What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Caffiend]

^ That. And thanks Beko, as it is a new-ish Henry (a mere 3 years old from memory) it will have the filter round the motor, will only do that if the smell doesn't go away after doing the rest.

 

@ Ballsy-man: suspect provenance is from this amazing guy who also has a Faecebook page (Jim'll paint it) if you are on there.

[r.welfare]

My brother has that Jim'll Paint It picture on a T shirt, he wore it to the Ashes last year and the Aussies were somewhat confused by it.

[cms206]

 

Jim'll Paint It is brilliant. The blurb for this particular image was...

 

"Dear Jim,

 

Please paint me a picture of Brian Blessed riding a Henry hoover alongside D'n'B DJ Goldie on a Dyson. They are racing on the Mario kart level rainbow road and are both drunk on white ace cider."

 

 

I've only got one Jim'll Paint It t-shirt, which is Brian Blessed punching a polar bear. Those of you with a facebook account can look him up, there are some genuinely LOLtastic images on there.

[Craig the Princess]

That Jim'll paint is facebook page is fantastic.

[TimothyClaypole]

Doing some ill advised work on my Astra, two track rod arms and a wheel bearing.  Very considerate of Vauxhall to put some E-Torx  bolts on the back of the hub carrier, about the only sockets I don't have...

 

So my dad and me tramped off to Halfords to get molested for the set they sell.  Got some youth to open the cupboard, none there and none in the back.

 

They had some socket sets open on a shelf and one of them (newer than mine) has some Torx sockets in it. E20 I think it is was the one we needed.  So I took the socket to the till and tried to get the guy to find a price, he tried but obviously they don't sell them individually so no go. I offered to buy this one seeing as 50% of the box was already empty ie. stolen.

 

He said he'd have to ask the manager who was running in and out fitting something to someone's car so a bit stressed.

 

He looked at it as he was passing and said they don't sell them individually then sort of threw it on the counter and said take it.

 

 

 

(Car is still in bits as I got the wrong bearing but at least the bolts are off) 

[Craig the Princess]

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/10/10/nobel-prize-airport-security/

 

 

What It’s Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security

By Clara Moskowitz

 

“When I won this, my grandma, who lives in Fargo, North Dakota, wanted to see it. I was coming around so I decided I’d bring my Nobel Prize. You would think that carrying around a Nobel Prize would be uneventful, and it was uneventful, until I tried to leave Fargo with it, and went through the X-ray machine. I could see they were puzzled. It was in my laptop bag. It’s made of gold, so it absorbs all the X-raysâ€â€it’s completely black. And they had never seen anything completely black.

“They’re like, ‘Sir, there’s something in your bag.’
I said, ‘Yes, I think it’s this box.’
They said, ‘What’s in the box?’
I said, ‘a large gold medal,’ as one does.
So they opened it up and they said, ‘What’s it made out of?’
I said, ‘gold.’
And they’re like, ‘Uhhhh. Who gave this to you?’
‘The King of Sweden.’
‘Why did he give this to you?’
‘Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.’
At which point, they were beginning to lose their sense of humor. I explained to them it was a Nobel Prize, and their main question was, ‘Why were you in Fargo?’â€Â

[beko1987]

 

Sorted! Old one back in, and a bit of the new one spliced on. Have adjusted it so the choc block hits the stop at the right time. Also dialled out the few mm of play in the throttle linkage before anything happens.

 

Will find out if it actually works tomorrow

[beko1987]

^ That. And thanks Beko, as it is a new-ish Henry (a mere 3 years old from memory) it will have the filter round the motor, will only do that if the smell doesn't go away after doing the rest.

 

 

Red on/off switch and the thinner returning rocker hi/lo switch with LED at the top rear of the housing? then yes!

 

It does take the stale smell away. TBH by the time youve got that far you may as well take the motor fully out, and the wires and chuck the plastic lot through the diswasher!

 

On re-assembly, do it upside down, so the motor housing upside down on the floor, motor in that upside down, then wrap the filter around the inside of the cage and slide that over the fancase, then put the rubber seal on that, then lower the bottom housing that you see when back together ontop and do up the screws.

[Minimad5]

Have to say i'm presently surprised by how much abuse Henry hoovers take.

We use them in a non domestic application (hoovering up bulk powder in work) And the powder gets past the filter and into the motor.

 

I've has the pleasure of stripping them down, soaking them in contact cleaner, and rebuilding the blighters.

Normally the only thing to die is the PCB, but we've bypassed many, just to get by.

Which reminds me, i need to send Beko a picture of Ye Old Hoover

[beko1987]

Ooh a picture!!

 

Yes, if you wire thel and n wire from the cord rewind to one side of the on off switch, and the white motor wires to the other it bypasses all that and just works!

