Tell us something really 23 about your life (vol trivial)

[SWTH]

Sadly if I used the pressure washer it'd make a hell of a mess of the engine bay and wheelhouse. Wild Wing's fuel tanks are a pair of 500 litre jobbies fitted under the side lockers in the wheelhouse, accessed via the engine cover, which happens to be the wheelhouse floor. Very space efficient, but very awkward to access.

[BHC]

leafspring said:

After a while you get used to the smell of stale diesel and the gunge/diesel bug sludge at the bottom... still, the good news (for me) is our industrial high temp/steam pressure washer does the job in no time at all

I used to feel sick at that smell. I suppose I wasn't there long enough.
The way it decomposes and turns to that sludge you describe is a smell and a job I don't want again!

Other boat stuff is nice if the weather is ok though.

[Impasse]

Y'know, I've got nothing on today. Hang on, I'm not sitting here in the nuddy - I have got dressed, but I don't have a list of jobs or things I feel I should be doing. So I'm kinda twiddling my thumbs a bit today. Ermm...

[BHC]

Impasse said:

Y'know, I've got nothing on today. Hang on, I'm not sitting here in the nuddy - I have got dressed, but I don't have a list of jobs or things I feel I should be doing. So I'm kinda twiddling my thumbs a bit today. Ermm...

Same for me. Maybe I'll go for a walk

[Battyfine]

Same here. I toyed with going for a drive but you can almost guarantee that as soon as I take the roof off, it'll piss down.

[iva cosworth]

Weather on our manor is a whole lot better than a few hours ago BF.

[Battyfine]

True but the law of sod is alive and well in the batcave of late.

[iva cosworth]

Choices ?

Go out in the 'vert ?

Wash some clothes ?

Snooze ?

ZZZzzzzzz

[Battyfine]

Clothes are all washed.

Pirbright bends aren't as tempting now since the speed limit changes.

As noted before, sleep isn't my friend.

I do need to get an eye test but I cba.

Guess I'll just stay here and ramble nonsense.

[Impasse]

I've just eaten an apple strudel.

[Battyfine]

Mmm. You didn't offer any around? Bah.

[Impasse]

I did. Anyone within nibbling distance was offered a bite.


Then I got thrown out of Tesco.

[Battyfine]

[hidetheelephants]

SWTH said:

Not had to do anything on the black side yet of the boat I assist with, but removing 45 years worth of accumulated crap and gunk from the backs and bottoms of the diesel tanks was a pretty horrible job! Toilet jobs have so far been left to the owner to sort, apart from a hull fitting for the aft baby Blake.

There's nothing quite as character building as shovelling the sludge out of the jobby tank when it 'goes a bit wrong' or has just accumulated enough to warrant it doing. HS2 alarm, very long rubber gauntlets and a clothes peg needed.

Did you know that tomato skin is very durable and the action of the aforementioned sludge pumps with rubber stators spins it into 'string' which then banjos the mechanical seals? True dit.

Edited by hidetheelephants on Saturday 19th July 15:03

[leafspring]

2/3 litre of Castrol edge + a bottle of screen wash = no more "service!" on the dash board

Just the dragging clutch that is causing the gears to graunch to fix (bks garage job )

Ho Hum... for a £750 shed it's a fecking good one even by my standards, it's got full size spare alloy and had 5 new tyres recently too (Nexen P8000?... something like that)

Good car... a definite long term keeper

[iva cosworth]

I take a snooze.

TT takes 1 2 4 2

[Johnny]

I've had a quality day considering I'm stuck at work.

Mrs Johnny has kept me very well entertained, and I'm in a rather good (ahem) mood

[iva cosworth]

The cringeworthy thread is dead.

I did suggest earlier that we stopped posting about yesterdays "scandal" but people carried

on and now the padlock's appeared.....[sadface]

[Fishtigua]

iva cosworth said:

The cringeworthy thread is dead.

2 pages of taking the piss out of the Mods. Can't think why it was shut down.

[Battyfine]

I've done nothing all day and now feel guilty.