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[High Jetter]

I remember Jermyn's well. Sold that address for housing and moved to Seaford, but recently opened a MG sales place in an Eastbourne shopping centre.

[Fumbler]

2 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

After what was possibly one of the shortest collection missions of my shiteing career (0.8 miles) I’ve collected a car which I’ve possibly waited longer between agreeing to buy and picking it up (3 months!) than any other purchase. I reckon it was worth it though, it’s the tidiest car I’ve brought home in a long time.

Good God that's clean!

[320touring]

That's the Elgrand earning it's keep...

Tip run the first

 

One of these is a small estate, the other is a Mini..

[17-Coffees]

Car achieved...

😎

[vulgalour]

Last bit of paving to jetwash and I've been really enjoying it.  The plan was never to have this down long enough for it to warrant getting jetwashed, let alone repaired and the flagstone reseated/replaced.  Fact is, things being what they are lately, we simply haven't got the funds for even the materials to redo all this properly in a decent concrete slab so we'll have to make do and mend.  It likely would have lasted better had we not told the skip lorry it was okay to park there to un/load, but at the time it didn't matter since we only expected these flags to be down for six months, a year tops.  Ah well, get it all clean and then we can see what we're dealing with a bit better and sort it all out with what we've got about the place and it'll do for another six months to a year by which time we can hopefully redo it properly.

[RoverFolkUs]

3 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

After what was possibly one of the shortest collection missions of my shiteing career (0.8 miles) I’ve collected a car which I’ve possibly waited longer between agreeing to buy and picking it up (3 months!) than any other purchase. I reckon it was worth it though, it’s the tidiest car I’ve brought home in a long time.

That's looks brilliant, and the bodywork is very much "DO NOT IMPROVE" 

The grime and faded bumper really adds to it in my opinion

[sutty2006]

Today I finally got 4 minutes of free time to scooch on up to my unit and fit the newly cleaned Monza Recaros to the manta.

 

I pulled the base off and swapped it for the manta one. Perfect fit. Dropped it into the car, bolted it up and had a sit in…. 
 

…..ouch!! Ooooo!!! This isn’t right!

 

scrunched up behind the backing foam on the back rest was this! 
 

 

107% part of an old curtain from the 70s. That material is THICK. 
 

 

 

I love it already. Mmmmmm comfort.

[richardmorris]

First walk I planned this morning didn’t work out as the parking area was full with no alternative, so eventually ended up walking from work including the mclaren site, horsell common and back. On the way back passed several branded Alan Mann racing vehicles and trailers at fairoaks airfield. Perhaps they’re stored, but thought they were  in by fleet?

[Soundwave]

On 12/26/2022 at 7:14 PM, Soundwave said:

Couple of closed down shops in Nuneaton are being refitted, the signage being taken down reveals some high-street names from the past... 

The recently closed Poundland was Woolies in a past life... 

The now-former O2 shop still carried the name of its distant predecessor under its signage... 

 

Love seeing stuff like this.

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? 

 

[goosey]

1 hour ago, sutty2006 said:

Today I finally got 4 minutes of free time to scooch on up to my unit and fit the newly cleaned Monza Recaros to the manta.

 

I pulled the base off and swapped it for the manta one. Perfect fit. Dropped it into the car, bolted it up and had a sit in…. 
 

…..ouch!! Ooooo!!! This isn’t right!

 

scrunched up behind the backing foam on the back rest was this! 
 

 

107% part of an old curtain from the 70s. That material is THICK. 
 

 

 

I love it already. Mmmmmm comfort.

Are those Monza Recaros the ones with the extendable bases ? 

[sutty2006]

1 minute ago, goosey said:

Are those Monza Recaros the ones with the extendable bases ? 

Yes sir, yes they are. 

[goosey]

Brings back memories of modifying a set to fit my mk2 escort years ago, soooooo comfortable 👌

[Ghosty]

@Speedy came by again today for an oil change and a fettle of his Civic. 

Did loads of small jobs and checks on it, seeing as I had a load of spare parts lying around that both Speedy and my mum's cars could benefit from. 

New tyres and backbox for my mum's car first off, and some genuine floor mats and such to make it pretty much perfect. 

I decided to check the spark plugs on Speedy's car - the HT leads were knackered, the rubber ends all fell off, and the plugs and bores were all doused in oil - well that explains why it smoked on load, the seals had gone dry on the rocker cover, causing the head to leak all the oil down the plug bores and into the cylinders, glad I found that, as it's not every day you just have spare rocker covers and HT leads for 30 year old cars lying around. 

Changed the oil and filter - the oil was a litre underfilled from burning off 😬 

Speedy's car is transformed with the change, it feels significantly more healthy now, and it was good to start with. There's not much that compares to a D-Series in fine fettle. 

It needs a brake bleed and the clutch cable adjusting at some point, but I'll get round to that - I think the car might be holidaying here this week. 

 

 

[Ghosty]

This is the chassis rail on the dead Civic: 

[sutty2006]

7 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

@Speedy came by again today for an oil change and a fettle of his Civic. 

Did loads of small jobs and checks on it, seeing as I had a load of spare parts lying around that both Speedy and my mum's cars could benefit from. 

New tyres and backbox for my mum's car first off, and some genuine floor mats and such to make it pretty much perfect. 

I decided to check the spark plugs on Speedy's car - the HT leads were knackered, the rubber ends all fell off, and the plugs and bores were all doused in oil - well that explains why it smoked on load, the seals had gone dry on the rocker cover, causing the head to leak all the oil down the plug bores and into the cylinders, glad I found that, as it's not every day you just have spare rocker covers and HT leads for 30 year old cars lying around. 

Changed the oil and filter - the oil was a litre underfilled from burning off 😬 

Speedy's car is transformed with the change, it feels significantly more healthy now, and it was good to start with. There's not much that compares to a D-Series in fine fettle. 

It needs a brake bleed and the clutch cable adjusting at some point, but I'll get round to that - I think the car might be holidaying here this week. 

 

 

I had a G reg civic hatch about 18 years ago. That was a brilliant car! 1.4 twin Weber with electric everything! It was ace! 

[RoverFolkUs]

23 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

This is the chassis rail on the dead Civic: 

Shows how far car designs have come, it would take an awful lot more to do that sort of damage to something made in the last ~15 years

[Ghosty]

26 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

I had a G reg civic hatch about 18 years ago. That was a brilliant car! 1.4 twin Weber with electric everything! It was ace! 

Weber, must have been a conversion? I think I've seen that done once before, the guy spoke well of it. 

[sutty2006]

38 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Weber, must have been a conversion? I think I've seen that done once before, the guy spoke well of it. 

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. 

[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