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General Discussion Area / Re: Shamima Begum

« on: 22 February 2023, 20:16:30 »

The age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales is 10 years old and she knew what she was doing when she left .
she "Trafficked " herself 
Though i'm not a fan . Kenny Everett did a character who's punch line was this  NSFW clicky

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 22 February 2023, 13:25:47 »

I got asked why I wasn’t wearing a hard hat while I was skimming a 50 sq mtr ceiling! I replied my head is 6 inches from the ceiling what the fk is going to fall on me you $$%#%# there was quite a few swear words thrown at him too, some I forgot I knew🤣🤣

plus you can put the Unibond on with your hair ,rather than a brush, freeing up a hand    if you don't wear a hard hat 
I remove my baseball cap and wear a cheap beany hat when plastering ,
Multifinish peels off skin pretty easy but not the hair on your head 
though ideally ,the plaster should go on the ceiling 

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General Car Chat / Re: Dry white smoke.

« on: 21 February 2023, 20:58:33 »

December vid is just like stuck rings
today video  a lot less  WORRYING 
you also need to factor in that a car (that you don't know what's happened too it) may have loads of crap/oil/water in the exhaust pipes and the engine may well be fine NOW but needs a blast , or has an issue that wouldn't cost the earth to sort .

I only mention "stuck rings" on a "white smoke" thread because i#ve been there TWICE 
you'd think oil is blue smoke ,not always

that said ,i'm not saying buy it , or don't buy it 
though you do seem to like buying problems Mercs 

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General Car Chat / Re: Dry white smoke.

« on: 21 February 2023, 20:30:44 »

Have to say, there's significantly less smoke out of it today compared to when I looked at it in early December. 

leave it running for a while , if it's stuck rings ,the smoke will get worse ,like a 90s disco*

Disco * "a club or party at which people dance to recorded pop music"
Not the dirty Smokey Land rover product 

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General Car Chat / Re: Dry white smoke.

« on: 21 February 2023, 20:02:47 »

Engines that sit for long periods can get stuck oil control / piston rings ,
also cars not serviced well that get an engine flush also get stuck rings  ,
lots of white smoke ,cats can't cope 
I've had this to resolve a couple of times 
(strip ,clean, new rings , hone ) time consuming ,plus expensive new gaskets and rings etc   

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Omega General Help / Re: Erratic 2.2

« on: 21 February 2023, 19:48:43 »

------ - - - - -. Where is the TPS on an Omega, because as of now I'm baffled.

Built into the throttle body

Throttle Position Sensor = TPS

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Omega General Help / Re: Handbrake cable

« on: 21 February 2023, 19:02:41 »

This may have already been mentioned earlier in the thread, but do they both have the same part number ?
If not then there has to be a difference.

It's an assembly the compensator with N/S & O/S  cables fitted 

Looking at spec (on ebay listings ) the cable appears to be the same length BOTH sides 1550mm 1550mm

the 15MM difference on my BRAND NEW cable  may be a manufacturing defect 
It's a QH aftermarket cable ,15mm over 1550mm is 1%
that said , maybe the OP has a similar manufacturing defect 
 or the cable HAS stretched one side 
or it's NOT fitted or adjusted correctly 

$19.50 EBAY
£32.30 ebay clicky

sorry to mislead , but the cable I have spare IS 15mm difference
(I laid it flat ,tight on the floor ,see saw level )

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General Discussion Area / Re: Anyone know anything about compressors?

« on: 19 February 2023, 18:12:09 »

What are you going to prime? They're splash lubricated. Top it up and use it.

Are we talking compressors or exes?

