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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: TheBoy on 15 July 2011, 09:45:44
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Being desperate for a 2.2M resistor before tomorrow morning, I thought I'd try Craplins. Yup, that desperate ::)
Mrs TB is going to Banbury to get some bits from the dealer, so thought Craplins at Banbury would be ideal. Simples. Easy peasy. No sweat. What could go wrong?
Well, the fact they don't sell 2.2M resistors is what goes wrong >:(.
OK, chill, see what other values are available, make up a resistor network (bit tight for space, so max of 2). How about a 1M and a 1.2M in series? Nope, Craplin at Chavtown don't stock either. OK, a pair of 4M7 in parallel? Nope, you guessed it.
In the name of all that is holy, FFS, I'm not interested in disco lights, overpriced computer junk or cheap radio controlled toys. I just want some rather electronic components >:(
I tried calling, in case the website was wrong, but the Amoeba Brain who answered was too busy revising for his 12+ exam. rather retards, the lot of them >:(. I hate Banbury, and all who live there >:(. Bloody inbreds, the lot of them >:(
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prob have to buy their giant size bag of mixed resistors and hope for the best!
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prob have to buy their giant size bag of mixed resistors and hope for the best!
They only go up to 100k, or something like that.
I have sourced some from a local university, which will be delivered to my door the pub tonight :-X ::)
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Oh for the days of "Tandy's" when you could just drop in and buy electronic bits and bobs so easily .. :(
I bought a solar panel for the 'van some years ago very cheap as "not working" ... 3 diodes at 13p each and its been as good as gold... and the guy in tandy's even decoded the "old" ones for me before selling me the new ones .. :)
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Tandys went the way Craplin are going. More interested in selling tat than staying in their core business. I suspect they will end up going the same way as Tandys.
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Tandys went the way Craplin are going. More interested in selling tat than staying in their core business. I suspect they will end up going the same way as Tandys.
Trouble is, I can't imagine there is any real demand for a shop that sells electronic parts.. how many people do you know who routinely think "Oh, I just need a 2M2 resistor?"..
Years ago there were more 'hobbyists' around - these days everything is throw-away and with the advent of cheap, powerful computers and programming languages designed for monkeys (Visual Basic, I'm looking at you) nobody has any desire to understand the fundamental underpinnings of electronics or computing :(
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RS components----- the best place for electronics i find :y plus next day delivery :y
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/?cm_mmc=UK-PPC-0411-_-google-_-0_RS_Brand-_-RS%20components_Exact&gclid=CICYsZCNg6oCFQ0OfAod3G4YzQ
mind you i think a pack of 5000 is abit overkill ;D ;D ;D
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/c/?searchTerm=2.2m+resistor&sra=oss
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Tandys went the way Craplin are going. More interested in selling tat than staying in their core business. I suspect they will end up going the same way as Tandys.
Trouble is, I can't imagine there is any real demand for a shop that sells electronic parts.. how many people do you know who routinely think "Oh, I just need a 2M2 resistor?"..
Years ago there were more 'hobbyists' around - these days everything is throw-away and with the advent of cheap, powerful computers and programming languages designed for monkeys (Visual Basic, I'm looking at you) nobody has any desire to understand the fundamental underpinnings of electronics or computing :(
You'll be off the Christmas card list if you dis VB :P
Like many "Of a certain age", I started with Sinclair machines, and thus quickly went on to Z80 assembly. I still enjoy a bit of MASM even now, but for Windows, life is too short ;D
VB has a place in my programming collection, as its great for 'cheap and cheerful' utility knock-ups. Wouldn't be without it in the collection TBH.
My trouble, I wrote, many, many years ago, a stock system for my brother. It satrted out as a MS Basic PDS 7.1 demo to show him what computers could do for him, then moved to VB1 when that came out. And has been updated over the last 20yrs into an unmanagable mess :-[ (LOL, mirroring the mess MS got in with VB pre .NET), stepping through all of MS's VB versions up to VB6.
Now I'm in a situation where I don't want to rewrite from scratch, but VB.NET says it has too many issues to import, so stuck in VB6 (which, incidentally, the IDE doesn't run properly in Win7)
Although I am pretty reasonable at most common general purpose languages (except Perl, bummer seeing as that is what this forum uses ::)), Basic variants do tend to be my language of choice if starting something new on Windows.
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Tandys went the way Craplin are going. More interested in selling tat than staying in their core business. I suspect they will end up going the same way as Tandys.
