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[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 ☹️

[andy18s]

Winter is finally here 

[High Jetter]

After nearly 3 months of procrastination pissing about careful deliberation, I finally got round to setting up my new Moto G82 phone. I was initially stumped as it wanted a double-ended USB-C cable to copy stuff from my 4yo G6 but in the end did it by bluetooth / magic. Smoothest transition so far, even transferred most of my my saved passwords, which I'd been dreading. I have had to set-up my homescreen pages though, which is actually no bad thing as I weeded out some no longer needed stuff.

It's much faster, and has better data connection, even in a couple of places I couldn't get online with the old one. Slightly bigger screen but, strangely, text on web pages (including AS) is slightly smaller. Early days, but for a £240 phone I'm happy so far.

[RoverFolkUs]

4 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Slightly bigger screen but, strangely, text on web pages (including AS) is slightly smaller.

Settings > display > font > text size

Adjust to your liking 

[RoverFolkUs]

A retreat from cambelt roulette just in the nick of time... 

2016 Focus 

[alcyonecorporation]

On 2/5/2023 at 6:41 AM, sutty2006 said:

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. 

if nothing else, it should be well lit 

[HMC]

I took the opportunity to leave the roof off the ropey Boxster all day as it was tucked in the corner of the works car park, and it’s at the point where I think I’ve fixed the leak into the cabin, but it’s taking ages to dry out, given the time of year.

No doubt the foam backing will need properly drying by pulling the seats and carpet to sort that properly. But that stripped out autoshite version of a GT3 lightweight can wait until the spring.

To think Porsche used to charge more for less content; I’m getting it for free!

[Pat Earrings]

On 2/5/2023 at 10:55 AM, HMC said:

Mid engined, rear bicycled 

Curious..that tape on the front of the plate..have you put it there? We usually tell people to do that if they’ve had theirs cloned, just so we can differentiate from the genuine.

[HMC]

17 minutes ago, Pat Earrings said:

Curious..that tape on the front of the plate..have you put it there? We usually tell people to do that if they’ve had theirs cloned, just so we can differentiate from the genuine.

I was in the middle of a plate change to my plate wanker plate 😂

[Leyland Worldmaster]

19 hours ago, wuvvum said:

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...

I had these fitted to my '75 and they gave piece of mind. 

https://rimmerbros.com/Item--i-RSC000131

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Settings > display > font > text size

Adjust to your liking 

Have just tried that, it makes text & menu fonts bigger (and this as I type it) bigger, but not AS or webmail. It's not a problem though, was just a comment.

[RoverFolkUs]

19 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Have just tried that, it makes text & menu fonts bigger (and this as I type it) bigger, but not AS or webmail. It's not a problem though, was just a comment.

Huh, strange then! 

[wuvvum]

2 hours ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

I had these fitted to my '75 and they gave piece of mind. 

https://rimmerbros.com/Item--i-RSC000131

Those are actually a bloody good idea.  Wish I'd known about them sooner...