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Oh bugger!! It is hard to tell how bad or how big the affected areas are. I am assuming the suspention towers are all rusted, and rear inner sills. Not too big a job if they patch it. But a bit of a sharp intake of air between the front teeth for the price of the work if done properly. A lot of comp...

Fingers crossed for you fella -
It is sounding promising.

Looking nice and tidy. Getting closer to being built up. Are you going to final coat all the doors, hatch and bonnet off the van.? That is the usual way to avoid missing anywhere with the top colour coats. It does help being indoors. Still not tropically warm, but not as cold as outdoors. Just have ...

I was more cheesed off because the bolt that sheared was a brand new stainless steel exhaust stud. So only fitted about five minutes. :wall For some reason all the studs were tight at their tips when tightening the self locking exhaust nuts, but seemed to ease-off a little when on the main part of t...

Next job was to bead blast the engine carrier - sorry but I failed to photograph it. Then onto the exhaust, yet again. I fitted some shiney new stainless exhaust studs, along with copper coated steel nuts. Annoyingly one nut decided to bind, and whilst removing it to clean the threads, the stud shea...

I have been threatening to set fire to the van for years, but tonight I put my money where my mouth was... Or at least the MAPP gas torch. This looks a lot tamer than reality with flames and billowing smoke everywhere. https://i.postimg.cc/C1gZrZCf/20240301-215607.jpg I hadn't lost the plot or final...

Better late than never, but the wheelchair hasn't been used until tonight. So it's first use of the lights 'in service' so to speak. It behaved perfectly which is amazing. https://i.postimg.cc/zvDy59cz/20240301-180904.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/qRxNPkQD/20240301_180914.jpg We are out again on Sunday, ...

I am sure that I am the oldest git in the village. (Mid-fifties - closer to 60 in two weeks). So we cannot blame age - lol. My brain is at it's most lucid late at night. From about the time you go to bed. Even after a full day at work, and two hours commuting. Besides, once I start a project, I try ...

All wired up and working. :geek: Although I had got it wrong at first. I wired up the switch loop wrong. I noticed at 1am this morning, that I had wired it up so that the lights were on permanently. I sussed it and rewired before going to bed 20 minutes later. When I got up, I checked it all again, ...

He is still working on it. Most of the car is primer grey, and there is no back bumper. I have warned him countless times that the primer will not protect the steel of the car body from the rain water. Looks like it still needs attention to the front wing, close to the headlamp and bonnet. He replac...

I work for the NHS, in quite a high position in my department. We are recruiting for relatively low paid admins for the department (NHS Agenda for Change Band 2's and 3's). Sorry, not within reasonable travelling distance for your wife. A close friend has to screen the applications. There were 125 a...

Ah.. you mean the Traveller, or Woody. All very nice if you are a fan of wooden car bodies, including the squeaky wooden rear doors. I worked on one about 20 years ago. Failed horn push and a few other bits. A total of about five fuses in the engine bay. Radiator fan, Wipers, Blower motor, Interior ...

I have almost finished up the external looms for the chair. There are three looms. 1 - External voltage supplies. Battery +24 volts. Battery - (ground rail) Reverse Motor +24 volt inputs (2 off). 2 - External lights This was wired up and fitted last week. 3 - Control Switch. This still needs looming...

I tend to expect about £300 to £400 per car at MOT time.
Not cheap, but cheaper than getting a new car.

Topless cruising -
sadly you are the wrong gender for that image in my head...

Apologies, that is me being a potential letch.

I think the fact that they have a very fast staff rotation says it all. Sadly they are probably only paying minimum wage, and so staff are considered to be worth no more than a burger flipper at MacDonalds. Can your wife not try looking at a better chain of hotels? Although I am sure that they all b...

There is a fella near me who is a bit of a chancer. He must be a couple of years either side of 70 years old. He likes messing with cars, but he is far from good at it. And he often dumps his projects behind my house. We all know a Morris Minor when we see it. https://i.postimg.cc/Vv4LZSG4/20240222-...

Yep, this dude still has his polar sea blue Cavalier 1.8LSi, albeit a bit different now. I hope I can get it out onto the roads again for it's 30th Birthday in August. I will always like the big battle barges... Senator A and B, Monza and the like. I always go to the Autobahn Stormers stand at VBOA,...

The third DC to DC voltage converter has arrived. The new one is the one on the right. https://i.postimg.cc/Hkjf2Lh9/20240220-232926.jpg Here is everything sat inside the VW van junction box. 2 x flasher units 3 x Voltage converters. It is a big box, so I am quite surprised at the lack of space. Abo...

Okay - Dan has granted me a few more super-powers, so hopefully with help from the other admins, we should be able to sort out a few security issues, and generally tidy stuff up. I also need to brush up on my very limited knowledge of phpbb forum construction and configuration. The last time I had t...

Excellent news on the 'free' fix. At least the fan cost nothing... Even if the radiator had to be swapped out. It doesn't take much corrosion or verdi-gris to stop the electricity in it's tracks. My usual test procedure is to short the thermo-switch with a 20amp fuse. If the fan still refuses to spi...

Ah okay... On the three voltage converters...with the transistor symbol. The reds are +24 volts. The browns are the 24volt circuit return. The yellows are +12 volts The blacks are the 12 volt circuit returns. I colour coded the lighting wires to match VW and Vauxhall colour schemes. Black / White = ...

I should have explained... Because of the way the circuits work, each requires it's own 24 volt feed. 1 - left indicators - Plus 24 volts when left motor reverses. 2 - Battery Live - Always plus 24 volts. For head and tail lamps. 3 - right indicators - Plus 24 volts when right motor reverses. Each c...

My current "Random" project is to fit lights to the wife's powered wheelchair. Her chair is an NHS specification Mirage. Now long since obsolete, but quite reliable and easy to manage. It helps being the technical lead at the regional wheelchair service. On one of our returned units, a pat...

Can we introduce any new security? Last time we had a wave of spam bots like this we introduced a security question on sign up. I never really answered this before... Nope, not with the current Admin settings. We need someone with Dan's (Humbucker's) permissions. Sadly, he is still not answering an...

I am still convinced that the bogus gmail accounts are the same source, but with a vpn tool to issue random ip addresses, every time I block and ban all the previous ones. Good old Spamhaus are blocking my mobile's ip address this morning. Good job I can transfer to home wifi instead otherwise I wou...