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General Discussion Area / Re: Supper
« on: 10 November 2007, 00:28:44 »
Sounds great. I think I'll turn in for the night. Don't usually get dreams at all so this will make a change 
Kevin
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33992
General Discussion Area / Re: Supper
« on: 10 November 2007, 00:09:23 »
Right, that cheese on toast was fantastic
.. and what is it with eating cheese late?
Never did me any harm :-/
Kevin
.. and what is it with eating cheese late?
Never did me any harm :-/
Kevin
33993
General Discussion Area / Re: Supper
« on: 09 November 2007, 23:44:44 »Quote
Hmm. Food. Knew there was something missing. Farmhouse cheddar in fridge. Time for sheese on toast:y
Oops! Only 1 can of wife-beater too
Kevin
33994
General Discussion Area / Re: Supper
« on: 09 November 2007, 23:44:05 »
Hmm. Food. Knew there was something missing. Farmhouse cheddar in fridge. Time for sheese on toast:y
33995
General Discussion Area / Re: Proposed new speeding penalties
« on: 09 November 2007, 19:09:06 »Quote
You're not allowed to undertake
Have I been looking at the wrong soilid white line again?
Oh, well. That'll keep my wheel arches a little less muddy!
.. and SWMBO a little less scared.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Proposed new speeding penalties
« on: 09 November 2007, 19:05:00 »
Problem is, speed is easy and cheap to enforce so all traffic enforcement seems to have come down to a numbers game.
I agree that the current speed limits are largely reasonable and there's no need to exceed them, especially in urban areas. However, if other driving skills such as hazard perception continue to be neglected by the gross simplification that is slogans such as "speed kills" speed limits will have to be set on the assumption that hazards are always there - because the average driver won't be spotting hazards.
That will criminalise drivers who want to "press on" a little when conditions make it safe to do so. It's starting to happen now. Rural roads around me that used to be national speed limit are dropping to 50 or 40 simply because there are a few bends (which can be taken safely at the national speed limit), double white lines are appearing where overtaking used to be perfectly safe if undertaken carefully and so on.
Kevin
I agree that the current speed limits are largely reasonable and there's no need to exceed them, especially in urban areas. However, if other driving skills such as hazard perception continue to be neglected by the gross simplification that is slogans such as "speed kills" speed limits will have to be set on the assumption that hazards are always there - because the average driver won't be spotting hazards.
That will criminalise drivers who want to "press on" a little when conditions make it safe to do so. It's starting to happen now. Rural roads around me that used to be national speed limit are dropping to 50 or 40 simply because there are a few bends (which can be taken safely at the national speed limit), double white lines are appearing where overtaking used to be perfectly safe if undertaken carefully and so on.
Kevin
33997
General Discussion Area / Re: Help me choose some tools!
« on: 09 November 2007, 23:10:27 »Quote
Kev - angle measurer - for measuing angles when tightening bolts. Eg, head bolts through 90 deg
Ah, with you
I've got one of those. You're not going to like this.
I think it's a Laser one
33998
General Discussion Area / Re: Help me choose some tools!
« on: 09 November 2007, 23:04:21 »Quote
Tap and DieI've got a couple of cheapie sets of these. They do the job. Depends how hard the material is and whether you're going to use it every day or just occasionally.
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Decent breaker bars, all sizesI find the Halfords Professional ones to be good.
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Proper clutch/brake bleeding device (air driven)I had an ezebleed but it fell to bits and it's a PITA to have to use a tyre as the air source. I've now bought myself a small garder sprayer (killaspray type thing but very cheap from ALDI. Even has a pressure gauge!). My plan is to get a couple of old brake fluid reservoir caps and fit the pipe into the top. Chuck a little brake fluid in, pump it up and go round each bleed nipple.
I'll let you know if it works or if I get doused in brake fluid. IME the suction ones are pants. as are the "one man" kits with a one way valve in the tube. Air gets sucked in around the bleed nipple threads.Quote
Cheapo Tech2Hungarian one does the job for me with suitable lap top.
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Angle measurer?
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Compression tester (I stood on mine Sad )I've got the gunson one. Get a deep reach adaptor too as it's too short for most twin cam heads. Don't get one with a press on rubber seal because it's a 2 man operation - if it works!
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CreeperGot a Halfords one for Christmas last year. Once I got bored of using it as a luge it was great for getting under cars
Kevin
33999
General Discussion Area / Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« on: 09 November 2007, 19:13:57 »Quote
Filled up many a fuel tank on my sad old Wartburg on 2 star.
Mate of mine had a Wartburg when we were at school. Handy built-in navigational aid - well ahead of its' time. If you get lost and need to retrace your route just turn round and follow the blue smoke!
Happy days.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: How Long????
« on: 09 November 2007, 22:52:33 »Quote
How Long?
Bit of a personal question, I thought
Kevin
34001
General Discussion Area / Re: Oil spil oops.
« on: 09 November 2007, 23:09:16 »
Try and ask a sensible question on a Friday night...
I do the same every time. Even now I've got a funnel for the job and don't have to sneak one out of the kitchen. Doesn't help that VX sold me my 20 litres of oil in one rather great tub, of course
Just mop up what you can. The rest'll go pretty quick and do no harm.
Kevin
I do the same every time. Even now I've got a funnel for the job and don't have to sneak one out of the kitchen. Doesn't help that VX sold me my 20 litres of oil in one rather great tub, of course
Just mop up what you can. The rest'll go pretty quick and do no harm.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Magnets requested
« on: 09 November 2007, 20:07:37 »
I'll have a rummage in my junk box. Bound to be a few duff HDDs in there.
Kevin
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Now I Know I'm Getting Old
« on: 10 November 2007, 00:26:52 »Quote
diamond white and two dogs mixed together, we used to call it electric lemonade and get slaughtered on it
My then girlfriend got me and my mates drinking Tequila and Diamond White slammers when I was at university
The perfect drink for when it's 10:30 in the evening and you're not quite as drunk as you thought / hoped you'd be. Down in one, because if you realised how foul it tasted before you'd swallowed it the only way it was going was up.
30 seconds later you're a gibbering wreck. Fantastic.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Now I Know I'm Getting Old
« on: 09 November 2007, 14:30:38 »Quote
1994 - Madisons, Nottingham, Thursday Night......we used to drink snake bite and black for 70p and buy 4 pints at a time....
Oh, Snake bite and black
It was 80p down south. Even still...
The consequences of over indulgence weren't pretty though!
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Now I Know I'm Getting Old
« on: 09 November 2007, 14:25:36 »Quote
This got me thinking (unusual for a Friday afternoon). My first car did about the same fuel consumption as my MV6. The MV6 has just under double the engine capacity, is 2.8 times as powerful, does 0-60 about 5 seconds quicker and has a top speed 51 MPH faster.
IIRC a tank of petrol was about 20 quid and got me 300 miles back then. 7p a mile near as makes no odds.
Now a tank of petrol is about 65 quid and gets me 400 miles, if I'm very lucky. 16p per mile
There's progress for you.
Kevin
Oops! Wrong thread!
WHo said I was thinking on a Friday afternoon?
Kevin