Mississippi Bullfrog

Guilty as charged. They are actually a fetching red and light blue. I find it pays to distract the competition at key points in the race.

What's wrong with the good old hammer a screwdriver through the filter? Apart from the fact that if it doesn't work you are then left with a jagged flesh slicing monstrosity welded to your engine. I have several types of oil filter wrenches, but the best so far is like this one - so long as it is isn't recessed

Our sailing club reopened, no racing but we're allowed to lark about upsetting motor boaters to our hearts content. So I took my Laser out to see what mayhem and mischief I could create. Sorry about the shorts, they are an offensive weapon to distract lady sailors on awkward marks.

The thread is 12 years old. I reckon the OP has probably moved on by now.

I'll be interested in how well you can get the carbon fibre & resin to adhere to the plastic, I always found it doesn't make a good bond to anything subject to vibration. You could always try drilling a series of holes so the resin effectively forms a rivet into the structure of the box.

Go for the 24 inch. You don’t always need it but if you do then you’ve got the leverage. Otherwise it just makes life easier the rest of the time.

Sadly there are only two bottles left and I plan on enjoying them at our daughter's 30th next week. If I make more then a TMBF party may be in order.

Yes, honey from my hives left to ferment naturally. It's how the Vikings made it. The trick is to turn as much sugar into alcohol as it makes a very crisp dry mead rather than the sweeter kind. It tends to make you fall over a lot though.

A glass of chilled mead, and behind the ladies who made the honey.

A possible alternative - if you put your location into your profile there may be someone near you who would be willing to dismantle the bike for you and then you can sell the parts to those who can make good use of them.

Blimey, £1.5k for a welder. That's got to be a good bit of kit. Mine was £40 second hand off RetroRides. To be fair it's kept my runabout on the road for more years than our MOT station thought possible. Mind you one of my DIY exhaust systems caused great mirth and comments of unnecessary cruelty. But it didn't leak so it passed. I am a bit of a magpie with tools so it's hard to say which is the favourite. But the one bit of kit I could not live without is my cordless Dremel.

Yes. If your missus finds out how much your new transmitter cost your health is going to be seriously compromised. Otherwise, in terms of the output from transmitters, they are so small you'd never have any issues. Only when you loose the signal and the aeroplane lands on your head. I remember a guy whose signal failed and his model went haywire. It was a fast .60 installed in a thing called a Cherry Bomb. The damn thing hurtled round us totally out of control, we gave up watching it and just got ourselves inside a shipping container which served as our field clubhouse. Waited there until went quiet. It had hit someone's car, punched a hole through one door and the engine came out of the opposite door. But I know of a few cases where radio failure led to fatalities. A glow aero engine is running at about 18000rpm with a rotating blade attached to the front of it. You do not want to make contact with such a device.

Yes. If your missus finds out how much your new transmitter cost your health is going to be seriously compromised. Otherwise, in terms of the output from transmitters, they are so small you'd never have any issues.

Its funny you say that as when I had the TL there was owners in the US of A that would only use the cheapest wallmart oil they could buy and just change it every 2k One of them had over 200k on the bike and he stripped it to rebuild it and it was perfect inside! He just put new gaskets on and put it back together I've always stuck to frequent oil changes and last time I took my car engine to bits at 130k it was like new internally. I only dismantled it because that engine had a reputation for snapping timing chains and self destructing. There are not many places that refine oil so even your bog standard Wilko's oil is from a reputable source. The issue is the additives. It's the detergents which break down first so frequent oil changes keeps fresh detergents in the engine so it stays clean.

He was probably refering to the BMFA or SMAE certificate. I still prefer the original title of SMAE to BMFA. BMFA = British Model Flying Association SMAE = Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers. I still wear my SMAE badge, the only snag is that it resembles the SAS badge so causes some confusion. People know I served with the US Army in an odd capacity and jump to the conclusion it's some form of black ops logo. The truth is far less interesting

I've recently bought a chest mount which to be honest I didn't really like to look of to begin with. It turns out that it is easy to put on, comfortable to wear, puts the camera in a good place to see the ride and doesn't lead to the same vibration as when it's clamped to the bike. The Olfi chest strap uses GoPro mounts and is very cheap.

You don't need a licence to fly RC aircraft. You're still obliged to comply with Civil Aviation Authority regulations and very large models need to be certified as airworthy. I used to fly in aerobatic competitions but the time and cost were beyond me in the end. I got a third place against the then world champion for the discipline I flew in. He got first, second and fourth. I only got third because just before my flight he gave me a tip on something to help me get a tail slide more accurate. It was a complaint that you didn't need a licence because there are too many idiots who can buy a ready made plans and try to fly it. An RC plane can be dangerous in the wrong hands. With lithium cells and brushless motors the power to weight ratio achievable these days is phenomenal. If you get a finger in a propeller powered by a glow motor (internal combustion) you lose a finger and the motor usually stalls. If you get a finger in an electric motor you lose a finger, then the motor restarts and you lose the rest of your fingers. Electric motors are far more dangerous. We had a club rule that you never flew alone, you always had someone else there in case you needed to be driven to hospital. Model aircraft follow the same laws of aerodynamics, so if you have the wing area you reduce the aerodynamic effect by four. Hence a perfect scale Spitfire that is small is virtually inflatable. For real scale you need bigger models, they are much easier to fly.

I spent the morning sailing with my wife. There was a decent breeze which made for some good sailing. Good to be out on the water.

36 years so far. I keep telling her how lucky she is.

Only if you do it riding the bike up and down the driveway

Went to check my eyesight looking for a bus stop.

Hmmm....I have three bait hives in the grounds, basically small hives to attract swarms looking for a new home. Since a colony of bees cost around £200 free bees are good to attract. All three have scouts checking them out

Leaving aside whether Cummings complied with the guidelines or not.... surely a question to ask is how does a key government strategist get into the position where he and his wife have no arrangements in place to look after their children? Cummings claims to have foreseen the pandemic last year, so how on earth was he so to unprepared? This is the guy whose strategic thinking steered Brexit, so it would be nice to think he had some kind of a clue where things are going.

First spring honey. I extracted one super for a little lad who has horrible hay fever. Local honey makes all the difference.

She knows how to get rid of you for a while.