I’ve spoken to the company in question and they say they can’t supply an invoice in any sort of order.

No, what that means is they are too **** lazy/disorganised to do this.

You should insist. What is your clout?

How did they prepare this list? Did they enter the data into the list purely at random?

I quite often come across this s–t in the course of my work when completing a pre-shipment inspection before equipment is shipped off shore or to a site somewhere.

There are some right lazy people about.

If I get to the supplier and the shipping list is not in a logical order, and the equipment is not laid out in a logical order and in a space I can get round to check then I refuse to do the job.

It will be my fault if something gets missed. Image a bag of ‘special’ washers missing when the kit is unpacked on a North Sea rig!!!. You cannot just pop down the road to get another bag of washers. Might hold the job up for days. Could be costing £1m per day.

They get an invoice from me anyway if the inspection is completed or not, and then another invoice if I have to make  2nd visit to complete the job.

radiocaroline.co.uk

Impossible.

Conifers, neighbours.  urgh.

If it is a common part with Vauxhall, get to a Vauxhall dealer.

Why buy the left and ask somebody to 3D print an inverse copy?

You have the right. Remove it and just copy it.

Are you sure Fiat don’t have this listed as a spare part?

Get to the dealer and look at the parts diagrams.

What about a Vauxhall dealer?

Yep. Tail wagging the dog comes to mind.

RYA vhf operators licence – Does not qualify. It is not an Ofcom PMR licence.

I was thinking of taking camping / sailing but don’t want to upset the authorities / Coastgaurd / RNLI. Now see there is the rub. How do you know that you are not operating on Coastguard/RNLI frequencies? You might be or you may be on a frequency that nobody else is listening to and if you called for help when sailing you won’t get a response.

Honestly, I hear too many people buying any old radio and using it without a thought or care about other users.

My suggestion.

1. PMR radios are using 8 approved frequencies in the UHF band 446.XXX mHz. In order to control that a little, there are a number (308 I think) tone codes that can be used so as long as your 2 or more radios are set to the same settings then you can talk to each other and not upset anybody else. These specification radios will be perfectly fine for your occasional short range use.

2. Go to the Ofcom website and buy yourself a UK Light licence. Then buy some professional PMR radios. This licence once again specifies the frequencies that you can use (Different from the PMR446 frequencies).

Or operate without a licence, get caught and Ofcom WILL prosecute.

you can set the power to 0.5w max on the barofengs and programme in the pmr stations, so you don’t need a licence if you only operate them as PMR

This radio still needs a licence to operate. It is not a PMR446 radio built to the PMR446 euro specification.

heating plastic and overlaying another layer of plastic is likely to end with both pieces of plastic fused together and then impossible to separate.

In the picture above the material looks like a vinyl film, which would not take to any hot moulding processes.

YOU need a licence to use those radios in the UK.

For the use that you want, get a set of PMR446 radios. They are ready set up with the correct frequencies, tone codes, power level (0.5W) etc. You can still achieve a range of a mile or so. (Unless your garden is longer than this)

The PMR446 radios are made to an agreed euro specification, which means that you do not need to hold a separate Ofcom licence

Please don’t be another clown mucking about on frequencies that you should not be on.

Is Orient a Seiko brand?

Anodising is a surface modification of thickness measured in microns, not a coating.

Using an ‘oven cleaner’ is only removing the coloured dye.

What is so special about these wheels that you cannot find in UK/EU?

Leave them piled up on the pavement next to your gate, with a notice ‘Free’.

Somebody will collect them.

Re-usable many times over. Always clean up well with jet washer. (You probably already know this).

I’m building an Ark.

(We are in the middle of the storm described by Klunk)

Yep. Any road tyre will do. I recently rode the l’eroica Britannia on road 700 x 23 tyres. Fine hard gravel surface. No problems.

Put a block of wood (2″ approx)under the front of the machine before unscrewing the filter cap. Just tips the machine back enough to stop the water in the trap gushing out.

or

Buy a bump key,open your locker and open all the other lockers as well!

Oh. Big taxi, Robin Hood Bay to Newcastle…..3 blokes, 3 bikes?

Super glue. Apply. Hold the edges together for a few minutes. Done. Use on the road too. Small bottle in my adventure bike seat pack.

To be honest, and I’m not being difficult, but I would just not use my car, mileage allowance or not, for company business.

If the company requires you to go out, then it either provides a taxi, a train ticket, a pool car or a hire car.

No if’s, no buts.

My car is paid for by me for my business, risk etc, etc.

i-ride were responsive to me a few months back with answers to a couple of questions.

Try phoning them?

Same as Andy.

Just with the addition of a velcro strap round bottle and frame.

