Or sold to new owner in march who forgot to mot in October?

What are the chances it has been sat on a forecourt after being repaired hence the missing mot?

Lots of sensible advice above.

A wirebrush, blowtorch, 6 point sockets and impact driver will be your friend.

WRT whether or not to replace the discs, the only way to know is by measuring.  A cheap mechanical micrometer will do the job.

You are looking to have enough thickness left in the disc to last the life of the set of pads you are fitting and equal wear on the two sides of a ventilated disc (probably not a concern on a c1)

Front discs can often (with extreme care) have the crusty lip ‘machined’ away with a flap disc on an angle grinder. I won’t describe the process fully as if you can’t work out how it can be done relatively safely, you’ll likely come a cropper trying!

As someone mentioned up there, the caliper should slide easily on the pin, if it doesn’t it is often corrosion of the caliper body on the outside of the rubber seal.  Carefully pull the seal out and clean the corrosion away (suitable sized drill bit or round file) before treating the clean surface to prevent further corrosion. Refit the seal and free motion will be restored.

Don’t use any hydrocarbon based grease on the  rubber bits – red rubber grease only!

Noticed my MG (45k in 20months) has started to show a discrepancy between the displayed and actual battery usage per mile.

My last two journeys have been displayed as 3.7m/kW but looking at the % drop in capacity shows more like 3.2m/kW and the kW added at charge supports the % dropped.

Obviously the Chinese haven’t noticed the hoo-har surrounding VW lying about their figures (or being china, just don’t care!)

I’ll Caveat this advice with the info that I haven’t been for a while and I usually watch two-wheeled…

Get on the inside of the track and sit on the run down to Cascades (I think) – they come haring round the first corner, down the hill into a good passing spot then off up to the hairpin.  Then you see them again coming down through the chicane and off round the back of the paddock.

Quite often you get a big TV screen on the opposite side of the track so you don’t even miss out on the last corner antics at Lodge(?).

Leave early as the exit roads are worse than crap!

I’ve got an OEX coyote 3, very small and light (fits in a pannier with space for lots more) yet gives plenty of space for gear inside.

Pitches easily and packs away without a degree in origami.

i think I paid £160 for it last year on offer.

https://www.strongstuff.co.uk/

I can personally recommend this gear – very strong 

Another alternative assuming you can get away with a bigger hole – starrett CSC16 holesaw.

You don’t actually cut much material as the cutter is so thin, but go steady and use plenty of lube.

Strikes me that the easy option is to feed the lockout contact with a permanent rather than the switched feed from the programmer/thermostat.

Failing that you want a relay latching circuit

The whole shebang has proven to be a farce.
in the last few weeks we have had the announcement that for reasons, the CE/ukca marking changeover has been cancelled.

How many millions of £ have been squandered by British businesses in converting quality systems to comply with what is now accepted to be a white elephant?

And that’s not an isolated thing either…

All manner of EN->BS standards to re-purchase

Import and export of goods to EU – impacts everybody, but makes professional life incredibly difficult…

Aviation licensing – more cost for less utility and most professionals have left the uk system for employability reasons.

Never mind though, at least it stopped those pesky immigrants who staffed half the country!

Snap!

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How much of that is motorway? Start it on the starter in 1st then practice your rev matching…

and then practice your forward planning!

Ok then, try a brs8 stove from eBay.

trangia-Esque Chinese goodness

Coleman double petrol stove FTW

https://www.colemanuk.co.uk/stoves-fuel/camping-stoves/unleaded-2-burner-stove/SP_1814310.html

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Possibly the aircraft transponder is mode s, but the pilot is carrying a portable device such as a skyecho that he has forgotten to set the registration up on…

No sign of a payment from British Gas, no news on their website and their live chat agent just copy pasted the gov.uk website text stating before end of Feb…

frankconway
Full Member

Can’t be arsed to trawl back through various posts but, in response to one of my mine which referred to using experts, I wouldn’t trust a middle ranking/middle class/middling ability IT ‘manager’ with my CH system any more than that they would trust me with their domestic IT set-up.

But the premise of heating system installation has been dumbed down so far that even an ‘expert’ doesn’t actually know much about the system. With the 10 week wonder courses being so acutely targeted to achieve maximum compliance and pass rates, Dunning Kruger is rife!

As a professional cable muncher, it galls me every time I see a ‘central heating wiring centre’ (box of spaghetti with a strip of choc blocks). This could very easily and for not much extra cost be improved markedly, both in terms of neatness and electrical safety. It could even be made with proper push fit terminals that would claw back cost on install time – so a win win.

Now things have been made even worse by the advent of smart heating – no it **** isn’t smart or it would actually take control of the system properly rather than piggy backing off the thermostat!

Find me a tradesman who isn’t just someone with a bit of experience who is willing to have a go and I’ll bite your arm off…

We’ve got a double that folds up at the headboard end in the spare room.

