What the postie brought today!

[Matt_S]

@SteveB21 I can confirm it was Gtechniq Panel Wipe 👍🏼

 

[Ross the Scottish exile]

Nice shiny new exhaust collected today. 
new seats ordered, new cycle wings, and much more. Posty or DPD every other day, lots of garage time.😁

[Insuranceman]

Parts for my up & coming water rail fitting. Rail just ordered from Raceline, thanks Chris Smith, should be here next week.

[Morris]

A hard copy of my 'build diary' was delivered today - all 636 pages of it...! 😬

 

The result of many evenings of copying/ pasting and formatting.

 

[SteveB21]

2 minutes ago, Morris said:

A hard copy of my 'build diary' was delivered today - all 636 pages of it...! 😬

 

The result of many evenings of copying/ pasting and formatting.

 

 

I am deeply impressed - I've been meaning to pull together a photobook of my build, but still not got round to it, three years later...

[BobMet]

Wow, amazing and inspiring. Did you copy the whole diary or filter it?

[Morris]

1 hour ago, BobMet said:

Wow, amazing and inspiring. Did you copy the whole diary or filter it?

Thank you Bob.

 

Yes, I copied and pasted every page in it's entirety directly from the forum (including comments) into a Word document, keeping my text in 'black' and changing club member comments to 'blue'.

 

Tbh, it was an extremely tedious and time consuming process, but I wanted to capture everything.

 

The final couple of pages show the emojis of all the contributors 🙂.

 

After formatting to remove spaces between entries and to get suitable margins, I saved the file to 'pdf' (approximately 94 Mb in size) and sent it off to an internet company be printed. The printing cost less than £100, compared to almost £200 in one of the high street 'specialist' shops.

 

 

 

 

 

[corsechris]

16 hours ago, Morris said:

A hard copy of my 'build diary' was delivered today - all 636 pages of it...! 😬

 

The result of many evenings of copying/ pasting and formatting.

 

Very impressive!  I’ve been trying to do a brief attempt at an owners/workshop manual for the Midlana. Very difficult to find the motivation tbh. Done about 20 pages so far. 

[Insuranceman]

😁

[Flying Carrot Steve]

30 minutes ago, Insuranceman said:

😁

 

 

Is that a new water rail?

[Insuranceman]

2 hours ago, Flying Carrot Steve said:

 

 

Is that a new water rail?

Yes😁

[Stuart Davis AO - Devon Cornwall & Somerset]

This little kit arrived today, looking forward to fitting it, although a little daunted by the prospect, hopefully shouldn’t be too tricky 🤞. It’s an 8 channel version so plenty to play with.

 

 

[Insuranceman]

1 hour ago, Stuart Davis AO - Devon Cornwall & Somerset said:

This little kit arrived today, looking forward to fitting it, although a little daunted by the prospect, hopefully shouldn’t be too tricky 🤞. It’s an 8 channel version so plenty to play with.

 

 

I fitted the same earlier in the year. If i can anyone can, I had loads of help from Liane and Mike.

[Flying Carrot Steve]

 

I've seen this system crop up many times on WSCC, can someone explain in simple terms (yeah go on, laugh your heads off 😂) for the likes of me, what it does please? 

 

PS. asking on behalf of a friend  😂

[Stuart Davis AO - Devon Cornwall & Somerset]

27 minutes ago, Flying Carrot Steve said:

 

I've seen this system crop up many times on WSCC, can someone explain in simple terms (yeah go on, laugh your heads off 😂) for the likes of me, what it does please? 

 

PS. asking on behalf of a friend  😂

Well it needs to be simple enough for me to understand it!

 

Essentially, if you have a removable steering wheel, it allows control of things like indicators, lights, wipers, horn etc from buttons on the wheel. This is done via a battery powered wireless transmitter on the wheel connected to the buttons, and a relay box receiver (in my case) which generally goes behind the dash and needs to be fitted either alongside or in place of the various controls on the dash or steering column. There are more sophisticated systems involving CAN bus for example but my car is way too basic to need any of that 🤣.