What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

14 hours ago, Vantman said:

Traffic jam in the Suez canal!!

The company which manages that ship was a client of mine up until a couple of years ago.  Lucky escape methinks...

(Not mine personally obvs, the company I work for, but I handled the account.)

[High Jetter]

Granada Sapphire? Sierra, shirley

[wuvvum]

Nope, there was a Mk2 Granada Sapphire - it was a special edition.

[Amishtat]

12 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Granada Sapphire? Sierra, shirley

No, I believe the Granada Sapphire was a special edition. Dark blue over silver, haven't seen one in about 25 years. 

[Amishtat]

Ha! Beaten to the punch by Wuv.. 

[wuvvum]

Jinx!

[wuvvum]

On 3/23/2021 at 7:18 AM, New POD said:

So mother in law's funeral yesterday. 

Where's the grin? 

She woke up in the middle of Saturday night saying her mum had been to see her and told her she was happy now and that she would be back again to make sure my wife was okay

 Daughter. Son and his Fiancee, came Sunday.  And we had a lovely evening. 

Funeral was short but perfect, came back and had a buffet of mother in law's favourite food. 

Then we all went to the beach. 

Son and Fiancee went home yesterday, daughter goes home today. 

Wife is very calm and has actually slept through the night for the first time in months. 

Chat was mostly about son's new house, (survey came through whilst we were on the beach) and about the wedding at the end of June. 

My new suit was deemed very acceptable.  Apparently I need a white shirt. 

I digress.  Wife calm. I'm grinning. 

I too was happy to read this, although I initially misinterpreted this bit:

Quote

So mother in law's funeral yesterday. 

Where's the grin? 

She woke up in the middle of Saturday night

...and had to do a double take.

[STUNO]

I drive a school bus, each day I do 420 Km's aka 261 miles. That includes to and from the school where the bus is parked by company car. One of the roads I drive the bus over is a diabolically rough rutted dirt road, the whole bus just crashes and shakes making an ear-splitting racket four times a day.

[myglaren]

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Just went on iPlayer to check I wasn’t mistaken in thinking I saw a Sapphire,  seems it is. Wonder what’s under the cover?  Capri? Mustang ? 


 

That’s the only glimpse, we get, I’m afraid.

The homeowner was a smug looking git, with good reason, it seems.

[myglaren]

 

[beko1987]

Reckon if I hooked this up to the fag lighter or similar then with the ignition on crank the handle like fuck it'd highlight any sub par wiring... 

 

Reading the manual it does 500v... Nipples anyone? 

[Ghosty]

If you put 'pikey' into Google Images the first picture that comes up is of Jeremy Clarkson... 

[Jerzy Woking]

Just seen that Channel4 are showing the film "Locke" very early tomorrow morning.

Basically all shot in a BMW on the motorway. Real life then.

[Remspoor]

22 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Just watched some game show on BBC 1 about guessing who owns a house.  Quite entertaining, but the best bit was when they showed inside the garage, there was only a dusty Mk2 Granada Sapphire in there!

In my day that programme was called "THROUGH THE KEYHOLE".

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

16 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

In my day that programme was called "THROUGH THE KEYHOLE".

 

No, nothing like that , you need to watch it for it to make sense.

[LightBulbFun]

5 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Reckon if I hooked this up to the fag lighter or similar then with the ignition on crank the handle like fuck it'd highlight any sub par wiring... 

 

Reading the manual it does 500v... Nipples anyone? 

ah the good old mega tester 

"here hold this while I turn this handle"

[Fumbler]

5 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Reckon if I hooked this up to the fag lighter or similar then with the ignition on crank the handle like fuck it'd highlight any sub par wiring... 

 

Reading the manual it does 500v... Nipples anyone? 

It's an insulation resistance tester. Still very much in use (albeit all mainstream ones are digital), I also believe you can still get these manual ones calibrated!

I doubt it'll help much with your lighter conundrums, however. It's also for use when the system is dead and isolated as shoving 500VDC through things like diodes, relays, dodgy contacts etc. can and will result in exciting fires.

