Colin the Bear

You'll probably have more success on the vauxhall forum in the astra section.

A smear of copper grease on the bolts will make them easier to remove next time. Steel into alluminium alloy can be a nightmare. Be very careful when applying any lubricants near brakes. Less is more.

Coca cola works because of the phosphoric acid. Cillit bang contains a lot more than cola. The iron oxide is converted to iron phosphate which is black and forms a seal to prevent further reaction in that spot. I'm not sure if it will work on a Chinese bike because they are built from used chewing gum and bogeys.

Sorry , I must have missed that one. Life has a way of getting in the way of living.

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Sitting for a year will have done for the battery if it wasn't hooked up to something. Six years is about right for a battery.

Use small throttle openings in built up areas and shut the throttle completely if you see the law. Pull the clutch in and coast a little.

A little contamination of your fuel with WD40 or similar won't do any harm. I'm not sure that a drop of cillit bang in the tank would be a good idea.

Truth be told you can't live on benefits so any one who has been on them long term is fiddling and has another source of income, Legal or otherwise.

How often do we find that the ones with the strongest opinions have the weakest spelling and grammar?

My Father was one of nine survivors and my mother one of ten. It was quite common earlier in the 20thcentury. Families were large and encouraged to be large to repopulate after the two wars. Being a mother used to be seen as a noble occupation. £200 a month is what? £7 a day. Packet of fags and a beer. No family pets on benefits? Don't let the posh bast*rds with all the money make you believe that we the poor are to blame for everything. Divide and conquer.

Leather. It has to be leather.

Just a smear mind, we don't want any lumps of rubber in the sump

Which socks were you wearing? Plates sticking?

Spare parts for motor vehicles are hardly comparable with a drum kit.imo. Not many buy one drum but lots bend their motor vehicles and need replacements.

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Get a good staple gun and you won't have any problems.

I'd be carrying two spares though

Who are they. If it's your lathe you work in whatever units you like. Any turner, of a certain age, can think in either metric or imperial. 1mm = 0.040" 0.03937 but 40 is close enough.

The top one is obviously the more expensive one. One is a hobby lathe and one is a precision made industrial tool that will probably last longer than the operator and is capable of fine work in the right hands. It's all about precision. The hobby lathe will probably be accurate to 0.001" or 0.002" but the myford with skill and experience 0.0001". It's all about the rigidity of the bed, the precision of the screw feeds and the quality of the bearings. The myford chuck probably cost more than the chinese lathe when new. Myford is good gear.

If the engine is spinning it's obviously nothing to do with the part that spins it ie the starter. Starter fluid is fueling the engine when it runs so not an ignition problem Easiest way I can think of to check for fuel is to remove a plug lead and turn the engine over and remove a plug. You should have a wet plug. Definately sounds like a fueling problem.

You may start thinking you want to do only simple things but as you get into it you'll want more. Wasn't the bike like this? You want a 125 lathe? http://www.newmac.com.au/lathe/lathe.html http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/colchester-ba ... 4d0902df54 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Colchester-la ... 4d09097b66

Colchester used to be good to work with when I was using them. You might be better with an old second hand machine than a flimsy new one. The clarke looks like a toy.

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