The Night Mail

[polybear]

6 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Not a GTO, as I said. It has the mechanicals etc of a 250GT SWB Berlinetta. At the time it was built, Enzo Ferrari was refusing to sell a real GTO to Count Volpi, so he declared UDI and this glorious one-off was the result.

 

And no doubt worth more than a few LDC's being a one-off with history.  Jealous?  Nope - I'd much rather have a Lambo with the fancy doors, even if you can't open 'em in a garage 

Now if I were a totally loaded Supervillain  would I buy one?  No, cos' I HATE parking the £9K MG in a car park for fear of some tw@t dingin' the doors with theirs, let alone a serious piece of kit that'd be a prime target for getting keyed - or worse.

I would like a serious custom job though - something ordinary, bland but very, very quick with ace handling - a Mondog Estate Bodywork on a Lambo chassis, with grey primer paintwork and custom sprayed weathering - the sort of thing where people walk past and think "Jeez, what a complete sh1theap - how on earth does THAT get thru' an MOT?"   Could be a lot of fun away from the lights.....

[TheSignalEngineer]

6 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

you can still exchange for current currency the old White £5 notes that ceased being legal tender in 1957).

Much more profitable to put genuine ones up for sale. Usually fetch over £100 on a well known auction site.

[Happy Hippo]

55 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

 would like a serious custom job though - something ordinary, bland but very, very quick with ace handling - a Mondog Estate Bodywork on a Lambo chassis, with grey primer paintwork and custom sprayed weathering - the sort of thing where people walk past and think "Jeez, what a complete sh1theap - how on earth does THAT get thru' an MOT?"   Could be a lot of fun away from the lights.....

Back in the 80's, We had a rather tatty looking Audi 80 Quattro on the books that had been through a specialist performance company at Silverstone.  Bored out to around  2.8 litres and various other engine tweaks to take the extra grunt it developed.  The brakes and suspension were also uprated.

 

It had  light alloy armour plate in the seat backs and lower doors and various pockets and cut outs for comms and defensive kit to be fitted where necessary.

 

All the badging had been taken off it and it had a couple of dings and dents professionally applied!  It looked like a very poorly maintained and unloved Audi 80.

 

It went rather rapidly when required.

[TheSignalEngineer]

3 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

  It looked like a very poorly maintained and unloved Audi 80.

 

It went rather rapidly when required.

Reminds me of an old friend who worked in research at Longbridge. He also did work for some racing and rally teams. He had what looked like a very basic model Metro. He picked up a three month ban when booked at 112 mph on the M45 at Kilsby. He said he wasn't actually at its top speed which was around 130 mph.

[Florence Locomotive Works]

3 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

Your pic seems to have been taken at Goodwood, perhaps?

I’m not sure the pic is from Wikipedia. I know it races there regularly but I don’t remember seeing it when I attended in 2013. My dad has seen it though. I seem to remember it had a nasty crash a few years ago but that may be a 250 LM I’m thinking of.

 

I’m terrible at Ferrari model names/numbers, bar the Dinnos as there’s only two and we’ve got one!

Edited January 9, 2022 by Florence Locomotive Works

[AndyID]

After a considerable amount of experimentation and frustration I have discovered that my all-metal hot-end is suffering from heat-creep.

[Oldddudders]

19 minutes ago, AndyID said:

After a considerable amount of experimentation and frustration I have discovered that my all-metal hot-end is suffering from heat-creep.

TMI.

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

Reminds me of an old friend who worked in research at Longbridge. He also did work for some racing and rally teams. He had what looked like a very basic model Metro. He picked up a three month ban when booked at 112 mph on the M45 at Kilsby. He said he wasn't actually at its top speed which was around 130 mph.

In 1971 I spent 8 months working at the BP research centre in Sunbury on Thames. There were various vehicles doing lubricant and fuel tests. One was an XJ6 with IIRC a 2.8 badge on the back. However  when you looked close it had two rather large bulges on the bonnet. It had one of the first Jaguar V12's fitted and would go like the proverbial off a shovel.  There was a story told that one of the first V12's had appeared on test and had to have cylinder linets fitted as none of the chassis's could handle the 500 bhp it kicked out.

 

Jamie

[DenysW]

500 bhp. Should make a good little shunter. Did it have panniers?

 

[rodent279]

54 minutes ago, AndyID said:

After a considerable amount of experimentation and frustration I have discovered that my all-metal hot-end is suffering from heat-creep.

You need a doctor.

