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[4wheeledstool]

Just finished scraping all the PU sealant, bitumen and shite off the underside of this.

There's twenty odd welding repairs required, nothing major, just fiddly small stuff.

Hopefully I'll be cranking up the welding apparatus in the coming week.👍

[Popsicle]

16 minutes ago, Snake Charmer said:

I certainly would if it was my car, my father cut one in his Rover P6 for the rear calipers.

I now have a suitably bent cheap spanner for bleeding E-Type rear brakes and no great desire to do another! 

No I don't blame you they're not the easiest things to work on. Many years ago while struggling with the inboard brakes on a series 2 XJ6 rust bucket I owned, my dad came up with the plan to make his own access panel. Unfortunately neither of us owned an angle grinder back then so it was a drill and hacksaw/chisel job.

[comfortablynumb]

Re: dinner ladies

When I'd finished uni as a mature student, and before we moved to Norfolk, I was signed into an agency to get some work whilst the kids were at school, and Mrs cn was still studying.

I got put into school kitchens, absolute con, they knew I could drive, and had a car, but they still provided a taxi to and from a 4 hour shift. No wonder local councils had money problems. Still, I wasn't going to argue.

In these kitchens, there was only pink attire, which I thought was hilarious, and wore quite happily.

Primary school kids, the youngest probably just about 5, I'm stood at the counter dishing up the mash. One young lad looks at me with eyes like saucers, turns to his mate and on his best stage whisper:

"That lady's a man!"

This was about 20 years ago, but it still rates as one of the best jobs I've ever had.

 

[Snake Charmer]

3 minutes ago, 4wheeledstool said:

Just finished scraping all the PU sealant, bitumen and shite off the underside of this.

Super neat job. 👍

3 minutes ago, Popsicle said:

No I don't blame you they're not the easiest things to work on. Many years ago while struggling with the inboard brakes on a series 2 XJ6 rust bucket I owned, my dad came up with the plan to make his own access panel. Unfortunately neither of us owned an angle grinder back then so it was a drill and hacksaw/chisel job.

He would have cut the P6 panel out by chain drilling then filing, l think by then he may have had a Black & Decker drill. He beat an alloy panel up to cover the hole and held it in with dozens of PK screws, all very neatly spaced in his typical style!

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

Re: dinner ladies

When I'd finished uni as a mature student, and before we moved to Norfolk, I was signed into an agency to get some work whilst the kids were at school, and Mrs cn was still studying.

I got put into school kitchens, absolute con, they knew I could drive, and had a car, but they still provided a taxi to and from a 4 hour shift. No wonder local councils had money problems. Still, I wasn't going to argue.

In these kitchens, there was only pink attire, which I thought was hilarious, and wore quite happily.

Primary school kids, the youngest probably just about 5, I'm stood at the counter dishing up the mash. One young lad looks at me with eyes like saucers, turns to his mate and on his best stage whisper:

"That lady's a man!"

This was about 20 years ago, but it still rates as one of the best jobs I've ever had.

 

He would have been taken away for reindoctrination in the current year.

"Who will you believe, me or your lying eyes?"

[Lacquer Peel]

8 minutes ago, artdjones said:

He would have been taken away for reindoctrination in the current year.

"Who will you believe, me or your lying eyes?"

What do you mean?

[clayts450]

3 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Probably one of the only few who do get a clean sheet nowadays of the ones left, nice one 👌

True, just a shame it's lacquer peeling like crazy and is probably rusty cornflakes behind all the plastic tat.

[brownnova]

Cracking day out at Oulton Park for Autos de France! 🇫🇷 

A full day of track action with the added bonus of a French car show… what’s not to like!

Took the 2CV Obs… 

Some of the Shiter friendly display items: 

To the track action… and one very honourable mention to whoever decided to race this! 

Unsurprisingly the 2CV racing was my favourite… 

What a spectacle! 
 

Good to see several fellow Shiters there too! 

[clayts450]

Some serious amount of choddage there, mate, thanks for sharing

[artdjones]

32 minutes ago, Lacquer Peel said:

What do you mean?

Don't be disingenuous.

[Lacquer Peel]

1 minute ago, artdjones said:

Don't be disingenuous.

Honestly not following your train of thought at all. Is there a conspiracy?

