I had no choiceNow go & wash your mouth out
Ok then wot are they...
Ford Kuga (like my mrs has)
Mitsubishi outlander
Suzuki Gran Vitara
Mercedes Vito Van
Mixed lot there. Outlander or a brabus/sport vito for me
Ford Kuga (like my mrs has)
Mitsubishi outlander
Suzuki Gran Vitara
Mercedes Vito Van
Which of them has a tow bar and can tow your trailer
.J
All of them, they only make the list if they are capableWhich of them has a tow bar and can tow your trailer
J
To be fair, the criteria is simple, a tow bar and capacity to tow 2t and be under £4k
Well, it could have gone better and it could have been worse ...
Managed to snap the plastic bleed valve thingy in the rad top...
Found out that the rear springs and shocks are shot, so that's next weeks chore ...
Got completely soaked in the downpour ...
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Ah, not such a good day then
Ah, not such a good day then
Well, the timing belt got done and the water pump, a noo rad and I wiped the tools with a greasy rag after to keep them good ...
But I has an achey now ...
Looks very good!!!.. that today (after the tiling in the bathroom) I managed to get out to my little workshop to continue working on the 2WD "Freewheel" unit
The bolts ordered for the "bolt-cage" have failed to turn up View attachment 260848, so I decided to drill out the adapters for a 16mm axle size instead. I really didn't think my little lathe would be able to do it, but it did.
16mm is a truly monstrous hole to drill through a big round bar. I really need the axles on either side of the freewheel to be aligned so the 4-jaw chuck accuracy was adjusted to <1Thousandth of an inch prior to drilling commencing. I intend to assemble the unit with a short section of 16mm axle in place through both adapters to ensure the best alignment.
I did the drilling operation in progressive steps (4, 6,8,12 and finally 16mm).
It came out quite well I think. View attachment 260849
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Wiv yer tratter onnit?Well, I can now say I have actually been in a Freelander
Nah, it wouldn't have managed it lol
Right, get this.
I won two Hohner Superchromonica chromatic harmonicas in that auction I mentioned.
They both need a little bit of work but nowt to be afraid of.
I have owned a Bandmaster de luxe chromatic harmonica since I was 20 and played it lots.
So I start trying to play my Hohner.
WTF!!!!????? notes missing? In the wrong place? What the FECK is going on?
It is as if you buy a Bluthner piano, learn how to play it then you buy a Steinway and when you hit the keys, which look fecking identical by the way, the same thing happens. Wrong notes. Two keys next to one another both play the same fecking note. Etc?
So for the first time in my life, after a lot of time on tinternet, and after 47 years of playing the old one, I look more closely at my old Bandmaster and see the little words "Seydel's System".
All is clear, as mud.
Never went into it before, always simply played it by ear, very happily.
Now I discover the lost city of feckin Atlantis of the Harmonica world.
There are several ways of designing and building and tuning the layout of the notes on a Harmonica, none of which I ever knew. I know you can tune a guitar lots of different ways, and that there are basically 3 different types of harmonica. But never knew all this sh!t.
It is a tiny bit like learning to drive a car where the gears chosen by the gear lever are different in the same positions on other cars. I even once owned a French Renault 6, left -hand drive and the gear lever sticking out of the dash where reverse was to the left shove it in, 1st was to the left pull it back, 2nd and 3rd were leave it the middle (it springs to there) and shove it in and out and fourth was turn it to the right and shove it in. That didn't take too long to learn.
But this Hohner, which is tuned far more conventionally than my Bandmaster, unbeknown to me (and the Seydel system seems much more logical anyway) is like having 24 gears or 48 when you take into account pushing the button on the end,) And I have to relearn about 1/4 of them.
You may wonder why I was so keen to get these. Well the sound is feckin brilliant and they are the Rolls Royce of harmonicas. The Bandmaster was made in the GDR, ffs! but I never bargained on all this. I should have started with a far more conventional and simple diatonic harp. But a girlfriend asked me what i wanted for my birthday and I told her "a chromatic harmonica" so, bless her, she went out and spent a load of dosh she didn't really have at the time on the one I have had for years. Neither of us knowing that it was a bi of an odd-ball.
