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General Discussion Area / Re: Tv forums
« on: Yesterday at 00:06:11 »Might want to take a look here.
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/
Oh, dear. I appear to have lost an entire evening in their Vintage Computing section.
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Oh, dear. I appear to have lost an entire evening in their Vintage Computing section.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Libre Office or Open Office?
« on: 22 February 2021, 20:51:31 »Since my switch from MS Office to Libre Office, the only major issue has been with databases. Almost impossible. Spreadsheets, Word documents, presentations have all been fine with just a bit of tweaking. Care needs to be taken when saving anything. There are many options for file formats including most MS, but sometimes the default is Libres own odt, which is a bit oddball.
.. and on the plus side, it even does a better job of reading MS's own documents from previous versions of office.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Tv forums
« on: 21 February 2021, 17:17:44 »
Might want to take a look here.
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/
This is my latest (documented) project:
https://www.g7bcs.com/kw-2000b-restoration/
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/
This is my latest (documented) project:
https://www.g7bcs.com/kw-2000b-restoration/
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General Discussion Area / Re: Holy Moly!
« on: 21 February 2021, 10:22:08 »
Yep, I think that's broken. 
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General Car Chat / Re: Advice please
« on: 20 February 2021, 18:23:46 »Obviously, both should be banned, and if you want to camp, do it properly, with a tent
Tent in summer, hotel in winter. Job done. No need to haul a tupperware airbrake behind you.
All academic at the moment anyway.
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General Car Chat / Re: Yank Tank seat belts
« on: 19 February 2021, 18:35:15 »You can add 20% onto US mpg, ....
12 to 18 miles per imp gallon then ....
That is about the same as a petrol Range Rover or Shogun.
You might squeeze it out of a V12 Jag on a motorway run. That does mean keeping it well under 100mph, which isn't easy
Getting there would be just a dream (and probably most inadvisable given the suspension) in most asthmatic old yank tanks with similar thirst, though.
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General Car Chat / Re: Vintage voltage.
« on: 14 February 2021, 22:01:05 »Speaking of Fiat.
a pretty Fiat Dino with the 2.4 V6 from the Ferrari Dino would be nice.
I imagine they cost a bob or two these days.
Yeah, I worked with a guy in the 90's who had one of those. Very nice.
It wasn't stupidly quick, but that engine made all the right noises and loved to rev.
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General Car Chat / Re: Vintage voltage.
« on: 14 February 2021, 12:27:38 »The chap a couple of doors down has just acquired a brand new/freshly rebuilt looking roadster type thing... Looks like a 3/4 scale Bentley/Ford Model A hybrid that sounds like a stock car... Apparently it's powered by a Fiat Twin Cam. It could use an exhaust and a decent tune though as it idles rougher than a badger and sounds like half a big block running a 4" straight pipe
His daily is an Audi TTS which says alot
Sounds like one of the better Fiat Twin Cams, then.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Rule of six possibly by May.
« on: 13 February 2021, 14:03:51 »I did wonder about the possibility of being called up if the first Gulf War went sideways
How old would you have been?
From memory the first Gulf war was around 1990/91.
Yep, I recall being a useless student at the time.
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General Car Chat / Re: Vintage voltage.
« on: 13 February 2021, 13:34:08 »
Got a bit fed up with that after about episode 2, I'm afraid.
Guy seems to think he's some kind of rocket scientist for chopping up an old shed and bodging in a battery and motor.
Some of the conversions have been rather cool, others sacrilegious IMHO.
Anything Italian really needs its quirky petrol engine breathing through twin DCOEs IMHO. Take that away and you're left with just a battle against rust and dodgy electrics.
Guy seems to think he's some kind of rocket scientist for chopping up an old shed and bodging in a battery and motor.
Some of the conversions have been rather cool, others sacrilegious IMHO.
Anything Italian really needs its quirky petrol engine breathing through twin DCOEs IMHO. Take that away and you're left with just a battle against rust and dodgy electrics.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 13 February 2021, 13:16:53 »Heating the bottle isn't going to help if the pipes and (in particular) the nozzles aren't heated. The bottle isn't subject to much windchill, which is why cars have heated nozzles. I am of course making an assumption mine hasn't got them, but the fact they froze. Its is of course possible it has them, but they are bust. If I CBA, I'll go out and look for any wiring to the wiper arms
No idea on the lack of a passenger grab handle. Rear passengers get them, just not the front. Does seem a significant oversight, even if its for technical reasons (the shape there, along with the sunroof cassette, doesn't look conducive to fitting any). No interest in retrofitting any unless it was a pure plug and play operation, mostly because its not often I'm in the passenger seat at a time when I feel I need a grab handle. And for anyone else in the passenger seat, well, they chose to get in.
Mine hasn't got them either, and they tend to freeze. Can still hear the motor running so clearly the bottle hasn't frozen solid.
Mine has also started pestering me that the bottle is empty when it isn't.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Snow
« on: 11 February 2021, 19:46:00 »
Yeah, had to be out and about for work today testing stuff, which is unusual for me.
Bloody cold, offset slightly by a bacon butty from the Hog's back cafe.
Bloody cold, offset slightly by a bacon butty from the Hog's back cafe.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Bat Flu forecasts
« on: 11 February 2021, 19:43:45 »
Lockdowns suppress the virus temporarily, but cannot be part of a permanent solution, and if the virus had originated in the US, UK, Australia or anywhere else in the democratic free world, I don't believe any government would have even considered shutting down their country to the same extent as they have.
I think with the new border controls, they are trying to make the UK into a 'bubble' like New Zealand or Australia. I really can't see foreign travel getting back to normal any time soon, but I'm hopeful that domestically we can resume life almost as normal in the next couple of months as the vaccinations are rolled out.
I must admit, I'm struggling to see why "foreign travel" is still a thing. They've told me not to leave my house except for essential journeys. What have they told these people who are apparently swanning in and out of the country with gay abandon?
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General Discussion Area / Re: MacBook Air M1.
« on: 07 February 2021, 23:23:44 »She also mentioned Share Point, whatever that is.
Run! Just run!
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General Discussion Area / Re: Covid Tests
« on: 27 January 2021, 23:21:21 »
When I had my test I was told not to get out of the car, and turned up in an MX5*.
There could have been a bit of a rummage to get at the "other end" for this test.
*- with a knackered battery, as it turned out.
There could have been a bit of a rummage to get at the "other end" for this test.
*- with a knackered battery, as it turned out.