Cooking tonight.

[John Dolan - Wirral & North Wales AO]

Swmbo. The oven's on.

Me. Yes, I'm cooking tonight, just warming it up.

Swmbo. What are we having?

Me. It's a surprise, keep your eyes closed.

 

[dombanks]

go on then....what were you doing to them? ...

 

[Nic Chase (NICO) - Shropshire & Mid-Wales AO]

You naughty, naughty boy. That is not what the oven is for !!!

[Thrustyjust]

Cleaner than my oven. Mustn't show the missus what it should look like...................... 

[Stu Faulkner]

Ahh, the great Westfield bake off. 

[CraigHew]

Those sausages look done now....

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

13 hours ago, bollockybill said:

Swmbo. The oven's on.

Me. Yes, I'm cooking tonight, just warming it up.

Swmbo. What are we having?

Me. It's a surprise, keep your eyes closed.

 

Didn’t really read the post before catching the photo out of the corner of my eye. Thought you were cooking the biggest black puddings I’d ever seen for a moment.  

 

[John Dolan - Wirral & North Wales AO]

19 hours ago, Nic (NICO) - Shropshire and Mid-Wales AO said:

You naughty, naughty boy. That is not what the oven is for !!!

 

At least they were clean.

 

[John Dolan - Wirral & North Wales AO]

Headers cleaned in the dishwasher, professionally sand blasted, two coats of POR15 high temperature paint, cured in the oven at 150C for 15 minutes.

Meticulously refitted to the Westie, looking fab.

First run on Sunday, 130 miles and the paint has cracked and started to peel.

I've got £50 worth of POR15 if anyone wants it. Might be ok on your barbecue, but no guarantees.

[Nic Chase (NICO) - Shropshire & Mid-Wales AO]

Oh dear that’s not good. 

Ceramic coating next?

[pistonbroke]

Camcoat in Warrington are the men for that job  

http://www.camcoat.com/

 

 

[stephenh]

1 hour ago, pistonbroke said:

Camcoat in Warrington are the men for that job  

http://www.camcoat.com/

 

 

They certainly did a nice job on my exhaust manifold for my XI

[John Dolan - Wirral & North Wales AO]

1 hour ago, pistonbroke said:

Camcoat in Warrington are the men for that job  

http://www.camcoat.com/

 

 

 

Their quote for £750 looks like a bargain now.

[stephenh]

I don't know what temperature the POR15 is supposed to be ok to. To give an idea (at the risk of "teaching my Granny to suck eggs") my exhaust manifold, on my XI (A series) engine measures with infra red gauge, 280 degrees on numbers 1 and 4, and 320 on the siamesed centre branch. Unfortunately i don't know what it would have measured with an uncoated manifold, for comparison. 

[Simon Marks - North Oxfordshire AO]

My long and happy marriage has been punctuated with various instances of alleged misuse of kitchen equipment.

When changing some bearings in a Hillman Imp transaxle, the placing of the gearbox end casing in the oven to warm it up (and expand it) was one thing.  Having already placed the new bearings in the freezer (to shrink them) was apparently an even greater imposition.

When I was trying to get a recalcitrant car to start, I had placed the spark plugs in Gill's favourite milk pan and put them on the hob to warm.  Noticing the strange smell from the kitchen, she was alerted and, on rushing in, kicked off.  When I pointed out that I had lined the pan with tin foil, it made little difference!

Placing various small items to dry (after cleaning / painting) on top of the central heating boiler always draws comment.

However, if I had a long tail, green eyes, tore up tissues, irrepairably damaged the (admittedly elderly) three piece suite, made a complete pest of myself until my favourite chair was vacated (so I could curl up in it all evening) and dug holes in the compost heap to take a poo, I would never be criticized!

Simon