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Well Gents. I'm pleased to tell you, that after first inital attemps, and very alarming news from a lot of mates, I've been lucky and and after finding the right person to speak in spain and explaining the situation, MSA is now autorized to Issue a License for me! Hope during this week I can have sorted the stuff with MSA. Back on track again. I'm very glad to be able to say that, fortunately, and despite my pessimism, finally seems I'll be joining you!

As Gerry enquired about expanding foam seats earlier, I guess someone had to post this... A friend of mine once built a canoe. He spent a long time on it and it was a work of art. Almost the final phase was to fill both ends with polyurethane expanding foam. He duly ordered the bits over the internet which duly arrived in two packs covered with appropriately dire warnings about expansion ratios and some very good notes on how to use it. Unfortunately he had a degree, worse still two of them. One was in Chemistry, so the instructions got thrown away and the other in something mathematical because in a few minutes he was merrily calculating the volume of his craft to many decimal places and the guidelines got binned as well. He propped the canoe up on one end, got a huge tin, carefully measured the calculated amounts of glop, mixed them and quickly poured the mixture in the end of the canoe (The two pack expands very rapidly). I arrived as he was completing this and I looked in to see the end chamber over half full of something Cawdors Witches would have been proud of. Two thing occurred to me, one was the label which said in big letters: "Caution - expansion ration 50:1" (or something similar) and the other that the now empty tins said "approximately enough for 20 small craft" Any comment was drowned out by a sea of yellow brown foam suddenly pouring out of the middle of the canoe and the end of the canoe bursting open. My friend screamed and leapt at his pride and joy which was knocked to the ground as he started trying to bale handfuls of this stuff out with his hands. Knocking the craft over allowed the still liquid and not yet fully expanded foam to flow to the other end of the canoe where it expanded and shattered that end as well. A few seconds later and we had a canoe with two exploded ends, a mountain of solid foam about 4ft high growing out of the middle, and a chemist firmly embedded up to his armpits in it. At this stage he discovered the reaction was exothermic and his hands and arms were getting very hot indeed. Running about in small circles in a confined space while glued to the remains of a fairly large canoe proved ineffective so he resorted to screaming a bit instead. Fortunately a Kukri was to hand so I attacked the foam around his hands with some enthusiasm. The process was hindered by the noise he was making and the fact he was trying to escape while still attached to the canoe. Eventually I managed to hack out a lump of foam still including most of his arms and hands. Unfortunately my tears of laughter were not helping as they accelerated the foam setting. Seeking medical help was obviously out of the question, the embarrassment of having to explain his occupation (Chief Research Chemist at a major petrochemical organisation) would simply never have been lived down. Several hours and much acrimony later we had removed sufficient foam (and much hair) to allow him to move again. However he still looked something like a failed audition for Quasimodo with red burns on his arms and expanded blobs of foam sticking everywhere. My comment that the scalding simple made the hairs the foam was sticking to come out easier was not met with the enthusiasm I felt it deserved. I forgot to add that in retrospect rather unwisely he had set out to do this deed in the hallway of his house (the only place he later explained with sufficient headroom for the canoe - achieved by poking it up the stairwell. Having extricated him we now were faced with the problem of a canoe construction kit embedded in a still gurgling block of foam which was now irrevocably bonded to the hall and stairs carpet as well as several banister rails and quite a lot of wallpaper. At this point his wife and her mother came back from shopping...... Oh yes - and he had been wearing the pullover Mum in law had knitted him for his birthday the week before.

Too many double entendres for my liking in this section of the club. No, 'we' are not going to 'make it' at the pub, or anywhere else Martin. I was hoping for sufficiently interested party/ies to assist with the fabrication of something to stick my bum in. Anyway, I think I have it sussed now and will probably just get on with it. I reckon it'll be a piece of cake. Sponge cake of course If I don't get to the Feb meet, I'll be encapsulated in foam, entombed in a Westfield cockpit.

Should be there no desert this month ;-)

