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2 hours ago, Andyrew said:

Yeah, china specials, bloody Unavoidable it seems unless you go for the american made ones at 200 plus roughly each. 

Uk based importers 1 body and 2 jaws so you have to swap the jaws out each time £115

China direct £90 ish again 1 body 2 jaws

These tho, 2 bodys 2 naws £145 delivered from germany. 

 

 

I suspect most US stuff of that nature is in large part from China, it's impossible to get close to their pricing and stay solvent for low end manufacturing; I think the US operate a percentage system, assemble chinese bits in a shed in Duluth and you get to slap a "Made in the USA" sticker on the box.

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Went to Leeds to take mrs. support bubble to a medical appointment. Took the disco as inclement. Somewhere on the M1 it rolled over 200,000 and didn't burst into flames or anything. Didn't even have anyone crash into me like I was half expecting. Here's to next 100K

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19 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

Went to Leeds to take mrs. support bubble to a medical appointment. Took the disco as inclement. Somewhere on the M1 it rolled over 200,000 and didn't burst into flames or anything. Didn't even have anyone crash into me like I was half expecting. Here's to next 100K

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Its gone the other way now, its a survivor! It's like buying a laguna2 nowadays, all the shit ones are gone via natural selection, what's left are the good ones* 

 

 

 

*no hopes or dreams given or implied... 

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Todays tat saved from the skip

Next to the skip save henry for scale, 

6ftx 3ft, with clamps and roofbars inside. I know the skip owner and he found the keys aswell after i asked if i could nab it out the skip. 

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I may be an actual womble.

After a scrub it will be going to sister-rew to upgrade her from the smaller one she has at the moment.

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17 hours ago, castros_bro said:

Sir,

There's two different flask/shutter synchronizations. Older type for flash bulb where flash starts shutter opens and closes then flash stops  ,  newer type (electronic) where shutter opens flash starts and stops then shutter closes.   Houston - you may have a problem.

 

The shutter (Prontor-S) does not have sync adjustment sadly- it's M only so will fire the electronic flash early.

I could probably create a delay in the electronics of the flash, but that's an arseache.

I'll not likely be taking inside pictures with it anyway so it shouldn't matter.

 

Phil

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me mam's clever with a sewing machine, she has run these new curtains up this week, so that the second hand ikea curtains in our bedroom can FINALLY be replaced.

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When i moved into home 20 years ago, i put a pair of curtains up that my sister had recently replaced as a "temporary" thing until i got sorted with something better. well, today that has actually happened. Tinky likes them, clever use of the "overlock" apparently.....

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he doesn't think much of the new "no climbing" rule though!

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10 hours ago, PhilA said:

The shutter (Prontor-S) does not have sync adjustment sadly- it's M only so will fire the electronic flash early.

I could probably create a delay in the electronics of the flash, but that's an arseache.

I'll not likely be taking inside pictures with it anyway so it shouldn't matter.

 

Phil

This is clearly a reason* to buy a bulb flash and impersonate Weegee.

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Twenty years ago this very weekend I was at Tan Hill.

Twenty fucking years.

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Some how I'm still here.

Not sure where the GSA is now.

It was a lovely thing, Cmatic gearbox was ace, but fuel consumption not so good.

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Here she is at Le Mans.

Jacky is still living with me.... just.

Megan the GSD died of very old age about 5 years ago :(

I guess there was no Tan Hill this year ?

Christ I'm old....

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13 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

That's not a phrase I've heard uttered very often...

You're right. 

I should have said "when it was working". To be fair it was a joy to use when it was working. 

Ony had to replace the box once in my ownership. 

Second time I fucked it off and bought a nice reliable xm v6 😁

Which turned out to be nice and reliable 🤔

 

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Today i found out that the Chinesium brand Roewe, in its history page, tells a short resume of the history of Rover, and doesn't hide the fact that they were born out of what remained of Rover. 

 

Not so much of a grin, but more of a smile, because in the middle of this, SAIC still has some respect for Rover

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This is an interesting read 

The life of Charles Lightoller

Survived the titanic, served in WW1 as a naval officer

Rescued 127 soldiers from Dunkirk and was the inspiration for Mark Rylance's character in the recent Dunkirk film 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lightoller

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