Don the Don
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By the way, like your new avator it is really you mate
What have you done to your bike today....
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BAD LUCK DUCK
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I agree...like so many limp wristed faggity individual's ( I don't mean I'm a limp wristed faggity individual ) i find it frustrating and difficult to be my true self but on this occasion I think that I may have cracked it on the avatar front
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BAD LUCK DUCK
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Not to worry mate...They look ideal on youtube and simplicity itself..Yo Duck, I'm really sorry you have struggled with the heatshrink connectorswouldn't have suggested them if I'd thought that would happen.
Im not exactly sure why the solder won't melt...
Heat shrink part of it is beautiful..
Could it be the ambient temperature & the fact you're doing the work outside Duck?
It ain't exactly tropical at the minute is it mate.
Ron
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I have had the same issue with those myself Duck.
BTW, I like the avatar as well.
BAD LUCK DUCK
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Well it was minus three outside but if Ron as had problems as well it makes me wonder...
BAD LUCK DUCK
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Scrappy
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They do work mate, I've used them a few times.
Just did this so I could get pictures, the connectors were brought from Amazon, and I used this heat gun: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07VLK9M5Z
Before heat:
After heat (only took a few seconds, indoors)...
Not a great picture but the solder had melted and covered all the way around, and it ain't coming apart.
Previously I'd used one of these heat guns below, and that worked but did take longer as the heat wasn't as focused.
T
The Departed
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@duck did you turn the thing on? Need t plug it in to a power outlet mate
BAD LUCK DUCK
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Sent them connectors back as not any good in a real life situation...
Will get a full refund....
Will get a full refund....
Would your landlady let you put a shed in the garden?
For the right side of £200 you'd have somewhere dry & warm(er) than the patio. To work on your bike.
BAD LUCK DUCK
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Yeah the thing is that ain't a very realistic situation though....
Most people I know work on a car motorbike or whatever vehicle they have outside...
The other thing is a single wire indoors ain't attached to a vehicle hanging in an awkward position with a dozen other wires in the way...
Therefore for me personally they ain't no use to me or my bike in real world conditions...just not practical....
MartytheMartian
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Best investment I ever made was in a soldering station. This sort of thing 2 in 1 750W Soldering Iron Station Hot Air Gun Desoldering Rework Digital Solder | eBay the soldering iron is ready way quicker than your standard plug type and you can crank the heat up for bigger solder jobs plus you have a nifty little heat gun as well for your heat shrink and it will even melt solder in small areas where a standard heat gun would melt everything in sight. The heat gun is actually meant for soldering and de-soldering surface mount microchips.
BAD LUCK DUCK
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Already have a shed in the garden for all the wife's gardening stuff...
We can't put anything else up as peak park are very strict on what they allow to be built on the area which we live..So strict in fact that they regularly send aircraft over in the summer months photographing the entire park to make sure no one as put up anything they shouldn't....
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Big Sandy
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I'd be putting up a sign facing upwards with "Fuck off Biggles" on it. In fact, ye could work under it.....
MartytheMartian
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......errrmmm didn't someone do that in Wales because they were fed up being overflown by Hercs on training? I seem to recall the result was that they flew lower and made more noise.
Don the Don
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And use the sign as a marker,
Low flying military aircraft: Where and when low flying happens - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
These days there is less flying training by NATO over UK airspace, but hey the lads don't care pack up and go stateside or anywhere else for a working holiday the growbags [aircrew] don't mind swapping wales for Nevada & Arizona
Big Sandy
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Aye they did.
When we lived in Ayrshire our house was quite prominent, on the shoulder of a hill, 800ft up, painted white. They used to use us as a target, you'd see three of them coming, one peeled left, one right and the centre one came straight at us, then blasted upwards. Pretty obvious it was a camera bombing run.
Never minded though, I'd rather they knew what they were doing and you gots to practice somewhere... But deep in the bowels of raf hq there must be dozens of photos of me giving them the fingers! Used to make a body jump out of your skin if you didn't see them coming!
Sarky B’stard
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Painting “Piss off Biggles!” on the roof just attracts them!
I am at the top end of the flight navigable Tweed Valley so routinely see the Low Flying Training calendar. A regular parade of Tucanos (now Texans) C-130 & fast jets. Some are nearer 200’ than 500’ (count the rivets!)
I am at the top end of the flight navigable Tweed Valley so routinely see the Low Flying Training calendar. A regular parade of Tucanos (now Texans) C-130 & fast jets. Some are nearer 200’ than 500’ (count the rivets!)