midnightblue
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Apr 27, 2016 21:55:28 GMT
Post by midnightblue on Apr 27, 2016 21:55:28 GMT
Please move this to the appropriate thread. I'm not sure which *is* appropriate, so I've put it in the General Board, in the manner of odd vans being left in shunting yards while shunting drivers decided what to do with them. You know theo one's marked. 'Urgent. Perishable.'
Although my 18/85 has taken me to Italy and back, in snow, it really needs some bits. E.g. the springy thingy that hold down the recirculating odd bit is currently made of a bit of coat hanger, I'm sure this is not an BLMC approved part although it seems to do the job fine.
You can see I'm really into detailed and accurate technical descriptions. I'll take a photograph...
I thought P45 was Spares Secretary of the LOCI but this must be my mind failing, that's Tony Wood according to the Mag.
I did have the MoT bent and welded to my specifications before setting off on a 4000 km round trip through Alpine snows, but it would be nice if both the windscreen wipers were for the same car. One is retired from a scrapped mini.
There are one or two other bits that I want to replace once my pension has been paid (it's paid annually - I tend to be a bit strapped for cash in the weeks leading up to the 28 April each year), what are recommended sources of bits for the 'crab?
MidnightBlue
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Apr 27, 2016 23:30:05 GMT
Post by Penguin45 on Apr 27, 2016 23:30:05 GMT
Moved this down to Sales and Wants, MB.
Tony Wood is the man to ask first. He knows the cars inside out, upside down and backwards. What he has got stashed away is quite astonishing. Like any good classic car owner, I'm a hoarder and pick up bits and pieces which "might be useful" as I come across them. Quite what MrsP thought when I came back from Peterborough last year with a door and a sill is still slightly unclear.
The most useful thing I have found for tracking down spares is part numbers. I now have the last microfiche parts listing in PDF form as a very large file, which I can't host on here. However, arrangements are being made to make this accessible to 'Crab owners through a friendly third party, hopefully very soon. Googling part numbers takes you to surprising places (Like a little garage in Gloucestershire with all sorts of old stock, or a former main dealer in Holland)!
The stuff I've been messing about with are things that either are unavailable or need a better solution.
There are wiper arms up on eBay at the moment at a quite reasonable cost. What I want are stainless steel framed wiper blades which work... Not sure what you mean by the "recirculating bit". Give us a bit more info - one us might have what you need.
Chris.
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midnightblue
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Apr 28, 2016 12:31:36 GMT
Post by midnightblue on Apr 28, 2016 12:31:36 GMT
This isn't a reply to all the bits of your very helpful reply. Firstly, thanks for moving my request to the appropriate sub-forum. Secondly, I will shortly have a domain which is only used for e-mail. There is webspace attached which allows for 3 GB a month throughput. If you want to host stuff there, well you can show a lot of pix of spares you need/have available, and a lot of people can view them, within a 3 GB a month budget. It's a cPanel site, really easy to administer, and as cPanel is Linux-based, I can set up people like yourself to administer your relevant bits of the site to your heart's delight. If you know mySQL and phpBB, you could host this forum there, and get rid of the ads. This is a phpBB-derived forum, ProBoards is a dumbed-down version of phpBB 3.0. The basic cPanel package I am going for does 2 mySQLs. this is enough for a very basic phpBB. If you want to get fancy, the 'Advanced' package does 5 mySQLs, this will allow you create a forum like, for example, the BBC's. It's only an extra tenner. Details at yunethosting.com/hosting/cpanel.html# , I hope you read Serbo-Croat. As long as you don't put up porn, and as long as I pay the bills, the servers really don't care what goes on. If I bust the 3 GB a month limit, they'll be delighted, they can send me an invoice for the extra: only if they do that would I want to put up advertising or something else to defray my costs. Otherwise, I have for £ 17.79 a year a fully featured domain with cPanel, a couple of mySQLs, 3 GB throughput, loads of e-mail addresses... ... and all I really wanted was my surname as my email. The rest I make available to 1800 drivers and restorers. (not yet, until Serbian bureaucracy has done its thing - which can take a while) richard at shea.rs MidnightBlue
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Apr 28, 2016 18:23:01 GMT
Post by Penguin45 on Apr 28, 2016 18:23:01 GMT
A lot of that went clean over my head...... This is a free forum provided by Proboards. The forum has been here 6 years now and we've managed to bumble along with it to date. The only real problem we've got with it is storage and upload size. That said, it's not often that we've had the mad idea of uploading 60Mb files! The advertising is reasonably discreet. We don't get pop-ups exploding all over the page at random intervals, so I just mentally edit them out. There is an option at the bottom of the home page to chuck a few bob in the kitty on a monthly basis and get rid of the adverts, but personally I feel that negates the "free to all" bit. You could use Adblocker, but the site detects it and puts up messages saying "Please consider turning off your Adblocker" and that quickly gets as annoying as the ads themselves! Anyway, the Parts Listing is now live and accessible to signed in members, courtesy of Foursquare of this parish. Head to the section entitled "Documents". Chris.
