Why don’t we get red ants flying?

Local press. Boy finds money and is honest, school makes it disappear and looks dishonest.

Much public shaming!

We went to one of the in-laws engagement party at this rat hole in Leeds in the 80’s once when it was called The Sphinx…

The Sphinx

…and we had to fight our way out at the end of the night when the locals got a bit lairy. Put the women and kids in the first taxi’s to turn up, then had to fend them off like indians around a wagon train until more taxi’s could get there. Interesting! 😀

You’ve had a result, the cheapest I could find a pair of those bar clamps was £25, and that was shipping them in from Italy!

Sparks Hammersmith Odeon 1974, I’m still a fan!

Darts, Glasgow Apollo, 1979. I was about 12. Brilliant.

I saw Darts twice at Finsbury Park Rainbow during my punk years in the late seventies, two of the best gigs I’ve ever been to.

…you can get rid of ghosts.

Fantastic, thanks all. I’ve been trying to clear this up in my head by reading since Friday, 15 minutes on here and I understand it now!

I’ll be back soon! 😀

Cheers tomparkin, I’ve been reading Arduino Cookbook and Arduino for Dummies but I need to do something practical to relate it to so that I can understand what I’m reading.

allthepies, thanks.

So if this is my code….

const int motorPin1 = 7;
const int motorPin2 = 8;

void setup() {
pinMode(motorPin1, OUTPUT);
pinMode(motorPin2, OUTPUT);

}

void loop() {
runMotor1();
runMotor2();
}

void runMotor1() {
digitalWrite(motorPin1, HIGH);
delay(200);
digitalWrite(motorPin1, LOW);
delay(200);
}

void runMotor2 () {
digitalWrite(motorPin2, HIGH);
delay(300);
digitalWrite(motorPin2, LOW);
delay(300);
}

…and I want to run the function ‘runMotor1’ again later in the loop I should just write ‘runMotor1();’ ?

tomparkin, thanks. I realise that there are better ways of doing the delays but I’m doing it this way as I really am just starting out and trying not to get in above my neck (too late 😀 ).

nickjb’s code compiled OK for me

Thanks everyone for your help, really appreciate it as a lot of the books I’ve read assume a certain level of knowledge already (which I don’t have!).

It’s not going to be sensing anything or using any variables, I just want to switch motors on and off in a sequence repeated continuously, but the periods that they are on need to have different timings hence wanting to shorten the code.

nickjb, thanks, that was close to what I’d written but I didn’t put runMotor1();
runMotor2(); after void loop. If I want to run that function again later in the loop do I just write…

void runMotor1() {
}

or do I have to code the whole function again?

OP; have you asked the people that you live with (other half, kids) to answer your question honestly?

I turned it off, getting fed up with all the Glastonbury chat as well. I love BBC6 but it does disappear up its own arse sometimes

Just play some f****** music!

If it was something in the real world I would’ve hit it with a big hammer eventually, STW is the IT equivalent! 😀

The language is C or something derived from it I think, I’m using the Arduino IDE to learn.

Aaaaaarrrrgggghhhh!

Thanks for that, I’ve been staring at it for ages and didn’t notice it.

I’ll probably be back later 🙂

He killed her, he knows he killed her, and we as cyclist’s know that he probably made an error, but it needs to be proved beyond reasonable doubt (to a jury that probably aren’t cyclist’s).

Let’s hope that he never gets another decent night’s sleep again.

Thanks Sniff , I’ve just gone and bought a pencil I have absolutely no use for

+1

I’ve got no idea why I just bought it as I don’t need one, I just know I want one! I might get a 0.03mm one next for doing the panel lines on my models.

Damn you Cult Pens and your Siren like website! 😀

OP, do you want to control a control freak then? 😀

Use a decent quality allen key, and dont use a ball end one.

My oldest son went to his first game at about 6 or 7 in a quieter part of White Hart Lane (east stand/shelf side), this was in the eighties though and the ‘troubles’ had just started to die down.

My 5 year old grandson has been to 2 games this season so far, both in the raucous Park Lane end where nobody sits down. We were a bit dubious about taking him so young but wanted him to be able to say that he attended the old ground. He absolutely loved it, especially the pre match pub banter!

Never had a problem there myself, been using that junction for 30 years. Trafalgar Square would’ve been a better one to close.

and there’s a decent bike shop (whose name escapes me) at the bottom of Brentwood high street as well

Momentum Cycles, the owners are very knowledgable.

Political capital, no.

Working in a potential target area we have been taking this seriously for a long while now, how we have any effect on stopping a lone wolf attack I don’t know. We know the after effects of terrorism all too well.

Did this a couple of months ago for a mate, one of the hardest things I’ve ever helped move.

Strap lathe down securely in van, reverse van as far up the slope as possible, get two ramps up against the front wheels and roll van onto them to make the van level.

