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Ebayer, offered to buy a bandsaw if he had the two missing fences, he finds one so fair enough.  I offered £230 cash on collection Sunday, piss on Ebay no fees etc.

 

Went to bed then got an email this morning saying he's added a picture and the model number, missing fence etc.

 

Oh and he wants £350 as that's less than half what it's worth...

 

A new one is £436 - and the stupid idiot already told me he paid £250 for it... now there's a reserve on it.  

 

Good luck stupid.  :rolleyes:

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Have you still got the bike?

Yes

Where about are you?

Chester

Oh can I have it for £60 because I'm really interested? (It's up for £70)

Err, yes.

I'm in Manchester

(no reply)

What's your postcode?

Sent him postcode 

Sorry, it's too far.

 

Yeah, because I could hardly live closer to Manchester in the part of Chester I'm in, must have made all the effing difference, that :rolleyes:  

 

And that, ladies and gents, is why I don't give my phone number out on adverts as at least with emails it's free to correspond with timewasters.

 

 

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So the previous owner of my business booked his son's car in for an MOT for today.When he booked it there was nothing in for Saturday so I wrote it down and told him 9.O'clock.He wanted to do it himself to keep his MOT smartcard active but wanted me to quality control him.I don't trust the nosey old bastard anyway so I had to be there.

9.O'clock came and went so at 9.30 I put some cars away and locked up.I stopped at the top of the business park to collect my A board (MOTs open),just as I got back in the car he pulls in.I let him know how pissed off I was by swearing at him,loudly.The car he was supposed to MOT turned up 15 minutes later.

I came in to work on a Saturday morning as a favour so think it rude and inconsiderate that this person (who I don't like) would be 35 minutes late and the car booked in almost an hour late.

Apparantly he didn't like being sworn at to which I replied "well if you were on time I wouldn't swear at you".The horrible old git then tried passing the buck,his wife told their son that time.Unfortunately for him his son blurted out "nah,dad.You said about ten-ish"

And this horrible old git wants to work for me once a week..Not a chance.

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Somehow one of the front discs on my boring has got warped. I replaced all the discs & pads when I got the car and even though they've done 60k the discs and pads had loads of life left in them. I mainly do motorway miles, and I use the gears to slow down more than the brakes,

This means next weekend when I was planning on playing with the Lancia I'll be replacing discs and pads that have got loads of wear left on them.

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After swapping a couple of dodgy injectors on the Multipla I found there was still a slight misfire present. Ever the perfectionist I swapped the remaining two today, except one was knackered and was letting too much fuel down the leak off pipes with the result that after tryng to get the engine to fire for 10 mins I discovered a slick of diesel all over the road where the pipe had blown off. Bastard. Sawdust down and cleaned up.

 

I stuck a known good injector back in, replacing the mega leaky one and it started and ran, although I fucking snapped the end of the leak off pipe inside the old injector without noticing and diesel is PISSING out all over the gaffe. More sawdust, bonnet down and inside for a cup of tea and a mope.

 

I had a box of odd leak off pipes and shiz which I binned off last week in a clearout. All the breakers are closed tomorrow so I'll have to wait till next week to get this poxy 10p plastic pipe thing. Wife needs it on Monday and isn't pleased.

 

This is what I need, the little bastard.

 

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Quick update... I went to the world famous "Smithsons" in Longton, S-O-T  (as recommended by Mr B) and the nice guy there had one for me. Pretty amazing for 9am on a Sunday. I got chatting to the guy and he showed me his derelict Pug 406 1.9td with a supa-impressive 560k on the clock! Cam pulley broke and killed the head though...

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Somehow one of the front discs on my boring has got warped. I replaced all the discs & pads when I got the car and even though they've done 60k the discs and pads had loads of life left in them. I mainly do motorway miles, and I use the gears to slow down more than the brakes,

This means next weekend when I was planning on playing with the Lancia I'll be replacing discs and pads that have got loads of wear left on them.

how far out is it?

will it square up with a skim?

if they are new-ish then there should be enough meat on the disc to at least try

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Yodel are just as bad. They delivered an item of mine to the right house number. In the next road. Luckily the people were honest and brought the parcel straight round. I sent a helpful* e-mail to Yodel suggesting that they taught their drivers to read street names and/or their satnavs.

 

From now on, I shall be checking which delivery companies organisations use before ordering.

It isn't only them.

I'm having solar panels fitted and the scaffolders are set to come next Monday.

Except they came last Thursday and started erecting the scaffolding next door.

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Just been to a toy and train fair at Haydock Park.

 

Why do so many of the men who attend these events smell like they have died?

 

To be honest it is so bad I have thought about setting up a sprinkler by the entrance like what was used during the last foot and mouth crisis, delivering hot, soapy water.

 

Never mind buying that Hornby Pullman, buy some soap, you smelly bastards.

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Gas heating can Foxtrot Oscar. "get the gas in" they all said, "it's great" they all said. MY ARSE. I'm 2 and a half grand lighter and the thing is a pain in the hole.