I’ve not yet managed to ‘finish’ it so there is no headboard (and the gap opens when folded down so you lose your pillows) and it looks ugly when folded away.

Plan is to build it into a cupboard and have some rotating shelves on the ‘front’ of it for storage. These should stay horizontal as you lower the frame and then sit under the bed.

I’d have to search for the sellers emails, but delivery and product quality has been fine.

molgrips
Full Member

Hmm. Pump wasn’t backwards – boiler was plumbed the wrong way round. That’s why I have bubbles in the hot water – it’s now going backwards through the tank.

Out of interest – does the feed leave from the top or bottom of the boiler?

I can’t see any markings, nor any mention in the installation & maintenance manual of my boiler that describes which is which…

We’ve just had a similar issue – my tale may give you some ideas…

Getting to the first cold weather in our new house showed our Central Heating (oil) was not really working as expected.

I’d already replaced the motor on the mid-position valve when we moved in as the heating was coming on with the hot water, but didn’t bother changing the valve.
The Boiler thermostat was set at max and running constantly, but the radiators were not anything like as hot as the boiler outlet.

Worked out that two of three rads downstairs were not flowing. They were getting warm but the return was cold.

First I found all of the lockshields wide open including the hottest rads, no chance of being balanced!
Closed all of the rads down and even with the pump on high and all rads closed and backed off 1/4 of a turn couldn’t get very good flow.

Assuming the rads/pipework must be blocked/airlocked, tried purging with a hosepipe on the bleed port – good flow both directions – no improvement.

Noticed that the feed to the Hot Water Coil was warm and decided that the diverter valve must have been passing to the Hot Water cylinder – so drained the system and swapped the valve entirely – still no change. Bugger.

Starting from absolute cold allowed me to realise that the downstairs Rad circuit was getting a hot return very quickly even with all rads still being cold on their returns. So somewhere I have a short circuit – but where…

Looking through previous estate agent photos on Zoopla, I spotted a radiator in the kitchen that has not been reinstated during renovation before we bought. The kitchen floor is Karndean on plywood, across half of the ground floor. Bugger.

Managed to find a bit of the circuit above ground boxed in behind the downstairs toilet, also found a 10mm flow and return heading off towards the position of the previously removed radiator. Bonus!

Started the boiler and as the heat started circulating, the 10mm pipes stayed cold – that’s not it then. Bugger.

Ended up following the pipes under the floor – including lifting carpets and cutting new traps (although thankfully not under the karndean) to check for heat in the return line.
Eventually I narrowed it down to the flow and return branch to the Living room.

Ahhhh, I bet there is an old back boiler in the open fireplace that is still connected…

Dismantled the sofa and lifted the carpet in the living room, no sign of any pipes heading to the fireplace, just the single radiator – but hang on… Some wazzock has connected together the flow and return at the far end of the radiator.
Effectively there is a 15mm shunt across the bottom of the radiator – that would explain it!

Bear in mind I’m looking through a 12″ single board width trap against the wall, a fix is tricky. Thankfully I managed to get my hand in with the pipeslice and then fit two push fit blanks – yes I have a dead leg, yes they are pushfit, but needs must!

Test fired the boiler again and found the problem had now shifted to the dining room. Same fix and try again…

SUCCESS!!!
Where success is measured as turning the boiler on and not getting a hot return for at least five minutes!
Turning the boiler stat down to a guestimated 60C, means a burner duty cycle of around 50% which should make a nice saving on oil usage. The rads are now actually heating the house!

Now all I need to do is get all the air out of the system and balance the radiators, then properly set up the boiler temp and flow rates.

Unfortunately we’ve used about 700L of oil for very little benefit before realising we had an issue…

I’m assuming the pointy green hat on the left hand lamp is something?

It is, but it’s nothing to do with the drink

The guinness clue is bugging me – neither the actual one or the actor one works…

I think they might have fixed it – the original crusty old bloke’s name has just worked!

No not yet…
There are a lot of clues that can lead you down the wrong path so I’ve gone through other names connected to it.
My thoughts are now moving towards other naturalists instead.

Who uses a compass and telescope? There aren’t that many famous ones to choose from…

ISTR the pink handbag being a red herring in previous iterations – I could easily be wrong though, I found it last night and quickly whipped up to 50 with the obvious ones.

The annoying one for me is the book of the tv series by a crusty old national treasure, only it isn’t…

Ah, no I hadn’t! Thanks!

I was going round and round various ‘help’ websites going backwards and forwards working out if I was going to find myself considerably out of pocket… I did find a gov.uk website, but it wasn’t that one.

Using that calculator (and importantly the Private Residence Relief guidance) I’ve been able to work out that any gain should be below the annual allowance threshold.

Assuming I’ve read the guidance correctly I will qualify for relief based on:
(Value at sale – Value at purchase) x (Months living in property / Months owning property)

I’m certainly “at risk”…

My dads loft is fully floorboarded out with archive room like shelves between every other pair of rafters.
He has at least recently started to thin out the stuff up there to add a bit more insulation, and out came the cardboard boxes for at TVs dating back to the 80s – well it might break and need the box for warranty.

