Hroth Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 They used good steel back then, if it wasn't for the tree, it could possibly be cleaned up and put back on the road! Unlike its 70s decendants... 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post jjb1970 Posted January 7 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 7 Steel is a wonderful material. People like to dismiss it as old and so yesterday but it's overall balance of strength, ease of working, fatigue properties and cost are still as good as it gets for many applications. Corrosion needs to be managed but that can be done. One of my favourite misnomer is 'lightweight steel', much loved by cyclists especially. The weight of different steel grade varies very little, what people are talking about is high strength steel. Things like expensive steel bicycles and modern cars use ultra-high strength steels which allow much thinner gauge tubes and such like. The product may be lighter but it's not because the steel is lighter, it's because there is less of it. 9 3 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post monkeysarefun Posted January 7 Popular Post Share Posted January 7 (edited) 47 minutes ago, jjb1970 said: een bucketing down all day here, which is unusual. It rains pretty much everyday, but usually it is short but very heavy rain. Today it was bucketing down (with thunder) when I woke up at 7am and it is still bucketing down at 8pm. Its been crazy some places here too, especially Queensland. One weather station in Whyanbeel Valley recorded 1948mm over 5 days, and many places are getting hit with 300mm per day. Personally its like Darwin here, sunny days then tropical downpours. The grass is going nuts - I cut it Friday after work and it needs it again now. (well not actually NOW since its nearly midnight but you know what I mean) Next door have an apricot tree on the boundary fence closest to where I am sitting. Fruit bats have discovered the fruit and are going crazy right now fighting over it. I wish I could post the sound of fruit bats fighting, if didnt know what it was I would think aliens have landed.. Edited January 7 by monkeysarefun 2 4 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 21 minutes ago, Hroth said: They used good steel back then, if it wasn't for the tree, it could possibly be cleaned up and put back on the road! Unlike its 70s decendants... Theres an amazing amount of old cars dumped in the desert where they broke down. As the price of old cars increases many are being hunted down and restored. 11 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 18 minutes ago, jjb1970 said: Steel is a wonderful material. People like to dismiss it as old and so yesterday but it's overall balance of strength, ease of working, fatigue properties and cost are still as good as it gets for many applications. Corrosion needs to be managed but that can be done. Then theres those who go on about Australia exporting coal in a simplistic argument about how we should stop it because we are destroying the planet , ignoring or being completely ignorant of the fact that the majority of it is high-grade metallurgical coal, without which carbon steel can't be produced unless there's some new-fangled Vegetarian steelworks that I am unaware of. 9 3 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post grandadbob Posted January 7 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 7 A'noon all, Another one late on parade, apart from getting up later than usual (The Boss brought me up a muggatea), once again other things got in the way. Multiple admin tasks needed sorting out including assisting The Boss with some online shopping. Started to try and sort out the travel insurance yesterday but a couple of phone calls are needed so I'm leaving that until tomorrow, not in the mood for it today. The rest of the day will be leisurely and as usual will include watching a Rugby match. Enjoy the rest of your day if you can, Bob. 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post grandadbob Posted January 7 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 7 (edited) My second car in 1966/67 was a 1953 A40 Somerset which I bought for IIRC £10 as it needed a lot of work doing which seemed like a plan at the time. Pah! So much work needed that in the 6 months I had it it spent about 5 months off the road as me and my mate "Big Dave" tried to fix it up. As soon as one thing was fixed something else broke so I gave up in the end and drove it (just, it went reluctantly) to the scrap heap. That cured me of DIY car repairs and I vowed never to buy anything in that state again. Edited January 7 by grandadbob 13 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Danemouth Posted January 7 Popular Post Share Posted January 7 Compared with you @grandadbob my first car was much simpler. I did not pass my test until 1977 at the age of 29. My Aunt had bought a Mark 1 Escort brand new 6 years previously and driven just over 5,000 miles before a stroke did huge damage to her. That was my first car - I kept it for two years before buying a brand new Allegro - what a mistake !!! Kept it less than 12 months before buying a brand new Cortina Mk V - talk about chalk and cheese 😁 Dave 17 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7 (edited) 1 hour ago, Hroth said: They used good steel back then, if it wasn't for the tree, it could possibly be cleaned up and put back on the road! If the tree isn't too wide all that will be needed is to remove the wings and front panel (bolt on) and the front crossmember and slide it out. Edited January 7 by PhilJ W 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post PupCam Posted January 7 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 7 3 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: I don't do people, thats a talent I do not possess - before anyone asks why there's no one driving (I have my eye on YOU, @Hroth!) That was close! I was just about to say ... 