Mr Fro

12 hours ago, Trooper74 said:

I'm confused ..... so after reposting a section of my post you still haven’t read it ... you do know what a statement is i suppose.

Yes thanks, I read what you posted.

I acknowledged that the statement that you made was contrary readily available information.

I can understand how that would confuse you.

In other news, total EV is not currently a workable solution to mass transportation needs. Relatively inexpensive hybrid can be more efficient in terms of CO2 production and distance travelled per unit energy than EV so "we" really should pursue that avenue rather than following the EV trend.

59 minutes ago, Trooper74 said:

Already theres discourse around the rubber and brake particles EV’s produce in cities due to being at least twice as heavy as normal cars ... but that was an article in the Telegraph so don’t quote me on that one.

EV generally slow using regenerative braking, hence the tiny discs on most of them.

My run of the mill estate car is ~2000kg, Tesla Model 3 is ~1600kg so I'd call your statement bunkum.

I'm supposed to be taking the family to see my dearest mother tomorrow for her birthday.

It's a 300ish mile round trip but there's no full round here.

Buy some tube plugs.

10 hours ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Do you find the oil flow sufficient to clear bits of clutch debris? The graphic of how it works looks like the oil flow is quite restricted. I did the oil on my old Honda the other day and there was quite a lot of non- metallic particles in the used oil, I am assuming it was bits off the clutch plates. 

I couldn't tell you. It's a good point though - there could potentially be bits of carbon and such floating about in the oil but then the filter should catch anything that wouldn't pass through the Stahlbus.

Morning all.

Covid Mk 2 is really dragging on. In the mornings it sounds like a chain smoker convention in my house!

Forget scrabbling around on the ground like a chump while undoing a drain plug!

I put these on my bikes a few years ago and haven't looked back. They make oil changes a breeze (although slightly slower) plus no more oil up your arm.

I use Racer High Racer gloves and really like them.

I bought them on recommendation from a guy who raced after he showed me a pair he was wearing during a crash.

I now have my own pair that I wore during an unplanned dismount and have to say they held up really well. I was so impressed that I bought another pair.

They're nice and supple from the start and my first pair probably lasted 12 years before the stitching started to go (even after the aforementioned ground contact incident).

My top two is don't get hung up on price. Buy something that feels good to wear and offer you good protection. After all, if you get a decade from them, it's not much money per year.

9 hours ago, Grumpy Old Git said:

Gday!

 

Long time no see!

How's it going?

29 minutes ago, Steve_M said:

My good lady has a bit of a sore throat. Certainly not enough to keep her off work if we weren’t retired. COVID still transmissible at this stage, so could readily infect others, so waiting until you feel unwell is not a good strategy, o at least, not if you have any concern for, say, the vulnerable. 
 

As I’ve been having problems managing my asthma recently, I really don’t fancy catching it. So testing after finding out we’ve been in contact with a confirmed case is a sensible precaution. 
 

 

Covid contagion study.
 

 

I was in work on Friday. I felt fine until around 3 when I started feeling a bit rough. I did a test when I got home which was positive - wife and kids all tested positive too.

It's spread all round the office and my son's school is heaving with it.

None of us have felt like we've got more than a bit of a cold and the only reason I did a test was because the mother-in-law was due round on Saturday. If it wasn't for that the we would all have carried on our usual business.

6 minutes ago, KiwiBob said:

Are you sure? .. How else can they check if the exhaust is too loud?

That's what my MOT guy told me when I booked in the turbo. I was a bit surprised but that's what he said.

The engine doesn't need to run to get a bike MOT.

Looks like I'll be working from home for the beginning of the week but I left my laptop in the office.

The sun is shining, it's warm outside and I've got 60 miles to kill.

There's only really one answer to this conundrum. 

Hurray, I've got Covid again.

9 hours ago, husoi said:

The trick with both the blow torch and heat gun is in the speed of the movement and how far it is from the surface.

Usually goes awry when either or both go lower than it's supposed.

Most times it is due to people trying to "go a bit faster" by applying more heat for longer.

I did get some reasonable results but they weren't consistent. 

I think I got a bit bored of it and ended up with a few bubbles. There's definitely a fine line between bringing back the surface finish and setting light to it.

1 hour ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

If you have an electric heat gun you can start with a low setting and work up to the point where the grey turn black again. An old trick used on car bumpers back in the day when cheaper models came with black bumpers.

 

Needless to say the consequences of over doing it aren't good.

I tried that with a blow torch.

It didn't go well!

I've got a bottle of turtlewax plastic trim spray which works well.

The problem is that once plastic starts going grey, you have to keep treating it to keep it looking good.

2 hours ago, andrewvincent said:

I brought an orginal one from a supplier not a repro 

If you're unsure if it's the lead or not, you can test it by wrapping insulating tape round it. If the problem goes away then it's the lead. If it doesn't then it's probably something else.

13 hours ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

I scared our 11 month old granddaughter.

 

She was fine all afternoon until it was time for me to leave. She was looking increasingly anxious as I put on my kit. The final straw was putting on my helmet. That freaked her out. 

My son was a bit like that at first but after a while I became Daddy Robot and he got a real kick out of it.

I looked in to it too but the organisations running it prefer placing people in child free homes (or at least not little kiddiwinks). Besides, we've got family in the Czech Republic who will probably want to come over if Putin starts shuffling West.

3 hours ago, goat said:

I'm hoping we're near enough to Lakenheath to be totally annihilated.

Same here - a blinding flash and then nothing would be preferable although 10 miles out from Lakenheath is probably borderline.

I don't fancy scratching a living in muck only to see my kids spawn some mutant abomination Threads style.

I fancy a poke about in those Drakelow tunnels though. I wonder of I'd be able to squeeze that in before it all goes tits up...

Oh, and Bentwaters and that huge great bunker in Cambridge while I'm at it.

Just now, MikeHorton said:

Babycham, frosty Jack's or brasso

What do you need teeth for anyway?

Wife kicked off a conversation earlier about what we should do if my old mate Vlad pushes his shiny red button.

Now I'm no conspiracy nut job but given that I have a couple of little skids, I think it's important to have some semblance of a plan in place for the big stuff in life.

I work about 45 mins away from home so even with no traffic and full beans, I think it's unlikely that I'd get back home with the max 20 minutes warning we might get.

Wife suggested that we get a few extra tins of beans in the shopping this week but that surely just means prolonging the agony for a few more days.

Cutting a long story short, we came to the conclusion that if we survived, we'd either have to pinch the grub from everyone local to us or enslave them to make us more (and who wants to deal with the HR on that).

I've subsequently read that if there was even a modest exchange, the amount of crap thrown up to the stratosphere would be such that ninety something percent of the population of the earth would starve anyway which put me in a "f*ck it" kind of mood.

I'm highly unlikely to be able to talk down a mutated rabbit with my granddad's old airifle so that's out. 

What do you reckon? I understand that there are people who actively prepare for this kind of shit. Do you think they're wasting their time or that they're the saviours of the race? Perhaps there will be a 24 Days Later/Walking Dead type situaltion albeit without zombies.

Answers on a postcard.

Smooches,

Fro

13 minutes ago, MikeHorton said:

I've gone dry for a bit I could murder a nice rum or scotch, becks blue isn't the same as a proper drink

Sounds like you could use a Babycham. 

Chopping bits of trees, looking after children, taking the locks off the internal doors. Now on the rum.