Every day is a feckin school day.
And I am FED UP of having to go to school!
I'm feckin retired for God's sake!
Anyway, all this takes my mind of the fact Wifey's leg problem has now been pronounced an "ulcer" which ain't very funny.
All caused by it getting wacked by a car door shutting on it as she was getting into the car during the gales about 3 weeks ago.
Think I'd better go to bed now.
Sleep well all.
I won two Hohner Superchromonica chromatic harmonicas in that auction I mentioned.
They both need a little bit of work but nowt to be afraid of.
I have owned a Bandmaster de luxe chromatic harmonica since I was 20 and played it lots.
So I start trying to play my Hohner.
WTF!!!!????? notes missing? In the wrong place? What the FECK is going on?
It is as if you buy a Bluthner piano, learn how to play it then you buy a Steinway and when you hit the keys, which look fecking identical by the way, the same thing happens. Wrong notes. Two keys next to one another both play the same fecking note. Etc?
So for the first time in my life, after a lot of time on tinternet, and after 47 years of playing the old one, I look more closely at my old Bandmaster and see the little words "Seydel's System".
All is clear, as mud.
Never went into it before, always simply played it by ear, very happily.
Now I discover the lost city of feckin Atlantis of the Harmonica world.
There are several ways of designing and building and tuning the layout of the notes on a Harmonica, none of which I ever knew. I know you can tune a guitar lots of different ways, and that there are basically 3 different types of harmonica. But never knew all this sh!t.
It is a tiny bit like learning to drive a car where the gears chosen by the gear lever are different in the same positions on other cars. I even once owned a French Renault 6, left -hand drive and the gear lever sticking out of the dash where reverse was to the left shove it in, 1st was to the left pull it back, 2nd and 3rd were leave it the middle (it springs to there) and shove it in and out and fourth was turn it to the right and shove it in. That didn't take too long to learn.
But this Hohner, which is tuned far more conventionally than my Bandmaster, unbeknown to me (and the Seydel system seems much more logical anyway) is like having 24 gears or 48 when you take into account pushing the button on the end,) And I have to relearn about 1/4 of them.
You may wonder why I was so keen to get these. Well the sound is feckin brilliant and they are the Rolls Royce of harmonicas. The Bandmaster was made in the GDR, ffs! but I never bargained on all this. I should have started with a far more conventional and simple diatonic harp. But a girlfriend asked me what i wanted for my birthday and I told her "a chromatic harmonica" so, bless her, she went out and spent a load of dosh she didn't really have at the time on the one I have had for years. Neither of us knowing that it was a bi of an odd-ball.
Every day is a feckin school day.
And I am FED UP of having to go to school!
I'm feckin retired for God's sake!
Anyway, all this takes my mind of the fact Wifey's leg problem has now been pronounced an "ulcer" which ain't very funny.
All caused by it getting wacked by a car door shutting on it as she was getting into the car during the gales about 3 weeks ago.
Think I'd better go to bed now.
Sleep well all.
Here's a thought, the 1921 census is apparently now available to view.
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20s-people/the-1921-census/
The year my dad was born.
Apparently the records from the 1931 census for England and Wales were lost in a fire and in 1941 there was no census due to the war, so the next one anyone will be able to look at will be the 1951. Which won't be available for 100 years from that date.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_census
So lots of us will never see it.
Hmmmmm!
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20s-people/the-1921-census/
The year my dad was born.
Apparently the records from the 1931 census for England and Wales were lost in a fire and in 1941 there was no census due to the war, so the next one anyone will be able to look at will be the 1951. Which won't be available for 100 years from that date.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_census
So lots of us will never see it.
Hmmmmm!
Morning all, tis a silly time to be up. At least it is dry atm
Have a great weekend!
Have a great weekend!
ER1C
Well-Known Member
Morning.. its ****ed it down here and I only got half my wood inMorning all, tis a silly time to be up. At least it is dry atm
Have a great weekend!
Lincoln has the same rainfall as Jerusalem apparently.
It actually started raining about 10 minutes after I postedMorning.. its ****ed it down here and I only got half my wood in
it has dried up again now.....
