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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Foam on oil filler

« on: 07 April 2019, 10:07:55 »

Hello and welcome.
I know this will seem a long way from you (90 miles!), but if you are scared of your Omega's underbonnet I would suggest that for any major work you speak to Serek, a garage-owning Forum member. He knows and understands Omegas and will not rob you!
Actually, delete "major" work and add any work: I travel the 70 miles from my home to his garage even for an oil/filter change, because Serek will give the car a "once-over" and advise on anything that needs doing.
Lots of Forum feel the same way, travelling even greater distances for his excellent work.

Ron.

437

General Car Chat / Re: Could be quite expensive.

« on: 06 April 2019, 13:52:06 »

DG, I was meaning more the A30 (not sure I know how large/tall a terracan is),  but you are right - there is more of me now than in yesteryear!

Ron.

438

General Car Chat / Re: Could be quite expensive.

« on: 06 April 2019, 13:37:12 »

Yes, especially as I was then of a size that I could actually get under the car!

Ron.

439

General Car Chat / Re: Could be quite expensive.

« on: 06 April 2019, 11:18:34 »

WAY back, I did mine on an Austin A30, aligning the friction plate with my special tool - a hammer handle!
Simple job, and it worked fine: happy days.....

Ron.

440

General Discussion Area / Re: Brexfucit

« on: 04 April 2019, 21:28:42 »

Utterly brilliant.....if only it weren't so very close to the truth!

Ron.

441

General Discussion Area / Re: Americanism?

« on: 04 April 2019, 11:36:17 »

Well, I was born in The Smoke!

Ron.

442

General Discussion Area / Re: Americanism?

« on: 03 April 2019, 21:46:01 »

You just beat me to it, Andy! If we don't all use the correct way to present dates, confusion abounds. The septic way of showing today's date, 4-3-2019, would have us back to 4th. March.
I also agree with their abuse of our fine language.....

Ron.

443

General Discussion Area / Re: Dave the builder

« on: 01 April 2019, 22:39:14 »

Glory hole for elephants?

Ron.

444

General Discussion Area / Re: Fitting Vinyl Click Flooring.

« on: 01 April 2019, 16:10:17 »

I'm sure you will get as many opinions as there are repliers, but for what it's worth, in my various tiling jobs I have found it more aesthetically pleasing to start in the centre and work towards the edges - leaving the part tiles at the edges where they don't show as much.

Ron. (Waits for the contradictions.....).

445

General Discussion Area / Re: No instant gasket

« on: 30 March 2019, 12:32:56 »

Ah, gauge blocks - that's the term I was looking for! A colleague in the Mechanical Department at college once took a pair of those blocks and "screwed" the faces together, eliminating all of the air between them, and challenged me to separate them.
Could I buggery!
I can't actually remember how he got them apart.....

Ron.

446

General Car Chat / Re: The deed is done ... :(

« on: 30 March 2019, 09:30:31 »

Hi Nige. I do know how long these things take to recover from, having recently slipped on mud and kissed concrete - lots of blood and a broken nose - so I wish you well with your recovery.
Your dearly-departed did a magnificent job when you relocated MY tin tent, so if your new motor is even better, then WOW!

Ron.

447

General Discussion Area / Re: Retail question - Lizzie?

« on: 29 March 2019, 22:20:58 »

"Young" I like, dear Doctor; "Ronald" I don't - it's RON, unless my mother thought I had been naughty!

Understood, Lizzie and thanks. However, the supermarkets could just as easily sell a similarly vast quantity of branded goods?

On your point of price-squeezing, back in my apprenticeship days, there was a company across the way from ours who supplied shirts to M&S and other clients. M&S wanted ever-increasing quantities of shirts, until eventually M&S took their entire production and were this firm's only customer.
You can guess what came next: M&S dictated the price, getting lower and lower by turns.
That's how the company I was working for managed to buy the premises for expansion of their own business!

Ron.

448

General Discussion Area / Retail question - Lizzie?

« on: 29 March 2019, 18:48:30 »

It's an Own Brand question, basically, but a specific example caught my attention today when buying vinegar:-
Sarson's 19.4p/litre Morrisson's 7.7p/litre

That's a big difference, so how come and how do supermarkets gain?

Ron.

449

General Discussion Area / Re: No instant gasket

« on: 29 March 2019, 18:37:13 »

British motorbikes could have done with that back in the day.....

Ron.

450

Omega General Help / Re: Pollen filter/ Wet footwell

« on: 29 March 2019, 10:01:35 »

As I said earlier, employ the Serek solution and it wil never happen again!

Ron.