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gintonic said:
at the dentist again to talk over a treatment plan for my tooth with the temporary filling - booked in for root canal........£££
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Good luck GT, I've had some great and terrible dentists in the past, they all like to charge though! I had an old Chinese guy when I was a kid, he was a magician, I never felt a thing. We moved and I had a mad irishman, you could smell the drink on him in the afternoon. One of my recent ones was a Spanish lady and then replaced by an African guy, they were both great.

Cheers BB
 
Brown Bottle said:
Good luck GT, I've had some great and terrible dentists in the past, they all like to charge though! I had an old Chinese guy when I was a kid, he was a magician, I never felt a thing. We moved and I had a mad irishman, you could smell the drink on him in the afternoon. One of my recent ones was a Spanish lady and then replaced by an African guy, they were both great.

Cheers BB
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cheers - the private practice I am with are pretty good, and they have a root canal specialist. Better than the last NHS dentist I had - whose breath stank of garlic.....
 
First swim of the week tonight, usually go Mon/Weds/Fri but worked late Monday and it was Mrs BB’s birthday yesterday, kids all came round for dinner. Tomorrow we have mobile nail tech round to do Mrs BB snd Daughter #1’s nails. Going Saturday morning instead.

Cheers BB
 
I've managed not to go into my office so far this year, although I was under pressure to go down to London for a few days last week and under pressure again to go some meetings in our Manchester office next week.

Anyway today (along with working from home) I'm been playing around with various bits of spare hi-fi kit that had been up the loft, as well as working my way through a pile of CD's that I found had mistakenly been put up there.
 
Big mug of tea and a rest. Cleaned another 30 records and my hands hurt.

The Wife is very excited as she has got tickets for Macbeth in London - this production has Cush Jumbo and David Tennant in it. I last saw the play about 10 yrs ago and I ain’t bothered, so Wife will take eldest G-Kid who is covering Macbeth at school.
I am interested in My Neighbour Totoro (studio ghibli) theatre production, so will go with Wife and G-Kid #2 to that.

The Daughter is coming over tomorrow to play records and drink alcohol with her dear Papa. This is something I regard as a highlight of the month. Daughter will get the Hi-Fi room sweet spot, and I will play her my finest tunes. excellent.

We took eldest G-Kid to Wagamama’s yesterday - normally I choose something that is chilli-heavy, then spend the next 12 hrs. regretting it! This time I had a plan and drank a pint of full fat milk about an hour before we went to the restaurant - it worked! no indigestion and more importantly, no ‘ring of fire’ in the morning.:D
(Tantanmen Beef Brisket Ramen with rich broth out of interest)
 
Jamie said:
Fixing the Qashqai (again).
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Jamie said:
Hub nut was a bugger, hand to use the trolley jack on the ratchet handle (with a pole extension over it) to move it.
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Price up a new hub nut, next time.

I had this issue on the old Beetles I've owned - which 36mm, torqued to 250lb-ft, then + up to 1/6 turn (!) to make the castellations align for the plit-pin (like fuse-wire is 'securing' anything at that point..) And - you have to get that off to un-seize the brake adjusters. After 20+ yrs of neglect - forget it.

First-time approach , was like yours: 3/4" breaker, impact socket, long pipe extension, jump-around a bit - with a mate on the footbrake, as the car lurched forward - buy new breaker bar, apply heat, swear a lot.
Second thought - how much is one of those things ..? - about £3 delivered at the time.

Ever after that: I'd simply drill the nut front face with maybe 4mm hole, parallel with the axle to leave minimal material; then merely tap axially on that line with a cold chisel - bloody thing would vacate duty in two different directions at the speed of sound. All done in about 30s flat. Refit, with nice new hub nut. Easy!
 
martin clark said:
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Price up a new hub nut, next time.

I had this issue on the old Beetles I've owned - which 36mm, torqued to 250lb-ft, then + up to 1/6 turn (!) to make the castellations align for the plit-pin (like fuse-wire is 'securing' anything at that point..) And - you have to get that off to un-seize the brake adjusters. After 20+ yrs of neglect - forget it.

First-time approach , was like yours: 3/4" breaker, impact socket, long pipe extension, jump-around a bit - with a mate on the footbrake, as the car lurched forward - buy new breaker bar, apply heat, swear a lot.
Second thought - how much is one of those things ..? - about £3 delivered at the time.

Ever after that: I'd simply drill the nut front face with maybe 4mm hole, parallel with the axle to leave minimal material; then merely tap axially on that line with a cold chisel - bloody thing would vacate duty in two different directions at the speed of sound. All done in about 30s flat. Refit, with nice new hub nut. Easy!
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To be honest, the jack moved it pretty easy. I had it off a couple of months ago, when I did the wheel bearing, but that time I had borrowed an electric impact driver, which loosened it after half a dozen dakdaks....

It went back on at 125Nm. Would have come off easy if I had the impact driver again, but the jack worked fine. I did have the hub nut off the CV joint I didn't use, but even though it was the same thread, the A/F was bigger, and I only had a 32mm to fit the original. No castellated nut, but had a split pin, which seems a bit odd.
 
Running around in the car today, including taking Mrs BB to Bluewater (Shopping Centre). Back garden turf was ripped up yesterday and the ground is wet now, so have to walk the dogs every time they need to go!

Going out tonight in Faversham for the first time, a meal for Mrs BB’s. Birthday (last Wednesday).

Cheers BB
 
A bit of shopping. Picked up a T shirt I ordered from Fat Face in the sale, had a mooch around, and found some nice jeans in my size in the sale, down from £59 to £15! You can't get cheap supermarket jeans for that.

Got the ingredients for a Mediterranean baked fish dish for tonight.
 
recovering after a loud music/alcohol session yesterday with The Daughter.
myriad mugs o tea
bacon/cheese toasted sandwiches
snooker on the television
 
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