Alan Mackenzie's Blog

Thursday, February 26, 2015

COCOON SECURITY SYSTEM WITH 500GB HARD DRIVE

ALDI – The Cocoon 4 camera system has come around again, this time with higher res cameras. I purchased one of these last year and had some issues with the cameras but warranty support is good.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

GARMAN nuvi 2597LMT GPS

Bought a GARMAN nuvi 2597LMT off the older daughter as she prefers to use her iPhone for navigation. She only used it a few time so it’s like a new unit out of the box!

Speckles - back from bird vet!

I don't think I posted that she's been sick for the last few days and spent 2 nights at the The Melbourne Bird Veterinary Clinic in Scoresby. She's got a little packet of pink pills and we have to watch her closely over the next 48 hours with food and water - and hope the antibiotics does the job.

Chicken coop clean-up

Hot day so cleaned out and pressure washed the chook shed this morning - including the curtains!

That's a GMC pressure cleaner and yes - still works well!

Bandsaw 38 - Full view photo

It turned out to be quite a large beast! Using a old measuring stick I'm 6'2" and the saw is 6'9", no wonder

I had to use a small stepladder when working on the top wheel tensioner assembly which also facilities blade tracking.

Bandsaw 37 – The old tyre

This is the lower wheel tyre that I just replaced because it has stretched quite a bit.

I mentioned in the previous post that I did not do a good job of cutting out around the valve…and you can see that in this picture. I suspect this contributed quite a bit to the tyre stretching.

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Bandsaw 36 – Tyre change

While replacing the damaged lower wheel outer bearing flange it got me thinking just how much load/strain is placed on the lower (driven) wheel and it’s related components. When fitting the tyre back onto the wheel I noticed that is had stretched quite a bit as it went onto the wheel too easily!

Putting the tyres onto the wheels last year was a real struggle so why has this one stretched ? will the upper tyre the same ?

Had a closer look and can see why it stretched, I cut out to much around the valve base and created a week spot. Decided to put a new tyre on the wheel so off to Kmart to buy another 12” kids bike inner tube for $5.00.

Same procedure as before cut neatly and exactly around the inside middle of the tube.