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Hello and thanks for this wonderful place where i can find a lot of Informations on my car. I am a french enthusiast. 42 years old and got a SE narrow body for 1 year now. quite a quiet example, with 1600 mexico inside, 4 gears but i love it

Thank you so much. Your pictures and stories of blats makes me think how lucky I am to give a bit of pleasure to someone. The best part of your cars is that no 2 are the same, they are what you each want. That’s fantastic thank you once again

Happy Birthday young Mr Smith & thanks for all your help all those years ago

With credit to @Cleggy the Spyder Man ...and of course it's all about the people who would not be together without you.

I was talking to our cabinet maker at work last week..I was after some stainless screws for my oak doors..and intact he said exactly the same as wizzer has said...

I work for Initial Washroom Solutions - we supply a range of sanitisers for washrooms and premises, and since the covid situation we now also sell personal sanitisers (500ml, 175, 100, 60, 50). https://www.initial.co.uk/hand-care/hand-sanitiser-dispensers/

Happy birthday Chris from all of us in the Peak District area.

Make your own Ethanol 70% distiled water 30% household plant spray bottles.

This is very true we've been drilling holes in the disposable dispensers and refilling them.

Happy Birthday @Chris Smith Four Westfields and a self build plane. And who said open top cars are only for fair weather?

Happy Birthday Mr Westfield, have a great day 🎂

Happy birthday @Chris Smith

Happy Birthday Chris!

The first thing you could have done with the seized screws was to apply heat to each screw head in turn , (I use my 50 yr old Weller soldering gun) , any soldering iron will do just that lower wattage jobs take longer to heat the screw up , the process is just the same as for steel bolts rusted in metal but you find with wood the screws practically fall out , you might try the same method if you can drill a suitable hole then use an "easy out" to get the broken screws out . Otherwise its drill them out but then the hole will be too big for a suitable sized screw ( head to big for the countersink ) unless you fill the hole and re drill for the correct size screw . HTH.

Have a great day @Chris Smith As Boris won't allow a 76 car drive by, let's honour the father of our great cars with at least 76 pics. So get the best shot of your car below.

07 may 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-52575674 'Extremely rare' white squirrel spotted near Dunkeld. Clearly not been drinking his daily Irn-Bru.

Agree Dave, anyone who hasn't seen this it's worth a watch, "Ant Anstead Master Mechanic". Availible on MotorTrend.

really happy with that old school set up. will add a westfield engraved rocker cover once the gasket will be received

You will struggle to get dispensers and refills anywhere at the moment, I know as I've tried. We've had to buy bottles from wherever we can and station them on desks, workstations etc.

We had to buy sanitizer from the local cider farm who are making it to supply the NHS. As we also supply hospitals World wide they agreed to sell some to us but it expensive £2500 for 80 ltrs and it smells of cider. If you get stuck PM me and I'll send you there details

Happy Birthday Chris, Eleven at Shelsey Walsh and SEIW at Castle Combe

Happy birthday @Chris Smith. Thanks for giving us all something to do during lockdown! Have a great Birthday!

Difficult to find, i am working with these guys for the same... T 0845 034 9313 E sales@encompass-hub.com W www.encompass-hub.com Encompass Labels, c/o PFW Labels, Millbuck Way, Springvale Industrial Estate, Sandbach, CW11 3GQ Andy

Have any of you had a read of the "Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020"? Given that there's not much to do, and I like a legal document(!) I had a look... Section 6 deals with the stuff we are most likely to want to do which is go out. Yes we must have a "reasonable excuse" which is laid out in section 6 Paragraph 1. Whilst the message from the briefings has been "you may go out once a day" this is ADVICE not LAW. The law sets out no such restriction (Para 6 section 2b). Likewise shopping for "essential items". There is no prescribed list of essential items so we can buy what we want, whenever we want. Furthermore there is no restriction on how far we can drive to do any of these things. Section M is interesting. It states you may go out "to avoid injury or illness or to escape a risk of harm." Going out for a drive, on your own, with no intention of getting out of the car could be to avoid the mental illness of being cooped up for weeks BUT if you're pulled you may get a ticket and to fight it means a day in court... http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/regulation/6 The police of course are busy enforcing the ADVICE safe in the knowledge that 99.999999% of people won't argue or challenge any penalty in court, where it should be challenged! That's not to say the ADVICE isn't good advice. The less we expose ourselves to other people, the less chance there is for transmission which is stating the blinkin' obvious. Many people are hanging on to the "most people will experience no, or mild symptoms" but there is no way to know. And it is the majority of asymptomatic people we have to be careful about as they are all potential "Typhoid Mary's", especially if they are of the arrogant type who decide to ignore the advice because they don't believe it's real (came across one guy yesterday who believed it either wasn't real or it was real and is a population control exercise. He was failing to observe social distancing in a shop until I rounded on him, but that's another story...) or because they are of the "we have the right to freedom" type. Morons... So, if people want to go for a drive there is nothing in LAW to stop you as long as you are driving for a proscribed reason. Driving 200 miles for a loaf of bread is not prohibited in LAW. It may be against the spirit of the law but that's not enforceable. But the Police believe otherwise and few have the stomach to actually stand up for their rights when they are genuinely impinged. The law is not a belief system... Now, the following video is made by someone who it could be said has a possible axe to grind with the cops...! OK, fine. But that doesn't make him wrong about the legal issues he raises. If you want to avoid the somewhat anti-police sentiment skip to 2:50 and listen carefully to what he has to say. The chart in the video as about 4 mins is this one:

