The Arbalk morning register!

[AHPP]

As I become more capable with tools etc, I drift further away from using wood for everything, as a default anyway. Fixings for everything are so good these days and it's only a little harder to drill and fix to concrete, steel etc. Worth the effort if it's a job you want to stand for fifty years. Even things like small sheds, fences etc where just whopping it up with wood and screws seems obvious, you can make things last way longer with structural plastic. Wood splits, rots, is strong in one direction only etc. You can treat plastic like wood (i.e. screw into it without pilot drilling, cut it easily, bend it a bit) and it doesn't have the drawbacks.

 

 

I'll still use wood if it's free/cheap or I want something aesthetically pleasing.

[Stere]

 

 

I dont like how plastic stuff  often creaks due to expansion /contraction silly issue but its annoying.

 

 

[topchippyles]

Anyone heard how Peds is doing?

[Doug Tait]

7 minutes ago, topchippyles said:

Anyone heard how Peds is doing?

 

Alex gave an update a week ago Les...

 

"He's alright. Walking etc. Got off lightly. Could have been spacked.

In good spirits. Concentrating on rehab. Probably be back once the embarrassment wears off a bit more."

[Stubby]

10 hours ago, Doug Tait said:

 

Cheers Stubby, I did think of your need to take a long run regularly last night.

I'll cover that distance on working days and I'm not known to dawdle whilst doing it so hopefully it keeps it happy.

Apparently if the NP300 needs to do a forced regen the fuel management system will inject extra fuel into the cylinders on the exhaust stroke only.   There is no separate injector into the exhaust system ( which would have been better but cost more )  I don't think you will; have problems with the mileage that you do though .  

[AHPP]

**************** this stupid bollocks. My next vehicle will be classic.

 

[Oldfeller]

34 minutes ago, AHPP said:

**************** this stupid bollocks. My next vehicle will be classic.

 

 

[AHPP]

3 hours ago, Oldfeller said:

 

 

Is that a Zil?

 

"What’s as big as a house, burns 20 liters of fuel every hour, puts out a shit-load of smoke and noise, and cuts an apple into three pieces?

...

A Soviet machine made to cut apples into four pieces."

 

Probably a Volvo estate. I know a guy with sixteen (or something roughly that ridiculous) nice old ones crammed into an industrial unit in Sunderland. Entire cars are stored inside other cars. Some are on a mezzanine constructed with a sense of guile and resilience that might have been better employed getting one of the cars finished instead. When the place is inevitably compulsorily purchased and demolished, he's buggered. He's got nowhere to put sixteen cars.

 

The unit is really weird. You have to wend your way round a really tight internal one way system to get to it, a big S in a big building with loads of internal divisions. I struggled to get a SWB Transit round the corners. You don't ask what your neighbours are doing unless they volunteer the information. 

Edited June 8 by AHPP

[Oldfeller]

no, It's a Ural polar 6x6 and to go with the big truck, naturally you need a big saw.

[AHPP]

I don't think I need to seat 27 very often.

 

Wouldn't mind a 2CV now I'm thinking about it. As long as it's waterproof.