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Should have a count up on this thread to see who actually ownes a freelander and no lies or embarrassment
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EE is the same company as BT, you get to keep your email address.
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It rained last night about 2am then it froze 
neebs were out first thing throwing salt everywhere.
Suns oot might do a wee bit of welding later, waiting on a mate bringing 4 steel wheels so I can the D1 in the garage
its too big with the 35" tyres.
neebs were out first thing throwing salt everywhere. Suns oot might do a wee bit of welding later, waiting on a mate bringing 4 steel wheels so I can the D1 in the garage
its too big with the 35" tyres.
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...that I am pleased that my 2WD units are coming along nicely.
I welded one together today and took a video of it spinning in a lathe with a hex-bar through to show the alignment of the 2 independent sides. No "wobble". So I have now finished 2 and have started 3 more.
It's just a hobby.
After you have welded these things do they not need heat tweetment?
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I hope not. They are steel and love magnets, so the welding won't have done them too much harm.
There are only 6 little welds at the base of the cassette carrier on the thicker ribs that act as drive-dogs to the cassette.
These are prototypes so I hope to find out whether they are are fit for purpose or not.
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We stick with both of our deals in both countries.I was on the phone to them for over 30 mins & the deal over the phone was more expensive than the online deals. I said I can see the deals are cheaper on your website oh err em ok I'll have a look.....I ended up telling them id call em back once ive looked at other deals.
I think I'll take the online deal for now & change my email addresses though the year.
The Sosh one (Poor man's Orange) is good in frogland.
Our BT package is being renewed for less I think, still about £40 a month, so free broadband but calls still cost.
Like you, if we kept on closing them down and opening new ones we'd have to constantly lose phone numbers and stuff.
Tis all a right pain.
But at least me mobile fees are MILES lower than peeps on here as I only has PAYG, and hardly ever use them.
Who are you on with for Gas (if you have it) and electric? We are with Octopus and they seem to be fairer than most.
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Was it called Freeserve?
We had that when it was all for fun.
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In my school we were taught how to write progs in Fortran with punched paper tape. We had a Westrex machine in what was laughingly called the "computer club" room.
You had to get one tape run through the machine with the program on it, then another with the data on it.
The tape reader ran blisteringly fast! (Only actually saw one working once when we went on a course at Cheltenham tech.) The rest of the time we sent them off to Quedgley to get the bods there to run them for us.
I once wrote a prog to generate the Fibonacci series and the golden ration to very high numbers to see if the GR ever did repeat as, like Pi.
it is supposed not to.
It didn't!
I deliberately did not put all of STOP, END, FINISH at the end so that it would run for ages before the operator wised up and switched it off. It worked!
I got a pile of printout about 5 inches deep!
All this in 1971/2.
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OK.I hope not. They are steel and love magnets, so the welding won't have done them too much harm.
There are only 6 little welds at the base of the cassette carrier on the thicker ribs that act as drive-dogs to the cassette.
These are prototypes so I hope to find out whether they are are fit for purpose or not.
I just wondered if maybe a welded bit might give way due to work hardening or whatever seeing as how they are possibly safety vital. Or not. Seems like that would cause an accident. You'll know.
I once welded a steering column part and felt it needed heat treatment as if it broke I'd lose steering. On a kit car, obvs.
I have also considered shortening half shafts so I could bring the wheels slightly further in and completely under the wheel arches at the rear, yet another design fault on the kit and didn't want to widen the arches on a 1930s roadster style one. They would need heat treatrment too.
I'd also have to narrow the axle casing. Really annoying as about 20mm would do it.
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Was in orspicle yessid from 1200 to 1700. W had to drive me back, she didn't like having to take me in and then pick me up.
At first my hands felt little different but in not much time I couldn't do anything with my thumbs, the bottom joints having been the ones I most insisted on them injecting. They put me out for all of about 3 minutes but I still have to go through all the rigmarole of post anaesthetic stuff.
I had to have Oramorph to be able to sleep last night.
Did not expect this.
A little better this morning but not much. Seriously wonder how people with no thumbs manage.
At least I can use a pooter. Will have to do paperwork on it this p.m. Booking ferry tickets, preparing the applications for the visas. HATE that job. Grrr!
Frosty and sunny here.
Have a nice afternoon peeps!
At first my hands felt little different but in not much time I couldn't do anything with my thumbs, the bottom joints having been the ones I most insisted on them injecting. They put me out for all of about 3 minutes but I still have to go through all the rigmarole of post anaesthetic stuff.
I had to have Oramorph to be able to sleep last night.
Did not expect this.
A little better this morning but not much. Seriously wonder how people with no thumbs manage.
At least I can use a pooter. Will have to do paperwork on it this p.m. Booking ferry tickets, preparing the applications for the visas. HATE that job. Grrr!
Frosty and sunny here.
Have a nice afternoon peeps!
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I think I've still got the old dial-up modem in the loft somewhere...My first one was Demon internet during the early nineties. I remember AOL and CompuServe with Netscape browser on a 9600bt dial up modemCOME ON !!!
Can you remember having two IP Address's Adult and Children only FTP's and floppy disks stack
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It's so they don't get trodden on by another one
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Could be one still roaming a round and tread on your head and thay don't like the colour yellow it make them nervous ☺"
(Reply from @Stone56 )
It would appear great minds think alike!!
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Our internet is £60 pm but its satellite and free of any other strings such as phone nos or email accounts. Plus we can move the dish to Portugal and carry on using it because its inside the same spot beam, just. Planning to get a second dish and just move the modem thingy in future.
The Spanish mobiles were PAYG which suited us as almost never make calls but we were forced onto contract a couple of years ago. So went from topping up by minimum amount €5 every three months to keep the lines active to paying €16 per month.
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I didn't read ahead before posting....
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New year has not got off to a good start.
Just received a Dart Charge penalty from September, challenged it just before the cut off to increasing from £70 to £105, rejected today. At least they were quick.
Neighbour three doors up in Spain emailed this morning to say her house is being demolished in two months time. All legal avenues now exhausted after 15 years.
Not checked the premium bonds yet, I look at the website version and last night it said results available 3 Jan yet you could already scroll through all the big winners for Jan further down the page. Didn't see anything likely looking.
I'm suspicious they were being fiddled in the run up to the last general election, we had three big wins in a row in the months leading up (large for us - 700-900 sovs), then since August back to 50-100 each month. Every little helps I suppose.
Just received a Dart Charge penalty from September, challenged it just before the cut off to increasing from £70 to £105, rejected today. At least they were quick.
Neighbour three doors up in Spain emailed this morning to say her house is being demolished in two months time. All legal avenues now exhausted after 15 years.
Not checked the premium bonds yet, I look at the website version and last night it said results available 3 Jan yet you could already scroll through all the big winners for Jan further down the page. Didn't see anything likely looking.
I'm suspicious they were being fiddled in the run up to the last general election, we had three big wins in a row in the months leading up (large for us - 700-900 sovs), then since August back to 50-100 each month. Every little helps I suppose.
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