Druidic exploits of a various nature!!

[v8druid]

well I got it made .... may have to make a MkII version yet ..... I can handle it no prob.s .... SWMBO, isn't as adept ...... yet !!








works well and resists the wind just great ... been a tad blowy here today !!


'The Boss' has been sussing 'the next phase' .....





for which I had to spend a couple of hours digging out a sheet of stainless ......





which was behind rather a lot and buried at the bottom of a heap ....
did find a few sheets I'd forgotten I had in the process though !!
Left a lot of it spread about for now .... as it decided to piddle down this afters !!

the cats have had a real hard day ..... no sooner we were out of bed and they'd settled down for some serious R&R .....





....... before we could even make it !!


they bravely struggled through the day, in a similar vein, until eventually collapsing, exhausted, in front of the wood burner, this evening, as Pam had succumbed to her primeval desire for fire








this was their secondary, or 'fall back' position, having cooked their furry bums, directly in front of it for half an hour !!


Hard life being a moggy !!

[v8druid]

tweet tweet !!

guess what I've been doing yesterday ??


found a 2m x 1m in the pile ... ideal





the noble art of 'nesting' .... used to do a lot of that!!








four down - several more to go





a little torch 'attention' required





light lunch ..... coffee and Pam's GF Cappuccino cake .... yum





16 out of 0.55M sq





trimmed up ready to put away again


Pam had to have a play about with them ....





held on with bulldog clips .... for now
going to take a few hours fettling, before I can get them welded in situ .... and dare say the 'design' may well change before then !!


also need to get the gates painted too .... if a colour can ever be selected!!

[AndrewMawson]

Given a DXF of the bird that's a ten minute job on my CNC plasma table, but you probably didn't want to hear that!

[v8druid]

Given a DXF of the bird that's a ten minute job on my CNC plasma table, but you probably didn't want to hear that!

Aye ... I know Boyo ..... would've been a lot quicker and cleaner on me old magic eye too ... but neither of them are sat on me patch and you know what it's like when they want summat

Lot of fettling now required

[v8druid]

right gentlemen ...... I am in need of your collective knowledge/experience .... maybe best guesses.
tripped over this pic today ......

throttle control jpg.jpg

this is the valve that controls the 'Drema's throttle .. this ain't mine but is identical off another Hydrema.

I have five levels of 'volume ' ..... Idle 1000rpm, standby 1400 rpm, low 1800 rpm, medium 2000 rpm and high 2300 rpm, all button controlled.
she auto idles after 10 seconds inactivity and I pre-select what 'volume ' I need on start up (or at any time I like after that)
if you can't make it out on the pic ..top pipe is labelled L and the port below it is labelled P
I'm guessing the 'goldy' coloured bit next to L is a solenoid and there're 4 wires going into the other bit from the multi plug ... as far as I recall and can see here

Anyone ever seen one of these before, or got any ideas how it works ???? .... it basically varies the stroke of what must be a cylinder which pushes the throttle cable and opens the injector pump up to give it the beans

I surmise that P bleeds pressure as required, from the LS line, when it senses a demand for 'action'
(I'll have to see if I can see WTF it comes from on mine),which is in no where near as convenient a position, to examine (tucked down/under/beside the Deutz's sump),as this one is - hence grabbing the pic ....
but quite how much travel to give the throttle must be determined by those wires, which presumably are the four separate switches on the dash - SB, L, M & H
also guessing the 'goldy' coloured item is responsible for dumping said pressure for auto idle to occur ??
Some kind of proportional stepper solenoid perhaps?

If this ever goes wrong it's gonna get a cable - end of, but would be nice to know HTF it works and whether anyone has any idea WTF this 'valve' is called ???
plus of course how it functions

Game on fellas ......

[AndrewMawson]

My guess is four magnetic reed switches embedded in it connected to the four way connector. Each spaced down the travel A dash switch determines which reed switch is active and the solenoid valve advances the piston until that particular switch is activated.

[v8druid]

My guess is four magnetic reed switches embedded in it connected to the four way connector. Each spaced down the travel A dash switch determines which reed switch is active and the solenoid valve advances the piston until that particular switch is activated.

that makes a lot of sense Andrew like a crude proportional valve ...... will see about the plumbing routing tomorrow .... 'sposed to be a better day and suss what, comes from/goes where ??


on the shed subject ..... was perusing these yesterday
https://www.shelterit.co.uk/product-...SAAEgJER_D_BwE

seemed odd that a 14m long one was 6.5k yet a 21m one was only another 700 quid?????
you know who'd have a fit if one o' they appeared over a weekend .... green of course

[v8druid]

rudely awoken at 7.30 by me phone this morning .... me drug delivery driver lost one day we'll have someone turn up who's actually been here before !!

