Low Horatio gearbox Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Having a wonderful* change of circumstances with the opportunity to decrease fleet size by 1. 😒 eddyramrod and grogee 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 On 14/02/2023 at 20:28, omegod said: £7.50 round my way will get you a full size fish, chips peas and curry You need to not go to.the place next to Freshfield Station. Awards. And Given that it's on the same Road that Most of the Liverpool and Everton players live on, it's not like the locals can't afford it. £15 I think. eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wibble Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 5 hours ago, vulgalour said: I am unhappy to report I have found a wood muncher in the Lanchester. It seems localised to this plywood panel which is part of the intermediary boot floor. Easy solution is to throw this away and make a new one which is probably what I'll do. For now, it's isolated away from any other wood and especially the car. Fortunately, the wooden frame in this area is on the other side of steel cladding so I'm hoping it's just this one panel that's been so badly affected. The little bits of sawdust and haloes around some of the holes indicates activity, the darker cleaner holes are dormant (usually). I could only find one other spot, also in plywood, which was a single hole that appears dormant on the plywood backing board for the rear seat that was next to the panel above that had been munched on. Again, the easy solution there is to simply remove the panel (and the seat, and the trim, and whatever else might need it) and make a new one which is probably what I'll do. Not what I wanted to find today when I was doing final tidying. There's nothing I can do about it more than I have right now, this could be a job for the weekend weather permitting. Funnily enough had the car been 'finished' I wouldn't have seen this at all because it would have been under trims so in a way I'm glad I found it now when it's easier to deal with. We see a lot of this with furniture restoration, usually inject the holes with woodworm killer and then brush over the surface. As you say, dark holes usually indicate old activity but the “sawdust” is actually the faeces of the beetle and indicates recent action. Remspoor and vulgalour 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 43 minutes ago, New POD said: You need to not go to.the place next to Freshfield Station. Awards. And Given that it's on the same Road that Most of the Liverpool and Everton players live on, it's not like the locals can't afford it. £15 I think. If you want top quality I'd suggest Byrnes on Stuart Road in Walton, never had better and cooked to order for about £10 for the full monty Keymaster 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 4 hours ago, omegod said: If you want top quality I'd suggest Byrnes on Stuart Road in Walton, never had better and cooked to order for about £10 for the full monty Cooked to order seems to becoming fairly standard these days, rather than cook 50 pcs of fish and leave it to dry out under the heat lamps for 2hrs. Guess they can’t afford to throw any away at the end of the night at today’s prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 7 hours ago, Metal Guru said: Cooked to order seems to becoming fairly standard these days, rather than cook 50 pcs of fish and leave it to dry out under the heat lamps for 2hrs. Guess they can’t afford to throw any away at the end of the night at today’s prices. I can see why they're doing it, but the point of fish and chips is to be fast food. If you have to hang around for 20 minutes while they get your order ready you might as well go straight home and make something yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 2 hours ago, artdjones said: I can see why they're doing it, but the point of fish and chips is to be fast food. If you have to hang around for 20 minutes while they get your order ready you might as well go straight home and make something yourself. I disagree. Nothing worse than the fish dried up and luke warm. Another trend is the price of a portion of chips alone seems to have gone up proportionally even more than a fish supper. Presumably , so they don’t just end up selling chips on their own. Low Horatio gearbox and chadders 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 2 hours ago, Metal Guru said: Nothing worse than food dried up and luke warm. EFA. Totally agree, and 10 minutes is what local shops take for fish n chips. I'd far rather wait that long than have food that's been hanging around. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 Fecks sake. I would have thought that Japanese cars used a DIN flare. But no they don't. Predictably I don't have the right tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_Green Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 On 17/02/2023 at 16:20, MiniMinorMk3 said: Blimey. Manse Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh. My first love lived on Manse Road. (Liz, if you see this, I'm sorry, I didn't mean what I said about your mother). Remspoor, Tenmil Socket and PicantoJon 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 On 2/17/2023 at 1:46 PM, vulgalour said: I am unhappy to report I have found a wood muncher in the Lanchester. It seems localised to this plywood panel which is part of the intermediary boot floor. Easy solution is to throw this away and make a new one which is probably what I'll do. For now, it's isolated away from any other wood and especially the car. Fortunately, the wooden frame in this area is on the other side of steel cladding so I'm hoping it's just this one panel that's been so badly affected. The little bits of sawdust and haloes around some of the holes indicates activity, the darker cleaner holes are dormant (usually). I could only find one other spot, also in plywood, which was a single hole that appears dormant on