Midland
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Post by Midland on Mar 27, 2015 8:54:24 GMT
I still have to repair my HF Transmitter, so I can get back on the air. Tempus Vincit Omnia! What is your call sign? Mine is G2SZ but have not been active. And my excuse is fences bloody fences! D
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Post by simplyloco on Mar 27, 2015 9:23:44 GMT
I read everything above the sales, but I don't always comment, and sometimes just the 'Like' button suffices, without repeating the same answers over and over and over and making a thread ridiculously long. If nothing else, a bit of waffle can help put a smile on someone's face. Just waffling away, Steve All men can waffle equally well, but some men can waffle more equally well than others...
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Post by alanstepney on Mar 27, 2015 10:02:50 GMT
I still have to repair my HF Transmitter, so I can get back on the air. Tempus Vincit Omnia! What is your call sign? Mine is G2SZ but have not been active. And my excuse is fences bloody fences! D As a G2 plus two letters, you must either be much older than me, or else it is an inherited callsign. (I suspect the latter). Alan (G8BLW)
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Tony K
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Post by Tony K on Mar 27, 2015 10:30:14 GMT
Not many new postings?
I suggest it could be because of the threads mainly about the forum, not about engineering, or threads which develop into same.
Why bother with model engineering when you can really get into navel-gazing?
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Post by Roger on Mar 27, 2015 11:56:08 GMT
Not many new postings? I suggest it could be because of the threads mainly about the forum, not about engineering, or threads which develop into same. Why bother with model engineering when you can really get into navel-gazing? This is indeed true, but I would suggest that the real reason there are few Engineering threads is because of the negative attitudes that are amply expressed throughout this and the other threads that have now been closed. Anyone who's read any of that and was thinking of joining in is unlikely to risk it. It doesn't bother me that people don't like what I post, but there's no pleasure in it when there's someone ready to take offence or snipe at every turn. The vast majority of members have something to contribute, but they remain silent or leave because it's not enjoyable to participate.
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Post by andyhigham on Mar 27, 2015 12:27:45 GMT
Not many new postings? I suggest it could be because of the threads mainly about the forum, not about engineering, or threads which develop into same. Why bother with model engineering when you can really get into navel-gazing? This is indeed true, but I would suggest that the real reason there are few Engineering threads is because of the negative attitudes that are amply expressed throughout this and the other threads that have now been closed. Anyone who's read any of that and was thinking of joining in is unlikely to risk it. It doesn't bother me that people don't like what I post, but there's no pleasure in it when there's someone ready to take offence or snipe at every turn. The vast majority of members have something to contribute, but they remain silent or leave because it's not enjoyable to participate. And those people who share their build details and thoughts on different ways of doing things get accused of being "post whores"
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Midland
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Post by Midland on Mar 27, 2015 16:46:45 GMT
What is your call sign? Mine is G2SZ but have not been active. And my excuse is fences bloody fences! D As a G2 plus two letters, you must either be much older than me, or else it is an inherited callsign. (I suspect the latter). Alan (G8BLW) It was my uncle's. Look up Cecil Wiliam Goyder in Google to see what he did. My dad used to tell a story of his elder brother coming in one morning for breakfast and saying, "if someone is not pulling my leg, I have just spoken with New Zealand". An hour later a telegram arrived from Frank Bell confirming it. Once took a radio with me across the pond in the ARC and about mid Atlantic picked a Welsh station talking to an Oz one, Jumped in and worked both. Must have been right in the skip. Those were the days!! Cheers David
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Post by 3405jimmy on Mar 27, 2015 17:08:42 GMT
What's a post whore? Is it any relation to a post war, see what I did there?
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Post by alanstepney on Mar 27, 2015 17:35:36 GMT
As a G2 plus two letters, you must either be much older than me, or else it is an inherited callsign. (I suspect the latter). Alan (G8BLW) It was my uncle's. Look up Cecil Wiliam Goyder in Google to see what he did. My dad used to tell a story of his elder brother coming in one morning for breakfast and saying, "if someone is not pulling my leg, I have just spoken with New Zealand". An hour later a telegram arrived from Frank Bell confirming it. Once took a radio with me across the pond in the ARC and about mid Atlantic picked a Welsh station talking to an Oz one, Jumped in and worked both. Must have been right in the skip. Those were the days!! Cheers David An old publication I have shows that callsign as Mill Hill school. Google gave me the background and explanation. Thanks.
