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Cheap?!

Oh how I wish that was the case Neil.

That sentence is misleading, replace 'never' with 'not', as I meant it's not putting the smilies where I want them to be.

As an aside, GD has just received a £45 tablet from her Dad, but he complained about the weenie sounding speaker.

She used my iPhone yesterday and Dad compared the sound between the two devises, with me telling him that my phone cost many many multiples of what he paid. That shut him up

Geoff - Only an hour in Workshop today

Edited By OuBallie on 30/10/2014 17:28:29

New boiler or old, and what water are you using?

Geoff - Workshop time

A remedy to get a bandsaw to cut straight was given to me in the '70s, and that was to touch a grind stone against the teeth on the side of the blade, whilst in motion, that was causing the cut to veer away from the line.

Blunting that side evened out the cutting forces.

Had to do that with my first bandsaw and it worked a treat.

Geoff - How I wish I had kept that machine, what with its blade welder!

Just to wind you you up Gordon

Geoff - Waiting for another pulley to get the TS motor bolted in place.

Well said MichaelG.

I take my hat off to you Sam!

Geoff - A 'WhooHoo' post from me shortly

iOS7.1.2

It's never worked as it should.

Geoff - I have an idiosyncratic iPad

Maurice,

It works just as JasonB describes.

I had to do the same when some of mine disappeared from my iPad.

The Album is a good off-site storage/back-up to boot.

Geoff - Need a few days to adjust to the ^*+# nonsensical way clocks go back the forward!

I've started reading my collection of Model Engineer again at last, and enjoy the 'Motor Cycle News' articles by 'Phoenix', busy with Volume 37, but need to dive into my dictionary every so often as he uses words that went out of fashion a long time ago ie 'averring' and 'assaying' amongst others.

Riding old 'bikes must be akin to driving old cars, where brain needs to be 'in gear' all the time, unlike with 'moderns'.

Geoff - I love driving my oldies.

MichaelG,

I do exactly as you describe and it works on all other Forums, except on this one.

It make absolutely no difference whereabouts I position the curser, ALL smilies end up as in this reply.

Geoff - Good progress made fitting the electric motors on the milling machines.

Thanks for the two suggestions.

Will probably mount the motor directly onto the column.

Suggestions please on what type/grade of link drive belt I should use.

Geoff - A couple of bad nights has upset my schedule somewhat

LOL!

That's how other half and I reacted on reading your comment.

Geoff - The fish we saved are now very lively, and looking extremely healthy. Very gratifying.

Neil,

You will have to elaborate if you do not mind, those words are too high falutin for me :-;

MichaelG,

Ah, I take your point, and expensive to replace.

Just be careful if it lets go whilst chewing.

Happened to me with a filling, and that disappeared South before I had time to register.

The only way I can think of putting those yellow things where I want them to end up, is to use the keys ala : - ) but that only allows a few.

Geoff - More progress made with FeedRodMotor, photos tomorrow.

Would someone please take pity and explain how to insert 'Smilies' where I want then to be, when using an iPad.

Right now they all end up at the beginning of the post, no matter what I do.

Geoff - Can't think of anything to put here

MichaelG,

You are forgiven

Why on Earth would you want to recycle it!? Yuck!

Geoff - Weather feels more like spring.

I was about to respond but Graham beat me to it.

What the heck, here goes:

Quote/

Kettle = Device for heatng water

/Unquote

Harrumph!

Two words spring to mind, one being '@arse' and the other 'smart' (BG)

Geoff - Ducking

Thanks for the BOD description.

Went over at 0900h with neighbour (Mike) to see how the fish we rescued where doing.

Son of the owner had xferred them all into a much larger container yesterday, and they where a joy to behold, all behaving as I would expect from healthy specimens.

Geoff - Much calmer weather today.

Thanks Graham, but how did the name 'Kettle' come about?

In the '60s friends in Jhb, who owned British 'bikes, where describing the then new 'bike imports from Japan as 'Plastic Jap'.

Little did we realise what was in store.

Jim,

Thin ice springs to mind

Geoff - The fish neighbour & I rescued on Monday are all looking vigorous & healthy, in comparison to Monday.

Thanks for the info Neil.

BOD? Too lazy to search, but no doubt something obvious!

Neighbour and I have decided that we have done our best, and I for one have no intention of setting a precedent by doing any more. It's something I learned not to do a long time ago, when I said no to looking after neighbours' dog when they wanted to go off on a jolly, me having done so a couple of time previously, and getting an 'Oh but you've always done so!" when I declined.

Neither of us have an air pump, and there is no sign of one near the pond, which is one of those green plastic kidney shaped ones, 8-10ft long.

The water is so murky, you cannot see the bottom, and no oxygenating plants in sight that I can discern.

Geoff - Other half preparing fish for our tea (supper)

Forgot to mention that the machine will be left in Horizontal mode.

Geoff - Three score and ten is responsible, for the forgetfulness that is

Graham,

"Water Bottle" - what the heck are you on about ?

Nice head, and reminds me of the hours I spent on improving the Kent engines I used in my racing 105E, and the black dust in my nostrils from porting and chamber work. H&S unheard of in the '70s

Talking about Pinto engines, I spent a Sunday afternoon with my tuning friend, who was wielding his hand held exhaust gas analyser, driving around in my 1972 'Coke bottle' Cortina 2000 GT Pinto engined car, sorting out jets in the replacement carb I'd just fitted.

Being the first Pinto engined car, and having inlet ports that where way way to big and Ford carb, it had zero guts below 2000rpm in top gear. (4th)

It was being used as my tow car for my racing 105E, and the lack of guts was getting to me!

So I replaced the carb with a straight swop Webber twin-choke, modified the air filter unit and linkage, and we, or rather he, spent the afternoon experimenting with jets and taking readings from the analyser, until he finally said he was happy, drove the car, and pronounced it as good as his BMW2002.

Well the transformation was amazing, now being able to tootle along in top at 1000rpm and accelerate to boot, all without having to drop down a cog.

I was a happy bunny with that level of improvement.

Geoff - How can a manufacturer get it so wrong?!

Edited By OuBallie on 21/10/2014 12:31:04