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Nothing a strip of gaffer tape wont put right. 

Stirrers from McDongals and some spray foam will soon see it sorted

Just for giggles I might see how much of it I can glue back together, filling in the gaps and taping it back up.  The broken aileron should be fixable with aileron tape.  The wings have suffered some damage where they are mounted inside the main fuselage, but should be able to 3d print something there.  The spine of the fuselage looks bent to me though, need to run a straight edge down it to see how badly.

If I can get it to fly-ish again, I might do some stupid things with it


Sadly, this crash wasn't recorded, as the camera unusually fell off on the previous flight so I never bothered putting it back on.

I am absolutely certain you can port your number in the same way you can with a mobile.  Obviously, you can't port it to a copper lined analogue supplier who uses the Openreach Network due to a stop sell of all all-copper products from Openreach.

Who you go with depends on how you want it plugged in at your end.  If you want the phone plugged in to your router directly, you may end up having to use an ISP that provides a router capable enough - most do now as Digital Voice is the only future for fixed landlines.

If you don't mind an external adapter, you can pick any Digital Voice supplier, or SIP supplier, with the phone plugging into the adapter, and the adapter plugging into your wired network (WiFi isn't ideal).  Generally, better deals can be had by not taking out the DV service with your ISP, and shopping around.

If you have a SIP phone, unlikely now, but you may in the future, it can just plug in your network.

I've been using a SIP provider for over 20 years, mine is free rental (though this is no longer offered), about 1p per min to landlines and 11p per min to mobiles, and around 1.5p per min to my relatives the other side of the pond.


Downsides of these systems enforced upon us is they are reliant on electricity and a working, good, stable internet, whereas a traditional phone line isn't.  Most exchanges, even most of the small ones had batteries and small generators to keep the exchange up and running during power cuts, and providing enough power for non-cordless phones.

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To Andy's earlier point, the pistons are aluminium and  .....

I believe that some MB calipers even have some kind of plastic piston 

I've hundreds of them  .... tiny 1.5mm up to 19mm & probably bigger. But as above, no 7mm or 11mm (did actaully have a 7 but it wouldn't fit in)

Same when I got the XE. One end needs a 7mm long hex key and I think that's an 11mm at the other end. Probably the same manufacturer of calipers. Fancy picking the two sizes that nobody will have in their toolbox.

Yup, XE uses Teves/ATE brakes, and are 7mm at rear and 11mm at front.  Worth ensuring you have both, and I'm staggered you haven't had to change the pads at the front yet

Additionally, when you do, the wear sensors are stupid money from JLR - something like £25 a pop last time I bothered checking.  If you're not in a hurry, they are around £2 each from Ching Chong land, which makes it almost worthwhile replacing them rather than pissing around trying to short them.

I'd to go & buy a 7mm allen key and then later buy an 11mm allen key when I did brakes on the R Class. I went to various motor factors for them ... not a chance. Had to order off the interweb 

I have an old coffee tin with probably more than 100 allen keys in it. Yet to come across a size I don't have.....so far.

They are Teves/ATE callipers that us "less than common" allen keys.

Fords from the 80s and 90s often used Teves with the 7mm allen bolt, but with discs and callipers getting larger, 11mm ones are becoming more common.

Most allen key sets or socket sets with allen bits do not include these sizes, hence many peiople get caught out when starting the job....

Not seen one on a Mercedes yet, but VAG use them for everything and tighten them to 40,000 Nom before building the rest of the car around it...

Case in point... Replacing vented rear discs on pretty much every Golf based horror is almost impossible without wondering if you really need to remove the subframe

To Andy's earlier point, the pistons are aluminium and pistons appear to be coated with something. The offending one is corroded enough to be in grippable... The surface is chamfered powder.

I'd to go & buy a 7mm allen key and then later buy an 11mm allen key when I did brakes on the R Class. I went to various motor factors for them ... not a chance. Had to order off the interweb 

I had to go out and buy a couple of sets of triple square sockets (XZN) when I bought the BMW’s and the Audi’s. I daresay you’ll come across them somewhere on Mercedes as well, as the Germans like fitting them on high torque applications, although strangely they’ve used them to hold the undertray in place on the Audi’s. 

I've hundreds of them  .... tiny 1.5mm up to 19mm & probably bigger. But as above, no 7mm or 11mm (did actaully have a 7 but it wouldn't fit in)

Same when I got the XE. One end needs a 7mm long hex key and I think that's an 11mm at the other end. Probably the same manufacturer of calipers. Fancy picking the two sizes that nobody will have in their toolbox.

Indeed ... fancy that ... obviously an oversight! 

I've hundreds of them  .... tiny 1.5mm up to 19mm & probably bigger. But as above, no 7mm or 11mm (did actaully have a 7 but it wouldn't fit in)

Same when I got the XE. One end needs a 7mm long hex key and I think that's an 11mm at the other end. Probably the same manufacturer of calipers. Fancy picking the two sizes that nobody will have in their toolbox.

I'd to go & buy a 7mm allen key and then later buy an 11mm allen key when I did brakes on the R Class. I went to various motor factors for them ... not a chance. Had to order off the interweb 

I have an old coffee tin with probably more than 100 allen keys in it. Yet to come across a size I don't have.....so far.

I've hundreds of them  .... tiny 1.5mm up to 19mm & probably bigger. But as above, no 7mm or 11mm (did actaully have a 7 but it wouldn't fit in)