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Christ on a bike...even when facing certain death you're still at it!

Serious suggestion... Lower all bits into the pit. Part build on the floor. Fit one step down the bottom Fit bracket at the top. Reposition that abortion of a "crane" and lift the end up onto the wall. SECURE THE TOP TO THE WALL!

Is that stringer now down in the pit? ? Stop before you hurt yourself perhaps? This lifting game doesn't appear to be your thing. That should not have happened! Thought you had tethered the top securely...I did say! Keep on like this and I'll have to come and "look after" Mrs @pocster when you're in traction or worse! ?

If that were me...I'd stand on the scaffold, have a couple of bolts or a podger ready. Turn the stringer by hand and get a bolt in loose to that top bit.

Got any big long clamps?

At the mo I guess your nice new steel is resting on that algae covered concrete? ? It'll scrape all the paint off the corner and rust. Also it might dig into the concrete as you're twisting it around or it might slip! Get an old rubber car mat under the bottom corner, carpet tile or rough bit of timber at a push. Rubber best as you know! Or did you mean the bit I've drawn, clamped on? To act as a lever. ?

On those lines yes. Clamp a long timber etc. Get a helper would be best!

Didn't I send you the Basic Combat Engineering book ages ago?

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world" - Archimedes Bolt or clamp something to the stringer that sticks out like an arm at right angles then you can carefully rotate the load. Even one of the treads maybe. Sit the bottom of the steel on some timber too or a rubber mat even better. To try and stop it slipping & protect the paint. As you say it'd be easier if you had any friends! ? Mind that thing doesn't slip off the top. Tie a strop on it.

@pocster has a fwend! ?

You mean N gauge?

They had a scary halon fire suppression system at Rothmans I recall.

Travelling up the A41 I always wanted to go to Tring for some odd reason.

I went there 30 years ago. It was alright, I was well chuffed. Last I heard they were bringing the manufacturing back to the UK?

Any random sentence with the word knob in should do it.

When Hornby/Scalextric moved abroad, when we stopped making tellys here, when sub 6' policemen were allowed into the force...when text speak became acceptable, when the 3 R's lost their importance. The rise of fast food, when kids stopped getting off their ar5es to wash M&D's car for their pocket money...

Presumably their resin driveway is not at least 6" below your walls damp course? Wait until they're out/on holiday, straight edge, petrol disc cutter and cut a foot wide French drain around your porch. Got any pictures?

Or was it when we sold our Harriers to the US for a pittance? The majority in perfect working order along with masses of spares. The bonus was they had been maintained to far higher levels than those of the USMC which at one time had a bit of a dismal record with the Harrier. Our ground crew training and maintenance regimes were far better and it showed ultimately in lower fault/accident rates. A lad I know was an artificer working on them one day and crating them up the next. He was absolutely gutted. Now languishing in the States being cannibalised for spares (the jets not him).

Repeated from a thread a while back but there's a story goes around I first heard at college about the outgoing head of the IET I think it was. Every year he'd give a blinding speech full of anecdotes and laughs and every year it was different. Before he began he'd unfold what appeared to be the same piece of crumpled paper year after year then launch into it. Upon his retirement somebody asked how he gave such cracking speeches every year and what was on the bit of paper to which he replied "All you need to remember is red wire live, black wire neutral!"

Great imho for a middle aged / older couple's break if your thing is scenery, walking, pub lunches and erm pub lunches. I worked at Rothmans in Aylesbury. Being a non smoker I still had to get the ridiculous quantity of fags you were allowed for mates.

I absolutely love the place and in all weathers. I'd happily live there.

Back on thread.....always pretty depressing standing on the IoW amid the remnants of the High Down Test Site...standing in Concorde at Duxford etc.

Ground being nearest to ground, makes perfect sense...saves the electricity falling out of the bottom of the plug too. ?

What about cack-handed?

I got given the best part of a reel of 2.5 a short while back oddly enough...