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  1. I recently bought an old Casio watch off eBay, one that I've always hankered after but when it arrived it didn't have the crisp clean dial of the one on the listing but a rather cloudy one instead. It's like over the years a dusting of the luminous coating has transferred to the back of the crystal. So today after watching a YouTube clip of an American chap sitting on his bed successfully pull a similar watch apart I had a bash at taking the mechanism out of mine and giving it a clean up. A bit of Tesco's finest glass cleaner and a soft cloth and it's come up like new again.
  2. Blimey five years already that's scary.
  3. For years I was strictly a PG tips man but recently it started tasting rank,sort of florally so I've switched over to Yorkshire tea. Much better one bag gives a lovely strong brew.
  4. I was dragged up in Cliffe as a youngster so was chuffed to see this posted online recently. No idea what the bus is but the image was captured in Gravesend eight miles away.
  5. I'm guessing that the Rustoleum paint is oil based and so reacting with your acrylic primer/ top coat. I have been there and worn the T shirt you may well need to apply an isolator primer to stop the pickling reaction.
  6. You can't beat the satisfaction of making cloudy headlamp lenses look new again. The sister in law put a wide scratch along the whole length of her caravans side window getting too close to a tree and was in tears but half an hour of sanding with an 600 pad and cutting back with various compounds had it looking like new again.
  7. Years ago I got called out to a Skyline that had a loss of power and bad idle at a posh private school in Sevenoaks. It was an uprated twin turbo set up with lots of silicone pipework running everywhere and the young owner said he just started it up blipped the throttle and it went bang and lost power and was now convinced he had blown a piston or dropped a valve. He was moaning on that he'd told the call taker he would need a flat bed recovery and not me in my orange T5. Anyway while he was pacing up and down mentally pricing up the cost of an engine rebuild I was looking for anything obviously wrong as it overfueling massively and being JDM I couldn't plug in to look at any live data when I reached under the air boxes to have a wiggle of the wiring and hoses when I felt a three inch boost pipe hanging free. You couldn't see it from above and the car was too low to get under the engine bay to look up but once the air boxes where removed it became visible. It was a right sod to get back on again but once it was securely retained and everything reassembled the engine restarted and ran fine again. I think he had been more than just been blipping the throttle but he was mighty relieved although never gave me a tip or appologised for giving me ear ache about the recovery truck. Those VAG turbo hose fittings were a big call out/easy fix for us with many popping off usually a few days after being disturbed while having repairs carried out at a garage. We kept new clips for them but often it was the wedge bits on the hose that were a bit worn and would slip under the clip when on boost so many cable ties were added for extra security.
  8. This all reminds me of a customer of mine back in the late nineties when I ran a testing station. I had a good customer called Kent Roofing (who ran three Nissan Cabstars) who had in his front garden a scruffy Humber Sceptre with a reg that was four numbers and then KR. The guy kept asking me about doing him a favour and quickly writing out a ticket for the Humber so he could put the KR reg on his Mercedes. After a few months of continued pestering I said get the car to me and I will put it through a "gentle MOT test" and go from there. It was towed over to my place and I had a look over it and to be fair it wasn't too bad but there was a lot of surface corrosion and panels like the sills were weak but you couldn't push through them or the brake hoses and pipes were perished but just about ok. Cleaning up the brakes and sorting some poor electrical connections got the car capable of passing the test although it was anything like road ready as the coolant hoses were rock hard,the rad leaked and the fuel tank had brown muck in it that kept blocking its filter and carbs (I strapped a Reliant Robin tank in the boot in the end ). The bronze paintwork was shot and the once prestige interior was very poor with mouldy carpets and seats and the lacquer was flaking off the dash and door cappings. Anyway I did eventually pass it after much fettling and replacing various small bits and pieces and I wrote out a massive list of advisories on the VT30 (pre computerised days) too. Hand on heart on the day I wrote out the MOT certificate the old Humber had met the minimum requirements to gain a pass but ten miles down the road or a week later who knows. The KR plate soon got swapped onto the Mercedes and the Sceptre got sold on never to be seen again.
  9. I think I love the look of the Mayflower but for the life of me I don't know why. I mean I look at the front and think yep that's nice then look at the sharp edged limo styled flanks and rear end and get a bit confused. It's hard to work out what market Triumph were aiming for. A second car for wealthy familys maybe ? Still you're the perfect new owner afor it that's for sure.
  10. My SRi got nicked off my driveway in the early hours I even heard it being driven away. Unfortunately the next door neighbour had an Astra GTE and i thought it was their car driving off. The plod found it later that morning with its engine still running parked behind a nearby village hall.
  11. In the past when my old Hiace needed an alternator I used a friendly battery/alternator repair shop 30 mins up the road in Bexley but now that's in the ULEZ bollox zone I had to reluctantly give them a swerve. £12.50 was just about bearable but they couldn't guarantee they could turn it around the same day and so two lots of £12.50 I can't stomach. Shame because I like to use good independent guys but there you go. So I found a little used refurbished one on eBay that got posted down from of all places the isle of Skye in 48 hours. To save my knackered spine from excessive strain I put the van up on a pair of plastic ramps (liberated from a defleeted Kwik fit tyre van and very useful too) and 40 mins later it was all done and now I have no current drain. It really is a useful wagon to have on the fleet. Last Summer it towed a caravan around the west country and Wales carrying four adults in air conditioned comfort without complaining try doing that with a 1996 Transit. Curiosity got the better of me and so I pulled the cover off the old one and sure enough there's evidence of it shorting out.
  12. The wife is away in the Avensis looking at property near the Brecon beacons so I have got Boris the Morris or the faithful Granvia for getting about. I wanted to do a run to the tip so yesterday backed the Granvia up to the yard gates and noticed the battery x2 were low as it only just caught so I left it running while I loaded it up then parked it up again for a tip run today. Come today and the batteries haven't enough power to even work the central locking so after jumping it up again rand checking the charge (13.9 @ 25amps) there must be something draining it as both batteries tested ok. Sticking a meter on it shows a drain that goes from 4.5 amps down to 1.7 amps after a few mins. Back in my old RAC days I used to find a lot of high current drains were from naughty alternators so before pulling fuses I stuck my hand on the back of mine and it did feel a bit warm but didn't smell hot so I unbolted the battery charge cables from it a checked the drain again. That'll do nicely although I now need an Alternator.
  13. Dave at Mathewsons has started doing a weekly blog of what's going on at the site and he said very recently that many auction results lately are 20% down on post COVID (2021/22) results. Because they are online only now and not in the village hall they are trying out a midweek sale to see if it makes much difference as most old car botherers like to do car things at the weekends.
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