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[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Clue one. 

Made in Nottingham.

Raleigh Bicycle?

 

[treehugger]

Quiver full of arrows? 

[richardmorris]

30 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Just packaged up a large, 5.5kg object dating from 1983. 

Can you guess what it is yet? 

 

A very light Gearbox?

[Dick Cheeseburger]

21 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Raleigh Bicycle?

 

Damn, you're good! Frame, forks and handlebars of a mk1 Mag Burner. 

 

[Six-cylinder]

4 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Damn, you're good! Frame, forks and handlebars of a mk1 Mag Burner. 

 

Wheels are quite important on a bicycle!

[Leyland Worldmaster]

I thought I'd better clean Alison before her MOT and stuff. It was bloody cold! Still, better than the minus silly temperatures up until yesterday! 

I always clean the wheel arches, etc as well as the top side. 

Engine Bay is cleaned bi-monthly. 

Alison has got nearly 250k on the clock. I've put nearly 120,000 on myself! 117 of which was on the clutch she came with! 

😎😎😎

[Dick Cheeseburger]

2 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Wheels are quite important on a bicycle!

So are brakes and a saddle. It's not got them either! 

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Magnificent Rustbucket said:

TLDR COS LIFES TOO FKIN SHORT

 

 

 

did you not realise what cavcraft was talking about?

you dont work on your cars do you?

chubbyracer wasnt commenting on cavcraft he commented on what he was saying about something someone else posted

ffs engage brain - or buy a chuckle muscle from somewhere

[loserone]

48 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

So are brakes and a saddle. It's not got them either! 

My Raleigh burner (gold with white mags) rarely had brakes, though occasionally I'd fit one MX before a long ride.

[Sheefag]

12 minutes ago, hairnet said:

did you not realise what cavcraft was talking about?

you dont work on your cars do you?

chubbyracer wasnt commenting on cavcraft he commented on what he was saying about something someone else posted

ffs engage brain - or buy a chuckle muscle from somewhere

A Chuckle Muscle, you say..

[red5]

43 minutes ago, hairnet said:

did you not realise what cavcraft was talking about?

you dont work on your cars do you?

chubbyracer wasnt commenting on cavcraft he commented on what he was saying about something someone else posted

ffs engage brain - or buy a chuckle muscle from somewhere

Or try reading the preceding pages chap? That way you won't embarass yours....oh..

Maybe then it'll make sense....not that anything does these days, silence is golden.

[Cavcraft]

58 minutes ago, hairnet said:

 

chubbyracer

Careful, someone who's complained about other people complaining will complain about that.

[hairnet]

but its truth

[Flashband]

I very rarely post on here and having not been here that long I don't have the background to some of the history being laundered.

What I can say is this forum has been running for a long time and in that time laws have been introduced around what can be said with penalties for non compliance.

The idea some have of returning to halcyon days of no or light handed moderation is simply not possible today

If anyone doesent agree with laws governing online content then agitate for change, but not on a car forum

[stuboy]

im still bitter chesnut that someone hit my car still

[SiC]

Went up to storage today and finally put my other two cars on charge.

MGB is always awkward due to the battery location. Also not helped by both cars being storage sheds for the Dolomite.


I really don't want to break this.


In this I noticed the last garage who was in here (and changed the fuel pump) had put an additional earth wire in for the pump. I guess it was useful thing to do, but it is a bit bodgy to my liking. I've removed it for now as I'll do it a bit better.

Fitted on the battery charge cable


Then put it down underneath. This one has a handy flashing light to tell you the state of charge.


Hooked up the extension cable.


And plugged it all in


1100 was easier and this I just used the croc clips. If it was a permanent keeper I would have probably hooked it in the same. The car is supposed to be sold by now as it funded the BMW E28 purchase, but unfortunately the original buyer (a mate) had to pull out. Not too fussed as I might have a bit of fun in the spring before putting it back up on the market anyway. Can't imagine it should be too hard to shift either.



Finally I bought a second hand 123 ignition. Now the silly thing is that I have a brand new one I bought from Rimmers at Xmas. However this one was too cheap to not buy! The one I got from Rimmers is a configurable curve unit which will be great when I finally get the MGB engine rebuilt but the other one is plug and play.


"Thanks again for another purchase"
Yeah thanks for reminding me again that I spend far too much on your platform.

[stuboy]

13 hours ago, stripped fred said:

The wife?

what married female weighs 5.4kg once ring on her finger

[red5]

7 minutes ago, Flashband said:

I very rarely post on here and having not been here that long I don't have the background to some of the history being laundered.

What I can say is this forum has been running for a long time and in that time laws have been introduced around what can be said with penalties for non compliance.

