Escadrille Ecosse

Curious as to why you wouldn't just buy a negative earth one for a TR5/6 (visually idential) and save the hassle However out interest I did a search and found this link which replaces the original mechanical bimetallic innards with a solid state one. The author implies that this is because the originals are unreliable but I have to admit that I have never had one fail even 50 years or so old. This is quite interesting though and makes one think. http://www.britishv8.org/Articles/Voltage-Regulator.htm

Excellent

And another one. The lion in the waiting room is priceless with all the little background details, right town to the shaking microphone

Hopefully more like a Tunnocks Tea Cake and less like a three cornered tart This though is sweet and most unlikely to be disagreeable. Wonderful Aardman...

That will probably do it Annoying little blighters

Some touch up priming on the bonnet buck for the Spitfire after yet more local filling and sanding. Third iteration and it looks like I have finally got the LH crease straight. And I also finished the 'other' Spitfire Mk1. 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron.

Yeah. Slightly concerning. Good luck with the HS8 rebuilds

Steve, I have to ask what that other hydraulic cylinder under the steering rack is for??

Very nice that. Do you do commissions?

Nothing better

And a funny one at that John

Yep! Same thought occurred to me too Do the new ones come with extra links for you to 'cut' to length like a bike? I suspect not. Serious chain that. Must be an interesting job getting it in and out of the chaincase. Must be even worse that trying to replace a tank track.

That is a belter

Always sobering when you are presented with the mortality of close contemporaries. But what a great spot to have a bench to share with folks. And good to have discovered it too

Thanks Nick, and Speedy. Three 916/1 for the Scimitar are on their way from Merlin. They were only £8.80 each which seemed very decent.

Revolutions still use sleeve nuts. However if you give them a call they have lots of options available and very helpful. Sorted me out with replacements for the Scimitar recently.

Well today I had cause to open the non-recycling bin. Jesus wept, the smell.... Apparently my wife had found a dead rat at the back of the garden (!) so she put it in a plastic bag and dumped the thing in the bin. Unfortunately she failed to tie the bag closed and said rat it now pretty ripe. Another two weeks before that bin gets emptied. I suspect the whole street will be smelling it by then.

PU insulation board is often open cell, so yes it does rather soak up resin if used in the finished part rather than as a sealed mould. PU pattern/tooling board is closed cell and significantly more expensive (order of 4 to 5 times the price). The other thing that you can do if using either polyurethane OR polystyrene foams to make a single use mould is to cover it with a flexible release film like the stuff used when making pre-preg carbon parts. It's impervious to both epoxy and polyester resins and is thin and stretchy and can be stuck to the outside of the mould with spray-tack adhesive. Best used on a male mould so the film finish is on the inside of the part. This video shows how although they are using carbon fibre/epoxy the process is the same for polyester/glass. https://www.easycomposites.co.uk/learning/mouldless-composites-laminating

Nice video. Machining out that foam board is a significant task. I think that is PU insulation board and not polystyrene John. That is the 'standard' material for built up foam moulds because it doesn't dissolve in polyester resin.

The Terry Wogan verion is rather 'different' from what I remember... are you allowed to use scissors? " and while I was there she showed me the little fir she'd been growing since she was a teenager and she let me trim it into an interesting shape with some scissors" This is what I remember from my schoolday in Aden, but as it was a long time ago and I was very young maybe I missed some of the plot

Blimey, that wasn't yesterday. Flashback time! It was Janet and John for me though I think? Oh my, a very long time ago...

This isn't VSCC but it is period. And looking back from where we are a different planet. There is a Herald in there too..

Seems only fair...

Like the pic of the Scimitar. Like you say they make a super tow car/camper. Don't have any of mine with the Spitfire on the trailer unfortunately but longest run with that combo was down to Anglesey in convoy with a couple of mates for a sprint weekend. 80mph plus (oops).