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On a similar scatological theme, a place I worked at for a short while was known by the locals as the second hand food factory.

Back to Coke bottles, we did quite a few days of shooting off various sized mineral water bottles in the skool in what I work and the best, most memorable shot is always the last one, just like the RPG, ask for a volunteer to do a shoulder launch and the cockiest show off steps up not having worked out why the launch area is sodden, shove cork in extra well.

Pump up bottle and watch class fall about laughing

how about a 36 character password -- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvvxyz1234567890, secure or what?  

Edited By Dod on 04/09/2016 21:03:01

In this debate , will we ever know what (or indeed, if) the silent minority thinks ??

Neutral Dod

I just came on this thread and read the lot to see if there was a consensus on what to ban.

I would ban half of the drivel posted on dirty great big threads, oh and like we have regularly on our menu, Salmon Fish Cakes - just try making a salmon cake without a bit of fish - and it is pan fried in a sodding frying pan.

Ps, my offspring reckon I wrote the Grumpy Old men series of books.

And if you lived in north of Scotland -- how much extra would that be?

KIA Picanto shows 62.4 mpg, been like that for the last 9 months

In a previous employment I was sent parts overnight Edinburgh to me and the carrier the company used did not charge any extra for delivery to Inverness areas but most of the companies they carried for charged extra for north of Scotland areas, One supplier of advertising materials charged every branch of the R?S Bank £15 extra for the Highlands so made £255 per load sent out for covering supposed higher cost to deliver in the north of Scotland.

Makes one mad about grasping companies down the map a bit.

One bit of this thread that has not been mentioned is that when I had to pay a company extra to have delivery to my IV postcode in the Highlands I had a hard time to get the company to pay me the extra for me to return the faulty device, now the reason they gave me was that it does not cost extra for a return journey.

Anyone care to enlighten me why it is more expensive to send stuff north but not so expensive to send from north to south.

And there was me thinking it was an some delicacy from the reign of King George and had dried out somewhat.

Call me naive but surely BT charging £15.99 per month per customer surely equals a lot of money to run a service.

Full size https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGG8U_-Hzhs

Now get on with it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vWI-XdfmwE

Youngest offspring drives a Joan Dear that is computer controlled to follow best paths for efficient coverage via sattelite and varies machine outputs based on soil type and previous crop yields. When working his new tattie lifter (trans. Potato harvester) he got a call on his mobile phfone form the machine manufacturer to say he should increase his speed by 2 kph to get the best result.

And when I went to help one weekend the farmer apologised becauseI was given the oldest tractor cos it was the only one with a clutch and gearstick, funnily enough I was quite happy.

Ah, you propose to emasculate the poor drive thingy.

My experience with me 30mph limited scooter was to run below 30mph in town I had to shut down the throttle and when out on the open road just held the grip fully round maxed out to 30mph flat out on the level, could get it up to 35 going down a hill but could only hold 24 mph up the same hill.

Now it would seem to me that a problem with scooter vari-drives is that to control and maintain a fixed output speed (mph) you need to control input speed (engine rpm) and even the output speed drops changes with gradient changes so it would seem that to maintain a fixed spindle speed one would have to vary the motor input speed to keep up with the changes of the load applied to the spindle (cutting load).

So by having to control motor speed all the time to keep up with an ever changing load one would need a load sensing speed control to control the drive motor speed - or have I got this badly wrong

Hate to spoil anyone's day but I collected 2 from the bin when clearing up after the launch at the skooll what where I work and so far I have been able to have the leds flash in different sequences.

Must try to learn more about making it do more.

I got a free Micro Bit at the launch at the skool place wot I work at, some of the ungrateful little darlings didn't want their free rubbish handout, found 33 of them in the bins during clearup.

I can now get it to flash different leds and say "hello world" one letter every second, the computing world is my oyster

If it be a proper pdf file methinks it is not a proper early 20th century version of a handbook unless its a proper early 1990s 'lectronic edition.

My tractor-pulling brother uses the precision tools - the angle grinder, the welder and a 10 pound hammer to work to the snoot o' the bunnet down to the ba' hair accuracy and it seems to work well enough for the 100 yard pull at fearsome horsepowers.

Don't get me started , I begun and spent 26 years as a Domestic Appliance Engineer , technicians are overcharging lowdown, guessing part pushing replacers, certainly not engineers.

Wiggling the cable 99% of the time means, as suggested cutting a 6 inch (or metric equivalent) off one end and if that dont work off the other end. That way you can have a 2 foot cable and if it still wont work have a look at the brushes.

Vacuum cleaner flexes break regularly as people try to do the extra inch before plugging into another socket

I am sure I saw Fred Dibnah using a pneumatic rivet setter so depending on the scale . . . . . . . . . .

Edited By Dod on 25/05/2016 21:46:33