MikeR Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 11 minutes ago, jakebullet said: I have an apocalyptic woman cos we've gone away for the weekend and I've forgotten tea bags and breakfast cereal. Engage mega anger in coop when I say I don't care what cereal she buys choose one you like. @New POD it gets easier after the first million years,yes? just left 2 in Uttoxeter , wife and SIL , I stayed for lunch and got back home , house , plonk , beer , steak and tv to myself now ...for the weekend !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakebullet Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 You would think after 7 years I'd learn the first rule of going away is don't go away. Still only 2 weeks and I can do it all again. grogee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rust Collector Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 16 minutes ago, jakebullet said: I have an apocalyptic woman cos we've gone away for the weekend and I've forgotten tea bags and breakfast cereal. Engage mega anger in coop when I say I don't care what cereal she buys choose one you like. @New POD it gets easier after the first million years,yes? One time my partner and I went away she didn't pack me any pants or trousers - best part was she packed for me because she said I'd leave it till the last minute and miss everything I needed 😅 Maybe I was meant to wander round like Donald Duck or something. Hopefully they've discovered breakfast cereals, teabags and shops in whichever part of the country you're in currently! warch, BorniteIdentity, paulplom and 3 others 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Barry Cade said: I've done that many a time.. but the stupidly heavy record vice that I inherited from my dad has survived for more than 60 years. All modern vices are .... There's a YouTube film where someone compared a load of vices for the amount of pressure they could exert . The winner was a custom made steel one he'd done himself. Second was a large vice made in the US in about 1930 which had had one side repaired after breaking like the op's. Even with that it beat all the factory made moderns. Joey spud and Barry Cade 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TataBobu Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 4 hours ago, jakebullet said: I have an apocalyptic woman cos we've gone away for the weekend and I've forgotten tea bags and breakfast cereal. Engage mega anger in coop when I say I don't care what cereal she buys choose one you like. @New POD it gets easier after the first million years,yes? Usually the problem is elsewhere, this was just the pretext to blow off some steam. "You're getting worked up over nothing" would attract more anger towards you (don't ask!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazoli Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 3 hours ago, artdjones said: There's a YouTube film where someone compared a load of vices for the amount of pressure they could exert . The winner was a custom made steel one he'd done himself. Second was a large vice made in the US in about 1930 which had had one side repaired after breaking like the op's. Even with that it beat all the factory made moderns. It was on fireball tools YT page I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 43 minutes ago, Jazoli said: It was on fireball tools YT page I think Yes I looked it up after posting. Whoever cast iron welded that old vice knew his stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 just been pissing around with the C1 brakes again , the near side front was running warm , the other day I backed off the brake calliper , the pads were ok in the mountings , the piston moved ok , so I put it all back .. yesterday it ran warm again with some pulls to the hedge under braking , stripped off the wheel again , the calliper was locked solid on its mounts .. ? ? undid the bottom slider pin bolt 1/8 a turn and it was ok , all floating again ....did it up again and it jammed again ... so nipped it back up , made sure it worked , put it all back some how since the last brake pads and disc change in the garage , it must of bent ?? now to order some new slider pins ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Just finished trying to put in a replacement indicator lamp because the sealed in for life one has broke , think I will just run some wires off the front bulbs instead of trying to trace wires .... Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavieW Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 I smell shite. OVO trying the green ransom to get people to install smart meters. Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horriblemercedes Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 11 minutes ago, DavieW said: I smell shite. OVO trying the green ransom to get people to install smart meters. Huh? How do they make sure that you get different electricity to other customers? Barry Cade and anonymous user 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavieW Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Just now, horriblemercedes said: Huh? How do they make sure that you get different electricity to other customers? Exactly. That was the first thing I said when I read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 I suspect the word tarriff is missing there so those with 'smart' meters get a better* deal. Academic at the moment unless they're offering prices less than the cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camryv6 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 4 hours ago, MikeR said: Just finished trying to put in a replacement indicator lamp because the sealed in for life one has broke , think I will just run some wires off the front bulbs instead of trying to trace wires .... The tell tale in the instrument cluster ? If so apparently it is an indicator stalk fault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 2 hours ago, horriblemercedes said: Huh? How do they make sure that you get different electricity to other customers? Especially when companies are always boasting about how much of the power you get is renewable, but still put up the price of every unit in line with the increase in gas prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 55 minutes ago, camryv6 said: The tell tale in the instrument cluster ? If so apparently it is an indicator stalk fault I will look into that thanks .. camryv6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 4 hours ago, DavieW said: I smell shite. OVO trying the green ransom to get people to install smart meters. re; this bullshit about planting trees. I always imagined that senior management would gather round with a spade & a sapling. In reality, the company 'plant' millions of trees at a time by carpet bombing seeds over areas adjacent to deserts. And don't get me started about Nike's use of 'fabrics recovered from the sea'. BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Sodding smart phones My Nokia has finally died after the ripe* old age of 3 years. That may seem a lot/adequate to a lot of people but I dont really think it is. Especially considering that one element of the fault started happening at around 18 months old - where its really fiddly to get it to charge. In the past month or so, the battery has gradually died. Kept draining totally flat overnight and you'd be lucky to get an hours actual use out of it. Calculated capacity was around 30% (!) - Its a 3800mAh battery and it was only accepting around 1100-1200mAh to get it to 100%, where it would stop. And this morning, it had died overnight, predictably. But now it wont accept a charge at all. It just keeps rebooting itself. I've rooted around my collection of old spare family phones and found my old Samsung one from 9 years ago and LG from 5 years ago, among various smashed iPhones and others (not me that broke them!) Both still working absolutely perfectly. In fact, they all do. Which is why I kept them. So now I've reverted to the LG, which is what I "upgraded" from 3 or so years ago 🙄 - If only they kept the software up to date so that you can actually run anything new on them, but it'll do for now. Bollocks to upgrading/planned obsolesence! So, me being me, I decided to try and fix it. Helpfully (no, really) the battery had ever so slightly swollen and lifted the screen up, meaning I didnt risk damaging it to try and remove it. I've removed the charge port and battery to get the part numbers, and a small grin is that I've got change from a tenner for the replacement parts Fingers crossed it works! Another grin is that I've logged into my google account and all of my contacts have automatically imported, which is very handy indeed because if the Nokia really is fucked I probably would have lost them all! Seems they were never quite able to shake off the name "Nokia BRICK" because its as useful as one at the moment sdkrc and Remspoor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 7 hours ago, MikeR said: Just finished trying to put in a replacement indicator lamp because the sealed in for life one has broke , think I will just run some wires off the front bulbs instead of trying to trace wires .... Erm, how comes you're in the centre console? The cluster is going to be run by CANbus. Unless you're trying to wire up an LED with the normal indicator bulbs? 9 times out of 10 its the cluster itself on these. Can be sent away for £100 if you can spare use of the car for a few days https://www.revtronic.com/product/citroen-c1-instrument-cluster-indicator-not-working-copy/ MikeR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWeldedShut Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 It so fucking well does fit - screw you Mr Bezos! But I need it yesterday now so I guess I'm doomed to spend more money with the only man on the planet that owns a spacegoing penis. Mind you - he flies it down to my front door in the middle of nowhere (West Wales) from Dunfermline next working day in his fancy spaceship and saves me the two hour trip to the 'local' factors. All I have to do now is put the freakin' jigsaw puzzle that was once a van back together - just how difficult can a designer make it to trace electrical faults? There goes Sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston Martin Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 I posted this in the Smart Motorways thread, but it boiled my piss. So it's here too. Yes that is the M1 Barry Cade, Coprolalia, grogee and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popsicle Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 