I suppose it snows too rarely for you to feel you can justify buying chains?
Have you ever tried it in the snow? You may be surprised what it can do.
Both our Di and our D2 handled it on our trips to the Dales, and, after all, it is meant to be able to do it.
I do unnerstand you don't want to risk scratching it.
Hasn't there been a lot on the telly about teachers today?!
Soooooo glad I'm retired!
I once tried to use the argument about how much money I spent in the store, with B&Q, after I had bought an entire kitchen and utiility plus loads of other stuff for our place in France from them.So I bought the local B&Qs last 2 packs of spruce cladding and now it’s clearly out of stock. Nearest store with stock 25 miles away. Had a live chat to be told it’s 1-2 week lead time, to which I said I’d been tracking the stock and it was declining not increasing. Can you transfer stock, no. Parently it’s seasonal and will pick up in spring...talk about integrated logistics, twunts. I have spent thousands in that store this year
Still it’s a first world issue
The guy's answer was, "It doesn't matter to us if you have spent a million £ or 1£, we treat all our customers the same."
to which I replied "Like sh!t, you mean?"
Used to work with the mum of the manager, when I came across him, notjing was too much trouble and all problems could be ironed out.
But he moved on.
.....and you are of course telling them the truth.
Is there any graffiti on it yet?Apparently they have put out a notice of my impending departure, not like I kept it a secret
Oh dear.Drilled the oles int me garage floor. Lined it all up and they is int the right place. Only problem is the metal hoops that hold the drop bolt int place, allow the drop bolt to move back un forth away from the door. Circled below. Straight line is the movement direction. The result is me doors move back un forth with the drop bolt. The drop bolt is held int place by two hoops. One top one bottom. Both hoops doing the same fing. Any idea's on what to do to stop this?
I was finking of wrapping some thin metal wire round the hoop at the bit where the hoop is furthest from the door, to limit where the drop bolt can move.
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You won't maybe like this idea, but I'd be tempted to refill the holes with fresh concrete let it go off, which will be a while in these temps and they will be deep.
Then get inside the garage, close the doors, pull the beggars back by the bottoms of the bolts, pulling like mad, than mark on the concrete, with the other hand, or, push a bit of wood up to the bolts then mark, so you get the innermost possible place to fix them.
Then once you've redrilled the holes then they should hold your door, fast.
But total PITA, I agree
apart from that you'd need to cut the jobbies apart and weld em up again to make the bolt slidy inny bits a heck of a lot tighter.
Or you could run a bead of weld down the bit of bolt that slides in the other bits, but not down so far it imopinges on the bits that go in the concrete.
Best of luck!
Or put some thin "plates" of wood or metal in between the bolts and the door to pad them in the right direction.Drilled the oles int me garage floor. Lined it all up and they is int the right place. Only problem is the metal hoops that hold the drop bolt int place, allow the drop bolt to move back un forth away from the door. Circled below. Straight line is the movement direction. The result is me doors move back un forth with the drop bolt. The drop bolt is held int place by two hoops. One top one bottom. Both hoops doing the same fing. Any idea's on what to do to stop this?
I was finking of wrapping some thin metal wire round the hoop at the bit where the hoop is furthest from the door, to limit where the drop bolt can move.
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Then he'll have to drill the holes bigger.
I've got snow socks for 'im. There are a couple problems here though that cause the difficulties meaning no-one can get down or up the hills! It would help if the council would just grit the troublesome 500 yards - but they won't. It is a narrow and steep unclassified road which is bordered by deep weed-covered ditches and then the farm hedges up higher on the banks. It's hard to describe but the trouble is because at this one point the road descends straight, coming off a blind bend at the top and finishing with a bend into an even narrower stone bridge over a deep ravine. Under normal conditions, drivers wait and give way to others already coming down the hill. After that the road widens and just curves gently as it descends and that is no problem. If any traffic comes up the other way then there is nowhere to go. Just to compllcate the whole thing, the bridge marks a total change of weather conditions - even the light changes at that point. Anyone coming up the hill is taken completely unaware of the change of conditions and then they find their vehicle just cannot do it - they can't turn round, they can't go forward, so they are stuck and block the road - traffic coming down is not aware of this until they get to the bridge so we get SLIDE and BANG!
The other part of the problem is that at the top of the hill, just where it straightens for the descent, there is a natural spring which flows constantly down the hill, then it freezes and then it snows and so we get a total snow-covered 'ice rink'. So you might be able to see that it is not the capability of the car, it is the conditions in snow and ice on that stretch of the road that cause the problems. Even the tractors take it very gingerly!
I hope you were able to follow that!!
As for the teachers, I haven't really seen much TV so can't comment, except , like you, I'm glad I'm out of it!
Ok to all the non-believers
pic of mag front cover, note date.
Folded back and weighted down to show date on corner of front cover on top of page 25, not name in bottom right hand corner.
And finally the whole article.
Page 25.
So i don't know what they do to the scots editions, but this is the one I have!!!
You get your ciggies on the NHS!Im back got me tabs.
They'll understand that in Noocassel!
When it's slippy i allus twists my foot when it is ont floor to make it more secure like.
Looks funny, well only a bit, but i doesn't fall over!
What is "beer"?Just back from a nice 3 mile walk... now, where's me beer
I got the picture re the road. lots of bends just like it in the Dales, usually you are going along the side of a Dale, either downhill or uphill, and it moves into the Dale where there is a stream running down it, which has cut the land away, so you get the combination of a downhill turn towards a bend and at the bend there is a bridge over a stream, usually fast flowing then it curves out again and goes up again. And the road is steep in either direction. but there are no hedges or ditches to worry about.
Four years ago I nearly came off one!
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No I don't.Seen her afore, Norfolkbird claims some relation.
.....the whole point of the article mentioned is that we would "need to produce .......two times the current total annual world cobalt production, nearly the entire world production of neodymium, 3/4 of the world's lithium production and at least half of the world's copper production" in order to build enough batteries to meet the Govt's targets for getting diesel and petrol cars off the UK's roads. Says 8 of the UKs leading geologists, geoscientists and mineralogists. In a letter to the UK's climate Change Committee.
And no one has debunked it yet.
Plus 20% increase in electric production.
So can't see electric cars catching on!!!
We'll have to go hydrogen which, if this last "Christmas Lectures" are anything to go by, will be more possible............maybe.
I've come on so late you've all fecked off to bed!
Better do the same!
And no one has debunked it yet.
Plus 20% increase in electric production.
So can't see electric cars catching on!!!
We'll have to go hydrogen which, if this last "Christmas Lectures" are anything to go by, will be more possible............maybe.
I've come on so late you've all fecked off to bed!
Better do the same!
My mistake!
Just joshin anyway! Thought you had mentioned a cousin or something on seeing the same picture in another thread.
As i said, my mistake and no harm intended.
