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Omega General Help / Re: Replacing rubber around windshield
« on: Yesterday at 20:53:10 »
It's not a seal.
It's, at best, a weather strip.
It's, at best, a weather strip.
- 07 December 2025, 03:44:10
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General Discussion Area / Re: Ukraine peace stalemate
« on: 05 December 2025, 16:53:23 »
Thing is, it doesn't seem to matter how much money is given to Ukraine or what sanctions are applied to Russia, neither side has actually achieved anything more than waste munitions and time.
If they've not gained/achieved anything since this started, then they're unlikely to any time soon. May as well draw the maps where the lines are and call it done..
If this pissing contest carries on too much longer they'll both be peeing so fair up the lamp post that it becomes a shower...
If they've not gained/achieved anything since this started, then they're unlikely to any time soon. May as well draw the maps where the lines are and call it done..
If this pissing contest carries on too much longer they'll both be peeing so fair up the lamp post that it becomes a shower...
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General Discussion Area / Re: Ukraine peace stalemate
« on: 05 December 2025, 15:00:43 »Funding ffsOr stop finding Ukraine.
I know that's a controversial perspective, but...
Damn those clever satnavs!
Although if they both stopped pissing around with GPS signals they might be better able to identify who owns what, and stop the squabbling that way
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General Discussion Area / Re: Ukraine peace stalemate
« on: 05 December 2025, 14:15:25 »
Or stop finding Ukraine.
I know that's a controversial perspective, but...
I know that's a controversial perspective, but...
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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 01 December 2025, 22:53:49 »It's not even grassThe grass isn't even muddy nowadaysOld school player, not like the overacting pansies we see nowadays.
....and overpaid.
£300,000 a week for kicking a ball around on a piece of muddy grass seems excessive.
Ah well.
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Omega General Help / Re: Y26SE Oil Leak around Oil Filter
« on: 01 December 2025, 20:07:55 »
You've answered your own question.
If it's leaking from the seal between the block and filter case, you have two options:
1. Replace the seal and ensure that the retaining bolt is correctly torqued with thread lock.
2. Convert it to a spin on filter.
Not sure why you would need to disturb the oil cooler plumbing to do either...
If it's leaking from the seal between the block and filter case, you have two options:
1. Replace the seal and ensure that the retaining bolt is correctly torqued with thread lock.
2. Convert it to a spin on filter.
Not sure why you would need to disturb the oil cooler plumbing to do either...
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 30 November 2025, 22:18:18 »It's all a tax write off for them.Obviously, your lease company don't mind being ripped off.Are you allowed to say that on here?
You make a good point Ronny, to be fair to this particular lot they seem ok. Also, being on lease I don't have a choice which chain does the work.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 29 November 2025, 14:29:20 »I think you're confusing builders with happygolikeysThe fencers who came yesterday morning and took down my side gate and 6ft panel down the side of my house which was knackered. Then the delivery of the new stuff was late so he said he'd go and have look at another job and come back and finish after lunch.
The new stuff came, and then the fencer phoned and said he'd now be coming back in the morning at 7.30am. It was absolutely lashing down at 7.30am and he didn't come which wasn't surprising, but haven't seen him yet and he's not answering my calls FFS.
British builders, backbone of the country.
How to become a builder?
F*uck about at school and leave with no qualifications. Then buy a knackered flatbed and you suddenly become an expert in roofing, guttering, tree cutting, drains, fencing, driveway cleaning and laying.
Presumably if they want paying, they'll turn up.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 28 November 2025, 17:49:10 »
Did they happen to give you their names and addresses with the crime number
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General Discussion Area / Re: Budget.
« on: 28 November 2025, 15:55:28 »Another one I heard from Martin Lewis yesterday evening, pensioners will not have to pay income tax on their state pension, even if/when the pension exceeds the 20% tax threshold, which it will do in 2027.That's not much of a change. It's all been taxed at the lower threshold previously.
However, they will have to pay tax on their occupational pension.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Kentucky plane crash
« on: 27 November 2025, 18:28:05 »There are 60 odd ex USAF KC-10's stored in the boneyard at Davis Monthan/Tuscon. They were only retired about a year ago. They've only ever been operated by the USAF, and were in service from 1979 ish. The last ones were built (tecnically funds were allocated) in 1987. The hours and cycles on these airframes will be well documented.
If I were NTSB I'd be asking the USAF if they wouldn't mind stripping the engines and pylons off a handful of them so they can inspect the parts that broke assuming the KC10 uses the same or similar parts.
Can't see them being any different tbh, the aircraft are fundamentally the same. The designers should have forseen the potential issue as the engines are mounted a fair distance forward of the main spar. To the point it's unusual.
Be interesting to see if the 737 Max will develop similar failures over time from mounting the engines forward and up from the original -300/800 design
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General Discussion Area / Re: Kentucky plane crash
« on: 27 November 2025, 10:14:51 »
Thing is with the DC10/MD11 it's large enough to be useful but not so large as to be too expensive to operate. If UPS and FedEx suddenly have to scrap them, then there's not much to replace them with. The A330 doesn't age well and all the bigger Boeings are either already converted or have been scrapped
It's a surprise that this failure hasn't happened more often and it will be interesting to see how many aircraft are about to fail. It also begs the question as to how such a high cycle airframe had yet to reach the inspection threshold. Replacing the parts and dropping the inspection to 2,500 hours might be enough.
The only operators that might not be able to afford it are the flying hospital and the fire tankers which is a bit ironic as they're probably better maintained due to their more specialist uses.
It's a surprise that this failure hasn't happened more often and it will be interesting to see how many aircraft are about to fail. It also begs the question as to how such a high cycle airframe had yet to reach the inspection threshold. Replacing the parts and dropping the inspection to 2,500 hours might be enough.
The only operators that might not be able to afford it are the flying hospital and the fire tankers which is a bit ironic as they're probably better maintained due to their more specialist uses.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Budget.
« on: 26 November 2025, 23:04:56 »
Point being just because your house is hypothetically worth X amount doesn't mean you paid anything like it 
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General Discussion Area / Re: Budget.
« on: 26 November 2025, 21:59:08 »8 nights at home every month and away for Christmas and New Year. Still easier than being at home without the pooch.That would involve being at homeRight, never thought of that. It's a hard life, jetting off all over the world.
The thing with the houses, bro and sil bought a house for about £500k with her parents in 2009. Now worth near emo £1.5m. They both pay higher tax rates, but they don't earn 6 figures. Just a normal couple that got lucky with the market and circumstance. They'd notice a £4,500 bill. As would alot of other people in similar circumstances
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General Discussion Area / Re: Budget.
« on: 26 November 2025, 21:38:09 »
That would involve being at home 