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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Getting the broken bolt out took ages. Steel in aluminium gets stuck real good. My usual tricks failed and I had to drill it out. At least it wasn't stainless steel. Then some recutting of mangled threads and finding a replacement bolt.

Not done, but meanwhile I threw some phophoric acid on the steel parts.

The same pump as before, now with the parts stripped of paint, burrs filed down, rust brushed/sanded off and slowly turning black from phoshporic acid. The leather seal around the piston is seated correctly again. Everything except the cylinder looks relatively shiny.
#DIY#Repair#Restoration
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Fixing up this diesel hand pump I found in the garage/barn a while ago.

The leather seal around the piston was slipped out of place, but it was fixable - hope it'll stay in place. Apart from that, just one bolt broke and some rust, mostly on the outside, as the fuel inside had preserved it.

The aluminium parts are a really bad sand casting job, but it should hold anyways. May need some metal epoxy putty.

Cleaning up the parts now. Then test before painting.

A fuel hand pump made of steel and aluminium with some chipped of dark green paint on it. It has a crank arm but the handle is missing. There's a curved spout and a rotating drip catcher that can be slotted together when not in use. The bottom has various size threads for screwing into a barrel or other container. The intake tube protrudes out of the bottom. The pump housing is clamped together by four long rods. At the very top is a calibration screw that can be locked with a tamper-evident wire.
The same pump, now taken apart with the parts spread out on a table. Small screws and parts are in a plastic yoghurt cup. The parts not visible before include the piston with a toothed bar (a rack) and a sprocked removed from the lever shaft, revealing a key. The top and bottom fitting are aluminium, nwo with the pipes removed.
The piston, now cleaned up and the leather seal reseated and clamped into place. A spring holds the a flapper plate shut. It's sitting on piece of scrap PVC floor.
The cylinder, inside partially cleaned up, somewhat rusty but mostly just dirty from brushed off rust and debris. The sun reflects on shiny brushed metal.
#DIY#Restoration#Pump
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BellingenNSW

Dreams of environmental redemption: Reanimate the thylacine

"Perhaps we want an iconic marsupial we can walk on a lead to our local brunch spot."

"Certainly we are not up to the job: we have no experience in making thylacines happy. We have restructured the habitat where the tiger lived, decimated its prey, destroyed its culture. We have built a lot of roads: if everything goes very well and thylacines become as common as pademelons, we can look forward to seeing one on our morning commute, smeared across the highway by a logging truck."

"More likely we are hoping for something to erase our guilt, not just for the extinction of this animal (we could blame someone else for that) but for all the extinctions to come. More likely we want to feel that the damage we do isn’t permanent, that we can travel back in time." Jane Rawson
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theguardian.com/environment/20
#Biodiversity #restoration #thylacines #extinction #marsupials #roads #LoggingIndustry #destruction #wildlife #science #creation #ecology #restoration #MAGA #Australia #writing

The Guardian · Can we recreate a lost world? In Tasmania, anything could happenBy Guardian staff reporter
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Diamante Lavendar

If we all loved ourselves and others, treated ourselves and others with respect and dignity, and valued and cherished our natural world, what a beautiful, utopian existence this would be.

Unity, understanding, and compassion toward ourselves and others are the keys to preventing pain and loss. Division only leads to more suffering. We also need to protect the natural world, which sustains every form of life on this planet.

#unity#awareness#hope
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DoomsdaysCW

Stories from #TheAmazon, #Kenya and #Zimbabwe

#WorldWaterDay: 3 stories of #resistance and #restoration from around the globe

Kristine Sabillo, 21 Mar 2025

"More than 2 billion people around the world live without access to safe drinkable water, as rivers, #groundwater, lakes and #glaciers face continued threats of #pollution and overexploitation due to #urbanization, #EnvironmentalDestruction, and #ClimateChange .

