Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[hairnet]

all kinds of weird howling /crocodiledundee2 roadworks

im coming in from a5 and it says deanshanger to main road down sixcyls road then round the back

it will let you come from the town but then still takes you down six cyls road

 

[Mrs6C]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

What’s up with the road closed signs on google maps? Both ends of the lane and great Horwood?

The A421 road is closed for water mains repair between Great Horwood roundabout and the turn for Singleborough. The various side roads have been a zoo with people trying to take short cuts, so they are being closed and/or signposted as closed to traffic apart for local access.

[beko1987]

Yes mum was mentioning that last night. I've got to go to theirs Friday too, we might be meeting in mk instead

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, Mrs6C said:

The A421 road is closed for water mains repair between Great Horwood roundabout and the turn for Singleborough. The various side roads have been a zoo with people trying to take short cuts, so they are being closed and/or signposted as closed to traffic apart for local access.

its gonna be great when the "big move" is happening as all the out of towners that are getting ferreted down weird side roads are going to they have fallen through a temporal wormhole, with about 45?~, 1930's-1980's cars running around the place LOL

[beko1987]

Get @LightBulbFunto set up his most violently bright bulb in the middle of the field atop a mast and let it guide people to the FoD regardless of what random road they accidentally go down.

Sure the generator would love it... 

[LightBulbFun]

30 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Get @LightBulbFunto set up his most violently bright bulb in the middle of the field atop a mast and let it guide people to the FoD regardless of what random road they accidentally go down.

Sure the generator would love it... 

haha you joke, but I do genuinely want to bring some of my most powerful lamps to the FoD and light them up at night in the middle of the paddock/field, I can imagine it looking quite cool/surreal, this massively bright light in the middle of an empty large open space, like some really luminous shrine! 

 

I also have these beasts, but specifically the one in the middle

which is a 1000w CID lamp, (Compact Source Iodine Daylight), outputting a mighty 85000 lumens in an incredible *8* degree beam (to half intensity), you can literally set fire to things at short range with this bastard   

I mean the pictures really dont it just justice, but heres a couple anyhow! 

I am really quite pleased of this close up picture i managed to take of the arc tube at full power, (even if it meant melting my face to take it) to think theres 1000W in that tiny arc gap!

just bonkers! as you can imagine its quite hot running, heres a just after pulling power shot  

I understand that @davidfowler2000has a rather beefy inverter setup so if I can devise some control gear for this beast that does not literally weigh 15Kg then yeah I am totally bringing it to the FoD at some point to send morse code messages to the ISS as it goes overhead! 

(or at least I want to point it out the window here at home and see how far the beam goes!)

 

 

and if out-and-out lumen output is what you want, then I have the setup to run *2* of these 2000W Metal halide lamps 

who's combined output would be almost half a million lumens! (400,000-440,000) to give you some perspective, your ordinary 100W lightbulb outputs 1320 lumens...

 

but you would need a 5000W mains supply, and I dont think the FoD quite has that! but its probably only a matter of time before @Six-cylinder helps himself to some sort of 6 cylinder diesel generator he saw being flogged cheap somewhere

[beko1987]

12 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

haha you joke, but I do genuinely want to bring some of my most powerful lamps to the FoD and light them up at night in the middle of the paddock/field, I can imagine it looking quite cool/surreal, this massively bright light in the middle of an empty large open space, like some really luminous shrine! 

 

I also have these beasts, but specifically the one in the middle

which is a 1000w CID lamp, (Compact Source Iodine Daylight), outputting a mighty 85000 lumens in an incredible *8* degree beam (to half intensity), you can literally set fire to things at short range with this bastard   

I mean the pictures really dont it just justice, but heres a couple anyhow! 

I am really quite pleased of this close up picture i managed to take of the arc tube at full power, (even if it meant melting my face to take it) to think theres 1000W in that tiny arc gap!

just bonkers! as you can imagine its quite hot running, heres a just after pulling power shot  

I understand that @davidfowler2000has a rather beefy inverter setup so if I can devise some control gear for this beast that does not literally weigh 15Kg then yeah I am totally bringing it to the FoD at some point to send morse code messages to the ISS as it goes overhead! 

(or at least I want to point it out the window here at home and see how far the beam goes!)

 

 

and if out-and-out lumen output is what you want, then I have the setup to run *2* of these 2000W Metal halide lamps 

who's combined output would be almost half a million lumens! (400,000-440,000) to give you some perspective, your ordinary 100W lightbulb outputs 1320 lumens...

 

but you would need a 5000W mains supply, and I dont think the FoD quite has that! but its probably only a matter of time before @Six-cylinder helps himself to some sort of 6 cylinder diesel generator he saw being flogged cheap somewhere

Could you wire all of the cars he hopes to have there in series or something safe* sounding like that for a few minutes of illumination? 

[Six-cylinder]

Turned out to be to be quite a good day.

I finished cleaning and painting the Manta air filter box.

I was thinking whether to go to the FoD in the afternoon to put the headlight in Error 404 but was wavering when a non AS friend called to say he wanted to meet me up there so I had to go. That proved useful because in spite of the usual trials and tribulations the 404 now has two working headlights. The only bit is the sidelight/indicator lens needs glueing back together before being refitted.

Then @Andyrewcame to collect his Spitfire and can't help himself being useful. Along with minor stuff he poured oil into the bores of the Herald 1200 Coupe in preparation to get the engine to turn.

@Prince_of_darkness91also came up to say hi and helped with the 404.

 

 

 

[Six-cylinder]

If anybody has concerns on how the road works near us might affect them for visiting the FoD please PM me rather than write it on open forum.