the plywood backing board for the rear seat that was next to the panel above that had been munched on. Again, the easy solution there is to simply remove the panel (and the seat, and the trim, and whatever else might need it) and make a new one which is probably what I'll do. Not what I wanted to find today when I was doing final tidying. There's nothing I can do about it more than I have right now, this could be a job for the weekend weather permitting. Funnily enough had the car been 'finished' I wouldn't have seen this at all because it would have been under trims so in a way I'm glad I found it now when it's easier to deal with. Further to this, I have spent the entire day removing plywood and painting on several coats of 'woodworm' killer. It very much ended up Project Creep. On the plus side, anywhere that there's the black stain finish (which I could only sand off so far, it being a stain) on the plywood the beetles haven't munched, it's only the bare unfinished ply that they'd gone for. Not sure what the black finish is but it has soaked down into the ply and does seem to have resistant properties. The frame I can see is similarly black finished and appears free of any holes so I think we're good, I think they'd only gone for the bare ply. When the treatment has cured we'll be painting everything before it goes back in the car. 10am to 5pm on this job and even had to get the angle grinder out at one point to defeat some fixings. It's content, I suppose there's that, just not what I wanted to be doing with my Saturday. Wibble, GrumpiusMaximus, AnnoyingPentium and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 I'm being subjected to the masked singer final, never seen it before , utter shit, but I'm calling it as Phoenix David Seaman and Rhino James Blunt GrumpiusMaximus, cobblers and Richard_FM 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 People who give children surnames as first names. "RILEY! JACKSON! BAILEY! DAWSON! GET BACK OVER HERE!!!!" On the radio this morning I heard about someone mentioning they had a child called "Corbyn" FFS. myglaren, fairkens, eddyramrod and 4 others 1 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 41 minutes ago, cobblers said: People who give children surnames as first names. "RILEY! JACKSON! BAILEY! DAWSON! GET BACK OVER HERE!!!!" On the radio this morning I heard about someone mentioning they had a child called "Corbyn" FFS. Poor sod. That's almost as horrific as 'Jayden'. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 2 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: Poor sod. That's almost as horrific as 'Jayden'. 'Alfie' is shorthand for 'my kid is a little shit'. Isopon, Angrydicky and eddyramrod 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieman Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 2 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said: 'Alfie' is shorthand for 'my kid is a little shit'. See also Archie and Tyler. Anyway, today's grump is some blind bat smashing my driver's side mirror while my Focus was parked outside my gf's place - I found the plastic mirror cover from another car next to it and it appears to be from a Honda Jizz from the part number. No note or anything left of course, probably the bozo didn't even notice they'd done it. GrumpiusMaximus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 On 2/18/2023 at 12:37 AM, Metal Guru said: Cooked to order seems to becoming fairly standard these days, rather than cook 50 pcs of fish and leave it to dry out under the heat lamps for 2hrs. Guess they can’t afford to throw any away at the end of the night at today’s prices. this seems to be a thing in scottish and irish chippys my fish and chip story is we were in esher for the vw show 15 years ago and went for chips (cos northern) and while it wasnt cheap - they seemed not to know what basic items were when asked 'chips and gravy' no what is that 'chips and curry' no the indian in up the road (!) then had to explain what it was - was ok tho - also poshest counter staff ever if id asked for pies or fishcakes they might have exploded (see scottish chippys about meat and potato pies ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 44 minutes ago, hairnet said: my fish and chip story is we were in esher for the vw show 15 years ago and went for chips (cos northern) and while it wasnt cheap - they seemed not to know what basic items were when asked Did you have your Hairnet-English dictionary/phrase book with you? 😁 Sunny Jim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 2 hours ago, Pieman said: See also Archie and Tyler. Grandson has two friends named Tyler, one a girl and the other a boy. It can get confusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 4 minutes ago, myglaren said: Grandson has two friends named Tyler, one a girl and the other a boy. It can get confusing. A lad I used to work with once went out with a girl called Tyler Turner, I found this absolutely hilarious for some reason. Then he said they split up because she cheated on him with a lad called Tyler Tailor. Tyler Tailor's best mate was a lad called Tyler Turner. even now, nearly ten years later it confuses me nomiST, vulgalour, AnthonyG and 5 others 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 21 hours ago, vulgalour said: Further to this, I have spent the entire day removing plywood and painting on several coats of 'woodworm' killer. It very much ended up Project Creep. On the plus side, anywhere that there's the black stain finish (which I could only sand off so far, it being a stain) on the plywood the beetles haven't munched, it's only the bare unfinished ply that they'd gone for. Not sure what the black finish is but it has soaked down into the ply and does seem to have resistant properties. The frame I can see is similarly black finished and appears free of any holes so I think we're good, I think they'd only gone for the bare ply. When the treatment has cured