Tony B

Welcome, come in and enjoy.

Haven't the US sunk a carrier as well? I know all sorts of things have been placed to create artificial reefs and as part of flood control.

theres another replica at the Eaton Wick Wheels museum. Nice simple project, ford transit chassis ideal. Now where can i find an old transit?

Safe trip! Will be at Oddesey with the 10th Essex trench. Support not vehicle.

Well there's a million odd Euros up the spout. Kick the wife , rape the cat but NEVER hit a bridge!

Hi Mick, welcome in.

Military Mayhem on the 21/22 at Wrotham.

Spoil sport! Just thinking though, the guy in Number One, better not visit Europe! , :-D

Welcome along.

Welcome.

Glad not only me. I changed the plugs on the Dodge the other week. Number six, the one by the firewall blew clean out! Did the plug thread but not the engine, thankfully. The only time I've seen plugs close was on go-karts. The plug batch was defective and the elctrode was getting to hot and bending.

Eh, right work these out! and finally ... STELLA Awards Finalists It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico , where she purchased coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right? That's right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head scratcher handy. Here are the Stellas for this past year: *SEVENTH PLACE* Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son. Start scratching! * SIXTH PLACE * Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbour's hubcaps. Scratch some more... * FIFTH PLACE * Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish. Keep scratching. There are more... Double hand scratching after this one.. *FOURTH PLACE* Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun. Pick a new spot to scratch, you're getting a bald spot.. * THIRD PLACE * Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions? Only two more so ease up on the scratching.... *SECOND PLACE* Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure. Ok. Here we go!! * FIRST PLACE * This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down? $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.

Welcome Chris,. There should be plenty to test you here.

Welcome and enjoy the forum.

Worth cleaning every one of the contacts. Isn't there a local place that would re-build? would be about as much and you know what you have and where it came from.

All tools should be the best quality you can get! Saves on mashed nuts, and I don't mean the metal ones! :cool2: Also knuckles, temper and other bits of the anatomy. In UK the Halfords proffesional and Advanced sets are good value.

Sounds like very dead batteries.

Welcome Tony, you have a nice project there. A lot of information, some even helpful will be coming your way.

One very useful set I've recently aquired, a set of halford's proffesional half moon ratchets. Great for getting into tight spaces and with only a 5 degre ratchet. They are proving very useful.

Lucky you! (Having spent the last two days banging head trying to get a simple alternator belt to work properly:banghead:)

Frost's amd Draper do one, they call it a Radiator flushing tool. a complictaed hosepipe nozzle.

Nice turn out. :-D

could well be linckage full of crud. That's another favourite. Try running backwards and forwards a few times, that can persuade them out.

The work on Hypothermia was done speciffically at the request of the Luftwaffe high command. They were losing many pilots after ditching in the sea. The result of the experiments came into the hands of the US forces, and post WW2 became the basis of standard treatment. The most notable finding being 'You ain't dead till your warm and dead'. For many years the scource of the information was kept, not secret, but not publicised. When it did get into the press there was furorie. There is archive film of the experiments, I've seen some, but was to busy being sick for most of it. As for the US looking for a clean target. The Genie was out of the bottle. They knew the atomic bomb worked. But didn't know how many they would have to drop. So as with any new weapon, you have to able to acesss the effects. It was deliberate exposure to radiation effects post war on soldiers I find questionable. But then I'm judging with the knowledge of hindsight.

Nice one! Thanks for the grin needed it, lousy week.