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I tend to agree with that. I find subtle introductory comments like - "this is my first wife"- is enough to keep them on their toes

How does this show compare with Alexandra Palace. is it bigger, More or less trade shows? opinions please as it is a long way fro me to drive

Some time since I tuned anything but as far as I recall the following was standard practice for a car:-

Fluffy dice hanging off the rear view mirror, Go faster stripes down the sides , Peco exhaust booster, Spacers behind the wheels to make them stick out a bit, mix up the macdonalds wrappers in the footwells & remove the wimpey ones,spray some dark spray on the windows so you cannot see in (or out), lower the suspension so tyres rub on the wheel arches when turning corners. If you had any dough then stick on mag ally look a likes to the wheels, Leather steering wheel cover, rake back the driving seat so much that you are almost laying down, Hand holds over the rear windows ( to hook girlfriends feet in) Tracey & Steve sticker along the front windscreen (changed weekly) Couple of drops of castrol R in the fuel to make a smell, White rondals on the doors, preferably with castol emblem on one edge, never clean the car & just use wipers to clean the windows so it looks like you are straight off a rally, stick on bullet holes in the rear windows, & finally a tigers tail hanging out of the tank.

If you were real flash & had an old mini then cut the roof down so you could not get in it & grind all the guttering off. If you had a 105E cause your dad had dough, the fit a lotus twin cam & wide wheels, lower the suspension etc

All standard student go faster tuning tricks when i was a lad designed to make the 100E look quick Speed was irrelevant pulling the crumpet was the aim

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Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 29/04/2016 20:20:26

& when they drop the soap in that shower do they have someone to pick it up, because there is no way they could bend down to pick it up in that small space

Hmmm!!!!----Do you think I should stop feeding the mother in law dog food then ?

Get a sheet of plywood

8ft * 4ft * 18mm th

I know the difference too

One I can turn off

I was bought up with dogs as a child & they were all well behaved & did tricks, like count or get my fathers slippers from the cupboard etc. When not in the house they were kept in dog runs which our gardener cleaned weekly. They were not normally allowed to run riot or jump up at people. However, one day our alsatian ( which my sister & I rode, pulled, pummelled & played with endlessly) attacked a cyclist & he had nearly a hundred stitches in his legs. . Our office manager played base ball for the England team. One day his pet dog turned on him & cut muscles in his arm & his baseball career ended. Proving dogs cannot be trusted

In my working life I have been in over 15000 houses. 25% have dogs & you can tell by the stink Does not matter how posh the house, Any house with pets that i went in stunk of them. Particularly cats. . Some houses are so smothered on doggy s..t just trod in the carpets you would vomit at the sight & smell.

The number of people who would say " Oh he is alright, he will not hurt you" No mate you are dead right if you do not lock the thing away i will not come in your home & you can whistle to have your work done.

The most common thing when I visited a home was for the front door to open & the dog to run out between the owners legs & go for me. Are owners really so stupid that they do not know that their dogs will do this. I have been near dogs where the owners seem to think it is wonderful for the darned things to jump up at me . Next doors dog has just died - thank god- the endless barking has driven the wife & I mad every time we went in the garden. Now the new neighbours the other side have a b..y dog that does the same

Quite honestly I have been bitten so many times I hate the things. It is not the owner who has to sit in A & E waiting 4 hours for a tetanus injection. It is me.

But If I say just one thing against someone's dog all hell breaks loose. Just see the response this post gets. Every excuse under the sun about how wonderful their particular dog is.

Finally after that rant, there was one house that did not smell. I went in where I had to measure windows . Owner was out, caretaker let me in. House was boiling hot. Caretaker explained it was for residents pets - Tarantulas- The bloke bred them for a zoo & had some left over. There was a stack of 20 No. in 150 mm perspex cube like boxes with hinged lids. One per box.The caretaker lifted one lid & the dirty great spider just sat there - The lid had no fastening

The real frightening thing was that 4 boxes were empty & as I had to move the curtains back to measure the windows I did it really gingerly. Really glad to get out. Would rather have had dogs.

Hopper

Thanks

I had another go the next day & it came out really well & only a few thou over the 3/4 inch

I just seem to have had a "non thinking" day for some reason- I had just come back from drilling one of my RC planes into the ground & ended up with a bag of balsa chips. Should have stayed in bed

The instructions on Stuart's plan says ream. Are you suggesting that this might not be required?

