GeePig

17 hours ago, Baz48 said:

If it is merely the most common form of dating an item or event then it seems sensible to use it as a standard some how 1944 June 6 to me doesn't flow as easily as the 6th of June 1944 - a personal opinion 

The YYYY-MM-DD format is 1944-06-06, which many Windows desktop and laptop machines use in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. I was not suggesting that it should be used here.

Trevor

20 hours ago, gordonb said:

That's what I needed, thanks. My other annoyance, not confined to this forum, is why as screen resolutions improve all the time, are logos and things an sites getting bigger? You'd think they would get smaller so as to get more content on screen. You got more content on the screen in the days of Windows 3.1 than you do now.

Gordon

I don't know, I seem to have plenty of room for graphics on my desktop screen

trevor

I imagine that if someone had the time and a spare head to play with, it should be easy to figure out.

trevor

10 hours ago, Degsy said:

In Britain the date has always been written as DD/MM/YYYY ...

Sadly not true, as with most generalisms with language, it is merely the most common form. Over the years I have learned to appreciate the YYYY-MM-DD format, as I have to edit texts from all over the world, but I do not feel the need for a birthday function on this forum.

trevor, in Poland

30 minutes ago, Joris said:

 Thanks for the feedback everybody, I'm going to add the requested changes to the list and see which I can implement and which are not possible.

One thing I don't like is that when you post a link it turns into a preview, am I the only one who hates that?

Depends on what you want out of a link, I suppose. However, there is a message below it when you are pasting it in that asks if you want the preview or a plain link. I think the plain type would be better as the default.

trevor

That sounds like one mean sewing machine. I love using them, so many things become possible that one never considered before. Just say no to curtains and cushions

trevor

I hope that I can get to see the documentary here in Poland. As it is, these days I am probably physically closer to the memorial tanks in Ukraine than the the one in Ashford, if they are still in position. Maybe one day I will get to see them.

trevor

On 11/1/2017 at 5:31 PM, Citroman said:

Hi Trev, The inscription sais 1 nonienteil = 1/16 dgr. So 1 stripe on the small scale is 1/16 degrees. I have found a similar one that was from 1 881 gun. They were placed on the breech area of the gun. Only difference with the other ones i found is that they are from  0 to 45 degrees, mine goes from 90 to 45 degrees. Is it possible that mine is from a mortar which is used a higher angle?  See also here

http://www.lovettartillery.com/Foot Artillery Gunner's Quadrant.html

 

Ah, I see, the link had a nice little summary as well. I have never seen such weapons fired, and most texts seem to deal with what happens to the projectile after it exits the barrel rather than what happens on the other end of the barrel...

Trevor

Ashford, in Kent, is a nice place to visit, with the remains of a REME workshop, the remains of a major rail depot, the rusting remains of airfield track from the former Advanced Landing Ground, and the remains of a pleasant town centre.

Oh, did I forget to mention the Mk IV female tank? It's real, and it's free to see.

Trevor

Hi Doug, it is indeed from an era where such things were still in development, and it would be interesting to find a paper from that time that gave us some idea. There may even be a patent for it out there.

Four strokes still respond to pipe length, though, which is why on performance cars the exhaust manifold often looks like a bowl of spaghetti in an attempt to fit in a set of primaries of the right, equal length. I just wish I still had access to a dyno to try out this ball design.

Trevor

Nice sewing machine.

Does it have a set of needles? I had a problem with my former sewing machine in that the locating flat on the needle shank was 90 degrees out from any needle I could find.

Trevor

Maybe that downpipe was a tuned length, venting into a 'large' space. The fact that the downpipe extended into the ball while the exit pipe did not could be an attempt to ensure the required tuned length, discourage reverse flows and encourage the gas to escape. It may even have had some silencing qualities, but it is all delightfully mysterious.

trevor

I still wait for a Żuk with a military history, and then try to convince my wife...

