Gordon W | 23/01/2016 11:44:01 |
2011 forum posts | Years ago a friend of mine bought a used Alfa Romeo, noted at the time for rust problems. He came up to Scotland to visit us, about half way and doing about 70 mph there was a big bang and the car shot off into the heather. Turns out the engine had fallen out, and he had run over his own engine. No permanent damage done to friend. |
martin perman | 23/01/2016 12:02:29 |
![]() 2095 forum posts 75 photos | An engineer friend was on his way home on the M1 in his company car when a large road works sign fell off the back of a truck, unable to avoid it he drove over it, after a short while he realised he was running out of diesel so pulled into a service area to fill up but as he was doing so a puddle was forming so he called the AA who recovered the car to a Ford dealers for repair. When the car went up on the ramp the garage declared the vehicle a write off and it was eventually scrapped as the sign had can opened the length of the floor pan from front to back.
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NJH | 23/01/2016 12:05:08 |
![]() 2314 forum posts 139 photos | In the vein of humorous traffic incidents................ Many years, when I was at school, ( no MANY MANY years) a group of us were cycling home. One daredevil said "watch this!" He set off and tried ! to stand up holding the handlebars and with one foot on the saddle ! As you may imagine this quickly came to grief. He ended up flat on his back in the road with the bike, amazingly, balanced upside down with wheels spinning and the crossbar across his chest and arms pinning him down! He had to stay like that ( and very still lest it all fell on him!) until we could stop laughing long enough to lift the bike off him! Norman
Edited By NJH on 23/01/2016 12:08:50 |
Neil Wyatt | 23/01/2016 12:53:51 |
![]() 19226 forum posts 749 photos 86 articles | One I heard of was the prop shaft coming up through the central corridor of a bus. Neil |
Steven Vine | 23/01/2016 13:06:13 |
340 forum posts 30 photos | When I was first starting out in the big wide world I was given the works J4 van, the one with the engine between you and the passenger. The thing kept over heating, and we had to stop sharply and bail out many times as the cab filled up with steam. One day we were hurtling down a hill at 40mph and the back wheel fell off. We sat there and watched the wheel roll down the hill and take out a fence. Happy days. Steve |
Neil Wyatt | 23/01/2016 13:24:47 |
![]() 19226 forum posts 749 photos 86 articles | The Commas were like that, as was the Bedford CF. We had one of those, and driving it back after collecting it in Liverpool, it started running rough and misfiring as I went through Stoke in the dark. With the cover off the engine one spark plug was dancing on top of the block, occasionally igniting the vapour being pumped out of the plug-hole. Small puffs of orange flame right between the seats in the dark... Tool-less I just held the plug with a bit of cloth and put it in hand-tight and got home OK.
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martin perman | 23/01/2016 17:48:26 |
![]() 2095 forum posts 75 photos | Today I have replaced the ceiling in my airing cupboard after it collapsed from a water leak from one of the water tanks in my loft, I had to cut the board around a series of water pipes so thought I would use a can of expanding foam to seal the pipes to the board, the can said press trigger gently so I did and by the time I released it a couple seconds later I had an empty can. So much fun in a short time and all for £10
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tom bates | 23/01/2016 18:41:22 |
27 forum posts 18 photos |
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tom bates | 23/01/2016 18:57:47 |
27 forum posts 18 photos | Also did some parting off . Don,t know why the pictures are in the reverse order and why some are inverted. |
Muzzer | 23/01/2016 19:50:13 |
![]() 2904 forum posts 448 photos | Windows 8 by any chance? |
tom bates | 23/01/2016 19:57:56 |
27 forum posts 18 photos | Muzzer not W8 they at straight from my i pad using the latest ios version |
Muzzer | 23/01/2016 20:03:22 |
![]() 2904 forum posts 448 photos | If you take a pic with the iPad upside down, perhaps it displays the photo on the screen correctly but stores the original orientation in the photo. When you upload it, the original camera orientation is remembered. Sort of vaguely rings a bell. |
tom bates | 23/01/2016 20:18:22 |
27 forum posts 18 photos | Muzzer I think your on the right track as Iseem to remember taking some photos ,upside down?, as the cover was in the way. just neen to work out what is upsidedown when taking photos.again thanks for the imput😀
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Neil Wyatt | 23/01/2016 21:11:54 |
![]() 19226 forum posts 749 photos 86 articles | That's right, i-products don't always store the orientation you expect and things come out odd when exported. Neil |
Aeronut | 23/01/2016 21:16:52 |
18 forum posts 39 photos | Just a quicky job today, a new base to fit my Warco 1232 for the QCTP I'd recently bought from those nice people at ARCEURO Regards Lee |
tom bates | 23/01/2016 21:59:50 |
27 forum posts 18 photos | muzzer/Neilthanks for the feed back i,ll put a typex mark on the top cover of my i pad so if i take photos and their are up side down I,ll just turn the i pad around to get the correct orientational . now all I need to do is work out why the sequence are photos is reversed. |
Danny M2Z | 24/01/2016 03:39:41 |
![]() 963 forum posts 2 photos | Posted by tom bates on 23/01/2016 21:59:50:
now all I need to do is work out why the sequence are photos is reversed. This forum software is a bit 'elderly'. - What I have found as a 'workaround' is once that you have identified which album photos you wish to attach to your post, note them down and attach them in reverse order, i.e; last one first; et al. Any text that you would like after (or between the photos) is best typed before inserting the photos, then insert the photos after the appropriate paragraph. Sometime you may wish to insert an extra 'CR' (return) to separate the text and the photos. Also keep in mind that if you delete photo's from your album they shall no longer be viewable if somebody reads old threads. * Danny M * |
JasonB | 24/01/2016 07:24:36 |
![]() 25215 forum posts 3105 photos 1 articles | I just insert them in whatever order I want them in. Add text as I go. What you may be missing is that after inserting an image the cursor returns to the TOP so unless you scrol back down to the bottom they will be added one above the other. You can also drag them about in teh post if not where you want them |
Neil Wyatt | 24/01/2016 08:59:27 |
![]() 19226 forum posts 749 photos 86 articles | As Jason says. The image will go wherever the cursor is, so if you want a picture at the end or in the middle, make sure that's where you put the cursor. Neil |
JES | 24/01/2016 09:45:06 |
84 forum posts 71 photos | I stand corrected
Actually the day before yesterday. Fitted a detachable DRO for use with my dividing Head. |
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