davidfowler2000

I've just went on to the Hagerty facebook page and sent them a message asking what the script is

Cannot. Working. Many sads.

Indeed. One of my instructors, or trainer if you will, was called Des Traynor.

Indeed. She was one of my trainees.

Edit: Holy shit this is longer than I anticipated... Finally home and in a position to write something here. I had a diversion at the end to take WOMAN_df2K home and drop the trailer at hers to be collected at another time. She had a good time despite seemingly having chronic hayfever all weekend. And being damp... although I think we were all pretty soggy all weekend. We were pretty tired on the Friday owing to having no sleep on the Thursday night due to working a late shift. Thanks again to @Sunny Jimfor organising and Ted the site owner for accomodating us, @binhoker668for providing ample shelter and one of the mystery prizes to the quiz, @Ghostyfor providing the other mystery prize and everyone for being a generally good egg. A few new faces, lots of old faces so I won't bother to mention everyone. The TV Theme Quiz : We had a great turnout for the TV Theme quiz and we got exactly what we wanted - everyone to go "AHHHH FUCK WHAT IS THAT AGAIN?!?!?!?!" - so thanks to everyone who took part, myself and @cms206put a good amount of thought in to it and it was very enjoyable seeing the looks of sheer confusion on everyone's faces! The results were as follows and the answers are at the end for anyone bored enough to go back through it... 1st Place : @rml2345 - 23 points. The prize being a bottle of Irn Bru 1901 You'd think it was a fix a fellow SVM member winning the 1st place until you realise a diabetic man won the bottle of ultra-sugar Irn Bru. 2nd Place : @BL Bloke - 17 points (Tied) : The prize was to chose one of the mystery prizes and he chose binhoker's which was a Goodmans Car Stereo Cassette Player. 3rd Place : @Talbot - 17 points (Tied) : The prize was the remaining mystery one - Ghosty's - a nodding dog. The tie breaker was the first to call out a played theme tune - Blockbusters And everyone else: @Ghosty - 15 points @mat_the_cat - 13 points @AnthonyG - 13 points @Supernaut - 11 points @davehedgehog31 - 10 points @brownnova - 10 points @captain_70s - 9 points @MrsJuular - 8 points @Sunny Jim - 8 points @wuvvum - 7 points @EightMegs - 5 points @Six-cylinder - 4 points And a special mention to @3VOMwho came last with 3 points winning a block of Rawl Plugs. The answers: Round 1 - Kids TV 1 - Fireman Sam 2 - Doctor Who? 3 - Thundercats 4 - The Littlest Hobo 5 - Live and Kicking Bonus - Peter Davison Round 2 - Reality TV 1 - Big Brother 2 - Ground Force 3 - Changing Rooms 4 - The Clothes Show 5 - Tarrant on TV Bonus - Pet Shop Boys - In The Night Round 3 - Classic Comedy 1 - Bottom 2 - 2 point 4 Children 3 - The Brittas Empire 4 - Men Behaving Badly 5 - The Thin Blue Line Bonus - 2 and 5 by the same artist Round 4 - Game Shows 1 - Strike it Lucky 2 - A Question of Sport 3 - The Crystal Maze 4 - You Bet! 5 - Telly Addicts Bonus - Bruce Forsyth, Matthew Kelly, Darren Day Round 5 - Worldwide 1 - Murder She Wrote (We knew @rml2345would know this one so we also accepted his answer of "Murdered Tae Fuck in Cabot Cove") 2 - Quincy M.E. 3 - Knight Rider 4 - Knots Landing 5 - Airwolf Bonus - Cabot Cove Round 6 - General Knowledge 1 - Masterchef 2 - GM:TV 3 - Did You See 4 - Bugs 5 - Top Gear Thanks again to all who played, it was great fun. Now for the photo dump... I finished work at about 2100 but Sarah was booked on 'till about 0045. Instead of getting taxi back to the station to finish, I collected her at the depot and took her home where the trailer was parked. We got to bed about 0130 to be up at 0445 to do the drive. Corkerhill Depot in the dark Next morning at 0600, SCOTOSHITE ASSEMBLE!!! We went via the British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland @cms206 became The Pope™ for a brief spell... Saturday at the plane museum @rml2345seemed at home WOMAN_df2k, @juularand @MrsJuular couldn't get comfy in a helicopter @Six-cylindertried his hand at aircraft control I need this... The Quiz Sheet Finally home after dropping Sarah and the trailer. Managed this...

This will happen at some point also. Probably Saturday evening. 1st prize is a bottle of Irn Bru 1901. I am currently being informed there may be some other MYSTERY PRIZES being donated. Team entries will be allowed but you'll have to split the prizes.

