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General Discussion Area / Re: Xmas
« on: 28 December 2018, 18:58:23 »
WORK, what the hell is that. Luckily i am retired, which is handy with all the travelling to Papworth (80 mile round trip). Op defo Monday, 2nd on list, yay.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Urgent need to know
« on: 28 December 2018, 14:38:15 »
Went up town yesterday on bike and saw a guy on his with 5 rolls of wrapping paper sticking out of his rucksack. 
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General Car Chat / Re: anybody remembers
« on: 28 December 2018, 14:34:20 »My old Mk3 Grannie was 200k when it finally got incurable rust syndrome. Guy who bought it drove home to Derby and transfered the engine into a `1940s retro car. Said the drive back was a pleasure. Was going to try and weld it but just too much to do.
Yep. Back in the day it was common for cars with only 50,000 miles to be advertised as 'just having had a rebore and a decoke'.
I imagine the manufacturing tolerances are much 'closer' these days, and the oils used are far superior. Castrol GTX was a 20/50 and like treacle when cold.
Car performance for 100,000 plus mile cars seems to be much the same as when new which was not the case if you owned a 70,000 miles Austin 1100.
the biggest improvement came from full management of the fuelling and ignition. A carbed Pinto shows obvious bore wear at 100k, even though it has an efficient and effective carburetor. I've taken heads off 175k injected Pintos that still had the honing marks in the bores. And that's from a simple, single coil distributor based system that is both reliable and easy to diagnose if it does fail.
One thing that older vehicles did manage, albeit accidentally, was that the whole car wore out at roughly the same rate: a fifteen year-old rotbox with a tired drive train and worn interior needs no justification to be scrapped. Scrapping a more modern vehicle that could do the same again if it didn't need a clutch that's more than the value of the car(for example) is a poor design and use of resources.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Xmas
« on: 27 December 2018, 19:57:19 »Finally, just finished unwrapping the last pressie under the treePrezzies will stay under tree till SWMBO comes home. Have heard unofficially that the op could be Monday. Hopefully.. I've been a lucky boy again this year
Family tomorrow. That'll be more stuff to open.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Xmas
« on: 26 December 2018, 22:35:02 »
Update, now in Papworth waiting for the results of a meeting tomorrow to decide whether they can put in loads of stents or do a bypass. 
Have a good trip Zirfield. 
Have a good trip Zirfield.
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General Discussion Area / Re: F.AO admin
« on: 26 December 2018, 15:18:02 »
Another bloody newbie then. 
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General Discussion Area / Re: Xmas
« on: 26 December 2018, 15:16:27 »Sorry for the tardy response STEMO, been a bit manic. She should be in the treatment room at Papworth as we speak. Will update when i know. Cheers.SWMBO had a bad angina attack last night, early hours of the morning actually. Now in West Suffolk Hospital waiting to be transfered to Papworth for angiogram. First time in 55 years not having Christmas together. Bugger,How's the wife today, Ronnie?
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General Discussion Area / Re: Xmas
« on: 25 December 2018, 07:00:34 »Hmmm, Christmas in Andalucia, sounds tempting Varche. Thanks for all your replies chaps.SWMBO had a bad angina attack last night, early hours of the morning actually. Now in West Suffolk Hospital waiting to be transfered to Papworth for angiogram. First time in 55 years not having Christmas together. Bugger,
You could have come round here if you were closer. Hope all goes well at Papworth.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Xmas
« on: 24 December 2018, 20:36:15 »
SWMBO had a bad angina attack last night, early hours of the morning actually. Now in West Suffolk Hospital waiting to be transfered to Papworth for angiogram. First time in 55 years not having Christmas together. Bugger, Anyway, who,s going to cook my dinner. 
Anyway, who,s going to cook my dinner.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Xmas
« on: 24 December 2018, 17:56:43 »
BAH HUMBUG. Merry Christmas to all on OOF. 
Merry Christmas to all on OOF.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 23 December 2018, 17:43:38 »I thought that i was the only one to have these lapses of concentration.Dismantled half of the front of the Mundano to change a headlight bulb and reassembled.
Then went to change the windscreen wipers which I always find a fiddly challenge!Anyway I eventually got them on to find they are utterly shite and should be called windscreen smearers!
The old ones will be going back on and I'll be returning the new shite ones!
Went to remove the new but shite windscreen smearers, only to realise that what I thought were funky blue blades were actually covers!
So I removed the funky blue wiper blade covers, which revealed a more conventional black blade which works very well!
What a complete wazzock!
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General Discussion Area / Re: Gatwick
« on: 23 December 2018, 15:16:45 »Whoops, Senior moment, well another one really...... released the pair from custody with OUT charge.