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Dave, See my link to the appropriate Fb page, above. It leads to this page: Memorialisation request (facebook.com) which asks for few details, that even a friend might provide, although clearly , family is best. JOhn

A little Googling finds that Facebook will "memorialise" the personal page of someone who is dead: Reporting a deceased person or a Facebook account that needs to be memorialised. | Facebook Help Centre Many knew Nuala better than I, who doesn't even know if she had family and they are the right people to request this of Meta. Anyone here who can contact family members, would they please do so and suggest this? It could prevent future abuse of her memory. JOhn

All, It would be nice if it had been a tribute to her, but I fear the "friend request" I received today from "Nuala Dowie" was only another example of poor control by Facebook. As many here will know, Nuala died two years ago. I have reported this abuse of her memory to "Meta" and I hope others who receive similar messages will do so too. But I fear that Meta will do nothing about it. Nuala's personal page on Fb still stands. Can it be closed, or better marked "In Memoriam"? John

A DPO of one of my Vitesses had done "rust-proofing" with pitch. You know, the black tarry stuff they mend roads with. It was quite exciting trying to weld new metal in as you never knew when another pocket of pitch would ignite, spraying you, the floor and other car bits with flaming napalm!

Thank you, Howard. Clearly the intricacies of modern wiring are as difficult to understand as the Fick Principle for cardiac output! I'll continue to plug my hook-up in, then turn it on! John

I wonder why? But after this long Tory regime of zero investment in public services and infrastructure, there can be no surprise that the Insurance Ombudsman has an enormous backlog of cases, along with all the others, not least the NHS! John

Colin, I'm sorry if my denigration of a wheel mounted bench offended you! I have several engine trolleys on wheels, with six castors each, on which they live before and after rebuilds as they can be moved a bout for storage and retrieval. A couple of engine stands, both on their own wheels, support them during a rebuild. My lathe also is on castors, for similar storage reasons. But a bench on which you will saw, chisel or otherwise exert repetitive manual effort really needs to be bolted to the wall, IMHO. Perhaps a joiner like you could make one stiff enough to be bolted to the floor! Clive, To have people like you on the message board, who have detailed experience and knowledge is invaluable! Especially when they explain their knowledge as you have about small and large current RCDs. But it is so easy to slip into full jargon mode! I've looked up "RCBO" and I understand it all except for the last bit! "Overcurrent"?? So I didn't even bother looking up "C curve! A short tutorial, please? And, while I have such an expert tutor to hand, may I ask about my TRansit? Equipped as a day van, it has an exterior socket and interior wiring for an electrical 'hook-up' on a camp site. As the van is only used intermittently, I have installed a battery charger on board, that runs off a domestic 3-pin plug inside the van. When I plug the hook-up to the exterior socket, the other end already in a 3-pin in the garage, the RCD trips. If I connect the hook-up, then plug it into the garage socket, no problem. Is this a problem, or the RCD just doing what it should? Thanks! John

Asbestos is overrated as a hazard! Leave it alone and it won't come home.

Clive, be calm! I suggested it because many people have old fashioned garage wiring. My house has circuit breakers, but my garage HAD enormous porcelain fuses. Howard, I knew just enough to suggest the RCD, but not the point you make! Thank you! Not as big as this one though

PLus 1 for the scrapman's advice. If you want to have a vice and a pillar drill on it, as well as put some welly into work on the bench, wheels really won't do! Build it into a corner, so that you can use masonry bolts through the legs on two sides. You have some kitchen counter top, but that's not really tough enough! After finding the same from thick timber planking, I faced the part I hammer on with 5mm alloy plate, drilled and screwed, with countersinks so there no obstruction. Then, mount a full length strip light over the bench, with a shade (you can make your own from some light alloy panelling) to keep the light out of your eyes. An LED batten is ideal. Run that from the same supply as you run the pillar drill, together with a multi-socket extension on the wall as well, but put a "residual earth current circuit breaker" between them all and the supply, to protect you . A shelf underneath, to hold scrap bins compost heaps - so useful for that little piece of tube you need! Instead of a wheeled work bench, for light jobs get a B&D Workmate, that provides a stable surface to work on but folds up when you're finished. You can even stand on it, unless you're a heavyweight! Good luck! John

VR, You are indeed right about the officers of insurance companies being Illuminati -that is, reptiles. My newspaper's consumer column today includes accounts of people with moderns, specifically VW and their offshoots, having the wiring of their cars being eaten by rats! Apparently in pursuit of low carbon, they use a soya-based insulation on the wires and the rodents love it! The insurers told the owner that this could not have been a single incident, as defined in the policy so they made an excess deduction for every single fault. As a result, although the repair cost was several thousand pounds, they would pay only a few hundred. Oh, and the owners would be landed with a whole string of separate claims, with consequent effect on their No Claims Bonus. Triples all round for the insurers! John