 

Try a hepaflo bag, they filter shit loads better than paper ones, and don't clog. Cheap copies are fine, pm me your address and I'll chuck one in the post if you like?

[daveb47]

Cured damp headlining when raining on Ovlov by clearing sunroof drains with long flexible curtain rod.

Well pleased

[dollywobbler]

Nice one Dave. Nice when that's done rather than 'taped up cuz it leeks.'

[fairkens]

Shed delivered on Friday, put it up yesterday. Big grin as now have somewhere to put the bikes and can demolish the knackered pergola they were chained to

[Lacquer Peel]

Your domestic appliances are our concern.

[cobblers]

I was wondering how cold it was outside (due to home brew stuff), and remembered I had left my £4 ebay OBD dongle plugged into the car out on the road so I bluetoothed into it and it said 9 degrees. Well, I still had to walk out there and click the ignition on first though but nevermind I still feel like inspector gadget.

[cobblers]

I have just realised that I could just have clicked the button on the end of the indicator stalk to switch the display to temperature. Or looked on BBC weather. Or used a mercury thermometer, using technology that dates back hundreds of years.

[myglaren]

I have just realised that I could just have clicked the button on the end of the indicator stalk to switch the display to temperature. Or looked on BBC weather. Or used a mercury thermometer, using technology that dates back hundreds of years.

Temposcope

[DS20]

 

Driving along the Wolds this afternoon, there was the most beautiful sunset. Autumn's not all bad.

[Pillock]

I have just realised that I could just have clicked the button on the end of the indicator stalk to switch the display to temperature. Or looked on BBC weather. Or used a mercury thermometer, using technology that dates back hundreds of years.

 

I use a Raspberry Pi, with a one-wire temperature sensor hooked up to a GPIO pin, networked into my router, running a Cron job that reads the sensor and uploads to an online service every 10 minutes. There's one sensor outside the front of the house and one in the dining room, so at any time I choose I can see a historical graph of temp over time and how inside and outside compare. That seems to be the simplest way of finding out the temperature. 

 

What is this "thermometer" you speak of? Is it wired or wireless?

[Richard]

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/06/runner-nike-san-francisco-penis

 

http://runningdrawing.tumblr.com/

[Jon]

All this dirty vacuum cleaner talk made me think we were missing something here, like a 'shameless cars and vacuum cleaners' thread, so I nipped outside with a feisty little Japanese model who was more than willing. Her full name's Hitachi CV-50D. I know she looks quite young but she hides her age well and was born in the mid-80's.

 

 

 

 

Almost straight away, she was on the bonnet, showing us her WELL USED UNDERCARRIAGE and her DIRTY PIPE. Her one-touch retractable power cord is teasingly unfurled and she's just gagging to be TURNED ON!

 

 

 

 

Then, it's straight in to the back seat, where she can stretch out a bit and tantalisingly show us her ADEQUATELY FILLED FUN BAG. Enough to get anyone's motor whirring.

 

 

 

 

"Hey Beko, you can come over to mine and give me some loving attention any time......"

 

[Station]

The only thing between now and MOT for Starion is a (complete) exhaust system and a length of fuel pipe.

[oman5]

All this dirty vacuum cleaner talk made me think we were missing something here, like a 'shameless cars and vacuum cleaners' thread, so I nipped outside with a feisty little Japanese model who was more than willing. Her full name's Hitachi CV-50D. I know she looks quite young but she hides her age well and was born in the mid-80's.

 

 

 

 

Almost straight away, she was on the bonnet, showing us her WELL USED UNDERCARRIAGE and her DIRTY PIPE. Her one-touch retractable power cord is teasingly unfurled and she's just gagging to be TURNED ON!

 

 

 

 

Then, it's straight in to the back seat, where she can stretch out a bit and tantalisingly show us her ADEQUATELY FILLED FUN BAG. Enough to get anyone's motor whirring.

 

 

 

 

"Hey Beko, you can come over to mine and give me some loving attention any time......"

 

 

ATVCNBE!

[beko1987]

Ha that's brilliant! Some people might can it pure filth?

 

Looks clean enough as she is!

[DSdriver]

I have just change the password to my email account. Not before time it appears: Last change 1990. 

[Station]

 

 

Dislike them or hate them, there'll be no avoiding them

 

hahahaha

 

[Craig the Princess]

On the we love 1980's Cars facebook page someone posted a picture of their Sierra Cosworth, but there was a little something to the side of it which caught my eye. Someone else posted more pictures. 

 

[Vantman]

Somehow i don't think this anti theft device is going to work!

 

[Station]

My Justy has now gone to someone who is going to do it up and give it to his girlfriend. So pleased it has gone! :)

[Negative Creep]

I have just change the password to my email account. Not before time it appears: Last change 1990. 

 

 

You must have had a pretty sweet setup to have had internet access 25 years ago!