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[Spottedlaurel]

31 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

My Dad's parent's driveway circa 1982ish.

Great shot. Can you make out the reg on the Sunny please?

[captain_70s]

6 minutes ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Great shot. Can you make out the reg on the Sunny please?

*DN 668Y

Can't make out the first digit, a DN makes sense as my parent's lived in Leeds...

[Tickman]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Only used a cupful of oil too.

One like this?

[Split_Pin]

Haha no just an actual teacup!

[Mally]

Make sure you wash it out.

[PhilA]

With a few things on the horizon, I finally have been able to clear my bench and stick my old boss's 1932 Zenith radio back on it. 

First up, the sheet metal for the lid. Rubbed back to bare and wiped down.

And painted matte black. I'm thinking that I should maybe have another run at craquelure paint. Experiments will follow on an old piece of steel.

The old volume dial was no longer the resistance it should have been, so the only options you had were LOUD and STUPIDLY LOUD. It now dials down to correctly quiet.

However, the retaining bush and neck didn't fit the new volume control (metric) so a little imaginative work had to occur.

Tapped a thread down the middle of the old control's mounting lug

That screwed on as a sleeve, was then shortened and a slot cut in to the shaft for the extension that sticks out the front of the radio.

It all fits and works properly. Next up I want to get a solid state vibrator for it because the one it has is too bloody noisy- that and after a little work it still functions so it'll be nice to be able to save it because new ones aren't available.

Then re-plate all the tube covers like the one in the last photo, finish up the last few bits of the circuit that need work, get some cotton covered cloth to replace the wire that goes to the tube top caps and get it all aligned.

Well overdue 

 

Phil

[wuvvum]

18 minutes ago, PhilA said:

solid state vibrator

Fnarr, &c.

[GBJ]

4 hours ago, BoggyMires said:

Apart from the expected flat battery which I went to retrieve, I noticed that this car still lives up to its name of 'breaks when you do use it, breaks if you don't use it' as I discovered an unidentified fluid spread across the floor which had dropped from somewhere under the bonnet.

What a car! Turns out that the brake reservoir has shit out all the fluid from what looks like the master cylinder seals. It's an odd one but so are most of the problems that this car manages to produce.

 

Wash the fluid off the paint asap.

[Lord Sterling]

Because of rain and local flooding today, I decided not to be lazy and go and check on the car. No flooding thankfully near the car, but then in another rare fit of actual enthusiasm I decided to take up the back seat bench and under there I found:

2 x £10 notes ?

Unfortunately, they are out of date. Surprise surprise. ?

Also found a £50p piece and a stylus from something.

Slightly better still I found another 50p in the petrol station hoover coin rejection slot. So the £1 hoover was free and enough to clean up the underside of the back seat.

[adw1977]

I think you can still pay those old tenners into your bank account if you can still find a branch to visit.

Failing that, the Bank of England will always change old notes.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

2 hours ago, GBJ said:

Wash the fluid off the paint asap.

Yeah, it's getting a blast from the jet wash. The whole area is a bit oily. It's dot 4 which I've not any problems with in the short term ... YET! Worst happens, the paint is shot anyway because patina*

[Tadhg Tiogar]

55 minutes ago, BoggyMires said:

Yeah, it's getting a blast from the jet wash. The whole area is a bit oily. It's dot 4 which I've not any problems with in the short term ... YET! Worst happens, the paint is shot anyway because patina*

I always used DoT5.1 in the 635, and also now in the diesel Borat 

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Just now, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I always used DoT5.1 in the 635, and also now in the diesel Borat 

I'll change it soon when I've used up the 20gallons of dot 4 I have left! Which, if that keeps doing that, won't be long!

[stuboy]

On 2/15/2020 at 5:32 PM, Craig the Princess said:

@stuboy if you had said you were in my village you could have popped in for a cuppa

what village do u reside in??

[Eyersey1234]

Made it to Manchester, let's see what tomorrow brings. First solo drive in Central London tomorrow. 

[yes oui si]

This wee bastard was sheltering from the wind when I got back from the hospital. Have taken him out some food and a couple of blankets, hopefully he's not still there when I go back down tomorrow. 

