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Jul 20, 2020 18:33:16 GMT
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i don’t ever get into offers before someone has seen it. I normally say if you are expecting to turn up and offer 1/2 what it’s advertised then don’t waste your time as I won’t accept it.
I’ve also had issues with people winning on eBay, then turning up and trying the knock the price down. You just have to be VERY firm. I had one guys ‘mate’ turn up to collect who tried to knock it down while he was on the phone to him. In the end I asked to speak to him and said ‘you either pay the agreed price, or I sell it to someone else and your friend gets off my property’. I handed the phone back...something was mumbled and the cash came out!
I can see why some people hate selling cars. Weirdly I kinda like it haha
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Interesting...most of my tools have been gathered over the past 20 odd years, so I never started with a ‘good’ set. Hence the assortment that lives in that box ^^. The Halfords 200 piece set looks pretty comprehensive - although where is the big hammer and grips‽
I have a small metal sliding box which lives in the shed which contains the the tools that aren’t required most of the time (really big spanner’s, imperial sockets, spring compressors, etc...)
I do like the idea of a tool roll for the back of the car...
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Jul 18, 2020 20:29:01 GMT
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These big metal ball bearing cabinets all well and good, but when you spend most of your time working on a driveway or down the lockup, you want something that you can easily moved around. I prefer plastic toolboxes as they are lighter. I also like cantilever ones but I haven’t seen many variants. This is my current one (Stanley)...is not perfect as the hinges are pretty weak - as you can see I’ve strengthened most of them as they’ve come loose What’s everyone else using?
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The last couple of cars I’ve sold have been on Facebook Marketplace (low end £300-£2000). Lots of interest, no fees and easy to filter out people who can’t write very well. I always tell people to message me when they are on their way. This cuts down a LOT on waiting around all day for people who don’t show.
I used to list on eBay but fees for selling cars are quite high and then there is the problem of non paying bidders. I still find it a good place to sell car parts, and other things you can post...
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Last Edit: Jul 5, 2020 16:53:00 GMT by sarkie83
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That's a shame to hear, I was about to pull the trigger on an ender 5 pro - just trying to work out how to fit it in the spare bedroom first! They're not small... What filament were you using? Haha, yeah I didn’t think properly where I was going to put it! I was using PLA - it came with a roll of it to get you started...
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Jun 28, 2020 14:17:37 GMT
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It doesn’t look as neat but you can just crimp a ring terminal on the end then just put a nut on the end... That’s what I did on mine as it was easier an easier way to hook up the electronic ignition.
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Jun 28, 2020 14:12:51 GMT
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My flymo and strummer were ejected from the shed years ago, and live outside all weathers. They still work fine...they just have more ‘patina’
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I’m running green stuff pads on mine, and they seem to stop it pretty well. You need to give the brake pedal a good hard push as it’s not over assisted like modern cars, but I prefer that and find the brakes inspiration confidence.
I do have vented disks on mine...but I’ve never had brake fade with the Capri. I did end up with warped discs when I first had it...but at the time I was using it a lot more fully loaded so the brakes were getting more of a hammering. If i were to do it again, it’s stick with solid discs. Pad area is the same and discs are a LOT cheaper!
I’ve only ever had one car’s brakes properly fade on me. That was on my Passat...5 people, luggage and the B947 Cairn O’ Mount road (my fav road ever!! It’s on the way to my parents and I’ve been driving it since I was 17). Being an auto didn’t help as a lot harder to use engine braking.
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Well it’s nice to hear I’m not alone with my experiences if nothing else I went for the pro version as I thought it would give me a better chance of sidestepping some of the common issues. If nothing else, it saved me some time!
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Firstly the fast and furious drag racing flat out but down shift to go faster - whats that about?! Secondly when cars slide in chases and they're so calm with the wheel unlike me when I've had a slide and my hands are going so fast they become a blur and my face is drained of all colour and I'm sweating bullets!
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My 2¢ would be try getting it printed by a third party before buying an expensive piece of temperamental kit — ie get it printed by a bureau. I"ve had parts printed for my push-bikes, along with button blanks for my Forester by Shapeways in The Netherlands and they're better quality than you can achieve at home and though not exactly cheap - they are still a lot cheaper than buying a printer, buying filament or photo-reactive goop and spending hours and money getting the thing set up. They post things to you within a week and you can also get things done in metal - even silver and gold along with loads of plastic options. Not a shill. Just my experience. For completeness I’m going to add in my experience... So I hit the button on the Ender 5 and watched lots of setup videos while I waited for it to arrive. Construction was a nice calm pleasant experience on the kitchen table...although issue 1 became clear - make sure you have space to put one, as they aren’t the kind of thing you can leave out in the shed! The bed levelling process didn’t seem too bad - it reminded me of doing value clearances I’d downloaded some sample files and slicer program to prepare them - all good. However from that point on it was frustrating failed print after failed print The first few layers laid down ok, but then the nozzle would start to drag on the actual print and just mess up. I tried to be as methodical as possible - gradually changing temperatures, enabling z hop and attempting to reprint between settings.. Unfortunately this was one of those times that being methodical didn’t pay off for me. At the end the nozzle was continually getting clogged and I felt disheartened by the whole thing. ..so I sent it back. I figured I’d leave playing with something temperamental for my bike carbs, I don’t need the stress I think another 5 or so years when the technology is less ‘enthusiast’ I might be tempted to try again.
