ferny

Please don't use copper for brakes. It work hardens and then cracks. Use kunifer instead.

1 hour ago, Craig said:

I'd also like to thank @ferny for jump starting my car more than once. Cheers Pete!

Don't forget the sponge...

I was thinking along the lines of, "RBRR - I wasn't there, I don't understand, man."

You normally buy them at the drivers meeting. If you can't make it, there should be some at the start venue.

17 minutes ago, Ben Hutchings said:

I really enjoyed it, great to catch up with a load of you, some of whom I've not seen for 10+ years. 

Can someone remind me of two things please - I have terrible memory for names: 

What's the name of the owner of the Saffron spitfire, parked a couple down from @Royboy66 on Saturday. He said he wasn't a forum user.

What's the name of Wilf's owner (the lovely Border Collie). Are you a forum user? 

Mark Bland is the guy owned by the collie.

39 minutes ago, Clive said:

I suspect your course was rather different?

Mine was 3 days a week in school, teaching an ever increasing workload and a final half term of full time teaching. Plenty of input from staff etc. The uni bit was less useful, but in retrospect filled in many gaps and improved understanding of greater context. And allowed a gathering of us trainees to discuss stuff, made you feel like everybody was having the same issues. 

It's in my contract that I must either have or be working towards a PGCE - a hangover from when FE lectures needed to have it. As I was teaching full time (had been for a year by this point, I did my assessors award during that time) mine took two years, with half a day a week spent in uni.

For all of us who have been forced to do it this way, it's just a massive headache. Where I work they started putting people on PTLLS a year or two ago (despite it being replaced) and have now decided to stop that for a lower level qual.

21 hours ago, Clive said:

 

 Sounded an idea, so next day rang the Uni, a week later a visit there and I was on the PGCE.

What a load of tosh that course is! Thankfully I was drunk most of the time I needed to type up an essay and did most of the work a day or two before the deadline. That's allowed me to forget much of it.

Not really a great deal to say. The replacements felt like they were made from quality street tins so I cut them open and welded in rectangles I cut from 6mm plate I had. 

It was largely to make sure I could jack the car from anywhere. 

If you leave a gap for the weld to fill you should be fine. You can also knock the welds back before dressing and then skim with filler. It's no different to doing a butt weld anywhere else 

Chic Doig makes stronger side rails. I opted for 3mm box section instead. 

I also added 6mm braces in the rear outriggers and fillets into the fronts. 

You won't need to go to that level, but hopefully gives you other ideas. My body packing pieces are solid and there is no rubber there. My door shuts still move when jacking, that's just the nature of the car.

This might interest a few people for Saturday. I'm going to try and get along, but it's a 260 round trip for me and I've got a 250 mile trip the next day.

https://thelatebrakeshow.com/kent

I don't get paid to walk the Highlands, but I get enough holiday to kinda almost make that the case. 😂 This snap was taken this morning. 😉

That's the only perk to teaching these days.

I'm in Pembrokeshire between 8th and 11th and 13/14th I might be in Pendle Hill. I might be able to do some convoluted camping tour to get to Malvern? It'd take some planning. 

I'm off to Scotland tomorrow for National Three Peaks so give me a call, but signal or response might be sporadic until Tuesday. 

7 hours ago, Ben Hutchings said:

Ok I’ll take a look in the morning. I have 112 build threads sat in a holding area 😅

Can you not just move them straight away and get them to do a lateral flow test every fifth Wednesday after Pentecost?

Can you not remove the grille to gain better access?

Have you messaged Craig about it? 🤣

Would copies of magazine road tests from the time suffice? Many have been reprinted in the club mag and use real world testing to provide the result.

I wouldn't calculate it using the theoretical top speed as it will be way too high without taking into account frictional and aerodynamic loses. In theory, mine will do 175mph, for example.

On 04/05/2021 at 20:12, Ian Perry said:

Hi Jason, can you just change the colour of mine please (car 161) - no longer "white with rust" but now "blue"

 

Many thanks 🙂

 

I just put "yes" in the box. It's simpler.

Have ever taken note that your car keys have travelled further than your car.

Great response, Chris. I think we're both saying be careful and be sensible?

I hope you guys have a great event. I would have loved to enter. 👍

3 hours ago, Chriss said:

 

The symptoms of Delta Covid-19, sourced from Dr John Campbell are:

Headache, sore throat, runny nose, fever and cough.  Loss of taste and smell is not being reported in the current major variant.

 

It's important to be careful with information you share.

A runny nose, sore throat and headache are also symptoms of hay-fever. Pollen counts are very high right now. People were testing positive with no symptoms in the past. It's not impossible people are mistaking hay-fever for covid, getting tested and showing as positive.

There are predictions in that video which haven't proven true. It's important to gain information from as many sources as practical and to be aware of cognitive bias.

2 hours ago, DVD3500 said:

Charging takes between 2 to 8 hours but that is down to the chargers he uses. 

 

He has driven to Greece and back with no problems.

 

I don't know where you live, but from here it's 2000 miles to Greece. That's 25 times it'd need charging and it'd take 50-200 hours!

The RBRR is also 2000 miles, and needs to be completed in 48 hours

OK, that's an extreme. But I did 250 miles in the Herald today, which is normal for me and happens every weekend. A lot of the small brand new electric cars can't do that.

Full disclosure, I'm on the list to test drive one of these if they become available. I did some maths and worked out that if I only used it for commuting and stayed employed at the same place I am now, I'd be in profit and driving for free in 17 years. 😂

The idea is great, but the range and cost is the issue. Anything you can get your hand on for a reasonable price will be "old tech" with poor range. Plus, where would the batteries go?

I've had that happen to me. The master cylinder was about two months old and the brakes had been fine since fitting. I was approach a roundabout at the end of a dual carriage way at... speed. No brakes and the pedal went to the floor. Luckily I'd decided to brake far earlier than I normally would have done and so the handbrake saved me.

I stripped the cylinder down and found nothing wrong. I've never worked out what happened and the brakes are fine again. This happened last February. I also have a servo fitted and stripped this down to find no problems too.

I'm assuming you have the standard specs to hand? How do the new measurements for the datum points measure up to the original? 

Photos won't always help as the angle and focal length changing can be misleading.