Cob Records in Bangor was where I used to get my records from, amazing place. You’d walk past Our Price and their piles of unwanted CD singles and into Cob where they would always be playing something really obscure…and then try to ask them about it while staying cool:

Weren’t they in Porthmadoc? I bought records by post from them, I will have a look as I probably left the labels on. I had a look. Cob Records Porthmdog 90p, on an album I have.

One of the first record departments I remember was in the basement of Plumbers in Guildford, in 1968[?] the Wey flooded. The basement filled with water, I stood out side later in the week as they bought the contents of the basement out and put it in dustcarts. I asked if I could have some records;-)

I used to go in the record shop next to the Astoria in Guildford. I went to school with the little brother of the bloke who seemed to run it. So we got recommendations, lent records, cheap records, free records. I spent a lot of time in there.

The local record shop when I moved was in West Street in Dorking, bloke used to say “do you dig it, it’s really groovy man”. He was the one who told me about Cob Records! Good little shop.

Woolworths Dorking, A girl we hung about with worked on the record counter, if she liked you you would get a bag with a record and some change. You didn’t have to hand over any money. I got Phaedra off her, no idea if I got paid to take it or not. I was always amazed she didn’t get the sack.

When our price opened in the late 70’s most of the old record shops shut.

I would love to have gone. I know someone who was a mechanic for the WEC ford team, he didn’t like all the traveling and he chucked his job at the end of May!

When I was six, in 1965, I bought a 1916 shell in an oak frame which had
been used as a gong. I bought it from a local junk shop for sixpence;-)

It was on my paint mixing bench for many years, I used to stuff bit’s of rag with paint on in it. It’s still used.

Imagine the effect of putting this particular album on, and hearing this opening track, as a fifteen-year old, brought up on whatever was playing on the Light Programme in the 1969’s…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-H6UkKJFI
Quite possibly one of the most extraordinary opening tracks ever.

I was just a young lad when I heard heard black sabbath and 21st century schizoid man, around the same time. I would have both on my list of best tracks, along with Astronomy Domine and Interstellar Overdrive, so I guess Floyd did a double.

I had a mate who was a normal biker, long hair, why wash your jeans they are only going to get oily again, same for his hands. He wasn’t around for a while and one night leaving a pub some one tells me there is a bloke who looks like Bob standing
on the other side of the road. But the bloke is wearing a suit and has short hair! We all go over and it is Bob and he’s with a rather hot girl, so we take the piss out of the suit and have a bit of laugh, he turned down a smoke and I thought he had got all lovey with the bird, it was only later someone told me he was now a Joey and he had been out door to door. We didn’t see him again.

I can only think of one time they knocked on our door. We just happened to have a born again cousin staying, she dragged them in and gave them a lecture about the bible. I felt sorry for them.

R12 for me.

What sort of punishment?

Blood eagle or community service.

Jap bikes are simple enough to work on. Parts are expensive. Suzuki
were destroying all five year old parts at one one time!
Been standing a long time, sometimes they run fine after cleaning the carbs.

I know a bit about chops. But saying it’s a chop doesn’t really mean a lot,
it’s a wide ranging name, at one end you have a stocker that has been attacked with a hacksaw and the other end a custom framed bike built from scratch.
The only thing I can say for sure is an unsprung saddle on a hard tail can be painful. To me they have to be hard tail.

I sent a 45kg phase converter to someone, DHL never used to check the weights. The
skinny old driver who used to collect from me did comment it was a bit heavy when he struggled to put it in the van;-) These days they check the weights.

I sent old servers that weighed around 40kg all over the place, uk and abroad.
I used the big green parcel machine, are they still going. Just had a look and http://www.tuffnells.co.uk is still online. They never answered emails for a price quote, but I used to call in to a depot as I am reasonable close to one.

Five capacitors from RS for my CD player.

I cut the packet of caps open and turned the iron on. Then I had a look at the
power supply board and I have replaced all the caps!

No idea which ones swap/intercharge.
Undo the free hub bolt and undo the race.
There are shims behind the race, make sure you don’t lock the
freehub when you screw the race back in.

I think “Blood From the Mummy’s tomb” is on there.

Your going to say you don’t know what microdots are next;-)

I have to do both sides sometimes. The tanks are under the seats.

Tesco cargo trousers, pockets to carry bike spares and a tenner a pair.

I wouldn’t be able to read a digital watch without glasses.
So analog for me.

There is a camera repair place in Horley. I took a fairly new camera in to them,
I bought it very cheap with a lens problem, but the problem quickly got worse.
They told me it would be some amount[60 quid rings a bell] plus a new lens to
repair it. I went back to get it and they had checked with Samsung, it was
under a year old so Samsung footed the bill.
I just looked up camera repairs on google and they were the nearest.

I am carnivore.
Of course cucumber contaminates, if a cucumber has been cut into
everything near it in the kitchen tastes of it.

Continental plastic levers.
I think I paid a quid for three of them.

Floyd, One of Those Days.

Dansettes were quite posh. A girl who hung around with us had a Mettoy[?] Music maker, it was a plastic kids record player, it ran off the batteries from road lamps. We listened to albums out in the sun on hot summer days. Lying in the grass looking up at a blue sky, while stoned and with dark side playing, that is bliss.

I was given a hat like in the pic above a few years ago.
I spend all day in a unheated workshop and I wear that hat in the winter.

