My Week this Week, My workshop videos

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Thanks for your concern, I am still here, had an op in october, and am just getting started again!
Phil

Saw you posted a vid - great to see you getting back into it.

 

[hermetic]

thank you! Great to be back, I am getting stronger but need to build up my stamina again! It is coming back!
Phil

 

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Shot this just before Christmas, put it on the tube, but forgot the forums! obviously not quite firing on four at the time!
Phil
Hi folks, Just a short video to show I am still alive and kicking up a fuss! A few odd jobs to clear the decks before the festivities begin! Thank you all for your patience, and I hope you all have a wonderfull Yule and a bright and happy new year!
Bright blessings to all! Phil

 

[Toymaker]

It may be time to clean my lathe ..... Been making lots of stainless steel-wool

 

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Hi folks, I get the belt guard finished, and a few other little jobs completed on the Holbrook B9 and the realisation dawns that it is nearly finished! I have the collet draw tube to complete, and the belt guard pivot to finalise, and then it is time to finalise the underframe, and remove it to drill the holes for fixing and lifting, aqnd then it's paint, paint and more paint!
Phil, in Wild wet and windy East Yorkshire

 

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Hi folks, I Get sidetracked so easily towards the end of long projects, but I looked in the firewood bag, and there it was! Antiques repaired, trees trimmed, some milling, some lathe work, another week of winter passes, roll on spring!!Phil, in suddenly very cold East Yorkshire

 

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Hi folks, Short week, Monday on Taxi duties, and Thursday at the osteopaths with my shoulder strain! I finally decide to get stuck in to the Holbrook steelwork, and strip off all the drive and underskids for drilling and painting, it goes well, and I may sneak back today (Saturday) and put another coat on, which will be the first coat of black. If it is not sufficiently dry by Monday I will be starting another project in the new space I have now that the stairlifts have GONE!
Phil, In suddenly Wintry East Yorkshire.

 

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Hi folks, Holbrook painting, antique repairs, and a future project on a Watsonian D type jaguar replica. If anyone remembers the very popular TV series Lovejoy, he had a guy called Tinker who was always "improving" antiques, I am begining to feel like Tinker should be my middle name!
Phil, in bloody cold East Yorkshire!

 

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Hi folks, Monday didn't happen due to a visit to Hull Eye Horstipal, and Tuesday, after a small poo run we tackled a job which has been laying around for a few years! A large ash tree branch had fallen into a hung up position in a hawthorn and until we moved it we could not start the fence we were going to start when lockdown occured! It is now gone, and fencing can commence eventually, more tree demolition next week! Then onto the Holbrook auxilarries and I finally get the guard assembled and into primer!
Phil, in a little warmer East Yorkshire!

 

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Hi folks, Monday didn't happen AGAIN due to taking DIL to Dewsbury to buy a car, chariot racing on the M1 was NOT fun!! A mixed week of painting, showing you all the faults it is possible to get in paintwork! I get there in the end though! Tree work and logging follows as we fell a leylandi growing in the wrong place next to a wall and log it all up. I do some outside clearing at the workshop, and end up taper turning some wood for a tool I broke, then its back on the Holbrook and get the underskids sorted for captive nuts! I'm fair knackered!!
Phil, in cold but springlike East Yorkshire

 

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Hi folks, A very busy mixed week of welding, logging and final assembly on the Holbrook! I get the skids and countershaft support back on the lathe, and make the jacking bars to make the lathe easier to move around the workshop. Tuesday is a field day! we finish logging up the Leylandi, get the 2CV tractor going and and move all the brash to the "chicken run" for a future conflagration. I pack up a spare tailstock for the colchester student lathe as it is being shipped to Thailand!, and as usual have a cup of tea or two and a good tidy up. Sold two Motors this week and loads of other gear this week, so my "goods Outward area is almost empty!
Phil, in sunny and warm East Yorkshire, AT LAST!!

 

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Hi folks, A very busy mixed week again!! Monday a bit of painting, a bit of tidying and organisation as my FB marketplace sales campaign gets underway and all my accumulated junk flies out of the door in exchange for good hard cash!!Tuesday in the field was awful! Raining on and off all day and quite cold again so we did a poo run and then some maintenance on the Westwood garden tractor, which is still going like a train, albeit one with a very loose engine, but we soon fixed that!Wednesday I explore the depths of the eternal dilemma, should I fix it or just bin it? Well I fixed it, but it took a day and a half, and the fix (on a garden shredder) is not perfect, After that, as an aside I get my old jack up in the air and find its problem, and fix it! I did not realise how old it was! It is an antique from about 1930! No matter cos it flew out the door one day after advertising it! All in, a good week!!
Phil, in cold and wet East Yorkshire!