Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[beko1987]

Funny you should say that, I looked at my car properly for ages earlier. Didn't have to look hard... 

Need to drive to mums to get the pressure washer though. It can go greener for a while! 

[Six-cylinder]

Are dehumidifiers worth having, yes is the simple answer.

I have put the dehumidifier in the 200TE, 156 saloon and AX and got 250/300ml of water out of each in 7 hours using our night time electric rate. Last night Mrs6C put it in the C15 van as she had noticed it was damp in there and condensation often formed on the inside of the roof. This morning she had collected 900ml of water overnight!

Thanks @Zelandethfor helping us make this investment decision and choose a machine.

[beko1987]

I bet you could proof that knowing how many apples that things had in it

Bottle it as some fine liqueur 

[Mrs6C]

2 hours ago, beko1987 said:

I bet you could proof that knowing how many apples that things had in it

Bottle it as some fine liqueur 

Heck, I watered the indoor chilli plants and orchids with it! They might start sprouting apples!

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, beko1987 said:

I bet you could proof that knowing how many apples that things had in it

Bottle it as some fine liqueur 

during one of the one before last Autoshite Virtual FoD group Zoom call thingy

I had the suddenly realisation while others where talking about alcoholic beverages that you can ferment anything with sugar  in it (since its the sugars that the yeast etc want, does not matter what the sugar is in really)

which I really should of realised sooner since I have seen this video where someone makes moonshine out of toilet paper 

so I was suddenly curious what would happen if you tried to ferment something like tomatoes and what would the resulting drink be called

 

 

so your comment makes me wonder what would a drink made from Fermented C15 be called LOL

 

 

[beko1987]

18 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

during one of the one before last Autoshite Virtual FoD group Zoom call thingy

I had the suddenly realisation while others where talking about alcoholic beverages that you can ferment anything with sugar  in it (since its the sugars that the yeast etc want, does not matter what the sugar is in really)

which I really should of realised sooner since I have seen this video where someone makes moonshine out of toilet paper 

so I was suddenly curious what would happen if you tried to ferment something like tomatoes and what would the resulting drink be called

 

 

so your comment makes me wonder what would a drink made from Fermented C15 be called LOL

 

 

Whatever it was I bet it'd make a plastic glass go rusty... 

@hairnetcan have the first snifter!

[Talbot]

7 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Are dehumidifiers worth having, yes is the simple answer.

I'm assuming you both make sure that the car is as sealed as it can be when running the dehumidifier overnight?  If there's any air path into/out of the car, all you'll be doing is pulling water from ambient air.  The trick to drying a car out is to get the interior air down to about 20% RH, whereby it can then start pulling moisture out of carpets/doorcards/seats/anything else damp.

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, Talbot said:

I'm assuming you both make sure that the car is as sealed as it can be when running the dehumidifier overnight?  If there's any air path into/out of the car, all you'll be doing is pulling water from ambient air.  The trick to drying a car out is to get the interior air down to about 20% RH, whereby it can then start pulling moisture out of carpets/doorcards/seats/anything else damp.

All our car have rust holes, just some are larger than others!

[Mrs6C]

46 minutes ago, Talbot said:

If there's any air path into/out of the car, all you'll be doing is pulling water from ambient air. 

It may have pulled in a bit, but the inside was definitely a lot drier this morning! Usually we have our own cloud forest weather system going on in there... this morning it was all dry! We had lots of rain this afternoon though, so we'll give it another go...

[hairnet]

chris wees himself with excitement every time he drives it thats why

 

[Six-cylinder]

There is a Pheasant on the drive who has turned his back on the Beetle and is admiring the Mercedes 200TE!

[wuvvum]

That's dinner sorted.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

That's dinner sorted.

They do need to hang a while I think.

[GeorgeB]

4 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

There is a Pheasant on the drive who has turned his back on the Beetle and is admiring the Mercedes 200TE!

Pheasant has good taste (in more ways than one).

