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Taipan wrote: Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:54 pm Wow! I'd never have guessed that! Its effin huge!!

& surprisingly light. The 7.3 V8 diesel in that truck weights about 1000lb, that 27l V12 only weighs 700lb more. The cams are hollow & weigh less than a cam from a Kaw Z1.
When you sit a few feet behind a Merlin when it's running there's zero vibration, if it wasn't for the noise & wind* you'd think it wasn't running.

*which tbf, is a bit brutal.

Backed the truck in this evening & did a spectacular job of getting it parallel to the wall. Maybe 6in clearance.


Then I remembered I was intending to check the tire pressure in the morning

I guess I'll check the drivers side & assume the other side is the same* ...they run 60-65psi.



*not really.

Update:
Checked the TP this morning, moved the truck to get at the right rears, all around 60-62psi.. except the right rear inner which was at 40psi, will be watching that one closely.

I’ve got to ask - why have you got a 27l RR Merlin engine in the back of your truck? Transplant project, or your new coffee table?

Wossname wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 9:42 am I’ve got to ask - why have you got a 27l RR Merlin engine in the back of your truck? Transplant project, or your new coffee table?

Photo shoot at the engine shop, truck isn't insured for commercial work.. or even as a daily driver. The engine left shortly after on a different truck.

Work from home = work on your home

Taipan wrote: Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:54 pm

ZRX61 wrote: Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:35 pm

Taipan wrote: Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:22 pm

WTF engine is that?!?!

RR Merlin 29 from a Hurricane People underestimate how big they are until you stand next to one out of the aircraft...

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Wow! I'd never have guessed that! Its effin huge!!

The Hurricane is a surprisingly large aircraft when you're stood next to it tbh.

Yorick wrote: Wed Oct 29, 2025 4:59 pm After seemingly ages prepping , priming and painting the path at side of house, today was the comparatively easy bit

Shitty painter did side of house and it all came up so had to take it back to the concrete. Bloody hard work

Today just applied primer to rear. I'd filled the cracks previously.
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The 2 pack primer just for this area was 75€. Might as well do it properly
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Was hard work as bastard 30c today. Had to wait till sun went behind house or i would have been blinded by the reflection
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About a third done. . Arm aching so beer break. About 90 mins daylight left
Enough paint to cover another third

Just that much top coat was 110€
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Hell of a difference! I'm guessing at tyhat price it must be pretty durable too? Oh, and get on with it or you'll get a line in the paint finish!

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 2:50 pm Work from home = work on your home

That bonfires gonna be a bit close to your house imo.

Taipan wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 4:59 pm Hell of a difference! I'm guessing at tyhat price it must be pretty durable too? Oh, and get on with it or you'll get a line in the paint finish!

My mate here is a decorator and he recommended the place he uses.

Expensive but worth it. Gonna be about 600€ by time I finish the last areas.
But should last 5 years

Living in the High Desert....
Trying to pull out of a parking lot in town. I'm in the F350. Traffic isn't cooperating so I employ the Rule of Gross Tonnage & stick the nose between a pair of SUVs in the SB #2 lane while the light is red... This means the truck is blocking the #2 lane, the pavement & the right turn lane.
This is moment when the USAF decide to wake up the valley with a good solid *BOOM!!*.
Gal in the SUV ahead of me (300+lb, green face & witchy outfit for halloween) gets out of her vehicle & walked round to examine the back, she thought I'd hit her

Will check the card in the dash cam later:)

Another day, another fence...

Sacked off doing the decking and taking my wife out for unch as shes a feling a bit down bless her.

Benelli been out again, covered in shit, dirty pic's tomorrow.

Went to the tip, as usual came away from the recycling shop with nearly as much as I threw in the skips.

Always wanted a Target Hifi stand with the glass shelves and isolation spikes. Always too much money and even second hand ones are going for £80-100. Picked this one up at the tip for £7.00.

Also got a Tennent's Lager Christmas jumper. Very classy...

derek badger wrote: Sun Nov 02, 2025 3:45 pm Also got a Tennent's Lager Christmas jumper. Very classy...

From the tip?

derek badger wrote: Sun Nov 02, 2025 3:45 pm Went to the tip, as usual came away from the recycling shop with nearly as much as I threw in the skips.

Always wanted a Target Hifi stand with the glass shelves and isolation spikes. Always too much money and even second hand ones are going for £80-100. Picked this one up at the tip for £7.00.

Also got a Tennent's Lager Christmas jumper. Very classy...

The hi-fi stack looks but the room acoustics look a bit 'glassy'.

Today I have:

Supervised the lowering of a gas valve access cover on our verge (Cadent fitted it significantly higher than the other two they fitted at the same time, and last year my F-i-l drove the mower into it and caused £1.8K worth of damage (to the mower, not the shitty metal gas cover). It is now at the same height as the other two, and means I don't need to slalom around the fricking thing.

Edged the path to our side gate, as nature was having a good go at reclaiming it.

Dug some stuff out of the loft - some for charity, some to get used in the workshop and garage.

Chopped some kindling.

Changed the braces on our log store, so now I don't keep hitting the back of my head on them. I'm waiting to see how long it takes the other half to notice - he'd gone out by this point - that I've done it (he built the log store from scratch, added the braces later and has never seen the point of altering them).

Before: After:

Today I marvelled at just how much humans can eat in one sitting. We went to a carvary and our table was opposite the exit point from the serving aisle. Now there's nothing like a belly full of a big roast dinner and nice snooze to sleep it off, but some of these people came out with what can only be described as gravity defying balancing act of roast potatoes!

Fought with the kitchen taps and finally won.
Ordered bits from tap spares so hopefully we will have a functioning kitchen sink soon.
Lovely aesthetics but seem a little prone to scaling up.