What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[fairkens]

4 hours ago, Wack said:

 

New tyres fitted, £180 for 4, china's finest designed in Europe specials  INCORRECT , made in Poland

Put some power down on a roundabout and didn't end up going back where I'd come from so they might be OK 

Please tell me you went straight home and washed your wheels

[Wack]

14 hours ago, fairkens said:

Please tell me you went straight home and washed your wheels

Chucking it down so unfortunately not, the wheels are the least of this cars problems, it's been left in the sun for a long time, the lacquer on the boot lid and bonnet has lifted all over in 3mm bits, front is crunched, back bumper has hardly any paint on it, drivers mirror casing broken 

This car is a 'drive it until something big breaks car' the tyres were badly cracked so they needed replacing, it drives really well, nice and tight so it's going to stay as it is 

The only thing it doesn't seem to have for an early Mk2 is raging rust 

Those white blobs on the boot aren't water spots, it's where the lacquer has chipped off in small dots 

[DavieW]

Maybe not grin worthy for me, but might raise a smile from someone reading this.

This afternoon I saw who I thought was my niece walking the same direction as I was driving. I thought I'd offer her a lift and I was about to slow down and shout to her "do you want to see some puppies?" when I realised it wasn't her. Close escape or I might have been some ones play thing in the slammer tonight.

[somewhatfoolish]

Were you driving a scruffy Cortina Mk4?

[Snake Charmer]

23 minutes ago, DavieW said:

I was about to slow down and shout to her "do you want to see some puppies?" when I realised it wasn't her. 

Why did you not resort to the Werthers Originals? 🤔

[Snake Charmer]

9 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

 

F

Lembert & Butler, French? Might be re-branded Gitanes....

[Wack]

9 hours ago, Snake Charmer said:

Lembert & Butler, French? Might be re-branded Gitanes....

I watched a program on TV about fraud , they raided an industrial unit in the UK and were shocked at what they found, a full counterfeit cigarettes setup , everything from printing the actual fag boxes and outer cartons to creating exact visual replicas of the cigarettes, obviously what was in them was a mystery, in a drawer they found another address which they also raided , in that was a whisky distillery with everything there to create counterfeit whisky, not just tipping cheap whisky into expensive bottles, the whole distillery , it looked that good I had no idea why they were creating counterfeit whisky

[Richard_FM]

3 hours ago, Wack said:

I watched a program on TV about fraud , they raided an industrial unit in the UK and were shocked at what they found, a full counterfeit cigarettes setup , everything from printing the actual fag boxes and outer cartons to creating exact visual replicas of the cigarettes, obviously what was in them was a mystery, in a drawer they found another address which they also raided , in that was a whisky distillery with everything there to create counterfeit whisky, not just tipping cheap whisky into expensive bottles, the whole distillery , it looked that good I had no idea why they were creating counterfeit whisky

A few fake vodka rings have been smashed in recent years, I hadn't heard of fake whisky!

[horriblemercedes]

13 hours ago, Snake Charmer said:

Lembert & Butler, French? Might be re-branded Gitanes....

Christopher Lambert & Butler, then?

[Blunderguts]

[vulgalour]

I wish I'd known about this before @SiC set to on his bumper, would have saved him a lot of effort and noise.  Took the most trashed of the spare Lanchester hubcaps, something that was pretty much destined for the bin, since it would be a great test for derusting something complicated and fragile.

24 hours later in an oxalic acid solution - I mix the crystals with warm water in quantities of About Right, and it does the job nicely - and then rinsed off with plain tap water and we've got quite an improvement.

That bracket you see came out blue too, which is the original paint colour.  I've dunked the hub cap back in the solution for another 24 hours to see if it'll get the last stubborn bits off.  Hub cap is still scrap, like, but it's shiny scrap now.  Practically no effort either for this, the hardest part of the job is turning a tap on and off.

[SiC]

1 minute ago, vulgalour said:

I wish I'd known about this before @SiC set to on his bumper, would have saved him a lot of effort and noise.  Took the most trashed of the spare Lanchester hubcaps, something that was pretty much destined for the bin, since it would be a great test for derusting something complicated and fragile.

24 hours later in an oxalic acid solution - I mix the crystals with warm water in quantities of About Right, and it does the job nicely - and then rinsed off with plain tap water and we've got quite an improvement.

That bracket you see came out blue too, which is the original paint colour.  I've dunked the hub cap back in the solution for another 24 hours to see if it'll get the last stubborn bits off.  Hub cap is still scrap, like, but it's shiny scrap now.  Practically no effort either for this, the hardest part of the job is turning a tap on and off.

I did actually know about that as (iirc) @PhilA has done it before but I forgot. I'm not sure if it would have worked that well with very flaky rust though? 

That said, I'd still have ended up attacking it with power tools as I would still have been expecting to paint it. Also an excuse to get the power tools out and make some noise 😀

[vulgalour]

It seems to totally ignore the chrome and only attack the rust, so you'd have still had the flakey chrome, just no rust to deal with.  I am boggled at how effective it is.

[High Jetter]

24 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

hardest part of the job is turning a tap on and off.

Hence the pliers?

