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Feb 15, 2019 22:09:31 GMT
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Here's my home office CD rack. Eclectic and also very disorganised if you spot any yoga meditation b0110ck5 or soft pop drivel that's the wife's. This particular rack should present lots of TheThe, The YeahYeahYeahs, Placebo, THE STRANGLERS (best group ever), Roxy Music, John Martyn (saw him live in Brighton just before he died), Nick Drake, Lots of Irish and English folk music, and assorted what-have-yous.
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tristanh
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Feb 15, 2019 22:42:47 GMT
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John M, May You Never is the most soothing song ever. Love it.
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Whether you believe you can, or you cannot, you're probably right.
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luckyseven
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This was the NAUGHTY CORNERluckyseven
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By the way L7 I can't make out the CD in the top right hand corner so I don't know what your guilty pleasure is. We have many of the same CDs though. But... you are a massive Levellers fan by the looks of it, and I own no Levellers at all. Ooops. The other right... I meant to say left Y'know, the entire collection of Abba? Damn, I said it now . Top right is DJ Shadow's The Private Press which isn't embarrassing at all, except the dreadful cover of Seven Days they put in the start of Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift. That was embarrassing You can chart when I started buying CDs instead of vinyl by the cut-off point in the Levellers catalogue. I had to buy the first three albums on CD so I could convert them to MP3 but notice there are no singles from them? That's cos they're all on 12". Which means the incomparable cover of Devil Went Down to Georgia... which I can't play because AFAIK it's only on the B-side of One Way. And Plastic Jeezus. I miss Plastic Jeezus Nick Drake... just superb. I cannot over-emphasise what a loss to music he was. But then, maybe it's exactly because he died so young with so much left un-recorded that what he did leave behind is so precious. The version of Three Hours on Made to Love Magic is easily one of my top ten songs ever, any genre, any artist. Beyond compare. And I grew up fancying his sister in her purple wig on Moonbase And while we're talking of oddities and since you mentioned them... Old Codger, the Stranglers with George Melly. Just sayin'
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jpsmit
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I suppose as I'm back here already (what happened to staying away? It's Bstard's fault. I'm so thrilled to have RR royalty posting in my thread I can't stay away now) that I should probably add a car related update to my progress log. But, if I'm doing my carb I prefer to take the whole carb indoors and do it on the table rather than take the top off in the street to do it there. But that's what we did and the car got running again. It ran fine for a few journeys but that told me nothing as I'd been here twice already previously and then it had crapped out again, so I had no confidence at all about driving the car. Each time I took it for a non-essential drive round it seemed fine though. Naturally, the car wouldn't fire up properly or run right when I tried to restart it. I knew it was fouled plugs once more. So I thought "curse word this. I can't keep cleaning and cooking the plugs every fourth trip I take". So I pulled the entire carb off and took it indoors. Top off again. More grit in the bowl. Not loads, about 4 grains in the bottom, and this time is was black. It would have blown in as we investigated the top, leaving the base open to the wind tunnel of my road. So I decided that maybe to get to the bottom of this, I ought to re-fit the original jets (yes Rev, now's your moment) and run it as it was... even though I'd done about 600 miles on the rejetted carb with absolutely no trouble at all. I went over the whole carb meticulously, gave it all a blast through with canned air and carb cleaner, swapped all the jets back to the originals, put it all carefully back together on my kitchen table and then re-fitted it. Removed the plugs, cleaned them, cooked them, stuck them back in. Car fired up perfectly and has run perfectly about five times since. I keep going out and driving it, bringing it back, letting it cool down. It was fine yesterday, and its fine today. But who knows if it will be tomorrow, or Friday, or whether I will be pulling the plugs again and cooking them at 60º for half an hour before going to Sainsbury's for some eggs. = At this point now I have two thoughts: 1. It's still ruddy cold in terms of air temperature. My carb is fed this very cold air through a very large foam filter. There's no recirculation system, no source of internal air to draw upon. Fuel is less likely to atomise, and its possible that ... along with some grit, a weak battery, and the ruddy cold weather... I had not adjusted my starting method to account for the icy winter air. I may have just impulsively been giving it too much fuel when cranking it from cold and it was simply trickling ice cold petrol into the chambers and instantly flooding them. I need to remember to adopt a winter starting method each time I fire it up for the first time in the morning. 2. I've completely forgotten for now how the throttle linkage and the choke mechanism are supposed to operate together. Next day edit: the old dementia receded just enough last night for me to remember what's meant to happen between choke and throttle. When the choke is pulled it has to tug the throttle position a little way open... which it does. *sinks back into a cloud of barely-formed reminiscence* Not exactly sure what you mean in terms of fouled plugs, but, 1. if by fouled you mean completely wet - then yes, likely too much gas getting in - could be jets too big - hence the conclusion that the old jets work better. 2. If fouled you mean black and sooty then, definitely too much gas and the engine is running far too rich. Again smaller jets could help this. Grit in the carb should not however foul the plugs - I suppose if something got completely stuck open forcing the gas into the cylinders, but, if it does anything it would more likely block things causing the car to stumble - and indeed not start but that would be too little gas not to much. All this makes me think you might have two issues. 1) grit - and perhaps a perishing line if it is coming black (do you have a fuel filter before the carb?) and 2) running far too rich - which was causing the fouling (which could be too much choke too) and of course if I am teaching granny to suck eggs than back to CD's!
