In the jungle

In a rash moment I offered to fix up the FIL's forty year old Suzuki A100.

I pulled the cylinder head and discovered this remarkable item serving as a head gasket.

Diagnosing reportedly poor front brake performance was straightforward.  There are no front brake shoes.

Today's job was splitting the crankcases.  That involved removing around a dozen crosshead screws with wrecked heads that were done up to approximately 500 ft lbs of torque.  Having tried less brutal methods I ended up drilling the head off every screw except for one.  To my surprise I managed to do that without putting even one mark on the crankcases.

Doubtless more surprises await.

She has a grasp of some of the basics.

Fishnets and red hooker heels work.

Gonna bust a blood vessel soon.

He's probably on You Tube now jumping from video to video.

Popping blue pills but still it doesn't work.

Call me a pedant.

But I think technically what she does is not twerking.

And I bet secretly the little general loves it.

He's just pissed because he can no longer....

In the BP it is reported that as part of promoting Thai Chinese cooperation the Thais are going to give the Chinese lessons in ethics and safety.

Thinking a bit more, given your description of the land it may be worth contacting Weegee on this forum.

I think he may have something well suited to your application.

11 hours ago, billd766 said:

 

If I could afford a Troy built ride on mower I would certainly expect to pay a delivery charge especially as I live about 400 km from Buriram.

 

In fact before I bought one I would ask for someone from the shop to come up to survey the land where it would be used and it would be at MY expense and not theirs.

 

Until I saw the original post back in September last year I had no idea that ride on mowers were available in Thailand.

 

I have about 3 or 4 rai to cut and at present I use a Honda petrol strimmer, and at 73 years old it is damn hard work.

 

The problem I have is that the area to be cut is not level and areas of it are full of rock and stones of all sizes. I would be concerned how much damage would be done to the mower and at that price I would like somebody to come up from the company to do a survey and give honest advice before laying out a large sum of cash.

One argument in favour of a ride on mower in your situation is that with push mowers the blade is directly connected to the crankshaft.  If you hit a big rock with a push mower so that the engine stops dead it is possible to bend or break the crank.  With a ride on mower cheaper parts such as belts will slip or break in the same situation.

The Honda HRJ216 reduces the likelihood of damaging the crank by the use of swing back blades but the blades are hideously expensive.  For no obvious reason Honda Thailand charge six times the price of a blade in Australia and it is exactly the same part.

I have both a Honda ride on mower and the HRJ216.  The ride on is what I choose every time because of the climate here.  If we have workers around they use the HRJ216.  The HRJ216 is self propelled but it is still hard work to use because it weighs nearly 50kg.

I bought the Honda ride on as a used import from Japan and, IMO, doing that is way better than buying a machine such as the Troy Bilt or MTD machines seen in Thailand.  They are bottom of the range stuff priced at around 1000 bucks in the US whereas Honda ride ons are designed to last decades.

And finally (I think I said it earlier in this thread) avoid any ride on that has a Tuff Torq K46 transmission.  That trans is very common in low end US brand ride ons.  The K46 is very low quality and notorious for failing. 

It must have been obvious that she was likely to face an unpredictable and hostile reception.

I would lay blame primarily with those around her who gave insufficient thought to how to manage the situation and its presentation.

Veering today to the opposite end of the spectrum with a meeting in fortress Downing Street is not a good look either. 

3 hours ago, JamJar said:

 

 

Google still has it cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ym6NjHxAJyYJ:wittukgroup.co.uk/grenfell-tower-london-w11-1tq-regeneration-project/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

From that report:

"The £9.7million investment is a major commitment by the council and the TMO to regenerate the tower, with numerous improvements set to raise the value of the estate significantly"

Now why might a local authority want to do that?

6 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

 

Apparently the sprinklers didn't work inside.

 

There were no sprinklers.

According to the BBC the cladding was "Reynobond" which can be specified either with a polyurethane core or a fire resistant core.

In this case somebody took the decision to go with the cheaper polyurethane core.  

It appears to me that the people responsible for the refurb had no real understanding of the principles that protected this building from fire as originally constructed.

Personally I don't think 'fire resistant' is good enough when the original exterior was fire proof.

Contractor for the refurb that completed in 2016 was Rydon.  It mentions re-cladding the building on their website but does not give detail.

Make sure to leave the plastic on the seat for at least a decade.

It's a local tradition.

The money talked.

2 minutes ago, Flustered said:

Not a Troll but using the thread as an anti May post to spread your lefty cause?....Pathetic.

So you throw out a random insult and retract it 14 minutes later?

3 minutes ago, Flustered said:

Your lefty, anti May drivel is not welcome on this thread which is a very serious one.

 

Grow up or clear off TROLL

I am by no means a troll.

Enough is enough has as much meaning as brexit means brexit.

And longer sentences would hardly have deterred the three terrorists involved.

Both May and Trump are seeking to make political capital from this.

It was bad enough that May's thoughts were vacuous but mixing in a bunch of electioneering at such a time?

No recourse to public funds was the test for literally decades under both Labour and Conservative Governments.

I see little to criticise in reverting to that reasonable test.

9 hours ago, Big Guns said:

 Just like my first CBR 150 in Thailand in 2005. It was a pain to start if you left it a few days. No kick start but a 150 isn't too hard to bum start.

The first gen CBR 150 was a pain to start if you left it standing a while.

My diagnosis was that the fuel in the carb evaporated but spinning the engine over with just the starter did not create enough vacuum to open the vacuum fuel tap so the carb would not refill.

My solution was to pull the vacuum tube off at the manifold and suck on it to open the fuel tap.  Worked every time.

But giving your bike a blowie to get it fired up is not a good look.  One of the reasons I sold mine.

The thing that interests me is that the Dream 110i was available for years and hardly anybody bought it.

Then Honda painted it some well chosen funky colors and re-branded it the Super Cub and it flew off the showroom floor.

Can't move for the damn things here in hillbilly land. 

My wife asked me to help her nephew learn to drive.

I started exclusively off road and got as far as trying to get him to brake correctly stopping at a defined point from varying speeds.  After an hour of that he had had enough.

Next day he was on the Bangkok ring road in dad's truck which must have been a baptism of fire given he had never been over 40 kph.

Yes.  You are right on the mileage.

Back to school for me.

Still very low for a luxo-barge cruiser designed to munch up km.

"A farmer irrigates his rice fields in a 2013 photo."

Not much sign of intelligence in that caption!

Superb build quality, legendary reliability and a wholly credible alternative to the big German barges in its day.

But no spare parts in Thailand and parts are very expensive.  I know this for sure as a friend here had this model LS400 when they were fairly new and I hand carried some parts for him from the UK.

It has done less than 800 km per year which suggests either the mileage is fiddled or, perhaps, reflects how hard it is to keep this relatively complex vehicle up and running without parts and local support.