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Just updated to the latest Forum software - just in case you were wondering why members without a profile pic now have a "letter" image instead of a grey face

I've had the same. Certain elements, search related stuff too, will not work quite as expected until the site has finished reindexing. This is quite a slow background process, (quicker if we take the Boardroom off line, shudder.) It may take 24 hours to finish completely, but will probably take at least most of today. We will only know for sure if we have a problem with marking up/searching, once this step has finished.

I'm not sure how it works but we are giving it a good go.

We covered around 160 miles taking in all the b and unnamed roads we could. We did Fish Hill to start with but the best road on the hill we found by mistake. Its called Buckle Street and is way better. It takes you through Saintbury. We headed of to Stow, Great Barrington, Burford, Bibury B4425, Northleach, Turkdean, back to Stow on the B4068. We left Stow on the B4077 to Ford, Toddington, Sedgeberrow B4078 and to Evesham to refuel and then home to Brum. It really is a beautifull part of the world. If anyone knows any others fab roads around the Cotswolds please let me know. We went passed the Mermaid pub in Burford where we had our first date nearly 30 years ago when I was stationed at RAF Brize Norton.

Mechanical gauges have direct, either mechanical, as in a dive shaft, connection to what ever they're measuring. (So for instance a mechanical speedo has a drive cable that connects (usually) to the gearbox. This physically turns the speedo needle via "mechanical" gearing etc inside the instrument. "Mechanical" pressure and temperature gauges have likely capillary tubes that link to whatever they're measuring. Depending on the gauge itself, the tube isn't necessarily filled with the fluid being measured, but is directly acted on by it. For instance, it's not uncommon with an oil pressure gauge, to have the oil pressing against a sealed legible membrane in the pressure connection at the engine block, This then pushes a nice safe, inert, fluid up into the cockpit and into the gauge, where once again, it moves the needle mechanically via the internal mechanism. Electrical gauges on the other hand, have a sensor that connect to the item being measured, whether engine rpm or water temperature etc. that sensor then sends an electrical signal back to the gauge, to move the needle.

For what it's worth, indexing is currently at 17.37% having been running since what ever time earlier this morning Chris ran the update; so realistically, I'd doubt it will finish till tomorrow afternoon/evening at the earliest, unless it speeds up dramatically over night. This will make searches somewhat incomplete, though as more records are indexed, results will get steadily more complete. As said, it may also have one or two other unexpected effects!

As mentioned earlier, the like button, which now links to a few options, social media style, is not currently showing up on every post. Until the background indexing processes are complete though, we won't know what's being caused by incompletely (i.e. Not yet indexed records), or what's an actual bug. Bear with it!

oh and was going to ask if you get the chance to go pick it up from the factory

All the verry best Gary.

happy birthday

Only if you promise not to beat me, otherwise I'm busy till September

I'm booked on! My clutch is dying so might not last long. Trying to hire a trailer for the day now