From: S'mee on
On May 28, 5:09 am, "TOG(a)Toil" <totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 27 May, 18:32, "S'mee" <stevenkei...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > On May 27, 10:57 am, "TOG(a)Toil" <totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk>
> > wrote:
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> > > On 27 May, 16:48, Bob Myers <nospample...(a)address.invalid> wrote:
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> > > > On 5/27/2010 9:13 AM, ? wrote:
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> > > > > On May 27, 1:34 am, "Feeling Gecko-ish""
> > > > > <totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
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> > > > >> But my limited
> > > > >> experience with bike electrics is that they either fail because of
> > > > >> corrosion in the connections (not an issue here) or simply because
> > > > >> they just feel like it.
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> > > > > How pathetic. Solid state electronics have no emotions.
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> > > > Further evidence that you have never in your life actually dealt
> > > > with anything electronic.  Any engineer or technician worth their salt
> > > > knows from long and painful experience that sometimes the parts
> > > > just have it in for you.
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> > > Especially if they're emotional (read: Italian)
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> > Doesn't Lucs now do this sort of thing? I mean solid state...hopefully
> > they've stopped doing that ridiculus habit of pos grounding.- Hide quoted text -
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> No, they leave that to Indian airliners now.- Hide quoted text -

heh, airbus are pretty...tend to break
From: TOG on
On 11 June, 03:34, BrianNZ <br...(a)itnz.co.nz> wrote:

> A mate has a Triumph TR7 with a 3.5 litre Rover V8 in it....crazy car!!

Actually, Triumph themselves built such a car just before they ceased
production. They called it the TR8. It was a common mod, and Triumph
belatedly did it themselves. The car should have had the V8 from the
start.