so a slightly earlier start than usual (I am retired, after all ) ....When it had stopped precipitating, 'bout 10.30, had a lil' project to sort.
Clara's birthday Saturday coming, and we've not got her until Friday afternoon this week - unusually, so had some time to get this together for her.



had considered making one, but couldn't for the price of this .... and having the dry time to do it.
pretty good kit, but yer average Joe'd struggle getting it together, especially with some of the issues encountered and some pretty crap 'destructions' to follow

when I put it together it had captures for M10 bolts ... in the UK they'm a 17mm AF head.
Bolts in the swing kit were M10 with continental 16mm AF heads ....
guess what didn't happen in their capture holes ..... they weren't and just spun
Good job I had some M10 x 55s to replace 'em with
Seems odd with all the ISO sh1t that Euro M10s are 16mm AF heads, yet nuts are 17mm AF
... have a lot on the 'Drema that're 16/17mm combinations

hopefully it'll have the desired effect, when she next arrives ......



She loves the swings at the play area, next to her nursery school, down in the village .... one of her own ought to go down a storm - we hope
The baby seat's for little Shem, who'll be here, from Plymouth, this weekend, for her birthday, but have a.n.other std seat for when he's grown a bit

Gonna have to bungee him to the glider though, for now ... super glue might be a bit drastic

spent a few hours after, collecting bloody leaves and bits of tree, after all the bloody rain and winds, these last few days ........ forgot to pop the bonnet on't 'Drema for a hose suss though ......Manyana

[Stock]

when I put it together it had captures for M10 bolts ... in the UK they'm a 17mm AF head.
Bolts in the swing kit were M10 with continental 16mm AF heads ....
guess what didn't happen in their capture holes ..... they weren't and just spun
Good job I had some M10 x 55s to replace 'em with
Seems odd with all the ISO sh1t that Euro M10s are 16mm AF heads, yet nuts are 17mm AF
... have a lot on the 'Drema that'd 16/17mm combinations

sure with Brexit it will all be 5/8" or 11/16"............................................... ...................

[Muz]

sure with Brexit it will all be 5/8" or 11/16"............................................... ...................

Bring it on ........ 3 litre engine option for my Suzie too .... with no ad blue either

[v8druid]

sure with Brexit it will all be 5/8" or 11/16"............................................... ...................

Well I still got all me spanners, sockets, etc. .... af and whitworth .... no sweat ... got a lot more o' them than these new fangled metric things.................... still work in Thou.s anyway and can spot BSW/BSF/UNC/UNF at 30 yards

[v8druid]

Bring it on ........ 3 litre engine option for my Suzie too .... with no ad blue either

[v8druid]

busy on the bench this afternoon ....... painting ....






side 1 of #2 gate ........ when Squeak arrived with a gift .....



his way of telling me it was time for his tea ..... his body clock is completely shot with the clocks going back an hour

just about got side 2 done before the light gave out and had to turn the flood lights on ...... God knows what it'll look like in the daylight .... good job it's only HBZP primer

Both gates in a box, in the dry .... reckon it'll be frosty tonight ... my feet were bloody frozen, by the time I'd finished, but at least the wind that'd been drying the primer on the brush and trying to take my ears off, all afternoon had dropped

A decision on a colour has been made ....... sort of ..... provisionally, at least .... we'll see ... might change yet, but at least they'm now primed, so the possible 'Hammerite' choice, that was being mooted, has had it ... won't take on top of primer

[v8druid]

'twere a busy weekend last weekend .... lil miss had her third birthday Saturday .... the swing (despite being in place for several days hadn't been noticed ) and she had a great surprise to find her very own ....









was a bit of a hit

A lot of the day spent at her favorite farm park later on,. with her furry friends .....



and lots of soft play toys for her and lil' cuzzin Shem ...



followed by a bash down the village hall, on the Sunday for her 'pals', with one of granny's 'specials' as centre piece ...







Pam and I have spent the rest of the week trying to recover ...... but thwarted by a hectic week ....
An old friend....guy who came with me when I bought the 'Drema in Norwich and spent a lot of his time helping me clearing my old workshop, got out of bed Monday and promptly had a stroke .... not good .... so been back and fore with his missus to see him at a specialist unit 30 miles away.

Then had a friend from another forum spend Thursday morning with me, drooling over and getting to know the subtleties of 'Drema ownership and seeing just what she'd do ..... and seeing what she'll do .... he wants one and we've found a suitable candidate in Sweden, he's in the process of negotiating on and planning a trip home for it



Plus of course ... the usual Clara duties 3 days this week ......... so been a far from recuperative week

[ianoz]

Looks like one very happy Miss 3 on the swing set .
Last photo , the 'Drema looks like it is parked up in the weeds .LOL