[Talbot]

Or, as a friend referrs to them:  A Funky Chicken.

[chaseracer]

In 1976, I won a signed Wurzels LP.

Yeah.

[hairnet]

some of us werent alive then

[High Jetter]

Some of us wish we hadn't been alive then!

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Some of us wish we hadn't been alive then!

I don’t remember - I was only 4.

[richardmorris]

7 hours ago, chaseracer said:

In 1976, I won a signed Wurzels LP.

Yeah.

Is this part of operation yewtree?

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

I don’t remember - I was only 4.

I feelz old. You musta heard of 'combine harvester' (ooh ah) though?

[brownnova]

10 hours ago, chaseracer said:

In 1976, I won a signed Wurzels LP.

Yeah.

I’ve seen the Wurzels live... it genuinely ranks as my second favourite gig! They were incredibly  entertaining! 

[chaseracer]

8 hours ago, brownnova said:

I’ve seen the Wurzels live...

Was it 'down in Nempnett Thrubwell'...?*

* "one church, three houses, one thousand seven hundred and forty eight pubs!"

[Mrs6C]

53 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Was it 'down in Nempnett Thrubwell'...?*

* "one church, three houses, one thousand seven hundred and forty eight pubs!"

Probably up the clump, I'd reckon...

[richardmorris]

16 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I feelz old. You musta heard of 'combine harvester' (ooh ah) though?

I like the wurzels, just that I don’t remember 1976 in any detail. I was bombing around in this.

[flat4alfa]

11 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Bonus Datsun 120Y content

In 1976 it would have been quite young.  Did it last?

[richardmorris]

26 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Bonus Datsun 120Y content

In 1976 it would have been quite young.  Did it last?

For a while. It was actually my grandads car he bought new - we don’t know why. But he died six months later, and my grandmother not driving my dad had it to replace the new Renault 4 which had just failed it’s first mot on rust. The Datsun went for its first service in my dad’s care and was told it needed a spare wheel as there wasn’t one, so after much argument because the car was less than a year old and never been looked at apart from the dealer they agreed to supply a wheel free of charge, but dad had to pay for a tyre. 

I did not like the Datsun as a small child - black vinyl seats and shorts were a horrible combination. It was a dark blue four door, but think that this is the only photo.  1977 it was replaced by a green dyane6.

[chaseracer]

19 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

...black vinyl seats and shorts were a horrible combination...

Yes indeed - and this 10yo remembers the summer of '76 as a particularly hot one!  Fortunately, on August 1st, the Owd Giffer traded the vinyl-clad L-reg Avenger 1500 for the posh brushed nylon of the 1600 Super in the list below...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

On 2/27/2021 at 10:02 AM, Six-cylinder said:

Sorry @Andyrew Jonny Smith with his V6 Allegro project has stolen your idea of bolting the front wings on instead of rewelding them (20:28).

 

 

Pity that couldn't be adopted for CX wings.

On 3/3/2021 at 9:01 AM, Six-cylinder said:

Are dehumidifiers worth having, yes is the simple answer.

I have put the dehumidifier in the 200TE, 156 saloon and AX and got 250/300ml of water out of each in 7 hours using our night time electric rate. Last night Mrs6C put it in the C15 van as she had noticed it was damp in there and condensation often formed on the inside of the roof. This morning she had collected 900ml of water overnight!

Thanks @Zelandethfor helping us make this investment decision and choose a machine.

Every car should have a dehumidifier. The moisture extracted can then water the houseplants.

[Six-cylinder]

A big thanks to @garycox for selling me the Toledo Radiator and carb for a very reasonable sum. Also a big thanks to @Talbot for transporting them for me while traveling on approved essential business.

Looking at the Lockdown rules it seems from the 29th March upto 6 people can meet outside and I would like to get a posse together at the FoD to assess what is needed for the Toledo and maybe paint rust primer on any bare metal.

Then from the 17 May gatherings of under 30 people outdoors will be legal so we can have our first FoD event.