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im based on the A1 at Pontefract which is an hour from you assuming your middlesborough and I have a trailer should you wish to use it

Not surprised with them daft wings on it

Or will if pull the roof down, worth thinking about?

Living on that one-way street must be a real pain.

Somewhere in deepest Lincolnshire yesterday. I'd love to live in that house.

Axminster C2-300 mini lathe. I'm considering selling my new toy as I have access to a full workshop in my new job. I've only had it around six months. I paid £620.00 for the lathe and another £80.00 on the chuck and tools that do not come with the lathe from new so it owes me around £700.00. I'd like £500.00 but would need collecting as it weighs around 40 KG. A link to what it can do is here. https://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-model-engineer-series-c2-300-mini-lathe-101356

Due to the spell of mild Feb weather, a late booking was made on Thursday for this one. Weather forecast showed variable amounts of mist and fog were probable, but most were giving a sunny afternoon. It turned out the little bit of morning mist cleared quickly and we had sunshine all day. The day started off badly however. When I started the car on the trailer, I noticed a strange whirring sound.. a bit like a radiator fan, but as I haven't got one I knew it wasn't that! It was the starter motor whirring away! I'm guessing the solenoid contacts must have stuck closed. I hastily disconnected the battery. (no kill switch) It was getting close to briefing time, so I went off and signed on, got briefed and had breakfast. Meanwhile Pete removed the starter, and couldn't find anything obvious wrong with it. Refitted it, and connected it up.. it worked! I then took the car out and bedded in some new brakes, and generally warmed it up, while Pete wandered off and signed on and had his own little briefing. All was good for a few sessions, and then it failed to start again. Starter motor was now falling apart!! It had lost two long bolts that hold it together! Hell's bells!! Pete again removed the motor.. getting quite good at it now.. We couldn't find any replacements for the missing bolts, but managed to hold it together with a couple of tie wraps. Re fitted, and once again its working. Wasn't confident the wraps would hold for long.. but we were out on track again. The starter did eventually fail late in the day, but we gave up on it and bump started the car. Oh and the micalor exhaust clamp snapped at one point, a couple of jubilee clips sorted that one though .. easy peasy! The actual trackday was OK. Quite a few cars by MSV standards, but still no queuing to get out. Neither of us really found anything fast to play with, although there looked to be a few quick cars there. An MR2 with a Honda K20, and a rapid M3. On the other hand there were a few dreadfully slow cars. A couple of Civics and a Ka. 30 to 40mph round Charlies! It would have been good to get a few Westys out but I realise most people need more than a couple of days notice for these things. A few pics from the day, and a video. Pete at the helm. We got a new Gopro with a separate microphone, so through the day I experimented with different mic positions. I started with it right next to the rear K&N air filter. It wasn't a good sound. I think it picked up only No 4 cylinder, and sounded either like an old Prokart, or it had knocked out a big end! On the video below, the mic is on the other side of the engine bay, trying to get a bit of exhaust noise mixed with the intake? Cant make my mind up if it's good or bad but I think next time out I'll continue experimenting with different positions. Any opinions welcome.

Very long shot I know. But anyone got one they no longer need? Save me waiting for another westfield parts discount sale. 2.5"inlet.

Looking for a screen, pillars, mirrors and fillet for a 2001 SEiW. Car is yellow.

Got bored waiting in for a delivery this morning. So thought I get on with a little project I've been thinking about:- Former seat from my car, bit of plywood, a few bolts and the base of an old computer chair. Gary

He’s got a whole book to himself up here

New pen and probably a bigger book required

Wasn't @maurici after some 'testing' bodyworķ?

British Racing Beige you mean.

Let alone finding a 'sensible' gap to pull out

Have you tried car builder solutions, they do loads of different connectors etc.

But as I was browsing ebay, came across these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-x-H4-3-Pin-Headlight-Replacement-Repair-Bulb-Holder-Connector-Plug-Wire-Socket/263014921815?epid=1437932605&hash=item3d3ce93657:g:lwoAAOSwB-1Yx91n:rk:3:pf:0 They look mighty similar...

