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Good to hear that he's doing well, a5...Cardiology is improving really fast.

 

Now, for my grumps of the day...

 

i) my laptop had a small fall on Friday (20-25cm onto the carpet) and for some weird reason 4 keys stopped working (tab, a, capslock and 1). Not much fun having to use ctrl+v for a... at least I found an identical lappy on ebay with a fried motherboard and purchased it for 40 quid inc shipping, so I should make some progress one way or another, and get myself a few extra bits to boot, but I'm guessing I won't be receiving it till Tuesdayish.

 

ii) I finally managed to sort out a phone line with plusnet, and I need a DSL microfilter. Comet sell them for FIFTEEN QUID, and Maplin are only about 2 pounds cheaper...so I have to order one which also won't be arriving till Tues. I'm guessing it only costs about 25p to make, maybe another 50p to bring it here from China, why won't you fucking sell it for a fiver?? Is a gross profit margin of 300+% too little for you?

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Laptop: If the keys that don't work are all in a row (ish), then quite often success equals just reseating the flexible cable on the back of the keyboard that goes into a ZIF socket on the mainboard.

 

Microfilters: Ebay. I stuck my extra microfilters on ebay ages ago, you often get 4 with a new model so I found plenty of people selling them for about £4-£5

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  Pillock said:
Laptop: If the keys that don't work are all in a row (ish), then quite often success equals just reseating the flexible cable on the back of the keyboard that goes into a ZIF socket on the mainboard.

 

Yes, I definitely think it's only a dodgy contact somewhere, but I won't be touching it until I've got the spares at the ready, just in case...In the meantime, I've taken the a key out and it's a real bugger to put back in...

 

  Pillock said:
Microfilters: Ebay. I stuck my extra microfilters on ebay ages ago, you often get 4 with a new model so I found plenty of people selling them for about £4-£5

 

Sainsbury's sell them for £3, but it's not something they keep in stock, so you have to order it into your local store through the website and it takes 2 days to arrive. Wouldn't expect ebay to be either quicker or cheaper. You know the world's become a silly place when you live in one of the biggest cities in the country and have to place a special order so as to avoid being dry bummed in exchage for a wee bit of plastic.

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2 houses down is having a bonfire, and with the wind blowing in my direction I have to keep all my windows closed :evil:

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  Negative Creep said:
2 houses down is having a bonfire, and with the wind blowing in my direction I have to keep all my windows closed :evil:

 

must have been a big fire as i could smell the burning wood....either that or i have fuggin neighbours just as daft as yours :roll:

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  maxpower said:
  Negative Creep said:
2 houses down is having a bonfire, and with the wind blowing in my direction I have to keep all my windows closed :evil:

 

must have been a big fire as i could smell the burning wood....either that or i have fuggin neighbours just as daft as yours :roll:

 

 

My room still stinks of smoke, surprised it didn't set off the smoke detectors

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Arrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh lost the keys to the saab. Cant find them for love nor money. Had house upside down, had mums house upside down ...

 

only set as well. Bugger...

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  autofive said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13989455

now im grumpy

 

where does London have to erect a statue of an international terrorist and war crimes suspect?

 

 

I say old boy, that's a bit strong. His Reaganness was a good friend of the U.K., and the Falklands thing is a red herring. The Yanks helped us out with kit and intel. The Russians watched the Falklands conflict with interest - first proper test of NATO power. Our boys re-took the F.I., on the other side of the Earth, and kicked Galtieri's arse up to his eyeballs. Without American intel we would have lost more of our brave servicemen.

 

I couldn't give a fuck about what Ronnie did in Central America. The place always was a shithole, and will remain thus. Blame the Spanish and their half-arsed attempt at Empire building

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  ashmicro said:
  autofive said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13989455

now im grumpy

 

where does London have to erect a statue of an international terrorist and war crimes suspect?

 

 

I say old boy, that's a bit strong. His Reaganness was a good friend of the U.K.

 

not in the falklands war, and not when his government was arming the contras, iranians, the iraqis, the afghans and the mujahadeen while allowing the cia to sell heroin and cocaine.

 

if we must have a statue of a puppet I'd rather it was a fingerbob or muffin the mule

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  Quote
Hey Ronnie Regan I'm black and I'm pagan, I'm gay and I'm left and I'm free. I'm a non fundamentalist enviromentalist, don't bother me.
Posted

All is not lost - a stihl saw and a visit to EMR would sort it out. Might turn a tidy profit, and judging by his politics such enterprise would be condoned by himself too.

