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[Ghosty]

25 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

Unless it was a dealer option, I’ve no idea. Whole car seamed completely original. ‘‘Twas a twin choke Weber. Went like stink for a 1.4 manual. Don’t think I ever took a photo of it, but  I t-boned a fairly new mk4 Astra with it. It got wrote off but was still drivable. 

They're Keihin as standard, carbs weren't an option you could change. They really fly for 90hp. 

[sutty2006]

Well maybe someone changed it early on then. Shame it got writer off, it was waaaaaaay ahead of anything Ford or Vauxhall could Chuck out at that age! 

[Ghosty]

3 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

Well maybe someone changed it early on then. Shame it got writer off, it was waaaaaaay ahead of anything Ford or Vauxhall could Chuck out at that age! 

Really agree, it baffles me that in 2004 a 1.4 twincam multipoint injected Polo had as much as a single cam, single carb 1.3 Civic made 15 years earlier. 

75hp. 

[Yoss]

15 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Really agree, it baffles me that in 2004 a 1.4 twincam multipoint injected Polo had as much as a single cam, single carb 1.3 Civic made 15 years earlier. 

75hp. 

My 1969 Triumph 1300 TC has 75hp. 1300cc all iron ohv pushrod lump with twin SU carbs. That's progress. 

[RoverFolkUs]

55 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Really agree, it baffles me that in 2004 a 1.4 twincam multipoint injected Polo had as much as a single cam, single carb 1.3 Civic made 15 years earlier. 

75hp. 

That VW engine is a good example and one I frequently reference to. Even the K-Series 1.4 was 103bhp which is quite a more by then in comparison

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 minute ago, RoverFolkUs said:

That VW engine is a good example and one I frequently reference to. Even the K-Series 1.4 was 103bhp which is quite a more by then in comparison

It's a weird one, as there was a 100(ish) horsepower version as well, but surprisingly the Polo (despite it being the 'upmarket' car compared to the other VAG A04 cars) didn't get that as standard, only the 75hp version. The Fabia got it instead with the 75 being reserved to the "Sport", "Bohemia", or automatic models.

[Ghosty]

Just now, AnnoyingPentium said:

It's a weird one, as there was a 100(ish) horsepower version as well, but surprisingly the Polo (despite it being the 'upmarket' car compared to the other VAG A04 cars) didn't get that as standard, only the 75hp version. The Fabia got it instead with the 75 being reserved to the "Sport", "Bohemia", or automatic models.

My mum used to have a Polo Twist with the 1.4 and an auto, it struggled on hills.

And the engine goes back to the 6N, they've no excuse not for improving it.

[RoverFolkUs]

21 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

It's a weird one, as there was a 100(ish) horsepower version as well, but surprisingly the Polo (despite it being the 'upmarket' car compared to the other VAG A04 cars) didn't get that as standard, only the 75hp version. The Fabia got it instead with the 75 being reserved to the "Sport", "Bohemia", or automatic models.

It suits the Fox ok, because it's a shit car! But they really ought to have made an effort to improve it for the 9n polo. Especially when they already put the 1.2 in them with not a lot of difference in power, but better economy 

[LightBulbFun]

5 hours ago, Soundwave said:

Since this went down pretty well, another bit of high-street past revealed by the Nuneaton redevelopment project... wonder how old this optician signage is? 

 

*zoom in* 

those are Thorn GCBS integral ballast units like so

by 1984 they had been redesigned to a squarer profile with the starter socket on the end like so

and the latest reference I can find to the older middle mounted starter socket design is 1980

 

so that sign body at least dates sometime before 1980 I would say  (certainly no later then 1984)

[Soundwave]

CSI: Lightbulb

[BorniteIdentity]

2 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

*zoom in* 

those are Thorn GCBS integral ballast units like so

by 1984 they had been redesigned to a squarer profile with the starter socket on the end like so

and the latest reference I can find to the older middle mounted starter socket design is 1980

 

so that sign body at least dates sometime before 1980 I would say  (certainly no later then 1984)

Busy day? 😉

[LightBulbFun]

10 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Busy day? 😉

quite actually! had a vintage 1Kw HP-T from 1969 that arrived late last night, so the order of the day was setup the gear and get it tested

really pleased to have nabbed this, these large vintage clear mercury lamps dont show up often! and is currently my highest wattage clear mercury lamp in the collection (if anyone has an iwasaki H2000B let me know please!)

