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I rang the guys and spoke to the Dad that fitted the tyres. Its a small garage father and son. The son rally's mk2 escorts that's why i like using them as he knows his onions and I have a live axle car. The son fitted my tyres last time (not a mark). I gave the feedback about my disappointment around the taped speed sensor, and that he taped on dirt and don't know why he touched it. I told him about the damage to the inside of the wheel. He said it fell off the balancer, but he was unaware of the marks that had happened 🙄 i ll believe you, thousands wouldn't. Ultimately he was very apologetic and listened to my lecture about doing a job properly and don't use the tyre machines on nice wheels if you cant do it without damage, get your son to do them. I'm leaving it there......Life's too short. No one died and you won't be able to see it. Roll on the better weather

Good for you.

Dave the Scouser is touring the USA. Along the way, he stops off at a remote bar in the Nevada desert and chats to the bartender when he spots a Red Indian in full tribal dress seated in the corner of the bar. "Blimey!" remarks Dave. "Who's he?" "Gee, that's the memory man," replies the bartender. "He knows everything there is to know. Got a memory like an elephant, he can remember any fact. Heck, go and try him out!" Dave heads over to the Red Indian, thinking that he can outsmart him with a question about English football. He asks the memory man, "Who won the 1965 FA cup final?" "Liverpool," came the instantaneous reply. Dave was stunned. He tried again asking, "Who did they beat?" "Leeds," replied the memory man. Dave tried once more asking, "What was the final score?" The wise Red Indian didn't hesitate in answering, "2-1." Dave thinks he'll get smart, asking the memory man for the name of the winning goal scorer. Without so much as blinking, the Red Indian says, "Ian St John." Dave is stunned and returns home to Liverpool, where he tells everyone about the Red Indian. Dave's curiosity lingers, and he vows to return to America and pay his respects to the Indian. Ten years later, Dave finally saved up enough money to return and, after weeks of searching the Nevada desert, once more he finds the Red Indian, now in a cave. Humbled by the Red Indian, Dave steps forward, bows and, as a mark of admiration, greets the brave in his traditional tongue. "How," Dave says. The memory man pops on a pair of very thick - lens glasses, squints at him and replies, "A diving header in the six-yard box."

O dear... not even me with my old machine would do that... The wheel has slipped in to the jaws, Probably he has used the wrong clamping method, specially if they were track tyres with stiff sidewall. An small wheel needs to be clamped from the outside with plastic protectors. Really poor work, and astonished that someone that does that for a living, dont know how to do it properly. This offer wont sort your problem, but to whoever is worried about their wheels, feel free to pop over to mines one afternoon, and with a set of beers and for the cost of the weights and new valves we'll do it with the ammount of care requiered. This is open to everyone in the club that has Crewe on hand...

I've had a photo of a passport confirming his name to as per the e-mail's I've had but not the same as @marcusb ! Let's see if he sends a different passport to Marcus! " I will literally have to book a flight myself to arrange delivery and my work needs me here in Berlin. I can send the documents along with the vehicle once arrived in the UK. I have no one in Dingwall to help me out with viewing and the access keys are with me in Berlin. In order to do that I will need to be surely convinced of this and not put myself on the road based on words. Please find my passport copy attached for identity confirmation and peace of mind. If you can deposit the amount to Adyen to hold so that I can see that the funds are available payable immediately on a proper inspection date at your convenience. We will both be satisfied and I will surely get paid. You will still benefit from a full 7 days inspection period. If anything is wrong with the vehicle Adyen will not release your payment to me. Cheers, Carl " My reply: Hi Carl, Thanks for the further reply below. Thanks also for sending a scan of your passport. I’m still not comfortably with using Adyen. As before, I’d prefer to pay a deposit to secure the vehicle into either a UK or German bank (IBAN no). The car doesn’t seem to be on ebay any more. I hope it’s still available? Equally, I fully understand why you wouldn’t wish to risk flying home etc for the sale not to go through. Hence please send bank details for me to pay a deposit today. I will then pay the balance in full on inspection on arrival day.

A man was stuck in a traffic jam on the road outside Parliament when suddenly a man knocks on his car window. The driver puts his window down slightly and asks, "What’s the matter?" The man replies, “Terrorists have kidnapped all the MPs inside the House of Commons! They’re asking for £1,000,000,000 or they will douse them with petrol and set them on fire. We’re collecting donations from car to car." The driver asks, “How much on average is everyone giving?" "About two litres.”