Trouble is, I can't imagine there is any real demand for a shop that sells electronic parts.. how many people do you know who routinely think "Oh, I just need a 2M2 resistor?"..
Years ago there were more 'hobbyists' around - these days everything is throw-away and with the advent of cheap, powerful computers and programming languages designed for monkeys (Visual Basic, I'm looking at you) nobody has any desire to understand the fundamental underpinnings of electronics or computing :(
You'll be off the Christmas card list if you dis VB :P
Like many "Of a certain age", I started with Sinclair machines, and thus quickly went on to Z80 assembly. I still enjoy a bit of MASM even now, but for Windows, life is too short ;D
VB has a place in my programming collection, as its great for 'cheap and cheerful' utility knock-ups. Wouldn't be without it in the collection TBH.
My trouble, I wrote, many, many years ago, a stock system for my brother. It satrted out as a MS Basic PDS 7.1 demo to show him what computers could do for him, then moved to VB1 when that came out. And has been updated over the last 20yrs into an unmanagable mess :-[ (LOL, mirroring the mess MS got in with VB pre .NET), stepping through all of MS's VB versions up to VB6.
Now I'm in a situation where I don't want to rewrite from scratch, but VB.NET says it has too many issues to import, so stuck in VB6 (which, incidentally, the IDE doesn't run properly in Win7)
Although I am pretty reasonable at most common general purpose languages (except Perl, bummer seeing as that is what this forum uses ::)), Basic variants do tend to be my language of choice if starting something new on Windows.
I started off life with COBOL & PLAN(for ICL 1900 series machines).
Used to like VB in my later life.
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RS components----- the best place for electronics i find :y plus next day delivery :y
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/?cm_mmc=UK-PPC-0411-_-google-_-0_RS_Brand-_-RS%20components_Exact&gclid=CICYsZCNg6oCFQ0OfAod3G4YzQ
mind you i think a pack of 5000 is abit overkill ;D ;D ;D
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/c/?searchTerm=2.2m+resistor&sra=oss
I normally use Farnell, due to range, price and speed of delivery. But in this case I was desperate.
Maybe if Craplin had stayed mostly mail order, they could have rivalled the mail order companies, as they once did. But instead, they expanded into retail, now sell overpriced junk, and nothing useful. To be honest, can't see them lasting more than a few more years before going up the Gary Glitter.
Although to answer aaronjb's comment about components, if this is/was their core business, given the cost price of the stock, and the minimal shelve space required, and the massive markup (they want 24p for a resistor :o), I'm still shocked and stunned they don't stock them. Maybe Banburians are too inbred to have the intelligence to play with electronics :-/
Had they have had them, I would have purchases a fair bit more stuff that I was not in a hurry for, but now Farnell's will get part of that order, and Ebuyer/Dabs/Nova will likely get the computer parts...
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I get the feeling this is either my fault. Or mine and Lazytinkers fault...? :-[
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I get the feeling this is either my fault. Or mine and Lazytinkers fault...? :-[
Gaypod adaptor sprung to mind.....
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Or mine and Lazytinkers fault...? :-[
Nope, just your fault. Stop trying to share the blame with a defenceless cripple.
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Tandys went the way Craplin are going. More interested in selling tat than staying in their core business. I suspect they will end up going the same way as Tandys.
Trouble is, I can't imagine there is any real demand for a shop that sells electronic parts.. how many people do you know who routinely think "Oh, I just need a 2M2 resistor?"..
Years ago there were more 'hobbyists' around - these days everything is throw-away and with the advent of cheap, powerful computers and programming languages designed for monkeys (Visual Basic, I'm looking at you) nobody has any desire to understand the fundamental underpinnings of electronics or computing :(
You'll be off the Christmas card list if you dis VB :P
Like many "Of a certain age", I started with Sinclair machines, and thus quickly went on to Z80 assembly. I still enjoy a bit of MASM even now, but for Windows, life is too short ;D
VB has a place in my programming collection, as its great for 'cheap and cheerful' utility knock-ups. Wouldn't be without it in the collection TBH.
My trouble, I wrote, many, many years ago, a stock system for my brother. It satrted out as a MS Basic PDS 7.1 demo to show him what computers could do for him, then moved to VB1 when that came out. And has been updated over the last 20yrs into an unmanagable mess :-[ (LOL, mirroring the mess MS got in with VB pre .NET), stepping through all of MS's VB versions up to VB6.
