Colin Lindsay

I've had problems with their search facility, couldn't find fuses the other day... it's not very simple to operate and gives some very strange results. Glad we found them!

No, because then I'll have to post pics of my Reliant Scimitar which was a total money pit, and I don't want to be reminded of it. Oops... too late.

Most suppliers seem to have it, listed as C9928A sealing ring or sealing O-ring. Seems to be about £1, they're common to MGs too.

The black Mahle filters were less deep, if I remember rightly. I used them on the GT6 until I turned the adaptor to allow a bigger filter, albeit almost upside down.

No, I was talking about my intensive research and subsequent theory of post drift - move over John Nash - but as I can't give Pete a Nobel prize, I'll just give him a Nobel as a prize instead.

Just want to resurrect a slightly mouldy thread, to thank Canleys for getting parts to me in less than 24 hours. It wasn't anything dreadfully urgent, but it means I get things on the road a day earlier than expected. In comparison, this eBay dealer didn't get my custom, given that the part - a standard cylindrical flasher unit - was £14.01, but postage was £31.31, and I wouldn't have received it until next Monday. Part of that price must have been the hotel room for the postman.

Here's an illustration of how the forum works. The member needing the information is the red line and at the red circle he posts a question. The other forum members (black) converge on this spot almost immediately. For an amazingly short time question (red) and answers (black) are almost relevant, then the answers head away off on a strange path that goes nowhere near what we actually require to know, before finally being firmly brought back to intersect the red line again with a proper and hopefully correct answer. After that the thread disappears away off at an angle, never to return, while the original poster continues on his path with a lot of head scratching at what actually went on. People have got Nobel Prizes for less.

My Herald 1200 had a glass in-line filter in what would be the middle of the rubber hose in your top photo; worked well but looked very obtrusive. The GT6 filter is now where the kink is in the rubber pipe in your lower photo; just enough metal pipe coming out through the outrigger to allow it to connect.

Just make sure you never, ever want to remove the tunnel again.

If it goes milky, it's been on too long. Most of my autoparts stores locally have large plastic fuel filters for about £1, I just change them when they look tired. Like yours, Doug, mine is just in front of the fuel pump, between the outrigger and the block. I have some of the chrome and glass versions but unless they're securely mounted they'll break.

'Er Indoors nearly blew a fuse when she found an e-mail receipt for a payment to "Love Life Limited".... I had to demonstrate that this is the fuse seller Aidan recommended. I'm not sure what part of someone's love life requires a 17 amp fuse but then I'm getting old and out of touch...

Lindt "Classic Gold" for me..... it's well filtered by the time I'm finished with it....

Hi Mick and welcome back! At least in Market Harborough you're close to the centre of things.

Nah, I've done that on other forums..... and always went back again. I missed getting my sixpennyworth in. No point in being a forum if we don't have opinion and debate. I've personally salted away about a dozen Unipart, Fram and Wix filters so should be okay for a while, but my Estate's had an adaptor since the mid 1990s so even then there was an issue with filters. BTW I'm running Wix filters on both Herald and GT6, so the adaptor for the Herald and the spin-on conversion for the GT6 must have the same thread.

Yes, and they are one of the suppliers I mentioned that show the fuses as "out of stock, expected soon"... however if you search on Rimmer's site for 17 amp - as I did - the search result is a 10 amp Mini fuse and a lot of Range Rover links which have nothing whatsoever to do with what I was looking for, so they may not appear unless available.

First one is the emblem of the Black Diamond Shipping company, an American firm that dissolved in the early 1950s. Wonder what the connection was? Second one is the letter 'L', I think?

Thanks Aidan!! Despite all my searching I just couldn't find any; have ordered a dozen which should cover a lot of eventualities! Even my trusty Autoparts shop tried to sell me the 35amp versions claiming they're all the same; in the end I fitted 15 amp fuses which have worked so far. Paul - Canleys seem to have only 15, 20 or 35 amp fuses, I know it's a small thing but that little jump between 15 and 17 may make a difference some day, and I wouldn't risk the 20amp or higher, so have gone for the lower option from my own stock and bought some of the higher spec from Aidan's link. I'm really surprised that Canleys don't stock them as they're the original spec and I would have presumed they would have more than a few sticklers for originality among their customers. ...and yes, I could fit a modern blade-fuse box, but having had no bother with the old one I hate being forced into things.

It's funny, but I noticed the 1/4 inch difference in size, but didn't want to appear an idiot by suggesting it's a coil / diaphragm comparison?

It may not be Accusparks fault, as if they supply an item for a standard setup, if you cause damage by using it with something else, it falls back on you. I use the red SimonBBC units, they're good and most importantly stay on!

And the entire era was referred to as the 'swinging sixties"....

The standard phrase over here is "Sure, what harm am I doing?" usually followed by a big smile and the gesture that says: end of conversation. No lights? Sure what harm am I doing? No number plates? No brakes? Sure I'm only hurting myself... It's a state of mind, true enough!

Thanks Paul - they need to be 17amp 35 amp quickblow for the reasons Aidan and Pete say. Were they originally supplied by Canleys for the GT6 / Spitfire? Their website lists 35amp, but says the ones I need are NLA, and I'm very averse to wiring loom fires.

Clive, you've just cost me half an hour desperately searching the Internet... but sadly to no avail; one of our great local cartoonists Rowel Friers brought out a series called "Sure, it'll do" with some tremendously funny observations on how Ulstermen will settle for anything rather than complain, or spend money. I just couldn't find any but there were some superb examples of botching and make-do which, as Al Capone said, we laugh at because they're funny, but also because they're true. Given that a considerable number of boy racers can't even wait to arrange insurance before getting their cars on the road, I don't think repairs or maintenance will deter many of them either.

I am convinced that they are a major contribution to road safety. So there. Oops... that was Goodyear....

Have you found a source for good fuses yet? I've just tried three major suppliers - all out of stock, expected soon, and Canleys are listing them as no longer available. I need at least one and preferably three 17 amp continuous / 35 amp blow fuses for the GT6 before Friday.