Back to the shed..
Shed time is precious once in there the world seems a
happier place, a bit like riding the mower up down the garden for a couple of
hours- I am in my own happy little place for a while,no bastard ballet, no
“Hello kitty” sock strops, and no soddingbastardskirting boards to ruin your
day ,so you can imagine my dismay when ¾ the way through some mower therapy my
ears were greeted by a noise similar to
a jump jet sucking up a flock of swans – after quickly removing small bits of
red hot ball bearings from my
extremities the root cause of the noise was quickly traced to the two blades hitting each other-
due to a massive loss of said ball bearings from the blade drive train..bugger….
This was a mower that was given to me three years ago as it
was “knackered” and “didn’t work” since then we have spent a lot of time
together not all of it spent cutting grass-a good part of it spent with me
swearing at it in the middle of the field surrounded by 6” long grass looking
for the “little spring” that just fell out the “widjet” that’s a “bit iffy but
keeps it running… if you wedge your foot under this lever” so needless to say I feel quite attached to
the old lump as I do towards the other cobbled together relics in the shed
Two new bearings, new belt, blades and a quick coat of oxide
primer to the deck we are ready to ride
again
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| Mission accomplished |
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| SPOT THE KNACKERED BEARING! |
Also back in the shed is the Scimitar, back from its
“Fireball XL5” exploits in France, Wednesday morning the insurance assessor came to visit it- ironically back in 1976
he was a mechanic at the dealership in
Bristol that supplied Scimitars (John Dangerfield) and remembers carrying out
the modification to the weber carburettors called for in the recall of 1976,my Scimitar is a 1976 model
and still carries the same dealers badge,
unfortunately the recall modification
was never carried out to mine.. resulting in the fire…bugger
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| Spot whats missing! |
