The Dark Wob

Likewise my range rover had been run up to temperature a couple of times a year and driven round the paddock, brakes are screwed though still...

I finally managed to wear out the road-pattern Avon tyres that came fitted to my Disco when I bought it nearly 2 years ago, so I got a set of my preferred General Grabber AT tyres fitted yesterday ready for winter.

Although the usual predicted snowmageddon will no doubt turn out to be no more than a few flakes of snow for a day or so.

General Grabber? ROFL. Sounds like a Viz character.

Ha! It does indeed

I can't stretch to a Nissan NV200 , so i've been welding up my T4 ..The near side underside has rusted right through in places . It's still new though innit ? I bought it brand new a few years ago.. in 2000 actually . That's 20 years ago !!! They hide their rust well , under the VW p.u. underseal . What a shit job it is that is to get off .

And I'm reading " Spreading my Wings " by Diana Barnato Walker .. Woolf Barnato was her father , Le mans Bentley boy , 3 times winner in the 20's ..Good book , my wife used to groom for her , when she was Master of Old Surrey Foxhounds , and she flew a few planes in the 2nd WW ,and was the first woman to break the sound barrier in a EE Lightning.. Quite a woman

I didn't know any women had flown Lightnings.

Well you do now . First English woman i shoulda said , 1262 mph , mach 1.65 . Apparently it goes dead quiet in the plane cockpit , as you leave all the sound behind .So a Lightning is a bit like a Beetle , or a Porsche 911

I've made slight progress with the repair of the Landrover's wiper box. As mentioned a few posts back, the connecting rod bush is knacked, and I soon gave up trying to buy another motor for spares as they make stupid money. I thought it would take no time at all to turn up a new bush, but it might take a bit longer to get the ancient lathe I fetched yesterday working. I paid dearly for it- the borrowed Pug van had its heater fan stuck on full so I endured 4 hours of it hissing away. I've had 3 lathes over the years, all of them completely shagged out. However, this one still has some life in it which should enable me to keep turning in my grave.

cros wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2019 2:30 pm turning in my grave.

Very good

I've always wanted a lathe, not that I have any idea how to use them. But they look damn handy in the corner of a workshop next to a milling machine I couldn't use either.