Eddie Honda's wheels of steel (and occasionally alloy)

[Eddie Honda]

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=mclaren+pedal+drift

and click on images. It'll be there somewhere.

[Eddie Honda]

Debate on Jeremy Vine about cat thefts. The jizz came up regular as a target. Why would that be? Does the ground clearence make them an easy target?

They're not tucked up and easy to access.
Has a decent weight of precious metals in it.

[paulplom]

He suggested painting the underside of your car with anti vandal paint.
Maybe you could give it a go over the long weekend.

[Eddie Honda]

Long weekends don't exist here. The only day I can 100% guarantee off here is Xmas day.

[paulplom]

Join the club. I'm at work tomorrow. No one reminded me it was Good Friday. Even the customer.

[Eddie Honda]

Got on the blower to Ted's looking for a couple of 6000ZZ bearings. Aye, four in stock, so make my essential* journey down there and part with a whopping €13.55! for two Koyos. I know I can get 20 of them for that from China, but a four to six weeks wait isn't an option and I couldn't be bothered burning a load of pez to go up to E. Fox Engineers.

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So starting from this point

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A bit of percussive action sees it get back towards where it should be

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Then rummage round the man cave to find a long bolt to put in to assist further directional bashing and clamp it up to see how it looks.

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They only really weld that sleeve in with a blob of about ⅙ of the circumference either side. Might buzz round the whole lot. Next job: find Mr Angry Grinder.

[Hooli]

Reminds me of why I've had Givi racks fail, a massive joining surface & a tiny blob of weld to hope it hangs together.

[LynehamHerc]

Are those those climbing bars that you use?
We used to call them monkeybars at school.

[Hooli]

No, the badly made and bloody expensive luggage system on my Suzuki.

[Eddie Honda]

After getting up too early and then wasting a fiver gambling on my team before watching the telly box at lunchtime, I nodded-off in the chair. On waking I thought I'd better get my arse in gear and do something semi-productive, or at least appear to be.

Found angry grinder. Found the spindle spanner. Found the twisted wire brush head. Found the discs. Moved a couple of bicycles and lawnmower out of the way and moved the B&D Workmate in.

First remove a bit of paint with a flap disc. Blob some welds here and there.

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Then decided to bend open the closing flap (which isn't welded over) and do some more blobbing inside.

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Pondered my next move and thought I might as well weld the end flap shut. It might resist tearing open again.

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Dress things back on two sides and general clean up. Then battle a bit with getting the bearings out, because I've been a blind twat and wandered off course and welded over the edge of the sleeve. (Thought briefly "what the fuck I am doing this for, should of let matey skip it"). A quick tickle with the grinder and I get them tapped out along with the spacer.

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Then waste more time looking around for a tin of spray paint. Find some grey primer and a tin of white. (Wonder if it'll last past the first drift or should I have beefed it up further - then decide "fuck it", shove the old bearings half-way back in and get spraying).

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Waiting for the primer to dry now. Off out to get fags and some munchies to have with my beer. For those of you observing the time-stamps on those photos, I used to have an appropriate T-shirt from ASDA with this on it:

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