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midnightblue
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Apr 29, 2016 14:32:30 GMT
Post by midnightblue on Apr 29, 2016 14:32:30 GMT
I do use Adblocker+, but this isn't really my point.
I have all this webspace, completely unused, which could be put to a better purpose.
If you own and control webspace, you can do with it whatever you want.
Rather than thinking 'what can I do with this free facility?' it's more like 'what will this webspace do for 'crab owners''?
It'll still be free. And Ad-free.
What it means for you is that you'd have total control over the website, but because cPanel is Linux-based, and therefore Unix, you can delegate bits of the website to others, and you can delegate functionality to others. This makes it a community, but still under your over-riding control.
Don't worry about all those terms like mySQL and phpBB and cPanel. Do you have kids? They'll do the techie stuff for you, and if yours don't mine will. They're taught it more or less as soon as they leave the breast.
MidnightBlue
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Apr 30, 2016 7:53:18 GMT
Post by Nick RS on Apr 30, 2016 7:53:18 GMT
I've seen an advert in print for twin 1 &3/4" carbs and manifold for Austin Morris 1800S for £80. Happy to pass on details, drop me a PM
Nick
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Apr 30, 2016 11:38:38 GMT
Post by midnightblue on Apr 30, 2016 11:38:38 GMT
I've seen an advert in print for twin 1 &3/4" carbs and manifold for Austin Morris 1800S for £80. Happy to pass on details, drop me a PM Nick My 18/85 Mk I Auto could definitely do with a bit more oomph, it's noticeably more sluggish than my late father's Austin 1800S Mk II manual, which was actually quite nippy. Does anyone have experience of doing this conversion? What does it do to the insurance? I've just renewed, it was £ 89 fully comp, do you get really stung if the motor car is described as 'modified'? MidnightBlue
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Apr 30, 2016 12:28:48 GMT
Post by Nick RS on Apr 30, 2016 12:28:48 GMT
My 18/85 had loads of modifications which I listed for the Insurance company. It didn't make any real difference to the premium though my mods were not particularly performance enhancing. If you were to say that your car was an 18/85 S then I imagine you would be given a very similar price. There are some members of this forum who have converted to twin carbs, I'm sure they will be along in a bit to say what's involved.
Nick
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May 1, 2016 9:05:11 GMT
Post by andrewa on May 1, 2016 9:05:11 GMT
Not quite the same situation but mine's an S and has lots done to it - cam,head, programmable ignition, extra shocks at front, anti roll bar and big bump stops at back, bolt on front wings and valence. Also explained it would be used for motorsport as well as normal running around. I went with an outfit called Hagerty disclosed everything - it was £250 for an agreed value of £20,000 including a bit of cover for track days, regularities and so on, European recovery etc so I can't imagine yours would be a problem/massive premium. Limited mileage 10k per annum is the only restriction.
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May 1, 2016 18:37:50 GMT
Post by midnightblue on May 1, 2016 18:37:50 GMT
Can you give me some more details of this Hagerty you mention?
£ 89.75 is fully comp, full European cover, 2500 miles limit. I don't even get close to 2500 miles a year.
If I could splash out £ 90 or so including postage on dual carbs and still not get unduly stung on insurance, this is something I definitely would go for. I have a full clean licence.
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May 1, 2016 19:19:43 GMT
Post by Penguin45 on May 1, 2016 19:19:43 GMT
The Wolseley was converted to twin carbs quite early in my ownership. I have both my cars on one classic policy from Footman James for £128 pa. I simply told them that the Wolseley is to "S spec" and they were quite happy.
Chris.
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May 2, 2016 11:09:51 GMT
Post by andrewa on May 2, 2016 11:09:51 GMT
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