Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

[eddyramrod]

4 hours ago, Shite Ron said:

Maybe an unfortunate number plate now the septics have corrupted our language but probably didn’t raise any eyebrows when it was taken.

The 2023 connotations wouldn't have applied in 1977.  OE was simply a Birmingham combination, and BL would always have had those on their press fleet, same as Ford used HK and WC, both Essex .  If there was any inappropriate giggling back then, it would have been at BL registering their cars with the name of a garden tool.

[DSdriver]

On 21/10/2023 at 14:11, Yoss said:

I was thinking the same. Being an auto electrician in the early 70s must have been a doddle.

Those were the dying days of when the coils of electric motors for starters, dynamos, windscreen-wipers were rewound rather than being lobbed in a skip and a new part fitted. Quite a skillful job. Curd Brothers in Tunbridge Wells had some incredible machines which were probably sold for scrap or sent to India when they moved to their current trading-estate premises.

[Richard_FM]

6 minutes ago, DSdriver said:

Those were the dying days of when the coils of electric motors for starters, dynamos, windscreen-wipers were rewound rather than being lobbed in a skip and a new part fitted. Quite a skillful job. Curd Brothers in Tunbridge Wells had some incredible machines which were probably sold for scrap or sent to India when they moved to their current trading-estate premises.

One of the Haynes books on classic car restoration mentions using a growler to calibrate dynamos, especially as the regulator boxes have often been messed around with over the years.

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, Shite Ron said:

Maybe an unfortunate number plate now the septics have corrupted our language but probably didn’t raise any eyebrows when it was taken.

The only people that might have upset would gardeners. Or, possibly, their wives - "what are you doing, Cyril?" "Just looking at a picture of a new hoe, Ethel, the old one is getting blunt"

[Muniphobia]

So thats left at the Mosque and carry on until you pass the tethered goat?

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[ETCHY]

7 hours ago, DSdriver said:

Those were the dying days of when the coils of electric motors for starters, dynamos, windscreen-wipers were rewound rather than being lobbed in a skip and a new part fitted. Quite a skillful job. Curd Brothers in Tunbridge Wells had some incredible machines which were probably sold for scrap or sent to India when they moved to their current trading-estate premises.

This is why so much of the environmental save the planet stuff is shite. We need to get back to fixing stuff, just throwing things away is wasteful.

Won't happen though.

[DSdriver]

I inherited several spools of coil winding wire from my father-in-law. I did use some once on an electric drill, but although my results were a bit untidy winding by hand and not being able to get as much wire on, it did work which was satisfying. The rest of the spools were kept for ten years or so and then went to the scrappy.

Have a picture to keep us on topic

 

[eddyramrod]

3 hours ago, ETCHY said:

This is why so much of the environmental save the planet stuff is shite. We need to get back to fixing stuff, just throwing things away is wasteful.

Won't happen though.

COULD NOT AGREE MORE!

[myglaren]

12 hours ago, DSdriver said:

Those were the dying days of when the coils of electric motors for starters, dynamos, windscreen-wipers were rewound rather than being lobbed in a skip and a new part fitted. Quite a skillful job. Curd Brothers in Tunbridge Wells had some incredible machines which were probably sold for scrap or sent to India when they moved to their current trading-estate premises.

I've watched a lot of Linguoer's videos and been impressed with her abilities.

This is one of her motor rewinds, she has done quite a number and also generator rewinds.

Starts the rewind at about 3' 50"

One place I worked backed on to a rewind company.

[myglaren]

I kept looking out of the window to see who's dog was barking   Have the sound piped through a stereo.

[MiniMinorMk3]

18 hours ago, Shite Ron said:

 

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19 hours ago, Shite Ron said:

Maybe an unfortunate number plate now the septics have corrupted our language but probably didn’t raise any eyebrows when it was taken.

You might need a FORK to go with that HOE

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[Rusty Pelican]

19 hours ago, DSdriver said:

Those were the dying days of when the coils of electric motors for starters, dynamos, windscreen-wipers were rewound rather than being lobbed in a skip and a new part fitted. Quite a skillful job. Curd Brothers in Tunbridge Wells had some incredible machines which were probably sold for scrap or sent to India when they moved to their current trading-estate premises.

Its a dying  art but not dead , I work for an electrical rewinders and we do tonnes of stuff for the military , plus  old car stuff going right back to the 20s , yeh we rewind almost zero mains motors nowadays ( cheap Chinese inports killed that off ) but anything rare / not available new or just plain obsolete still  gets done . Plus I rewind all the bits for my 60s cars - starter , wiper motor  plus upgrade alternators --- we are still about 

[Popsicle]

17 hours ago, Muniphobia said:

So thats left at the Mosque and carry on until you pass the tethered goat?

In the pre-satnav late 90's I had a delivery to do around the slate mines in Wales, couldn't find the named place, no phone signal to ring up and ask either. I spotted a dog walker so asked for directions and was told turn right at the post box then left at the tethered goat. I was expecting it to be a pub, but no it was a bloody goat tied to a telegraph pole.

[eddyramrod]

Yep, that's Wales!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

2 hours ago, Rusty Pelican said:

Its a dying  art but not dead , I work for an electrical rewinders and we do tonnes of stuff for the military , plus  old car stuff going right back to the 20s , yeh we rewind almost zero mains motors nowadays ( cheap Chinese inports killed that off ) but anything rare / not available new or just plain obsolete still  gets done . Plus I rewind all the bits for my 60s cars - starter , wiper motor  plus upgrade alternators --- we are still about 

Still a load of us with classic bikes or scooters who use this service. My old 186 engined Lambretta from a few years back became really unreliable with lots of starting and running issues. As soon as the stator plate was refitted following rewinding, it ran beautifully.  Can't remember who did it now though...

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Rusty Pelican said:

Its a dying  art but not dead , I work for an electrical rewinders and we do tonnes of stuff for the military , plus  old car stuff going right back to the 20s , yeh we rewind almost zero mains motors nowadays ( cheap Chinese inports killed that off ) but anything rare / not available new or just plain obsolete still  gets done . Plus I rewind all the bits for my 60s cars - starter , wiper motor  plus upgrade alternators --- we are still about 

Respect for the skillz! I sometimes get 2 speed motors re-wound by a firm with 2 names in the W. Mids, not many will do it.

[myglaren]

The one I mentioned is still going

Team Valley Rewinds

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Noo Yoik '56

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