Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[hairnet]

to swerve the footy theres scenic railway journeys on channel 4

north beriwck to edinburgh

time for a haircut

[hairnet]

train planning (rock and roll)

found a first class return frae dundee to newcastle 80 quid (on a wednesday)

hey fkit its something might only do once

@Saabnut frae laurencekirk it was 175 quid no way it costs that to get to dundee via montrose from their :P

worth the spin to dundee :D

depends on the weather and the eta of the smol honda frae nz

'donald whirs yir troosers'

[Saabnut]

Back home at 11pm after an easy, stress free run! Can we have a football match every weekend please.....

Thanks to all for a great weekend, good to catch up with old friends and to meet some new ones.

Bed now....

[High Jetter]

Traffic at 8pm was very light. Did @LightBulbFun get back during the window?

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Traffic at 8pm was very light. Did @LightBulbFun get back during the window?

I did indeed  I appreciate the checkup so to speak!

it went as planned with things being relatively free flowing and empty

so I was able to make good time and get from boarding my train at 8PM to just stepping through the home front door at few mins past 9PM  

utterly cream cracked tho hence why I have not posted anything till now, have been (and currently am) vegetating in bed enjoying a nice hot chocolate  

 

but was a good weekend as always!  

 

with many thanks to @Mrs6C and @Six-cylinder for hosting all of us, and especially thanks for putting with me and my probably awkward requirements! 

and to everyone else who put up with me and who fetched and brought various things to me so I could avoid having to get up from my chair! I only wish It had wheels so I could move about as the group did!

 

(one of the things I  did not quite think about/realise with sending REV away for fettling, is that I no longer had any means of transport around the FoD because I would use REV as well, an Mobility scooter to get around the place LOL)

 

and thanks to @catsinthewelder's for the little  hand held oscilloscope I look forward to playing with that one over the coming days and scoping out (literally LOL) the waveform of various lighting gear I have, get a chance to finally look at the current vs voltage waveforms of various forms discharge lighting and look at what the re-ignition peak voltages of them are  

 

 

and bonus shite picture of An locomotive at euston station for the trainshite people  

what tickled me about this one was at the other end of this passenger train was another locomotive but in freight transport livery, and it amused me to see that coupled to a passenger train,

theres a self loading cargo joke in there somewhere LOL

[davidfowler2000]

Left about 1715, home at 0055.

Stopped at Rugby with @Inspector Morose for dinner. Brand new service station so it'll be going on my shit services blog. Stopped at Trowell also for the sake of a review* so that'll be there too.

Stopped at Todhills to stretch the legs and check the car. Found a coolant weep at the thermostat housing and stuck some more oil in. There's some odd, bearingy, type noises coming from somewhere.

Finally, this photo for the benefit of Mr @Talbot. 405 miles since this morning's fill up. Previous fill was after 429 miles where the needle was just above R on the gauge. I'll get solid figures in the next day or two.

The run home was much less interrupted compared with southbound but the countryside HOON towards the end due to M74 closure should have made up for that.

[Inspector Morose]

Sod cars for a moment. I present - the people of Autoshite.

[Inspector Morose]

A few cars and ting.

[Inspector Morose]

A few more and it's tea time for me.

[richardmorris]

Is that a for sale sign in the Daimler window?

[Six-cylinder]

45 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Is that a for sale sign in the Daimler window?

No, an activity list.

[Fumbler]

2 hours ago, Inspector Morose said:

 

 

My favourite so far- @Talbot On A Mission With A Grease Gun Tyre Inflator

[davidfowler2000]

Just now, Fumbler said:

My favourite so far- @Talbot On A Mission With A Grease Gun

Tyre inflater

[Fumbler]

Just now, davidfowler2000 said:

Tyre inflater

Correctorated.

[richardmorris]

4 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

My favourite so far- @Talbot On A Mission With A Grease Gun Tyre Inflator

Have grease/ pump , will travel.

[Six-cylinder]

One of the jobs on my activity list was to exercise the AX, 306, 156 and 735i which are road legal and field exercise the Jinling and Trevi. 

[LightBulbFun]

Oh and many thanks for the lightbulb @Six-cylinder/ @Mrs6C  

Tis a miniature prefocus 6V 25W 25W dual filament bulb I think for use in the head lamp of a motorcycle or something such

from what I could see when I tried and failed to unwrap it at the FoD it looked like a Dual filament stop and tail lamp, so I was pleasantly surprised to see this more unusual lamp when I unwrapped it today  

[AnthonyG]

Many thanks as always to @Six-cylinderand @Mrs6C for hosting, @Inspector Morosefor the choice photographs. and, assisted by @davidfowler2000, the very enjoyable ‘Name that TV theme tune’ competition on Saturday evening. And everybody else for coming. 

 

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, AnthonyG said:

Many thanks as always to @Six-cylinderand @Mrs6C for hosting, @Inspector Morosefor the choice photographs. and, assisted by @davidfowler2000, the very enjoyable ‘Name that TV theme tune’ competition on Saturday evening. And everybody else for coming. 

 

Looks like you all had a good time.

[AnthonyG]

The theme tune competition certainly bought back memories. I got The Streets of San Francisco but totally missed It’ll be Alright on the Night! 

To prepare for the next one, you just have to watch ITV4 & Talking Pictures TV 24/7 for about three months. This is how @MondeoBlues did so well despite his comparative youth. 

[davidfowler2000]

4 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

The theme tune competition certainly bought back memories. I got The Streets of San Francisco but totally missed It’ll be Alright on the Night!

Considering you actually mentioned IBAOTN about 5 mins previous as well...

[MondeoBlues]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

 

 

If anyone's wondering about my facial expression here, this was taken just after I got my arse pounded by the Jinling with @catsinthewelder at the helm

[High Jetter]

Sorry, I don't know if you're driver or prisoner? Is there evidence of this 'arse pounding?' (sorry mrs6C)

[catsinthewelder]

Sorry @MondeoBlues , I didn't realise you'd sat down or I'd have hit that bump a bit slower 😯

 

Ace pictures @Inspector Morose and @Six-cylinder 

[High Jetter]

Duh, taken a while but think I figured it out now. It'll be alright, on the night. Allegedly.

[wuvvum]

2 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

the very enjoyable ‘Name that TV theme tune’ competition on Saturday evening.

That was a highlight of the weekend.  Although I still have "My Lovely Horse" stuck in my head.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

The theme tune competition certainly bought back memories. I got The Streets of San Francisco but totally missed It’ll be Alright on the Night! 

To prepare for the next one, you just have to watch ITV4 & Talking Pictures TV 24/7 for about three months. This is how @MondeoBlues did so well despite his comparative youth. 

Maybe for the next round, you could sing the theme tunes, which would make them far more difficult to guess if singing ability isn't anything to write home about....

[wuvvum]

48 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Maybe for the next round, you could sing the theme tunes, which would make them far more difficult to guess if singing ability isn't anything to write home about....

Between us I think we managed a surprisingly tuneful rendition of that well-loved classic song "Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Mushroom Mushroom".

[hairnet]

Crazy man on nights at work who has a slightly later 7 series same as @fatharrisin nice Nick just sold this back to his son

Isn't yours the same colour @Six-cylinder

begins with L and mentions silver???

39k miles

[Six-cylinder]

Ours is Luxor Beige Met, paint code 219

Not a great colour but ok in the evening sunshine.

The two car are very close on age ours was registered 19-02-88 and fatharris 1-3-88