/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>908407

Flip the live and neutral and you are set

We get lots of Chinese tools and appliances here that only have live and neutral. So we cut off the original chink plug and throw on an English type G plug and just pray.

>>908094

There is antique black and it makes it look outright black.

Though I don't understand why OP would be spending money at a company that specializes in wood finishes and wants to repaint the damn thing after he paid a premium on the finish.

>>908100

Did you look under the coil pack? And behind that heat shield between the exhaust and the cam cover?

We used to use heavy gauge 2" waste PVC and a mesh sling to construct beach chairs before they were affordable. I have seen them withstand 250 lbs tourists flop down on them so depending on the construction you can do it.

While you have to build it, it would be cheap and quick but I wouldn't know the price in your area compared to steel.

We used to use 2" heavy gauge waste PVC piping to make the frame for cheap chairs with a mesh sling as the seat on the beach. I see them hold up 250lbs tourists on occasion and they tend to flop down on the seat too.

It depends on your construction. But you will end up having to use elbows and so on rather than just plonking down a piece of material.

>>908082

Have you pulled that shield off the cam cover?

>>908064

You are still assuming it is the headgasket. Why?

You still need to check all the components on the head that have an oil seal.

>>907949

Slight weep up top can be particularly hard to detect as the oil may look clear on the engines surface but then accumulates dirt on the way down.

>>907938

It is possible to have an external oil only leak through a head gasket but it is the least probable.

You have one or few "pressure" oil passages leading up to the top of the head and after the oil is applied it drains down through larger drain passages.

Thing is a regular headgasket failure will very unlikely happen near the the flow passages because they are often right next to the head bolts. Unless it is by assembly error.

Alternatively if one of the drain passages have had the gasket fail near them you are still unlikely to have anything flow out because there is a slight vacuum in the crank case.

Both of these situations are unlikely.

What we should not be doing is considering an engine fucking rebuild just because there is a slight weep.

They kind of shitbox doesn't matter and he already stated in the other thread that his only symptom is the oil leak.

OP just needs to look a little harder.

>>907914

Dams don't dry up ponds. What goes in must come out. Either through the turbine, through a bypass or over the top of the dam.

>>907807

Between the cam cover and the bottom of the head there are still several sources where oil could come from.

Seeing as most of the oil is on your gearbox I would try AROUND that side first.

Your distributor for instance.

Also you asked in an ausfag thread. You will never get anywhere in there.

The test that everyone is talking about in here is a compression test. But although it is nice to know, a compression test is rarely the first step in finding an oil leak because they often have no correlation. if you simply keep looking you will find the source.

Or if the lumber is really and truly the problem. Check some whole sale stores or large grocery stores to see if they have some pallets they wouldn't mind letting go. I don't know about there but here the wholesale stores are typically the end of the line for a pallet and they just toss them.

They are typically a PITA to get apart if you want the full 4 feet width but if you send a power saw along just inside of the legs then you can get at least 3' 6" of "strong" board.

>>906203

Drill pilot holes.

>>895685

Here is a before. We'll see how it looks this afternoon

Most of these workstations seem to lean more to the light electrical/technical side. I expected to see a lot more carpentry shops than anything since that is probably the easiest DIY category to get into.

They remind me a lot of my father's work stations when he used to work for a telecoms company.

Will post my junkyard later if I manage to clean it up today.

>>396346

Wait wait wiat.

It is illegal to collect rain water in certain parts of the states?

You are kidding right?