What have you done in your Garage this evening??
Discussion
Last night mainly I put a new battery in my garage clock. Before Adrian pops up, on I,m not advertising it, I,ve had it over 25 years.
I then made a series of spacers so that I could angle it in different ways depending where I expected to work on the car including a really fast fitting one for when the racing guys visit. Its a really good clock with mounting points at 3 o, clock and 9 o,clock for when I,m lay on my side doing work under the car depending which way round I intend to lie. To get it dead level I checked in my tool box for my rabone level but I must have leant it to someone so I used the £1 from Screwfix spirit level and some double sided tape.
To be sure the angles I was mounting it at didn,t exceed the length and tensile strength of the nail I hang it on I got some Quantum physics books out and stood on them so I could see the nail better.
I was going to post this in the gearbox mounting discussion but I thought the posters there may have thought I was extracting the urine and besides I haven,t got a clue what anyone is talking about.
What puzzles me more though is why Adrian keeps starting new threads instead of contributing to the original WHYDIYGTE thread.
Gotta go, Time flys
Ps, if the clock looks crooked its because I forgot to use the sprit level on camera when I took the pic, sorry.
I then made a series of spacers so that I could angle it in different ways depending where I expected to work on the car including a really fast fitting one for when the racing guys visit. Its a really good clock with mounting points at 3 o, clock and 9 o,clock for when I,m lay on my side doing work under the car depending which way round I intend to lie. To get it dead level I checked in my tool box for my rabone level but I must have leant it to someone so I used the £1 from Screwfix spirit level and some double sided tape.
To be sure the angles I was mounting it at didn,t exceed the length and tensile strength of the nail I hang it on I got some Quantum physics books out and stood on them so I could see the nail better.
I was going to post this in the gearbox mounting discussion but I thought the posters there may have thought I was extracting the urine and besides I haven,t got a clue what anyone is talking about.
What puzzles me more though is why Adrian keeps starting new threads instead of contributing to the original WHYDIYGTE thread.
Gotta go, Time flys
Ps, if the clock looks crooked its because I forgot to use the sprit level on camera when I took the pic, sorry.
Edited by thegamekeeper on Tuesday 27th November 14:48
heightswitch said:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eoorider/6531722477/
Angle setter.
The compound angle setter is also available and this comes with an attached string and plumb bob.
N.
Wouldn,t that be better in the gearbox mount thread. Angle setter.
The compound angle setter is also available and this comes with an attached string and plumb bob.
N.
I dont need anything like that to tell me when I,m horizontal
hallsie said:
Is there a screwfix clock available?
Screwfix do a similar clock but its metric. This is 2' diameter and theirs is 600mm. Thats not a big problem but the clock has 100 minutes to an hour and 100 seconds to a minute. It just takes much longer to do anything with theirs.Why isn,t time metric???
thegamekeeper said:
hallsie said:
Is there a screwfix clock available?
Screwfix do a similar clock but its metric. This is 2' diameter and theirs is 600mm. Thats not a big problem but the clock has 100 minutes to an hour and 100 seconds to a minute. It just takes much longer to do anything with theirs.Why isn,t time metric???
ATE399J said:
thegamekeeper said:
Why isn,t time metric???
365.25(approx.) days in a year probably isn't a good start and moving the earth or speeding its passage up to make it 100 would be a challenge. It would also make us age more quickly.thegamekeeper said:
A year based on 365.25 days seems a stupid idea. Maybe it would be easier to slow the planet down, 4 times longer days and nobody would grow old, life expectancy would only be into your 20,s. Insuring a TVR would be expensive.
The planet is slowing down, I thought it was the moon, are you saying it's you trying to live forever?
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