what grinds your gears

Paddington

Member
Location
Soggy Shropshire
Changing a chuck on a DeWalt 18V brushless combi drill. I've replaced these before on similar drills, you undo the screw at the bottom with an allen key or phillips screwdriver, then jam a big allen key in the chuck, screw it off and put the new one on. a couple of minutes job. On the DW the drill needs to come apart as does the gear box and lots of fiddly bits fall out and roll onto the floor.
 

Pan mixer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
Changing a chuck on a DeWalt 18V brushless combi drill. I've replaced these before on similar drills, you undo the screw at the bottom with an allen key or phillips screwdriver, then jam a big allen key in the chuck, screw it off and put the new one on. a couple of minutes job. On the DW the drill needs to come apart as does the gear box and lots of fiddly bits fall out and roll onto the floor.
The Milwaukee is traumatic too - see an earlier post, screw at bottom needed a 3/4 impact and long reach impact torx bit to undo, after I I had cut the chuck to pieces.
 

roscoe erf

Member
Livestock Farmer
ok who thought fitting the pipes here was a good idea have to remove them to get pin out but it gets better the pipes don't swivel on the union so the whole pipe has to turn with the union.
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Lofty1984

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
South wales
So, we have a van with a cracked windscreen coming up to MOT time but the specific screen is on 4 months back order because it has a rain sensor incorporated - There are plain non-sensor screens available so we had one of them fitted - Now we have a vehicle management light on the dashboard ā€˜cos the rain sensor isnā€™t there ā€¦.
Will the vehicle pass its test or do we now have to have a software update and who pays for that ?
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
You look after a machine for 20 years, keep it tidy and right, go to trade it in and itā€™s apparently worth Jack sh!t. The machine you want to buy is straight out of a farmers yard and will probably need half a dozen jobs doing when you set it to work but itā€™s worth a fortune.
Is it any wonder I rarely buy machinery and keep the old stuff for years?
 

icanshootwell

Member
Location
Ross-on-wye
Driving to Birmingham to take some wheels to be refurbished, only to have a fine come through the post for Ā£60 for not paying the clean air zone. Ā£8 a day apparently, I didn't fuc#ing know about this shite. To busy trying to navigate through the shitehole to see any signage.
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
RPA field maps.
Dozy twits have included a slice of a householders garden on one of my fields. You can clearly see a very well defined straight edge to the arable field on the satellite image. Its ploughed soil. The neighbours garden is green and includes shrubs a large garden pond, kids play equipment etc. Yet they have shown my boundary including a slice of it. Are the people that draft these boundary maps permanently pee'd or something? And they've updated it apparently - but it's still wrong.
 

melted welly

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
DD9.
Making everything cheaper and shitter in the name of reducing emissions.

1st Sunday off in months, making french toast for myself and the boy, weā€™ve a poor mans aga which doesnā€™t really get very hot, so have electric hot plate. Previous one died last year, so replaced with ā€œexactlyā€ the same model, only itā€™s not, be quicker with a candle.

So instead of a ten minute blast, weā€™ve so far had 15 minutes of me pushing soggy bread round a pan, swearing under my breath, and weā€™ve ended up with a blanched soggy something thatā€™ll definitely give us both a dose of the sh1!s. But hey, at least the arrow pointed to the green bit on the energy efficiency picture on the box. šŸ™„.

Nice one greenies, nice one, now itā€™s been on 30 mins in a vain attempt to make something edible, thatā€™s going to go straight to compost šŸ‘.
 

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