Decided to buy a little clay target thrower to take down the in-law's farm for easter. Bought 3 boxes of clays from the local Field & Game as well.
Putting it together tonight in the shed and dropped one of the little top hat alloy bushes for the main arm. It hit my boot and that was the last I saw of it. I searched for over an hour and got me buggared where it went. There wasn't too many places it could have gone but bye bye long time. Ended up using my drill as a lathe and spun one up using a double bevel Vallorbe file
Got the bastard together finally and mounted it to my vice mount that fits the ute towbar. Should be good fun.
Did have one win though while digging around for the little alloy top hat bit under my shelves that hold my chainsaw chain and bars. Found a 20" .050" 3/8" Tsumura that I'd lost over a year ago that had fallen down behind the shelving. I pulled every bar out looking for that mongrel and honestly thought I'd lost the plot and maybe never even bought it. Bought a couple of 20" .050" 3/8" lightweight Sugiharas instead. Now I have 3 bars that I didn't really need...
Oh and got more news on that rooted Kenworth motor this afternoon direct from my mate as opposed to his missus. It was a telescopic mirror that got chewed up PLUS a set of feeler gauges. The feeler gauges still had the mechanic's initials on them which made it pretty bloody obvious who stuffed it up
They didn't end up having to replace the whole motor but did have to replace the entire top end. Also the bits hadn't been left in the motor for 80,000km. He'd only just had a hot tune done where they adjusted all the valve clearances etc so the damage was actually done in one day and only 200km.
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