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« on: 24 July 2014, 11:34:47 am »
Maybe they look upon the bike differently? My bike is a toy to be taken out and played with for fun when I want and I consider riding a bike on a motorway to be one of the most boring things there is. No fun in that at all. Especially when the weather is hot, why swelter inside the necessary protective gear when you could be sitting in an air conditioned car?
Some use a bike as much as possible, others use it when they want. A toy rather than a means of transport. I mean, where's the fun in arriving at work dripping wet or sweating buckets depending on the weather?
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« on: 24 July 2014, 11:21:10 am »
Get on to BT. They've recently changed from BTYahoo mail to BT Mail and some of the settings are different. I also use BT and Outlook Express (aka Windows Mail) to download from the servo to my computer rather than webmail. The only time I have problems is if I'm connected via a different ISP (such as when I'm in a hotel or at my mates place in France) but that usually affects sending. I get a similar message to you and sometimes I can't send emails with attachments, sometimes can't send any.
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« on: 22 July 2014, 08:44:45 pm »
Where's the fun in that?
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« on: 22 July 2014, 09:27:41 am »
It gave a reasonable finish but this was on the stone walls on a 600 year old farmhouse in the south of France that had been empty for 6 years. All we wanted to do was to seal the walls and get rid of the spiders and cobwebs. Blasted it with a pressure washer one day, left it to dry out and then sprayed it with white paint. Did the job far quicker than using a brush and got the paint in all the little nooks and crannies but as it was onto stone the finish wasn't really important.
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« on: 21 July 2014, 11:35:02 pm »
Yes, one piece of advice. Buy lots of pairs of disposable overalls, you'll get as much paint on you as the walls.....
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« on: 10 July 2014, 03:48:31 pm »
My daughter started karting when she was 11. A local indoor track did a 'Young Guns' kart school aimed at 8-12 year olds to get them started without having to go out and buy a kart only to find they didn't like it. They used to do events with other circuits so it wasn't something they were doing locally but appeared to be all over the country. Ask at your local tracks to see if they do something similar
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« on: 01 July 2014, 08:34:23 pm »
He has gone awfully quiet.......
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« on: 28 June 2014, 07:19:17 pm »
Hopefully, he's learning to be an engineer and pulling the 106 to bits.......
But I very much doubt it.
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« on: 24 June 2014, 04:50:09 pm »
Never managed to do it myself. Probably because I haven't put the tax disc on the bike in about 5 years, I keep it in my bike jacket pocket.....
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« on: 24 June 2014, 04:48:46 pm »
So now you don't have to get it done to rely on it getting you to work, you've got the chance to do some proper engineering and fix the 106. Or are you going to be like some of the 'engineers' we've got at our place? Sit behind a desk all day, BSc, CEng after their name but no practical experience or aptitude whatsoever. The mark of an engineer is that he wants to take everything to bits whether it needs it or not, just to see how it goes together......
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« on: 24 June 2014, 03:32:10 pm »
Think yourself lucky you aren't buying stuff from the States. For a country where everyone seems to want to sue everyone else at the slightest opportunity, it appears you can put anything you like in an ad for a car or bike. I'm involved, with a couple of friends, in importing cars and the odd bike from the States that are destined for France. As the French are such a pain in the arse (witness Christo if you think I'm joking), they normally get MoT'd and registered here before going to France to be stripped, fully restored and then sold on. We bought an E Type Jag that was described as "mechanically sound but may benefit from some minor cosmetics". I nearly didn't take a trailer to the docks to pick it up, just a can of petrol and a battery pack but thought better of it. Now to me, mechanically sound means that the engine starts, runs and the car can be driven not that it had been hurriedly bolted back together to be sold by someone who had obviously lost interest or ran out of money. Carbs that were seized solid due to having been stored somewhere wet, no fuel lines, engine electrics, brake pipes, battery, clutch lines, water hoses and an engine that appeared to be seized. That one wasn't MoT'd but just sold on as is.
Latest that I picked up a few weeks ago was a 1969 Triumph Bonneville. Again described as running but when I got it the oil tank was attached with a couple of tie wraps, no oil or fuel pipes, all electrics disconnected, no rectifier or Zener, etc. Once I'd got the oil system connected up and pushed it up and down the garden with no plugs in it for ages to get the oil circulated, I tried to get it to start. After about 2 hours of the odd backfire or spit back through the carbs I discovered that the ignition coils were connected arse about face so it never could have run. Eventually got it into a state where it could be tested but came to the conclusion that something described by some as the pinnacle of British motorcycle engineering is probably the reason for the demise of the British motorcycle industry.
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« on: 24 June 2014, 03:02:12 pm »
For everyday use, there is no need for super fast SSD. Not with these prices still. My computer with a regular HDD still boots up faster than I can make cofee.  and with an SSD it would be booted before you've filled the kettle. Prices aren't bad these days, not over here anyway, 250Gb for well under £100 for an internal 2.5" laptop drive. Plenty big enough for a laptop.
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« on: 22 June 2014, 12:22:14 pm »
I-phone is a nice, practical thing. I don't have it, but a friend who is always on the road uses it a lot - for business as well as fun. The biggest problem I know of with a number of people with the iPhone is using it as it's name suggests, as a phone. It appears that each generation seems to get worse, it is a small iPad that will work as a phone if you ask it nicely and the audio quality is pretty poor too. I've always used Nokia as they make phones and most of the network infrastructure too, so with my latest have gone down the Windows phone route. Not because I wanted a Windows phone but because I wanted a Nokia. Since getting it, it does everything an iPhone, or for that matter, an Android device, can do, sometimes better, sometimes not as well, but it will do it. Not only that but my wife tried it and found it so much more intuitive to use than her Samsung Android phone, she changed to one too. Within 2 days she'd sent me a picture message, something she'd never been able to work out how to do in the past! Microsoft released an update against Conficker in 2008 so while it may have been a problem 5 years ago isn't any more. Third party security software will deal with it anyway. True, if you buy a new machine it is unlikely you will be able to run XP on it but if you are keeping an old one then you can stick with what you have and what you know. My point is that just because MS are no longer supporting XP doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a new machine with a supported operating system immediately. What can the new operating systems do that XP can't? Probably quite a lot of things but are they things you need or want to do?
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« on: 22 June 2014, 11:22:44 am »
Personally I don't see what the worry is with Microsoft ceasing support for XP, all their updates ever used to do was cause things that did work properly to stop working. I've a desktop machine that I use for video editing and a laptop that I use for everything else. Both running XP and I doubt that will change. I can use the laptop in the living room (as I am now), in the garden and I can put it in my rucksack when I go away and use it wherever I am. I've never been a great fan of anything with an i in front of it's name as they will only work with something else with an i in front of it's name. I was once given an iPod but found that to load any music onto it I had to install iTunes on my computer which then took a huge amount of disk space and tried to take over everything to do with music files. With any other bog standard mp3 player, I can just copy files over from the laptop and they play.
Windows 8 now integrates calendars, email settings and address book online so does nothing that a Mac can. However, to give the other side of the coin, a friend who is a complete computer numpty went over to a Mac After his son persuaded him that he might find it easier. Most of the time he does but still has problems with things he used to be able to do on a pc that he can't do or aren't as straightforward. He's also changed his phone for an iPhone as he had all sorts of problems getting his previous Samsung Galaxy to work with the Mac and hates it.
As said, you'll pay a lot more for a Mac than an equivalent spec Windows machine but as Apple have their own shops you are likely to get better support than from the ignorant box shifters that work in PC World. It just depends if you need it. You've obviously got on fine with a Windows machine up until now, so what makes you think you'll need it in the future?
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« on: 22 June 2014, 09:16:01 am »
The 1.4 Peugeot petrol engine is nigh on bulletproof as long as the cam belt is changed. I bought a 1.4 306 for my daughter as her first car and it ran forever despite her having raced karts from the age of 11 so treated everything else on the road as a competitor that must be overtaken at all costs. There's a coolant hose at the back of the engine that gets oil on it so goes all soft and squidgy which will burst at the most inappropriate time and they weep oil out of the front right corner of the head gasket (but will do that forever and isn't a reason to change the head gasket as you seem to feel that is beyond you).
But what has caused the sudden change from not wanting to repair the 106, not wanting a car and wanting to get the bike thrown back together again?
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« on: 20 June 2014, 09:38:16 pm »
Where's the flags then?
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« on: 19 June 2014, 11:19:55 pm »
I'd love to know where you found the gasket for £14 though, when I did a quick search on my phone, I could only find ones priced at £45!! Although, to be fair, I wasn't looking very hard. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/eugeot-106-1360cc-Diesel-93-On-Head-Gasket-EHG-730B-/261466696178 you probably weren't looking too hard because you don't want to know how cheap the job is going to be. It is a frustrated rant. My parents are saying they're going to spend a ridiculous amount of money they don't really have to solve the problem in a completely irrational way. They are fixating over the fact that it's a bike, I'm only interested in the fact that it's transport, it's there, and requires very little to get me mobile again. How does trying to solve the problem logically in a way that requires the least input in terms of money and time make me a "spoiled brat"? I didn't say it makes you a spoilt brat, I said your ranting is making you sound like one. Face facts, your parents have seen that you, in your own words, have done stupid stuff on bikes. One thing no parent wants to do is to bury their own child so they are offering to spend money that they may not have in the hope that you will outlive them. You're not interested in the fact that it's transport, you want to get back on a bike and see this as an excuse to force the issue. As a parent, I can tell you, the more you push, the more they will push back. Not sure why you think you need a water pump, a CV joint isn't desperate, they'll clatter along for ages so the only thing that is urgent is getting it running. I've shown you where you can get a head gasket, I've told you that you can get a Haynes manual from your local library and, if you want, I can lend you a torque wrench. Christ, you're only down the road, I'd offer to give you a hand but the one thing I am desperately short of at the moment is time. Now get on with it.
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« on: 19 June 2014, 10:07:01 pm »
Not sure what was so wrong about my post and as Dead Eye says, you learn by doing. A 106 diesel head gasket is £13.99 with free delivery from eBay, about the only specialist tool you might need is a torque wrench and you don't need a garage. You've been to my place and seen the garage. Do you seriously think I can get my Range Rover in there to rebuild the top end of the V8 engine? No, because if I get the Range Rover in there I can't get out of it as the garage isn't wide enough so I work on the driveway, no different to you doing it outside. At this time of year you've got about 15 hours of daylight each day (and the temperature isn't below freezing either), so you get up early on a Saturday morning and work on it until it gets dark. If you haven't finished it by then, you get up early on Sunday morning and carry on. The book time is about 5 hours so if you can't get it done in 30 you shouldn't really be attempting anything involving a socket set.
No I haven't ridden with you but your record speaks for itself. I don't know if your coming together with a Merc was in any way your fault or not but you admitted you dropped the ZX on a sliproad purely because you were travelling too fast for the conditions of both the road and the bike.
You claim it's a rant but you are beginning to sound like a spoilt brat would is having a paddy because he isn't getting his own way. Life's like that, you aren't going to get your own way all the time, shit happens. Live with it and learn from it. You never know, get the car sorted and what you learn from doing it yourself may even mean that there will be less on the project bike that you need to farm out to others.
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« on: 19 June 2014, 09:04:06 pm »
Lets get this right. Your parents are funding you through uni so you end up paying them back rather than paying the Government back a student loan for the next 30 years of your life. They've bought you a car and paid for your insurance as they think you will kill yourself on a bike (and they are probably right), you claim to have no money but you've been spending money on bits to make a dogs dinner out of what could have been restored into a mint Fazer and, despite being convinced you can bodge together lots of bits from other bikes into something that will work and look good, you claim to not have the skills to change a bloody head gasket? You can get a Haynes manual from your local library so that won't cost you a penny. Stop moaning, sit down with the manual, look at the pictures and read the words and then get out there and sort it.
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« on: 19 June 2014, 09:06:38 am »
Or just pull the head off and put a new gasket in it? You won't be looking at a huge cost as they all do it sooner or later. Not as inevitable as on a K Series but most of them do it.
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« on: 17 June 2014, 10:04:58 pm »
If it's getting out of the pipes and cap your pipes and cap are knackered to allow it out. Over pressuring on a Peugeot diesel is a sign that the head gasket is on it's way out. You can postpone the inevitable with a bottle of K-Seal but it'll need doing sooner or later. A mate's wife had a 306 estate that started doing it so he took it in for MoT so he could flog it quick with a years ticket. While in the MoT bay with the testers head under the bonnet and the engine running, there was a loud pop and the tester emerged from under the bonnet covered in anti-freeze as the pressure had split the header tank......
It won't get into the oil or try to burn coolant, it'll just put combustion gases into the cooling system.
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« on: 15 June 2014, 10:48:14 am »
I bought a set at the BMF rally about 10 years ago and they get used on odd occasions on rounded off nuts as long as there is enough space to get them in. The big one is good on plumbing fittings too. I was with a mate who is a domestic appliance technician (washing machine repair man) when I bought mine and he got a set too. Reckons he uses them more than the rest of his toolbox put together.
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« on: 15 June 2014, 10:40:18 am »
Yet another to say claim it. You've worked all your life, you've served your country and you've paid far more into the system in NI contributions than you are ever likely to get back out of it. It is by no means scrounging. National Insurance is exactly what the name suggests, insurance. You've paid the premiums now claim the benefit. You've paid the insurance premiums on your bike, if it was stolen you wouldn't just say you can't be bothered with all the paperwork and not claim would you?
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« on: 11 June 2014, 03:44:34 pm »
Money.......
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