🤣 ION A nice walk along the Grand Union Canal has been walked with Mrs P. At the furthest point along the tow path there just so happened to be a pub (The Globe Inn, discovered the other day when I was out on a chug) and it would have been rude not to go in and partake in refreshment. I thought this particular narrow boat has a vague relevance to RMWeb. That's the LMS mainline in the background. Alan 23 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post jamie92208 Posted January 7 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 7 3 hours ago, jjb1970 said: Steel is a wonderful material. People like to dismiss it as old and so yesterday but it's overall balance of strength, ease of working, fatigue properties and cost are still as good as it gets for many applications. Corrosion needs to be managed but that can be done. One of my favourite misnomer is 'lightweight steel', much loved by cyclists especially. The weight of different steel grade varies very little, what people are talking about is high strength steel. Things like expensive steel bicycles and modern cars use ultra-high strength steels which allow much thinner gauge tubes and such like. The product may be lighter but it's not because the steel is lighter, it's because there is less of it. Thus my push bike, with a hand built frame of Reynolds 531 is very lightweighand has taken a lot of punishments over the last 27 years. 3 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: Then theres those who go on about Australia exporting coal in a simplistic argument about how we should stop it because we are destroying the planet , ignoring or being completely ignorant of the fact that the majority of it is high-grade metallurgical coal, without which carbon steel can't be produced unless there's some new-fangled Vegetarian steelworks that I am unaware of. Exactly, the opponents of the new coal mine in Whitehaven don't seem to realise that it's for metallurgical coal, thus saving importing the stuff from thousands of miles away. Jamie 15 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted January 7 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 7 (edited) I went to church as usual, all went well at the service and we remembered to light the candles. There were more people there than sometimes including a few new faces. I came back home, had coffee and finished the e mails and cooked a simple dinner. I cheated today - a frozen ready to cook chicken pie followed by a sponge pudding. Both were very tasty. Which reminds me - assuming I get an indication tomorrow when I see the consultant of a date for surgery I must start to organise easy to prepare meals for while I recuperate. I will also need to find someone to do some cleaning - I think there are some local firms offering cleaning services so I will have to contact them. After lunch I got on with some modelling, I have added two platforms to the Swiss n gauge layout and there is one still to complete. For now I am pinning down the surfaces rather than using glue just in case there are clearance problems when I run stock from a later time period. Then there was another phone call, now I have just had a cup of tea and can relax. Obviously I will watch Vera and try to spot the places where it was filmed. I realised today that one of the places in the Christmas episode was filmed about two miles away. I thought I knew Northumberland quite well after living here for over 43 years. I find it fascinating how programme makers can use locations many miles apart and make it look as though they are only a few minutes from each other. Weatherwise it has been colder, up to 4C at lunchtime with rainoin and off. There was a glimpse of sunshine now and then. During the week the temperature will be between 4C and 7C, both day and night if the Met Office have got it right. Inland there was a sharp frost last night. David Edited January 7 by DaveF 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 ... The answer, in this alternate universe, is still 42, but the question is “where the hell did I put that?” .... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/covid-enquiry-phase-1-report-and-a-career-after-retirement/ 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post PhilJ W Posted January 7 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 7 Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Nipped down to Tess Coes this afternoon for a few things I'd forgotten on Friday. While I was there I grabbed a few things from the reduced to clear cabinet. When I left the store there was some very cold drizzle and according to the forecast there is the possibility of a few snow flurries tomorrow. 