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Messages - Andy H

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General Car Chat / Old Diesel Fuel
« on: 20 March 2024, 08:43:31 »
How bad is old diesel?

A few years ago (5 or 6 years?) the oil companies started adding bio-diesel to the mix.

Talk at the time was that the bio content would/could support bug growth That stored diesel would turn to jelly and/or corrode the components in fuel injection pumps and injectors.

What are the chances that a Diesel car that has been stood for 5 years will ever run again?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Pronouns
« on: 11 October 2023, 10:24:01 »
50 years of dumping plastics into the environment is exposing us all to man made compounds that behave like sex hormones. Male and female of all species are becoming less fertile. Both (all ;-)) sexes are exposed to a cocktail of synthetic hormones which is screwing with everyone both physically and emotionally.

I suspect that the human race is yet again the architect of it's own downfall. :(


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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 27 August 2023, 10:48:32 »
Not me but my dad.

Been driving for just under 70 years (he's 84 now & I think he was 16 when he started) and he just got his first speeding ticket.

I guess that's what happens when you get a Beemer  ::)

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General Car Chat / Re: Bye bye, Old Friend
« on: 06 August 2023, 11:37:27 »
Rainbow pattern on a wet road? Smell of diesel in the air?

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 18 July 2023, 09:58:25 »
And then immediately passed MOT ;D
Air freshener successfully detached for retest?  ;D (5492)

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About time too.

When I was a lad greengrocers used paper bags.

Not sure about meat, I think it was wrapped in grease-proof paper?

Frozen food was a novelty.

Couldn't believe it when plastic carrier bags replaced the paper ones.

Can't say I miss the tartan shopping trolleys that old ladies used to drag along behind  them though  ::)

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?
« on: 05 July 2023, 11:30:40 »
I have owned single/twin/triple/straight 4 & V4 bikes. Owned straight 4, V6 & V8 cars (not to mention not learning to drive a 2CV)

Never owned a straight 6.

I keep thinking I should get myself an Australian Ford with the 4 litre straight 6 "Bara". With a turbo. Just because........


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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 05 June 2023, 10:16:36 »
Jack, trolley or bottle, and a length of 2"x4" and a chunk of 4"x4" post.

Along with judicious use of a sledge hammer :y
Turned out that the (plastic) tailgate must have intruded about 6 inches and then popped back out again. Don't know how on earth the window stayed in place and in one piece. :o The bracket for the lock mechanism bent and a piece that links the handle to the latch dropped off so it took me a morning of poking and pulling to get the latch to release and then the rest of the day to get the bumper off and reassemble the (working) lock mechanism

Day 2 started with some exploratory thumps with an improvised slide hammer (with zero results). I then found some 4x4 to use as a beam & two enormous G clamps to use as pullers - it showed promise but the softwood 4x4 bowed 2" before without the metal moving. Take 2 involved a piece of 6x2 hardwood - that did the job.

"assembly is the reverse of disassembly" (as Haynes used to write) and so it proved. The poor battered bumper clipped back on and the car now looks OK (in the rain).



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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 03 June 2023, 11:22:28 »
Spent the day trying to get the boot open followed by attempting (and failing so far) to pull the rear slam panel back enough to close it again  :(

All due to some numpty tail ending us on Auckland's southern motorway yesterday >:(

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General Discussion Area / Re: 3D Printer Chat
« on: 29 May 2023, 11:40:04 »
Finally took ours out of the box a couple of months ago.

First few prints worked like a charm (mostly rabbits and unicorns - don't ask....)

Then the weather changed - non stop rain, stupidly high humidity and a new roll of filament that came in a sealed bag but behaved as if it was DOA (damp on arrival)  :-\

So I went out and bought a heated 'dry box'. After about 24 hours off & on in the box normal service seems to have been restored  :y

First serious task is to print a case for an electronics project. Not quite right yet but so much better than trying to carve a plastic case to fit (as I have done since I first started messing with a soldering iron as a 10 year old :-)

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General Discussion Area / Re: UK Public Alert Test
« on: 19 April 2023, 11:20:17 »
My old Galaxy S5 didn't respond to the alerts in New Zealand. When I got an S9 I started getting practice alerts for earthquakes and Tsunami (usually just after putting the kids to bed  >:()

I have kept my old UK SIM card & got a dual SIM phone now. I hope I don't start getting the UK alerts too :-\

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 25 March 2023, 09:50:12 »
Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder, 94

originator of "Moore's Law" - postulated in 1965 that the number of transistors on a microchip would double every year - (later revised to every 2 years)

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General Car Chat / Re: Ford to relaunch the Capri
« on: 23 March 2023, 09:32:38 »
My first car was a 1256 HC Viva. It was built down the road in Luton, everyone I knew had a family member who worked for Vauxhalls (or one of their suppliers).

I was happy enough riding motorbikes. I had a Suzuki GS850G and didn't have a car licence but one day my parents convinced me to hand over 70quid for a brown 2 door viva with a curious crease in the rear bodywork.

Coil springs all round (take that Crapi !) and front disk brakes. The Suzuki claimed 85bhp, the Viva 55bhp.

My point of reference was motorbikes, all cars were gutless slugs by comparison so the Viva didn't seem particularly crap as cars go. My brother had a Capri at the time which started life as a 1300 but had acquired a 1600 engine. It was a bit more lively than the viva (but not much)

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General Discussion Area / Re: more rain
« on: 15 February 2023, 09:27:09 »
Bugger - 2 weeks later and Cyclone Gabrielle arrived

Don't know what the final toll is. At least 4 people I work with have been flooded out. Two cannot be contacted.


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