Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[richardmorris]

4 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

Ah, I can send you home with Winter Squash seeds!

I’ve even got my ( CAMRA) colleague searching his store for plastic pint glasses!

[Mrs6C]

5 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I’ve even got my ( CAMRA) colleague searching his store for plastic pint glasses!

Just go buy more tasty treats from Waitrose! Those clear plastic containers are a perfect fit for a 6" plant pot!

[Zelandeth]

Sadly with no signs of a vaccination appointment even on the horizon yet I'm afraid I'll have to miss this one.  Until that's been done and is behind me by a few weeks it just feels the responsible thing to do to me. 

Yes I'm probably being paranoid, it's in my nature to be cautious though.

[richardmorris]

5 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

Just go buy more tasty treats from Waitrose! Those clear plastic containers are a perfect fit for a 6" plant pot!

That sounds like a request! I only buy them for you when I visit!

[Mrs6C]

2 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

That sounds like a request! I only buy them for you when I visit!

Oh go on then & I'll donate you the containers back! I still have four of them from last year!

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, Mrs6C said:

Oh go on then & I'll donate you the containers back! I still have four of them from last year!

Don’t worry, if I stop by on the way to oxford I can bring up goodies and drop the seeds off with my brother in law to handle. He has a cloche thing for seeds before planting out.

[Heidel_Kakao]

I will be down on Saturday for the day, planning to arrive at 10:00.

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

You do like living dangerously! Have you seen her with the agricultural implements?

no problem - every time she sees me she gets wine or chocolate :D (so does chris :D )

 

[hairnet]

if only the trains were running (bh they never do)

not driving 3.5 hours to be there 3 hours :P

ahh well

 

[Slowsilver]

Quicksilver & I can come on Sunday, weather permitting. See my PM.
 

[Six-cylinder]

There is still plenty of room for more visitors if anybody wants to visit.

Friday - I am hoping IanBMW will fit a coil to the green Range Rover. I also have to move some cars in storage off site.

Saturday - Heidel_Kakao 

Sunday - Slowsilver, Quicksilver and hopefully Andyrew if the MX5 works.

Monday - I now think it will be too cold to want to be at the FoD

[Talbot]

There is also the consideration of course that you could have up to 6 people in one area of the FoD, and another 6 people some 200m away in another bit of the FoD.

... and I don't mean that in a "here's a handy loophole to exploit", just that the FoD is plenty large enough that there could easily be more than one group there.

[Six-cylinder]

On 4/1/2021 at 12:59 PM, Talbot said:

There is also the consideration of course that you could have up to 6 people in one area of the FoD, and another 6 people some 200m away in another bit of the FoD.

... and I don't mean that in a "here's a handy loophole to exploit", just that the FoD is plenty large enough that there could easily be more than one group there.

I did run the numbers though my calculator and without the rule of 6 we could accommodate 12,000 people all 2m apart in all directions!  

[Talbot]

Was that with a square grid of people or a triangular grid?

[Six-cylinder]

7 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Was that with a square grid of people or a triangular grid?

Square grid

or we could set up for household groups.

[Andyrew]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Sunday - Slowsilver, Quicksilver and hopefully Andyrew if the MX5 works.

If more than six are there before me ill just park on the road and shout "its f**cked m8" over the hedges. 

 

 

[Six-cylinder]

There is plenty of space on Saturday for more visitors.

[Six-cylinder]

What started Quiz! Answers at 10PM

Today I had to move some cars around that were in storage and there were 3 not mine that had to be moved. These cars have all been unmoved since last December. The question is what started on the turn off a key, what needed a jump, what was a pain and what never started?

1984 Range Rover

Citroen Visa Cabriolet

E36 BMW 323i Coupe

Peugeot 306 Cabriolet

MGF

Lancia Trevi

Citroen ZX

Lotus Elam M100

[Andyrew]

Id go with 

1984 Range Rover JUMP

Citroen Visa Cabriolet STARTED

E36 BMW 323i Coupe STARTED

Peugeot 306 Cabriolet JUMP

MGF NON START

Lancia Trevi PAIN

Citroen ZX STARTED

Lotus Elam M100 NON STARTER

[Six-cylinder]

Answers to what started today

1984 Range Rover – was parked battery disconnected and started with some churning when reconnected

Citroen Visa Cabriolet - started easily with a jump – one flat tyre

E36 BMW 323i Coupe - started easily with a jump

Peugeot 306 Cabriolet - started easily with a jump – two flat tyres

MGF - started easily with a jump

Lancia Trevi – was parked battery disconnected and no amount of churning would get it going and we had to push it around

Citroen ZX – Flat battery and the jump pack was low so would not start. It had upset the alarm and was not keen to jump from a Land Rover. It could have been the alarm we reset that got it going although the immobiliser is keypad and showed green when the number was entered.

Lotus Elan M100 – broken when it went in and still broken 4 months later.

[Six-cylinder]

If you visit beware of the Wererabbit! 

[RichardK]

That's just a cat with rabbit ears on!

[Crackers]

12 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Lotus Elan

 

12 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

broken

Unheard of. 

[Mrs6C]

22 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

If you visit beware of the Wererabbit! 

The good news is that this fine creature is a hare...

The bads news is that the rabbits at the FoD are that size as well!

[Heidel_Kakao]

I am still too lazy to walk to the toilet 😀

[hairnet]

evel knievel 🤣

[Six-cylinder]

FoD first cut of the season. 

[Six-cylinder]

Full restoration! 

 

[hairnet]

christopher youre a madman

 

[Six-cylinder]

Today was mainly about the Carlton and it started very well. We added antifreeze, did a few test laps of the field and it drove just fine. Unfortunately it then stated to get hot and pushed water out of the radiator overflow pipe. Checking it had added water to the oil so probably a blown head gasket.

@Andyrew also checked for rust on the driver’s side rear chassis as this was an advisory at the last MOT. The bad news is there is rust the good news it is accessible to repair it.

So this is how it rewarded us for washing it!