Nick Jones

In Cornwall at present, North Helford. Spotted this out walking this morning. Mint, original and unmolested. Lovely. Saw it again this afternoon on the move with the driver and realised I’d had a conversation with the owner before we even saw the car. Nice older gent with an expensive taste in cameras an excellent taste in cars. Glendurgan Gardens Maze full of kids on a school trip. Ankle-biter sized and noisy, but very polite. In Falmouth this afternoon on Pendennis Point. Very pleasant. Was just about to sit on this bench when I spotted this I knew him….. SWW operator at Falmouth STW (about 800m from the bench), with whom I’ve drunk many a cup of tea. Thoroughly nice man. Found dead in a tank at the works in 2013. I did know he’d died, but it was still a shock to see this. Makes you think. Fine view from his bench though.

I particularly like the second one….

I’m struggling slightly for scale but all the indicators are that this is a BIG ASS chain

Hell no…. Our place would fit in the kitchen….. Lanhydrock house, just southwest of Bodmin ol’ Tigger is looking a bit 2D

giant indoor bbq for the roasting of big beasts…. skewered on these ouch……

Fine collection of Gazunders….

Janet and John….. Damn I’m old……

FWIW, one of the GFE121 equivalents they list is the same 714/2 I use on my sixes. Has double anti drain valves - probably irrelevant to RV8 though.

Mann. https://catalog.mann-filter.com/EU/eng/searchresult/-169293082316042024183748

I’ve got about 5

Yep, that’s done….. 2m of elastic strapping. Not actually Pirelli, something a bit less spendy. Plus some 1mm steel sheet 45 x 90mm bent into an interesting shape. Squeezed and riveted to the strapping. Fiddly, but cheap and effective. Two in place. I think it needs 4. Made at 270mm for 280mm fitted length. Maybe I’ll be looking over the top of the windscreen……

We are just car people. No need to be tribal*. within the same bloody make! *To prove it I have parts from Toyota, Peugeot, Audi, Rover (well, Honda),Volvo, Ford, BMW and even a few Triumph bits in the Vitesse….

That all looks good now Clive. Well done! Not sure I understand about the auto-moderate (one report -or whatever it’s set to- causes a post to be hidden pending human intervention?) Did you add the link to Chris’s Spit thread? If so, many thanks - I could not make the CT forum accept a link - is that a settings thing too? Or technology problems my end?

Thanks Clive. Note that Lucas has two threads running. I’ve commented on the one John replied to (which you may have seen) and out a more constructive reply on the other one. Can’t be scaring the young-uns off!!

I think you should take that up with the forum mods John and demand an explanation! I don’t think that is the Club Triumph way.

Low loading and a “good culture” does allow long intervals. 40 years is fairly exceptional though!

Fortunately we have other facilities. Two in fact now the soil pipe for the downstairs loo is mended. It’s long been an irritation to me that certain family members will walk past two working toilets on the way to use the most distant one that relies on two unreliable pumps to function

Fixed. I cheated. Got my local builder neighbour in…… It’s my job to bury it - but I can manage that.

Well, there is that. Though it’s been on a “no solids” diet for several months following a solids blockage due to low motor torque due the knackered capacitor (this is what caused the capacitor purchase). I’m going to encourage the continuation of the no solids diet.

No Megger. I think the motor itself is behind another layer of sealing, maybe even oil filled. That part of it is fairly decent, it’s the horrible plastic box and fittings it comes in. It’s back in and working….. long may it continue!

Dried it out. Switch treated with WD40 and contact cleaner. DMM now measures infinity (within its low voltage limitations) to earth and across the switch when open. Closed switch reads 0.00. Connected it up outside the box and it seems happy. Phew….. Have spent too long trying to figure out how the water got in. Nothing obvious or provable. Now mostly carefully reassembled (the motor/switch assembly) and developing a testing method to try to head off further disappointment….

I paid £40 for mine. It was a while (1987?!) ago and I think they were about £250 new at the time. It’s a very old one, from the 70s, originally supplied with s-shaped arm, but they are extremely simple, robust things. I did upgrade to the RB300 arm after while which cost about £120 at the time……

Let’s hope…….