Maximum Power! 

red hot Quartz cool down

then this big old box arrived, containing, you guessed  it! more lightbulbs, a pair of also 1000W lamps, metal halide ones this time  

these 2 infact, one 1980's East German lamp a Narva Nachroma and the other a 1990's~ US General Electric Multi-Vapour lamp

which to me provides a very interesting contranst as both are 1Kw Metal halide lamps! but in terms of technical details worlds apart of completely different halide chemistries, but both used for sports stadium lighting

it also tickles me that the slim tubular lamp of pretty intriguing technological feat is the European East German lamp, and the large fat bulbous lamp of 1960's middle of the road technology, that was just universally used everywhere, is the American one, Autoshite in lightbulbs eh   

 

and then to cap it all off I had a frustating battle with a windows 10 Virtual machine

some fucking idiot registered QEMU's UUID with Azure Autopilot, so if you spin up a QEMU VM with a recent windows 10 ISO you get stuck here

because Microsoft thinks that this "computer" belongs to the organisation in the screenshot and sets it up accordingly...

that was a right fucking nightmare to sort, not helped by windows being windows, like dying at the keyboard layout setup, because fuck you thats why...

got through in the end but ran out of time to actually do what I wanted to do 

and all I wanted to do was setup this VM so I could then try and boot it on the Shitty Samsung Q1U Tablet PC I picked up to fuck with for shits and giggles! (its a VM installing to a physical disk)

 

On 04/02/2023 at 14:13, LightBulbFun said:

behold my amazing* drawing skills 

and im going to tag @GrumpiusMaximus because A: so I dont have to suffer this alone, and B: because his user name accurately describes me during all of this LOL

 

it will be interesting to see what they do about it, as it does look like its been reported, but its still such a fucking stupid issue, the fact that someone was dumb enough to enrol a universal QEMU UUID into their Autopilot program....

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1428

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10LTSC/comments/1075anp/welcome_to_intellek/

 

 

so yeah it has been a busy day for me today actually LOL

[sutty2006]

I can’t wait to visit your lightbulb museum one day Mr @LightBulbFun .

 

 

the experience will be enlightening.

 

it may give me some bright ideas for future projects. 
 

 

 

sorry. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

What an absolute nightmare.

Autopilot working as intended there, just not with the right HWID.  What a pain in the arse.

You can pull the necessary information off the computer for InTune onto a USB as a .csv and sign up for the 30-day InTune trial.  Potentially enrol the device in your own trial, set it up and then remove it from the AAD.  That could have worked too...

[SmokinWaffle]

1 hour ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

What an absolute nightmare.

Autopilot working as intended there, just not with the right HWID.  What a pain in the arse.

You can pull the necessary information off the computer for InTune onto a USB as a .csv and sign up for the 30-day InTune trial.  Potentially enrol the device in your own trial, set it up and then remove it from the AAD.  That could have worked too...

Can enrol it from OOBE via powershell too with an internet connection - no CSV import needed. Super handy. 

[Lankytim]

8 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

*zoom in* 

those are Thorn GCBS integral ballast units like so

by 1984 they had been redesigned to a squarer profile with the starter socket on the end like so

and the latest reference I can find to the older middle mounted starter socket design is 1980

 

so that sign body at least dates sometime before 1980 I would say  (certainly no later then 1984)

My 79 and 3/4 years old Father is a retired electrician. He used to replace loads of this type of equipment, along with servicing street lighting fitted with sodium lamps etc. He’s still got a really old light bulb tucked away that he found on a job decades ago. I’ll try and find it and post some pics. 

[Rust Collector]

What’s that I hear you say? Buy more cars?! Ok then.

First mode of transport, if you discount walking from my front door:

[HMC]

Mid engined, rear bicycled 

[Rust Collector]

Breakfast*:

Off to get the other part of the transport next.

[High Jetter]

36 minutes ago, HMC said:

Mid engined, rear bicycled 

Always good to have a back-up plan!

[Rust Collector]

Full collection mode engaged:

[RayMK]

My son moved his motorcycle out of the garage today. Whilst access to the Reliant (1961 Regal MK6) was clear I connected the battery which was still showing 12.58V and it started on the second attempt, sounding perfectly healthy on choke and then idling fine off choke. There was a noticeable flat spot when trying to rev the engine. It eased considerably as the engine further warmed up but it would need a precautionary carb jet clean before driving the car.  I last started it and drove a few miles last August. I still intend to sell it before this summer.

[Rust Collector]

Beautiful*

[LightBulbFun]

4 hours ago, Lankytim said:

My 79 and 3/4 years old Father is a retired electrician. He used to replace loads of this type of equipment, along with servicing street lighting fitted with sodium lamps etc. He’s still got a really old light bulb tucked away that he found on a job decades ago. I’ll try and find it and post some pics. 

