What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

I double checked yesterday, and I've definitely got a junction box with some 2.5mm T&E coming out of it nailed to a 18" plank of wood balanced on top of the open topped cold water tank. 

 

Perhaps it's some sort of warning system, if the ballcock jams and the tank overfills the electrics (hopefully) trip as a signal.

 

That's brilliant that & people wonder why we aren't allowed to wire our own houses now.

[wuvvum]

To finalise the item started by Castros Bro, The gentleman appeared in court today. It would seem that he had been also identified on a store surveillance video too....

 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11715716

The man sounds like an utter penis, but how the fuck can a sleeping bag be worth 560 quid?

[Mr A Lawrence]

Best car sticker ever.

[vulgalour]

Marvellous moment in town car park today.  A driver bumped into the car in front in horrible stop-start queues at school kicking out time.  The driver in front got out and was clearly at that time in his day (we've all been there) and pretty much exploded when the driver did it again.  Both bumps were at approximately 0.0000000001mph.  So as he's starting to cause a scene, asking her to get out, the guy that does the car washes in the car park steps over and very calmly totally defuses the situation, I don't know what he said, but it was enough to restore order.  There was no massive hoohah, the situation just fizzled out and everyone got on with their day, it was quite surreal really.

 

In other exciting* news, I now have a toad in my garage at home.  I paid for delivery using see-through fivers.

[fordperv]

i was a little bored yesterday afternoon so thought id fire into project teabag which is a mk1 sierra for mrs fp, i started cutting out rot in the drivers front wheel arch and knocking up repair sections for it, i split the repair into 2 sections as the area was so large and the shape would have been difficult to make

 

first section welded up

 

 

second section which i did today

mid making the repair section, the repair goes into the engine bay

 

 

had to also make up a wing strengthener

 

all welded in, ill grind the welds back more when im at the fill and paint stage

 

 

next up is one more patch to do at the back of the inner arch then move into the engine bay and replace the inner wing

[DVee8]

Nowt to do with cars at all but I have just seen the most unexpected moltesers advert on Dave.

[scaryoldcortina]

I think I know the one you mean. Spasm?

[DVee8]

Yep that's the one.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Got an email from DVLA offering unsold numbers from this week's auction, some pretty optomistic reserves, so no wonder they didn't sell. Wonder if he'd buy it if I invest* £2,200?

[Craig the Princess]

I'm amazed so-called IS haven't bought 20TX for their so-called Renault

[vulgalour]

Quite like 733 HEE, not enough to spend £1200 on it of course.  Surprised 837 TY didn't sell, perhaps Betty isn't as popular a name as once it was?

[robinmasters]

Benjamin.

I was at school with a Ben. He was usually referred to as Bendyourminge.

[STUNO]

The man sounds like an utter penis, but how the fuck can a sleeping bag be worth 560 quid?

 

It is if you steal the best from a hideously expensive upmarket shop !

[andy18s]

[robinmasters]

As you become older, you start to realise your parents were right. They were.

 

The Rolling Stones. Fucking brilliant.

 

If you're not familiar their work, I recommend you become so. Start with Sympathy for Devil, and Gimme Shelter.

[dave21478]

OMGRAFFLECOPYCAT......ahem

 

 

Jesus.

Imagine just popping over to France for your dream* camping holiday....you would catch the rear overhang on the ferry ramp and rip the whole thing right off!

[andy18s]

Far end of the Shed Of Dreams has been annexed by the Peoples Front of Autoshite....

All are entranced by the 03 Galaxy before them....

[Pillock]

I figured this was happening so gave you my best suspicious look.

[beko1987]

just got back from thame food festival, which we have never been to before, it's fucking huge!

 

the official beer tent was £4.50 a pint (from bottles). I found an exhibitor (can't remember the brewery name) doing milk bottles full of nice ale for £3!

 

 

cadged a plastic cup from the main bar when my mate got a thatcher s, and bought 5 of them, got 2 left!

 

stocked up on sandwich spread too, and some nice chocolate. also got a bit cocky at a Chilli sauce stand (i have quite a high Chilli threshold) and after politely declaring his strongest stuff very nice but not too spicy he pulled a label less bottle from under the counter. 4 drops on a cracker and I had to sit down! fuck me it was spicy. sadly he wasn't selling it, just bought it with him for a laugh, apparently I took it better than most, most people (drunk) screamed, I just had watery eyes and needed a rolly quickly, and the apple juice stall next to them gave me a glass of juice for free which helped.