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im sure there is plenty of space in the garden of "thatcher towers" to put the statue :roll:

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Guess what? I'm not posting on the VOC Forum again unless people there fuck off and be less shit. The white 480 will be going in the frag sooner than planned, mainly out of spite. Or if I don't calm down I might just set fire to it.

 

:evil::evil::evil::evil::evil:

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  watanabe said:
Guess what? I'm not posting on the VOC Forum again unless people there fuck off and be less shit. The white 480 will be going in the frag sooner than planned, mainly out of spite. Or if I don't calm down I might just set fire to it.

 

:evil::evil::evil::evil::evil:

scrap the useless thing and as your last post on VOC show some pics of it being fragged!

 

More importantly, how is the 305 Carb saga?

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  messerschmitt owner said:
  watanabe said:
Guess what? I'm not posting on the VOC Forum again unless people there fuck off and be less shit. The white 480 will be going in the frag sooner than planned, mainly out of spite. Or if I don't calm down I might just set fire to it.

 

:evil::evil::evil::evil::evil:

scrap the useless thing and as your last post on VOC show some pics of it being fragged!

 

More importantly, how is the 305 Carb saga?

 

Going nowhere. Not heard from your mate since Saturday, he can't find the carb and didn't seem keen on having me round to collect it. He can post it to me now, I needed the carb by Saturday at the latest because I wanted to take the 305 to the Retro Show. I'm a bit hacked off with B&M on here who offered me two carbs free, left me a postcode but not a phone number and then disappeared off the face of the earth.

 

I was seeing a mate in Kebroyd and popped over to his street, but no-one there would talk to me or knew who he was.

 

Conclusion = tragic.

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Oh, and in addition (to an otherwise amazing Sunday) the bloke from Retro Rides who wanted my Tamiya Mustang didn't call and didn't make any effort to collect it from me.

 

The only other bloke was someone who wanted it for 'his lad' and didn't want to pay me postage. Come on mate, play the game, the car's already cheap for what it is and you're getting a decent controller, why should I post it for nothing?

 

That might be going in the frag as well with the white 480 at this rate.

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^ you were at the retro show with a cheap RC car? NOW I'm grumpy too :(

 

 

ps, I found the carb manual - it was in the hotrod. Will scan soon, promise....

Posted

Realising I've asked for this but still prefer not to hear any 'told you so' type comments:

Took the Frontender for an MOT this afternoon and left it for them to test. Walked back down a short while back and had that sort of impending sense of doom one sometimes gets.

My 'OMG' radar was spot on: they abandoned the test because the bastard is overheating. Hoping to God it's the thermostat or radiator, hadn't seen any signs of oil in water/water in oil and it seemed to run o.k so it's a fingers crossed job now. They're going to try again tomorrow afternoon and only start it when they have to.

:oops:

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Was out in the Granada on Friday, and thought the brakes were a bit soft. Seemed familiar from my first one, those weren't up to much either. Today I looked at the reservoir... no fluid. Fortunately it worked enough on Friday to get me home and I haven't used it since.

 

Then our wives wonder why we have to have all these old cars lying about... Today I've been out in the X and the pickup. Case proved, m'lud.

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Think I have done something to the outside of my foot at football. Been sore on and off for last couple of months but took painkillers and ignored it. Tonight after foot could barely hobble and taking boot off was agony itself. Will have to be at the walk in centre for 7 30 tomorrow morning ...

 

Stupid boy...

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  scaryoldcortina said:
^ you were at the retro show with a cheap RC car? NOW I'm grumpy too :(

 

 

ps, I found the carb manual - it was in the hotrod. Will scan soon, promise....

 

Hey it's still for sale - I posted it up on here and on RR.

 

Thread is here -http:// http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... 876&page=1

Posted

£30??? consider it sold then! Do you live anywhere near xbollox? failing that, I'm not a total cheapskate and well prepared to pay for postage.

Posted

I've Just posted on Ovalchat,:

Not wishing to appear like an old fart, but shouldn't this be kept, and not raced? It's rare, and will be fairly easy to restore - and at £800 it's a lot of dough for something which will probably last two laps......just thinking aloud here.....

Let's see what response that gets....

Posted

To be fair Bob it seems a few on there are interested in restoring it. It'd be a massive shame if that got raced.

Posted
  scaryoldcortina said:
£30??? consider it sold then! Do you live anywhere near xbollox? failing that, I'm not a total cheapskate and well prepared to pay for postage.

 

I live fairly near Bol yeah. I can get it to him - are you bringing his Mazzer down? You can take eeeet on the way back.

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Cool. Either I'm bringing it to him, or I'm collecting it and storing until he comes to get it.

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