Dick Twitchen
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Alex, Try giving 'SpitBitz' a ring.
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2 hours ago, PeteH said:
crawling around inside steam boilers does not help,
Pete,
Had a sudden flashback of being a Midshipman in HMS BULWARK 50 years and doing the clean inside an Admiralty Three Drum boiler, wore blue overalls not white but as for any other kit. "That will remind the young gentlemen...."!
Dick
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Just arrived at this post, replied via another! Couriers 302-304.
Dick
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Three copies of The Courier have articles on the Brabham Herald. The author, Adam Egland-Jensen, is a specialist Navigating Officer and Naval compatriot of long standing. To save you looking, the links.
Dick
https://www.tssc.org.uk/tssc/uploaded_files/302 - August 2005.pdf
https://www.tssc.org.uk/tssc/uploaded_files/303 - September 2005.pdf
https://www.tssc.org.uk/tssc/uploaded_files/304 - October 2005.pdf
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17 hours ago, Colin Lindsay said:
One older chap stuck his fingers into my P/S side bonnet gap; he poked about for so long I nearly asked him to buy me a drink first.
Whatever happened to the mantra at shows of 'look but don't touch'? Almost as bad as people sitting/leaning on cars for a photo without asking and with studs/buckles/rings aplenty, or walking without looking and breaking off the rear light lens on a Mk1 GT6 (last year at a show) without any apology.
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Try giving SpitBitz a ring http://www.spitbitz.co.uk/
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I totally agree Colin, but if someones has the skill/knowledge that can help provide pointers/guidance for the perhaps less versed then for the common good.....
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1 hour ago, Badwolf said:
I feel that the only and easiest way to sort out the problems with the shop is to buy in a new on-line sales package and start from scratch, making sure that the standard methods of cataloguing are used along with accurate 'metatags' within the background description...but this is not really for this thread!! Probably recover the costs in 'unlost' sales.
BW - From that it seems you are skilled in this sort of thing and I am sure the club would appreciate your help by being involved, as a volunteer' of course, to help improve it for the benefit of all.
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Angie was in her usual buoyant, chirpy form at the recent South of England Meet running the club stall. Greeting new members with a smile and much 'explaining' of stuff and how things work and never saw her take a seat throughout the hours I was there. She will be at Classic Le Mans as usual this year.
Dick
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Echo Clive's warning comment on manifold fit. When I was restoring mine many moons ago I had three different 6-3-1 manifolds from Rimmers, none of them fitted correctly in a variety of places but fortunately Mark Field at Jigsaw came up trumps.
Dick
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11 hours ago, Pete Lewis said:
yes i heard that was in a plan
Chatting to Angie a couple of weeks ago that is her first step to gradually reducing her longstanding and worthy commitment to the club. IIRC it is 'Julian', has a background in the motor trade and it is only this week the handover happens so give the team some slack on putting it on the Website; not that many appear to ever look at from some of the comments.
Dick
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13 hours ago, Colin Lindsay said:
so the carpets really do go that far up into the bulkhead. I'll have to work out how to keep them up there, and stop them sliding back down again.
Colin,
I used 'velcro', glued rather than relying on some self adhesive backing, and it has lasted 15 years so far.
Dick
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4 hours ago, JohnD said:
Usually a GT6 is a car so hot inside that people say you should drive it in shorts!
4 hours ago, dougbgt6 said:GT6 dashboard vents are cold only,
Very true and a heater was an optional extra on a Mk1. As for dashboard vents that's way too luxurious!
Dick
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11 minutes ago, thescrapman said:
could you tie steering wheel and lift the back wheels?
That is certainly how friends MGBGTV8 was recovered from Classic Le Mans several years ago; if the lubrication set up in the gearbox/diff I know not. The recovery team were British and there specifically for the event and moved the car to a collection points where several were loaded on a lorry for the return to UK.
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Andy Cook's article in the most recent Courier on refurbishing his arm rest has details on how he removed his handbrake grip.
Dick
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11 hours ago, European Voyager said:
waken up mr google in a bit
A quick search on the forum will also produce lots of practical advice from those 'Triumpheros' who have been down this route already, many of the threads also have photos to compare damage.
Dick
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15 hours ago, Pete Lewis said:
any safety gear
Whatever happened to '''Wear something light at night''?
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As we sit here typing away in warm safety a small price to pay for supporting Ukraine.
Dick
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3 hours ago, Chris A said:
That'll make even more interesting to read
Assuming anyone notices!
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Standing back aghast at the affrontery of being constructive (😉 ) perhaps somebody on the Forum with time, experience of, and solutions to, this issue could volunteer to take the lead and pull together a grid of Baines numbers versus specific model usage. Useful to the whole TSSC/Triumph community.
Dick
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3 hours ago, cliff.b said:
Jag engined kit car
I'm sure it is a Kougar.
Dick
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10 hours ago, Pete Lewis said:
but pipe
Steady on Pete, some of us still do that Condor moment in a GT6, 🎷 (closest I could find!) 😉
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Will,
Welcome. If you look on the Club Homepage under 'Areas' there are the details for the thriving Devon mob. Even if you cannot make a meeting the contacts should prove useful for local advice and assistance.
Dick
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2 hours ago, PeteH said:
Quite breezy outside, but they say no more than 70(ish) F 11 to 12.
Reported 122kts off the Isle of Wight, provisionally a new (unwanted) record for the UK.
Well we made it, our first show together...
in Out and About in my car
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Five years restoring the GT6, home to the MOT (1/2 mile), fuel up (5 miles), ferry port (10 miles) and down to Classic
Le Mans. All was fine except for wire wheel wobbles and they went shortly after I got home. Would i do it again that way, err.....