jonny69 Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 1 hour ago, Jim Bell said: Are you grid charging yours @jonny69 ? How's it getting on with being laid up with the BIG VIRUS cockdown? Getting a bit worried about mine sitting still. Think I'm gonna give mine a charge this week. Which will be interesting. Extension lead out of a window, through the garden, over a wall, across a footpath and into the car. Ye I'm charging it from time to time. I got my first ever IMA light about a month before Christmas so got myself a charger and made a lightbulb discharger. I did a 3x charge/discharge/charge cycle and I haven't had an IMA light since, and now just put it on an overnight charge if it starts doing positive or negative recals. If you want help with that, give me a shout because it's a pain in the arse to find the information on Insightcentral but you can restore a lot of the battery performance by doing that controlled discharge cycling. I haven't charged it during the lockdown yet. Before I go back to work I'll probably give it a long saturation charge and gently cycle it down to 120V or so just to balance it back out. Only because the commute uses the IMA battery quite hard compared to rolling down to the supermarket. Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 22 minutes ago, jonny69 said: Ye I'm charging it from time to time. I got my first ever IMA light about a month before Christmas so got myself a charger and made a lightbulb discharger. I did a 3x charge/discharge/charge cycle and I haven't had an IMA light since, and now just put it on an overnight charge if it starts doing positive or negative recals. If you want help with that, give me a shout because it's a pain in the arse to find the information on Insightcentral but you can restore a lot of the battery performance by doing that controlled discharge cycling. I haven't charged it during the lockdown yet. Before I go back to work I'll probably give it a long saturation charge and gently cycle it down to 120V or so just to balance it back out. Only because the commute uses the IMA battery quite hard compared to rolling down to the supermarket. Cheers man. Will bang you a pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 Still rolling and appocolypse Bogroll hunting. Take my load you filthy article. Battery isn't happy though. Car did the discharge fully/recharge in motion procedure after a long uphill on ASSIST but only charged back up to half mast. Will get the charger on come Friday. It's meant to be dry and bright. Skizzer, Aston Martin, Shirley Knott and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 I'm attempting a touch of the old INTERBOARD CROSS-POLLINATION to draw your bank holiday attention to the greatly exciting roffle taking place in the FOUR SAIL section via the link provided below: Much more info and pics in relation to the car are available in this very thread. There is also a link in the Roffle thread that comes back to this thread so if you wish to just click round and round in circles until you become exhausted and infuriated, that would be fine. To avoid that, there is also the option to simply purchase two numbers immediately, then you could just spend the next couple of hours stroking a cat or burning incriminating doccuments. Thanks to everyone that's already in, and HOWAY to everyone that needs a bit of lockdown roffle peril in your lives. Skizzer, loserone and Tickman 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted May 10, 2020 Author Share Posted May 10, 2020 Fleet news: The Insight continues to be all the car anyone would ever need and has been providing sterling service. It hasn't even gotten any grumpier during the lockdown lay up. An iconic two seater sprots car, pictured here with some daft Porsche. With nothing much in need of fixing, I did a spot of preventive maintenance and gave the rubber seals a good Wurth-ing over. That should help keep them supple and happy. Tickman, LightBulbFun, Shirley Knott and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted May 10, 2020 Author Share Posted May 10, 2020 I declare these numbers to be happy numbers. Tickman, LightBulbFun and Shirley Knott 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted May 10, 2020 Author Share Posted May 10, 2020 The outgoing roffle Panda was pulled out of lock up and taken for a long run. Bring laid up hasn't bothered it one bit and it was a pleasure to blast around in for an hour. As soon as lockdown weakens its grip a tad, it'll be off to its new owner. LightBulbFun, paulplom, Skizzer and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 It was the last spring. 2020. The year of the murder hornets. The year where history ends. A fire had been seen burning unchecked across a continent. Blood spilled on the streets of major cities like a menstrual cycle. Acts of obscene violence, followed by protest, then counter protest, then further violence. We all argued about who was right. The virus locked us in boxes so we could sweat and worry. We all drank. The slogans guided our way. greengartside, davehedgehog31, The Moog and 18 others 11 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 So one last time down the road before the viruses reclaim the earth. Engage. dome, privatewire, Tickman and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 I'm going to try and interview a few real people on the way. To see how they are feeling about the end of the world. Skizzer, Three Speed, privatewire and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 Don't talk to people on the tube! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 The air is thick and wet this morning. Full of water that clings to everything and worries your lungs. It's a wet sweaty mess and just walking up a set of steps with a face covering on feels like waterboarding. This truly is the end of days. Station. Three Speed, privatewire, The Moog and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 First person I've met today is Gladys. Morning Gladys. Is anything worrying you during the apocalypse? davehedgehog31, barefoot, Tickman and 5 others 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 Gladys needs to get that dark patch under her left eye checked out. As you were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 Gladys: " Well I've not been right in my back body since Ian came back from the war. When he got back he wanted to try different things and that's ruined me back there it has." I see. And is anything else bothering you perticularly! Gladys: "Well I don't like The Secretary bird. It's very showy. Turns all the men's heads with its long slender legs and it's big round eyes. I think they should send them back." Thanks Gladys. Skizzer, spartacus, Semi-C and 20 others 5 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 There's not many folk around today. Interviews may be thin on the ground. The Moog, privatewire, Tickman and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 privatewire, The Moog, davehedgehog31 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tickman Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 What a way to brighten up a dull misty Monday morning aldo135, Three Speed and Jim Bell 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 Managed to get as far as fucking Durham. Lineside equipment fault at ferry hill. Will be sat here some time. Face covering makes my glasses steam up so I can't see anything. I feel like an Astronaut exploring the void. cobblers, Shirley Knott, Tickman and 3 others 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 I'll see if I can find someone to interview. Tickman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 *waves* Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 This is Kenny. Kenny, is there anything that's bothering you perticularly at the moment, given the current climate? davocano, The Moog, barefoot and 6 others 5 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 What a pisser in both respects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 Kenny: "I'm having trouble sleeping. I worry all the time. I'm in a state of almost constant panic. Have you seen the fucking size of a Harpy Eagle? They can carry off small deer and human fucking children mate. How I meant to sleep soundly in my bed knowing that the next time I open the front door, one of these pricks might be stood there? They can crush a human head with their feet. There can't be a god can there? No compassionate god could create such a thing?!" cobblers, DeeJay, dome and 17 others 8 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 Live public transport update: Moving again at walking speed. And not Olympics walking speed. My walking speed. The Moog, Craig the Princess, Tickman and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 Toilets arnt as flash as I had expected on this Zuma. I'll take ALONE please. P.C. up one to one. bigstraight6, greengartside, Crusty Sills and 31 others 9 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 I know these new social distancing and social cleansing rules are unusual, but I'll do it because it's for the greater good. UltraWomble, davocano, greengartside and 30 others 8 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 Fucking Darlo achieved. Grim. Shirley Knott and Tickman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jim Bell Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 This is Mandy. Is there anything you'd like to discuss Mandy? privatewire, davehedgehog31 and Tickman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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