Scotland are doing multiple convoys as far as I know. The mentalists amoung us will be leaving home about 0530, Tebay breakfast, then Leyland Commercial Vehicle Museum and then...

Planes for me plz on Saturday

I am also swithering with a run up the Great Orme

To clarify... SVM Industries breakfast will be rolls and square sausage with or without potato scone. Sauce is your responsibilty. As mentioned it will be first come first served with a few held back for ourselves and close friends. Estimate 20 rolls and slice will be available for general grabs. @Sunny Jim I shall also be bringing WOMAN_df2k if exact numbers are required. Correct monies will be supplied. Put us both down for Sunday brekkie at the bakehouse. Myself and @cms206are also planning a TV Theme quiz for one of the evenings for a bit of a giggle seeing a random TV theme appreciation was much enjoyed at the field of dreams last year. First prize will be a bottle of Irn Bru 1901 (full max sugar edition).

Lots happening recently but first... trains. CHONKY BREAKS M9 Right so the 205 has been demanding attention recently. First of all, the wheel bolts were truly making my piss itch so I got new ones. It has also had an oil leak for a while looking like the drain plug on the sump so I went and got a nerw sump, oil and filter. Then the alternator died. Running about 11.8v and pushing about 1 amp at the very most. Ordered up an alternator and while it was arriving at the factor, I took the regulator off and decided to try and source another. The old one looked healthy* A new one ordered from autodoc to try. I only had a week to take the new alternator back to the factor because it was special order. New one arrived by Hermes. Thanks* Looks right Turns out it wasn't quite the same as on the old one the mounting screws were quite sunk in, the new one has them flush with the body but some longer bolts were easily used Startup... Baws. I gave it a rev and it jumped to 13.6v and the clamp meter read 30 amps. Yay! Drove home, idle was 13.3v. Hmm not great. A few days later, the battery was still at 11.8v and it BARELY started. Drove to the lockup then to WOMAN_df2k's place and the idle voltage was at 13.2v. Nah that's fuckt M6 so it was time to try deploying the new alternator... The battle was won... The rain was threatening... But... Never seen it that high with the old unit so that's a win. The next day I decided to go over to @captain_70s to assist with the Dolomite's new engine... ...but instead blagged the ramps and some tools to do the sump. It took far too long and it still leaks variously. I'm hoping a good degrease and wash will reveal where. May be the oil filter housing. Who knows. The Chrailer tl;dr at the end. More trailer electrical tinkerings. The recent trip to Arisaig and the Field of Daves Dreams showed that the solar panel was very competent at creating magic pixies but the battery had the potential to be easily drained. On the Saturday of the FoD I had to ration the kettle as the battery had went flat and it was still too early to make any real power from solar. An upgrade then? The leisure battery I had in there was a 70Ah sealed lead acid (SLA). Problem with SLAs is that they are only good for about 50% discharge so in reality I was only getting 35Ah (factory numbers so probably more like 25 - 30). Cue a replacement lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) unit. The problem though is that the trailer is wired so that the battery is charged from 1 - Mains via the inverter, 2 - Solar, 3 - The car while driving. Now 1 and 2 are fine, both the solar MPPT controller and inverter charger have lithium profiles in the software but car alternators are designed to charge SLAs which is fine to directly connect the SLA battery to the 12V output of the tow bar but that's not going to work for lithium. Much googling later, it turned out I had to install a DC - DC charger which would take the ~14.3 off the car and regulate the current and voltage for lithium charging. To be honest I should have used this setup for the SLA to get the best charge but, meh. I chose a Renogy 100Ah LiFePO4 battery with a bluetooth module. LiFe batteries at 90% discharge so in theory I should get up to 90Ah (probably 85) rather than the 25 - 30 I was getting from the SLA from a unit that was the same size in all dimensions except 18mm longer. So that means I now have 4 bluetooth modules in the trailer to monitor power - Solar, Inverter, DC-DC and the battery itself. The 3 chargers are all Victron so all use the same app which is nice but the battery has it's own. Sake. Cue some rewiring. Old battery out The Solar charger can have it's charge profile changed in the app via bluetooth but the inverter uses dip switches so it needed set up before the battery was properly installed After that it was just a case of pulling out most of the 12V system in the electrical cupboard and repositioning everything to get it all to fit. Then it was just a case of connect all the red wires together and all the black ones together. I also rationalised some of the wiring and dispensed with the split charge relay in the trailer. Now both the constant and switched 12V from the car are commoned in the trailer and the DC-DC deals with isolation of the trailer and car 12V systems... All in, it's very cozy in there. Big test will be Shitefest but I did do a kettle boil (500ml) to see if it performed and it took 6% (yes, six) out the battery so things are already looking better. The DC-DC works well as does the solar. Took it back to my parents' at 100% state of charge. Nice. Will need to somehow drain it so I can pull huge amount of power via solar and have somewhere to put it. tl;dr The trailer battery was pants. Got a lithium one for more power and had to rewire everything. Is much goodlier.

