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She says you are welcome Barney. You can call her Jane in future ;-)

Yes - here goes... most is a copy and paste from a forum thread, but it made sense to me Normally the utility will only repair 50% of the file for free (you have to pay an outrageous 29 EUR for a mere 5 repairs, or 99 EUR for unlimited repairs--probably more than you want to spend just to repair a stinking video file). Fortunately, there is a way to trick the demo version into repairing the full video. It calculates how much it will repair by file size. So....double the file size of the source video, and it will repair the whole thing! To do this:a. Make a copy of your corrupted video file and put it in the same directory as the original. Rename the two files something simple like "video1.mp4" and "video2.mp4." b. Open the Windows command line (run>cmd) and navigate to the folder with the video files using the cd command. c. Type "copy/b video1.mp4+video2.mp4" (without the quotes) and hit enter. It will now merge video2 into video1, so video1 will have doubled in file size. Download this program: http://www.tartybikes.co.uk/media/videorepair.zip Disconnect from the internet (IMPORTANT step!) Open the zip file, run gs.exe and choose English unless you are fluent in Chinese. 3. Select the "repair" action. Click the "Choose movie" button and select your merged video file (video1.mp4 in my example). Then click the "Choose reference movie" button and select any other properly functioning raw video file from the same camera to serve as a reference file. 4. Click the "Scan" button and wait for the utility to repair the file. You should then be able to find the full repaired video in a newly created sub-directory of the source folder called "repaired." 5. Your video file should now be repaired and will play smoothly up to the moment when your camera quit recording (GoPros will typically lose the last 30 seconds before a crash). Has worked a few times for me, good luck!

Had very happy Afternoon out with A P Racing last Friday & the old silver top Is purring like a kitten Nothing was a problem,even when u have the oldest ecu in the world!i was thinking the worse but Andrew Managed to start the old MBE up again after it locked us out. Andrew has so much knowledge of engines & tuning & it was a pleasure sending the afternoon with him. And i was very happy with the bill at the end.Value for money & will be going back for later upgrades. Thanks again Ben .

At the recent Woodbridge track day there was some discussion about trying karting. The preference was to run in an enduro event, entering one or two 6 man teams. I have looked at Rye House and they seem to favour one hour events, so they are ruled out. Buckmore Park, however, run both three and six hour enduro series, which accept one off entries. Three hour events are £299 per team (£50 per head assuming six drivers), or £420 per team for the six hour event (£70 per head). Both include a 30 minute practice/qualifying before the race itself. Next available 6 hour is 28th August and 3 hour is 17th September. I have raced there a few times and it is a fast, challenging circuit, a lot of fun and not that bad to get to. At this stage, we need to decide if there is enough interest, as the places do seem to get taken up well in advance. For what it is worth, my preference would be the six hour race. What do we think?

Since I bought my car in March, i've suspected that it runs a bit rich, when cold starting it would fire up just fine but idle was rough and about 400 rpm, slowly rising to 750 when hot, although still a tad rough. I wanted to have a health check on the engine and to give me confidence that the rich running (if it was the case) was not causing bore wash, and try to sort the rough idling out. On numerous recommendations and seeing results from other people I contacted NMS, when i described what i wanted they told me they would need the car for 3 days, and refused point blank to give me even a ballpark figure, nor starting price for the work, now call me old fashioned but I like to know what i'm about to spend and giving me an hourly rate that made me wince a bit didn't help, nevertheless i did book it in, but as things panned out i had to cancel due to work commitments. In passing i was chatting at the RV point for the run to Stoneleigh and AP Racing Engines Ltd were mentioned, and only 25 miles from where I live, rather than the 55 to NMS. I phoned them up and chatted to Andrew who sounded to know his stuff and quoted a price between £200-£250 which sounded ok for a mornings work. Roll onto today, car booked in, I arrived early and waited for Andrew who turned up, he explained that he'd had customers just drop cars off at the weekend for him to look at without being booked in so his garage was chockablock. As some were not willing to move under their power I helped Andrew shuffle them around and get mine in. Over a coffee he confirmed what i wanted and also I asked him to de-tune a bit to run on 95 ron fuel as getting super for me involves a drive that uses nearly 2 gallons, that situation is not tenable in the long run. So to start off out with the plugs and a compression test, the results ranged between 175 and 195 psi spread across both banks of cylinders, they were ok. Next was plugs back in, with a recommendation to change them as the external insulators where the caps fit were looking as if they were starting to break down, on start up Andrew commented that there was something amiss with the lumpy tick over, he proceeded to use a stethoscope to listen in the trumpets for mismatch in the TB's, tweaking the balance made a big difference to the running, it became much smoother and the tick over rose to about 900 rpm. The lambda readings were within expected values and remained so across all the consecutive and incremental power runs, so running rich was not a problem. Then came to strapping down and real runs. Andrew raised the speeds incrementally until there was a full power run up to 5500 rpm, where the power had levelled (hard cut off is 6500). Over a few more runs the power outputs were consistent if not earth shattering, with a flat peak of 320-330 bhp and 350 lb ft of torque, there was a bit of tyre slip on the rollers even with the "sticky tyre spray stuff" These figures although I suspect are high for a Westfield are not a lot per litre when you take into account the 5.l displacement, but bearing in mind it makes the engine relatively unstressed and all the power can't be used in the lower 3 gears I was content. Next came retarding the ignition by about 5% over the upper 3/4 of the rev range, Andrew advised that there wasn't much point taking it over the full range as the advance wasn't much anyway, at this point i put the filters back on, the next series of runs up to the cut off gave 300 BHP and 330lb ft torque, which was to be expected as the filters are in dire need of a clean, but more important the power and torque were not "peaky" with about 250 bhp available from 3000 rpm. Overall Andrew was pleased with the results and was grinning like a cheshire cat, he complimented the car and the way it delivered the power which was encouraging to say the least. I went on a test drive, all was good, could I tell the drop in BHP? Well, no, not at all. Taking it home afterwards, i really couldn't tell a difference in performance, but it was more tractable and sounded different, a bit more "barky" which isn't a bad thing as it is fairly quite. I can still provoke wheel spin in 4th as well...... And it used less fuel coming home so maybe it's a bit more efficient, or maybe just the difference in head/tail wind today? So I'm pleased with the service, with Andrew and the car, oh and the price, which was the bottom of the quote range. Andrew led me through the process, explained everything he was doing, and answered my questions fully. As for AP Racing engines, well i would say it is a competently run set up, if you want shiny floors clean enough to eat your dinner off then go somewhere else, despite lack of clinical cleanliness (apart from engine build area) the technology is there. Plus, there are lots of interesting engines in various states of refurbishment/strip down etc, and if you go don't think you will be languishing on the sofa reading a glossy mag, you will be expected to muck in and in doing so be part of the process not just a recipient of the delivered product. Cheers Ian