I think I know where there is one that, based on its location, was once a border patrol crew van.

trevor

No one is asking you to use Facebook, and this forum is not even close in structure to Facebook, or purpose. Spending time hating other people and their efforts is non-productive, as is trying to prove the past was better when you and I both helped to make the world what it is today.

Just do not give up on the people around you, we can all help. Today I figured out how to put a plain link in a post rather than getting a small summary of the link - and kicked myself for not noticing before the option that appears after I pasted the link to choose which format... another duh moment.

trevor

http://hmvf.co.uk/topic/20590-ww2-20cwt-water-trailerbowser-restoration/?do=findComment&comment=304568

You mean you wanted this link?

Try:

Click the 'share' symbol in the top right of the post

Copy the link that comes up

Paste it in your post - and then the following appears underneath it:   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

So click: 'Display as a link instead'.

trevor

I really do not see how it is harder - there is the same structure, and the text is a bit bigger and easier to read. In fact it is easier to scroll through topics because once you have finished reading the new posts in one thread, there is a convenient link under the last post that will take you to the next thread with unread posts.

trevor

When you say you cannot access the site, what do you see when you try? Some kind of message? Blank screen? A page that fails to complete loading?

I could not access image sites like Flickr for a while a couple of months ago, but the problem disappeared when Firefox updated itself. So it could be your browser or operating system playing around. Have you tried on both a normal computer and smartphone?

trevor

I like the link at the bottom right of a thread that takes you to the next thread with unread posts in that section - I now find myself reading more threads than I used to...

trevor

What is that inscription, I cannot quite make it out.

Can we be sure it is a gun quadrant? I am not that familiar with such things, but I cannot see any attachment points.

trev

May I suggest that you read:

If I may ask, what do you like about the forum? The way I look at it is this: imagine that someone saw your work and said you clearly had worked hard at it, but they did not like this and that. Would you not want to know at least one thing they liked about what you had done, other than work hard?

trevor

15 hours ago, Siegfried said:

 

I suspect that removing the paint to look for any knee grip holes will be a pleasure...

I like the new forum, although getting images into a post was a bit tricky first time through. It looks like a forum, and runs like a forum, but not quite one like from 1997. I would rather people listed the problems they were experiencing, rather than just announcing their woes - because that is one of the functions of this forum, surely?

The lorry looks nice, but I do not trust the paintwork at all, it looks like it was prepped for a filmset.

trevor

13 hours ago, oats and barley said:

here we go again whats a screenshot is that what models do for a portfolio i googled it and it said something about data on the screen and i have also never heard of the condense button or expanded. once again people of a slightly younger era assume everybody is computer literate bit like i cannot walk around talking to a phone in my ear

Googling is good, and when you do it is worth looking at the results to see if it suggests a Wikipedia page. They may be full of waffle, but the pictures can be very informative. A screenshot is what it says on the packet, a 'shot' or 'photograph' of the screen.

For the 'condensed' and 'expanded' buttons they were actually shown on this screenshot:

Anyway, if you have figured out how to post here, you are doing OK.

trevor

To try to make finding the new posts easier, I have made a few screenshots and added some notes.

1. Under the big HMVF logo you should see 'New Posts'. Click on it.

2. This should take you to a page like that shown below. I do not know why it is called 'Unread Content' when the button we clicked was 'New Posts'.

We should be able to see all the new posts. But, if the summaries of the posts are huge like shown below, then we can make smaller (see step 3).

3. To save having to scroll and scroll to see all the new posts, look over towards the right-hand side of the screen, just above our list of 'new posts'. There you should find two text buttons: 'Condensed' and 'Expanded'. Click on 'Condensed'.

4. With any luck, you should now have the new posts listed like shown below. OK, it is never going to look as minimalist as the old forum, but then I am never going to look 20 again.

5. Finally, on the picture above I have added another thing for you to click: clicking on that green dot should take you to the first unread post (and not the 'most recent post' as I wrote on the picture).

Now, if that still does not make sense, then please ask where you are struggling.

trevor