Well.......... (ahem)( you were waiting for this!)

I left the stat switched on and came downstairs to do other stuff pricipally helping W make tomato soup, but also to make a coupla phone calls.
W had put a pan on a gas and I said to her, what's been burned or scorched? so we looked around couldn't see nuffin, so I went upstairs to check and, you guessed it, there was a faint trickle of smoke coming out of the back of the stat!

I moved the switch to "off" no diff, indicator lights were flickering, The original fault, so I went downstairs and switched it off at the mother board.
So on further investigation, the relay is toast, the new capacitor ditto, (it had been touched by molten stuff coming from the relay which is right next to it.
So I took the opportunity to nip off the two other capacitors which others had said could be dodgy, measured them and both were fine.

So, was the relay dodgy anyway, or had I been hamfisted with the soldering?
One of the six terminals to the relay is indirectly linked to the path that comes extremely close to one of the terminals of the capacitor. I have to imagine that it was this, or the relay was on its way out anyway.
I think I am going to have to modify my soldering iron, i.e. to grind the tip down so it is much narrower.

I think this was only to be expected from an amateur.
Doubtless I'll get better with practice.

Ive got a gas soldering iron so much better to use.
 
Just bort meself a long reach scrubbin bog brush ont ebay cos yer can't gerrum int chop. Me normal can't get in enuff to remove worreye fort was pipe sealer int u bend.

Got one of these...........

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Yes do know about your bruv poor chap. :(:(
I only hear from my bruv when he wants somit or he wants to show off a new toy :rolleyes:
He likes to borrow money then pay it back in dribs n drabs. I paid off his car which was on finance so he could sort his life
out then turns up with a new fancy motorbike & hadn't given me a penny back, bloody thousands of pounds I shelled out. :mad::mad:
Lesson learnt lol
Me an the Mrs have adopted a new maxim over the last few years.
'No good deed goes unpunished '.
You an other good peeps herein fit the template.
Doesn't stop you doing the right thing mind you..
 
What do you say..
I had a small intestinal bleed, turned out to be nothing, no nsaids for me anymore. Scary at the time, you think stuff happens elsewhere, especially when you are younger. Wishing him a good outcome.
Not much you can say really but can I get that 500 quid back I lent you 🤣🤣
I go to the Beatson cancer hospital & there are some poor souls in there so so sad, every time I leave I see the Gold bell
& think I'll be ringing your neck soon auld chap. :D:D
 
Yep, that sort of thing.
The vigneronne we talked to who has a daughter in ther 20s who she hoped would take the business on, even as a kid was sksing where her 5 a day were coming from. She don't drink alcohol at all.
Peeps are drinking less red wine as for many the tannins in it take a bit of getting used to. They want to drink easier to drink stuff so therefore sweeter stuff, or at least not so dry. So white wines, rosé wines. And poop with bubbles in it. Appreciating good wine takes time and effort. Which we feel is seriously worthwhile, but modern peeps want instant gratification.
So yep, peeps are less adventurous, more willing to listen to idiots who tell them what to drink and that decent alcoholic drinks are bad for them.
No young person ever listened to an older person.
"plus ca change" as the Frogs would say!!
Sad really, there's so much misinformation out there and flawed studies which have largely been debunked but people seem to want to believe the more sensationalised stuff or just plain negative stuff. I would say not drinking to excess is a good thing but wine isn't necessarily the alcohol of choice for getting drunk. Many now seem to go to the opposite extreme.

Personally alcohol-wise I generally only drink red wine, can't tolerate white wine and find anything too sweet to be sickly. Don't really like lager but have one with a curry, seems to go with it for some reason. Only drink bitter in a pub in the UK which is not that often these days.

The motto of one of our favourite restaurants is "life's too short for poor wine" and recently I saw someone going round in a T-shirt saying "save water - drink wine"...
 
Well, I finally prevailed. :)
The issue seems to be that the outside legs of the spring compressor need to be enough coils down the spring to compress a decent amount of the spring and then you lean on the whole thing to compress the remaining coils. This just does not work because the feet of the outside legs that the compressor pushes against then prevent the remaining spring coils from compressing as they jam in the coils and/or they hit the casting so the spring can compress no further down.
So I cheated and put the outside legs on the valve springs either side of the target valve and it all worked ok. I can repeat this for all valves except the outside two of course.

I made a bit of schoolboy-error (yeah, that's me all over) in that I failed to drain the coolant, and as some of the head-bolts are used to hold the rocker pedestal bits I seem to have shipped some coolant into the cylinders (my rope was wet when I pulled it out). :(
Whether this will be really detrimental or not I don't know, but I will spin it over for quite a while without ignition coil on. I doubt it is hydro-locked. :)
Well done with that job - I hate to rain on your parade but if some of the pedestal bolts are also head bolts and some water has passed, might the head gasket be compromised and having already been compressed, might continue to leak?
 

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