Happy new year to you all. I'm a lucky git and get paid more than I can drink, and trust me I can drink a fair bit ! Since the revelations a couple of years ago that some of the Oxfam "employees" were exploiting victims of an earthquake the Sage and I have been struggling to choose a worthwhile Charity to support. I know that Charity can be an emotive subject and the Sage and I have differing views on who or what to support, we often disagree on the choice of cause. I'm most uncomfortable with the thought of my cash going to the pockets of Charity exec's and fund raisers, and I hate handing cash to homeless folks for fear that it turns into booze or worse, I'm far more comfortable buying them food or a coffee, this then leads me on to where this meandering essay is going. A lot of these folks have a companion animal, the animal didn't get to choose it's circumstance, yet to date I've not seen an animal that didn't look well nourished and loved, the same can't be said for some of the owners ! I read a book last year called "A street cat called Bob" there were a few lines in there that to me highlighted the problems homeless folk have when their animal is ill, barely enough money to feed themselves yet the pet gets fed first, then how do you you find Vet's fees, after all they are up there in the stratosphere along with Solicitors and Dentists. This was brought to a sharper focus a month ago when one of our dopey house rabbits managed to self inflict an open fracture to one of her back legs (ankle), we woke up to blood and a lame bunny looking for somewhere to hide, so a quick dash to our Vet's and we were £67 lighter, then a trip to Pets at Home for a cage to act as indoor hospital ward saw us a further £60 lighter, since the first visit to the Vet's it's been another 3 and more dosh paid out, but hey ho we do love our animals and we can afford it. Our Vet's practice is in Hopwood on the outskirts of Birmingham, they have a collection tin for a Charity called StreetVet, I asked the Vet's nurse "who, what, why, when" she gave me the low down. It would appear that these guys & girls are real life Samaritans, they have regional teams that give up their time for FREE and do MOT's & check-ups and treat / vaccinate companion animals, they also offer a FREE engraved ID disk registered with them, so if the animal gets lost they know who's it is and will get it back to them. Now it impresses me that the volunteer Vet's have got to be supplying the prescription med's for the animals, I can only assume that any cash donations will be funding this..... as you and I can't readily buy such items for them. However StreetVet have an Amazon wish list, each region has their own, and it's painless to use, the donor is one step removed from any "pleading" mailshots and such, as any stuff you've bought just gets delivered to them, so no sign up and no pestering from fund raisers (not that they have any that I know about). So in short..... if I've guilt tripped any of you fellow animal lovers into taking a chance and sending your local StreetVet a gift or two then feel free to mention it to me when we meet and I'll buy you a beer.... after all I get paid more than I can drink. Nem........... https://www.facebook.com/streetvet/?__tn__=kC-R&eid=ARBWjFrjg2qQl0sFjVdwdsPdH6lz1NLOQnOXhD7ocbjPNMz3QMBmfBHdwdJVyfd6Sv_THZsTj_ekZuAe&hc_ref=ARTAAR-gMpzC-sIjPjallPKsswAmdjvdIPl2W9K8xfL5NyahMJYe4Mkt1ireQJo9dvA&fref=nf&__xts__[0]=68.ARDWvOXbhOkR8s8UnP9A0uKOrYm9FBom15KVgaFAgP6oNn5i3nKAsuLy88aggYnVRaK77vgtkSbCATROSN8hT0OwqR0tuGO1X21M9lSk2qhEWZoPAjykckwyEdN91pKrPrCvERPW3icFOp95SF8MiMoOoUSqfieqj09JeL3GZiYgfylHM8hQ54EOenr_iOu66GaCfu7BUnqTAloVZEsBbboY6n1zhfBDa1WsYThodJN68Af_dUFoYeYBV4iSvMGHYW-USJvCDUfNsW6ao0P6cZMPxckQtqbZveJr4UOjeu6V0SX0cuM-35OBzDz18owroAccMEZdfjC8g30Z0wIf-_XZ6BG6_p_8d7LH6CcSj73Fa8WK4DvR9Q

Crikey must be a record! I mean a million miles! 😁

THIS HAS NOW SOLD. I have for sale my Soft Bits for Sevens half hood bag. This is made to fit the JAP roll bar. I am only selling as I upgraded my half hood and need a larger bag. I would like £40.00 for the bag. They are £68 from Soft Bits. Delivery will be £3.00 in the UK.

Tbh you couldn't have dealt with it any better

That's great Gary - will be good to see you and Trina again! I'll keep you posted with our routes - which will no doubt change 20 times in the days before we head off 😁

Ok so Trina and me will crack up to Invercassley, Rosehall on the A837 on the Friday evening, tag on as you all pass Saturday morning then we’re staying at the station hotel Thurso then home on the Sunday 😁

A quick update - I got the bar back from the powder coater and bolted it in place today and figured I share a few photos of it now that it's ready to use. Life is too short to not use some fun colors! dave

A weekend's work? Have finally got round to rolling the car out of the garage this aft, and washing last October's Croft rallycross muck off it. And.. removed last year's track day stickerage, ready for some new ones. Was quite a good year.

Good morning - The question of which is stronger, welds or fillets, is an old one. Some will say that a welded joint is stronger than a fillet (assuming both are done properly) and this is hard to argue....but....one needs to look at potential failure of the completed structure and not just the joints and this is where fillets come out on top. The reason is, as stated above, the heat affected zone will typically cause a welded structure to fail adjacent to the joint. One needs to remember that a welded joint requires that the base material be heated to its melting point.....which in the case of steel is typically about 3500°F. This lowers the strength of the base material in a big way. If one does either ultimate strength or fatigue testing of a welded assembly it will typically cause the tube to fail adjacent to the weld in the dreaded heat affected zone (HAZ). Brazing on the other hand does not require that the base material be brought to its melting point. Instead it only needs to be brought up to the melting point of the filler being used. In my case here that is about 1750°F. This typically does not have a negative affect on the strength of the tube so when testing an assembly one can expect it to out perform welded joints in both strength and fatigue resistance. There is an additional issue - the temperature gradient of a welded joint is very short. The weld itself got up to 3500° but just a short distance from the weld it will be much cooler. This results in a stress riser of sorts in the steep gradient area adjacent to the weld. The brazed joint on the other hand isn't as hot but since it took much longer to form the joint the heat runs further down the tube away from the joint. This makes for a long gradient and much less of a stress riser. So why aren't all joints brazed instead of welded? The simple answer is time. A welded joint takes very little time compared to a brazed joint and when it's done it's done. A brazed joint requires more cleaning and prep and then one needs to remove the flux from it when done. It takes easily 3-4 times longer and time is money. But I have time and I'm a better brazer than I am a welder so it's my joint of choice. Fun stuff. Dave

A forecast of showers this weekend may just ground us I am afraid.