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Jun 24, 2020 20:19:26 GMT
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Great attitude 'perfection is the enemy of progress' and all that. 100% agree - fair play to you and wish i was more like that!
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Jun 10, 2020 21:47:51 GMT
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If 106’s and 205’s are what has got you interested in retro stuff...then I think you know what you should do General advise - take someone with you to see a car...preferably who knows a bit about them, bit even if not, just another pair of eyes that can look more objectively helps! And don’t buy blind off eBay...yes it’s tempting, but just don’t Fair play for wanting to get stuck in, we all started somewhere...welcome to RR!
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Jun 10, 2020 19:21:32 GMT
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My mate was right - you can't buy patina like this! He’s right - it’s spot on! Loving the stripes against the older paint...works so well. It’s kinda like the look I wanted to do with mine before I got it painted, but didn’t have the balls to follow through on I’ve never bought a new battery for my Capri...I just slap whatever battery I have lying around!
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Jun 10, 2020 19:06:02 GMT
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Have you got anywhere else you can put any of your stuff that you don’t need to access that often? Eg, loft? My Mrs has a habit of dumping things in the shed which I then relocate to the loft!
We did have the tumble dryer in the shed for a couple of years before we had an extension done as there was just no space for it in the house. However, I assume you have a washing a washing machine in the house already? What about a combined washing machine/tumble dryer?
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Jun 10, 2020 18:09:16 GMT
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I’ve been to a normal (as opposed to classic) car auction twice - as there is one near me which is on two evening a week. I went with my brother in law purely out of curiosity rather than looking to buy. I was tempted by a couple of cars that went across the block but kept my eyes down.
One of the cars I was tempted was a mk1 focus ST, but some digging and I found it on a completed eBay action with a detailed description including the knackered clutch (which wasn’t mentioned in the auction details). The just give you the basics - ref, mileage, trim and maybe a 1 line description.
What I didn’t realise how much stuff gets re-auctioned at the next one! I suspect because the person who bought it decided it was worse than originally appeared. At that auction the fees are handed depending on the hammer price. Seller pays and buyer pays, so having cars going across the block week after week is a nice little earner for the auction....hmmm.. In terms of warranty - I think anything over 1k was 1 day for something like engine/gearbox packing up...under 1k...absolutely none.
There seemed to be 3 types of buyer: Dealers (usually a couple of people from the same family) buying stock - probably 3+ cars per eve, People waiting for one specific car they saw advertised (older couple who clearly were going to buy the S type!) , People buying up anything going super cheap (sub 250), either to strip or sell on as cheap driveway sales
It was an interesting experience, but I’d never buy something from one...unless I was playing to strip it for spares personally.
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Last Edit: Jun 10, 2020 18:09:57 GMT by sarkie83
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Green flag some some age restrictions to be aware of. Think it's cars under 10 years old for named car cover, and cars under 16 years old if it's a named plan. I was talking to my father-in-law about this, as his car is now 11 years old, and they were with Green Flag...
Has anyone got any experience of having to call out any of these for other vehicle types? Caravans/motorbikes, etc..?
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So while i'm still doing some research i'e been taking a look around other elements of the 3d printing world (can see I'm going to get sucked in).
I was having a go with some different programs for creating object files from scratch. Tinkercad (https://www.tinkercad.com) I played around with last night...and it was vaguely familiar from my days of playing with Unreal Engine :-) Subtracting from objects, etc.. It's free/only needs a browser and certainly seems a good starting point.
The other area of interest was around 3d scanning...and using an Xbox Kinect sensor to create 3d maps of existing objects. It just so happens I have an old Xbox lying around that never gets used :-D
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I’ve lost count how many times I’ve had to call the AA out Usually they are pretty good, and unlike everyone else on here - twice I’ve asked them to just recover me (once back home, once to the garage I was on my way to), and they happily obliged. However the renewal dance every year is a PITA...reading some of the above I’m tempted to give AutoAid a go. Once while being recovered I got chatting to the driver about what the weirdest thing he’d had to recover was: He said once he got a call to recover a car that had been in an accident the night before that the police had attended. The car was upside down in a ditch on its roof. When he flipped it back over there was a dead woman in the passenger seat. The driver had been taken to the hospital but either didn’t mention, or assumed the passenger had as well
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Thanks for the replies so far - the Ender-5 was the one that I’d been considering: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07KT67PPC/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_9X53EbCRM8YDVThe ability to add an outside case further down the line, etc.. seems to make sense if I end up trying to print ABS. I didn’t realise before staring to look how much of a scene there is for them...upgrades and mods is making me think about Hop-Ups for Tamiya RC cars 🙂
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