shedenvy Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Bean trying to park like this for a fortnight now. Roobarb, Datsuncog, skattrd and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovorsche Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 2 hours ago, myglaren said: My grandad was a draughtsman/locomotive designer at the Doncaster works. We have a few of his drawings here and they are very impressive. My Mother did technical illustrations for BL for quite a while and I think some for Unipart. A lot of the BL illustrations related to cars being shipped to India in pieces to get around the import tax, keeping it in the family my Dad built the transport boxes for CKD (Complete Knock Down) to contain the parts being shipped. I dont know how well they got on with re-assembly though, as he always seemed to come home with his lunch tin filled with nuts and bolts after the stripdown hade been done. Roobarb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 3 hours ago, Remspoor said: Have you got a set of technical pens too? The thought hadn't occurred to me! I knew there was something I'd forgotten to buy. Alas I don't think I can afford the £60~ the MarsMatics cost these days so I'll have to do with a cheap set. I wasn't very good at inking lines, often I'd ruin a perfectly good drawing by making a dogs breakfast of inking it. I think I understand a bit better now though! Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 3 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said: Interesting! Are any of them General Arrangement drawings? Not a clue. Youngest daughter has snaffled most of them and is having them framed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 I don't think this is suitable for children CBeebies... blakey79, loserone, HarmonicCheeseburger and 10 others 3 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 3 hours ago, Remspoor said: I was a civil engineer. Started in a drawing office straight from school and worked my way up. That drawing set is similar to the one I had to purchase. Made in Germany, by MARS. Later the cases were totally plastic rather than the felt used in this one. I stated work in the early 70's. Later branded as Staedtler. Have you got a set of technical pens too? Used to have a load of Rotring technical pens, ostensibly for college but I had a thing for writing almost to small to be legible. Only one left now, anybody's guess where they went. Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 16 minutes ago, myglaren said: Not a clue. Youngest daughter has snaffled most of them and is having them framed. Was interested, as copies of GAs (the entire locomotive) are very very useful for modelmaking.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 I'll have to have a look when I get the chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovorsche Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Today a catalogue from Viking-Direct dropped through the door so I flicked through the "Most popular" bit and the sections for handwash and loo roll have been strip-mined With the exception of this 24 rolls for £5.99, surely a bargain! 48 rolls for £10.99!!11! Oh Noes it has a one-star review So the crazy ones ones getting tazered for Charmin do at least have standards and their bung holes, even still suffering involuntary spasms from the taser are worth more than one-star bog roll. ★ 1 out of 5 stars.· 11 months ago Would not buy again It's just cheap and no frills...not anything to suggest a bargain buy by any means. ✘ No, I do not recommend this product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gm Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 The lad who lives next door to my sister is apparently a mechanic - I'm not entirely convinced by this as he has had a Laguna 2 estate stood immobile in his back yard for at least two years while his daily is a seat Leon? that boldly wears the slogan "dirty diesel" as he drives too fast around the residential streets, clouds of clag belching behind him. karma has a sense of humour, it would seem - what top quality mechanic-ing has been going on here HarmonicCheeseburger, DVee8, reb and 5 others 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 The thing about things for designers and engineers is they were designed by the very people who use them. A very nicely built bit of kit, honestly nicer to use than the "proper" drawing boards we had at school. Bonus points for actually being quite comfortable to use without a table! Austat, myglaren and vulgalour 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 2 hours ago, gm said: The lad who lives next door to my sister is apparently a mechanic - I'm not entirely convinced by this as he has had a Laguna 2 estate stood immobile in his back yard for at least two years while his daily is a seat Leon? that boldly wears the slogan "dirty diesel" as he drives too fast around the residential streets, clouds of clag belching behind him. karma has a sense of humour, it would seem - what top quality mechanic-ing has been going on here By the look of the scrape on the bumper I'd say it's been top quality slid into a kerb-ing gm and myglaren 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 26 months and 14k miles ago I bought a high mileage Mercedes C32 AMG estate. Conventional wisdom suggests that buying high mileage hand built performance cars can be fiscally ruinous. This often creates a strange little dip in value when these cars are around 15 years old as they're too old for regular car folk to risk and not old enough for the "classic" car fraternity to show ant interest (often because classic insurance policies dictate the choices of cars available to the "practical classics" anoraks). I buy cars around 15 years old as they've done their depreciation, aren't sought after by any "scene" characters and parts tend to be plentiful in scrapyards for most 15 yr old cars. It's the final dip in the depreciation curve, and it tends to coincide with cheap parts. Win- win. Anyway. I did the maths comparing the costs of running, insuring, tax, servicing the C32 over 10k miles in comparison with the other half who runs a 2019 Aygo 1.0 Auto on a three year lease. Naturally, I've left the purchase price of the C32 out of my calculations, and the monthly cost of leasing the Aygo has been left in. Mainly because I've paid for the C32 and the Aygo costs money every month. The C32 costs less to run. Insanely, the insurance is cheaper than the Aygo, tax is £30/ month rather than £12, and the C32 averages 22 mpg where the Aygo does 50+. The fuel cost of the C32 is more than offset by not paying £189/ month the Aygo costs. The C32 needs £500/ year in maintenance to keep it running perfectly. The Aygo costs £145 every 9000 miles for a service at Toyota. The C32 has stopped depreciating. It's appreciating in value. The C32 is much more environmentally friendly, its covered 200+k miles. Keeping it running is far better for the planet than building a new car. I don't know what the meaning of this meandering ramble is, but thought I'd share anyway. dome, skattrd, Quintus