[PhilA]

Had a go at making the craquelure paint go evenly across a fairly big panel. Worked well apart from one but that refuses to go right, typical.

Pulled off and washed the original grill cloth where the speaker goes, what was left of it.

Have found a reproduction of that exact pattern so ordered a piece to go in. Getting somewhere with this now.

 

Phil

[Craig the Princess]

2 hours ago, stuboy said:

what village do u reside in??

A very windy Upwell in Norfolk.

[High Jetter]

That's not standing Up very Well.

[yes oui si]

Aren't all wells Wind-up? 

[chancer]

8 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Urgh.

Ive no idea why folk continue to buy these shitty larch lap panels. They are piss thin and dont allow wind to pass through therefore just fuck off into a neighbouring garden in the slightest breeze. I point blank refuse to supply, fit or repair fencing like this, but will happily build a slat and rail fence for a lot less cost than these! Been building fences since 2006 and every single one is still standing, and none of them has moved an inch! 

[mitsisigma01]

Shame you are the wrong end of the country, you could do my fence. Currently held down by lengths of roofing joist and all my tie down straps. 

Feckin wind

[chodweaver]

3 hours ago, yes oui si said:

This wee bastard was sheltering from the wind when I got back from the hospital. Have taken him out some food and a couple of blankets, hopefully he's not still there when I go back down tomorrow. 

Can I suggest you pop the bonnet before you head out again in this motah? - just in case homeless-mog has chosen a warm engine bay over your blankets... One cat in your exhaust system is enough, eh?

[vulgalour]

10 hours ago, captain_70s said:

My Dad's parent's driveway circa 1982ish.

My Dad's first car was a Sunny just like that!

[yes oui si]

4 hours ago, chodweaver said:

Can I suggest you pop the bonnet before you head out again in this motah? - just in case homeless-mog has chosen a warm engine bay over your blankets... One cat in your exhaust system is enough, eh?

Usually knock on the bonnet when it's cold anyway

[GrumpiusMaximus]

7 hours ago, chancer said:

Ive no idea why folk continue to buy these shitty larch lap panels. They are piss thin and dont allow wind to pass through therefore just fuck off into a neighbouring garden in the slightest breeze. I point blank refuse to supply, fit or repair fencing like this, but will happily build a slat and rail fence for a lot less cost than these! Been building fences since 2006 and every single one is still standing, and none of them has moved an inch! 

Came with the house.

[yes oui si]

Cat update, he was in the blankets. Gave him more food and a dish of water, and let him be. 

[MorrisItalSLX]

Holden is dead, 1856 - 2020.

https://www.holden.com.au/announcement

 

 

[Zelandeth]

The reason we've fitted a few of these panels is that about 50 of them came with the house, so replacing the lot would be... expensive.  If we lose the odd one (I think this is the third in five years) so be it, they're £25 apiece in Wickes so it's hardly the end of the world.

Our neighbours have annoyingly just insisted on nailing the panel between our garden and them back together which I was planning on replacing today (seemed little point in doing anything with it until after the storms had done their thing).  I was just going to replace it out of our pocket, had no intention of bothering to ask them for money.  Given they live in a two bedroom house and have six kids, I'm guessing they're not exactly rolling in it. Asking them anything is a bit of a challenge though as neither of them seem to speak more than about two words of English.

Went outside while they were hammering away to suggest that I just get the panel replaced for them.  I'd bodged it together a bit after the last storm just to keep the dogs out of their garden, but unsurprisingly it disintegrated this weekend. The panel is now utterly knackered.  The lower quarter or so was rotten before we even had this wind.  The response to my suggestion was having a stream of abuse hurled at me.

Yay...once again I offer to do something for someone and get a face full of abuse for my troubles.

Plus we've now got to put up with an utterly fscked fence panel in that garden, which I know is probably going to atomise again next time we have a strong wind...so I'll need to make a point of checking every time I let the dogs out.

I really hope one day I can move back to somewhere where we don't have any immediate neighbours.  The nearest five to ten miles away would be quite nice.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

As much as my neighbours are nice people (and they are) the idea of not having for five miles is highly favourable.  This is why it is my ambition to live off the land in the Outer Hebrides...