 

 

 

Ace day!

[beko1987]

and now I'm in a pub! today is a good day. got internal wiring tomorrow, should be fun!

[Mr Lobster]

got internal wiring tomorrow, should be fun!

Is this a euphemism for something with which I am not familiar?

[vulgalour]

Given his chilli report, it could well be!

[Timewaster]

That chilli could definitely cause an internal short circuit!

[beko1987]

I'll worry about that tomorrow! got given shots, I'm signing out tonight!

[JeeExEll]

I double checked yesterday, and I've definitely got a junction box with some 2.5mm T&E coming out of it nailed to a 18" plank of wood balanced on top of the open topped cold water tank.

 

Perhaps it's some sort of warning system, if the ballcock jams and the tank overfills the electrics (hopefully) trip as a signal.

Be careful there mate, the 2.5 supplying that socket was possibly an old now-disused immersion water-heater point. Am just guessing, but if so then this will be a dedicated circuit on it's own back at the mains board and probably NOT rcd protected. This is not ideal but it's ok to use disused circuit for a socket provided you remember it's not rcd protected.

 

Def worth checking and relocate to somewhere a little bit safer. Switch off breaker / remove fuse.

 

Could write a book on iffy domestic electrical stuff like this.

 

Edit -

One house I went to work in had been wired by the previous owner entirely in stranded purple car cable, all wires one size regardless of circuit. Lives, neutrals, and earths all purple. Some socket circuits were ring circuits and some just stopped at the socket furthest from the mains board, all protected by 30A rewirable fuses. (Yes, he'd rewired the house and kept the ancient fuseboard). No earths wired at all on lighting circuits, with a metal light fitting in bathroom and metal bar-heater above the bath on the lighting circuit. No cable clips used in the attic, wires just strung out loosely point-to-point round cardboard boxes and through masses of attic clutter and old clothes and broken furniture, beds, etc, which filled a skip.

 

What was more worrying though was the fact that the previous owner of the house was a technician in the RAF.

 

But, hey, this is Autoshite, not Sparkyshite . . .

[Tamworthbay]

Be careful there mate, the 2.5 supplying that socket was possibly an old now-disused immersion water-heater point. Am just guessing, but if so then this will be a dedicated circuit on it's own back at the mains board and probably NOT rcd protected. This is not ideal but it's ok to use disused circuit for a socket provided you remember it's not rcd protected.

Def worth checking and relocate to somewhere a little bit safer. Switch off breaker / remove fuse.

Could write a book on iffy domestic electrical stuff like this.

But, hey, this is Autoshite, not Sparkyshite . . .

and me, problem is it was just on our House! The wall lights were wired in with car speaker cable. The plaster was burnt black. The garage had a timer that continued to turn even with every fuse out but went off with the main switch, and many many more.

[Sheefag]

DOES NOT COMPUTE. I'm struggling to think of anywhere Coedpoeth is nicer than.

 

It was the 80's, Coedpoeth was lovely then and full of pubs, I had a flat above Family Fashions on the High St and the view was amazing. You could see the Pennines on a clear day.

 

On the other hand, Ruabon was full of cunts and as for Plas Madoc, Rhos, Johnstown, Ponciau, Cefn Mawr etc, just FUCK.

 

And Blacon.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Far end of the Shed Of Dreams has been annexed by the Peoples Front of Autoshite....

All are entranced by the 03 Galaxy before them....

 

DW looks like he's waiting to see the headmaster lol

[beko1987]

our friend is being sick... lightweight he doesn't want the pasta I cooked... (he's not a shiter, that's his problem, 65 plate octavia and polite nodding when I excitedly and proudly told him I hadn't got a coolant leak, just a leak off pipe issues! (coolant leak would be bad, cook engine. fuel leak good, £5 fuel wasted but no cooked block!)

[hairnet]

Far end of the Shed Of Dreams has been annexed by the Peoples Front of Autoshite....

All are entranced by the 03 Galaxy before them....

'who stole ma mouthafkin chips'