RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted March 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2021 Lends a new slant on the phrase, 'Bubbling over with happiness.' Dave 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 3 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: Lends a new slant on the phrase, 'Bubbling over with happiness.' Dave Oh! You keep your bubbles to yourself. We'll have none of that sort of behaviour on this thread please. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2021 Bubbling - not to be confused with Zorbing. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted March 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2021 Oh dear we are heading downhill fast as lo g as no one mentions felching. Jamie 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted March 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) 6 minutes ago, jamie92208 said: Oh dear we are heading downhill fast as lo g as no one mentions felching. Jamie So why did you? It's nearly as bad as someone saying blootering. Oops....... Dave Edited March 31, 2021 by Dave Hunt 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Oh fiddlesticks. Mrs SM42 had tested negative which is good, but means I have to go to work tomorrow now. I was hoping to have a beer tonight in a covert celebration of a certain sporting result. Andy 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted March 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2021 2 minutes ago, SM42 said: I was hoping to have a beer tonight in a covert celebration of a certain sporting result. Andy You mean to say that you haven't had a beer since 1966? Glad to hear about Mrs. SM42's result though. Dave 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2021 Just acquired a new locomotive for Minerva Street. It was on flea-bay and my bid of £101 was successful and a little bit less than I was prepared to pay. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/oo-gauge-london-underground-acton-shunter-kit-built-Radley-Models/294082826139 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted April 1, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 1, 2021 Today I'm going to try and fit the Decoder, speakers and stay alive system to 1401. How long 1401 remains as that depends on when I can get the plates ordered for 1471. come to think of it I have quite a few sets of number plates and transfers to fit to various locos in order to identify them. At present most have a large piece of masking tape stuck on the blind side to any viewers at shows, with the numbers in big bold letters: It helps the operators, some of whom don't know one pannier tank from another (Not that 1401 is a pannier). 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 1, 2021 Just been announced that Rapido are doing the complete Titfield Thunderbolt stock. https://railsofsheffield.com/news/articles/3859-the-titfield-thunderbolt I will definitely be ordering the W&U coach. It will be tied in with the 70th anniversary of the film in 2023. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted April 1, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 1, 2021 The plans for fitting the decoder were shelved in favour of what is best described as an elaborate April Fools joke. The SEAT would not start, then it did. Drove to the shops and once loaded, SEAT would not start again. Not even a turnover from the starter motor Left Nyda in car and walked home. (It's only 2.5 miles!) Collected BMW and jump leads and returned to shop. Jump start not successful, so drove Nyda and shopping home in BMW Then returned to shop with tool kit to remove battery from SEAT. This was fun as the alarm was telling everyone I was trying to steal the car.... Finally got the battery home and went to put it on charge, but then one of the crocodile clips on the charger fell off. This was then fixed, and finally connected to the battery It's now on a rapid charge, and we will return later this evening to recover the SEAT. At least no one will be able to start it and drive off! 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted April 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 1, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: Jump start not successful Some neighbours were looking puzzled about why one couldn’t jump start a van from a Nissan Qashqai. I suggested when they asked my advice that the jump leads were useless. I said while I looked for mine they could borrow my charger. They just used the charger. I measured the battery voltage before connecting the charger. It was 11volts. While the neighbour went in to find the battery guarantee it was left on charge for 20 minutes and the van started perfectly. The battery was replaced as faulty by Halfords. My Evoque has a battery management system and jump starting requires the negative lead not to be connected to the negative battery terminal but to a large bolt head elsewhere. Tony Edited April 1, 2021 by Tony_S 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted April 1, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 1, 2021 The battery is dead, it is a battery no more! What is so annoying is that I only tested it last month, and it was fine. Still, I love spending money. I'll drive past the car park in Donnington before I go and get the battery, becasue I'd hate to tuen o up with a new battery and find that a Telf ha taken the car for a joy push. 