35 minutes ago, Aston Martin said: I posted this in the Smart Motorways thread, but it boiled my piss. So it's here too. Yes that is the M1 Dangerously an all to common site nowadays, the pair of them are risking their lives. Best to hop over the barrier and wave your arms about to warn drivers of the obstruction and phone Highways England so they can close the lane and put warning signs on the matrix's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Who’d have thought turning the hard shoulder into another lane might cause dangerous situations? Did anyone who’s actually driven on a motorway more than once get involved with the decision making process? MrGTI6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agila Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Personally I'd fuck the wheel up driving it 1 mile to safety. Hazards on and drive as quick as you safely could. Kiltox, MikeR and dave j 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Parking day. https://www.myparkingday.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 For the second year on the hop either me or the mrs (or both) have had to come home midway through our anniversary weekend. 2 years ago we both we full of snot and coughs thinking we had covid but didn’t Last year we had to cancel our night out because I got food poisoning at lunch. This year the wife was up all last night speaking in the great white telephone. We came home from our weekend away early yesterday because she wasn’t feeling great after our walk around another stately home. cobblers, AnnoyingPentium, Rust Collector and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 13 minutes ago, dozeydustman said: For the second year on the hop either me or the mrs (or both) have had to come home midway through our anniversary weekend. 2 years ago we both we full of snot and coughs thinking we had covid but didn’t Last year we had to cancel our night out because I got food poisoning at lunch. This year the wife was up all last night speaking in the great white telephone. We came home from our weekend away early yesterday because she wasn’t feeling great after our walk around another stately home. A few years ago, my wife and I had such a long run of totally ruined days out together - We'd always try and go out for the day together every other weekend, but one week we'd be stuck in traffic, the next week we'd get halfway there and one of our phones would ring with a family emergency, or we'd get to some national trust place to find out it was "DAFT AND NOISY KIDS FUN AND SCREAMING DAY", or my car would break down, or one of us would get the shits. Just one thing after another, we were so disheartened we subconsciously stopped making plans at all. Really damaged the relationship for a while as we both associated spending "nice" time together with an inevitable shitshow. Rust Collector and twosmoke300 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 3 hours ago, Remspoor said: Parking day. https://www.myparkingday.org/ Usual twats! “We need green spaces” Don’t live in a city then. “Everyone should have a free house” OK so I’ll never work ( too busy protesting), but I expect all you mugs who do to provide for me . “No one should have a car, you’re killing the planet”. But I’ll just travel around the world creating vast amounts of the rubbish I’m protesting about. Remspoor and myglaren 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 1 hour ago, cobblers said: A few years ago, my wife and I had such a long run of totally ruined days out together - We'd always try and go out for the day together every other weekend, but one week we'd be stuck in traffic, the next week we'd get halfway there and one of our phones would ring with a family emergency, or we'd get to some national trust place to find out it was "DAFT AND NOISY KIDS FUN AND SCREAMING DAY", or my car would break down, or one of us would get the shits. Just one thing after another, we were so disheartened we subconsciously stopped making plans at all. Really damaged the relationship for a while as we both associated spending "nice" time together with an inevitable shitshow. I know the feeling. Because of work constraints and lack of staff I had done 9 six day weeks on the hop and only got to spend an actual day with the mrs (prior to this weekend) for one Sunday in that time. Puts strain on us and when we do get a chance to have some quality time together something else puts the mockers on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 that was an interesting oil change on the old 1.4 Polo , it came out rather black , not black black or pure black .. but light absorbing black that stuck to the sides of the oil tray and still looked black .. the oil we put in turned up black on the dip stick !!! I asked when it was last done , err that would be when it was last lived here , err some 7 years ago ........... we had the cam belt done as well , and thats up for a change again .... so 7 years and 60k ...... ago dont VWs take some shit and keep going !! any way it sounds a bit better now .... in other good news the roads around here are rammed full thanks to some roadworks ..... GrumpiusMaximus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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