Oh thats really cool! I look forward to seeing the old bulb that he saved  

[Yoss]

1 minute ago, LightBulbFun said:

Oh thats really cool! I look forward to seeing and identifying, with a full history, the old bulb that he saved  

FTFY. Don't let us down. 

[Rust Collector]

Home safe, or at least to my shite dumping ground.

I’ve had a quick poke around and at a casual glance it’s better than I expected. I will try and do a write up in my thread of both recent arrivals as they are now the priorities to get sorted and into use.

After an uneventful drive back, I got this light as I pulled into my hometown:

I think a separate cooler for the ATF is in order, it currently shares the main radiator and the V6 motor puts out a hell of a lot of heat. In the time it took me to poke around the merc it had cooled enough to put the light out.

[stuboy]

Took missus and mini stuboy to a local car meet of all marques... apparantly he's definetly my boy... can't see it... ha ha ha

[Ghosty]

a day out was had

 

[wuvvum]

Not been the best weekend for the wuvvum fleet.  It started when I took the 107 to the car wash on the way home from work on Friday evening - the car is now clean but most of the badging on the back got washed off so the car is now a    EU  O .

Then later in the evening I jumped into the Rover to go and see a mate - it was making a strange noise but I couldn't immediately see anything - then as I turned the steering it started to clonk and vibrate violently.  Turns out the offside front spring had broken and the broken end was sat on top of the tyre.  So I abandoned the Rover and took the MGF instead.

Yesterday I jacked the car up and took the wheel off, then brought the Maxus round to the car park so I could plug the angle grinder into the inverter under the van's bonnet.

It made short work of slicing off the (quite sharp) broken end of the spring, and I was able to get the spare wheel on so the car is now movable, albeit down on one side.

The nearly new GoodYear Eagle Sport tyre is fucking toast though.

I'm quite pissed off about that as it was the best tyre on the car and a bit of an awkward size to replace (215/60x16, not a size most of the local part worn places have in stock, and rather expensive for a decent quality new tyre).  

I did start to try to take it apart in preparation for the new spring - the drop link came undone easily enough and the nut came off the bottom ball joint bolt without too much of a fuss, but the bolt itself has hitherto shown zero interest in moving.  I've left everything soaking in Plus Gas and when my mojo is a bit better I'll have another go but with the car up on the big jack so I can get a proper swing at the bolt with the lump hammer.  All rather annoying as I'm going to Devon on Wednesday for a funeral and I'm now going to have to take the 107, which is less than ideal.

The next job was to jack the front of the MGF up to try and ascertain which wheel bearing is making noise.  From a spin of the wheels I think it might actually be both of them, which is a bit of a pain as they're not a DIY job on these.  Further investigation was hampered by the discovery that the car has locking wheel nuts and no key - it turned out that the one on the offside was only finger tight anyway but the nearside was on there properly and necessitated much hammering of smaller sockets before it'd come undone.  I've ordered a set of non-locking nuts to replace the locking ones as nobody nicks OEM alloys anymore - they're all after the cats.  Speaking of which, the MG could ideally do with a new silencer as it's starting to hole at one end and is also blowing from the join with the down pipe, but the cheapest one I can find is 96 quid and I'm not spending that so it's just going to have to keep sounding a bit farty.

I still can't get the Visa to run properly.  I replaced the dodgy nearside spark plug and it fired up immediately and ran fine for a few minutes until it started overfuelling again.  It's definitely the needle valve not closing properly as when I noticed the carb start to fill with fuel I switched off, took the fuel line off the pump and blew and I could blow through into the carb - it wasn't wide open but it was obviously open enough to be letting petrol through to places it shouldn't be going.  I have no idea what's causing it though - everything is moving freely and when I take the top off the carb and lift the float up manually it closes the valve as it should.  I've taken the carb off the car again so I can have a better look but at the moment it's got me completely baffled, and it's starting to piss me off as that's now the only thing standing in the way of the car being usable.  In fact I'm actually wondering if the car might be haunted, as when I was taking the carb off the electric fuel pump randomly started ticking several times, despite the ignition being off and the keys in my pocket.  Weird...

On a more positive note, I got in the Volvo yesterday for the first time in a couple of months and was pleased to note that the windscreen cover seems to have managed to stop the water ingress into the cabin.  I stuck the key in the ignition just to see if there was any life left in the battery and greatly to my surprise the car fired straight up and ran fine.  So that was nice.  Cheap eBay batteries FTW...

[Split_Pin]

Ah a 75 pulling its favourite cunt's trick.  Sorry about the tyre man, that's a top level pisser ☹️