Akciddento. Doing the things that we want to
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hmmm…
i spent the day trying to get the studio back into some sort of shape and throwing away all sorts of old garbage that’s been in boxes since we moved back into the country… getting somewhere i guess. ollie dwyer came over late in the evening and we chatted about his new project. his first…
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out with the old in with the new
finally sorted through some of the images from the trip up north last week to take the bus to taylor machine. so out with the old and in with the new
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splitscreen flight sim…
i’ve been looking around for a cheap windows laptop to monitor the new engine management system on the bus… should be a giggle, enough to keep me out of trouble anyhow. if i run a serial extension cable from the main ECU in the engine bay up into the cab i can drive along with…
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he wasn’t kidding…
martin taylor at taylor machine works sent me some pictures ofthe damage done to the dyno while he was doing the mapping on the new engine…. when he said it made a mess he wasn’t kidding ! you can see the fractured propshaft of the dyno, the damage to the dyno bellhousing and, sadly some…
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doh… and we wait…
just come off the phone from martin taylor at taylor machine works. the mapping of the fuel injection managemnet system on the new engine is nearly done. the final sweeps to determine torque and peak horsepower haven’t been done yet but martin reckons that it’s making good usable torque and will be in the region…
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our friends in the north…
just back from the train station… yes, the train… it’s been a while but i was amazed… it arrived on time at leeds station (nice and new and CLEAN)and remindng me of someting vaguely european. i got a seat. the train was quiet. the buffet car has ok coffee and food and books and magazines…
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ermm… forgot to tell you
my daughter and i made a deal, she wanted to dye her hair. i said in the summer holidays. she said purple, i said only if you dye mine too. ugh, no way she said…
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back to base
back to base to refuel, feed the rat, water the tomoatoes and charge up the batteries for the cameras… and here’s a bus i fixed earlier… been filtering some of the timelapse movies i was making on thursday night of the moonrise in the mist… they look promising as source material for some stuff i…
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sunset
well, here i am, at the beach… the visibility is about 100 meters and has been like that all day, if i could jump up about 100meters then i’d brobably break through the mist and get a glorious suntan… spent a pleasant morning scrabbling around under the bus in the damp grass of the campsite…
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volkswagen time….
volkswagen time, that’s like the ‘jamaican time’ of the car industry isn’t it… my new engine, apparently, will be ready next week. so i will be taking the bus on a trip next wedensday and picking it up the following monday. aren’t i ?
what’s up? let us know….