Soapy water time, for spraying on the tyre and wheel rim, not yourself as if I would dare!
I see the price has gone up on that AEC Matador. Opening bid of £5000 and a buy it now of £10,000.
That's more than this one which sounds like it's a runner
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32624377...oGyVmfBvDKxKaLua3fijfebJg=|tkp:Bk9SR-y75Ke0ZA
The latter has lost its original cab which has been replaced with bus panels. That's not an insurmountable problem, because there are people making the timber frame components for the original style cabs, so it could be rebuilt. The wood frame means that the original factory cabs always were a bit vulnerable, so the vehicles that were used as recovery trucks by bus garages often ended up looking like buses themselves.
Anyway, I've got loads of other things that need money spent on them at the moment so I mustn't waste time fantasising about restoring an AEC Matador. Not yet, at least.
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The latter has lost its original cab which has been replaced with bus panels. That's not an insurmountable problem, because there are people making the timber frame components for the original style cabs, so it could be rebuilt. The wood frame means that the original factory cabs always were a bit vulnerable, so the vehicles that were used as recovery trucks by bus garages often ended up looking like buses themselves.
Anyway, I've got loads of other things that need money spent on them at the moment so I mustn't waste time fantasising about restoring an AEC Matador. Not yet, at least.
Mornin all.
Spent ages on the pooter and the phone organising wine visits to 3 vignerons plus dins that night out in the Minervois region.
Then vet for vaccines, then hairdresser for W as amazingly she does it much better, and WAY cheaper, than any Brit "Coiffeuse".
Still getting used to the new phone. It seems to be very slow!
Have a good day folks!
Spent ages on the pooter and the phone organising wine visits to 3 vignerons plus dins that night out in the Minervois region.
Then vet for vaccines, then hairdresser for W as amazingly she does it much better, and WAY cheaper, than any Brit "Coiffeuse".
Still getting used to the new phone. It seems to be very slow!
Have a good day folks!
Don’t you get your jabs from a doctor?
No, doctors won't do our two cockers!!
Local taxes in Frogland are paid in two parts.
The one part has jumped up by €229 just now.
The one part has jumped up by €229 just now.
The Orange mobile saga continues!
You'll love the next episode!
You'll love the next episode!
That must be "Wheelie exciting". Enjoy!
I meant to go and get a big bag of fine sand to water/grit-blast one of the wind sculptures back to bare metal (if the jet-washer still work). But, somehow, the day got away from me playing with other toys and this task remains to be done.
The lathe is back to imperial from metric though.
The lathe is back to imperial from metric though.
You party animal !
WhiskyLassie
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I would but Mr WL is using it.Soapy water time, for spraying on the tyre and wheel rim, not yourself as if I would dare!
Also I do have a full size spare but I don't wanna spend 180 on a tyre potentially. There are boots and clothes in the world I wanna buy..
Ok, the Orange saga.
Having played with the new mobile last night I discovered that there were things that did not tie up between the manual and the phone, so that plus a few other things led me to go back to them today.
Firstly the missing receipt for the SIM card. Nope they couldn't help me couldn't give me a copy, total nada. OK, I'll live with that.
Why can't I phone a Brit mobile? Turns out I can and even the bloke in the shop seems surprised, I was just being impatient waiting for it to ring.
What about the manual?
It shows two buttons on the side of the phone to control the volume. My phone doesn't have these two buttons.
Also a few other things don't link together.
Blokey goes to look in another box, same thing.
The phone is called a "Hapi 12", (yep, you cannot make it up, the constant use and misuse of English in France, frinstance today in the paper I came across "le casting" le shortlist" etc and this was to do with the fact that Macron who called an election when it wasn't necessary now cannot nominate a prime minister cos the parties elected into the govt are such a mix and match with no majority, but I digress!)
Apparently the Hapi 12 boxes all contain the Hapi11 manual.
So I have no idea how to turn the volume up or down!
He also seems to think that, unlike in the UK where I will soon not be able to talk to anyone on my phone cos it has 4g not 4gVolte, in France it won't be a problem that this noo phone is 4g only. Dunno if i believe him.
So looked for the manual online and can't find it either, all I can find is the same as what I have got i.e. THE WRONG ONE!.
So just had a "convo" with a bot who is supposedly trying to help. Huh, we'll see, whata flipping joke!
Having played with the new mobile last night I discovered that there were things that did not tie up between the manual and the phone, so that plus a few other things led me to go back to them today.
Firstly the missing receipt for the SIM card. Nope they couldn't help me couldn't give me a copy, total nada. OK, I'll live with that.
Why can't I phone a Brit mobile? Turns out I can and even the bloke in the shop seems surprised, I was just being impatient waiting for it to ring.
What about the manual?
It shows two buttons on the side of the phone to control the volume. My phone doesn't have these two buttons.
Also a few other things don't link together.
Blokey goes to look in another box, same thing.
The phone is called a "Hapi 12", (yep, you cannot make it up, the constant use and misuse of English in France, frinstance today in the paper I came across "le casting" le shortlist" etc and this was to do with the fact that Macron who called an election when it wasn't necessary now cannot nominate a prime minister cos the parties elected into the govt are such a mix and match with no majority, but I digress!)
Apparently the Hapi 12 boxes all contain the Hapi11 manual.
So I have no idea how to turn the volume up or down!
He also seems to think that, unlike in the UK where I will soon not be able to talk to anyone on my phone cos it has 4g not 4gVolte, in France it won't be a problem that this noo phone is 4g only. Dunno if i believe him.
So looked for the manual online and can't find it either, all I can find is the same as what I have got i.e. THE WRONG ONE!.
So just had a "convo" with a bot who is supposedly trying to help. Huh, we'll see, whata flipping joke!
You could of course just take the wheel off, run a bath or find another receptacle big enough to take the tyre and the wheel rim under water then rotate it until you see where the bubbles are coming from.I would but Mr WL is using it.
Also I do have a full size spare but I don't wanna spend 180 on a tyre potentially. There are boots and clothes in the world I wanna buy..
I bet it is just corrosion making sealing the tyre to the rim difficult, but who knows until it is tested.
I take it you have been all over the running surface looking to see if a nail or summat is stuck in it? i once did hundreds of miles on a tyre with a nail in it. Somehow it sealed itself.
@kevstar knows more about tyres than most on here due to a former life!!!
In the process of trying to talk to Orange about my noo mobile.
First question the "adviser" asks, "What is the number of the telephone line with which you have the problem?"
Duuuuuuuuhhhhhhh!
First question the "adviser" asks, "What is the number of the telephone line with which you have the problem?"
Duuuuuuuuhhhhhhh!
He has just informed me that if the convo carries on another 2 minutes that he is off until tomoz, so I wished him "Sleep well" as you would to a French child!
"Faites un bon dodo!"
(Dodo, from "dormir" obvs!)
"Faites un bon dodo!"
(Dodo, from "dormir" obvs!)
