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Car is now back home proudly sitting on the drive. Now the list of other jobs starts. Going through the pages of posts I found details of an airless spraygun which at the time had good reports..an apollo spraymate. Has anyone used one recently or know of whether they work as well as the reports. I don't want to use cans or roller and don't have the space for a decent compressor to use with an hvlp gun. The apollo looks to be just what I need. Decent finish, not concourse and the usefulness of respraying any damage in the future. Hopefully work panel by panel... por15 acid etch primer, high build primer and paint from the club shop, signal red. Sadly have to wait for new seat cushions and other trim. All advice, as normal, greatfully received. -
For anyone using Park Lane for seat trim, Owen has posted some worrying news on his web site. He is going in for heart surgery later this month. I'm sure everyone will wish him well but, in his lovely message to his customers, he expects to be back at work in a couple of weeks!!!
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This is my 100th post (according to the counter and discounting the uploading of a new profile picture), so I wanted it to be significant. It is... after 21 years in hibernation my spitfire has passed its MOT and is now, once again totally street legal and in 45 minutes will be back on the road to enjoy what is left of the summer. It has been a worrying 2 weeks as it failed on 5 counts, one being a fractured leaf spring. It turned out, after the mot garage told me that I had provided the wrong replacement spring that the car had been running for at least 30 years with a Mark III spring, but all is now well. She just might handle a little differently!!
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Doug. Click as follows..activity, my activity streams, create new stream. This will give you a screen to customise a list of postings. Set it up to taste, name it and then, in my main list, it shows new posting, newest at the top, who has posted and part of the original post depending on whether you choose condensed or expanded at the top right of the list. Good luck. If you get it wrong, just delete the custom list by clicking the waste bin next to the title and try again. Got it working as I want it now. I hope that Kevin has made notes of what he's done so he can put it right again, the next time the software is screwed up without warning!
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Well done Kevin, but you really shouldn't be having to reinvent the forum and put it back as it was!! The idea of an upgrade is to improve what is there. Not to screw it up so badly (in the name of progress, security, prettiness) that it then has to be rebuilt...leave that to Microsoft. I have enough trouble with my car without having to re-learn technology.
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I suppose that its handy now that its not such a problem to load our 'avatars' but how many circulars cars are there on the club books..Doug, you appear to have lost your head.
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I have managed to set up a 'custom stream' undet the >activity > my activity headings. This has a date sort function but not others. Why has nobody though to put this out as a beta test. It could have been run side by side with the last release to iron out the bugs and get the feel of the forum users before forcing it on everyone. It nearly as thoughtful as Windows 10. It took me over two weeks to work out how to stop tbe auto updates for that.
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I have been trying to set it up to show the latest posts first in a thread, rather than having to page through to the end. Can someone point me to the 'sort by date' setting please.
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Thanks Gully. Glad I was busy yesterday. I am currently working on an Android device. I will give my main PC a miss until next week. Not worth the effort at the moment
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Thanks Aiden. I'm getting there. All my previous flags etc are showing none existant and at the moment this is a mess. I think that the forum software is being upgraded at this very moment and is almost changing as I type. The header tabs are now working. I think that I will leave this until next week, when it might be sorted.
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Has the forum been upgraded again since my previous post 25 mins ago. Suddenly the tab headers have come back... but they don't appear to work and the little settings section has gone. Could be that my tablet has still got the old format cached. Very weird
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Found a lot of stuff in the settings bit (top right, three horizontal lines). 'Shop' section is in there (if you want to buy a widget for $10!!), but check out the staff section... still lists Garth, bet he's pleased!!! Still can't find the 'forum - new posts' section though. I am far from impressed
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Can someone please tell me how to get the menus back along the top of the page. Already fed up with using thw back button. Also I have lost the list of recently updated topics. Must be here somewhere but cannot find it at the moment. Nice clean format is one thing, but too little info is something else.
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Its taken me 2 months to find my way around here in the first place. Not really sure I can be bothered to do it again. It would have been nice for advance warning along with a site map of where everything has gone.
