Eddie Honda's wheels of steel (and occasionally alloy)

[Eddie Honda]

TROLLEY UPDATE

As usual, I started this job just before going to work. Propped up on the trailer spare tyre and a brick, I took tyre half off and filled the kitchen sink up with water to find the leak. Leak located, patched, put back and inflated to 2.0 Bar.

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Went to work, came back and it hadn't gone down. Good.

Rather than go straight to bed, l made use of the space in the shed of dread to drag it in and sort out the other puncture.

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Couldn't find it by eyeball, but could feel it, so I had to go inside, empty the sink and do it with water.

Patched.

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Sorted (hopefully).

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[Drum]

I might have a vice for you. It's in a shed and needs a refurb.

[Scruffy Bodger]

Back where I used to work at the press tool maker that would be called a bogey and not a trolley.

[Eddie Honda]

I was calling it a lop-sided cunt amongst other things the other night.

Besides bogeys eminate from the nose or something to do with being shite at golf.

[Scruffy Bodger]

Things used to try and emanate from me when pulling a couple of tonnes dead weight or more on one when you needed to get a job from one crane over to another.

[Eddie Honda]

Bogies, platform trucks, carts, trolleys, etc. are all handy things to have in the 'lifting and shifting' arsenal. This particular one has saved a lot of fucking around on quite a few occasions.

[Eddie Honda]

DUUO PLUS UPDATE

Now the trailer is empty, I need to think about doing a tip run. Then I remembered I needed to get tyres...

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That was last August. I meant to get a couple more tyres a couple of weeks later, but y'know.

So being a lazy shite, I went onto eBay on the moby at twenty-to-four yesterday. Ebay estimate, up to Mon 21st. I get tracking number soon after, but even at silly o'clock when I hit the hay, I only could see it had entered the system at 1920.

Wake up, check phone, already been. Mrs H said it was left on the doorstep and asked what documents I had ordered. Er, no documents, that's just the pouch attached to the top of the box with the invoice darling.

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So that's one of my weekend jobs to do in between all these storms.

[LynehamHerc]

If they're that bad you might need these as makeshift lifebelts.

[Eddie Honda]

DUUO PLUS UPDATE

Not got far with this. I've managed to fit one tyre, wasn't too had to get on and off. Quite pleased I managed to get it seated and inflated with the Makita pumper-upper rather than toddling off to the pez station. I really out to get a big fuck-off compressor.

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The wee bastard of a job (whilst I was finding stuff to fill the trailer with for the tip) was the 10" Mini wheel. Got one bead over , but the second one was just being a cunt. Ended up hacking it off with an electric saw. It was an 145/80 10 India GT radial, made in Scotland I guess from 1981.


R1100RT UPDATE

Really need to get my finger out on this one. Haven't used it in about a fortnight and as I was leaving for work noticed the headlight wasn't on. Fannied around and found a dodgy earth spade terminal to the bulb was hanging on by a strand and crimped another spade on, which was too small. So opened it out a bit. At the same time I had the handlebar switch in bits as the main beam rocker would plunge me into darkness so was spraying electrical cleaner into that and got that sorted.

The brake light was remaining on and so was fucking around trying to sort that out too. Amazingly on this one, the two wee M2 retaining screws came out no problem. Had it working, put everything back and then it was stuck on again. Very nearly ended up changing it as I have a new one, but wanted to get to work. The wiring is cable tied to another and the plug is buried behind the dash, so just took a screwdriver with me to whip the switch off if I had to. Was okay coming back so didn't have to resort to that.

Had to fill it up on the way home.

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Fuckinell. That's about the fourth increase this week.

Must lubricate that centre stand too, getting a bit stiff.

[Eddie Honda]

Got some pez down the local (along with the last bottle of Irn Bru 1901) last night @€1.928.

Go to work this afternoon and The Cartel™ have jumped up to €1.998. Usually the types go up together, but today the 9¢ difference has shrunk to 7¢ as diesel went up 9¢ and petrol 7¢

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I think in ten years living here I've only seen the price being different between the two establishments only once.