Went shopping in the Herald, parked in Tesco and when i came back it had a friend behind it. Interesting difference in the technology in the 2 cars! From this angle you don't appreciate the difference in size..... Got the shopping and went for an enjoyable drive to Burwell and round to Wicken and home.

thats very nasty, Acro props a good idea, it is a rather big beam..... What's the plan, rebuild the pillar? Your project is expanding at an alarming rate!

Decided to investigate what was behind the terrible plastering where previous owners knocked through the wall.. Wishing I hadn't. Council are adamant that everything was done properly and that they wouldn't have passed it if the RSJ was really bearing on wood. Neighbour is lending me some acrow props... The wooden frame is for the old forced air heating system. There are also further pieces of wood packing the gap, between the frame and the brick the beam is actually resting on. The other side is also not pretty, but not quite as bad as this.

New Binky!    And they're still w8%$£% about with the  dash! John 

Colin, You corrected me earlier, when I said that a close orbit planet would cause more 'wobble' in its star than one far away.  I'm glad to be corrected, that's what the Common Room of Sideways University is all about!     So I've tried to relieve my ignorance, and found confirmation but no explanation.   I can see that a far orbiting planet will cause its star to 'wobble' more slowly than one close in, but more wobble?   Newton says that gravity depends on the relative masses - unchanged in this thought experiment - and by the  inverse of the square of the distance between them (G=m1 x m2/R^2).   For a far planet, G will be much smaller, so to me, will cause less wobble. My other way of looking at it is to imagine them to be two weights on each end of a bar.   As the bar gets longer, then the centre of gravity of my asymmetric bar will move closer and closer to the heavy end.  The two objects orbit the common centre of mass, which in the planetary case will be inside the star, with the difference between the Centre of Mass and the star's centre being less for a far planet.  So, less wobble! Why am I wrong? Thanks, John.  

Thank you all for the welcome. It's a long story going back nearly years to shortly after I had the car. In a nutshell, when I first fitted the carbs, they worked tolerably but I cleaned them out and really carefully set the float height, pump volumes and other stuff. I'd already noticed that the float height gap was much less than the roughly 14-15mm often specified (can't remember exactly what but may have been half this amount). I made other changes too like Viton needles. Running from that point on was really poor (pick up off idle and progression) but other life things things took over. Now 17 years later I want to sell the car as its too difficult to get into, harder to get out of and underneath and I can't get my head into a small footwell on my back. I'll post a full description of my set-up and other stuff like fuel pressure and how my DHLA45s worked and what I think I've found here in a new thread in the right place. Best, Peter I'll also edit my profile/sig, if I can, to expose my name.

Doh, thank you Roger. Should have six 0s behind it  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(spacecraft)  

It would John. And I have in the past set one up in the garage. There are "issues" however in doing so. Mainly the area with access to the extract fan is a bit congested, the whole garage is a bit congested with CF parts, etc. And getting something set-up there is a fairly significant undertaking. And because of the overall size and awkwardness of the bits getting painted it would have required a good bit of space. And at the end of the day, the paint dust just joined all the other filler dust that had escaped the vacuum system over the last year or so of pattern and mould making for the bonnet. So really needed a deep clean regardless. But yes, pain in the bum...

Hi Mudhut  Had a quick look on Face-ache. No Dave Sideways, just a Dave Sidewayz that looks rather like a bot.

Welcome, mudhut! (we'd love to have a real name to call you by!) Dave was on Facebook a while ago - can't say recently, as I was hacked off that site and am not going back.    He wasn't posting about car related things, but might be willing to give  advice.     John