What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[sierraman]

Funny man!

[SiC]

My youngest bought a Megane C+C that we collected on Thursday.

 

Friday the EML is on, the passenger window won't open and the timing belt that was logged as being done at 54,000 wasn't actually done.

 

She was getting her tame mechanic to fit a new belt & water pump but phoned the seller and he has arranged for an auto-spark to fix the window and the garage that did the service and MOT on Thursday morning to fix the EML.

 

Not to bad for a £1500 car that she paid £1250 for. She loves it and says it is nice to be back in a 'grown-up' car after that last two Fiestas and a heap of a Clio.

I guess tbf to the seller, he can only go on service history from what paperwork he has got. Also if it's a Mégane II CC, the window control modules going pop quite literally likely did it after you bought it. They do love to die those modules. A cottage industry revolves around fixing those modules.

 

Fair play to the seller/dealer if he's fixing a £1250 car and not buggering about trying not to. Many dealers won't even touch the Mégane II. Even won't want to even partex one in for scrap!

[LightBulbFun]

My mum had a Megan in early 2014 that shat its passenger window too literally the day or so after she got it (aka the first big trip out with it) eventually after us freezing balls off for a couple hours waiting for the previous owner to arrive, said previous owner ripped the door card off and propped the window up with a block of wood...

 

what a hateful piece of shit that car was

 

no idea what Megan it was other than it being a 56 plate...

[beko1987]

The rear windows in the silver gooner never worked, and I was told it was these magic control packs.

 

They stayed not working too, since I never sit in the back and stuff

[SiC]

That'll be a Mégane II.

[DodgeRover]

Contentment is sharpening your woodchisels on a Saturday night with a few cans of beer.

Can you pop over and show me how to sharpen the tips of my knives? Chisels I can do with a diamond whet stone but no matter what I try the ends of my knives end up blunt

[155V6]

[DeeJay]

[mrbenn]

I’ve gone to my happy place this evening...

[sierraman]

Can you pop over and show me how to sharpen the tips of my knives? Chisels I can do with a diamond whet stone but no matter what I try the ends of my knives end up blunt

I just use a knife hone, one of those round files.

[DodgeRover]

I just use a knife hone, one of those round files.

I'll go and look it up, I have got a steel which I use on it to get the main part of the blade close to shaving sharpness

[sierraman]

On most knives you don’t need a razor edge right at the tip of the blade, like a saw the centre 2/3 of the blade does the work.

 

Waiting for ALDI to get their £8 chisels in again, I’ve got loads of old GTL and Footprint chisels but some new ones would be handy for finer work.

[loserone]

Those chisels are great, especially if you sharpen them properly before you use them

[myglaren]

I’ve gone to my happy place this evening...

Haven't done that in at least ten years

[myglaren]

On most knives you don’t need a razor edge right at the tip of the blade, like a saw the centre 2/3 of the blade does the work.

 

Waiting for ALDI to get their £8 chisels in again, I’ve got loads of old GTL and Footprint chisels but some new ones would be handy for finer work.

I have an £8 set of chisels I bought in Boyes in Whitby, probably fifteen years ago.  Unopened, still just use the crap B&Q ones they were to replace.

[myglaren]

Can you pop over and show me how to sharpen the tips of my knives? Chisels I can do with a diamond whet stone but no matter what I try the ends of my knives end up blunt

After watching several videos (not the one below) I bought a Japanese whetstone and find it  superb -  I do have some Japanese knives but rarely use them, my favourite is a cheap SS one from (IIRC) Sainsburys - about £8 some ten years ago - maybe more.

Stone was about £16

Honing it is about the most boring job imaginable though.

 

[sierraman]

The ALDI ones are actually really good. A lot of the old chisels I have I got front car boots etc, so a lot have been neglected for years, i make sure they are flat on the base and progressively cut the face back on a dead flat surface until I get to 1200 grit then cut the edge on the whetstone at 25 deg.

[DodgeRover]

On most knives you don’t need a razor edge right at the tip of the blade, like a saw the centre 2/3 of the blade does the work.

 

Waiting for ALDI to get their £8 chisels in again, I’ve got loads of old GTL and Footprint chisels but some new ones would be handy for finer work.

 

I tend to do a lot of work with the tip, I use mine rather than a stanley blade so the tip gets well used, also for slicing pallet wrap/ packaging etc i need to get the tip in to get the cut started

[Tamworthbay]

Mum is out of hospital!!! Only in a day this time, the fall has hit her hard but she seems chippa, they don’t make em like they used to....

[eddyramrod]

Now THAT's what I call good news

[mrbenn]

Haven't done that in at least ten years

 

This laptop hadn't been done in 2563 days! I run it on Windows 98 (or 95, can't remember....) for a few old games. Battery still works a treat! But the clock is wrong....

 

 

Mum is out of hospital!!! Only in a day this time, the fall has hit her hard but she seems chippa, they don’t make em like they used to....

 

Great news. Glad she isn't stuck in there!

[Pillock]

Pintrest!

 

I thought it was a place for mad old women to share pictures of curtains, or bridezillas to passively-aggressively demand the entire contents of their wedding. But no! It turns out it's a place where copyright only exists as a vague idea so you can build up a collection of, for example, old photos of city centres full of 70s chod, proper buses and pedestrians confined to the pavement where they belong. I've just lost three hours between a Pintrest search for "1970 nottingham" and Google Street View to compare the scenes. Bliss.

 

Although now I feel old as much of Nottingham has been redeveloped twice in my lifetime. In the 1980s they did a load of shopping centres and put some new-fangled dual carriageways in, and now they're having to update everything because they look decidedly..... 80s.

[andy18s]

How have you not found Pintrest before now????

[Pillock]

I had, but their website nags you beyond belief for a login. Scroll down one page and it blanks out and wants your details. Used to be able to block the overlay with ad-blocker but they've changed it. Finally gave in and signed up.

 

Also everyone else I knew used it did so for craft stuff, just never realised I could cream myself over old snapshots of familiar places.

[mrbenn]

Same here. I used to think Pinterest existed solely for people to put pictures of either their massive kitchen or their dog looking out of a window while having an existential crisis.

[Pillock]

Name that vehicle....

[adw1977]

Looks like a Morris Ital light cluster.

[Pillock]

It does, but it's not on an Ital.

 

They're steps behind it.

[John F]

Is it a Stannah Stairlift?

[Tayne]

Is it a speedboat?

 

Lookarwhatyoucouldawon!