Buy cheap, buy rubbish! In future, I find Adrian Flux reliable and inexpensive. They provided insurance for my TRansit at car rates (hundreds of pounds) when everyone else only offered tradesman rates (thousands!). And they have a UK centre to deal with problems. John

Fine! Sorry to teach egg sucking! Pic of what you have please? JOhn

Iani, Please keep up the reports! Just an idea, from my own conversion on my Vitesse to Pi. I realise that mine was for an extreme purpose, motorsport, but I soon realised that Triumph had made inadequate provision for fuel slosh in a half empty tank. Unlike carburettors, that will exclude air bubbles that get into the fuel feed in the float chamber, Pi has no such provision. The volume of each squirt from the injectors is tiny, and even a small bubble will mean that only air comes out! This usually happens just as you put your foot down as you exit a corner, the engine dies. If you keep your right foot down and left foot up, then it will usually restart as inertia keeps the car going, the air is expelled and fuelling returns, but it's a frightening experience. You must judge if your driving style and intended use makes this likely, but I found that a swirl pot for the fuel with a lifter pump to keep it filled abolished this effect.

Philip, Returning to your original post - I'm sorry, I didn't se it before! - your pics don't show the "error light" you speak of, probably because it's an LED that flashes (faster than we can see!) and wasn't picked up by your camera. Do you refer to the errors listed in the CEK manual? Under "Steps 1, 2 and 3"? "Sulphation" occurs in a very old battery, which yours is not, or one that has been discharged for too long (not a long time!) As I mentioned above, the CTEK has a "RECOND" Mode, which may 'recondition' a battery in the second case. It has worked for me! From memory, you access the RECOND mode by pressing the "MODE" button, but please consult the manual. How do you attach the CTEK? The charger comes with a pair of leads that may be permanently attached to the battery terminals, with a connector to the charger lead, but it's not visible on your pics. Best way to do it. And as suggested above, if your battery drains then suspect some load that persists after the ignition is turned off. A Multimeter is a cheap and useful tool! Set to Amps and place between the positive terminal and the positive lead to show if there is some current drain, and set to resistance will help you trace where it's going, through the loom. Good luck! John

Read the CTEK instructions. There is a "recondition" mode, which may help. John

That's a great idea! But it's based on a Morgan three wheeler, is a drawing on a photograph, probably Photoshopped. And it's by Sebastian Mosch, who is a keen Photoshopper of motor cars, with some amusing ideas, like this Lots more on his website, but not of the Spitfire-Morgan! https://www.virtualmodels.org/page/40/?cat=-1 But I have it! See: https://www.sebastianmotsch.com/morgan-three-wheeler-spitfire-concept/ Have a read - it's fun! John PS Sebastian has published no Triumph mash-ups, none at all! Perhaps someone should suggest he does, especially of you wnat to see them produced again! J.

Have you ever LOOKED at the BMW range? If they are to be expected to revive Triumph it would surely be as a sports car, but they already have: The 8 series, very much the Grand Tourer The M range, all 'motorsport' versions of all their other series. The 4 series, 2 (and 4) door sports coupes with a convertible in there. And, of course, the Z4 Roadster. Where would a series of Triumphs fit into there? And why on Earth would BMW want to confuse their loyal clientele with another marque? Triumph had enough problems with the competition between the small chassis series and the TRs. John

I'd think that was apocryphal if it weren't for many items from America in the "Just Rolled In" YouTube thread. EG: One minute in

No? Riley Elf. Worsley Hornet. Cooper. Austin Seven. Rover Mini. Innocenti. All "badge engineered" versions on the Mini. BL couldn't wean themselves off badge engineering, even when they had a winner without it. Even when they couldn't cost it properly. John

Good luck, Pete, you're doing a nice job! I've had fuel heating probs, and while I think they are sorted one solution is a fuel cooler! I was inspired by finding one on my TRansit van. Lots of them about to choose from, from a length of pipe with fins, to 'proper' radiators, to what may be - I'm not sure - water cooled versions. All diesels have them, for the same reason we do on Pi, a high ratio of high pressure fuel returned to the tank after pumping, when the pump adds heat. Petrol fuel injection happens at much lower pressure. John

Why on Earth would BMW want to make range of Teiumph car. That was a mistake that BMC/BL made, leafing yo the "badge engineering" trope. BMW have cars from sports to shopping to SUVs, all within their own range and designed to look like family, something BL never did. They acquired the Triumph name as a relic, a fossil, among the wreckage of BL, and will be perfectly happy to leave it there. John

Indeed! As I have discovered myself! Since that post! John

As well as their iconic 'cylindrical' pumps, Facet make the much cheaper "Solid State" pumps, also good for 30 gallons/hour plus. Glencoe are the UK stockists: https://www.glencoeltd.co.uk/facet-fuel-pumps/facet-solid-state-pump-12v-24v/ John

At £25 that's a cheap Chinese knock-off of the Facet pump. Reliability may not be its second name. John