Gormless cam phone pic – check
PE teacher stylee moustache – check
Slightly ginger – check

Anything with a Crushgrind mechanism!

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I’ve got a Tesco Ultralite down sleeping bag (used twice) that you can have for £20 (leaving £3 for a spork:) ). Packs small and is great for summer trips.

Mine, was originally sand, but not anymore!

Liebherr

Ours keeps stuff cold, looks nice, the stainless steel doesn’t seem to mark (although we don’t have kids with sticky fingers).

They also make fridges/freezers for Miele to put their name to so can’t be too bad.

Also make some pretty wicked cranes!

Consider this thread ended:

Hmmm, a good burger might also be a possibility.

Anywhere else we should consider?

Thanks guys, we’ll probably get there a bit earlier and have a wonder around first. Might well check out the Caribbean place as i’ve not had that before.

Just watched on the recorder box.

Kimi….may not be the most exciting in the interviews, but is a pure racer. Some brilliant pit radio!

Webber appeared to think he was at a banger racing event today!

Don’t forget that the petrol Tsi engines have a supercharger as well as a turbo, so don’t really suffer from turbo lag, well the 1.4Tsi 160PS Golf we tested a couple of months back didn’t. In fact the engine was a little ripper. Couldn’t believe how smooth and fast a 1.4 petrol cold be.

BUT we ended up with a 1.6Tdi 105PS and on a 50mile round trip commute, and with a heavy right foot, the missus is still above 51mpg (on a new engine so still not freed up).

If its a company car, don’t forget about the tax. The diesel is likely to have a lower CO2 figure, so is likely to be less on tax

I presume you rectified this by doing something nice when you got home….oh wait, instead of trying to back pedal you hit up the Singletrack massive…..did that also go down well 🙂

p.p.s I may also be slightly jealous of a friend who can pop down to the workshop and listen to one of six or so Mercedes F1 engines on the dyno!

schrickvr6 = F40LM = win

Take 3.6ltrs + V8 + 2 rather large turbos + sequential box = music to my ears

Add to the fact there’s little/no electronical b**gary going on and you realise that the brutal sound is all natural.

I defy anyone to listen to it and not want their car to sound like that!

(Disclaimer: I used to also really love the sound of my Saab on the overrun when she was blowing from a titanic sized hole in the exhaust so my ear might be slightly defective!)

p.s. the BMW Judd V8 highclimb car also sound acceptable

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I believe one or a small number of parts are made on a 3d printer for the Mercedes F1 drivetrain.

For a vertical support a box section would be a better choice as its properties will be symetrical in both directions. An I beam (UB) is designed to be stronger in one plane than another. A column section (UC) would be more suited as a vertical support, but for looks, a box section looks better/less industrial and if an acrow prop is supporting at the minute, then a box section/UB/UC are all likely to be stronger. However as above, I doubt there would be anything in your house that a 152×152 UC wouldn’t support!

My favourite was at the start when he said he wanted to use materials all from his woods, and not go to B&Q and buy bits.

20mins later his shed was covered in Tyvek and Rockwool. I doubt Du Pont have their factory based in his small woods!

I’m also always interested in how the presenter benefits on this kind of programme as I don’t believe for a second all his ‘mates’ work or offer their services for free, and yet he gets his shed built on C4’s money! Come and sort my house out and i’ll ramble on about the view and organic materials while a load of my ‘mates’ work 🙂

Shop now closed for stock take

I’ve also had Magura Louises in the past. Great brakes.

Only word of warning, do not fit Goodridge hoses. If you want braided, only go for Magura (if they even do a set). I fitted Goodridge hoses, had a soft spongey brake (although still with decent power) and when I contacted Magura UK regards a service and bleed, they informed me that the Goodridge/most braided hoses have a different bore which was causing the issues.

But, ignoring that 1 issue, Maguras in general work very well, are powerful and pretty maintenance free.

Probably posted before:

It was Haloumi…….indestructable!

But I am not, so I was too afraid for my well being to try it!

3 yr old block of Haloumi cheese (still in wrapper) that I bought for a BBQ, couldn’t find it in my bag when I got home, so figured i’d left it at the check out. Fast forward 3 yrs and I found it!

Sound tres expensive.

Commercial price would be approx £55/sqm +20% for the raked head for supply. However, as a 1 off domestic fitted, I think if you shop around, you should be able to save a fair whack on the £340.

Plenty of glaziers about. Any particular reason for toughened over laminated?

Archer

At the age of the bridge and with the spalling of the concrete, it could well be alkali-silica reaction (ASR) which is blowing chunks of the cover concrete off.

Of course, it could be the good old rusty rebar expanding and taking the cover off.

Have no idea if it’s your thing but this is mega. Best hot weather/summer (if it ever appears) ever!

Whisky and a viewing of Dude, Where’s My Car!

Brutal

Make sure you use something with a ratchet (drill driver) rather than a corded standard drill without a ratchet. Once the drill tip goes through the steel and the threads catch, they wind in pretty quick and if you don’t stop in time, and without a ratchet, you’ll snap a head off.

Oh, and with 5mm steel, make sure you go for fine thread Tek, otherwise you’ll again going to snap the head off with a coarse thread.

I’m liking my Specialized Rib Cage. Seems very secure. Pretty light too.

MUST HAVE GRAPHICS CARD!!!!!

I use Cad all day long (n a laptop with ‘onboard graphics’) and my life would be a million miles easier with a dedicated graphics card. Cad crashes running with a second monitor attached to the lappy. Also mega slow on hatching etc.

I tired the 30day trial of Revitt and it basically made my machine fall over. It is very graphics hungry.

If I could spec my own, it would have as much RAM as I could afford, a semi-decent processor, a very good graphics card, and possibly a solid state hard drive (in addition to a standard drive) so speed up autosaves etc.

Check out this link from Autodesk for recommended hardware

Don,

Here you goPelini Website[/url]

and yes I was referring to a bog standard Homebase blind.

Base price of circa £200sqm for a Pelini interstital venitian blind, versus something from Homebase 🙂

Average u value for a window built into an insulated wall is always going to be better than a window calculated on it’s own, but you haven’t really improved the u value of the window, just included something in one calculation that you haven’t in the other.

That appears to show that you’ve taken a 1.8 u value window, put it in a cavity with a blind and come up with a lower u-value. The read out doesn’t really mean much to me as it doesn’t show any of the properties of the window. It appears to be comparing a window unit with a window built into a highly insulated wall?

Interstitial blinds (blinds in the unit) don’t improve thermal performance of the unit other than cutting out light (as would a normal much cheaper blind). They do however look swish.

I seem to have veered massively for the OP’s original question though.

To sum up, unless you have an ultra well insulated and draught proofed home, changing from a B rated window to an A is unlikely to make any significant/noticeable difference.

Don,

How have you taken a 1.8 centre pane dgu and turned it in to a 0.8 centre pane dgu?

An no, windows aren’t the most energy efficient way to create an external part to your home. A highly insulated wall would keep more heat in in the winter, more heat out in the summer, but would be a little dark.

There aren’t many buildings that don’t have some form of glazing in them, so i’d hardly say that I was trying to say windows/glazing are most energy efficient simply because i’m in the industry.

On a side note, draughts take a hell of a lot of heat out of houses. If you have trickle vents on the windows (the small vents above the glass) then these usually lose a lot of heat. Sealing these up can often help keep heat in