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7 2 hours ago, PupCam said: I thought this particular narrow boat has a vague relevance to RMWeb. That's the LMS mainline in the background. Rail Replacement service for the floods??? 1 1 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PupCam Posted January 7 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7 9 minutes ago, Gwiwer said: Rail Replacement service for the floods??? Faster than a bus ...... 🤣 1 1 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 (edited) 18 minutes ago, PupCam said: Faster than a bus ...... 🤣 Only if it's going in the direction YOU want to go! Otherwise it might be quicker to walk. At canal speed of 4mph plus locks (15 minutes a lock) it STILL may be quicker to walk! The LMS had fingers in many pies... https://www.lmssociety.org.uk/topics/canals.shtml Edited January 7 by Hroth Info on LMS canal interests 8 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Barry O Posted January 7 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 7 Watching the Red Zone.. New York Jets are playing.. in the snow... Why watching the End Zone? Trying to keep a very large very back Black beastie in place. 46 years ago I was in the last year at Uni. Finals were looming as were a couple of very important dissertations.. then the big C took my old mum away from us... Found out today my late cousins' (who also succumbed to the big C ) daughter is on Palliative Care. .. again from the big C... Life is a bugg£r sometimes.... Bas 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted January 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7 2 hours ago, jamie92208 said: Exactly, the opponents of the new coal mine in Whitehaven don't seem to realise that it's for metallurgical coal, thus saving importing the stuff from thousands of miles away. Jamie Ah but those in charge of government purse strings have decided not to support the creation of new steel and only the use of arc furnaces to recycle steel. Iron and steel products can be recycled forever provided the energy is there and today that would be from wind. All very eco-friendly. The concept seems sound until you realise that every tin can that does not get put in the recycle bin, every nail that rusts away, every bit of rusting metal that drops the rust to the ground and does not get recycled means that the infinite cycle starts to run down. the short sighted views of politicians whose competence with science and the environment stopped with a PPE degree from Oxbridge. 9 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post The White Rabbit Posted January 7 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 7 13 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said: And old boss of mine used to joke about how much lawyers are paid to argue about where to put the commas. That is a good example. 11 hours ago, iL Dottore said: There was a most enjoyable little book about grammar that came out a few years ago called “Eats Shoots and Leaves” - with a paragraph or two that explained how a comma can make a big differences to the meaning (“eats, shoots and leaves” vs “eats shoots and leaves”). It was a light read which had the benefit of sprucing up one’s grammar. ... If I can offer: And for those having troubles with black dogs... I'll always be happy to offer you a spare clip... 13 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 7 minutes ago, The White Rabbit said: And for those having troubles with black dogs... The trouble is, you have to let them attempt to tear your throat out before a helpful chap turns up to empty his revolver into it! 10 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium The White Rabbit Posted January 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7 2 minutes ago, Hroth said: The trouble is, you have to let them attempt to tear your throat out before a helpful chap turns up to empty his revolver into it! Oh, that Edwardian sense of 'fair play'... 😉 Well, I'm not a gentleman. Which may explain why I favour automatics, preferably those with a large magazine capacity. And I file my bullets' noses .... I'll let Jeeves explain why! 11 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted January 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7 Unfortunately a revolver won't stop Black Shuck. 7 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 My first car was a 10 year old Austin Cambridge, the old round one, not the later one with fins. PCA 602 still remember the reg number to this day, bench seat sat three in the front and at least three in the back and you could fit a few in the boot too. I can't vouch too much for the steel content as there wasn't that much of it left, a mate literally stuck his head through a hole in one of the wings. Davids P40 and lots of old cereal boxes soon tidied it up and a brush paint with some old black gloss from home and it was our gangs transport for several months until it seized and blew up, it seems you cannot choose between petrol or oil, it actually needed both, I was a hard up apprentice at the time and both and beer wasn't an option. 15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erichill16 Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 @Barry O Sorry about you news and mood, hope it’s a good match. 2 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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