Had a really enjoyable day with the MaX 5 Racing series on Sunday at Donington culminating in a win & fastest lap (by 1 second) for our very own Richard Breland at the end of the day in the MotorsTV televised race: Highlights from the meeting are on Motors TV at 11.05 - 13.40 Today; Tuesday the 21st; the MX 5 Race was the last race of the day but there was good racing all day for the club motorsport enthusiast)

Thanks for the offer Kev, will keep it in mind, very kind of you. Currently got a 3.38 loan LSD pencilled in to arrive on Thursday courtesy of another very lovely member!!

I thought it was a good watch.................and a road trip in cheap old cars with no simulated breakdowns or bits falling off. No running into the back of each other like naughty kids. The Aston was amazing and the Tesla was intriguing. Nothing to not like in my opinion.

I'm warming to it as the weeks go by. Christ Harris seems to be doing more presenting on the main show and wow can he drive!!!

Here are the details of the run. PLEASE NOTE. THERE IS A PARKING CHARGE OF £4.50 TO ENTER THE PARK AREA. Here are details of the cafe. There is a menu tab at the bottom of the page. http://www.dukespantry.co.uk We will meet at the Scarborough McDonalds and will leave here at 7.00am. McDonalds. Dunslow Road. Seamer. YO11 3UT. We will then fill up with petrol. it will not be at the garage next door at Morrisons as that does not open until 8.00am. We will then travel via Whitby to the next meeting point for breakfast, toilets and fuel. This is the McDonalds in Darlington. This is a good meeting point for anyone coming from the Leeds area. McDonalds. North Road Industrial Estate, Meynell Rd, Darlington. DL3 0YQ We will then fill with fuel at Alston and that will get us to Kielder and back down to Hexham for fuel on the return Journey. Times are approximate. Leave Scarborough 7.00am. Arrive Darlington. 9.00am. Leave Darlington after breakfast and fuel. 9.45am. Arrive Kielder Forest Castle Cafe. 1.00pm. ​Leave Kielder at 2.30pm for the journey home.

Thought you were gonna say the door bell prints over wifi .... Having said that I have a 8yr old HP wifi multi function printer/fax thing - use it over wifi everyday and have never had a problem, just paper jams as the rollers are getting old and hard and I'm tired of using 2000 grit to rough them up ....

we could possibly get clan McWesty to join in for a wee meet .

So the last post of my build adventure takes us back to the beginning.

The alternative is to tell the GP receptionist that if you can't get in, you'll make an appointment at the Out of Hours Area at your local hospital. The cost of any trips you make to that or to A & E get charged to your GP surgery, which they're keen to avoid.

Wifi alarms can cause significant interference if they use the 2.4Ghz frequency. Recently (remotely) diagnosed a customer complaining that their wifi was running really slow and had been for about 4 weeks. When I asked what had changed I got the usual "oh, nothing, we never change anyting". Until they coughed up to a wifi alarm being fitted. I asked for the specs and bingo. And back on topic... I had a customer complain their wifi printer had stopped responding to their MACbook. This one was "my" wifi so off I toddled. Wifi perfect (or course!) but the MAC just refused to print. "Have you changed anything?" says I. "No" says the customer. "You sure?" I pressed. "Oh well, now you come to mention it, I did update the operating system..." AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH.... x 1000

You get the feeling Evans is that bloke down the pub who spouts off about cars like he knows everything but is invariably wrong. Only with more money.

My Canon MG5350 has never lost Wifi connection in the 3 + years I have had it