Now I'm in a situation where I don't want to rewrite from scratch, but VB.NET says it has too many issues to import, so stuck in VB6 (which, incidentally, the IDE doesn't run properly in Win7)
Although I am pretty reasonable at most common general purpose languages (except Perl, bummer seeing as that is what this forum uses ::)), Basic variants do tend to be my language of choice if starting something new on Windows.
I agree VB is (or was, last time I used it) useful for quick mockups or proof of concepts.. the trouble was, those tended to very quickly become 'proper' applications, and then you ended up chasing your tail trying to find some obscure bug due to some obscure interaction of components that wasn't being fully exposed by VB.
Well, I did, at least ;D
I haven't used the new .NET variants though, aside from a quick dabble in C#, so I can't really comment on those. I just have an enduring hatred of it from my VB6 days.
I admit, I wrote some fairly hefty applications in BASIC though, right back to QuickBASIC.. but I'd still rather be working in C or a C-alike - although these days I'm stuck with PHP & Perl. I do quite like Perl..
You're right though, I wouldn't try writing a Windows application in assembler, that would be tantamount to suicide :)
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I get the feeling this is either my fault. Or mine and Lazytinkers fault...? :-[
Gaypod adaptor sprung to mind.....
Mixer.
Uphill Gardener gayPod thingie is a longer story that I'll bored gayboy with when I see him, as there is quite a lot of damage to it from a failed regulator that went short, shoving around 11v up some bits designed for 5v...
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I agree VB is (or was, last time I used it) useful for quick mockups or proof of concepts.. the trouble was, those tended to very quickly become 'proper' applications, and then you ended up chasing your tail trying to find some obscure bug due to some obscure interaction of components that wasn't being fully exposed by VB.
Welcome to my world when it comes to my brother's applications ;D
I haven't used the new .NET variants though, aside from a quick dabble in C#, so I can't really comment on those. I just have an enduring hatred of it from my VB6 days.
They are much more consistent, but more limited at the same time (as in a PITA to go outside the APIs - though no bad thing in these virtualisation days)
I do quite like Perl..
I'm sure the YaBB development team would love to hear from you, esp if you are good with database programming as well ;)
You're right though, I wouldn't try writing a Windows application in assembler, that would be tantamount to suicide :)
Every man has to do it just once. Just a simple Hello World. Just so they can say they have ;D
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what do you expect its Banbury!
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Resistors over 1M are not that common.
However, I always have a stock if you get short
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what do you expect its Banbury!
I think my views on the town, and those that live there are well known here ::)
I wonder if any soon-to-be-ex-Members of OOF live there :P
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Resistors over 1M are not that common.
However, I always have a stock if you get short
I'm normally more organised, so don't get in this situation. The trouble was, I was convinced I had some, so didn't bother ordering any when I had time...
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what do you expect its Banbury!
I think my views on the town, and those that live there are well known here ::)
I wonder if any soon-to-be-ex-Members of OOF live there :P
Eh?? :-? :-/
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Or mine and Lazytinkers fault...? :-[
Nope, just your fault. Stop trying to share the blame with a defenceless cripple.
Must admit, I had a feeling it was going to be our fault :-[ :-[ :-X :-X
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what do you expect its Banbury!
I think my views on the town, and those that live there are well known here ::)
I wonder if any soon-to-be-ex-Members of OOF live there :P
Eh?? :-? :-/
An Administrator and co-founder of the site ranting that anyone from Banbury is plain stupid due to a tiny gene pool... ...if that doesn't piss them off... :-[
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Or mine and Lazytinkers fault...? :-[
Nope, just your fault. Stop trying to share the blame with a defenceless cripple.
Must admit, I had a feeling it was going to be our fault :-[ :-[ :-X :-X
Nought to do with you, just gayboy ;)
Unless of course you want the blame for my blood pressure
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Or mine and Lazytinkers fault...? :-[
Nope, just your fault. Stop trying to share the blame with a defenceless cripple.
Must admit, I had a feeling it was going to be our fault :-[ :-[ :-X :-X
Nought to do with you, just gayboy ;)
Unless of course you want the blame for my blood pressure
You can blame gayboy... I don't mind ;D ;D
Mind you... I'm assuming both mixers will be identical? ::)
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Or mine and Lazytinkers fault...? :-[
Nope, just your fault. Stop trying to share the blame with a defenceless cripple.
