Wind/diesel installation....

[Antman]

Frotter   

For God's sake get SpekkyGit to do something useful like make a new widget, blow up a wire or three, photo the Frotling bungeeing off the turbine tower, ANYTHING to get this thread back on track - before it degenerates any further 

[wyleu]

...Agreed, there are carefully defined places for a certain pre-proscribed amount of approved lunacy.....,






















....and this is one of them

[frotter]

Ok already!
 I promise to find summat to tinker with this weekend. (apart from present Mrs Fro....  oops  )

[Eleanor]

Frot  I'm trying to phrase this correctly. What's the height and diameter of the tower, and the tube thickness? I'm sure it's mentioned somewhere. Everyone had better read quickly before Antman gets his pinny on and has a spring clean. 

[frotter]

Er.... The turbine pole is 8metres. I bought an extra 2m section over standard to catch a wee bit more windage. Didnt reckon on the wire stays in the kit then being too short - duh! I expect the Navs could answer the diameter/thickness question better than I.
I reckon it is about 5 inches diameter by maybe 2mm thick steel..? Any where close Ivan?

Antman can keep his sticky fingers off, thanks very much!   

X

[northern installer]

Martin,hot day today,so took your advice and went to work in the wifes best frock;am now on a final warning;thanks a bunch 

[wookey]

Martin - if you find trousers restricting then I suggest you haven't discovered Ron Hills yet. Took me years to discover that they really are great. Comfy all year round, dry ridiculously fast. Cheap. Cycle-friendly. Perfect apart from the shortage of pockets (fixed by wearing shorts over the top - although this does make you look 'odd' even by the standards of this forum :-). Just in case you are wondering what I'm talking about: Mr and Mrs ronhill: http://wookware.org/pics/california/img225.jpeg Be nice if they made some in not-black for the summer months.

[posting for services to off-topicness]

[Ivan]

Are there any male forum members who don't have restrictive trouser problems?! It's like being down the pub!

 "I need a wheelbarrow...."

[goodnoisefella]

Enough with the dangly bits......

We need tales of lard and stuff breaking itself !


Gawd, Martin, where did all these THINGS come from?.........it's worse than trying to write a letter with the office 'assistant' switched on.


MORE LARD

..........no pressure, then Frot

[stephen]

Yes It looks like Ivor has either been de bugged, or been forgotten about.  Its time something else happened frotter, for the best of course.

[paul149]

He (lord of the lard) did say that he was going to do some tinkering ( not sharpening scissors & Knives from the back of his moovan door to door) this weekend whether 'summut' required it or not...

[frotter]

Hehe  - now i know what old Nobbie Williams means. Evryone wants a piece o ye! i'll go and bust summat later and take pics of it. That'll learn ye's!
 

Luv u gays guys....

[KenB]

Frotter,

Glad to see that you have started to tink again.

I put jeans and sleeved shirt on this morning and promptly changed them for shorts and T-shirt. I thinkI received more solar radiation than my Navitron 20 tube panel.

Chug, a fellow Navitron Forum and Lister diesel enthusiast came around for the day and we cranked over a Lister StartoMatic, and had a good chat about strawbale building and other sustainable projects.

At lunchtime we were forced to seek out a local hostelry and find sustenance in Guinness, good ale and excellent filled rolls - a snip at just £1.20 -same price as a litre of diesel juice, but a lot tastier.

The crone who ran the pub had no veg oil on offer, she addmitted to me that she had been pouring it down the drain for the last 10 years.   

Tonight,  I will mostly be burning wood - I feel a chimnea evening coming on.



Ken

[frotter]

**Unsatisfactory posting alert!**

Well - i still havnt managed to bust anything. Hold tight - i'm sure it wont be long.....

We do have a number of small things to tinker with left untinkered. eg - make new welded stainless heat exchanger for exhaust, fit engine temp gauge, upgrade belts to kevlar ones etc..... Thing is, though, while Ivor is happily chugging away in full auto mode and nowt breaks - its just a case of swapping over Quantum lard tubs for him to guzzle and standing back in wonder at the splendidness of it all! 

So - a slightly lard-based posting (no change there, then.. )

Day 161 - L0 minus 44 tubs.  (ie - about 2 months worth left in the Lard vaults of Frotdor) 
DOH!




And now - secret filming reveals the REAL Lard foundry..........
Tub on table is hot just about to be filtered. New tub just plonked into Lardinator on floor.








The mysterious disembodied Ginger Hand of Fear decants precious golden fluid..






Mmmmm...  the REAL amber nectar.





'feeding' Ivor. Filtered Lard reverently placed beneath the sacred Enhottening Casket of Chernobyl.
I should think...




Erm....
Good here innit?
Wheres me feckin giant Blades o Doom then, Navitronics?  Pff.... Never trust people who wear pants sez I.

[goodnoisefella]

I'm so glad i caught the Mr Bean animation before the willie cops arrived.       

....so these are the kind of pictures you seek out when no-ones at home, eh?