton (and the kitchen floor now dips down towards the middle for some reason)!
Think how dull the world would be if we were all "normal" though. |
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20th Dec 2013 9:03am |
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| cornish rattler Member Since: 31 Aug 2013 Location: Manchester Posts: 642 
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In the past I have rebuilt a series 3 petrol engine and a rover P6 V8 engine in the dining room on a make shift engine stand
 Graham
1988 Defender 90 county 200tdi ( Beast ) Paul Walker 1973-2013 ( I Almost Had You ) |
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4th Jan 2014 9:23pm |
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| Knot-yet Member Since: 21 Nov 2013 Location: N. Lincs Posts: 39
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My girlfriend is all set to move in once I get back home on leave, so the days of my house being used as a garage annexe are sadly numbered.
She has mentioned that the two outboards motors in the downstairs toilet will be the first to go. Followed by the dinghy mast and rigging at the side of the stairs (too long for the garage) and set of sails from the wardrobe. She wasn't too impressed either when I found my mini traction engine in the loft, dusted it off, lit it up, raised steam and had it chugging around the lounge. She does though quite like the idea of me trading in my car for a Defender, so not all bad!!! |
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14th Jan 2014 7:08pm |
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| martinfiattech Member Since: 13 Nov 2013 Location: leicester Posts: 422 
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Sounds like my father in laws house he has a lathe in the dinning room,
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30th Jan 2014 10:18pm |
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| ARC99 Member Since: 19 Feb 2013 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1831 
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Reading the above remind me of something that happened years ago.
My dad bought a 1950 Ford Prefect as his first family car (they only came in Black), typical dad bought it when there was about 8" of snow on the ground and it was minus 5 or so it seemed to a child of 8 years. The car wouldn't start so dad and the next door neighbours pushed the car for a mile or so with me sitting on a cushion steering. It ends up parked on the side of the road outside the house, dad goes at the engine with his set of tools which comprised of a large and small stilsons and comes back in with the spark plugs and distributor and put them in the gas oven. the car is left on the side of the road for as snow was to deep to drive in. Two days later its Sunday and mam lights up the oven and pops in the joint of beef after an hour or so she starts to complain about the smell in the kitchen, Dad has this light bulb moment jumps to his feet runs into the kitchen and recovers the bits from the Ford that he forgot to remove from the oven. Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to  us off.
Richard |
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31st Jan 2014 12:07pm |
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