Must admit, I had a feeling it was going to be our fault :-[ :-[ :-X :-X
Nought to do with you, just gayboy ;)
Unless of course you want the blame for my blood pressure
You can blame gayboy... I don't mind ;D ;D
Mind you... I'm assuming both mixers will be identical? ::)
You might be assuming too much.
:-X
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Or mine and Lazytinkers fault...? :-[
Nope, just your fault. Stop trying to share the blame with a defenceless cripple.
Must admit, I had a feeling it was going to be our fault :-[ :-[ :-X :-X
Nought to do with you, just gayboy ;)
Unless of course you want the blame for my blood pressure
You can blame gayboy... I don't mind ;D ;D
Mind you... I'm assuming both mixers will be identical? ::)
You might be assuming too much.
:-X
Good point... He's got a gay pod uphill thingy too ::) ::)
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Got a feeling I'm going to pay for this. One way or another. Groomers revenge. Oh Lordy. ;D
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Do you have an independent electrical store within reasonable distance? Your'e more likely to speak to a real person who can help.
This is why i avoid PC World like the plague. You go in to buy something simple like inks & they insist you need this lead, that adaptor & you must sign up for the latest spyware protecter thing as you really need it. Bollix do i!
They are greedy so & so's who feed on the gullible & as folk learn they'll give them a swerve & use an independant shop as i've learned to do. Such commercial practices are relativly short lived...
...Cheats never prosper.
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Got a feeling I'm going to pay for this. One way or another. Groomers revenge. Oh Lordy. ;D
He he... Glad you'll be there on your own :-X :-X ::) ::) :D :D
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Resistors over 1M are not that common.
However, I always have a stock if you get short
dunno about that have about 150 in the back of my car...but as for crapling THEY are all the same...bring back tandy...but craplins is a by probuct of tandy...like phoenix rising from the ashes come maplins :y
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Got a feeling I'm going to pay for this. One way or another. Groomers revenge. Oh Lordy. ;D
He he... Glad you'll be there on your own :-X :-X ::) ::) :D :D
Would you like to borrow my wooden spoon?...... :D :D :D
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I'm glad there are so many VB specialists here. I think I've just had a VB6 project dumped onto me. :(
Never did see the point of VB, C#, etc. Would rather use C/C++ and use one language for programming every platform from PICs upwards.
I suspect I'm in for a world of pain with this one. ::)
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Got a feeling I'm going to pay for this. One way or another. Groomers revenge. Oh Lordy. ;D
He he... Glad you'll be there on your own :-X :-X ::) ::) :D :D
Would you like to borrow my wooden spoon?...... :D :D :D
There will be at least 3 I believe. :-/
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Tandys went the way Craplin are going. More interested in selling tat than staying in their core business. I suspect they will end up going the same way as Tandys.
Trouble is, I can't imagine there is any real demand for a shop that sells electronic parts.. how many people do you know who routinely think "Oh, I just need a 2M2 resistor?"..
Years ago there were more 'hobbyists' around - these days everything is throw-away and with the advent of cheap, powerful computers and programming languages designed for monkeys (Visual Basic, I'm looking at you) nobody has any desire to understand the fundamental underpinnings of electronics or computing :(
You'll be off the Christmas card list if you dis VB :P
Like many "Of a certain age", I started with Sinclair machines, and thus quickly went on to Z80 assembly. I still enjoy a bit of MASM even now, but for Windows, life is too short ;D
VB has a place in my programming collection, as its great for 'cheap and cheerful' utility knock-ups. Wouldn't be without it in the collection TBH.
My trouble, I wrote, many, many years ago, a stock system for my brother. It satrted out as a MS Basic PDS 7.1 demo to show him what computers could do for him, then moved to VB1 when that came out. And has been updated over the last 20yrs into an unmanagable mess :-[ (LOL, mirroring the mess MS got in with VB pre .NET), stepping through all of MS's VB versions up to VB6.
Now I'm in a situation where I don't want to rewrite from scratch, but VB.NET says it has too many issues to import, so stuck in VB6 (which, incidentally, the IDE doesn't run properly in Win7)
Although I am pretty reasonable at most common general purpose languages (except Perl, bummer seeing as that is what this forum uses ::)), Basic variants do tend to be my language of choice if starting something new on Windows.
I started off life with COBOL & PLAN(for ICL 1900 series machines).
Used to like VB in my later life.
Well how about this.