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Midland
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Post by Midland on Mar 27, 2015 18:07:53 GMT
An old publication I have shows that callsign as Mill Hill school. Google gave me the background and explanation. Thanks. Rumbled at last. Yes I discovered that after about ten years using it. Can you find an entry for Cecil William Goyder close by. He had his own call sign and I only discovered that I had the school 2SZ when I found his. I have wondered if MH school would like it back. Not sure how that would work as I trink the call was actually in the name of the science master. If you can find Cecil's own I will write to the school and see what I can do. His might have been 2w something. My dad and his two brothers went to MH and I was supposed to but Canada beckoned. You are an eagle eyed young man!!!! David
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Post by ajricher on Mar 27, 2015 18:35:19 GMT
I've been busy working, and over the last week fighting a broken bolt in one of the Land Rovers....7/16" UNF, 7.25" long, mostly in a tube and it's seized solid! Winning now though, heat oil heat bash and drill a hole up the middle and it's just starting to give up. I have done a bit on the engine but not had time to post it yet. Done a bit for David and David is doing a bit on his too. Bulkhead bolt? Best bet is to drill the bugger out and then bash out the remains. Been there done that snapped off a drill bit in one long ago...damn IIA 109 bulkhead that I was rebuilding for my 64. Al RIcher
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Post by ejparrott on Mar 27, 2015 18:53:28 GMT
I've been busy working, and over the last week fighting a broken bolt in one of the Land Rovers....7/16" UNF, 7.25" long, mostly in a tube and it's seized solid! Winning now though, heat oil heat bash and drill a hole up the middle and it's just starting to give up. I have done a bit on the engine but not had time to post it yet. Done a bit for David and David is doing a bit on his too. Bulkhead bolt? Best bet is to drill the bugger out and then bash out the ramins. Been there done that snapped off a drill pit in one long ago...damn IIA 109 bulkhead that I was rebuilding for my 64. Al RIcher No...worse....109 rear damper top bolt.....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2015 19:24:24 GMT
Bulkhead bolt? Best bet is to drill the bugger out and then bash out the ramins. Been there done that snapped off a drill pit in one long ago...damn IIA 109 bulkhead that I was rebuilding for my 64. Al RIcher No...worse....109 rear damper top bolt..... You have my sympathies . When I got rid of my series and replaced it with a Ninety, I vowed I'd never have another. The 90 was like sunshine after rain! 13 yrs later, I wish I still owned it (the series) and when I look at how some prices are going - even more so. Said 90 - now at 220,000 miles - ended up having a new chassis in my single domestic garage. I tell you this just to prove the coil springs didn't make me go totally soft and perhaps the moral of the story is better the devil you know...! Regards, James.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2015 19:26:00 GMT
well it's nice to know of 109 drivers.....alas i long longer have my IIA 109 but I can relate to the tides of woe... I rebuilt mine with a new chassis after the front drivers side failed...the only replacement that I could find was a LHD unit.. it was fun drilling and remounting the steering column to the right and then having to cut off most of the outriggers from the old chassis to weld them onto the replacement chassis. there were a lot of differences in mounting points between left and right hand chassis's, more than I realised at the time... iirc fuel tank supports being one of them. Still i loved the car greatly and only sold it as I had no where to keep it off road when wanting to store it and not wanting to pay for road tax. alas shortly after selling it the rules were changed and that vehicle no longer needed road tax.......lol
Pete
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Post by ajricher on Mar 27, 2015 23:42:01 GMT
No...worse....109 rear damper top bolt..... Oh you POOR man...been there and did NOT enjoy the ride. To add to the tales, I've re-chassised mine as well. Lucked into an ex-mil 109 S.III chassis and modified it (very little really) to fit the IIA. Still runs like new - no rust. Daily driver's a 110 2.5D LHD ex-MOD (served in BAOR, I expect as it's got a metric speedometer). Machine tools and the skills to use them come in handy. i don't know how many alternators, water pumps and the like I've repaired/rebuilt and rebushed with parts off my South Bend or my ML10.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2015 10:14:55 GMT
Bump
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Post by ejparrott on Apr 25, 2015 15:49:19 GMT
Ow! My head!
lol
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Post by vulcanbomber on Apr 25, 2015 16:01:39 GMT
Not your thumb?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2015 16:12:40 GMT
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Post by alanstepney on Apr 25, 2015 16:48:25 GMT
Last week I won a competition at my radio club, with a home made receiver. I have two old radios and a vintage record player, that I amm restoring for friends. I am working on some (electronic) exhibits at a museum. I am also preparng a talk onn vintage electronics at a radio club.
In the model engineering front, I have been carving up a 4" dia piece of steel that will eventually be the 8 wheels for a driving trolley.
Living alone means that I have to do some dometic chores too.
And then when I get some spare time, I look here.
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