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Her scouse roots mean that she finds the concept of landlording mildly offensive to her Trotsky-esque principles, whilst also quite enjoying the trinkets and baubles it brings. She solves this moral dichotomy by simply pretending it's not happening. Think young kids watching the scary bits of Dr ...

integrale_evo wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 7:41 pm I mean, I don’t have a huge salary, but if my mrs found out how much I actually spent on a load of old cars she’d probably go nuts

I guarantee you that Mrs Nef couldn't tell you how many houses/flats we own. I'd be pretty surprised if she could even tell you how many are in *her name*

Making adjustable dampers remotely electronically operated, I did think about using off the shelf servos but not sure they have enough rotation for the adjuster knob, so out likely need a small gearbox, and a guess easy enough to wire a power supply and use a servo tester as a knob on the dash ...

Electronic throttle control for carbs, would have saved me having to fabricate a linkage to control two separate ones from a single cable, and would clean up an engine bay as you can run a wiring harness wherever you like where a cable really needs a nice smooth path. I guess you’d probably want ...

Making adjustable dampers remotely electronically operated, I did think about using off the shelf servos but not sure they have enough rotation for the adjuster knob, so out likely need a small gearbox, and a guess easy enough to wire a power supply and use a servo tester as a knob on the dash to ...

Intrigued. Have we got a video?

Not to hand, but I'll try and rustle something up next time I'm at the workshop.

These are the kiddies - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006896077837.html?src=google&src=google&albch=shopping&acnt=494-037-6276&isdl=y&slnk=&plac=&mtctp=&albbt=Google_7_shopping ...

Just in case anyone is still interested 4 years later - the DRS problem was solved with rotational servos. Specifically, a pair of steering arm servos from a 1/5 Baja truck. Each about the size of a matchbox, with 90kg of lifting force.

Not sure what has legally changed, but I believe one of the previous issues with drug driving convictions was the definition of "unfit". With alcohol, there was an agreed limit of alcohol in your blood, but with other things it was a case of if it were detectable you could be deemed under the ...

It's not just the kids. I was mildly shocked to find out that the mum of one of my daughter's mates (who is a GP) just goes about her regular day, including driving and diagnosing patients while on 5mg of valium. She saw absolutely no problem with it.

Here's the previous one, complete with fumbled reload

I just did my first bit of airsoft CQB and the eldest is a bit of a natural shot so stepping stones to grown up stuff like you're doing 😎


Don't hang about. The incoming lead ban may very well put an end to the sport for shotgun from 2029.

We still do a very similar thing with mini-rifle (22 ...

Fair enough. Were you in the running for a high finish up to that point?


God no! I was mid-table at my last national comp of the same level, and some of these international guys are another level again.
The stage before the one I went out on, I had a small mistake and did it in 32s. Without ...

unzippy wrote: Wed May 27, 2026 8:14 am What's a fault line in this circumstance?

The red bits of wood on the floor. They define the area your feet are allows to touch

On an unrelated note, do you have the authority to ban red hat from entering the grounds next time? :lol:


Red hat was on my side. The thing that really swung it that one of the German Senior Range Officers was spectating, and he opined that I broke the 90. The Range Master (my friend) felt it ...

Sadly, I didn't do so well as a competitor - I got controversially DQ'd on stage 5 out of 16.
Rule says the muzzle can't *ever* point beyond 90 degrees from the starting position.
https://youtu.be/Tsd51EIXe4U

The RO (red hat) thought no. Timekeeper (green thing) thought yes

There's a tiny flick ...

The one I'm most proud of was the wobbly boat. A thing of true bodgetastic wonder.
There was supposed to be a different prop, but with 48 hours to go I had to produce something that felt like a boat on water. But with only leftover scrap to make it out of.

Two car suspension springs salvaged from a ...

I know it's not terribly cool to blow your own trumpet, but this one has been so herculean, I feel justified in shouting about it.

As some of you may know, I was recently appointed as Quartermaster of my shotgun club, so I have spent the last 2 and a half weeks I designing and physically building ...

and one final key point from me Nef:
- We do not have an obligation or moral responsibility to take in every refugee from any conflict zone or place of personal danger who wants to come here


And again I'd broadly agree. We, as a collective human world, rather than as a country, have both ...

In my neighbour's house fire example, you wouldn't say they couldn't sleep on your living room floor because there wasn't enough food in the cupboard or enough poo roll in the downstairs cloakroom - you'd pop to the shops!


But that's not a valid call back to your neighbour example. You ...

Oh and in response to the Pakistan and Bangladesh comment further up - we were originally talking about the dehumanisation/demonisation of "illegals" i.e. those who come by irregular transport routes, which doesn't tend to be Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.
Those guys tend to be expired student and ...