we'll be painting everything before it goes back in the car. 10am to 5pm on this job and even had to get the angle grinder out at one point to defeat some fixings. It's content, I suppose there's that, just not what I wanted to be doing with my Saturday. One more update on this job. The floor boards were removed today and there's no sign of woodworm in them at all so that's a huge relief. We're going to replace one of the boards which is delaminating badly, water has clearly got into it in the past and it's past repairing. Fortunately, it's just flat ply cut to shape with some holes drilled in so that's an easy task to sort out. I did try to get the indicators wired up today and was thwarted by the tool I bought specifically for doing old fashioned bullet connectors being absolutely useless and working like an ordinary crimp tool. I'd like to use bullet connectors throughout, but I've no idea what tool to buy to do them properly now and that's going to put the brakes on progress until I do. Trying very hard to keep motivated with the Lanchester especially since I am making progress, but not having a workshop to do it in is taking its toll on me at the moment. Or maybe it's just that I'm exhausted because of The Everything. Rust Collector, Remspoor, adw1977 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 Focus has decided it no longer wants to accept CDs, so I'm now driving around sans tunes.. I can't be fucked installing some aftermarket head unit, nor purchasing the removal keys to have a gander at why it's just spitting them straight out again. So it's now a case of listening to the rear brake that has started making that irritating noise for the umpteenth time... Or Heart FM, neither of which greatly appeal And to top it off, it started running a bit lumpy sitting in traffic, so I'm obviously fully expecting the EML to illuminate in due course in order to subsequently relieve me of £50 for a coil pack. #fun Rust Collector, AnnoyingPentium and Sunny Jim 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 2 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said: Focus has decided it no longer wants to accept CDs, so I'm now driving around sans tunes.. I can't be fucked installing some aftermarket head unit, nor purchasing the removal keys to have a gander at why it's just spitting them straight out again. So it's now a case of listening to the rear brake that has started making that irritating noise for the umpteenth time... Or Heart FM, neither of which greatly appeal And to top it off, it started running a bit lumpy sitting in traffic, so I'm obviously fully expecting the EML to illuminate in due course in order to subsequently relieve me of £50 for a coil pack. #fun What about one of those FM transmitter doowhacky things that you plug into the fag lighter? Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 Just now, AnnoyingPentium said: What about one of those FM transmitter doowhacky things that you plug into the fag lighter? I suppose so, but that would mean I have to purchase and download the albums to my phone.. being an obstinate git, I already own it on CD so don't want to pay twice, I can't be fucked navigating some dodgy website to download YouTube links that will invade my computer with aids or porn ... And it would mean prove that my CD collection is obsolete and a waste of space if I can't even play them in the car any more Have I already said that I'm an obstinate git that doesn't do himself any good when it comes to solving problems? 😅 myglaren and AnnoyingPentium 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw1977 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 You can get a CD player that is a low power FM transmitter to allow you to tune your car radio to it. I assume that's what @AnnoyingPentium had in mind. RoverFolkUs and AnnoyingPentium 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 21 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said: I suppose so, but that would mean I have to purchase and download the albums to my phone.. being an obstinate git, I already own it on CD so don't want to pay twice, I can't be fucked navigating some dodgy website to download YouTube links that will invade my computer with aids or porn ... And it would mean prove that my CD collection is obsolete and a waste of space if I can't even play them in the car any more Have I already said that I'm an obstinate git that doesn't do himself any good when it comes to solving problems? 😅 If you get Audials MusicTube on your computer you can d/l tracks and albums from Youtube. If you already own the CDs, shouldn't be an issue. AnnoyingPentium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerzy Woking Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 7 hours ago, cobblers said: People who give children surnames as first names. "RILEY! JACKSON! BAILEY! DAWSON! GET BACK OVER HERE!!!!" On the radio this morning I heard about someone mentioning they had a child called "Corbyn" FFS. I visited Kosovo a couple of years ago. Many men in their early 20's had been given the first name "Tonibler". timolloyd and adw1977 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 1 minute ago, Jerzy Woking said: Many men in their early 20's had been given the first name "Tonibler". After foot fetishes or a desire to be a British ex-PM? timolloyd and cobblers 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 8 minutes ago, High Jetter said: If you get Audials MusicTube on your computer you can d/l tracks and albums from Youtube. If you already own the CDs, shouldn't be an issue. Ooh, sounds like too much effort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerzy Woking Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 3 minutes ago, High Jetter said: After foot fetishes or a desire to be a British ex-PM? After Tony Blair. He is a hero there. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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