We managed to roll the lathe on the pallet to the back garden patio using an ordinary pallet truck. Getting the b@stard up the 2 steps was nearly impossible. Mate took a few days and stripped the lathe down as much as possible then 3 of us lifted the bed assembly up the the workshop suspended from a scaffold pole, we could barely lift it.

I’d suggest getting as many friends as you can round as it’s really awkward and you need a lot of muscle power to do it safely, 3 of us wasn’t really enough.

Crap job and I’ll never do it again as the potential to lose fingers/toes/any body parts is high.

Is that the “Klear” stuff?

Yes and no. The old formula Klear is fantastic stuff, but the newer one is slightly different and some people have had problems with it. Have a look at this link, the bottle on the left is the old stuff, the newer one has ‘Pledge multi-wax’ on the label (avoid)…

Old Vs new Klear

I’ve got a bottle of the old stuff from the early 90’s and it’s nearly empty, this floor shine from Lakeland is supposed to be nearer the old klear formula and has had some decent reviews, this is what I’m getting to replace the old one…

Lakeland floor shine

The big bonus is that it’s easily available in the UK

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I’ve been impressed with Vallejo Metal Color (bloody merican spelling! 😥 ) lately, not tried spraying it yet though S n M Stuff website[/url]

The trick is to get an ultra smooth basecoat, usually a gloss black, and then spay as Digby said. Another option is to use car spray paint, Halfords own brand isn’t bad.

Interesting paint job on the tank. Were they trying to hide it in a sweet shop?

It was supposed to replicate the dappled effect of light shining through trees.

Here’s a weird cammo fact… My lad has partial red/green colourblindness so he gets some, but not all of his reds and greens mixed. On the flip side cammo doesn’t work with him. Specifically he can see female pheasants extremely clearly at some distance whilst the rest of us in the family have no chance even when they are only a few feet away. It is his superpower. How odd.

When my brother-in-law was in the Coldstream guards I asked him how they got on with him being colour blind, he said the army liked it as he could pick out stuff in the tree line that normally sighted people couldn’t. Reading your post made me think he was talking sense. I’ve disbelieved him for 37 years! 😀

After my Sherman build I restarted a B26 Marauder, that stalled after a few days as I got bored with it. I decided to start an old kit from the pile, this is a Dragon mid production Hetzer that’s going to be an ‘out of the box’ quick and dirty build. Only the base coat was airbrushed, the green and brown was brush painted and deliberately left rough as it will be heavily weathered.
This is my first attempt at the german ‘ambush’ colour scheme.

Loads more work to do on this yet so it looks like a 5 year old child has painted it at the moment! 😀

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Thanks vinnyeh, much appreciated!

+1 for the MT Zoom

Used it in anger and it worked fine.

A mate of mine was getting ready for work when the JW’s knocked on the door.
‘sorry but I have to leave for work now’ he says, ‘come in though and speak to my wife as I’m sure that she’ll be interested’ he says showing them into the front room. Mate exits front door laughing his head off.

OP; what happened, did you sell them as a lot?

koldun, I’d be well up for that after a long ride! 😀

I think it was the ‘perfected the art of making the perfect burger’ comment that got up my nose, it’s just a burger.
The whole thing of making ordinary stuff special (and more expensive) is getting a bit tedious now. I want a plate when I go out to eat not a bloody roof slate or a bit of driftwood. I went to a cafe this morning and had a coffee and it came with a little jam jar of milk, it dribbled everywhere. What’s wrong with a milk jug?

Now look what you’ve done, you’ve made me all ranty again!

Old man rant now…

How bloody hard is it to cook a burger that they need a machine to do it? Next thing you know they’ll be employing ‘burgeristas’ just like people who make coffee for a living. What a load of old bollox!

…Rant over.

PS; the ad is proper shite as well!

District from Tower Hill to Embankment, then Bakerloo to Paddington.
If there’s any delays on District, Circle, or the H and C, the Circle line gets hit first.

We feed our dog on Lidl’s Orlando dried food, about 7 quid a sack.

The vet always say that she is in great condition for an 11 year old dog.

London Underground here and can’t wait to get away from it!

Pays well and hours are good but the BS and politics are unbearable, our customers deserve so much more than we’re giving. The job can be interesting but only when everything goes pear shaped, then whatever you do isn’t enough. Combine that with everyone sticking their oar in and you’ve got very low levels of job satisfaction.
Just counting the days until I can get out, hopefully before I go mad.

It probably makes me a heathen but I just don’t get the whole collecting thing

Nor me, but I can understand how it starts. I’ve probably got around 25 waiting to be built and for someone that only completes 1 or 2 a year that’s a lot, I do intend to build them though!
I usually buy something that I like when it comes up cheap, but then another manufacturer will bring out a better version and I’ll get that as well. I can see how a more prolific builder could start to amass a decent size collection.

Did you know about the 1/48 new tool Sea Fury that Airfix will be bringing out later in the year?

I didn’t, I’m having one of those! Sorry OP you just lost a sale! 😀