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Negative Creep Rank: Lancia Gamma

Negative Creep

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Sainsburys sell sour cream and chive dips. Suddenly my life is not a depressing meaningless void

Volksy Rank: Renault 16

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Sorry Volksy, I should be saying that I part own a Lancia. :wink:

 

LoL, I swept most of the remains of the floor/subframe/subframe mounts/sills/innersills/crossmember up on Saturday, which was dust I will admit.

 

Rolling about in all that fitting all the mechanics back in has left my back looking like i've been attacked by something from 'The Birds' (Hitchcocks one).

vulgalour Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Beautiful, this picture made me grin reading through this thread. You might find the crackling is coming from a rough connection and/or the needle needs replacing from what I remember of old turntables. Definitely something to keep and admire and use a lot, if I didn't have the Dynatron I'd be jealous.

M'coli Rank: Isuzu Florian

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^^^This has made me grin, as has today's antics at my Open Uni residential school. We were tasked with preparing a computer simulation of a truss structure and then attempt to translate it into a real structure to be tested to destruction, and then compare the computer prediction with the real world result. The one designed by my lab partner and I not only got closest to the computer prediction, but much to the tutor's disgust broke his test rig. :D:D:D Smug does NOT even begin to describe it!

DSdriver Rank: Lancia Gamma

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...We were tasked with preparing a computer simulation of a truss structure and then attempt to translate it into a real structure to be tested to destruction, and then compare the computer prediction with the real world result. The one designed by my lab partner and I not only got closest to the computer prediction, but much to the tutor's disgust broke his test rig. :D:D:D Smug does NOT even begin to describe it!

 

Surgical truss? :shock:

DSdriver Rank: Lancia Gamma

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Ah things have come on a bit since I was at college, we had to support a brick off the ground purely with folded paper and non of the structure directly under the brick. Mine held up for about twenty seconds. :(

Conrad D. Conelrad Rank: Lancia Gamma

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I was a bit grim today, I've been feeling really fatigued all week and today ate two whole bags of Maoam Pinballs which didn't help.

 

But then I noticed that the trousers I can't wear without a belt are a 36in waist, which is great considering it wasn't long ago I popped the button off a 40in pair with elastic sections in the waistband. Have now lost 93lb, that's more than six and a half stone :shock: Can't believe how god damn fat I was.

Lord Sterling Rank: Isuzu Florian

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Well, je suis now abroad chez FATHA_STERLINGs. Hopefully now, a week and a half of relaxation. :mrgreen:

trigger Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Beautiful, this picture made me grin reading through this thread. You might find the crackling is coming from a rough connection and/or the needle needs replacing from what I remember of old turntables. Definitely something to keep and admire and use a lot, if I didn't have the Dynatron I'd be jealous.

 

Thank you, I'm pleased with it, It's still got it's original stylus which flips over to play 16's so that could be why i have some background noise but it's most likely a connection somewhere. I bought another record for it today, You can't beat a bit of the Animals, I've even made a crappy video!.

 

Louise2cv Rank: Renault 16

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Wishing "nesting instinct" could be bottled, I'd be made for life.

 

In the last couple of weeks I've totally redecorated the hall/stairwell/landing including some OMG-scary-wobbly-ladder-over-stairs action; tidied the shed and understairs cupboard out resulting in a huge amount of crap disappearing to the tip; made the dining room usable again after it had become a junkroom/overflow for understairs cupboard and shed/ laundry room; put up shelves in the understairs cupboard so its more like a pantry; built Megan a climbing wall and kept on top of the housework and both back and front gardens.

 

Yesterday afternoon alone saw the backyard and side passage jetwashed, the lawn cut, 2 loads of washing washed and dried and the drains rodded and jetwashed in about 4hrs.

 

Bearing in mind I'm 8 months pregnant and can only do stuff like that when Matt is on rest days so he can look after Megan, I think it's not bad going (for a fat lady).

 

My legs do hurt a bit now though :roll:

pompei Rank: Renault 16

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Louise, you've still got a month to go, how about coming round and sorting this place out? :D Mrs P is a midwife so could give you plenty of pep talks...

trigger Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Back in January i had a message over on Flickr asking if The Australian Classic Car magazine could use one of my images for it's magazine, in the end they decided to use a Ford press image but asked for my address and offered to post me a copy of their magazine, I completely forgot about this story until this morning when a copy arrived on my door mat, All i can say is the Aussies have some bloody lovely cars!.

 

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vulgalour Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Being told "Ah, I see you've come as Jason King" tonight thanks to my atrocious outfit. I have no pictures of me, so you'll have to wait until I'm furnished with them at some point in the near future.

Spiny Norman Rank: Lancia Gamma

Spiny Norman

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Is that Mike Brewer in the black jacket? :?

Pete-M Rank: Isuzu Florian

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Oh yeah, this'll be fun. Couple of weeks ago myself and Herr Watanabe of this parish went for a McDonalds after visiting the top secret Wirral Autoshite Storage Facility.

 

This morning I got a letter from Highview Parking stating that I should give them £75, or £50 if paid promptly because we were parked there for longer than their permitted time.

 

Er, no. Not fucking happening.

 

Highview Parking, if you'd like to lose in court then do your worst. You ain't getting a penny from me, and I don't care that you have pretty pictures of my car.

 

I'm looking forward to this. Oh, and it's £500 a day if you want me to attend court. Ta.

Cavcraft Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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WINNAH! Don't forget your camera.

whitevanman Rank: Renault 16

whitevanman

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Buying Herr_Bol's P100.......it's made my day :D8)

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