(Or a metallurgist)

[New Haven Neil]

3 hours ago, polybear said:

 

 

He was asked what was the worst thing about being so rich?  He replied:  "You'll never make another real friend ever again" - presumably cos' you'll never know what their true motives are.  He added that the friends you've had for life will be the best friends you've ever had.

 

 

 

 

One of my cousins is a self-made millionaire (advertising) with the whole deal - mansion in Kent, racehorses etc -   although from modest background, same background as myself in the north-east.  Each year he organises and pays for a p!ss up week for a bunch of mates, who are the lads he played pub-team football with when he was a lad.  They are his friends, most people he met after becoming rich are acquaintances.

[AndyID]

2 hours ago, rodent279 said:

You need a doctor.

(Or a metallurgist)

 

Probably both

[AndyID]

15 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 I’ve never been interested in fast cars, just luxury ones. Whilst my contemporaries were lusting over the Lamborghini Countach, the Maserati Bora, Porsche 911 930 Turbo and the like, I was setting my sights on luxury cars - preferably vintage (Daimler Majestic, Bentley S2, Mercedes-Benz 220 [W180] “Ponton”).

I still hope to own a Bentley S2….

 

You might find something here

 

https://live.nyelizabeth.com/auctions/ny-elizabeth/11-beverly-hills-classic-automotive-8694/catalog

[PhilJ W]

Where can I get one of these bikes?

[J. S. Bach]

On 08/01/2022 at 04:33, Happy Hippo said:

 ...snip... On another drink related note, has anyone noticed that cider smells the same coming out as it does when you put it in?  ...snip...

I always thought that about beer, you really just pay the rent on it.

[J. S. Bach]

On 08/01/2022 at 05:11, Happy Hippo said:

Drinking them like shots from a 30mm cartridge case doesn't help.

Hmmm, having a 30 mm cartridge (certified blank) on my kitchen counter top, I can sympathize with you. 

[J. S. Bach]

14 hours ago, PupCam said:

Apart from the tea, what's not to like! ...snip...

Alan

Tea!! I thought that cup held used engine oil.

[J. S. Bach]

8 hours ago, Florence Locomotive Works said:

 

Hmmm, that looks just like the '74 that I got a "test" drive in when I bought a car from a dealer that sold several makes. Took it out on the interstate for a bit but much preferred the lesser roads. Decent fun ride but not suitable for me.

 

Edited January 10, 2022 by J. S. Bach
To correct a spelling error.

[AndyID]

The heat-creep problem was resolved and I was (finally) able to print this skeleton turnout base. It's for the hidden sidings and I need quite a few of them so theoretically it was worth creating the 3-D model. The model still needs a few improvements but this proto should be usable. The copper bits are PCB strips set into the timbers so that the FB rail can be soldered at those locations.

 

[Happy Hippo]

4 hours ago, AndyID said:

The heat-creep problem was resolved and I was (finally) able to print this skeleton turnout base. It's for the hidden sidings and I need quite a few of them so theoretically it was worth creating the 3-D model. The model still needs a few improvements but this proto should be usable. The copper bits are PCB strips set into the timbers so that the FB rail can be soldered at those locations.

 

If you put in  a pair of copper clad strips into a sleeper closer to the toe of the turnout, you could also bond the corresponding stock and switch rails together, which save a bit on the time spent wiring up afterwards.

[iL Dottore]

20 hours ago, rodent279 said:

You need a doctor.

(Or a metallurgist)

I'm a doctor who can solder and bend sheet metal.

 

Can I be of help?

[Happy Hippo]

53 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

I'm a doctor who can solder and bend sheet metal.

 

Can I be of help?

Only if you're also good at signwriting.

 

Having seen a lot of doctors attempts at writing notes and prescriptions, I would hazard a guess at no.

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

I'm a doctor who can solder and bend sheet metal.

 

Can I be of help?

I think Andy should be very aware of where the soldering iron might be put.

 

Jamie

 

 

[Happy Hippo]

1 minute ago, jamie92208 said:

I think Andy should be very aware of where the soldering iron might be put.

 

Jamie

 

 

Last heard screaming: 'Just like 6023!'

[AndyID]

7 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

If you put in  a pair of copper clad strips into a sleeper closer to the toe of the turnout, you could also bond the corresponding stock and switch rails together, which save a bit on the time spent wiring up afterwards.

 

I realized I should have done that after I printed it . I have a lot of pcb strip that's the same thickness as the timbers. I'll just add a PC timber.

 

There are also two pockets for pcb strips next to the tiebar. They'll become the frog switch.