The idea some have of returning to halcyon days of no or light handed moderation is simply not possible today

If anyone doesent agree with laws governing online content then agitate for change, but not on a car forum

All completely true.

Also irrelevant to the issues concerning transparency, the courtesy of replying, random deletion of threads with no pm even, evenhandedness et al.

 

[anonymous user]

I don't poke my head above the parapet very often; however it does seem very unfortunate that any questions regarding moderation of the forum are either, at best, ignored, or as in the case of any thread started to create discussion, deleted.

I'm not even sure who the current moderators are, but do notice the disappearance and moving of threads/comments.

And no Hairnet, I'm another who doesn't post much about my cars, but, you obviously don't remember MrRustbucket's posts about his Jaguar.

[garbaldy]

22 minutes ago, stuboy said:

im still bitter chesnut that someone hit my car still

Maybe the person who hit it was far to engrossed looking at those wank 4d miss spaced gell plates. 🤔

[stuboy]

11 hours ago, garbaldy said:

Maybe the person who hit it was far to engrossed looking at those wank 4d miss spaced gell plates. 🤔

you could be right

[garbaldy]

3 minutes ago, stuboy said:

you could be right

Have you never been pulled for them ?

[wuvvum]

Can somebody please explain to me how a numberplate can be four-dimensional?

[stuboy]

11 hours ago, garbaldy said:

Have you never been pulled for them ?

nope

[garbaldy]

Just now, stuboy said:

nope

Lucky man.

I bought a car two weeks ago and was stopped on the way home for a traveling  necessity  check,  journey explanation passed muster wank plates earned me a fine, the twats.

[HMC]

2 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Can somebody please explain to me how a numberplate can be four-dimensional?

The 3 dimensions of space and then the DVLA. A whole extra dimension.

[HMC]

Apparently normal space and time Doesn’t exist there nor the laws of thermodynamics. Energy  (as paper )  can simply vanish.

[Yoss]

15 hours ago, SiC said:

Went up to storage today and finally put my other two cars on charge.

MGB is always awkward due to the battery location. Also not helped by both cars being storage sheds for the Dolomite.


I really don't want to break this.


In this I noticed the last garage who was in here (and changed the fuel pump) had put an additional earth wire in for the pump. I guess it was useful thing to do, but it is a bit bodgy to my liking. I've removed it for now as I'll do it a bit better.

Fitted on the battery charge cable


Then put it down underneath. This one has a handy flashing light to tell you the state of charge.


Hooked up the extension cable.


And plugged it all in


1100 was easier and this I just used the croc clips. If it was a permanent keeper I would have probably hooked it in the same. The car is supposed to be sold by now as it funded the BMW E28 purchase, but unfortunately the original buyer (a mate) had to pull out. Not too fussed as I might have a bit of fun in the spring before putting it back up on the market anyway. Can't imagine it should be too hard to shift either.



Finally I bought a second hand 123 ignition. Now the silly thing is that I have a brand new one I bought from Rimmers at Xmas. However this one was too cheap to not buy! The one I got from Rimmers is a configurable curve unit which will be great when I finally get the MGB engine rebuilt but the other one is plug and play.

"Thanks again for another purchase"
Yeah thanks for reminding me again that I spend far too much on your platform.

I've looked at 123 distributors but never quite taken the plunge. Have you tried using either of yours yet? I had Lumenition electronic ignition on my Triumph 1300TC for about 15 years. It was getting harder to start when, a couple of years back, it just died at a local roundabout on one of the few times Mrs Yoss was in it. A bit of investigation found no spark. So I removed the spare distributor with new* points set to the correct gap that I had been carrying in the boot for the entire 15 years I had the Lumenition set up 'just in case', fitted it and it fired first time. As we were near home Mrs Yoss insisted we go home and get one of the Škodas despite my protestations that I'd fixed it (doesn't count as a breakdown in my book if you get it going again). It's been running trouble free on points ever since. 

I looked at new electronic ignition at the time, including the 123 which looks lovely if nothing else, but there are so many different types now I got flummoxed and forgot all about it. In my day Lumenition was all there was so the choice wasn't hard. Just wondered if you'd had any experience of it? Is it worth the extra over some of the cheap ones?

[chadders]

I've had a 123 on a VW T2 for 8 years now.

Expensive but worth it in my opinion.

[DodgeRover]

1 hour ago, Flashband said:

I very rarely post on here and having not been here that long I don't have the background to some of the history being laundered.

What I can say is this forum has been running for a long time and in that time laws have been introduced around what can be said with penalties for non compliance.

The idea some have of returning to halcyon days of no or light handed moderation is simply not possible today

If anyone doesent agree with laws governing online content then agitate for change, but not on a car forum

What pray tell law do you think Bollox infringed upon with his constant anti Brexit posts?