All Activity

Tried to cheat and drill it out from underneath. Failed, so dash and scuttle/screen off in the end

Whilst trying to change the handle on the pull start of my mower….. I let go of the string. That is all 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Now sorted but it took a while 🤪🤪

Hi all, I’m after a type 9 gearbox in good working order or possibly rebuilt if anyone has one at all? I’m Tring in Hertfordshire but am willing to travel if needed . Thanks. Jon

@Stuart Thanks Stuart, I am prepared to give it another go, but I can't find the deflectors I made years ago, kind of thinking I binned them thinking well the doors are staying on, so why have these anymore. Searched everywhere, maybe they will turn up when I least expect it. I have to make mine ( and the doors) as I have a cat 7 windscreen frame and the rake is slightly different to a Westys one, also its taller as well.

@Richard (OldStager) I very rarely take my sidescreens off. Find it much more comfortable that way (even though I have some wind deflectors)

I forgot about my wind deflectors, not sure where they are now, thanks for the reminder.

It’s certainly the full experience with them off. So long as it’s warm, not raining and you aren’t on Motorways then I enjoy it more. I just had the little wind deflectors on for our Exmoor trip and it was lively, my hat even stayed on! When it warmed up, I took them off for some more fresh air but need to reverse the baseball cap and look a right idiot for it to stay on! 🤣

Having tried both in the past I am inclined to agree with you. I have a friend calling next weekend, so as long as the weather plays ball, I will remove them again and see.

I prefer the look of our cars with the doors off but the driving experience in my opinion is better with them on! 🤷‍♂️

Lots of doorless cars here, do I need to take some brave pills ?

At last, Westy weather is here again ☀️

The best runs out always produce that, hope it's going well.

Well it was well worth washing the car! 🤪

Loton used to my most local one ( until I moved ) , great track and I loved every run. Well done , very jealous if I'm honest ( sadly funds dictate my competition days are over for the time being)

Glorious days hill climbing at wiscombe park, bluebells in the forest section and ice cream while you wait for your next go. My local race venue, shame it isnt in the speed series.

Oh no, didn't expect this @Scotty72! Stunning car though mate, someone will be getting an awesome motor 👌

Yeah I may well have gone back to my home planet by then... 😄

For @Blatman, this is just one of many on the subject, for me currently Terraforming Mars is a no go , perhaps one day far in the future we may just succeed but I and you will be long gone to ever find out about it.

My mind isn't needed for any project...

Yes, on the whole you are correct, I just worry ( perhaps needlessly) about further down the road as it were. Where many companies have all the data on you that both your medical and personal details are no longer yours but traded freely on the net. There has been a further development regarding this Patchs group which until I find out more I won't post about, but I do have a phone call booked with them in the morning, so depending on how that goes I may post what it was about.

But you're not a scientist. Maybe your mind isn't the one we need for this project... 😄 Sorry...

It's an interesting conundrum. Hacking to one side just for a moment... As far as huge corporations tracking "you", they do ask permission. It's in the Ts and Cs that no-one reads and we all just tick "I agree". "External" companies having access to medical information? Been going on for decades. What has changed is that to make the NHS more efficient (HA) a lot of it is now accessible. For me personally though, do I care that anyone can find out about my third eye, ingrowing toenail, kidney stones or whatever? No. I'm not so important that anyone else is going to care about my medical status. I suspect there are very few of us that fall into that category where medical knowledge leads to coercion or blackmail. Back to hacking. Big companies, and sometimes small companies, can be targets of hackers. The data discovered can be used to target individuals or the company as a whole, HOWEVER... the method of attack that we as individuals are most likely to succumb to is an email with a dodgy link. Clicking it and filling in forms or inadvertently downloading malware isn't really a hack in and of itself. The fact that our email address made it to a bad actor could be the result of a hack further upstream. And of course we all get dodgy emails from time to time. It a fact of life, like speed cameras. If anyone wants to check up on their exposure levels, or check for compromised emails and passwords have a look at https://haveibeenpwned.com/ As mentioned earlier, where possible use two factor authentication for emails, Amazon and anywhewre that might have payment details saved. For storing usernames and passwords, and for generating paswords I have used both Bitwarden and Keeper. Both are free and can be used across all devices. I was never sure about password vaults until I worked somethwere where the MINIMUM password lenghth was 32 characters. Both Keeper and Bitwarden can be used to generate random passwords and I find that feature very useful indeed.

Longshot but has anyone got a beyond repair compomotive cxr2 rim . I am in need of the steel inserts that go in the rim that the wheel nut seats on . Tia😀

It's either that or the "Martians" are trying to terraform Earth, rather than the other way around - as proposed by some scientists here. Which to my mind would not work ( for a few reasons).

No issues with the one we had fitted. Mike, you have PM...