Mr cms206 is taking his V70 2.0d and I *may* take my V70 T6 in lieu of the 205 for towing. So either take the V70 to make a trio. Or don't take it because there will be plenty there anyways.

Ah yes the only Scotoshitefest. That was quite a good one.

The guys in the computing museum didn't but to be fair they were mainly focused on the machines that they had. Although sort of part of the Bletchley Campus, they are a separate entity with their own admission fee. They are not there to tell the story of code breaking but did it anyways and did it better than the Bletchley museum. I dare say a guided tour of Bletchley may have yielded better results than wandering about ourselves. I was aware that the Poles had got in to Enigma first and I do remember reading something about the Bomba machine(s) in Bletchley but I can't remember the details.

A jolly good weekend. Good company as usual. THE_SCHTCH weren't to be seen during the days we were there because we went to Bletchley park to learn about code breaking. We went to Bletchley on the Friday and the National Museum of Computing on the Saturday. Having now been to both I would say that, even ignoring the entry prices, don't bother with the main Bletchley Park. Go do the Computing Museum. The staff are much more informative if you get the talk on The Bombe, The Tunny and Collossus. I learned way more listening to those guys about how they broke the Enigma and Lorenz cyphers than all the reading I done at Bletchley. WOMAN_df2k also enjoyed herself and even learned some car stuff, mostly in the electrics department thanks to WOMAN_ @juular. We went home via the M1 / A1 / A66 / M6 / A74(M) / M74 and were treated to an utterly spectacular sunset at Brough summit. The photo just looks like lens flare but no that's how it looked to the eye.

Willing to have a look. No guarantees etc

I am quite looking forward to this now.

Today's experimentations included some EXTREMELY exciting* times. More home luxuries for the trailer...

Experiments. Videos to follow.

Required rest day swap at work achieved. Thanks Stevie. Thevie.

Just a couple of proper camera pics from the latest trip. Just a wee one nighter at Invercaimbe Camp Site near Arisaig. Pre-flight checks The Rest and Be Thankful, A82 Invercaimbe Camp Site and silver sand coral beach Notes for my own future reference: Trailer hubs fit neither 50, 51 or 52mm caps. Had to get a 50-51 and flare it out a bit with the help of a heat gun. Trailer NS suspension has drooped giving the trailer a noticable but not too significant lean. Suspension units are Knott Avonride 550KG Extended Shaft C77102.003/004 cheapest from Western Towing. Solar power peaked at 207W on the Friday. Peak generated was 470Wh on the Sunday. Trip was 421 miles from my parents' just outside Glasgow, to my house, to WOMAN_df2k's house in another bit of just outside Glasgow to Invercaimbe (towing) to Mallaig / Invercaimbe (not towing) then back to WOMAN_df2k to my house back to parents'. Average mpg was 43.9. The route north was wiggly - Glasgow - Dumbarton - Loch Lomond - Faslane via The Haul Road - Garelochead - Arrochar - Inveraray - Connel Bridge - Fort William - Invercaimbe. Southbound was much more direct via Fort William, Glencoe, Crianlarich and Tarbet. ---ENDS---

1) Sunny Jim - off site - Sunday Breakfast 2) Binhoker668 - Both nights camping - Sunday Breakfast3) HillmanImp - Both nights camping - Sunday Breakfast4) Ghosty - Both nights camping - Sunday Breakfast5) HorribleMercedes - Both nights camping - Sunday Breakfast6) Jim Bell - Off site - No breakfast7) MondeoBlues - Saturday night camping - Sunday Breakfast8 Catsinthewelder - Both nights camping - Sunday Breakfast (1 to 4)9) Aldo135 - Both nights camping - Sunday Breakfast x410) AnnoyingPentium - Both nights camping - Sunday Breakfast - TBC11) Brownnova: both nights camping plus square breakfastage12) Captain_70s - Both nights camping, Sunday breakfast13) cms206 - two nights camping, all of the food14) julaars - two people, two nights, all of the food15) Talbot - all of the everything16) DaveQ + 2 Davelets - two nights camping17) Back_For_More + Boy - two nights, all of the food18) Flat4 - two arriving for Sunday breakfast 19) EightMegs - Two nights, Sunday Breakfast 20) davidfowler2000 - Friday night and Saturday night in the trailer. Friday scran. Saturday scran. Sunday breakfast scran. ALL THE SCRAN. Saturday breakfast provided by SVM Catering as usual. ***Limited supplies***.

This free leccy from the sun is quite good

Invercaimbe camp site

Minor holiday. Inc Mr @juular