Hopefully it will be good weather for all our track days I’m now booked at Castle Combe 29 April and Llandow with ckc on 18 May

Would suit an odd old bloke.

Try @I H Freelance Services He does car transport

Nearly 1st April Don and you can get out again. We have been blessed with the weather this weekend , although I would have liked to have had the time to have gone out for a bit more !!. Not sure how long this will last !!

Need to be custom made to fit round the cage tubing. Soft bits for Sevens are the most recommended ones but it's a one man band a nd snowed over with work. Other than that try any local trimmers for a quote.

Yes, so that's Sunny trackdays 1 ….. Wet trackdays 0 Unbelievable weather for February!

Can't wait

A quick gather together and then it was up to The Barrel Inn for a coffee and a catch up on everyone's news The Barrel Inn At The Barrel Inn, parked on the 'sea front' there are wonderful views if the fog would just do one please Then we went for a drive round, the roads were nice and quiet but we did follow a wobble box for a short while, pah, it is February, caravans are not allowed in the Peak District until the summer. The good news is that we did not find any cow poo. We arrived at The Yonderman and most of the motorbikes had already left, apparently it was packed earlier, it is a bit of a breakfast place though and we had come for lunch. The Yonderman Most of us had a full English breakfast for lunch, which set us up nicely for cake time, for which we went to the Insomnia Cafe. Appropriately named because Martyn had a little sleep while Glen held his nose. Coconut and chocolate bar, lemon drizzle, fruit cake and a pecan sponge cake were enjoyed as we sat outside in the sunshine. I had to pity poor Mo, sat at a crossroads with a load of car enthusiasts, who proceeded to name every kind of interesting car that went past. It was surprising just what we all saw, the weather brings them all out I think. We had a laugh though with Glen and Sue and their 'was it a snake or was it a hosepipe story'. We might be a bunch of old farts but we covered some strange topics and had a good laugh along the way, so thank you Chris and Mo, Martyn and Sue for being fabulous company for us.

They do hardware NVR's as well. https://www.milestonesys.com/solutions/hardware-and-add-ons/network-video-recorders/ It was a bit slow to load this morning so give it a moment... I think this is folks not understanding wifi correctly, but I'll comeback to that. I too have heard reports about "reliability" although I have not been able to pin anyone down who can give me a good technical explanation. Now... settle in and we'll get back to wifi... Most folks looking at wifi look at the signal strength bars on their device. More than a couple of bars and it should work OK, right? Wrong! Wifi is a two-way conversation. Router talks to phone/tablet/doorbell which registers a signal. With wifi THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER is that phone/tablet/doorbell has to talk back to the router. If the return signal isn't measured, how do we know the signal from the phone/tablet/doorbell is even reaching the router? Most phone/tablets have around 50% of the transmit power (yes that's a sweeping statement but I need somewhere to start) of a home wifi router and a bit less than that of a professional grade wifi access point. The Ring doorbell transmit is what? So the phone/tablet/doorbell may well be able to see a wifi signal from the router but so what? It won't be able talk back because whilst the phone/tablet/doorbell is in range of the router, the router isn't in range of the phone/tablet/doorbell. So you can stand outside your front door (with it closed of course) and see a wifi signal on yer phone but does the router buried under the stairs or in the rear lounge or behind the telly see the phone talking back? Maybe yes, maybe no. But the SECOND MOST IMPORTANT THING about wifi is that once signal strength starts to drop, we start to see packet loss, that is data that doesn't make it all the way back to the router and this causes the connection to appear slow and in the case of streamed data (usually voice or live video) you will see buffering/jerky playback or simply a frozen image. And yes I do realise that having a wifi router on display is not everyones bag but the minute they are put out of sight the signal coming from them is compromised. So how powerful is a home router transmit power? The law has them max out at 100Mw. That's 1/10th of 1 watt and most of them don't transmit at that rate or anything near it. Phones/tablets run at abut half that as mentioned. Some deft Googling will reveal power numbers for most devices listed in dBm. How do I explain that to customers when "the wifi is crap..."? Like this: Imagine the Mw (or simple Watts) signal strength is measuring light bulbs. A 60 watt bulb is pretty bright. How bright is a 0.1 watt bulb? How bright is a 0.050 watt bulb? These are the power levels we are talking about for wifi (that's wifi, NOT 3g/4g which are more powerful and lower frequency so the signal travels further). So we are dealing with very low power. By the way, when asked if wifi can cause medical issues, the answer is no. It's nowhere near powerful enough and even if it was it is non-ionising radiation. Non-ionising means it CANNOT alter human DNA, so it CANNOT cause DNA mutations. It's more dangerous going out in bright sunshine than sitting next to a wifi router. When looking at signal strength using any of the free wifi testing apps (and currently the one I Iike best is by Ubiquiti, called WifiMan) remember this. dBm is a logarithmic scale. 3dB difference between signal strength is HALF the power. 10dBm (rather satisfyingly) is 10 times (or 1/10th) the power. I try to keep signal strength measured at the phone/tablet to -67dBm or lower. A -50dBm strength is excellent and anything numerically lower is a proper banging signal. But -67 is very good and should pass any test, even for voice/video streamed traffic. What perspective am I coming from? I design, configure, deploy, commission and support large wifi and network/internet deployments for a living including CCTV. For anything even remotely security related I insist on wires for EVERYTHING and that includes doorbells. I do appreciate that wireless is very convenient and makes DIY installation of CCTV and the like very easy. But if you want reliability and performance, get as much stuff off the wifi as possible. If I was to fit a Ring (or Nest or any other "security" doorbell/camera/"smart-home device), I'd make the effort and pull some cables or use TP Link (or similar) home plugs to extend WIRED connectivity. Yes they do wireless extenders too but that's a whole other set of things to worry about. Too many wifi points is just as bad as not enough.