Started with basic on a ZX then Spectrum then commadore 64, moved up to db3+, did a little cobol (not injected), vb, and the DEC VAX one (?), then a loooaaad of Lotus Notes. Now renovate properties, fit bathrooms, decorate, etc, etc.
No version upgrades, no bloody users pulling what youve done to pieces etc etc just plumbing plastering have a brew having a laugh and getting a life (appart from being on here at 1 in the morn). ;) ;) ;) ;D ;D ;D
RS componenets forever but do miss tandys
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Do you have an independent electrical store within reasonable distance? Your'e more likely to speak to a real person who can help.
This is why i avoid PC World like the plague. You go in to buy something simple like inks & they insist you need this lead, that adaptor & you must sign up for the latest spyware protecter thing as you really need it. Bollix do i!
They are greedy so & so's who feed on the gullible & as folk learn they'll give them a swerve & use an independant shop as i've learned to do. Such commercial practices are relativly short lived...
...Cheats never prosper.
I live in Brackley. There is nothing nearby ;D
Resistors picked up from the pub last night. I had to suffer a few pints though, reluctantly....
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Do you have an independent electrical store within reasonable distance? Your'e more likely to speak to a real person who can help.
This is why i avoid PC World like the plague. You go in to buy something simple like inks & they insist you need this lead, that adaptor & you must sign up for the latest spyware protecter thing as you really need it. Bollix do i!
They are greedy so & so's who feed on the gullible & as folk learn they'll give them a swerve & use an independant shop as i've learned to do. Such commercial practices are relativly short lived...
...Cheats never prosper.
I live in Brackley. There is nothing nearby ;D
Resistors picked up from the pub last night. I had to suffer a few pints though, reluctantly....
Yeah yeah, I know. You where doing them a favour purely for quality control purposes. ::). ;D
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Tandys went the way Craplin are going. More interested in selling tat than staying in their core business. I suspect they will end up going the same way as Tandys.
Trouble is, I can't imagine there is any real demand for a shop that sells electronic parts.. how many people do you know who routinely think "Oh, I just need a 2M2 resistor?"..
Years ago there were more 'hobbyists' around - these days everything is throw-away and with the advent of cheap, powerful computers and programming languages designed for monkeys (Visual Basic, I'm looking at you) nobody has any desire to understand the fundamental underpinnings of electronics or computing :(
You'll be off the Christmas card list if you dis VB :P
Like many "Of a certain age", I started with Sinclair machines, and thus quickly went on to Z80 assembly. I still enjoy a bit of MASM even now, but for Windows, life is too short ;D
VB has a place in my programming collection, as its great for 'cheap and cheerful' utility knock-ups. Wouldn't be without it in the collection TBH.
My trouble, I wrote, many, many years ago, a stock system for my brother. It satrted out as a MS Basic PDS 7.1 demo to show him what computers could do for him, then moved to VB1 when that came out. And has been updated over the last 20yrs into an unmanagable mess :-[ (LOL, mirroring the mess MS got in with VB pre .NET), stepping through all of MS's VB versions up to VB6.
Now I'm in a situation where I don't want to rewrite from scratch, but VB.NET says it has too many issues to import, so stuck in VB6 (which, incidentally, the IDE doesn't run properly in Win7)
Although I am pretty reasonable at most common general purpose languages (except Perl, bummer seeing as that is what this forum uses ::)), Basic variants do tend to be my language of choice if starting something new on Windows.
I started off life with COBOL & PLAN(for ICL 1900 series machines).
Used to like VB in my later life.
Well how about this.
Started with basic on a ZX then Spectrum then commadore 64, moved up to db3+, did a little cobol (not injected), vb, and the DEC VAX one (?), then a loooaaad of Lotus Notes. Now renovate properties, fit bathrooms, decorate, etc, etc.
No version upgrades, no bloody users pulling what youve done to pieces etc etc just plumbing plastering have a brew having a laugh and getting a life (appart from being on here at 1 in the morn). ;) ;) ;) ;D ;D ;D
RS componenets forever but do miss tandys
The Spectrum and C64 hadn't been invented by the time Auto Addict retired. You do realise he is 326 years old this year....
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Do you have an independent electrical store within reasonable distance? Your'e more likely to speak to a real person who can help.
This is why i avoid PC World like the plague. You go in to buy something simple like inks & they insist you need this lead, that adaptor & you must sign up for the latest spyware protecter thing as you really need it. Bollix do i!