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Millers Pistoneeze 20w/50 is on offer today only for £26.50 at Frosts. Don't know if its a good price or not. http://www.frost.co.uk/millers-oils-classic-pistoneeze-20w-50-multigrade-engine-oil-5-litres.html Url may expire tonight at end of offer.
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I put a 12v buzzer from Maplins across the indicator light contacts behind the dashboard. Works a treat but can be a bit too loud. I think I put a couple of turns of insulation tape around it to mute it a bit. Simple but effective.
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During the problems with my clutch I read that the problem may be as simple as needing a new clutch pedal spring (didn't work for me though). The logic is simple. Knackered spring not bringing back pedal, master cylinder spring not strong enough to do same, therefore piston in cylinder not pushing enough fluid into system as piston is already part way along the bore, clutch not working, no gears unless engine stopped. No leaks, system bled, all looks well but pulling up the pedal pulls back the piston in the master cylinder and then you realise that the system is only part full of fluid.
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Can someone advise me on number plates. I have a selection of old, bent, broken ones (enough to get through MOT) but eventually want to put a new set on. But which? The black pressed ali (with or without border), white letters on black background (Bordfunker's restored plates look nice) or is it simply down to personal tastes and DVLA legals. 1972 car so should take most available plates
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I am going to stick with the advice from the wonderfully experiened members on this forum. Not a wordy piece of psuedo science which solved my insomnia after page 3. Where's the table of comparisons, or the simple conclusions. Let me know and I will skip to them. All I want to know is, does it work, is it any good for our cars, and how much does it cost. Got better things to do than read stuff like this.. like changing the oil.
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Pete. Garage has reported the good news.. she runs (don't yet know how they freed off the clutch), the bad news.. she failed the MOT. Broken rear leaf spring, both ball joints, lower anti roll bar linkage and a little chassis corrosion around one of the suspension mountings. All stuff which I missed in my inexperience as a mechanic. Spares are on order, may even be back on the road by weekend. Mrs B.W. says its not that bad considering what I have done, a lot of which is due (with thanks) to all the help from this forum. Ps. Garage said that they stripped down the clutch, cleaned off all the crud, re-assembled and she moved under her own power.
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This car (or one very similar) appears to have been featured serveral times on this programme. I must be honest, I have not watched all the youtube clips in depth (google: turbo pickers herald) yet, but the cars featured are all very similar! By the way the car, LLM388D shown in at least two of the clips, is currently showing on the dvla mot page as only having an mot until 28th April 2015.
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Restoration Unobtainium.... hens teeth parts list
Badwolf replied to Pete Lewis's topic in My Triumph Restoration Project
This is a brilliant idea. Well done to all concerned. I beleive that many of the parts plus a scale minuature were 3D printed for the destruction of the Aston Martin DB5 in the James Bond film Skyfall. This could be the start if full 3D replication of complete cars... for a price, -
In my experience with my brake light cable/connectors, I found that the Lucar connector had not been soldered onto the cable with enough bare wire. When the switch broke, simply taking the connector off the terminal broke the minuscule amount of solder making the connector. I tested this by putting a scotchlok around the wire about 1cm away from the terminal and testing it with a meter. When I found there was power getting along the cable, but not to the connector, it was a simple job of shortening the cable a little and soldering a new connector onto the wire. Check that out first before doing anything drastic with the wiring. a little experimentation plus help on this forum saved a me lot of time, effort and cash.
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Are these horns the same as the wind horns on a mark iv spitfire. (Pete and Doug know where this is going). If so, then the contact gap inside the unit is probably corroded but should be easy to repair. I can give instructions with pictures, but for the time being search for 'horn unit faulty' in forums. I assume you have twin horns and that one works the other not. If this is so, swap the connections to check if the horn unut is faulty or the wiring
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Ok Pete. You can put your chopper away. The deal is nearly done. Car is being collected in the morning. The same garage that first mot'd it for me 30 years ago are going to do the clutch/mot and any other work that I've missing or chickened out of. The son of the original owner is dealing with it and thinks it should be an interesting job. I think my bank manager may not agree!
