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I bet it wouldnt fit under all of the bridges

Robin, my dad is much the same, when he changes batteries he can look up in his little book, and tell you how long the battery lasted, how much he paid for it etc etc. he has housekeeping books going back to before I was born with every purchase noted down, so he can look up and see how the price for a tin of luncheon meat has gone up since before 1960. Oldgregg, thats why I like my volvo diesel, its a 5 cylinder lump, not high revving (red line is about 4000 rpm) ok its the older model, doesnt have particulate filters or any of that rubbish, but as it gets a good daily run, it doesnt smoke too badly unless you absolutely floor it. its 17 years old, and has 172,000 miles on it now. if I sold it I could get pretty close to what I paid for it, (how much value do brand new cars lose in their first few years?) its a bit like having to have the latest phone isnt it.

looking good

well I just had 2 new front tyres ready for my MOT next month, after the tyres I had the tracking checked (the old ones were down to 2mm but scrubbed clean on the very inside edges) it turned out i had to have front and back tracking done (£30 per end) so £190 with tyres (Mid range GT Champiro FE1's B rated for wet grip and C for economy (rated for extra load)), wasnt too bad, about what I was expecting£65 per tyre, cheapest option was £47 budget tyre (with the same rain grip and economy rating) most expensive was a pirelli at £ 169 premium tyre, (with A rated rain grip and the worst (F) rated economy, plus noisier with it) while most of the premium tyres had the better rain grip (3m better stopping distance from 70mph), their economy figures didnt match the cheaper tyres, and one premium (bridgestone) had the worst economy category possible (G). michelin were the only premium tyre that bettered the GT in both rain grip and economy, and that didnt have the extra load rating that a volvo estate running with a full boot really requires.

yes the mucky word filter takes no prisoners.

in a pub - again

expensive morning for me - opticians eye test and new glasses, £220, next the dentists, £256 band 3 work, and after that a trip to the tyre place for two new front tyres, and tracking check, £190, ouch

I think you stayed at the pub 1 pint too long.

gentlemen, please remember to remain cordial between each other (and I dont mean the Robinsons fruit stuff you get at wimbledon - even though watching over this thread is a bit like watching a tennis match). Thanks

I also seem to think someone at acle was saying they had moorings for boats up to 23 foot available (that may have been over on the facebook group pages)

Bill, I am sure if you could find similar information to present to prop up the alternative view, then you too would.

I seem to recall he tried that too.

the general usage is small hand held pmr radios for boat to boat chat, someone may correct me but I think channel 4 is used

perhaps they are trying to move their quay heading to a better part of the river?

Somehow I dont fancy sausages any more.

thats pretty normal in kent- called operation stack.

ah the good old ford escort gearchange - first, second thir..... oh sh1t put the gearstick back in the hole and try and locate the two faces back into their slot, screw the plastic bit back in ....rd, fourth

I admit it, I am a luddite when it comes to phones, I have a blackberry, it doesnt do whatsapp, it doesnt do things most phones do, but it does do photos, texts and phone calls. but if I forget my phone or the battery goes flat, i can still get around, buy things and do things. i can imagine the panic, you are on the boat for a week, and the 12v socket stops working and there is no inverter, could you husband the power of your phone so it stays functional for the rest of the week for the absolute necessities? well to be honest I probably could as I have a couple of solar charged power banks, but could everyone?

right third section work today. lots of pictures. first the part is overlaid over the pattern, then the inner spacing set using the finished side, he lines of the part are added, and then the waste side marked. the faces of the joints are cut using the bandsaw (careful of your fingers here) and a razor saw used to cut the shoulders, some of these are slanted to match the inside profile of the frame, then the parts are glued and clamped, once the glue has set, the chamfers are sanded in with the sander set to the correct angle. the fit is checked. then the finished part is compared to the patterns and its opposite number.

True, in my case the shed belt was caused by the alternator pulley clutch seizing, the symptoms were masked by the hydraulic leak from the steering which allowed the belt to slip, so when that was fixed, the seized pulley, which was now rotating on the alternator shaft, slowly worked it's way off the shaft, once it got so far the pulley was out of alignment and jumped off the next pulley in line shedding the belt. I was lucky, the tension released the belt slacked around the main drive pulley (that also hosts the timing belt)and this pulley just rotated inside the loose belt until I could stop, if it hadn't and had got tangled and broken the timing belt, that would have killed the engine. Sent from the Norfolk Broads Network mobile app

sadly it is a small minority showing religious intolerance (and that comment can be viewed from both sides of the coin) that cause the whole of the rest of that religion to be viewed by the opposing religious intolerants as a target, the ones that suffer are not the intolerants that cause the problems, but those good people who are just caught between the intolerants on one side and the intolerants on the other side. the above can be applied to just about any religion and its attitude to just about any other religion you wish to name. in any religion there is a wide difference between those that practice the religion as part of their day to day lives, and the extremists that use religious reasons to go out and attack others. I feel sorrow for all the victims of religious intolerance, no matter what race or religion.

there are always bound to be issues when buying a used car (after all someone sold it to get a new one- there must have been a reason) mind you the other option- buying new, that comes with the risk that there is a problem with the build that hasnt been spotted yet. Once you accept that with any car will come a host of problems, and are prepared to work through them and fix them, you are halfway there, for me as long as the price is right, and there are no glaring problems, I go ahead, my current car being a good example. at under £1000 for a 16 year old volvo with 160,000 miles on it, I wasnt expecting everything perfect, ok the seat covers had seen better days, my heated seat didnt work (I have a whole set of leather seats in my old car that are the same basic seat) there was a slight leak in the steering pump, when it got worse I swapped out the old one from my old car, that fixed that, after that the fault on the alternator pulley showed up (the pulley near came off the alternator), easy swap good alternator from the old car. so far it hasnt cost me anything but time, as problems appear, they will get fixed, after a while I will know what has been done, and be able to schedule regular replacement / maintenance. I'd rather do the work and keep an old car going - to a point, if it needs more spent on it than the value of a new car, I will sometimes just get the newer car, especially if like my old car it has topped 250,000 miles

RRS - Robins Recovery Service

"you placed part of your vehicle into a bus lane at a speed of 126mph for 0.006 seconds so please find the attached fine for obstructing the bus lane and stopping busses from proceeding normally"