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On 24/10/2023 at 16:06, Wilko220 said:

Give him a big hand! 😁

The man from del monte with the mike is Jeremy Beadle.

On 14/10/2023 at 19:56, chaseracer said:

What's that impressive example of mid-century Modernism?  (Not the Transit...!)

Google images reveals it to be the Tivoli concert hall in Copenhagen.

Milk crate and a choke cable for a hand throttle. 😁

18 hours ago, Muniphobia said:

Kazakhstan's Martin Scorsese in  a landaulette GAZ Chaika?

It's a men's shed, but cars only. Start your own.

Has the code expired or am I DOING IT RONG?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03212-1

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A 21-year-old computer-science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which had been unreadable since a volcanic eruption in AD 79 — the same one that buried nearby Pompeii. The breakthrough could open up hundreds of texts from the only intact library to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity.

Luke Farritor, who is at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, developed a machine-learning algorithm that has detected Greek letters on several lines of the rolled-up papyrus, including πορϕυρας (porphyras), meaning ‘purple’. Farritor used subtle, small-scale differences in surface texture to train his neural network and highlight the ink.

4 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Royal Signals doing stupid things on Triumphs.

On 11/10/2023 at 17:43, HillmanImp said:

"Hi, I'm looking for a new dress to wear on the telly" 

"Sure, what kind of thing are you looking for?" 

"Hmm, something that looks like the trim out of a 1990s mid range family car please" 

"I got you fam" 

They were sufficiently posh that Armstrong seemed working class, perhaps they were looking for University Challenge and got lost?

12 hours ago, goosey said:

Happy Friday the 13th 

be careful out there…..

A widowmaker; anything else bent?

On 10/6/2023 at 2:01 PM, MiniMinorMk3 said:

1976 Alfa Romeo New Yoik Taxi Concept by Ital Design

Looks like a cross between an Espace and a Toyota Space Cruiser, probably influenced both.

Shades of the Lucas electric hack.

On 10/4/2023 at 6:59 PM, GeordieInExile said:

It's back. It's had a four wheel alignment as well. Result - no warning lights and a far nicer drive. £560 all in. The mechanic thinks a full suspension fluid change should help the ride along but the garage won't touch the job, which is fair enough tbf.

How difficult can it be? Undo the octopus and put it in a bucket, run the thing and top the tank up as it goes while a glamorous assistant does some citroen aerobics?

I'm liking that the legend on the hand brake release looks like it's been cobbled up with a dymo printer and also the antediluvian suspension that has eleventy grease points.

High attrition rate or just a small class?

12 hours ago, inconsistant said:

Fly tipping is a bit of a nightmare along the lanes around us but this flytipping made me do a lol.

 

 

AS car transporter trailer kit; some self-disassembly needed. @sdkrc

DIY V bought hydragas fluid seems as contentious an issue as grease V oil in landrover swivels.

On 9/30/2023 at 9:31 PM, egg said:

What's the bike?

Google sez 1957 Cushman Road King.

11 minutes ago, georgeinabz said:

I was thinking more former AG , Dominic Grieve

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Dunno; does he own a Nissan Bluebird? 🤪

5 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Nissan Bluebird? 

Wobbed up Daimler

Pretty sure Coombs never made their special arches out of polyester and chicken wire.

Presumably some kind of australian confection. 1350 BINs, weegieland

Maybe worth trying caustic soda, test it on the inside first in case it attacks the plastic.

It's a hydraulic system and in theory needs to not have debris in the fluid BECAUSE BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN; fluid velocity in a brake system is zero and ptfe tape is as flimsy as cheap bogroll, so any hypothetical blockage is pretty unlikely. It can cause problems in powered hydraulics, clogging filters and sensors and preventing non-return valves from closing.

Adventures in a Dustbuster; to be continued!

12 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

I have a MitiVac sucky-sucky bleeder and on some cars it will pull air around the threads (as stated), a bit of PTFE tape can help that but I think it's frowned on? 

No reason for it to be frowned on as long as it's just on the thread and not on the end, it's the point that does the sealing; I have used a smear of grease or hylomar in the past.

36 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

The heretic in me says GOOD.

I like the idea of them but I'm concerned it might be a disappointment due to the extra weight; shame as there's no reason a properly designed GRP shell should weigh more than the standard body.  A modern copy that wasn't an overweight lump of lard might be something that could find buyers. When I win the lottery I'll make one and it can sit alongside a copy of that wooden thing built by Friend Wood.

The Royal Marines had some of those for trundling around the jungle.

11 hours ago, martc said:

The 1961 P100 Paloma prototype was proposed as the new Trabant but the project was abandoned in favour of the 601, the Trabant we all know and love*.

 

Proposed to be a Wartburg as well; front engined as a Trabi and rear engine as a Warti? 🤔