Duck Tales – Back to plan
The set back with the floor has now been rectified. I bought about 30 M2 of Chopped, Stranded Mat (CSM) Fibreglass, and using plenty of resin I have relayed the floor. This time it is “Spotty Dog”! With the final layer of glass in and the seat bolt positions opened up, the job looked much […]
Duck tales – Slight set back.
It’s been a few days since I’ve worked on the Arrowflyte floor, simply due to the weather. Today I was able to get out there and continue. To recap I have half of the third layer of the fibreglass cloth down and I need to finish. This was the plan and what I will now […]
Mucking about with HID lamps
Way back in what I believe was 2006 I was in B&Q in Chippenham. They were feeling their way into the Trade side of business and hadn’t yet established their Trade Counter. As a result there was Trade materials on the shop floor. For me that was too much temptation to Tinker. Passing the light […]
Duck tales – The floor
In my previous post I revealed that the floor in Thunder Duck had given way. Let’s look at what happened. So I started with the Duck as we know her. I needed to get the seats out as they were not great, and they were in the way. Here we have an aerial picture of […]
Folding puts the hammer down
It became very clear in the Spring of 2020 that Folding@Home was the key to our way out of COVID and absolutely necessary to save lives. Good news – Stanford pleaded for more support. Linus Tech Tips got in on this and broadcast to the world. GitHub, Microsoft, Amazon, all sorts of big data centres, […]
Duck Tails continue
So much work was done to the Duck in 2020. The new trailer was acquired, renovated and the boat transferred. Then the water pump was renovated. Then the thermostat was removed, breaking the gasket, so I made a new one out of gasket material. Duck was ready! I wanted to do a “tie-down” test in […]
Such a long time
…since I have written anything on this site and there is so much I could write about. What a year plus, it has been. What, 14 months we have been in this bizarre, surreal environment that is COVID-19. So many months just keeping your head down, hoping not to catch the virus, and if you […]