and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gm Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 16 minutes ago, cobblers said: By the look of the scrape on the bumper I'd say it's been top quality slid into a kerb-ing handbrake turn-tastic I suspect in other news : this seems unusually cheap, better fill the tank asda, byker for any local shiters LightBulbFun, myglaren and Craig the Princess 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex66 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 40 minutes ago, gm said: handbrake turn-tastic I suspect in other news : this seems unusually cheap, better fill the tank asda, byker for any local shiters One of the Asda's in Boro is 115.9 or was when the Mrs filled up on Friday, ours is 116.9 (Skelton) so good cheep motoring times well relatively in the North East. myglaren and gm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Fuel prices starting to drift downwards in London/Herts; Sainsbury's North Watford is selling diesel at 118.9 and basic unleaded at 116.9. Across the way, Asda is marginally cheaper still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerzy Woking Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 21 hours ago, reb said: I got them for the grand total of £6.50 posted! They're stamped with "GERMANY" so I think must be prewar. Far far better made than anything I could get new for similar money! Hopefully I still know how to use them! Don't you just jab them into the thigh of the kid sitting next to you? wuvvum, DeeJay, myglaren and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltox Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 ? Jerzy Woking, jumpingjehovahs, paulplom and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floatylight Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Had a call from the Police earlier with good news, a couple of years ago now I reported some strange goings on in a car parked next to me at a retail park where I was waiting for Mrs FL, people were coming and going, sitting in the back seat and firing many small packages into the back seat, looked like fashion accessories, gave the plod the reg no and they caught them with all the loot in the car Turns out I helped crack a group of thieving scum who have stolen many thousands of pounds worth stuff and last week they were in court, sadly most of them got suspended sentences and community rehab orders but the surprising bit is thebjudre thought I went above and beyond by helping to bring them to justice and awarded me £150!!Result!!Is it bad my first thought was about buying tools?Sent from my SM-A505FN using Tapatalk coupso, Craig the Princess, adw1977 and 17 others 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSdriver Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Today my new bench drill press arrived and upon assembly I was excited to find that it has a variomatic drive. I always fancied driving a Daf LightBulbFun, Roobarb and myglaren 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 58 minutes ago, Floatylight said: .... the judge thought I went above and beyond by helping to bring them to justice and awarded me £150!! Result!! Is it bad my first thought was about buying tools? Could have been a lot worse; you might have been thinking about acquiring your next piece of prime chod. Floatylight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovorsche Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 A pop up advert in a local online newspaper made me grin. An online chat filter tool to counter harsh language in social media, no idea how it works and I certainly wont be using it but is the name accidental or intentional. If you have a problem on-line, and nobody else can help you need to engage the twohat filter https://www.twohat.com/ How do you pronounce that one ? HarmonicCheeseburger, loserone, stonedagain and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 20 hours ago, reb said: The thought hadn't occurred to me! I knew there was something I'd forgotten to buy. Alas I don't think I can afford the £60~ the MarsMatics cost these days so I'll have to do with a cheap set. I wasn't very good at inking lines, often I'd ruin a perfectly good drawing by making a dogs breakfast of inking it. I think I understand a bit better now though! I do not think I have got mine any more either. I had my technical drawing items when I moved to The Netherlands, just in case. But when I moved to Spain I sold a lot of surplus items stencils pens, scale rulers etc all went for a few Euros. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 19 hours ago, myglaren said: Used to have a load of Rotring technical pens, ostensibly for college but I had a thing for writing almost to small to be legible. Only one left now, anybody's guess where they went. I remember them. I seem to remember a choice of black or red/brown body. Maybe time has played a trick on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 The only ones I ever saw were black with the red ring. The Mars alternatives were multicoloured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roobarb Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 I used to have red/brown Rotrings along with black. I inherited an electric pencil rubber from my Dad who was an architect- you don’t see those any more. Or people with razors by their boards for slashing their wrists... um scratching out their inked in Rotring mistakes. Probably because it’s easier (I’m dyslexic) but I still write everything in freehand capitals to this day. No, I’m not shouting! Funnily, no-one has ever suggested that (to my face). Normally it’s ‘Isnt your handwriting so neat!’ Today, I mostly am using... SolidWorks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 The rich are different to you and me. Even their speeding offences are committed differently..... Springer and Disco Fever 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyrew Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Finally after years of saying we should go , me and my better half went to London and watched The book of Mormon, and it was bloody funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Grump that turned into a grin. Got home to find a PCN from the Dartford Crossing on the doormat. Fair cop, I knew I'd forgotten to pay (I did pay, but two days later). Thought I'd better ring up the automated phone line and pay it straight away, before I forgot again and the charge went up to the higher level. Went through the menu, entered the PCN number, and the robot woman goes "The amount due is two pounds and fifty pence". Aye, I'll take that... stonedagain, myglaren and Craig the Princess 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morris_ital_lover Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Watching This Country on the Beeb and there's been some brilliant chod in it including a Volvo 940 and a minty Nissan Bluebird - the latest episode even has an Allegro Vanden Plas in the background. Surely there must be a shiter involved somewhere in the team behind it. cobblers and Tadhg Tiogar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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