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Well at sick squid incl postage I ordered a new one from lsengineering per lurkalots lead. Certainly got leengineering filed away for future reference. thanks all mth

Thanks lurkalot and soc, I will try your lsengineering link lurkalot and Nilfisk Gerni at Ballybogey, who are my local Stihl agent, buy/are obliged to buy their Stihl stuff from Cathcarts, so that is then a "no-brainer" for a back-stop soc. Cheers, Marcus EDIT just ordered from lsengineering

As per title, tried the intersnot without success, an I know it may be able to source via my local dealer, but tis simpler to get one posted to the door. P.S. It looks "wile" like the brake shoe springs from the 460 G Wagen I was fettling yesterday, from memory.

Why did the Museum simply not keep it, as an exhibit!

But I wonder will this murder of Lyra McKee, get the same unrelenting coverage, and repeated mentions/point scoring at every conceivable opportunity, as the murder of Jo Cox did/does. mth

see link; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/18/londonderry-riots-woman-dies-shots-fired-petrol-bombs-thrown/ As was said here in the early troubles "they havnt gone away you know", i.e. the IRA/PIRA/NIRA/DIRA.

Plus thumbs!

Anyone remember the book, "101 uses for a dead Cat"?

Buy any FWD/RWD car with a slick underbelly(and most now are due to slippery design considerations) and reasonable ground clearance, stick on a set of mud and snow tyres, and away you go. From someone who has driven ordinary cars reasonably surprising places, without issue. Or have a "wee scheme" on the track? cheers mth

My initial take on the Grenfell fire was that the Fire Brigade failed to make any investigation of where the flames had possibly went, after they vented out the kitchen window, in a multi story building with other, possibly open/possibly broken windows above. Or were simply, dare I perhaps say negligent?, in failing to properly ensure the fire was extingushed. These thoughts are from my memory of my impressions formed based on the TV coverage at the time. mth

I would set an Architectural competition for a design using glulam beams for a spacious airy design, like wot the Medevial craftsmen would have done like a shot, if they had had our materials and technology. Or simply glulam the Oak into the sizes needed to recreate the medevial beams and woodwork.

Every bulk bag of logs, from the honest suppliers, should include a tape measure and an A4 sized explanation of how to measure and calculate the volume of a cube. The message might eventually get through. P.S. We had the same scam when buying bark or wood chip for Council Play Areas, priced and bought per m3, and always paying for about 20 to 30% more volume than the walking floor trailer could hold; "because it settles in the trailer Sir", when I first queried the clear discrepancy. However across the limited suppliers in NI it was a level playing field, since the bulk trailers were the same size. But still.

I really would not mind if the Palace of Westminister burned right down to the the sub-basement, just so long as the House was sitting, and all the Emergency Exits were locked. The architectural loss would be a very small price to pay.

We spent a year in an old static caravan while building, and with 2 pre-school infants, the roof did not leak, but Lord God, every time there was a storm I swore the bugger was going to disintegrate. Lying in bed with one hand on the floor and the other on the siding, and feeling each move in different directions at the same time My only regret was not building the 60' by 30' shed first and housing the caravan under its shelter. Anyway over here there was little depreciation on those old statics, certainly cheaper than paying the Rates on a dwelling over a year. Good luck and best wishes. mth

Eh, could I suggest throwing a few Bishops on the flames, I dont really care if it puts the fire out either . . .

I was always astounded at the number of drivers, including most of the employees I supervised, who despite endless training and reminders, could neither find nor understand the vehicle "plate", yet these same blokes would "spit blood", that of course their Shogun was legal to tow 3500Kg "because it is a 4 wheel drive", even after I read their veh plate out to them explaining how they were only good for 2800Kg. And a transit, no matter how light, was ALWAYS legal to tow any trailer with a 50mm ball hitch. This might have been funnier if it had not been so frightening. But then when the Transport Manager refused to buy useful dropside Iveco trucks fully legal to tow 3500Kg, because, and repeat after me "they are not 4 wheel drive", therefore they could not be safe or road legal, BUT hey! what does Iveco know. DOH!

Not really, all straightforward and the information needed is widely available on the tinternet. But, people do tend to see, or interpret what they see, so as to allow them to do what they want to do. cheers, Marcus P.S. I too wonder at the legality of most caravan outfits, since generally towed by a big heavy car or 4 by 4, and unlikely to be sub 750Kg caravans

First is your sister a gynaecologist? so ok it might be a little tight for elbow room, but assuming your sister is of reasonable small stature she should be OK as long as somebody keeps a good hoult of her ankles.

Hmmmm, how about a transportable anaerobic digester, fed with the arising grass clippings, feeding the gas to an engine, which is driving a generator, to produce the needed electricity, to charge the batteries, to power the lawnmower, to cut the grass, to produce the arisings.

I kinda imagine, with all the quality assured "kiln dried" "x" % moisture malarky, that logs should simply be sold on weight, with, if needs be, the price adjusted for the weight against excess % moisture (& a very simple "app" would take care of that) at least by the large professional outfits, an added benefit is there would then be less fuss about hardwood or softwood. Selling, or at least buying by improperly measured loose bag volume is to me a mugs game, unless delivered in a rigid container that can be measured. Marcus

Honest Officer Eggs, it just jumped outta the page at me, there was nowt I could do to avoid seeing it.

Indeed WW, but the(since defunct) company the wife was buying coffee beans off were selling 900 grammes as 1.0 Kg. Their "excuse" was they did not have scales and they were Kg bags! As they say "worth a punt" P.S. Might just be worth getting Weights and Measures involved?

Tis brake pedal btw!

I prefer " .. .. .. like a busted sofa"

Oddly, or not, but a Labour Councillor was censured or de-selected v recently, for saying what I have often thought, that Mr. Hitler was not entirely wrong with certain aspects of his policy, in respect of his erasure of the Roma population(and I know thousands of Roma and other, children were murdered, and some quite horribly, but then as a US Calvery Officer stated when rebuked for killing native American children "nits make lice") And if, like the Asian(read Muslim) grooming gangs one is not even allowed to mention the Pikey/Irish Traveller thieving, non law abiding, countryside trashing ways and habits(but, its there culture innit!) without being accused of sterotyping or racism, little wonder smouldering repressed/suppressed feeling can then manifest in ugly ways. Marcus btw I witnessed first hand the way the Roma are clearly regarded and treated in parts of former Czechoslovakia, not pretty or edifying, but probably quite justified, based on their track record.