I have had two do that, both times the compressor had burnt out. I say burnt out it was starting and running but taking way much to much current; the compressor was getting to hot to touch. Both of them were machines that froze up and I put it down to them freezing up.
I have had the present one running, non stop, for around ten years and it was secondhand when I got it, So they can last reasonable time.

Marianne Faithfull in Girl on a Motorcycle
Susan George in Straw Dogs
Britt in Wicker Man
Sylvia Kristal in Emanuelle

I have a nice aluminium rack to keep my albums on.

26 years since I had a graft, my memory is that I was not meant to get it wet. Healing was like normal skin healing iirc.

But the expert is worth asking

I had mine done between Presley and Bolan dieing.
I had a bit about 3inches by 2inches put on my arm, the donor site was my thigh and they shaved off about four times as much skin as they needed, I guess they were making lamp shades.
I think my arm was bandaged for 6 weeks. I got used to the smell of rotting flesh.
I can’t really remember what my leg was like, except I had to explain loads of times over the years about the funny little flaps on my leg, they must have made a sawing motion with the spokeshave.

The graft is still smooth and hairless.

I was given a cashmere jumper and it was just another jumper as far as keeping warm.
In the winters in the 70’s I wore a thick T shirt, an army shirt a leather jacket a denim jacket and a combat jacket and still got cold.
In the 80’s I bought a new lewis leather jacket and did a 30mile ride all year round, I wore a T shirt and jumper under the leather and didn’t get cold!
I am just looking at my new[well new in the 80s] jacket and the lining is much better and the leather is longer, than the 60’s Lewis.
I started buying US army polypro shirts in the 90’s they are really warm.

Omega Speedy moonphase :

£500+ a service every 5 years, comes back like new though.

£250+ for a new strap, so keep it going with regular saddle soaping…

I take it the moon phase ups the service costs?
Last time my speedie was serviced it was 60 quid.
I had it serviced around 1980 by watches of switzerland, cost 50 quid, but I was on something like 40 quid a week! I had to send it back four times before they regulated it so it was right.
Next service was 1995 and it was 60 quid.
I got it serviced at the watch mender in my high street, he is[was] and old boy who strips and repairs watches in his shop. It needs servicing now.

Another vote for dBan

Hillary Clinton uses Bit Bleach.

But if you chucking the computer away pull the hard drive apart and save the magnets, useful strong magnets, and damage the discs.

I tried freecad, I was quite impressed but had some problem
with mating parts, so I gave up. I am told onshape is good.
I installed virtualbox and windows, Solidworks works fine in
VirtualBox.

Hot bike engine/oil smell, takes me back to 13 years old and I had bought a Royal Enfield super meteor from a ted who lived in Ewell. it had that hot oil smell when it got hot.

Dichloromethane was banned, but as there really isn’t an alternative it’s still available. Synstryp from Starchem is methylene chloride[dichloromethane] based and works fine on car paints, I pay about twenty quid for five litres. I would give the Paramose stuff a miss, I bought a can, it had written on it “contains no nasty solvents, but has the appliance of science”. Nope you want nasty toxic solvents.
Basically, don’t breathe the vapor in and don’t splash it all over yourself.

I knew a kid who worked in a junk shop on saturdays, they had most of a row of old empty shops. The shops were all full of old wooden doors. They had a big water tank full of heated caustic[a hot tank], it took the paint off, but it also took the soft grain back on some woods and took the glue out on some doors. My mate used to spend his days bodging up damaged doors so they could flog them.

Holmwood common, then up the bridleway to Leith hill used to be my standard route from Crawley to Peaslake

Bridleway?

I have a virgin SIM, I got it in 2004 and have made one call out in that time!
Current phone is a Samsung E1190 which cost a quid on ebay. No camera, battery lasts three weeks and it’s a flip phone. I never use a phone, but try and remember to take it with me when I may need one, which I never do.

Worst I have, but I don’t think I paid for was a record being flogged by people from ISKCON[Krishna consciousness]. This hot hippie chic was flogging the records, and she flogged it to a mate, I came away with a copy not sure if it was his copy or if I blagged a copy.
It’s a very bad record. I may have to get it out and play it, probably hasn’t been played since 1975, may be it’s got better!

Your best bet is to find someone who can be bothered to fix it.
If I was going to replace the motor I would get one from billy’s, Bridges at Pease
Pottage, or a bloke I bought a lot of ford parts from was up one of the roads on
the right as you headed to Chelsea bridge, I can’t be any more specific.

I have been replacing 7 & 8 speed with 9 speed.
7 & 8 speed have 10T, 9speed have 11T number of teeth isn’t an issue.
The width is different sowmetimes, but as long as you replace both wheels
and have the right length screws it doesn’t seem a problem.

I remember the 1968 flood. I lived in Guildford park and I walked down to the railway bridge, everything on the other side seemed to be flooded. Days later when the water had gone down they had lines of dustcarts outside Plumbers. They put all the stock out of the basement in the dustcarts, I asked if I could have some records, the record department was in the basement. If you look at the basement from the river side you can see where the windows used to be;-)

I had a mate who lived in the road from the station to the woodenbridge[maple tree close?] lot’s of us went round to his house, we wanted to look at his house, while it was knee deep in water, there was his mother trying to clean up and gangs of kids were splashing around.

Local record shops, well until 1994 when they shut, not bought any new records since!
I still haven’t got a CD player;-)
I knew someone who was buying records from COB records. I just had a google and
they are still going.

Use the powder.
I squirted the powder in to the path that goes into the nest and they
were coming out covered in white powder and crash landing, an hour later
not one left.