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19816

General Discussion Area / Re: Tunnies Dad's 2.2 Head gasket failure

« on: 28 August 2007, 20:41:03 »

Don't know if this will work .... going back in time to the days of the Cortina .. used to check for head gasket problems by running engine with rad cap off and looking for bubbles ...might work on yours should be easier to see with a clear(ish) header tank ... cortina's had no such finesse !!

The theory was, with no cap on the gas pressure in the cylinder will always be greater than the water pressure in the system, so leak would increase and be easier to spot ...

19817

General Discussion Area / Re: Big, Big blowout

« on: 31 August 2007, 11:53:31 »

Glad you are all OK .. blowouts never fun, but better the back than the front, especialy at those speeds !!  

19818

General Discussion Area / Re: GOOD 'OL DAYS

« on: 27 August 2007, 23:29:56 »

All the family sitting around the radio after sunday lunch to listen to "Around the Horn"   and at night hiding under the bedclothes trying to tune a crystal set into "Radio Luxembourg - the great 208 - the wing a ding station of the stars".. and the first thing you heard was the advert from Horace Batchelor .. part of which a present member seems to use in his signature .....   (unless I'm confusing sites ... I'm on too many these days)  

19819

General Discussion Area / Re: GOOD 'OL DAYS

« on: 27 August 2007, 22:57:30 »

Those funny shaped triangular/pyramid type cartons of drink that the sweet shop stuck in the freezer, giant lolly for 3d  

19820

General Discussion Area / Re: talk about optimistic!!!

« on: 30 August 2007, 17:15:47 »

wake up !! wake up !  it's ok .. you're only dreaming ....  

19821

General Discussion Area / Re: Any electricians on here?

« on: 30 August 2007, 21:44:34 »

Its the same with every job..Without experience they dont want to know...How do you get experience...
catch 66...

You usually work for well less than the "going" rate, do all the sh****y jobs, but learn all the time. Then once you have proved your ability you get "promoted" to normal rates of pay ... used to be called "working your time in" or "working probation"

19822

General Discussion Area / Re: Any electricians on here?

« on: 30 August 2007, 21:34:04 »

The idea that you can just walk in to a skilled job on craftsmans wages after minimum training is symptomatic of many folks these days

Without trying to start an argument or be rude ...   look at it this way ....

If you were an employer, would you take on an unknown, untried, inexperienced person with barely minimum qualifications and pay him top rate and allow him to work unsupervised ??

NO!!

You would pay a lower wage as you would have to pay an experienced person to guide and mentor whilst the newbie learns .. so actually your costs would rise.

It's not rocket science .. it's common sense ...

19823

General Discussion Area / Re: £34 road tax

« on: 29 August 2007, 21:50:04 »

All explained here  

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_10012524

the clit concerned has a low emission value  between 101 and 120 ...

19824

General Discussion Area / Re: Thought for the day

« on: 28 August 2007, 23:01:49 »

Why is there only one monopolies commission ??

What else do part-time traffic lights do ?

What is an occasional table when its not a table ?

If you had everything .. where would you put it ??

19825

General Discussion Area / Re: Thought for the day

« on: 28 August 2007, 18:05:25 »

I've not been called "young fella" for many a year ..    !!!!!

but thanks for the thought !!!  

19826

General Discussion Area / Re: Thought for the day

« on: 28 August 2007, 16:59:47 »

check of maths reqd    light from the sun takes a little over 8 minutes to reach the earth  

Aphelion (largest distance) = 152,500,000 m Perhelion (shortest distance ) = 147,500,000 m

Average distance of earth from sun = 150 million kilometres  150,000,000,000 m

Speed of light = 299,792,458 m/s


150,000,000,000/299,792,458 = 500.346 s

500.346/60 = 8.34 minutes or 8 mins 20 secs approx  

.... I'll get me coat ...    

19827

General Discussion Area / Re: More 'thought of the day'...

« on: 28 August 2007, 21:30:06 »

Old chestnut .....  the flaw in this "logic" is in the question ... it works backwards from Friday to Monday and each step is based on the previous one. In reality life flows in the other direction .. from Monday to Friday so the arguments don't stand except for the first (which should be the last) .. if the exam has NOT occured by school closing on Thursday then it must occur on Friday, at this point it is no longer "unexpected"   but up until that point  it would be.

19828

General Discussion Area / Re: Silver X Reg Omega in Calella Spain!!

« on: 27 August 2007, 00:22:50 »

i used to work with a guy who drove a white cavalier, but his uncle fixed a bathroom radiator for a woman who gave birth to a little boy and the midwife who was present married a guy who's brother delivered milk to a woman who used to walk her dog over the back fields nearby and a path she took led down the side of a house directly opposite a school where the science teacher sold a dress on ebay to a girl who clearly needed the next size up, so she sold it to another woman who's husband went to a school reunion and met his old friend who was friends with a guy in a band who played a gig at a pub owned by a fella who's son cheated on his wife with another man and got caught and they had a fight and the police were involved, and one of the cops mentioned how they'd wrongly arrested someone who's cousin drove a silver x reg omega elite

i'll ask if it was him, gawd knows how long it'll take me to find out though!

Danny

Someone has way too much time on their hands ..... or been at the brown stuff    

19829

General Discussion Area / Re: B****y SatNav!

« on: 23 August 2007, 22:16:25 »

Tradesman's entrance ??  

19830

General Discussion Area / Re: Oil Filters (boffins and anoraks only)

« on: 27 August 2007, 00:42:55 »

99.9% common sense methinks !!