[cobblers]

Setting up the new phone system for work and choosing hold music etc,

Pan Pipes Moods on youtube provided much inspiration

EDIT: its connected to a phone properly now so don't ring anymore

[richardmorris]

29 minutes ago, cobblers said:

Setting up the new phone system for work and choosing hold music etc,

Pan Pipes Moods on youtube provided much inspiration

call 01629 888488 for a sample. Press 0 for the wildcard

Preferred the panpipes. No Idea what the rapping was!

[Wibble]

3 hours ago, vulgalour said:

It seems to totally ignore the chrome and only attack the rust, so you'd have still had the flakey chrome, just no rust to deal with.  I am boggled at how effective it is.

We use oxalic acid for bleaching stains out of wood. Didn’t know it could also do this. Everyday’s a school day😁

[richardmorris]

Just now, Wibble said:

We use oxalic acid for bleaching stains out of wood. Didn’t know it could also do this. Everyday’s a school day😁

It’s a component in barkeepers friend cleaning stuff. Very good at getting copper pans shiny.

https://www.lakeland.co.uk/8868/bar-keepers-friend-stain-remover-300g

 

[PhilA]

3 hours ago, SiC said:

I did actually know about that as (iirc) @PhilA has done it before but I forgot. I'm not sure if it would have worked that well with very flaky rust though? 

That said, I'd still have ended up attacking it with power tools as I would still have been expecting to paint it. Also an excuse to get the power tools out and make some noise 😀

Worth it, incredibly effective stuff.

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, cobblers said:

Setting up the new phone system for work and choosing hold music etc,

Pan Pipes Moods on youtube provided much inspiration

call 01629 888488 for a sample. Press 0 for the wildcard

No Rage Against the Machine?🤣

[Blunderguts]

[Metal Guru]

12 hours ago, richardmorris said:

It’s a component in barkeepers friend cleaning stuff. Very good at getting copper pans shiny.

https://www.lakeland.co.uk/8868/bar-keepers-friend-stain-remover-300g

 

Rhubarb contains oxalic acid, stewing some will probably clean your copper pans too.

[horriblemercedes]

14 hours ago, cobblers said:

Setting up the new phone system for work and choosing hold music etc,

Pan Pipes Moods on youtube provided much inspiration

call 01629 888488 for a sample. Press 0 for the wildcard

Tried it. Would recommend

[vulgalour]

3 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Rhubarb contains oxalic acid, stewing some will probably clean your copper pans too.

Can confirm, but I didn't know it was because of the oxalic acid.  New thing learned!

[Metal Guru]

21 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

Can confirm, but I didn't know it was because of the oxalic acid.  New thing learned!

The leaves have a much higher level than the stalks, too high to safely eat, but would presumably clean better provided you rinsed it well.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Filtering diesel through cat litter doesn't seem like a good idea.

 

[vulgalour]

That was a productive day's work.  As well as recording for future videos, taking photographs for reference, double checking bits between this and our car, and actually doing the removal of parts, I was fielding questions to the general public that stopped by for a chat.  If you're a social creature, get a 50s car and work on it on your drive, you'll never want for company again!

[62 Austin]

On 4/3/2023 at 2:04 PM, Remspoor said:

 This guy should play the lottery too.

 

 

On 4/3/2023 at 2:04 PM, Remspoor said:

 This guy should play the lottery too.

 

There is a laundromat I used regularly which had this happen. "The Highlander" laundry in Pinedale, Wyoming was in the middle of the world's biggest natural gas drilling development in 2005, and some hoser came in with some coveralls straight from the drilling rig, soaked in distillates...the not oil/not gas liquid one has come out of an 8,000-ft.-deep well before the prime depth is reached. It's very flammable. He popped one or two pair of coveralls into the dryer after a wash --- their gaseous matter vapourized in the natural gas-fueled dryer and BOOM! The row of dryers all faced a couple of cheap plastic seats backed by a couple of  big windows and a concrete block structural wall. All of it was blown out into the parking lot by the blast and the whole wall had to be rebuilt before they reopened.

That's why there are signs at self-serve laundries saying NO DISTILLATES! NO GREASERS! NO DISGUSTING OIL & GREASE-SOAKED MECHANIC'S DUDS! 

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, 62 Austin said:

 

There is a laundromat I used regularly which had this happen. "The Highlander" laundry in Pinedale, Wyoming was in the middle of the world's biggest natural gas drilling development in 2005, and some hoser came in with some coveralls straight from the drilling rig, soaked in distillates...the not oil/not gas liquid one has come out of an 8,000-ft.-deep well before the prime depth is reached. It's very flammable. He popped one or two pair of coveralls into the dryer after a wash --- their gaseous matter vapourized in the natural gas-fueled dryer and BOOM! The row of dryers all faced a couple of cheap plastic seats backed by a couple of  big windows and a concrete block structural wall. All of it was blown out into the parking lot by the blast and the whole wall had to be rebuilt before they reopened.

That's why there are signs at self-serve laundries saying NO DISTILLATES! NO GREASERS! NO DISGUSTING OIL & GREASE-SOAKED MECHANIC'S DUDS! 

Interesting, the hoser wasn't aware of the hazards? Noway a 60 degree C wash will eradicate those oils.

[Metal Guru]

Numan medication for penile dysfunction. New ad features Action Man “having trouble.”

“Wow!These guys must be good.”, I thought to my myself , “Action Man doesn’t even have a cock!”