His garage was a thing of beauty – if you needed a spare wing mirror for a 1972 Mini clubman, he’d likely have one…
…he wouldn’t have a **** clue whereabouts in the piles of boxes it was, but he’d know he’d got one. Unfortunately as he’s gets older he can no longer remember what he has got either.

With some serendipity, a tumble dryer burnt the garage down and so much of his hoard was disposed of, but last time I looked in there it was starting to build up again.

Knowing this, I try to be brutal when I’m keeping stuff… “am I actually going to use this in the next two years” then sling it if the answer is no.
I have still managed to accrue many boxes of lots of things…
I have at least four sets of mtb bars, cranksets, brake rotors cassettes saddles shifters, derailleurs, etc.

Granted it’s my job, but I have around 5 folding baskets full of various electrical components, which invariably get left in the basket while I go and buy a new one from screwfix…

Same goes for plumbing bits, paints, oils and greases…

Hmm. Maybe I am inflicted!

They fit like no other helmet I’ve tried…

I couldn’t explain exactly what it is, but the head shape is all kinds of wrong!

For reference I’m a schuberth, shoei, shark shape.

More importantly, which is louder?

> A Tactical Nuclear Weapon

Or

> A home brew tubeless tyre popping off the rim and spraying sealant all over the workshop

And which one makes you more anxious?

I can’t really add any more detail at the moment – I’m just opening a small claim…

It makes a fantastic story though so once its done and dusted I’ll tell the tale!

mattyfez
Free Member
Stop right there, read my post above, please.

Thanks for the attempt Matty, I’d already opened it well before your post though.
Amateur I know.

You’re right though – he wouldn’t have a clue how to do anything nefarious even if he wanted to.

I’m just sending an update to the SRA – it should be a walk in the park for them!

cezza168
Free Member
If it’s been saved as a docx, there’s a reasonable chance that the properties show the name of the author.

You beauty…
Game, Set and Match!

Oh yes, it smells fishier than a bucket of month old haddock!
Some suggestions…
– check companies house website to see if business name exists. IT DOESN’T
– respond to email requesting details of their licence to practice. HAVE DONE ALREADY (it could be that he’s acting as a lawyer rather than a solicitor – but I don’t really think that is much better…)
– call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to ask if the purported legal firm exists; if not, they may take a dim view of a private individual behaving like this. I’VE ALREADY FORWARDED THE EMAIL TO THEIR REPORTING LINE
– ask SRA to confirm their response by email
– forward SRA email response (if they send one) to purported legal firm and the other party

Onto sleuthing matters…

Received: from host86-142-60-xxx.range86-xxx.btcentralplus.com ([86.142.60.xxx] helo=DESKTOP3RT5xxx)

Am I right in thinking that this is the PC name that the email was sent from?
It is at the start of the header trail (working up from the bottom) and matches another email from him…

Yes I’ve not been able to find any sort of internet presence for the business either.

It gives an address showing it is based in the same building as the guy who I think has written the email/letter.

And the official legal letter has been sent as a docx rather than a pdf…

I’m just firing up my pc to have a look at the headers now as iOS won’t show me them.

Yes actually.

I bought my Mrs a kit last Xmas.

Most of the kit is garbage.

We use a big stainless steel pot that takes 12pints of milk with a couple of inches of space at the top.

Things you do need:
Pan
Thermometer
Properly clean stirring implement
Cheesecloth
Rennet tablets
Calcium carbonate – makes a massive difference to the separation effectiveness in our experience.
Cheese mould – ours is a bit of 6” drainpipe with holes drilled in it and an aluminium plate that looks like it is the waste from a holesaw.
Something to press the curds with – not necessarily a bought press – the press I bought is used only as parts and I prefer to put a weight on top of it rather than use the screw jacks.
Vacuum sealer

Things you don’t need IMO:
Cheese salt – a lot of the online advice goes on at length about this stuff, but all uk salt is fine to use for cheesemaking anyway.
Annato for colouring – colour should be from maturing!
Wax and cheesecloth coverings – maybe due to the insufficient pressing, but wax just cracked off for us – cheesecloth and lard was effective but messy.
Fridge/cheese cave – vacuum sealed once dried for a few weeks then in a plastic box under the stairs.

I’ve no doubt forgotten lots of points, but the process is pretty easy and gives good results.
Lots of opportunities to cock it up if you don’t have an eye for detail mind.
Like you I’ve done beers in the past and there is a lot of similarity.

Gavin Webber on YouTube is a handy little resource – g’day curd nerds!

1p mobile top up £10 a quarter automatically

Looks strikingly similar to the ADSB antenna for my Flightradar feeder

There is a static/lodge park at stalag torksey, I don’t know if they are rented out though…