 

  • The "Comfort" setting is supposed to keep heat in the heat exchanger, so you get warm water when you turn on the tap. Nope. Takes about 20 seconds, and therefore wastes water
  • The wireless remote control panel can't be placed anywhere that's too hot. Or too cold. Or a bit draughty.
  • It is necessary to keep an eye on the water pressure in the boiler thing. It has a meter that looks like the signal bars on an old mobile phone. Unspecified BAD THINGS will happen if it's not right.
  • The boiler is fucking enormous.
  • Very slow to heat up the radiators. My old Riello/Bluebird oil system fired in 10 seconds, and within 90 seconds the rads were hot.

 

Wish I hadn't bothered. The oil system was perfectly OK in hindsight. And the supplier, Phoenix Gas(tards) have just hiked the price.

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I get nearly all the couriers delivering to work each day. Well the proper ones - yodel just deliver our wine every month or so. The worst are UPS who don't appear to have a policy of hiring anyone who can read English. Tuffnels are great, ditto Mr "Kelly's Van Hire" who delivers for overseas FEDEX, DHL ok, Parcel force hit and miss. Post office seem to deliver every other day now though, and the special before 1pm delivery has never, ever beaten the standard postman. Both DHL and FEDEX use different delivery drivers for UK and International (and EU) parcels. One day we had two Fed exes and three DHL drivers.

 

We (work) got someone at UPS sacked because they'd twice forged signatures for timed deliveries - supposed to be before 10am and turned up at 5.15pm despite the customer having a confirmed delivery sig. from 9.20am. One was a squiggled X. We played hell as it makes us look as if we're lying and not doing the work on time.

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Spent much of today attempting to change the XM's water pump and timing belt after the water pump started leaking badly the other week. Unfortunately the 'specialist' who did the job the last time had massively overtightened and pre-rounded a very inaccessable bolt which must be slackened to release the timing belt tensioner.

 

There is a sporting chance I can undo it if I remove the upper engine mounting casting from the engine to give access to weld a nut on, but being welderless the only easy way for me to do this is to first limp the car up to the fathers in Durham first...

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Why do so many of the men who attend these events smell like they have died?

 

To be honest it is so bad I have thought about setting up a sprinkler by the entrance like what was used during the last foot and mouth crisis, delivering hot, soapy water.

 

Never mind buying that Hornby Pullman, buy some soap, you smelly bastards.

 

Furry conventions have this issue but an enterprising lot started selling novelty soap and, to all intents and purposes, appear to be making a killing.  They named their product Con-tact, which I thought rather witty.

 

Maybe you need to set up a stall selling train-shaped soap.

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Just been to a toy and train fair at Haydock Park.

 

Why do so many of the men who attend these events smell like they have died?

 

To be honest it is so bad I have thought about setting up a sprinkler by the entrance like what was used during the last foot and mouth crisis, delivering hot, soapy water.

 

Never mind buying that Hornby Pullman, buy some soap, you smelly bastards.

 

 

A colleague of mine in the RSC is into short wave radio in a big way (30ft extending aerial etc), his wife has refused to attend any more meetings with him as she can't stand the smell.

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Furry conventions have this issue but an enterprising lot started selling novelty soap and, to all intents and purposes, appear to be making a killing.  They named their product Con-tact, which I thought rather witty.

 

Maybe you need to set up a stall selling train-shaped soap.

At least those attending furry conventions have an excuse - unlike the patrons who attended Haydock Park today who in their quest for expensive old tin plate and hornby OO are probably down to their last pair of underpants.

 

Well thats what it smelled like.

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People who cant be arsed to read adverts properly.

 

 

Non Runner - no compression, I suspect either piston rings or piston is holed.
Starter motor also off at present.

Email chain.....

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

Hello what up with the moped.

its not running


 

 

How much would it cost to run

 

£17 road fund licence

100 mpg (ish)

 

I pay £89 a year insurance fully comp. You may have to pay more, I dont know how old you are, whether you hold a full licence or learner one or whether you have any points on said licence - these things make a differene to your premium.

 

 

 
Okay how much would it be to repair the moped

 

If I tried to get it running, possibly more than the national debt of Bolivia as Im quite kack handedA, a garage would probably be a bit less.

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Just sold 50 dice on evilbay.

 

Messages from buyer:

1. Great, I love these!

2. Wait, are these dice and not valve caps?

3. Just send me the same amount of valve caps then.

 

I've not actually replied to any of these messages, it's like he's thinking by the medium of email.

 

3) is especially hilarious. 50 dice are £7. valve caps are £25 if you have the cheap ones. I don't have a magic pixie who like drilling holes in the bastards and does it for free.

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Against my better judgement I agreed to go and see the Kelpies today. You couldn't get near the horsey bastards, all the car parks were full and there were cars parked on the grass verges all the way up the approach road. We decided life was too short and went somewhere else instead. The Kelpies can get to Falkirk as far as I'm concerned.

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