Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

7,730 · July 10, 2021

30 minutes ago, Snake Charmer said:

Looks like a good meeting, I'm officially jealous so I will have to post photos from Goodwood tomorrow while I enjoy my FREE ticket!

Thanks to @Talbot and @Crackers for the efforts to pick up the tyres for @Floatylight, much appreciated. 👍

Nice to meet you, enjoy the Festival of S~~peed~~hite

19,701 · July 10, 2021

this meat shoulda been called group sorbie meet

floaty

chris

tony g

richard k (ish)

mr freeeeeeman

37,643 · July 11, 2021

Our Daimler went for a BBQ at a local allotment society last night, but they said it was too old and tough!

It did stand our in the greyness of everyday cars, but only one person remarked on it, blimming vegetable lovers!

37,643 · July 11, 2021

Has anybody got a tyre valve core remover at or coming to FoD?

37,643 · July 11, 2021

Bugger they have cancelled my disc order for the Peugeot 504.

3,043 · July 11, 2021

9 hours ago, Crackers said:

Nice to meet you, enjoy the Festival of S~~peed~~hite

Njce to meet you too.

July 11, 2021

15 hours ago, Floatylight said:

@beko1987 this is at the FOD if you want it..

I have got one of those! Red one at the top . Still works well after all these years!

1,269 · July 11, 2021

I have got one of those! Red one at the top . Still works well after all these years!

Becko will have to go and lie down in a darkened room after seeing that!

Sent from my EML-L29 using Tapatalk

26,930 · July 11, 2021

35 minutes ago, bobdisk said:

I have got one of those! Red one at the top . Still works well after all these years!

Beautiful! Hope the supressor doesn't go bang on you, itll last forever!

1,289 · July 11, 2021

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Has anybody got a tyre valve core remover at or coming to FoD?

Have you got a can of tyre slime anywhere knocking about?

They have one as part of the kit.

My XF has one with its inflation kit for this reason as well as it has no spare wheel. Worth a check if any of your cars don't have a spare wheel.

3,043 · July 11, 2021

750 racing club Reliant. 👍

July 11, 2021

5 hours ago, Cento16v said:

Have you got a can of tyre slime anywhere knocking about?

They have one as part of the kit.

My XF has one with its inflation kit for this reason as well as it has no spare wheel. Worth a check if any of your cars don't have a spare wheel.

I think this is a wheel off a ride-on lawn mower at the FOD. You can get the valve out with a small pair of pointy nosed electronic tech pliers. That tyre slime is horrible stuff. you have to clear it all out before repairing a tyre, a messy and difficult job to get it all out.

13,908 · July 11, 2021

We're back having spotted loads of BL chod on the way home😎

Thanks guys for yet another ace weekend 😊

24,010 · July 11, 2021

8 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Has anybody got a tyre valve core remover at or coming to FoD?

Did you find one? I can post one to you with a couple of cores.

5,137 · July 11, 2021

Just back in London now after a flying but fun visit. Was great to meet many of you even though I didn't work out all the usernames and the Capri was a bit too shiny!

July 11, 2021

Many thanks for a spectacular first FoD for me.

It was nice to meet you all and finally put some faces to names

13,908 · July 11, 2021

20 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Did you find one? I can post one to you with a couple of cores.

Talbot sorted it with pliers 😉

5,137 · July 11, 2021

Couple of not especially fancy photos this afternoon (taken to send to a friend who remarked "You're sitting in a field with a load of old cars?!")

28,478 · July 11, 2021

Really wish I could have been there. Just got back through the door having finished shift crap out of our friend's house.

I'm now utterly, utterly broken but we got there in the end and nobody ended up getting thrown through windows...just.

Hopefully I'll be able to make the next one.

24,562 · July 11, 2021

Dadding took priority in the end, when junior_brownnova was really keen to go to a car show together but not to spend 6 hours in a car and risk being late for the footy.

Gutted to miss it, but next time I’ve already agreed with management I’m coming for the weekend and stopping over! Juniors can come with if they so desire!

37,643 · July 11, 2021

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Did you find one? I can post one to you with a couple of cores.

Thanks, we managed to find and fit a complete valve without having to take the core out in the end.

19,701 · July 11, 2021

to swerve the footy theres scenic railway journeys on channel 4

north beriwck to edinburgh

time for a haircut

19,701 · July 11, 2021

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'

18,847 · July 11, 2021

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....

15,619 · July 11, 2021

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

21,262 · July 11, 2021

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

6,338 · July 12, 2021

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.