Cobber replied to the topic 'MGF & TF book by Tim Morris' in the forum. 2 days ago

Still it might go some way to explain why the came to the momentous decisions they did.

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Cobber replied to the topic 'Winter is coming!' in the forum. 2 days ago

I concur with my learned colleague, the #1 priority without a shadow of doubt, must be the low water alarm!
You are hereby sentenced to fit your low water alarm at the earliest opportunity and then to be put on a 12 month bad behavior bond requiring you to hoon about in your MG and in doing so annoy the neighbors as much as hoonanly possible!

I'm on a roll today this makes two new words I've coined today  "Hoonanly" to drive with the characteristic manner of a hoon .....and the other new word (used elsewhere) is "Scrotesque" to resemble a wrinkly old ball bag  you're probably rolling you eyes and thinking here he goes again....this bloke is the Bard of Bullshit.... I don't blame you! Oh shit there's the perfect new nickname for a old mate of mine "the Bard of Bullshit" describes him to a 'T'
I better go before I drown you poor bastards in verbal diarrhoea

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Cobber replied to the topic 'MGF & TF book by Tim Morris' in the forum. 2 days ago

When it shows up I'll give it a review, though I don't know how much he could further enlighten us with little pearls of wisdom regarding our cars.
The collective wisdom of this forum is probably the premier reference source of information on our cars as it not only has many mental data bases, but also many takes and angles on a given situation and is constantly evolving and updating.
 

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Cobber created a new topic ' Some odd stuff going on' in the forum. 2 days ago

Ok there is some decidedly odd stuff going on with the site.
1st I noticed the size format of the display is suddenly presenting much larger.
So I put up a thread asking about it and the noticed that when I come across one of my own posts, it displays a giant gender symbol and a giant birthday cake symbol within my post.
(Probably only I see it)
Next thing is the whole thread disappears without trace
it's happening on my Macbook Pro and ipad both running up to date OS and using Fire fox browser.
I fired up an old Windows POS also running fire fox and it's not doing it on that
Below are some screenshots to show what I'm talking about:




 

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Cobber replied to the topic 'Is it just me or........' in the forum. 2 days ago

Whatever it is, I don't like it.
Way to bloody trippy for my taste..............NO SIR I don't like it!

 

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Cobber replied to the topic 'Is it just me or........' in the forum. 2 days ago

OK there is some weird shit goin' on.....that's not how it displays either!

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Cobber created a new topic ' Is it just me or........' in the forum. 2 days ago

I dunno if I've accidentally triggered some hidden display function, but the forum is showing in a much larger format today on my Macbook, I checked it on my iPad and it's the same???
This is how it displays



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Cobber created a new topic ' MGF & TF book by Tim Morris' in the forum. 2 days ago

Has anyone read this book?
: MGF & TF Tim Morris ISBN9781398118096
 



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Cobber replied to the topic 'Oil pressure gauge' in the forum. 6 days ago

It's not an oil pressure gauge it's an oil temp gauge and a bloody useless one at that, it's about as handy as tits on a bull!........just ignore it!

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We cut short our walk & returned to camp early after twisting my foot & so I started to go through STUFF on my phone to see if I could track down The Mesh Company. I did & they are in Warrington & yes they’re called The Mesh Company, they’re on eBay. 
I have bought several types for various jobs, the nicest in my opinion for our job is what I refer to as “Bentley Radiator Mesh”, it is not called that on their web site. It can be used either way round depending on preference, the intake picture was taken to illustrate scale of the ram pipe, however it shows the mesh reasonable well. 
more info in a week if required. 
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Ah yes that type of weld mesh has a wave crinkle texture formed in to the wires, it's more attractive than the straight wired weld mesh.

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One thing I forgot to mention...

With this type of mesh, the crossing wires are not welded so the smaller pieces tend to come apart if you aren't careful. I fixed them in various ways. Using body fixings, Araldite and a hot glue gun. The glue gun was easiest but not the neatest (see the front grille)
 
I've done the maintenance engineering in wire mesh manufacturing plants.
Actually it is welded, but not in the sense you might think, the machine that makes it takes the long wires from spools and the cross wires that are either pre cut lengths laid across, or taken off spools, laid across and cut it situ, then the two directions of wires are pressed together and an electrical current applied to fuse the wires together.
These welds strength is limited by the thickness of the wires used, very thin wires can only bare a small amount of electrical current  before overheating so as a result this can limit the strength of the welds. the current used can be effectively varied by the dwell (amount of time a given current is applied) or the strength of the current itself
Thicker mesh such as the reinforcing mesh used in concrete has very strong welds done in the same manner but with a shit load more current put through it.
The expanded security mesh I mentioned is punched by a machine from a solid sheet of metal into a mesh with a bit of a cheese grater like wavy textured pattern, it is much stronger and to me it looks better.

 

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There always were many purveyors of  precut stainless steel mesh inserts on ebay, but you could source some mesh in a sheet and easily cut your own, I'd be inclined to go for the stainless stuff used in security doors..... leave it unpainted, or if you don't like how that looks paint it black or any other colour you like, tough I suspect natural SS or black would probably look best!

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Cobber replied to the topic 'Under floor coolant pipes in Oz.' in the forum. 7 days ago

Well the bad news is my car still has steel pipes fitted, and they are showing signs of corrosion little flaky blistered patches on the out side (the insides will no doubt, be worse)
So I'm afraid that I'll be needing the nice shiny new SS set I have.

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