paging *everyone* except Blaney

Do you want the details of a place near my place who'll do you an MOT
with a race can?

 

darsy says...

"He's fast for anything queer"

 

hell yeah, that'd be even better.

 

The normal way to check that you have an impact set corretly is to use
it as an ordinary screwdriver on the screw, pushing while you turn it
anti-clockwise. If you have it set to tighten, the mechanism will
usually toggle over as you turn it. However, I've neve rsee one with
anything that can be called a "switch", so maybe yours is completely
different.

 

Very small, and as soon as you manage to move it a few degrees it
usually becomes obviously loose

 

I was using "switch" in the logical sense. There's an indicator on the
main body of the driver, and to change direction, you push in the
front end and twist it about 15 degrees to set the direction you want.

 

Oh great, that means I can do this again:

<emailed>

 

OK, yes, that's exactly like mine. So, you push and turn it in an
"undo" direction to set it to undo.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

'Bout 20 degrees or so. Enough that you'd know it had moved.

<furtles around in toolbox>

Ah, here we are... Yep, that's about right.

Some impact drivers (mine own included) are wrongly stamped for
direction of turn. Hold the body of the driver steady and push it
against the palm of your other hand to see if the bit or socket will
turn in the required direction. If not, reset the thing.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

darsy says...

That sounds about right. The way I normally check how its set is to push
the driver against the garage floor and see which way the bit turns.

 

It doesn't really, it sort-of goes back to where it started, I think -
unless the siezed nut is moving, in which case it's not really siezed
anymore, and you don't need the impact driver. QED

 

You mis-spelt PlusGas - much better for that sort of thing than WD40.

Oh, and a blowtorch, that sometimes helps. If it doesn't help, then at
least it's fun to play with.

 

oh right. Yes, that makes sense, I suppose.

 

Never used it. I shall have to take that on trust.

Indeed. Was playing with one in the garden last night. Fortuantely
everything was slightly too fresh to give a big "whump - oh whoops,
there go my eyebrows"...

 

Apply paraffin. Or lighter fuel/petrol, if you're feeling frisky.

 

Paraffin will probably be tried. And then petrol...

 

Champ says...

A bit like this story then.

http://www.google.co.uk/groups?q=Stanley+author:lozzo&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8
&selm=9cvbag%24fmmig%241%40ID-54668.news.dfncis.de&rnum=2

 

How fucked? darsy fucked or my fucked?

 

darsy fucked.

The clutch is terminally slipping i.e. you can disengage the clutch in
gear and it won't stall.

Also, the carbs need a bit of looking at.

It's not dead, it's just pining for Bavaria.

 

sweller says...

Heh, I'd hate to see what you think is fucked as opposed to "A little
light restoration required"