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General Car Chat / Re: Which car has been you favourite to own/drive.......

« on: 07 February 2017, 20:48:02 »

.....

Cambelt snapped but no harm done to the engine. Just lucky, I suppose.

Not lucky at all ...... the Pinto engine  was a 'safe engine'   

'Non interference'.

Bump clearances if I remember correctly

Did a coupe of Pinto cam-belts road side, still have the spline tools in my box of miracles

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 07 February 2017, 20:41:53 »

Scooby

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 07 February 2017, 19:38:03 »

Flapper

154

General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 07 February 2017, 04:33:17 »

Suicidal

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 06 February 2017, 21:00:13 »

Happy

156

General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 06 February 2017, 20:42:30 »

Death

157

General Car Chat / Re: Oh yes .......

« on: 06 February 2017, 20:36:42 »

I feel the old pooch would be spending a lot of time stuck to the back window

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General Discussion Area / Re: Had a look inside an electric storage heater this morning.

« on: 06 February 2017, 20:17:47 »

Control is / was indeed the biggest drawback with storage heaters Tony

A lot of council houses had them due in no small means to only having to run one kind of energy line to the houses,

This would have been very appealing due to the reduced cost to build.

Maybe if gas lighting had still been in vogue then we could have had gas heating, cooking and fridges. May have been a bit costly to develop other gas powered appliances

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 06 February 2017, 20:06:39 »

Lap

160

General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 06 February 2017, 19:22:35 »

beach

161

General Car Chat / Re: Oh yes .......

« on: 06 February 2017, 19:20:52 »

Ideal mid life crisis car

 mmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Had that a few years ago but hey ho if I had the spare cash I would get it but maybe not in such a conservative colour.

Lime green or Sunburst yellow would do.

That way if you were deaf you would still be able to know it was coming

162

General Car Chat / Re: Rare 2.6 silver CDX at a price you won't want to afford

« on: 06 February 2017, 19:15:16 »

Probably needs the money to pay for his 'delusions of grandeur' condition

Maybe he meant to put £398.00

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General Discussion Area / Re: Had a look inside an electric storage heater this morning.

« on: 06 February 2017, 19:10:45 »

Yep, the good news is that electric heating elements are basically 100% efficient.  Of course electricity isn't the cheapest fuel per kWh, so not necessarily the cheapest method of heating..

Can be quite funny watching somebody opening up one up and seeing the bricks fall out

De-commissioned loads of them, sound idea but most run out of heat too quickly. Last ones I had in an ex-council flat were stone cold by early afternoon, not much good on a freezingSpring Scottish morning with young 'uns on the go

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General Discussion Area / Re: Had a look inside an electric storage heater this morning.

« on: 06 February 2017, 19:03:40 »

Electric central heating boilers are making something of a come back, been seeing a few in the wholesalers,

as long as we don't get a resurgence of electric underfloor heating like we had in the ''good old days'' nightmare to repair and installation was usually done by the'' two houses a day'' rewire monkeys

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General Discussion Area / Re: Smart battery charger...

« on: 06 February 2017, 18:57:50 »

Still use my old charger from the early eighties, complete with 6V / 12V selector switch.

Some so called smart appliances are as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike