Early Risers.

[TheQ]

I will reveal the ramp when it works, V1.0 rarely works.

 

It's being built for the drivers side,  rear door, this is because the "little red driving machine" © Gwiwer, has a rear hatch lower edge  at the ridiculous height of 33 inches. Whereas the side door bottom edge is at about 12 inches and the seat cushion about 6 inches above that.

The problem with that is at the bottom of the doorway it's only 9 inches wide, Ben's likely to dislike a narrow ramp, so I've designed it to fill the triangle between door and car with a tongue entering the car.

 

On the outer edge there's a 5 inch step which Ben cope with on its own, then he'll have 4ft of shallow ramp, which he can stand his entire body on, then there'll be another 5 inch step onto the rear seat .

 

So todays work has been to cut the baseboard, add the step and the underboard reinforcement. As it's screwed and glued, its not going to the car with wet glue so that's the end today..

No doubt at the first fit there will be trimming up to do, then a ridge that hooks the ramp into the car, then the ramp grip ridges cross reinforcement will be fitted before final finishing. 

 

Ben took me for his long walk, I let him go a little further this time, though he wanted to go the full route. On the way back though he wasn't as fair ahead as normal and was quite tired.

 

 

 

Edited December 7, 2023 by TheQ

[monkeysarefun]

49 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

That combination of colour looks remarkably similar to,the scheme chosen by a colleague for  our office in the mid 1980s He was the only one in  when the “choose a colour” chart came round. He wasn’t ever allowed near one again. 

 

 

Was called "Strike Me Pink!" in Chryslers option list.

[polybear]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

Yes Phil. we were savers there and had to close the account.

 

Chances of me using digital banking - nil.  Not after paying for pizzas and mobile phone bills in Paris - not bad considering I was in hospital in the UK having hip surgery at the time.  Pah.

 

Hopefully they refunded you....

[monkeysarefun]

13 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

 

Better break the bong out later as a mark of respect  to BZ 😜

 

 

 

 

 

I recall "Inglan Is A Bitch" was the song on high rotation back then down  here, possibly due to Bob Willis and Geoff Boycott. 

[polybear]

16 minutes ago, TheQ said:

I will reveal the ramp when it works, V1.0 rarely works.

 

It's being built for the drivers side,  rear door, this is because the "little red driving machine" ©, has a rear hatch lower edge  at the ridiculous height of 33 inches. Whereas the side door bottom edge is at about 12 inches and the seat cushion about 6 inches above that.

The problem with that is at the bottom of the doorway it's only 9 inches wide, Ben's likely to dislike a narrow ramp, so I've designed it to fill the triangle between door and car with a tongue entering the car.

 

On the outer edge there's a 5 inch step which Ben cope with on its own, then he'll have 4ft of shallow ramp, which he can stand his entire body on, then there'll be another 5 inch step onto the rear seat .

 

So todays work has been to cut the baseboard, add the step and the underboard reinforcement. As it's screwed and glued, its not going to the car with wet glue. No doubt at the first fit there will be trimming up to do, then a ridge that hooks the ramp into the car, then the ramp grip ridges cross reinforcement will be fitted before final finishing. 

 

Ben took me for his long walk, I let him go a little further this time, though he wanted to go the full route. On the way back though he wasn't as fair ahead as normal and was quite tired.

 

 

 

 

Ben has an idea......

 

[Sidecar Racer]

1 hour ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

Cream -  feel  the difference. If only it had a V8 in there.

 

 

 

 It  would wipe thousands of ££££ off the value . A good example will go for in excess of £50,000 these days .

[New Haven Neil]

16 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Hopefully they refunded you....

 

They did, but not without a lot of back and forth. 'Can you go to the branch to ID' stuff - no I'm in hospital in a different country, and it's &^%ing NOT France!  Oddly I once had to do a refund thing for having been seen off buying car parts on line, and it was very quick and easy. Go figure, as our transatlantic friends say.

 

Talking of seas - the sky seems to have become one, it's wetter in the air than the sea around here.  Boy is it raining and windy.  The sea is all frothy, thus not as wet as the air that is fully occupied with raindrops, so it would seem.

[monkeysarefun]

41 minutes ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

 It  would wipe thousands of ££££ off the value . A good example will go for in excess of £50,000 these days .

 

 

 

Top tip for making  mad stax of cash.  

 

 

 

Buy this ,currently on sale up there

 

 

 

 

Ship it down here  where we go mental for anything Aussie with a V8 in it and sell it.

 

 

 

 

 

Fill your bath with the profits, get naked and roll around  in it. 

 

 

But I get a cut.  (BEFORE your roll around in it) 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 7, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[New Haven Neil]

Ah, that'll 'splain it!

 

[Tony_S]

 

 

 

 

I can see why it used to be possible to,DiY on a Cortina. The lower photo is the engine bay on the,same model as my car, mine is black. It is a 2 litre engine and there isn’t much space. 

[Porkscratching]

They don't want you to fix anything on a car yourself, they want to simply plug it into a computer at the main dealership, probably change a couple of little wicky wicky 50p made in China "sensor" things and say, "that'll be £1015.85 plus vat please..... 

[PupCam]

20 hours ago, PupCam said:

No doubt our attempts to stem the march to "do everything online/on the App" is futile but at least we've got the morale high ground.

 

As I may have mentioned once or twice IT IS WRONG TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THOSE THAT CAN'T OR WON'T DO EVERYTHING ONLINE and in other areas of life apparently any form of discrimination is wrong and quite rightly so.

