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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.
« on: 29 November 2017, 22:18:49 »
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General Car Chat / Re: Headlights . .
« on: 29 November 2017, 20:24:41 »Two pages to get back to where we where in post #2.
But note that we`re not rubbishing it
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General Car Chat / Re: All that security and high tec ...... not
« on: 29 November 2017, 18:45:50 »
My key lives in a `Faraday` pouch when not in use and is very effective at blocking signals and I also have a 4" square security post in the middle of my drive as physical security, and my spare lives a few miles away, well out of range.
I also take the fob to work with me so it isn`t at home when I`m not but if they really want it they will get it, i`ll just make them work for it
I also take the fob to work with me so it isn`t at home when I`m not but if they really want it they will get it, i`ll just make them work for it
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General Car Chat / Re: Headlights . .
« on: 29 November 2017, 18:14:23 »I noticed, while I was in ECP last week, that 3M do a kit for cleaning them. But someone will be along to rubbish that in a minute.
It`s a good kit, I got one a couple years ago
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General Discussion Area / Re: Cities of Culture
« on: 25 November 2017, 22:57:49 »The EU has banned British cities from taking part in 2023's Cities of Culture competition, despite allowing other European cities that are not in the EU to take part in the past!
I didn't know we had any culture in any of our cities!Maybe 'ull.... Didn't they win once?
Correct me if I'm wrong but Hull and Liverpool ring a bell.
Hull is the current European city of culture, obviously nobody went there to find out if it has actually got any culture
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General Discussion Area / Re: So it's Black Friday
« on: 25 November 2017, 14:54:53 »Even gayphones?
Very rare that any Crapple products get discounted, unless it`s the end of line stuff. I was looking for months for a new iPod and I thing the best saving I got was around £10, and on something costing £270 isn`t a great deal
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General Discussion Area / Re: So it's Black Friday
« on: 24 November 2017, 09:55:31 »
I don`t there were any bargains, just shit they couldn`t sell through the year at normal prices.
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General Car Chat / Re: Rarer than an Omega
« on: 23 November 2017, 10:05:52 »A mate had a hatchback pre frog eyed one, and it was a nice enough place to be a passenger. His was underpowered, though I forget which engine it had, and we've long since lost touchIve had a few them as well, plus the younger 1.8, 8 Valve jobbies, really used to love my ones, you use to have to rag the revs and get them in the right gear to shift properly, but once you mastered that they were really nippy, even by today's standard, not bad for a little 115/130 Bhp lumps.. The low power and heavy car made it a less satisfying car to drive.
Bro had a proper Grandad for a while, Mk2 2.8i Ghia, which was a very nice car to driven around in in its day, and went well (by the then standards). It was just too unreliable, so he replaced it with a Chavalier SRi 130, which as we know was bombproof.
The one I really would have liked was the Cav 2.0 GSi, think they were 150Bhp from memory, but after a time used to see most of them parked up on the Hard Shoulders
I had two 1.8l and a 2.0l Cavalier SRi`s and I loved them, reliable and quite quick but were just so easy to work on, I did a clutch change in an hour on one of them. I still have the slide hammer and input shaft adapter and the three clips for the friction disc and clutch plate.
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General Car Chat / Re: Two new Tesla's for the electric vehicle enthusiasts..
« on: 17 November 2017, 11:10:40 »The first image has a certain demonic menace about it. I like it.
Zero to sixty in 1.6 seconds is roughly 2G.......and will probably hurt.
Yes it`s all looking very `I Robot` and looks like it wants to kill humans
Once they become driverless it could get very scary
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General Car Chat / Re: This Week in Wheeler's Workshop
« on: 11 November 2017, 21:50:45 »Garage? Dedicated workshop? Off-road parking? What are they?
My cars have always lived in the street, and my tools are in the cellar; which is home to the fridge, freezer, storage, coats, indoor washing line and the door we use most of the time. I keep the MIG in the front porch, hydraulic press on the back court and a load of small stuff in the outside bog.
That's the real reason for converting the mini-mill to CNC, if I had the space I would buy a small turret mill for the productivity increase I'm after.
I like your enthusiasm Nick, proper British back yard engineering