"This World Water Day, #Mongabay looks back at some of its coverage from 2024 on how local communities are trying to protect the world’s dwindling water resources."

news.mongabay.com/short-articl
#WaterSecurity #WaterIsLife #RiversAreLife #OceansAreLife #Wetlands #Marshes #Rivers

Mongabay Environmental News · World Water Day: 3 stories of resistance and restoration from around the globeMore than 2 billion people around the world live without access to safe drinkable water, as rivers, groundwater, lakes and glaciers face continued threats of pollution and overexploitation due to urbanization, environmental destruction, and climate change. This World Water Day, Mongabay looks back at some of its coverage from 2024 on how local communities are […]
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Rewilding Magazine

The removal of the four dams on the Klamath represents the first real attempt at the kind of river #restoration that #Indigenous nations and environmentalists have long demanded.

It is the result of an improbable campaign that spanned close to half a century, roped in thousands of people, and came within an inch of collapse several times.

Interviews reveal a collaborative achievement with few clear parallels in contemporary activism.

#rewilding #rivers

grist.org/project/indigenous/k

Grist · How the Klamath Dams Came DownBy Anita Hofschneider
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Carolannie

Ecologists contend with the fact that many ecosystems we love and want to restore and rewild are in fact human-created ecosystems. Native plants in these systems are indeed native but selected by humans in human-created ecosystems. Which means insects, animals and other biota in those systems are influenced by humans.

We will never go back to pre-human ecosystems. Our world is shaped by our behavior. We depend on our world to survive. Our world depends on us to survive. We depend on each other to survive.

We are part of nature, we shape nature, we try to optimize it for our survival. We are natural beings. We are part of the world's ecosystems.

#Ecology #Ecosystems #NaturalHistory #IndigenousEcosystems #Restoration #Conservation

prairieecologist.com/2025/03/2

The Prairie Ecologist · Are Prairies Less Natural Because They Need Us?What if I told you tallgrass prairie is a human construct? Would you think it’s less important?  Less natural?  Less real? I don’t know if “human construct” is a totally fair description,…
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Ashley Marie
Making up for my crummy #doorsday post with another one from that same day and location. Meet Grace, a beautifully restored church turned restaurant turned event hall in Portland, Maine, USA. Taken in May of 2019, approximately 10 years post-restoration during the re-imagining phase into the event hall, heading in for a photoshoot set that I was so honored to be the makeup artist and shoot assistant on! One of the many cool experiences I was blessed with while doing the creative work I once so loved!

#photoshoot #photoshootset #PortlandMaine #Portland #Maine #NewEngland #NorthEast #easternseaboard #historicsite #ChestnutStreetChurch #NationalRegistryofHistoricPlaces #restoration #historicrestoration #photography #amateurphotography #urban #urbanphotography #landscape #cityscape #oldchurch
#OldChurch
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Ashley Marie
Making up for my crummy #doorsday post with another one from that same day and location. Meet Grace, a beautifully restored church turned restaurant turned event hall in Portland, Maine, USA. Taken in May of 2019, approximately 10 years post-restoration during the re-imagining phase into the event hall, heading in for a photoshoot set that I was so honored to be the makeup artist and shoot assistant on! One of the many cool experiences I was blessed with while doing the creative work I once so loved!

#photoshoot #photoshootset #PortlandMaine #Portland #Maine #NewEngland #NorthEast #easternseaboard #historicsite #ChestnutStreetChurch #NationalRegistryofHistoricPlaces #restoration #historicrestoration #photography #amateurphotography #urban #urbanphotography #landscape #cityscape #oldchurch
#OldChurch
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Universität Wien

The Floreana Island Restoration Project currently is the largest and most ambitious #restoration initiative in the Galápagos archipelago. Follow the exciting #fieldwork of behavioural biologist Sonia Kleindorfer and her team as they monitor and protect the diverse #wildlife of Floreana Island. ⤵️ 🏝️
rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/eco

Rudolphina – Research Magazine of the University of ViennaEcological restoration at the Galápagos island FloreanaThe Floreana Island Restoration Project currently is the largest and most ambitious restoration initiative in the Galápagos archipelago. Follow the exciting fieldwork of behavioural biologist Sonia Kleindorfer and her team as they monitor and protect the diverse wildlife of Floreana Island.
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