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Badwolf

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  1. I can understand the worries about old rubber and E10. I can understand using Gates fuel pipe so that you know what you are getting. What I don't understand is that surely every recent car on the road using petrol is fitted with E10 proof fuel pipes so any modern car in a scrappy should have E10 safe fuel pipe. You should be able to pick up yards of the stuff really cheaply from the local scrapyard. Even the local motor factors should be selling decent fuel pipe off the roll. I think that Colin mentioned this a little way back.

  2. 21 hours ago, PeteH said:

    Even more "sad"☹️😭😭. I couldnt get the discount off the wine?. `cos the card was in the "other" car!, from filling it up the previous week!.

    Pete

    For some reason I ended up with a 'pack' of clubcards, collected over a period of time and keep one in each car, my wallet and Lady BW's bag of tricks (handbag). I also have the apps on our phones which are usually flat, but the Lidl torch/power pack which I bought by accident on clearance sorts that out. Why are so many loyalty cards now an app? Much prefer a proper card...they don't go flat (yes, I know, they ARE normally flat unless used to deal with Yale locks but we don't talk about that)

  3. I would delete all the unwanted bloatware but lack the knowledge as to whether the uninstall would sabotage stuff that I want to keep. As for legacy software, I have whinged (yes, I know) many times before about no longer being able to run legal bought and paid for software or even some of those useful utility progs that you used to get of the cd that came with computer mags. The only solution is the virtual machine, running XP or similar. Sadly I now lack the expertise to set up a dual boot so just load it up as needed. Still running Office 2003 and a 1996/2000 (free upgrade due to millennium) version of QuickBooks. All paid for but the modern versions are subscription packages. What has changed in word processing (except the English language corruptions!!!) or accounting to warrant paying a fortune for upgrades/subscriptions? A friend of mine is in accounting "use Sage" says he, "Why?" Says I, does it add up differently, or just show more profit on a set of accounts?.....silence ensues!!!

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  4. Dp490 is one of the best, Kent automotive, Thatcham approved is excellent too. there are other cheaper types.

    There is a huge list here...www.lasaero.com which I think Kevin posted in response to my adhesive tests the other year. Some are horrendously expensive but are designed to hold planes and rockets together. Look for the phrase 'structural adhesive'

    You could also have a read here..

    https://forum.tssc.org.uk/topic/2623-on-to-the-next-bit-nose-to-tail-1972-spitfire-mkiv-restoration-upgrades/

    ..look up bonnet, hardtop and adhesive bonding. Some of it is rather spread out I'm afraid.

     

     

     

  5. Well done Pete. Really pleased for you. You deserve it, not just for the Duxford years but for all that you have done. It is appreciated by so many and..... you have saved me pounds and pounds, for which I thank you.....

    Oh, and that bloke with the leprechauns too, however you spell his name??!!

     

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