I protect my arch protectors with 3M film. Where do you stop 😆

Exactly. There are many recipients out there in urgent need. We aren't amongst them, thankfully. At this point, I'm not sure it would sit well, potentially diverting focus from those others.

You could' brush' up on your material and concentrate more on 'carbon'.

I'm getting Dizzi with the heckling, do you think I should condense my material or go for a more advanced setup?

Happy birthday Chris.

Hi Hemsley You could try to tighten the screw first before you try to unscrew it , at the same time shock it by using a posi screwdriver and turning it and hitting it at the same time, If they snap of take the door off with the hinges still on the door then you can try to get the screws out of the frame i.e. drill them out ,punch them sideways . Then you can plug the hole with a piece of timber make a little peg and hammer it in then chisel it of flush, You could use gold coloured steel screws ,brass screw will be slotted head, the hinges are fitted the right way round on your doors ,dont ask me why thats the way I was told 30 odd years ago it's got three knuckles on the door and two on the frame. P.s never tried the heating the screw idea not saying it won't work, never seen a joiner with a soldering iron in his bag😉 Tony

Sorry guys I must have got rid of them as there is no sign of them in the garage

Happy Birthday @Chris Smith

Happy birthday, Chris.

Looking at your hinges the holes are staggered differently on each side. If so, why not remove the screws from the door and frame, rotate hinge and re fit.

Happy birthday Chris.

At the moment we don't fit the basic criteria to request a grant or a loan as we are not at financial risk and our Speed Series is not affected other than we cant start. We do not have any outstanding outlay for event organisation, T Shirts etc as far as I am aware.

Bear in mind the possible need to remove the arches one day. I used silicone to attach my protectors and although it was a right swine to remove, it was at least removable!

You shouldn't Dwell on this, it's bad for your timing.

Yes, thanks. Still using the original email address. Had a look at the settings, ticked a couple of boxes, and everything works now. Don't understand why it stopped tho’. Fingers crossed.

Take the politics out of the debate cos until then it will not make any sense. As far as I can see we have minimal options. Containment or mitigation. Containment. No one goes anywhere and we sit and wait and hope the virus will die out. Full on lockdown. No one knows if this will work or when the virus was introduced. Mitigation. Really difficult subject to rationally discuss as it's the you are going to get exposed. In a controlled manner and the nhs can cope. Currently we are in that position. I can't read anymore the UK should have done this or that or locked the borders down. The population wouldn't go for containment. Its was too late. Just move on from the petty politics. Its wearing thin and not proving anything.

As threatened, ours is taxed and back on the road. I see no reason not to use it for the once a week shopping trip - might as well enjoy the brief trip out in some some small way. Not as if queueing to get into Tesco only to find half the stuff you want isn’t on the shelves creates much joy.

Hence my son's interest. There has been a considerable relaxing of death cert procedure I've been led to believe during this pandemic, but this is certainly not right in this particular case. Mart.

Figures are all skewed regarding deaths and we may never know the true numbers in the uk.... My son is a journalist and has picked up on a localish story regarding an elderly man of 93 who has just unfortunately died in a care home. He was not ill and the care home had assumed he had died of old age. They are furious that his death certificate states coved 19 as the cause of death. When they queried it with the doctor, he had said that he had 'probably' contracted it...... If similar calls are being made all over the country, how on earth are any quality decisions for the best of the country ever going to be made. This is still being seen by some as an opportunity to point score against the Government in a lot of cases imho.. Mart.

Well that escalated quickly...

That'd bring a tear to both their eye's!

Welcome, I've spent the last (almost) 2 years tidying up and rebuilding a 99 car myself, it's amazing what you find when you start digging....but equally satisfying when find a problem and fix a problem! Good work so far, keep it up 👍