While dicking around in the workshop last week, one of our tutors got some of my classmates to hold the probes. "Ooh! It tingles!" they said. If they probed other places, things would have been extremely funny horribly unsafe and could have resulted in permanent nerve damage.

[beko1987]

43 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

It's an insulation resistance tester. Still very much in use (albeit all mainstream ones are digital), I also believe you can still get these manual ones calibrated!

I doubt it'll help much with your lighter conundrums, however. It's also for use when the system is dead and isolated as shoving 500VDC through things like diodes, relays, dodgy contacts etc. can and will result in exciting fires.

While dicking around in the workshop last week, one of our tutors got some of my classmates to hold the probes. "Ooh! It tingles!" they said. If they probed other places, things would have been extremely funny horribly unsafe and could have resulted in permanent nerve damage.

Its a piece of kit I've read about without realising, on all the service manuals up until the mid 90s they give the ohm readings of the field coil and other bits, I've got the perfect demo for it too, one of my 1930s Hoovers is fully re wired and another of them is fucking lethal... As long as I don't touch it it'd be interesting to see if its up to spec! 

Would I have anything to gain by servicing it? I'd like to have it apart to clean it, although is that a good idea? 

Already on the vacuum groups some of the old Hoover engineers have gone all teary eyed over it, apparently they don't like being dropped on a concrete floor from the bench. Noted! 

I'm ignoring the 'you might also like' suggestion of the better condition one with plain leather case. Only really wanted it for a cheap bit of Hoover history, once I've used it once it'll go away with the rest. 

[Wack]

I read something and it reminded me of this 

25  years ago my wife and I went to Luxor , the airport was chaos , all the planes seemed to land at once so passport control was a joke.

Coming back the queue was out of the airport

We got out of the taxi and a guy wearing a suit asked which airline we were flying with

Ah yes, this way please , he picked all the bags up and started walking down the queue so we followed him

We got almost to the front and he went up to a German couple , excuse me , excuse me. , they protested but moved and he put our bags where they'd been stood

There you are sir with his hand out

It was at that point I realised he didn't work at the airport 

I could feel the eyes burning into the back of my head 

 

[Fumbler]

5 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Its a piece of kit I've read about without realising, on all the service manuals up until the mid 90s they give the ohm readings of the field coil and other bits, I've got the perfect demo for it too, one of my 1930s Hoovers is fully re wired and another of them is fucking lethal... As long as I don't touch it it'd be interesting to see if its up to spec! 

Would I have anything to gain by servicing it? I'd like to have it apart to clean it, although is that a good idea? 

Already on the vacuum groups some of the old Hoover engineers have gone all teary eyed over it, apparently they don't like being dropped on a concrete floor from the bench. Noted! 

I'm ignoring the 'you might also like' suggestion of the better condition one with plain leather case. Only really wanted it for a cheap bit of Hoover history, once I've used it once it'll go away with the rest. 

With regards to calibration and servicing, it depends on if you want to use it as it was by the technicians. It's an analogue device and analogue devices require fine tuning to work correctly. For general cleaning, just whip it apart and see, I can't see any iddues apart from any cloth-covered wiring inside faling part or something.

[Ghosty]

3 hours ago, Jerzy Woking said:

Just seen that Channel4 are showing the film "Locke" very early tomorrow morning.

Basically all shot in a BMW on the motorway. Real life then.

Actually a pretty good film. 

[808 Estate]

[chaseracer]

Musical Offspring gone done a thing.  Online graduation ceremony just finished... 🙂

 

[willswitchengage]

[angle]

[Floatylight]

5 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Musical Offspring gone done a thing.  Online graduation ceremony just finished... 🙂

 

Congratulations  Aidan 👏 👏 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, angle said:

Is it yours? Wots ur bezt prize m9?

[Wack]

Can you hear a helicopter , I'm sure I can , can't see one though 😃 

 

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