Hang on to your hats, it's update time! I ordered two of these based on Mike's post above (he's not bad with electrickery right, must be worth a go?) https://www.mrbeams.co.uk/lights/ceiling-light/ I ordered them on Sunday morning, they just arrived. Great packaging and included the necessary 8 C batteries (extra cost but price wasn't bad). Total cost was £52.33 - included free delivery as over £50 and a 5% discount. Installation was incredibly easy, comes with rawl plugs and screws and the whole design is intuitive and straightforward, no reading of instructions required. Grabbed my trusty Worx SD cordless driver (on offer at homebase at the moment, go buy one, awesome bit of kit and has made home DIY so much easier! http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/worx-4v-max-sd-multi-bit-screwdriver-304927 ) and wondered down to my rented garage. Fitted one to the rearmost beam and one to the second beam from front. Didn't use the rawl plugs, just screwed the supplied screws straight into the wood. They arrived at 2.10pm as I returned from a meeting, I thought I might as well take a lunch break (lunch break? What's one of them?) and have a crack at them straight away and I was back home putting the kettle on at 2.50pm. It's taken me longer to write this! Outcome - I'm impressed. The spread of light is very good, although two in a garage is perhaps best to light the whole space (you could get away with one in the centre but the ends of the garage would be in lowest light, typically where you need it). The 100 lumen light is decent enough, nowhere near a traditional light bulb but definitely bright enough to see what you're doing. I wouldn't recommend them as a source of light to work by though, they're much more of a "see where you're going" light. This is perfect for me though as I don't tend to work in the garage, just need to be able to see what I'm doing as I drag the trailer in and out. Would be decent enough if I needed to do an emergency job though and spot on for those late Sunday returns from a sprint weekend. The motion sensing is set very well, not so sensitive I'm worried about spiders/mice/unholy daemons of the dark night setting them off, but good enough so that they trip within a reasonable proximity. They turn off when light is good enough too so won't power on unnecessarily. I tried to take some pictures to show the impact but not sure they've come out very well. Before: After: So there you go, perhaps the most comprehensive review of some £50 battery powered lights!

The car has just been found, so at least it's not a total loss, awaiting damage and abuse report.

All of Terry's Speed Series reports from 2015 and posted as his Tel's Tales blog have been compiled into one PDF document, now available to download from the Library tab at the top of the forums. http://forum.wscc.co.uk/forum/index.php/files/file/179-tels-tales-for-2015/

Time has come to sell my trusty trailer as I've now upgraded to a covered one. These don't come up that often and can be harder than hens teeth to find. It took me over a year to find this one. I have used it for the past 3 seasons of sprinting and it tows like a dream. It's a BJ Minno with the folding tow hitch which means it can fit in a single garage without taking up much more room than the bed itself. Comes with a genuine high level tyre rack and a lockable metal storage box. Had a new jockey wheel fitted last year as well as replacing a floppy running light. Took some rough measurements and will update these with accurate ones when I get it out the garage at the weekend. Will also get some pics. Bed. 1.64m X 3.33m (perfect for a Westfield) Overall. 2m X 4.6m Folded. 2m X 3.6m £2000 ovno. Ok it's not the cheapest trailer but these are very desirable. A canvas covered one recently sold on eBay for £3700

I've been thinking about getting one of these https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/sun-10-jan/product-detail/ps/p/turbo-fan-gas-heater-2/?pk_campaign=uk_product_newsletter&pk_kwd=2016-01-08_17-10 For the garage as it's not the warmest place this time of the year Can anyone tell me if they are safe to be used in a garage or will I end up giving myself carbon monoxide poisoning? Thanks

Hope to see you out and about in the Westfield soon this year. The tin top is fine for the Warwickshire area meetings at the Falcon Inn, Birmingham Road, Hatton, Coventry, CV35 7HA, think its due next week, 21st Jan.

Stop this now. Once you get that image in your head it will never go away.Back on topic, I got a Vivitar from Maplins, doesn't seem too bad for the money.

Ive just had a scary thought of Geoff on a bike in full leathers ...................with a gopro on his helmet

I also use a GoPro 4 silver. The front cover of the winter and autumn editions of the WSCC magazine are pictures of mine. Both were taken whilst moving and with a GoPro 4 silver. The quality in my opinion is spot on.

Are we going to make it at the pub Gezza ?

What when the correct ZZR is a softer compound? Be lucky to get a year out of them anyway Alternatively we could just get WSCC Motorsport Ltd to talk to Javelin about setting up a club series with them..............I'll get my coat

Just buy some Avon ZZS tyres as 1B

Better get the old sandpaper trick out before hand then

Shhhh - was planning on using the old glass and handkerchief trick you see on telly at the next meet...

Suggest something? Moi? Nooooooooo.... Chris - have you got a set of Nick's fingerprints? You know, just for elimination purposes and all that, not suggesting anything here.

Sorry, but for a Busa you should really use a 9A4 ECU minimum. if going MBE

Fixed that for you. If it's a write-off, fingers crossed for a generous settlement from your insurers.

Welcome from Essex. Oh, and as I quickly found out, the only daft questions are the ones you don't ask!

Nothing dodgy about my seat Barny

How does this carbon addiction thing work? I'm imagining the vendors hovering outside WSCC area meets. Your first bit of carbon fibre is free. After you are hooked, well... Jen, Just say no to carbon fibre kids.

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