[Metal Guru]

10 hours ago, reb said:

I worked in a posh school full of definitely not working class brats, being served not cheap food, they were still called dinnerladies

Obviously at a posh school, they would be taught the distinction between “dinner ladies” and “ladies that lunch”.

[New POD]

17 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Further point of order. Why are they called Dinner Ladies when they work at lunchtime?

It's a northern thing. 

 

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, New POD said:

It's a northern thing.

I don't think so, it's the same down here.

[andy18s]

Just watched Space X launch and then catch the Starship 1st stage back at the launch pad.

Very impressive and quite the engineering achievement..

[M'coli]

On 12/10/2024 at 10:34, lesapandre said:

Big pickups - Guardian article. Bit muddled, hysterical and including a very surprising Nazi reference.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/12/monster-pickup-trucks-accelerate-europe-sales-rise-safety-fears

I'm always interested in the space between what's legal and what certain section of society don't like. 

Nazi comparisons are never acceptable to make unrelated arguments.

I've read that and I failed to spot the Nazi comparison, unless you're referring to them being compared to the size of a tank?

[lesapandre]

16 minutes ago, M'coli said:

I've read that and I failed to spot the Nazi comparison, unless you're referring to them being compared to the size of a tank?

"So begins an advert for the Ram 1500, a pickup truck slightly bigger than the Panzer I tanks of Nazi Germany and almost as heavy".

One is a US truck manufacturer.

The other is despotic regime responsible for the deaths of upward of the 75 million people including the worst genocide known to mankind.

Any comparison is invidious.

[reb]

7 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

"So begins an advert for the Ram 1500, a pickup truck slightly bigger than the Panzer I tanks of Nazi Germany and almost as heavy".

One is a US truck manufacturer.

The other is despotic regime responsible for the deaths of upward of the 75 million people including the worst genocide known to mankind.

Any comparison is invidious.

Bloody snowflake

[lesapandre]

Funny place the internet.

[chadders]

8 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

"So begins an advert for the Ram 1500, a pickup truck slightly bigger than the Panzer I tanks of Nazi Germany and almost as heavy".

One is a US truck manufacturer.

The other is despotic regime responsible for the deaths of upward of the 75 million people including the worst genocide known to mankind.

Any comparison is invidious.

I think Stalin was worse overall, starting with the Holomodor.

At least Hitler didn't systematically starve his own people to death en masse.

[reb]

Writing off an entire article and claiming it is comparing a company to the nazis because of something that is at the end of the day just a clumsy statement of the creators of a piece of the war machine is honestly so daft.

[chadders]

10 minutes ago, reb said:

Writing off an entire article and claiming it is comparing a company to the nazis because of something that is at the end of the day just a clumsy statement of the creators of a piece of the war machine is honestly so daft.

I found it quite useful in appreciating the actual size of the Ram, better than longer than two Fiestas for example.

[calebaaront]

Thought I’d get into the spooky mood and buy a mascot for the Hearse. I present Steven 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Some of these might be of interest:

 

[richardmorris]

7 minutes ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Some of these might be of interest:

 

Yes, I’d love a bertone volvo coupe please . Can you deliver the red one?

[Supernaut]

NC500 with a bunch of weirdos from the internet; completed.

Taken at John O Groats this morning:

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, chadders said:

I found it quite useful in appreciating the actual size of the Ram, better than longer than two Fiestas for example.

Less than 0.05% of vehicles registered in the EEA last year were Rams. A Ram is 20ft long, about the same as most LWB vans.

It might be a problem if 10% of vehicles sold were full size US pick ups, but are there many people around who could afford to run one? Really the article is a typical "why oh why" piece written by and for bed wetters. It would fit in the Mail just as well.

[comfortablynumb]

57 minutes ago, calebaaront said:

Thought I’d get into the spooky mood and buy a mascot for the Hearse. I present Steven 

Had one for 30+ years, he lives in my kitchen, and goes by the name of dead Tom.

Was a Muppet treasure island reference so the kids friends weren't scared stupid by him, although a couple still were

[somewhatfoolish]

Dead Tom looks like he might be an anatomically correct skellington for a medical student?

[comfortablynumb]

54 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Dead Tom looks like he might be an anatomically correct skellington for a medical student?

Yeah he is, Mrs cn was studying to be a paediatric nurse, and I thought he might come in handy.

It was him, for £40, or another one in Hertford, which the bloke reckoned was a historical real one, at £900!

Apart from not having £900, I didn't feel comfortable with a real one...😱