No, I originally tried to get it in line by centering it on the tailstock fixed centre & feeding the tailstock in gently. The cylinder was still in the 4 jaw chuck having been bored to almost 3/4 inch

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 16/04/2016 17:52:01

Oh = hang on . sitting here in the armchair ==it has occurred to me that just because it has a square top it does not stand to reason that i should have used the tapping handle. Should I have stuck it in the jacobs chuck off the tailstock??

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I am trying to make a Stuart 10V which I started 40 years ago but stopped for various reasons.

I have bored the cylinder with a home made boring bar made from 12mm steel with a 3mm * 12mm round cutting tip set in that I made years ago. That worked OK & I was quite proud of the finish. However, At some dim & distant time in the past I find that I purchased a 3/4 inch expanding reamer & it has never been used /abused until now.

I have had a real hassle using it & with the cylinder in the lathe & thought all I had to do was centre it on the tool post & feed it in with the lathe running at lowest speed ( 30-40RPM) Total disaster. trying to keep the reamer on the centre does not work, It jams in the cylinder. The handle caught in the cross slide & I ended up trying to turn the chuck by hand with the reamer waving in the wind.

I gradually expanded the reamer & really messed up a nice hole . It is now just 3 thou under 3/4 one end about 6 thou the other. & 13 thou under in the middle. I have lines running longitudinally down the bore, not around as one might get if turned. I have taken it out of the chuck & do not really want to re centre unless really necessary.

When you have stopped laughing could someone be kind enough to give me some guidance on how one should use this tool please.Years ago I did the front suspension on my Morgan very successfully several times with a 1 inch reamer & that had a nice cone to form a guide & the reamer slid on a rod. But this one just waves about in the breeze

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 16/04/2016 17:36:38

That loo reminds me of some digs I stayed in once. I was disgusted at the state of the loo & complained & ended up by pointing out that it had no lock on the door.

Land lady said " No problem son. That loo has been there 40 years & we have not had a single bucket of s..t nicked yet"

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 14/04/2016 15:34:52

By coincidence I havejust had an email from the Institute of building. There is an article about the schools in question & that suggests poor construction. Missing wall ties are not a failing of the building regs. rMore likely failings in site supervision-- & that is an issue which will get worse as the standard of building staff coming into the industry gets lower each year

I may be very wrong & i confess I do not know the details of this one -so perhaps i should have withheld the unsubstantiated comment--- i should have studied the facts first.

It is not unknown for such things to happen due to poor building practice rather than regulation failings. But it has to be said that the regs do help to highlight design faults at an early stage

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 12/04/2016 12:24:28

& were they qualified? Did you check?

& did they issue the EICR test completion cert afterwards?

My experience is that lots of the so called electricians are not actually qualified to do the work when they claim they are.

One of my clients ( does over a couple of thousand kitchens & bathrooms per year) regularly makes checks & it is surprising how many should not be doing the job & are not as they claim

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 12/04/2016 12:18:49

And who is to say that they are safe --- you!!

I would also suggest that the link you show refers to a design issue not building regs issue

Sam Longley: RICS: MCIOB

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 12/04/2016 12:06:19

No bribery -- sorry mate but having spent my life in the building industry I can assure you that you are deluded- Say no more - nudge nudge , wink wink!!

Granted privatisation has not always worked, but can you assure me that standards were not on the downward slope anyway.

As for hard time- have you ever tried getting planning permission when the officer responsible for your application is always taking time off to claim the early retirement or compensation on trumped up grounds of stress etc or some other totally false con

Standards in our local authority town halls is pathetic- If you want Friday off, just start coughing on Monday & play the sickie.

I believe that the Building regulations are an excellent set of documents. It is only wallies who get the hump about having to comply that do not like them. If I were going to purchase a home I would like to know that t was built to a certain standard & not some cobble up by some know all DIY muppet. I would also like to know that I was not living in a tinderbox that might burn or electrocute my kids. I know accidents still happen but not through fault of the building regs. They have improved standards over the years

As for car standards I some how have sympathy with the legislative. I would feel a lot safer knowing the idiots who mess with cars & bikes to the detriment of safety are curtailed. Of course there are bits that seem over the top but usually these are sorted over time. The change in law will not upset me.

One contributor said it was between him the MOT centre & the insurance co- Well sorry friend -I have no confidence in your insurance company to protect my grandchild

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 11/04/2016 20:37:46