They are greedy so & so's who feed on the gullible & as folk learn they'll give them a swerve & use an independant shop as i've learned to do. Such commercial practices are relativly short lived...
...Cheats never prosper.
I live in Brackley. There is nothing nearby ;D
Resistors picked up from the pub last night. I had to suffer a few pints though, reluctantly....
Yeah yeah, I know. You where doing them a favour purely for quality control purposes. ::). ;D
Its only bloody veroboard, but I'm too bleary eyed to focus :-[
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Do you have an independent electrical store within reasonable distance? Your'e more likely to speak to a real person who can help.
This is why i avoid PC World like the plague. You go in to buy something simple like inks & they insist you need this lead, that adaptor & you must sign up for the latest spyware protecter thing as you really need it. Bollix do i!
They are greedy so & so's who feed on the gullible & as folk learn they'll give them a swerve & use an independant shop as i've learned to do. Such commercial practices are relativly short lived...
...Cheats never prosper.
I live in Brackley. There is nothing nearby ;D
Resistors picked up from the pub last night. I had to suffer a few pints though, reluctantly....
Yeah yeah, I know. You where doing them a favour purely for quality control purposes. ::). ;D
Its only bloody veroboard, but I'm too bleary eyed to focus :-[
Oh don't worry too much. Looks like I better bring the gazebo. :-/
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I live in Brackley. There is nothing nearby ;D
What's the chances of swerving by on Sunday on my way back home for a cuppa and finding out what suspension/steering components are causing the creaking noises when the wheel is turned from lock to lock when stationary on the Beemer? ;)
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A Beemer? I have petrol, and can spare a match ;D
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A Beemer? I have petrol, and can spare a match ;D
Even though it's worth at least double what I paid, I don't think I could do that because it performed flawlessly on the way up here, used £15.50 worth of squirt (brim fill test) over 124 miles while maintaining speeds between 70-80mph all the way (except for the 20 mile roadworks section running past Toddington), and was just as comfortable (if not more so) than our Omega.
In fact I'd go as far as to say that if I had to burn one then it would probably be the Omega at this moment in time ;D
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I'm glad there are so many VB specialists here. I think I've just had a VB6 project dumped onto me. :(
Never did see the point of VB, C#, etc. Would rather use C/C++ and use one language for programming every platform from PICs upwards.
I suspect I'm in for a world of pain with this one. ::)
I had to work on some VB code once.
What a horrible language, and the IDE is totally shit.
It would not even allow me to line up my = in a column >:( >:(
I do admit to liking the XBase langauges, and currently using the latest version of Visual Objects
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A Beemer? I have petrol, and can spare a match ;D
Even though it's worth at least double what I paid, I don't think I could do that because it performed flawlessly on the way up here, used £15.50 worth of squirt (brim fill test) over 124 miles while maintaining speeds between 70-80mph all the way (except for the 20 mile roadworks section running past Toddington), and was just as comfortable (if not more so) than our Omega.
In fact I'd go as far as to say that if I had to burn one then it would probably be the Omega at this moment in time ;D
318 iirc? My mum's (olde rthan yours) is a comfy ride. I can't 'gel' with it, though can't put my finger on why. It goes well enough (for what it is), stops and turns well. I just can't seem to get confident in in (probably no bad thing really)
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318 iirc? My mum's (olde rthan yours) is a comfy ride. I can't 'gel' with it, though can't put my finger on why. It goes well enough (for what it is), stops and turns well. I just can't seem to get confident in in (probably no bad thing really)
1.9 litre 318iS, 1998 on an R plate.
The original deal from my OH's godfather was that if we taxed it for 6 months, then we could either use it for 6 weeks until the Trooper was sorted and then give it back with the tax on it, or we could buy it at that point for £600.
When the offer was made I saw it as nothing more than a stopgap and had no intention of buying it as Beemer's have never floated my boat.
Having actually used it for the last couple of weeks though it has grown on me to the point where I will actually buy it because other than the creaking when turning the wheel while stationary (which I suspect is down to lack of use) it really is a good car that is fully loaded with all the toys that were available at the time.
I do have the odd reservation about it, but like yourself I just can't put my finger on exactly what it is that niggles me occasionally.
It's not what I would call a fast car, but it is quite deceptive and I have seen the speedo on the wrong side of 85+ on quite a few occasions.
I'll post up some pics later on this afternoon once my daughter & grandkids have finished press ganging me in to being their taxi ;D