NEVER "top an EX " there an ex for a reason 

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Omega General Help / Re: leak from my power steering

« on: 19 February 2023, 17:11:54 »

trans cooler and PAS cooler have pipes to the front rads ,a leak could follow the pipe back and drip elsewhere 

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Omega General Help / Re: Handbrake cable

« on: 19 February 2023, 17:07:52 »

Just compared a brand new QH branded omega /carlton cable from my hoard 
one sides cable is 15mm longer ,get it the wrong way round on the car and that doubles the difference (30mm ish)

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Omega General Help / Re: Handbrake cable

« on: 19 February 2023, 14:06:09 »

I've not replaced a cable on my omega (done many carlton ones, same cable), but on astra ,one side outer cable is slightly longer

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General Discussion Area / Re: February 24th

« on: 19 February 2023, 13:36:59 »

Why don't we just go in, sort the Russians out and then call it done

We've already took KFC and McDonalds off them ,short of taking the X-box /PS2s off them , what more can we do 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Outage today

« on: 18 February 2023, 16:35:18 »

Thanks for applying grease to the cogs of the OOF machine 
As grease is expensive ,along with electrickary and everything else....
 you should set up something so we can donate you a tub of grease or ££ 
Anonymously would remove issue with your admirable "rules" about NOT splitting the forum into paid and unpaid or any special consideration for "paid" members  ,allowing everyone access to the excellent guides and information 
PO BOX 
NOT Brackley obviously ,as no delivery driver dare enter the "blast zone" 
or maybe a youtube channel you can accept payments on   

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General Car Chat / Re: The EU vote for economic meltdown

« on: 17 February 2023, 19:42:36 »

When I started working for a certain car manufacturer in the early 80’s there was already an EV in the pipeline. It was designed to test if a production electric car would work, partly due to the U.S. state of California's demand that 2% of new cars sold in the state be zero emission. In the late 80’s that EV became a reality, and was trialled on public roads in the early 90’s. It did 155 miles on a two hour rapid charge but it’s success as a fully electric vehicle was bought to a halt as some of them caught fire when charging. 
Fast forward to 2020, the batteries have changed but the range is similar on many of them, and they still catch fire when charging.

Great fire of London II sounds good to me. 

So, If we add Uncle Stemo's idea to Mr YZ250's battery technology and make sure all the corrupt politicians and tree huggers are in London at the time  this could work out OK 

OK , there would be some polution  but a bit more UK based "Global warming" could also cut heating bills 

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General Car Chat / Re: The EU vote for economic meltdown

« on: 17 February 2023, 16:58:57 »

Ice vehicles run on petrol ,LPG and diesel (and there is a plentiful supply at this moment in time, with supply chains and infrastructure already in place)   ,and modern Vehicles are very efficient at converting the chemical energy into movement ,with relatively LOW emissions.
Scrapping perfectly good ICE vehicles to replace them with flawed EVs is very polluting, Globally !
People who think they are "saving the planet, being green " by currently buying and using EVs , are only 50% correct , they are "green" in the sense they are unwise to the reality 
With everything going on in the world at this moment in time ,the UK are not anywhere near "ready" to entertain swapping from proven technology of ICE vehicles with infrastructure already in place ,to 1960s milk float technology 

The UK can't meet electricity generation requirements for homes and industry(not that there's much of that left in the UK) without importing Biomass and coal (from thousands of miles away ) also importing gas and electricity ,solar panels and tech  from China etc   ,none of which is very "green" ,let alone provide electricity for EVs .

So to entertain scrapping ICE transport to use EVs is madness at this current time 

The national grid is not ready to provide power for EVs (and when it is lots of energy will be wasted due to distribution losses),
Charging infrastructure is not ready, well behind unrealistic targets set by greedy politicians (lining their own pockets) ,
The road network is not ready (because EVs are heavier and rip up the roads which are already in a very poor state of repair) ,
The UK (as a supposedly civilised society) should NOT be ignoring the human rights violations, child labour etc going on in the world ,to provide raw materials (all of which need very polluting processing and transport) and imported parts and tech for EVs , 

Stupidly trying (because it's already failed on so many levels) to swap to EVs at this time, is costing everyday working folk a fortune in increased energy costs . clean air zone fees, increased cost of food, supplies etc  , many of which can't afford it ,some rely on Government handouts, food banks etc ,so politicians ,who will be retired on a big fat pension and all the money they have extorted from working folk by the time any positive environmental impact in the UK is felt .

I say UK , because the likes of China will just ramp up pollution to supply " a green pipedream" to the stupid countries like the UK 

I've barely scratched the surface of the argument to delay EV roll out 

As for "Links and statistics" I've already researched and read many arguments for and against the madness of premature EV roll out in the UK as have many OOF members ,there's quite a few intelligent members on OOF  NOT all  so I won't bother ,use the internet