- 121. Re: Manual tire machines (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:42:40 -0400
- I have a basic cheapy tire changer, and have used the bead buster with success on the usual MG/Triumph sized road tires. On mine, the tire just sits on the ground, and the bead buster presses on the
- /html/shop-talk/2002-09/msg00109.html (8,515 bytes)
- 122. Re: welder (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 11:48:11 -0400
- ...define "flash"? My auto darkening helmet is the typical low-end unit that is battery powered, it cost a couple of hundred bucks at the time. It darkens in 1/25000th of a second according to the bo
- /html/shop-talk/2002-08/msg00055.html (8,997 bytes)
- 123. Re: Retractable air hose reels (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:36:41 -0400
- I have a very cheap host reel that I'm quite sure I didn't pay nearly $50us for, and it seems to work just fine and has for years. Guessing, I probably paid like $29cdn for it. The main knock against
- /html/shop-talk/2002-08/msg00244.html (8,747 bytes)
- 124. Re: Retractable air hose reels (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:13:36 -0400
- I my case at least, you get a little more than the length of the reel. I have my reel mounted on the wall about 7 feet off the ground, and I have a 5 foot whip hose on the end to make it easy to grab
- /html/shop-talk/2002-08/msg00264.html (9,689 bytes)
- 125. Re: next question - cable access vrs DSL (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 16:12:36 -0400
- Actually you don't even need to order a cable modem to have this. Many digital cable boxes communicate both ways, for example, to record pay-per-view purchases or allow users to order products or pac
- /html/shop-talk/2002-05/msg00149.html (10,019 bytes)
- 126. Re: Parts washer? (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:13:09 -0400
- Don't most mowers have shear pins? The shear pin in my current mower is a pebble that "seemed to fit pretty well" after trying the dozen or so I was able to find at the end of my driveway. I got the
- /html/shop-talk/2002-04/msg00191.html (8,826 bytes)
- 127. Re: Blast cabinets (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:37:17 -0400
- Did they actually bubble the water throught the oil, or just use it as a trap? Some filters use an oil bath filter, which forces the air around a couple of short corners with a sticky layer of oil at
- /html/shop-talk/2002-04/msg00267.html (8,373 bytes)
- 128. Re: Blast cabinets (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:36:58 -0400
- I did see that site, but from the picture and description, that is the more typical oil bath filter I am used to and as used on early LBCs. The reading talks about centrifugal force which forces the
- /html/shop-talk/2002-04/msg00274.html (9,202 bytes)
- 129. Re: Brake Cleaner vs. Carb Cleaner (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:57:01 -0500
- ...I know this thread has been going on longer than I've been reading it, but I find the above a little hard to swallow. I've sprayed enough of both to see off a few species of spotted owl, and they
- /html/shop-talk/2002-02/msg00177.html (8,199 bytes)
- 130. Re: Lift (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:39:41 -0500
- From my experience, you can do some of those things, but maybe not all. If you are looking to double-park, you probably want a four post hoist. You can double park with a two post but it gets to be l
- /html/shop-talk/2002-01/msg00050.html (9,659 bytes)
- 131. Re: Sinking cottage (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 17:13:09 -0400
- My dad did this when I was younger, so I might be a little short on details. However, our cottage had this problem in a way, it wasn't sinking but it was balanced on very flimsy stacks of rocks, and
- /html/shop-talk/2001-10/msg00007.html (8,736 bytes)
- 132. Re: "Extreme Garages" (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 00:59:19 -0400
- From my entire professional career, going back into my education and probably my life back to being a fetus... ...doesn't EVERYTHING always come together in the last 10 minutes? ;> -- Trevor Boicey,
- /html/shop-talk/2001-10/msg00038.html (8,618 bytes)
- 133. Re: ?Auto Factory Tours? (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 00:42:10 -0400
- The Jaguar Factory in Brown's Lane gives tours. I took the tour and have some pictures here: http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/europe/europe_pic_058.html ...but the pictures are all from the outside, no ph
- /html/shop-talk/2001-10/msg00172.html (8,595 bytes)
- 134. Re: parts washer (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 15:11:17 -0400
- If you want to go extremely minimalist, I got a plastic parts washer from the local mega mart. Judging by the pictures on the box, they probably marketed it towards bicycle repair. Anyways, it's call
- /html/shop-talk/2001-09/msg00056.html (7,369 bytes)
- 135. Re: Oil Pumps (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:22:51 -0400
- Possibly, but it's not like draining through the drain hole really works either. On a lot of cars it's visibly not even located at quite the bottom of the pan, maybe it's only 5mm above the true bott
- /html/shop-talk/2001-08/msg00089.html (7,957 bytes)
- 136. Re: Welding queries (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:26:21 -0400
- I have some of the anti-heat compound, I use it for MIG welding occasionally. It does work, you can spread it around a weld and prevent it from say, cooking a body gasket or melting off a decal or so
- /html/shop-talk/2001-08/msg00090.html (8,734 bytes)
- 137. Re: Welding queries (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:05:26 -0400
- While there is a contingent of restorers that prefer gas, there are still many many that use MIG or TIG. I don't agree with the underlying sentiment of the above statement that sort of makes it sound
- /html/shop-talk/2001-08/msg00161.html (8,682 bytes)
- 138. Re: Welding queries (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 00:44:59 -0400
- Again I feel like I'm taking the defense of the MIG welder, which is odd because normally the MIG welder is the overwhelming favourite that needs no defense! I am not sure what you mean by "finishing
- /html/shop-talk/2001-08/msg00166.html (9,062 bytes)
- 139. Re: Welding queries (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:32:56 -0400
- I'm pretty indifferent on the whole "filler is bad" argument, there is a lot of hypocrisy out there especially at the highest levels. Obviously, nobody wants to make a whole sill out of filler. That'
- /html/shop-talk/2001-08/msg00167.html (10,969 bytes)
- 140. Re: fixed link to Oxygen-Acetylene Torch Set-up Catches Fire (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:57:38 -0400
- I went to the link and got a little scared. I have flash arrestors but they are installed at the torch not at the tank. So I took my rig apart to install it so they are at the tank, but it appears th
- /html/shop-talk/2001-07/msg00103.html (7,372 bytes)
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