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From: crn on 26 Jun 2010 20:48 Salad Dodger <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:02:09 +0000 (UTC), "SIRPip" > <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote: > > >> > >> Oddly, many of my school reports mention "easily led".... > > > >One of mine mentioned "Tends to be the class clown". > > My mother's favourite was "What more can I say, this boy is brilliant > but bone idle". "Clive is trying" -- 03 GS500K2 76 Honda 400/4 project 78 Honda 400/4 in black 06 Sukida SK50QT (Slanty eyed shopping trolley)
From: stephen.packer on 27 Jun 2010 03:02 <crn(a)NOSPAM.netunix.com> wrote: > Salad Dodger <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:02:09 +0000 (UTC), "SIRPip" > > <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote: > > > > >> > > >> Oddly, many of my school reports mention "easily led".... > > > > > >One of mine mentioned "Tends to be the class clown". > > > > My mother's favourite was "What more can I say, this boy is brilliant > > but bone idle". > > "Clive is trying" "... hard but not achieving very much"
From: sweller on 27 Jun 2010 03:44 Grimly Curmudgeon wrote: > The decent kit stays in the workshop for proper use where it counts and > everywhere else I'm likely to need fettling tools is populated with > adequate cheaper gear. I'm much the same - decent Facom/Elora stuff in the workshop and on the bike "get you home" tools are cheapies. Annoyingly, I've had to buy another set of imperial spanners and sockets as I needed to build an on the car set and my existing good ones had suffered at my banger racing and youthful hands the last time I ran old British cars in anger. Certain sizes were showing their age... Fortunately, I can source locally single Elora spanners or sockets in AF, Whitworth, BA or metric. -- Simon
From: SIRPip on 27 Jun 2010 05:19 Grimly Curmudgeon wrote: > We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > drugs began to take hold. I remember "SIRPip" <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> > saying something like: > > > I'm turning even more pikey as I get older, aren't I? > > I do the same. > The decent kit stays in the workshop for proper use where it counts > and everywhere else I'm likely to need fettling tools is populated > with adequate cheaper gear. So far I've found the Lidl and Aldi > spanners to be more than up to the jobs they've been put to, and no > great loss if they get nicked/misplaced. Exactly. The good stuff lives in the proper boxes, the odds and sods and cheapies live around workshops, at point of use and need. -- SIRPip : B12
From: SIRPip on 27 Jun 2010 05:35
sweller wrote: > Annoyingly, I've had to buy another set of imperial spanners and > sockets as I needed to build an on the car set and my existing good > ones had suffered at my banger racing and youthful hands the last > time I ran old British cars in anger. Certain sizes were showing > their age... I have, in the garage, an old Jag toolkit that I liberated from the boot of my old XJ6. It isn't complete, but most of it is there. Would you like it? -- SIRPip : B12 |