I liked what he said about not selling the business and finance/debt.

Why can’t more companies have this approach.

Yesterday I was reading about Andrew Page Autoparts and how the MD/owner knew all of his staff and at any depot visit, would visit the shop floor first before talking with the managers etc. He sold up to financiers/Eurocar parts and it all went downhill from there.

What part of parking and getting ‘stuck’ explains that she had to tear the wing off your van?

No 1. A plan.

Who are your likely customers? How are you going to attract those customers? Why should they give you an order, or in other words, what is your USP?

Do you have the tools to do the job?

Latest PC and softwares?

You will really be on your own.

Do you have the tenacity, determination, focus, not get distracted easily (its too easy to get up late, have breakfast, watch a bit of tv if you work at home).

What happens if it takes > 6 months to earn any income. Can you finance that?

Fail to plan = Plan to fail

I’ve been self employed for 18 years and I’m still asking myself these kinds of questions.

That would go well with my collection of BMW motorbikes.

Pretty much what joemmo and the video said.

The film used in the video looked thinner/more flexible than the heli tape I used on my Tripster.

I always have a hair dryer handy in case a little thermo-forming is required.

What is their ‘risk assessment’ for the trip?

Does that include ‘missing’ children?

Agreed. Genius.

Shit. Bit close that one. Glad you are ok. What happened to the other car and driver?

Just been up to Erik’s Plaice near Chelsea-on-Sea tonight.

Medium cod & chips in a box to take outside to eat at their tables £8.50.

I’m with the OP.

And Dick Turpin wore a mask!

Norwich….£10*  to walk across the threshold into customs…..

* Development charge.

Not that I have seen any development in the 20 years I have been going through there.

Here I have gravel kings with Fulcrum rims.

Tight as a knat’s waitcoat. So much so, I can only just remove after working the bead on both sides into the centre of the rim, and then to refit, I have to use my workshop Koolstop Tyre Jack. This means now carrying the tyre jack in the saddle pack.

Ever so slightly annoying.

Also, pun****e proof is very poor. 3 punc in 2 rides.

How about building a secure shed inside, so that from the outside (20 paces visual test) it looks like, err, any other Swedish shed.

One of my client has just sent me an Excel spreadsheet, saved as a Macro enabled worksheet. Never seen this before.

Wasted 2 hours Friday afternoon trying to open and used the bl..dy thing.

Office pc….no

laptop….no

Google sheets….no.

Tried to download any fixes/latest updates to Office 10 from Microsoft, would not recognise the product key, went onto live chat with Microsoft and all in all they sent me 3 links that did not recognise the product key either. So looks like they are out of ideas as well.

What now?

Client says ‘it runs on our pc’s’.

Like ZippyKona said, not everybody is excited about computers, for me its a tool, and the programme should be as simple as possible. Looks like there are multiple layers of carp that I don’t need, but some geek in an office somewhere has made it so complicated.

Anybody here go any clues please.

I’m using Duratool ratchet ring/open end from CPC.

8, 10, 13, 15. Have done a few years service now without issues.

Larger sizes, Bedford, Geodore, Hazet for the VW, Gordon, King Dick for the vintage British bikes.

*Part time living.

I’ve had quite a bit of success with superglue.

As long as the ‘nick’ in the tyre is clean, then you can glue up the rubber from the outside.

Wow. That’s a real shocker of a case.

I suspect one of many that probably are not reported on.

In my own case, a very simple one compared to this one, and mortgage free, with no loans to anyone, buying with cash only, I got a letter out of the blue from a debt company quoting to work for O2.

Long story short, it apparently related to a phone account closed 2  1/2 years previously, with O2 making a payment to the wrong account, keeping mine open when they should have closed it.

My point is, the debt collection company were particularly aggressive over a small amount of money, (£200 or £300), letters, phone calls, even a phone call to my daughters phone (a number that can only have been supplied by O2 based on an address search of their system).

I asked them to list the debt and the dates involved, oh no they said, its up to me to prove I don’t owe the money!

I tracked it all down by looking at previous bank statements and discussing directly with O2…..eventually. (What a pile of>>>> their ‘customer service’ is).

No apology from either party mind.

Arrrgh.

Would be a complete frigging nightmare for me.

I give off some odour (BO?) that attracts the little gits to bite me and I then swell up. I’ve had tennis ball sized ankles before.

(Taking anti-histermines doesn’t prevent this getting ‘eaten alive’.)

So I just cant venture north!

Have a look at SJS cycles.com

They keep a good range of jockey wheels, model specific and also universal.  I recently bought a set of Tacx from there and they came with spacers/adaptors to fit into the cage. (Old Shimano CX group set).

Very happy with them.