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted April 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 1, 2021 5 minutes ago, Tony_S said: Some neighbours were looking puzzled about why one couldn’t jump start a van from a Nissan Qashqai. I suggested when they asked my advice that the jump leads were useless. I said while I looked for mine they could borrow my charger. They just used the charger. I measured the battery voltage before connecting the charger. It was 11volts. While the neighbour went in to find the battery guarantee it was left on charge for 20 minutes and the van started perfectly. The battery was replaced as faulty by Halfords. My Evoque has a battery management system and jump starting requires the negative lead not to be connected to the negative battery terminal but to a large bolt head elsewhere. Tony Jump-starting a modern car can be fraught with hazard nowadays - damage to very expensive electronics units (management systems) can result if it's done wrong (and that doesn't mean connecting the leads the wrong way round - though that never ends well). I believe Mercs have a "negative connection/terminal" separate & distant from the battery, to be used when jump starting. Hooking jump leads up to the battery as we've all done for years is frowned upon nowadays - they like the negative lead to be hooked up to something solid on the chassis/engine block etc. as far from the battery as possible, IIRC. I think you can now get jump leads with surge protectors built in too. 2 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 (edited) Yes as poly says you have to do that with Mercs a new battery was £237 and it lasted 2 weeks the Rac replaced it under warranty no quibble even though it was way under the mileage required to start the warranty due to lockdown and I had to self shield that has happily ended today. I just now have to beat the anxiety to go out. I now have crutches from the fall clinic Edited April 1, 2021 by simontaylor484 Autocorrect 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted April 2, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2021 I'm just wondering what happens when your battery packs up in a BEV. A new battery for your Nissan Leaf sir? That will be £6000! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 2, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2021 9 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: I'm just wondering what happens when your battery packs up in a BEV. A new battery for your Nissan Leaf sir? That will be £6000! I was looking at a second hand BEV. Second hand they were surprisingly cheap, until you get to the bit that says 'Needs new batteries'. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted April 2, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2021 That's why dealers don't like them as part-exchanges - and offer cr@p trade in values as a result, in case they get caught for the price of a new battery pack before they can sell it on. Others sell them with no warranty on the battery, so if it packs up the next day you're stuffed. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted April 2, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2021 8 minutes ago, polybear said: That's why dealers don't like them as part-exchanges - and offer cr@p trade in values as a result, in case they get caught for the price of a new battery pack before they can sell it on. Others sell them with no warranty on the battery, so if it packs up the next day you're stuffed. If/when I buy a BEV it will be a new one and I'll run it into the ground. On my current annual mileage, it will see me to the end of my desire to drive myself around. 5 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted April 2, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2021 On 01/04/2021 at 10:12, Happy Hippo said: It helps the operators, some of whom don't know one pannier tank from another... That's easy; there's green ones, black ones, some with GWR on the sides, some with BR thingies on the sides, clean ones (rare), dirty ones (more common), a few red ones (much more attractive) and ones that are so mucky that none of the aforementioned apply. Are there any other classifications? Dave 3 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted April 2, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2021 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: If/when I buy a BEV it will be a new one and I'll run it into the ground. On my current annual mileage, it will see me to the end of my desire to drive myself around. I don't think that BEV ten ton lorries are readily available yet, are they? Dave Edited April 2, 2021 by Dave Hunt 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted April 2, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2021 2 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: That's easy; there's green ones, black ones, some with GWR on the sides, some with BR thingies on the sides, clean ones (rare), dirty ones (more common), a few red ones (much more attractive) and ones that are so mucky that none of the aforementioned apply. Are there any other classifications? Dave If anyone has not received a chocolate pannier tank as an Easter gift, you'll know why! 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted April 2, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2021 2 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: I don't think that BEV ten ton lorries are readily available yet, are they? Dave I was thinking of a pair of Kia Souls, and using them as roller skates! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted April 2, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2021 22 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: That's easy; there's green ones, black ones, some with GWR on the sides, some with BR thingies on the sides, clean ones (rare), dirty ones (more common), a few red ones (much more attractive) and ones that are so mucky that none of the aforementioned apply. Are there any other classifications? Dave GN&SR! Jenny Agutter knows about pannier tanks, she even ripped off her undergarments to flag one down! 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 So Big H for how long have you had this fantasy of being flagged down by Jenny Shutter index panties? Anything you say will be in the strictest confidence. Doctor patient privileges applying of course. Happy Easter oh large one and don't forget to share the easter eggs. 3 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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