Here's the link (URL) to my brother's video about his successful ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MVI6z98vNA

I think the title says it all when it comes to this week's progress. A lot of cutting metal and welding...

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Tony

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hi i'm tony this is sv tobacco we are
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building a cruising sailboat and this
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week has all been about
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fabricating this big old kill box
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which as you may well know is what i
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should be pouring the lead
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balanced into so it will be the ballast
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kill
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at the moment it's a steel box that's
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being shaped up
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in the right form for that ballast kill
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um and it's been a lot of welding and a
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lot of grinding this week
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so it's been largely about this leading
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edge and getting this front end sealed
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up i've got an end on there and it
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formed to this this airfoil shape
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at the front end and that's been quite
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an involved process
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um let's have a look it started with me
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making a a jig to form this curve around
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let's say an airfoil leading edge i
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needed to make a jig
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to sit my steel on so i could tack weld
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it in place to get the basic shape for
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fitting it on here and and for that jig
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i just took a bit of scrap a bit of
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straight scrap wood which i actually
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screwed to the bench
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and cut three of these
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shaped from the plans and luckily uh jay
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benford in the plans gives you a a full
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size
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curve there which makes cutting some
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some jig pieces very easy from the
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plants
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screwed it all together set it up
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and then we're ready to uh
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start tap welding steel in place
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on there
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center lines
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to there
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ah
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so having made up the jig it was in time
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to i say tack some steel over it and as
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i told you last week i had a very good
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tip
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from high enough to use a bit of
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round pipe uh for the very leading edge
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so i calculated the diameter i needed
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and ordered that
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and then i had to cut an arc out of that
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pipe which you can see there look
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to be the leading edge of this this
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round section
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calculated the arc i needed cut it out
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then i could lay that on the jig and use
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these
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metal strips steel strips
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to form the rest of the shape and say
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tap welded them
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into position
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right did one half first
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turn the whole thing around and tap
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welded some more strips onto the other
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half
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so
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okay
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now once that was all done i could cut
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that let's say angle of 165 degrees on
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it
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so
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off
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then offer it up and again tap weld it
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into position on the steel box
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um and then once it was on
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weld all of the seams thoroughly
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a lot of welding as i said
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that really is amazingly good
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and the last job mr was the world of
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steel plate on the far end on the
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forward end there and i'm now in the
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position i've started to grind it up
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into its final shape
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get rid of some of the spatter and just
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i say just do the final shaping
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i'm not too concerned about having it
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perfectly smooth
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i've put some filler in just to
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just to give it this final shaping
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one thing i did want to say though is
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that one of the drawbacks of using stick
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welders is they produce a lot of heat
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and that heat can
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does distort the steel
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so it's most important that as you're
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tack welding it or welding up that you
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keep an eye on the steel
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when it distorts pull it back into shape
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i actually had to buy
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at this stage of the build i had to buy
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some more clamps for for clamping the
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steel into place i say keep an eye on it
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when it's distorting
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pull it back into shape and then weld it
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up
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so that's that is quite involved keeping
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an eye on that that things are staying
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the shape you want them to be
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um
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i shall probably put a couple of bits of
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angle line on the
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top end inside also to hold that top
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edge straight
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before i
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fill it with lid and what remains to be
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done now is to flip it over i've started
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cutting
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these pieces
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angle iron pieces that will be welded on
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the inside with holes through them that
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the kill bolts fits to the plan is to
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use
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these bronze rods as kill bolts
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i need to turn them down a little bit so
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i can cut a unc thread on them they're
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normally 16 millimeter when i measure
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them i'm making them a bit bigger than
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that
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need to turn down just a
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touch to get a thread on each end
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they will pass through the angle iron
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and be
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bolted to it at the bottom end and
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obviously they need to come up and be
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held nicely in line
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cut to length need to calculate the
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lengths cover thread on the top end
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bronze unc nut on the top end
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so that's all there ready to go and
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that's what we'll be doing next after i
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finish grinding up cleaning up
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flipping it over
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fixing the the pieces in to fix the kill
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bolts in position
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and then as i said maybe put a bit of
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angle iron around the very top just to
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hold these top edges straight make sure
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it doesn't push out from the lid or
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distort from heat or whatever
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and then we will be ready to be thinking
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about melting some lead
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exciting times
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i just thought i'd mention one last
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thing
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towards the end of this video and that
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is that my brother
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and his mate rob have been as you may
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know for the last couple of years
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they've been
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training and walking
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uh various hills around the uk
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training with the goal of
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getting up going out to africa and
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climbing up or walking up mount
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kilimanjaro
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and they're doing all of that to raise
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money for a cancer hospice um you know
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near our hometown
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well the long and short of that is that
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they flew out finally of you know kobe's
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made things difficult for them
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to get out there but finally they
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managed to get out there to tanzania
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um 20th of january i think they flew out
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and walked up and made it to the top of
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kilimanjaro and back down again
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obviously
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and uh you know they they have a youtube
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channel there where they post their
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training videos i have done
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and they now have the video out of their
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walk up kilimanjaro so
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is the link to that
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i should also put it in the description
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to this video
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and as i say doing it all to raise money
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for a
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cancer care hospice in the south of
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england near where we come from so
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i think a fantastic job on their behalf
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congratulations to them i'm sure it
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wasn't easy the video is great um and
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i'm sure if you look at their channel
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page you'll see
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details of how to donate
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and that's what we finished for this
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week
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thank you for watching
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um give us your thumbs up
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leave a comment hit that subscribe
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button
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we'll be pushing on
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more with that kill box
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and maybe a few things around here you
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can see maybe behind me i've got some
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boards out where i was starting to think
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about the the breathers for water tanks
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so still one or two little bits to do in
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here
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um
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certainly want to be getting the engine
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running at some stage
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see you soon
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bye
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