 

2 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Chances of me using digital banking - nil.  Not after paying for pizzas and mobile phone bills in Paris - not bad considering I was in hospital in the UK having hip surgery at the time.  Pah.

 

And Puppers wheels out his long playing, broken record once again ....

 

The answer isn't always the F............ Internet!    The quicker those in-charge realise, the better it will be.     Yes, I know, a lost cause but I don't care it's still wrong (just like the idea of the universal battery powered electric car but that's a different rant).

 

Alan

[Porkscratching]

Just had a bit of a ruck with British gas on this kind of thing, their "exciting new online account" malarkey, after a couple of laborious contacts with their outsourced "customer service" droids somewhere in the far flung orient, I managed to get back to a nice bill, sent thru the post, that I can pay with cash at the post office, as I've always done quite satisfactorily. 

Paid in late, after the due date, purely as they couldn't /wouldn't send the physical bill without a load of nagging from myself. 

[New Haven Neil]

5 minutes ago, Porkscratching said:

Just had a bit of a ruck with British gas on this kind of thing, their "exciting new online account" malarkey, after a couple of laborious contacts with their outsourced "customer service" droids somewhere in the far flung orient, I managed to get back to a nice bill, sent thru the post, that I can pay with cash at the post office, as I've always done quite satisfactorily. 

Paid in late, after the due date, purely as they couldn't /wouldn't send the physical bill without a load of nagging from myself. 

 

Yup - we recently did the same with IoM Gas, oh sorry they got such a bad reputation they changed their name (like Herpes/Evri) and are now called IoM Energy.  The only way to get any sense out of them at all was to go to the Big City and see a real person at the inquiries counter - but they closed that last month to 'improve our service'. 

 

Constant bills showing no monthly payments made even though we have proof they were, demands for monies, when £400 in credit, etc.  So a paper bill every 2 months, paid slightly late to irritate the computer, at the village Post Office so at least they get something from the transaction.

 

When we call the helpline now we get to speak to a call centre in Scotland, who have no idea about matters Fraggle, and why would they?   It's a different country. So about as much use as HSBC's helpline.....oh did I rant, sorry!

[iL Dottore]

Christmas? Bah, Humbug!

 

Christmas always plays havoc with my waistline, as there are far too many "treats" - both savoury and sweet - to indulge in. Fortunately, I am not a great lover of sweet things but even so, nibbling at all the savoury treats soon puts on the pounds.

 

Having met PB in person, for someone whose diet appears to be entirely comprised of cake, beanz, pizza and fries. I was surprised that he is half the size you'd expect from a Bear on such a high-carb, high-calorie diet has a right to be.

 

I first thought that he must have an overclocked metabolism or summat, then the ominous creakings of a whalebone corset under immense duress became heard and all was made clear....

 

Well I suppose it's an alternative to giving up the LDC

 

Edited December 7, 2023 by iL Dottore
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[Porkscratching]

3 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Christmas? Bah, Humbug!

 

Christmas always plays havoc with my waistline, as there are far too many "treats" - both savoury and sweet - to indulge in. Fortunately, I am not a great lover of sweet things but even so, nibbling at all the savoury treats soon puts on the pounds.

 

Having met PB, in person for someone whose diet appears to be entirely comprised of cake, beanz, pizza and fries. I was surprised that he is half the size you'd expect from a Bear on such a high- carb, high calorie has a right to be.

 

I first thought that he must have an overclocked metabolism or summat, then the ominous creakings of a whalebone corset under immense duress became heard and all was made clear....

 

Well I suppose it's an alternative to giving up LDC

 

Does that come with the detachable suspenders? 

(asking for a friend... ) 

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Still overcast but no rain at least. Washing is in the machine and ready to go but not until this evening when the lower electricity rates kick in. Now to see what I can find in the back of the fridge for dinner.

[jamie92208]

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

That combination of colour looks remarkably similar to,the scheme chosen by a colleague for  our office in the mid 1980s He was the only one in  when the “choose a colour” chart came round. He wasn’t ever allowed near one again. 

There was a craze in the 90's to paint cells in that colour.  10minutes I  there was supposed to calm folk down. 

 

Jamie

[New Haven Neil]

Well that's the rain gauge full - there was 40mm in it this morning, so another 60mm this afternoon.  Garden is all standing water.

[Tony_S]

7 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

There was a craze in the 90's to paint cells in that colour.  10minutes I  there was supposed to calm folk down. 

 

Jamie

I think on our local authority paint chart it was called something like "crushed mulberry"  . 

[Hroth]

2 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Ah, that'll 'splain it!

 

 

Its been like that all day here too, the afternoon has been black, and now its 3 minutes to sunset its even blacker....

 

[woodenhead]

And the day we've booked to go to a Xmas lights display at a country park is today 🤣

 

Been perfect light display perusing weather for days now, the forecast is drizzle by the time we are booked in and dry by the time we leave.

 

Taking a brolley just in case.....

[Winslow Boy]

2 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Ah, that'll 'splain it!

 

Eh lads we've lost Fraggel Rock again. Stop engines.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

I thought retirement would be a slowing-down of things. But Monday I was in Bristol, Tuesday in Bournemouth, Wednesday in Salisbury and this morning in Poole.

It's been raining all day, dark and gloomy. Haven't seen the sun at all...

This afternoon I was in school listening to kiddies read. Everyone was wearing Christmas jumpers; I felt very under- dressed.

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, Tony_S said:

I think on our local authority paint chart it was called something like "crushed mulberry"  . 

That would similar to our local council who paint there vehicles a similar colour. They say it's magenta I won't tell you what we call it but it ain't magenta.