Honda C90 '89 piston & barrel change

After a week or so being used as a daily ride to work, it was obvious that there must be some wear somewhere as the exhaust had more than a hint of two-stroke & too much oil was being used... We happened to have another barrel & piston which looked to be pretty good so we decided to swap them over & see if that cured the problem....

An hour or so later & it was running again... minus the smoke this time so hopefully its cured that problem?

Sandwich White Mill

Before we could do much more we need to move the old tank which had been damaged by the thieves who stole the oil. The pictures tell the story of what was about an hours work...
We now need to empty out the last of the oil & work out what to do next... repair? replace? new? used? siting? screening? security?

Sandwich Windmill

A varied morning at the mill today...

We're still deciding what to do about the heating oil tank that was holed by thieves who stole the contents a few weeks ago.

Before we can do anything we have to empty the remaining oil from the existing 2,500l tank... so far we've pumped out 550l & there is still some more left... we filled up all the available containers today...

 We now have the use of a De walt thicknesser too


















A large heavy vice was also in need of attention.... this originally had a quick release mechanism, but this had long gone, so I made up a steel strip (the bit diagonally accross the vice near the mounting holes). This effectively keeps the half nut engaged perninantly with the thread byforcing it upwards, which is what the spring in the original quick-release would have done...



The Whitemill, Sandwich

A mixed morning at the mill today, the first thing is to report that the guardrails that we started a couple of weeks ago are now finished...

However, most of this morning was taken up with sorting a theft of heating oil which occurred sometime Thurday night. The tank is a relatively new polyethere, bunded one, & is mounted some five feet off the ground. The thieves had drilled through both inner & outer walls & then presumably drained the contents (approx 200l) into containers. The tank will have to be replaced which, ironically will cost a lot more than they will get for the stolen oil!

We will need to re-think the siting of the replacement tank to make this sort of think more difficult in future...