[High Jetter]

I do like that 404 front end.

[Six-cylinder]

13 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I do like that 404 front end.

I like the whole car and was up there this morning and took an indulgent photo.

Does anybody at the weekend fancy giving it a quick rub down and brush painting it with the grey primer to get it looking smarter. I just don't fancy driving it around multi coloured?

 

[hairnet]

Clear. Obvs.

[beko1987]

Autoshite beige

[hairnet]

Was it shock when you went to the home that the caddy was the most reliable unreliable car there............

[chaseracer]

I like painting stuff. 

Here's one I did* earlier...

 

[hairnet]

44 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

I like painting stuff. 

Here's one I did* earlier...

 

 

thats just clumsy ya aul feart

[Six-cylinder]

This afternoon was a FoD preparation day.

Today was mowing day and @Slowsilvercame over to help. With so many distinguished guests expected at the weekend we made extra effort  and moved 3 trailers, the SJ, and CF to mow under them. Instrestly our field only use Astra van started straight up after months and we used it to pull a trailer. It just did not have enough traction to pull the CF and the Range Rover had to do that.

Please come at the weekend and inspect our grass cutting!

[BL Bloke]

I'm planning on coming down on Saturday. I can do some painting on the 404 if needed. 

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

 

BEAST

[dozeydustman]

On 04/08/2023 at 09:21, hairnet said:

 

Oh, so that’s what you look like! 🤪

[Six-cylinder]

If we have dry weather this weekend the plan is to photograph our collection in the FoD. 

Do come and join us, PM me for details.

Cars to be driven to the FoD for photos Range Rover TDV6 Vogue blue Mercedes E320 Coupe blue Citroen BX GTi red Fiat Seicento Active Lt blue BMW 330Ci blue MG Metro Silver Citroen Visa 17RD Blue Cadillac Eldorado Coupe Gold  Maserati  425 Bi Turbo saloon Blue met Mercedes 200TE blue Citroen AX 14TRS blue met Citroen Xantia Activa red met Citroen  XM SX 2.0 16v Auto Red met Volvo V70 T5 gold Citroen  ZX 1.9TD Avantage Estate Red Alfa Romeo 156 Sportswagon Veloce Silver Citroen Visa Special 652cc white BMW 3.0 S White Citroen DS D Super white Citroen  GS brown Jaguar  E Type red Daimler Sovereign S1 white Daimler Sovereign S2 white MGB GT Green Triumph  Vitesse white Lancia Gamma White Ferrari 308GT4 black Citroen Ami 8 break white Triumph  Toledo 4 door maroon Lancia Trevi 2.0 silver Citroen LNA Inca Gold Rolls Royce 20/25 blue/black Fiat Seicento Active Lt blue   Cars at FoD that can be driven or towed into position for photos   Vauxhall Carlton 2.0i Club Estate red Triumph  Herald 1200 Coupe blue/white AC Invacar blue Vauxhall Royale 2.8 Auto blue Saab 95 blue Peugeot  404 blue Bedford CF Transporter red Citroen C15D Van white Vauxhall Astravan Sportive blue Alfa Giulietta 2.0 red

[hairnet]

mmmm visa

308 would be nice to have look round

never had a go of a turbo xud..........

[AnthonyG]

Mmmm Cadillac!

What’s happening on Friday? I have the day off so can be about from the mid-afternoon onward. 

I will also bring that 1980s Blaupunkt Melbourne radio/cassette with me, we can try it in something to see if it is alive.

Was it the Metro you wanted the period radio for? 

[hairnet]

11 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

I have the day off 

dont turn up in the jag 😛

[AnthonyG]

Just praying for decent weather now. 

[Six-cylinder]

23 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

Mmmm Cadillac!

What’s happening on Friday? I have the day off so can be about from the mid-afternoon onward. 

I will be about Friday afternoon and we may move a few cars if it is dry.

I also have to collect the Cadillac from Milton Keynes.

[Crackers]

Not sure if I can be of help with moving much stuff from storage unless the temporary cover people have become a bit more flexible on vehicle age. The only things that might work would be the 330ci, 156, V70 and Rangey - not sure what age any of those other than the RR are though. Happy to ferry people around, though. 

[LightBulbFun]

13 minutes ago, Crackers said:

Not sure if I can be of help with moving much stuff from storage unless the temporary cover people have become a bit more flexible on vehicle age. The only things that might work would be the 330ci, 156, V70 and Rangey - not sure what age any of those other than the RR are though. Happy to ferry people around, though. 

in my poking of their system Veygo will quote pretty much anything younger then 40 years old, which lines up with their eligibility requirements mentioned online, anything older does get recognised but automatically rejected

the oldest of @Six-cylinder cars I am able to get a quote on (from a brief selection, a couple weeks back) was the LNA amusingly  although thats technically slightly over 40 years old, so would it still be covered? 

(normally anything over 40 years old gets recognised but rejected, but the LNA it will happily quote me on and looks like I could indeed purchase temporary cover for it which tickles me )

[Crackers]

8 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

will quote pretty much anything younger then 40 years old,

In my experience using their app you can usually get a quote but an error message comes up on the last screen before payment and you can't go any further. The oldest car I've insured was 20 years, but I haven't tried anything older recently as I've had no cause to. 

[bobdisk]

My current insurance for the BMW covers for "3rd party driving another vehicle" Its Esure.  Some time ago I got  a short term insurance when I borrowed a friend's van to bring a motorcycle to the FOD. It only cost a couple of quid for a day. Think it might have been LVE. There were no special conditions,  I just used the company I had then for the BMW.