what grinds your gears

[melted welly]

Cold starts. Why on earth would you film and post 20 minutes of faffing / cranking / smoke billowing on Youtube. ?
It's something to be embarrassed about rather than celebrated surely ?

Stops the kids pestering to watch YouTube tho, 5 mins of some old train coughing and farting into life.......

 

[smcapstick]

Stops the kids pestering to watch YouTube tho, 5 mins of some old train coughing and farting into life.......

If it's a Deltic, I could just about manage to sit through it...

 

[Ley253]

If it's a Deltic, I could just about manage to sit through it...

Used to service the cartridge starter fitted to some of those.First thing you did was look through a little window, to make sure the piston was fully returned. If not the whole starter was wrapped in a red bag, placed in a red box, sealed and returned to the manufactures! Any attempt to service one with a stuck piston was fraught with danger, the piston could be ejected from the bore with enough power to punch a hole in a brick wall, the walls of the I C E shop in Portland dockyard, had a couple of neat holes them!

 

[JWL]

Well, after a damned long day changing the engine in my Defender, got it going after reprogramming the injectors and on the way home the damned thing loses all drive. Bugger, the clutch that came with the engine was nearly new, date stamped March 2017 so it would have been impolite not to use it, seems like that was a mistake. Looks like it's all got to come out again

 

[Alicecow]

I did use Oven pride, 2 times on the worst bits. It does get the stuff off but seems only to do a layer at a time.
When finished as much as I could get off I switched them both on to hot and that did clean up a bit more as well as getting rid of the toxic fumes. Wife did come home with a bar of chocolate for my reward

Mr Muscle spray on mousse/foam for the vertical bits

 

[smcapstick]

Somebody keeps making offers on something I have for sale (this thing is thousands of pounds, so nothing paltry).

Their early offers were laughable - a sixth of the advertised price. The most recent offer, though, is half reasonable. Unfortunately, throughout this process, they have been incognito and completely ignore my requests for him to call me to discuss the machine in question. He won't give me his name, number, whereabouts... anything. I've half a mind to tell him to f**k off.

Why can't people pick the phone up, like grown-ups do?

 

[Sharpy]

Somebody keeps making offers on something I have for sale (this thing is thousands of pounds, so nothing paltry).

Their early offers were laughable - a sixth of the advertised price. The most recent offer, though, is half reasonable. Unfortunately, throughout this process, they have been incognito and completely ignore my requests for him to call me to discuss the machine in question. He won't give me his name, number, whereabouts... anything. I've half a mind to tell him to fudge off.

Why can't people pick the phone up, like grown-ups do?

Either he is not grown up or, much more likely he is a knob. No cure for that, sorry.

 

[Lofty1984]

Somebody keeps making offers on something I have for sale (this thing is thousands of pounds, so nothing paltry).

Their early offers were laughable - a sixth of the advertised price. The most recent offer, though, is half reasonable. Unfortunately, throughout this process, they have been incognito and completely ignore my requests for him to call me to discuss the machine in question. He won't give me his name, number, whereabouts... anything. I've half a mind to tell him to fudge off.

Why can't people pick the phone up, like grown-ups do?

I’ll give you £10 cash stretch to £15 if you can deliver by Saturday

 

[smcapstick]

Either he is not grown up or, much more likely he is a knob. No cure for that, sorry.

Almost certainly the latter. I hate eBay!

I’ll give you £10 cash stretch to £15 if you can deliver by Saturday

You must use eBay a lot!

 

[Kiwi Pete]

People casing my stuff and trying to bluff their way out of being caught... really sh1!s me.

Wifey was tucked up for an afternoon rest with small boy, heard the dog light up... saw a car at the end of the road.
Put her boots on to go and investigate - two local dropkicks standing in the shed poking around!!

"What the f**k are you up to??"
"Oh, um, we knocked on the door but no-one came, but Sarah said we could come and pick mushrooms anytime we like"

"I am Sarah, now, f**k right off and I may not call the police"

the nerve of some folk

 

[Mac10]

When people say something along the lines of 'I'll see what I can do and call you back'.

Quite often you know as soon as you put the phone down that they won't be calling back

 

[Ley253]

When people say something along the lines of 'I'll see what I can do and call you back'.

Quite often you know as soon as you put the phone down that they won't be calling back

Dont you mean,before you put the phone down!

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

People casing my stuff and trying to bluff their way out of being caught... really sh1!s me.

Wifey was tucked up for an afternoon rest with small boy, heard the dog light up... saw a car at the end of the road.
Put her boots on to go and investigate - two local dropkicks standing in the shed poking around!!

"What the fudge are you up to??"
"Oh, um, we knocked on the door but no-one came, but Sarah said we could come and pick mushrooms anytime we like"

"I am Sarah, now, fudge right off and I may not call the police"

the nerve of some folk

Sounds like our not-so-travelling neighbours at times

 

[smcapstick]

BORING, REPETITIVE DULLARD ALERT

Blinkin' eBay, again! Some drongo has pinched some of my pictures to sell something... but the 'oik using my photos' button has been removed from the report function. Now, you have to print off a form and fax it to eBay to have it reviewed.

How annoying is that?!

 

[phillipe]

BORING, REPETITIVE DULLARD ALERT

Blinkin' eBay, again! Some drongo has pinched some of my pictures to sell something... but the 'oik using my photos' button has been removed from the report function. Now, you have to print off a form and fax it to eBay to have it reviewed.

How annoying is that?!

List the item no and i will report it

 

[smcapstick]

List the item no and i will report it

Thanks

It's 263497281098. It's only the last two pictures... but it's the principal of the matter. This is the swine that left me a negative feedback (now removed be eBay), too.

 

[phillipe]

Thanks

It's 263497281098. It's only the last two pictures... but it's the principal of the matter. This is the swine that left me a negative feedback (now removed be eBay), too.

Duals ?

 

[smcapstick]

Duals ?

Yep. Rough old Bettinsons.

He gave £40 for them (they were usable when he bought them. He wrenched them off with a crowbar and ripped both tubes... then demanded a refund from me!), stupidly thinking he could put the tyres on his tractor and go hurtling down the road. Had he bothered to ask beforehand, I would have told him they were too old to be removed.

Awful customer.

 

[phillipe]

Yep. Rough old Bettinsons.

He gave £40 for them (they were usable when he bought them. He wrenched them off with a crowbar and ripped both tubes... then demanded a refund from me!), stupidly thinking he could put the tyres on his tractor and go hurtling down the road. Had he bothered to ask beforehand, I would have told him they were too old to be removed.

Awful customer.

Done

 

[sawdust]

People casing my stuff and trying to bluff their way out of being caught... really sh1!s me.

Wifey was tucked up for an afternoon rest with small boy, heard the dog light up... saw a car at the end of the road.
Put her boots on to go and investigate - two local dropkicks standing in the shed poking around!!

"What the fudge are you up to??"
"Oh, um, we knocked on the door but no-one came, but Sarah said we could come and pick mushrooms anytime we like"

"I am Sarah, now, fudge right off and I may not call the police"

the nerve of some folk

Your good lady swears a fair bit, eh...