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Thanks. Material stock would be my issue immediately. How many grams per band / bands per kilo and can it be any colour? I wanted 1kg of black Steadytech PLA the other day. Had to settle for x3 300g.

Wouldn't mind printing some. So many designs though it's knowing where to start. What material are you printing in? Can you print just the bands or do you need to supply the visor part too?

No complaints here it was FOC!

Seems I had in wrong in my thought process above! I had it backwards. Belts pull only so all of the slack will be at 1 (which is where a tensioning pulley would be if fitted to take up any slack in the belt). I had to ensure the brake pads weren't engaging with the pullies when the cutter was engaged. They're not If the belt is flapping there badly then I either have a belt that is too long or the engagement needs some adjusting. Belt WAS the right one originally... Tried starting it just now on the pull cord, to video the belt slap it but no dice. Was starting fine yesterday!Anyway, ref the deck/belt. After refitting the deck the belt was smoking like Hell on trying engaging the cutter, blade pullies weren't turning and the belt was "slapping " terribly at 1, marked pink, above.We adjusted at the back here: And it's in these holes at the front, (before it was 1 hole back): After adjusting as above the belt smoking stopped pretty much and the cutting pullies seemed to be trying to turn.Deck fully raised, belt is level: Deck fully down, belt looks at too steep an angle to me: The belt is wearing here: Grateful for any pointers.Cheers

"Oh look, he's got a small compromise!"

Hmm...deck back on but..... Picture below shows the repaired deck pre refitting. I've added on in pink the drive pulley on the bottom of the engine. The belt runs anti clockwise. The original pullies that turn the blades are shown at 1 & 2. They are stiffer to turn than I'd like. If, with the deck on I engage the cutter the belt jumps and slaps at 1. I think what is happening is that the drive pulley feeds the belt onto 1 which turns relatively freely. When it gets to 2, because that is stiff to turn the belt "backs up". New bearings ordered!

Got up at 4, my lad still hadn't gone to bed! ? He had though printed the second battery adapter: A little rough at the very apex but there's a bit of a uniform pattern in the "weave": Copper sections next to make and solder. Then fully assemble the chainsaw and test with Makita Li-ion batteries. Hoping PLA stands the test of time and I'm not left wishing I'd printed them in ABS!

Think about it in our case. It takes a team of 6 guys to change a window on average. There for the whole long day as in 10 hours plus. 4 hours is literally spent dossing whilst the silicone cures enough to put the unit back in. That's 24 man hours, 28 if you count my time in it, just waiting. As the frame has to be reused there's no way around it.

I did. Got about 250 gallons left in a 670 gallon capacity tank. I reckon the price will go up once lockdown eases here.

The fitters I see often use a cheese wire type saw.

Pretty happy with that I think. Second one just started printing. The battery "terminals" for this are fab'd from 1mm copper sheet, soldered together. Some deft tin snipping to be done.

I get involved with bfo commercial glazing replacement on high rise buildings. Often the case that the frame is bespoke. These units are siliconed the full perimeter of the glazed panel where it sits in the frame. Take the frame and glass out as one, sit on trestles and cut through the silicone. Remove the broken glass. Clean up the frame, new glass in. 2 part silicone from a compressor fed gun. Wait 4 hours to cure enough to put back on the facade.

The Makita battery to Einhell/Ozito continuation: Einhell it seems bought Ozito. From that came the Power X Change system. Seems the same batteries fit both makes. Off of Thingiverse we downloaded a ready made adapter by a chap named Seibar. That itself was his take on a model developed by a chap, sportsedan. Seibar's was a little loose for my liking so we increased widths/thicknesses here and there and made it a bit tighter. The visible face on his, you would see, where the Makita battery clips on looked dog rough imo: So our 1st print was done with the layer orientation at 90deg to Seibars: It fits nice and tight, Face you see not too bad: But.....it was printed with this end sitting on the bed, where the supports came off, it's horrible: The clip broke as well. Pretty sure the layer orientation didn't help: Printing another with the end squared off and more "meat" on the clip: 0.2mm layers, black Steadytech PLA. Watch this space about 8pm tonight!

You could reach that with a short pole.....sorted!

Master of the reach around already!

Lift the carpets and see the piece of GTX can under there...

No HDMI here. VGA on both machines.

I was literally aiming to plug the XP machine into the router, same as the Win 20 machine so I could share data that way. Not sure on the risks of that. Only the Win 10 pc will have a used browser on it.

I've VMWare Workstation 15 Player installed. It takes too long to boot, runs too slow. Quite happy going the KVM route. Just ordered a couple of USB to PS2 adaptors.

I want to run the XP operating system on the old pc for some specific software.

I'd like to have an old Windows XP pc and and newer Windows 10 pc sharing the same mouse, keyboard and monitor via a KVM switch then "network" them together just to transfer files. As long as I don't go on the internet via the XP machine and the Windows 10 one has up to date anti virus etc, will this setup be "safe"? Cheers

There was only about 1/2" of fuel in the tank. I took the air filter off and gave it a squirt of Damp Start. Slung a cap of lead replacement additive / octane booster in the tank too for good measure. Engine is running fine. I might jack up the rear end and see if the wheels rotate progressively faster as I go up through the gears. Pretty sure they did back when I last ran it...August last year I think.

Is it exactly the same deck as mine?

Thanks. Seen that seller before. You know me, DIY or die! Very nearly happened yesterday with a Dewalt 115mm 1mm slitting disc that went BANG when I touched a high tensile bolt with it. Gloves and goggles on but still scary and had me thinking "full face shield". I NEVER buy Dewalt discs but work owed me a tin to replace my own & they were on special for a tin of 10 at TS so I thought I'd give them a try. Utter POS. I went back to my favourites, Rhodius Alphas. Back to the mower.....deck back on but I'm wondering if I've a gearbox problem. Changes up/down OK through the 5 gears but doesn't seem to want to go very fast. Even in 1st it barely makes our slightly inclined lawn. Low on petrol so I'll get some more and have another go.

Dog rough but it's pretty much ready to go back on. Got the belt guard still in the citric acid tank along with a couple of pulley caps.