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little jim

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  1. Dunno if relevant but will add it to the list.

    Similar problem with Camry, packed it in twice when temperatures went over the ton, engine stopped, symptoms not enough fuel.  (This in NSW) After cooling down no problems. Toyota mob tested everything and couldn't find a cause.

    Same thing started happening months later in the hot part of Western Australia, found keeping the tank full reduced the occurrence a bit. Limped in to nearby town where the local car fixer said they were used to it in the hot area. He said that a couple of windings in the (in tank) petrol pump had gone with age, and in the extreme temperatures the pump got too hot to work and seized, full tank kept it cooler and helped.

    At great expense the in tank fuel pump was replaced and never had the problem again.

  2. 2 hours ago, HSM said:

    It is actually a lead sharpener for a draughtsmans clutch pencil. I still have one

    and a clutch pencil from my days as an apprentice draughtsman.

                                                    Happy lead sharpening

                                                                                       Harvey

     

    .

    Thanks Harvey, you've filled in a couple of blanks, my old man was an electrical draughtsman and it was his pencil originally.

    It's Caran D'ache, Swiss like him.

  3. I just realised that you wanted to know the following (esp the Lancastrians):

    Albion, the earliest-known name for the island of Britain. ... The Greeks and Romans probably received the name from the Gauls or the Celts. The name Albion has been translated as “white land”; and the Romans explained it as referring to the chalk cliffs at Dover (Latin albus, “white”).

  4. Over here during the Covid D travel restrictions, push bike sales went through the roof. 

    Car sales - The tally of 100,005 new cars reported as sold across Australia during March 2021 represents a 22.4 per cent increase compared to the same month last year. However, the figure is still 3.8 per cent below the five-year rolling average prior to the pandemic. (7 Apr 2021)

    (I'll get out of your way now.)

  5. On my 4A, I had a hard top that came with car, but had to get a new soft top from Moss.

    To get the new soft top to remotely look like fitting I had to undo the bolts at the bottom of the windscreen and pull it back to maximum rake. (The hard top still fitted [phew])

    Getting the front edge in was a nightmare at first, found marking the centre of the soft top with whiteout, and marking the centre of the screen helped, plus tapping with a rubber mallet or such. First few goes it was too thick and didn't go fully in, the back was nowhere near going in, so I did a  bit of heavy stretching (see pic)

    Eventually got the back bolted in. After doing this several times the front squished down a bit flatter, and got easier to put in all the way, making the back bit easier to fit.

    After several more fittings of the soft top, the fitting became easy, the front went the whole way in, so did the rear.

     

     

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  6. On the other site there's a bit of (medical) discussion about cerebral blood clotting relating to one of the vaccines. but the figures they give say that in non-vaccinated people the occurrence is 5-16 per million and with vaccinated people 3.5 per million. (their figures 79/22.2million).

    How do you work that so the vaccine gets the blame???

  7. 14 hours ago, Peter Cobbold said:

    John, You have as mcuh abilty to understand the D3 debate as I have, yet you do not see the evidence as compelling. I have supplied a year of evidence for roles of D3 and I am not prepared to arguen each and every minor point. "You can take a horse to water etc "

    Butin view of your enthusiasm for vaccination I do think you owe the thread your considered  response to this.

    Peter

    To me at least, it beats the hell out of doing nothing Pete, plus looks as though if you are quick you are in with a chance.

  8. 20 hours ago, stillp said:

    I heard of an English couple who moved to Carmarthenshire and tried to pick up some words of Welsh from the local radio. They started greeting neighbours with "Dyma'r newyddion" thinking it meant good morning. It was a couple of months before someone told them it meant "Here is the news".

    Pete

    Similar problem with the Uruguyan couple on our bus tour of Spain. 

    I was greeting them in the morning with 'buenos dios'.

    On day two they explained that the word for day was 'dias' and 'dios' meant God.

  9. A while back Roger was extolling the virtues of SYB.

    Just in case you missed it they (SYb) have put out another product called 'Shift ya B******'.

    In my case, getting the boat trailer wheel off its hub, the ShYB didn't shift it. Belting the studs pushed them all out of the hub (lost 3 in the grass).

    Eventually putting the hub on a little gas ring, and the remaining ice cubes on the wheel and belting the hub (via wood) did the trick.

    (I'll get out of your way now.)

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