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barkwindjammer

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  1. And heres what Drewpy's taking to Squires all we need is OG to bring an oil drum full of his 'home brew' and we're sorted
  2. I would guess number 3 also Drewpy, and like Chris suggests-a filler primer on top of the etching primer, lead filling with solder is also an option (dunno how this would react with phosphor, although phosphor is widely used in all sorts of metal alloy) if you have any big gaps in seams or golf ball dents
  3. Oordy goordy voordy goordy voor
  4. For some reason the you-ya-tube link isn't working on the Busters site, so type electropodes into you-ya-tube to see these, and they're down to a fiver (£5) for a pair http://www.busters-accessories.co.uk/productInfo.aspx?clearance=1&catRef=MTXLEDBPR&kw=mtxledbpr&utm_source=email&utm_medium=288&utm_campaign=288
  5. http://www.namrick.co.uk/acatalog/Home_Metric_Socket_Screws__33.html
  6. I didn't know a 'light-sabre' had a "POWER CONTROL KNOB",
  7. I agree with most of the above, OG has a 'tumbleweed' icon which if I had I'd post right after a newbie came on with the first post "so, my bike wont work its a blah blah blah", that should give them the message
  8. WHATS ALL THIS SHOUTING?, WE'LL HAVE NO TROUBLE HERE
  9. Welcome to the 'ward' Clinton, hope you enjoy your stay here
  10. Squires cafe-forward slash-the big Yamaha Owners Club meet, wouldn't it be amazing for as many members from this here YOC to meet up at this bash, start planning now because the time will race by, might see some of you there hopefully
  11. welcome aboard 'Jonesy', great site with lots of help, dunno anything about your machine, why not start a thread with the 'model' in the title and post a couple of pics of it, this might catch the eye of someone who shares your interest Jim
  12. Now we all know its big, and we all know its clever and we've seen shuttle launches before, this little vid captures some of the scale and complexity of this giant firework
  13. And wait til you see what BMW drivers are like
  14. The US ( and Aus ) standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing. Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England , because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.. So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since. And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's bum came up with this?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' arses.) Now, the twist to the story: When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah .. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' 'arse. So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's 'arse. And you thought being a horse's bum wasn't important? Ancient horse's arses control almost everything... and CURRENT Horses Arses are controlling everything else.
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