My week this week! My workshop videos

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

Hi folks,
I Get sidetracked so easily towards the end of long projects, but I looked in the firewood bag, and there it was! Antiques repaired, trees trimmed, some milling, some lathe work, another week of winter passes, roll on spring!!
Phil, in suddenly very cold East Yorkshire

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

Hi folks,
Short week, Monday on Taxi duties, and Thursday at the osteopaths with my shoulder strain! I finally decide to get stuck in to the Holbrook steelwork, and strip off all the drive and underskids for drilling and painting, it goes well, and I may sneak back today (Saturday) and put another coat on, which will be the first coat of black. If it is not sufficiently dry by Monday I will be starting another project in the new space I have now that the stairlifts have GONE!
Phil, In suddenly Wintry East Yorkshire.

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

Hi folks,
Holbrook painting, antique repairs, and a future project on a Watsonian D type jaguar replica. If anyone remembers the very popular TV series Lovejoy, he had a guy called Tinker who was always “improving” antiques, I am begining to feel like Tinker should be my middle name!
Phil, in bloody cold East Yorkshire!

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

Hi folks,
Monday didn’t happen due to a visit to Hull Eye Horstipal, and Tuesday, after a small poo run we tackled a job which has been laying around for a few years! A large ash tree branch had fallen into a hung up position in a hawthorn and until we moved it we could not start the fence we were going to start when lockdown occured! It is now gone, and fencing can commence eventually, more tree demolition next week! Then onto the Holbrook auxilarries and I finally get the guard assembled and into primer!
Phil, in a little warmer East Yorkshire!

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

Hi folks,
Monday didn’t happen AGAIN due to taking DIL to Dewsbury to buy a car, chariot racing on the M1 was NOT fun!! A mixed week of painting, showing you all the faults it is possible to get in paintwork! I get there in the end though! Tree work and logging follows as we fell a leylandi growing in the wrong place next to a wall and log it all up. I do some outside clearing at the workshop, and end up taper turning some wood for a tool I broke, then its back on the Holbrook and get the underskids sorted for captive nuts! I’m fair knackered!!
Phil, in cold but springlike East Yorkshire

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

Hi folks,
A very busy mixed week of welding, logging and final assembly on the Holbrook! I get the skids and countershaft support back on the lathe, and make the jacking bars to make the lathe easier to move around the workshop. Tuesday is a field day! we finish logging up the Leylandi, get the 2CV tractor going and and move all the brash to the “chicken run” for a future conflagration. I pack up a spare tailstock for the colchester student lathe as it is being shipped to Thailand!, and as usual have a cup of tea or two and a good tidy up. Sold two Motors this week and loads of other gear this week, so my “goods Outward area is almost empty!
Phil, in sunny and warm East Yorkshire, AT LAST!!

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

Hi folks,
A very busy mixed week again!! Monday a bit of painting, a bit of tidying and organisation as my FB marketplace sales campaign gets underway and all my accumulated junk flies out of the door in exchange for good hard cash!!Tuesday in the field was awful! Raining on and off all day and quite cold again so we did a poo run and then some maintenance on the Westwood garden tractor, which is still going like a train, albeit one with a very loose engine, but we soon fixed that!
Wednesday I explore the depths of the eternal dilemma, should I fix it or just bin it? Well I fixed it, but it took a day and a half, and the fix (on a garden shredder) is not perfect, After that, as an aside I get my old jack up in the air and find its problem, and fix it! I did not realise how old it was! It is an antique from about 1930! No matter cos it flew out the door one day after advertising it! All in, a good week!!
Phil, in cold and wet East Yorkshire!

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

Hi folks,
A short week this week, Monday O got excellent news from my surgeon, and Friday Catherine got a neurological shakedown that was shall we say, less than rigourous! We started, or at least continued the tuesday field day with a final log clearance and a bonfire of the remaining brash and twigs, , Wednesday I finished the Holbrook, and Thursday I wired some 3 phase sockets for uncle Michael (my brother) for his Boxford VSL lathe and his drill press, which we have to convert back to 3 phase at a later date! A short but productive week!
Phil. in More springlike East Yorkshire

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

Hi folks,
A varied and interesting week of sorts, creating space in the workshop by dejunking and removing stuff that really should be stored elswhere, or used up! I pop down to Mikes just to oversee his fitting of a new burner motor to the oil fired boiler, I wasn’t needed as he did it all and off it went! Tuesday we were once again outstandng in our field, and got a start on the fencing. The rest of the week involved coming to terms with the fact that if I was going to get rid of the rust old dexion shelving, I would have to build something to replace it! Woodwork sometimes brings out the worst in me, and my efforts to make a good job end up in frustration, but I soldiered on through the black clouds of doom, and eventually achieved a bright new tommorow or at least built some usefull storage shelves!
Phil, Spring at last in East Yorkshire!

[brickyParticipant @bricky]

Today i awoke at 5.30 and misreading the time as 6.30 I went into the workshop and finished a tricky job of drilling the split camps that hold the cylinder onto the crancase of the single cylinder two piston engine by Wolfgang Tepper.Using the caps as guides I drilled through into the crankcase,when finished I opened up the holes below the clamps to allow for the 4mm screw I will use .I finished by tapping the clamps in the tapping head, very successful before I made breakfast and roused the wife and visiting son.

Frank

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

Hi folks,
A very productive week with some Rapidor sawing, welding and fabrication, fencing and workshop gets a complete ground up rejig in order to get the Holbrook lathe into its new position now that it is completed apart from the shakedown trials and any mods I need to finesse(?) its operation! The post knocker I made on Monday revolutionised Tuesdays fencing the field session but it is a bit too long for six foot posts so I will be making a smaller one next monday! it has already been christened “son of cyberman” All good fun and a very productive week!
Phil, Cool again in East Yorks!

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

Hi folks,
A very varied week of jobs, encompassing consumer electronics, Welding and fabrication, garden tractors, fencing and tree husbandry! The yard tidy got more or less finished, the westwood got some much needed carb attention,and we got a lot more bank clearing and fencing done. Then back to the workshop for more clearing out and repairing!
Phil, in sunny and warm East Yorkshire!

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