I have the Ring 2 doorbell and as previously mentioned if I could only have 1 security device this would be it ! Never miss a parcel and it alerts you to any motion within your set area.

There's a long thread on Pistonheads about Ring doorbells and it's not all in praise of them. Certainly worth reading if only for advice on the fragility (apparently) of the WiFi connectivity. One here and another here other threads may be available...

Here’s the lowdown on non members requesting to contact members. We respect our members’ privacy and that is one reason trial members cannot send PMs. We also expect trial members to post appropriately - so, for example, asking for a member’s phone number or asking someone to pm them is not considered appropriate. Members often prefer to sell to other members and thus deliberately do not post their contact details in public. We are all aware that trial members could actually be spammers from Uzbekistan trying to fleece them and thus we put these restrictions in place to help alleviate this. Although we can’t guarantee that a paid member is squeaky clean and not from the criminal underworld, it probably does make it less likely! Equally we don’t wish to scare new members off by being too heavy handed, so if we see inappropriate posts, we hide them and let the poster know why. Blatant spammers do tend to get pounced on though. If you wish to join the club it is a small price to pay for the invaluable help and info we provide and as a bonus will allow you to contact the seller. I hope this helps.

Thanks Dave. I've gone from being an Electrician to a Engineering Technician. I basically hit things with hammers until they work.

Congratulations on the new job!

I’ve sold a car to a French guy a few years ago. Met him at Ashford Euro tunnel station and took him for a test drive. As he wanted the car, he paid in cash and drove back to Folkestone car terminal and back to France. He did bring a copy of his passport and French import papers for me to keep. So, only sell to a Jonny foreigner if they are prepared to travel over to the UK and pay for the car with cleared funds or cash. Send the tear off slip from the V5 notifying the DVLA the car has been exported.

You May recieve a request from spain... Don't dissmiss it... I've recommended the car to a friend!!

I had a guy from Belgium interested in mine. I’d already done a deal to sell but the guy offered me £2k more than I actually sold it for. He wanted to do a bacs transfer and collect the car as advertised. I guess there’s probably a mixture of time wasters overseas just as there are here but I wouldn’t ignore....is just be cautious in the dealings and make sure it’s fully cleared funds before releasing the car.