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This was the NAUGHTY CORNERjohnthesparky
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Here's my home office CD rack. Eclectic and also very disorganised if you spot any yoga meditation b0110ck5 or soft pop drivel that's the wife's. The moment you get outed for something embarrassing and dodgy you blame your poor wife...... your crocs, now some CDs... if we find out in another 50 pages that it’s your wife’s scimitar, there will be trouble!! (Though it wouldn’t be completely unbelieveable, they have been driven by ladies before, did you know Princess Anne has one!)
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1. if by fouled you mean completely wet - then yes, likely too much gas getting in - could be jets too big - hence the conclusion that the old jets work better. 2. If fouled you mean black and sooty then, definitely too much gas and the engine is running far too rich. Again smaller jets could help this. Grit in the carb should not however foul the plugs - I suppose if something got completely stuck open forcing the gas into the cylinders, but, if it does anything it would more likely block things causing the car to stumble - and indeed not start but that would be too little gas not to much. All this makes me think you might have two issues. 1) grit - and perhaps a perishing line if it is coming black (do you have a fuel filter before the carb?) and 2) running far too rich - which was causing the fouling (which could be too much choke too) and of course if I am teaching granny to suck eggs than back to CD's! Hiya, yes plugs have been completely wetted by raw fuel, no fuzzing, so it's been an overload during starting. That was either going to be lack of spark or way too much fuel. Having had the entire electrics checked and passed it was evident it was fuel. So carb based. I have a fuel filter right before the carb. All fuel lines were checked over but I had replaced all line with brand new about a year ago and it's all in good nick. So from there the rest is inconclusive. The bigger jets caused no problems at all for many months of daily driving before the problem suddenly appeared out of nowhere on the morning of sudden icy cold weather. I had managed to make the car run fine again about three times during investigation - each time I believed the issue must surely be resolved only for it to return a few days later. So putting the old jets back in is not conclusive proof it was the jets at this point as they have only just gone back in. They are only one size bigger after all, and correct for a standard Essex set-up. My feeling is that if They were wrong they would have proven to be wrong from the get-go not X months later (ie they would have been fuzzy rather than merely sodden with raw fuel). Having said that though the original jets are now back in. I've also modified my starting procedure habits (less gas, less choke) and also gapped the plugs a tad for a better spark. And so far so good... So maybe jet size contributed a bit to the problem along with a weak battery and my habitually heavy foot... and maybe I just need to think of these as my winter jet set, and the slightly larger ones as my summer jet set The car ran bloody good on the better jets so they are definitely going back in come springtime proper. As for grit in the carb, again it's not conclusive by any means but there was some in the bowl and in simple terms it appeared it might have been sticking the power valve open and holding the floats down. Cant say for sure that was the problem either, but both things were freed up and cleaned and ... so far so good. I think this was all an 'apparent' issue, caused by a combination of factors all intersecting on the coldest week of the year. This is how the car looked when the trouble began... Time will tell if this latest theory holds true but so far, the issue hasn't returned so I've got further this time than the previous times I thought it had gone over the last few weeks.
