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#mechanics

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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

Interesting story of a #women owned #garage in #Yorkshire in the 1980s (and the ladies who ran it were also #lesbian #activists). Whilst society has got marginally better for #LGBT people in the meantime, its still a shame that even today such a business remains unusual (whilst there are slightly more female #mechanics, they are still relatively rare or dependent on men as employers, and other women tend to just end up in admin roles) #automotive #cars

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2dz0

Three women sit in, or perch on, an old-fashioned green car outside a garage. They are all smiling at the camera. The fashion, haircuts and quality of the photograph indicate it is the 1980s.
BBC NewsFilm screening about 1980s women mechanics in Sheffield sells outThree friends set up their own garage because they could not find jobs in male-dominated industry.
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Giving @davepolaschek's suggestion a try. The T-40 wheel I found in the garage is getting some use as uh, round lever? What do you even call this.

It kinda worked. Well, it didn't budge as I was pulling, but when it fell over while under tension it levered the beam out of the ground sideways and a little forward.

Still refuses to go further, but I'm having a strong coffee and sweets and shall stubbornly continue.

The pesky concrete beam in our garden is now attached with a very beefy chain to a very beefy piece of wire rope. A big tractor steel wheel (sans tyre) is rolled in front of it, with the wire rope leading over the wheel and off to a tractor not depicted here. The ground is churned up from pulling many other concrete beams out of the garden already.
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Same arrangement, excep the wheel has fallen over sideways. The wire rope still leads through what used to be its top. The beam however has shifted in the direction of the fallen wheel and left its deep groove for the first time.
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The rear end of the beam with a gap that is now about a metric foot longer (we only have metric feet here, sorry, they're about one foot long though). The standard reference foot including boot is next to it. It's a size 44, in case you need to calibrate.
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#Farm#Mechanics#Concrete
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It's pretty, but is it art?

As #Mechanics, we jealously guard this one simple hack, but today I'm gonna reach across the aisle and spill the beans;

When installing a new air cabin filter into your #Toyota #Prius, you should always make sure to absolutely slam that thing into the slot as hard as you possibly can. Just cram it on in there until you achieve a crumpled disaster similar to the one in our example photo.

Doing this attracts more mice, so in addition to horsepower, now you've got mousepower, effectively turning your Prius into a hybrid hybrid.

You're welcome, and happy motoring! :blobcatgooglythumbup:

Photo of a discarded car air cabin filter. This specimen is from a scrapped prius.
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

Managed to snag a slightly more modern #CarMaintenance #book from 2010 (only £7 second hand, cost about £30 new!) written as a textbook for #apprentice #mechanics (who would mostly be in late teens at further education #college), but a good read for me to get my head round how more modern #cars work and how such things as fuel injection, sensors and ECU interact (my older books, though detailed concentrate on things like carburettors and distributors which are not used in todays vehicles)

Cover of "An introductory guide to Motor Vehicle Maintenance - Light Vehicles" - a college-level textbook from 2010
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Picture of an oxygen sensor (lambda sensor)
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Block diagram of modern petrol engine with ECU and its sensors
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Erik L. Midtsveen 🏴🏳️‍🌈

"We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men."

— Rudolf Rocker

Image depicting a quote by Rudolf Rocker: "We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men." — Rudolf Rocker
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#RudolfRocker#AnarchoSyndicalist#AnarchoSyndicalism
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