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In Senegal, we made our way to Dakar, the capital as we had to have the diesel injection pump repaired. It had been leaking high pressure fuel from the control cover in the desert, and I had done a temporary bodge with some of the early silicone gasket material while Richard poured clean diesel...

1973 Newcastle University Expedition to Senegal Loading up at Newcastle Near Paris we had a gearbox layshaft give up (3rd time on this machine). We carried spare half shafts and spring leaves, but not a layshaft. We knew Spain had cheap Land Rover spares so drove down to Madrid on 4th gear...

So why does it say "Easy Crypto" on the graphic?

@upnortheast , I have no idea how old you are, but you might remember entry no 7, Andrew Davidson from Beal in a Haflinger (more on these later).

1970 also did the Welsh Hill Rally with the 109. Full harness seat belts, roll over bar fabricated in the farm workshop from 3" box section, behind the bulkhead and fixed through to the chassis.

1972 was a (tame) tour to the North Cape of Norway,

One book that inspired me was "First Overland" by Tim Slessor

It would be quite easy with something like a Siemens Logo, below is the RS Components web site but available from the likes of Automation 24 or Parmley Graham. If you register on the Siemens website for tech support you can download the programming software free, there are plenty of YouTube...

1971 Ten of us together bought an ex-Encounter Overland Austin K9, converted to diesel with the lorry version of the Nuffield tractor engine. It turns out that we bought it from the father of our current vet, who was 1 year old at the time. The plan was to drive it to the edge of the Sahara in...

There is no way I will allow my generated electricity to be squandered on crypto-mining. It is far too wasteful of resources, possibly Etherium has sorted this out to an extent but Bitcoin is just wasteful.

Yes, size in kW. You will find there are lots of settings that can be altered, but the most important ones tend to be pre-set with an easy start instruction guide.

See the Norfolk Ponds Project https://norfolkponds.org/ Prof Carl Sayer hopes to come to restore 3 of ours this year, after surveying all of them.

Fit a 230v inverter which will give you 3 phase, and under the motor terminal cover change the connections to go from 400 v to 230 v. https://inverterdrive.com/group/AC-Inverter-Drives-230V/

Lets start in 1970, with 6 of us from Reading University did a trip round Turkey Threshing scene Gearbox layshaft gave up along the south coast, we got a replacement into Istanbul, Roger and I took a bus to Istanbul to get it through customs while Steve drove on 4th gear and the red knob to...

I might start another thread sometime, I am getting Clive's thread a bit too far off topic!