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Last Edit: Feb 16, 2019 9:06:38 GMT by Deleted
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jamesd1972
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This was the NAUGHTY CORNERjamesd1972
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Here's my home office CD rack. Eclectic and also very disorganised if you spot any yoga meditation b0110ck5 or soft pop drivel that's the wife's. The moment you get outed for something embarrassing and dodgy you blame your poor wife...... your crocs, now some CDs... if we find out in another 50 pages that it’s your wife’s scimitar, there will be trouble!! (Though it wouldn’t be completely unbelieveable, they have been driven by ladies before, did you know Princess Anne has one!) Ooh I’d forgotten that - didn’t QM ban all Mentions of it in the thread about page 54 though ? Might be why he’s ignored you .... James
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maybe/perhaps/probably nonsense/don listen to me/ i have no idea ..BUT ..try taping up the hole in the scoop?
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maybe/perhaps/probably nonsense/don listen to me/ i have no idea ..BUT ..try taping up the hole in the scoop? Hole in the hoodscoop is snuggly taped up for winter. That was this first thing I did after the weather hit, the trouble began, and I realised I'd never gotten round to making the cover for it that I had intended to. Damned dementia again.
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The moment you get outed for something embarrassing and dodgy you blame your poor wife...... your crocs, now some CDs... if we find out in another 50 pages that it’s your wife’s scimitar, there will be trouble!! (Though it wouldn’t be completely unbelieveable, they have been driven by ladies before, did you know Princess Anne has one!) Ooh I’d forgotten that - didn’t QM ban all Mentions of it in the thread about page 54 though ? Might be why he’s ignored you .... James Princess Ann is banned, yes. I plan to have some cards printed to hand out to people at this year's show visits who tell me the Princess Ann thing as though it's an interesting fact I may not have heard before because only they are knowledgeable enough to know it. It will say something suitably withering, but disguised as a compliment. At the point I hand it to them they they will feel confused but mostly chuffed that I recognissed their unique excellence with a pre-printed card. Then later, once their brain has chewed it over a while and realised what the card actually says in the subtext, they will be haunted by their own stultifying banality for the rest of their pitiful lives. It takes time to craft such a mind bomb, but I'm on It.
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Darkspeed
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This was the NAUGHTY CORNERDarkspeed
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Feb 16, 2019 10:19:46 GMT
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.....and QM pondered...... How could this happen with just that slight overfilling of the soap tank on the pressure washer..... The unified groans of the street could be heard as far a Catford. QM looked down ruefully at the shining holographic Royal Seal of approval on the front of the bottle Snow Foam....... Princess Anne...... Again!
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glenanderson
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This was the NAUGHTY CORNERglenanderson
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Feb 16, 2019 10:57:13 GMT
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Did Princess Anne have one? Who’d have thunk it.
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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Feb 16, 2019 11:34:38 GMT
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how about..
"Yes,i helped convince her "
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Feb 16, 2019 11:50:16 GMT
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how about.. "Yes,i helped convince her " That'll be your Knighthood chances shot to poo then.
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Feb 17, 2019 21:59:12 GMT
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The Naughty Corner Picture of the week...
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Last Edit: Feb 17, 2019 21:59:57 GMT by Deleted
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jamesd1972
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This was the NAUGHTY CORNERjamesd1972
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Feb 17, 2019 22:03:09 GMT
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Is invisible
James
Edit is now visible but not sure if worth the wait
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Last Edit: Feb 17, 2019 22:04:04 GMT by jamesd1972
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Is invisible James Edit is now visible but not sure if worth the wait I didn't realise anyone was waiting for these to be posted I accidentally established a theme for these pics of the week... car + girl or girls. Not in an ogling pin-up, ditzy bird slouched obediently across a hot rod way but just in a "females are into this stuff too but are not very present in the material of the old car scene" way. If there's one thing I do dislike about any car scene is they all smell of testicles. Trouble with my chosen theme though is there literally aren't many pictures of girls + cars that don't feature bikinis and vacuous smiles, so I'm struggling to maintain that theme already and passing by a lot of really cool pics just to select the one that fits the theme. So I'm going to abandon that and just go for the best image each time now. These are from a huge and growing treasure trove of original hot rod images I get about once a week from a friend in the US.
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Feb 18, 2019 10:54:10 GMT
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Sorry to shatter your innocence but that girl in the 32 is smiling as she is being pleasured by her partners head in her lap
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Feb 18, 2019 14:51:44 GMT
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EEEEEEEEEWWWWW >...... MARK !!!
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Feb 18, 2019 16:17:00 GMT
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EEEEEEEEEWWWWW >...... MARK !!! What's eeeeewwwwwww about it?
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