The perfect garage.

Anyone ever use BMW straight sixes for this kind of thing? I have a 325i engine on eBay at the moment that's just crying out for a lightweight kit car to fly around in.

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They have to find out, first.

Whats the difference between a TIG and a MIG welder? Is one of them Russian? (I'm too lazy to look for the explanation myself)

Thanks.

Probably not, It'll be languishing under scaffolding and little barbeques. Handy if the A-Team ever show up though.

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MIG feeds wire into a gas flow, striking the arc between the wire and the workpiece. In a way it's much like ordinary arc welding except the flux on the rods is replaced by gas from an annular nozzle and the rod is replaced by moving wire.

TIG is more like brazing. There's a tungsten tip from which the arc is struck against the workpiece, again with a gas shield. The weld is built up from filler rod, much like brazing.

I bet it's nothing major. Just a comms or power supply problem or something like that. They seem pretty reliable once they're up and running. Good luck with it.

Cheers,

Colin.

Marlin do a BMW donor option. They used to have a demonstrator with an M3 engine. Not sure if they still have it.

Colin.

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They've all tested OK as far as possible - it just seems as if the CPU's blanked itself. Good, innit?

Well said that man. :-) I'm sure another 2ft 6" is not going to bring the walls tumbling down, if the footings have been done properly. Mike.

That's really the point I was making. A lift would of course be better, but for the majority of garages it's not an option because of the restricted hight. Whereas a pit probably is. As far as ventilation is concerned, a simple fan drawing air from the lowest point would take care of any hazardous gases. Petrol fumes etc. Mike.

Cheers for that.

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And of course, provided the pit's got good strong sides and ain't collapsing, there's no additional risk.

Hmmm. I guess it's time to get intimately aquainted with the troubleshooting section of the assembly manual. I've never heard of a processor erasing itself accidentally before. I suppose it might have actually blown-up for some reason, but even that's fairly rare if the board's been working in the past.

Have fun with it. Life would be far too boring if everything was easy. My money is still on something you'll kick yourself for, once you find out what it is. It always is in my case anyway.

Cheers,

Colin.

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Yep, that works for me.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Willy Eckerslyke saying something like:

Easy enough to fit a towball on a wall or post.

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Or just a leg. I welded one to the front of my trailer this afternoon 'cos the little chair I used to leave it stood on in the spaceport has been pinched by the kids.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Moray Cuthill" saying something like:

There was story in uk.d-i-y some years ago about a fibreglass bottle-shaped septic tank popping out of the ground and rolling down a hill.

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Please tell me it was empty. PLEASE.

Good idea, I have a couple spare so will present him with one.

Yup, that'd work, though it'd need to be pretty solid to hold up while a couple of tons of Landrover is driven up onto the trailer! So would the wall above, come to that.