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As well as food, water and some kind of heat/power strategy, money might be quite an important one to think about. Doesn't hurt to keep a few hundred quid in cash. Or a wee bit of small denomination silver/gold, if you're being really belt and braces.

There have already been a number of major ...

Gav may be talking about british wheat varietals maybe rather than wheat grown in Britain because looking at the stats, 40% of our wheat production goes into making bread. Essentially you need a high enough protein percentage.


It is why the Chorley Wood method of bread production was invented ...

I'm very much emotionally divided on this.

On the one hand, the messaging has some face-value legitimacy - if power/water supplies fail it's far better if, say, 50% of people aren't reliant on bottled water distribution or emergency shelters. In pretty much all scenarios, people being able to look ...

All good points Tony. I'm already business insured, and the belt was just done, but I haven't noted the seat removal as a "modification"

V8Granite wrote: Fri Oct 16, 2026 9:42 am A little disappointed you didnt do the fake ODB port and Capacitor trick.

Dave!

I'm not familiar with this trick, but the two words OBD and capacitor tell me all I need to know. *I'm* disappointed I didn't think of that. I'm clearly slipping

There were a few guys that passed through Strong Broo who went on to do bigger things in motorsport. The common factor is lots of voluteering and lots of pushy pushy. A couple of stories, in case useful:

Ryan is currently No.2 Mechanic at Oracle Red Bull. He did a apprenticeship with VW but never ...

Fair point, but they'll still need a 7/16 spanner for the non-captive nyloc on the back.

I'm gambling on the fact that the average tealeaf isn't going to have the aptitude or inclination to try to figure out in the dark why tf the magic plastic thingy doesn't just go in the hole.

I have also ...

I approve of your OBD2 lock! 8-)


It's mental. Until this got nicked 3 days after I bought it, I had no idea we were back to the 80s in terms of car-theivability.

Most stuff from the 2010s you can just buy immobiliser keys of the interweb for sub-£100, and you can buy flippers/code grabbers ...

What, no ex-BT Mk1 Ka vans for sale in your area?

(They're legit good little vans if you can find one without rust, which is impossible)


Problem with an *actual* van (even if it's just a paneled hatchback) is they charge you £100 a time for going to the tip).

Besides, my mate had this 500 ...

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Cut up conveyor belt as heavy duty floor matting

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments ...

Ok, so I'm in a bit of a situation. The Merc has catastrophically shat it's biscuits and I'm up to my eyes in flat refurbs. So, the obvious answer is to make a teeny tiny van!

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1202687176370823199/1560288437427376208/PXL_20261015_100325611.MP.jpg?ex=6ad22b58 ...

Part of the game is being clever with the timing of energy usage. In theory, I should be able to fill my battery in an hour and a half at full power, and in summer I should get 6 hours of peak sun, just at the time when my consumption is low, so, without feed-in there will be quite a lot of wastage ...

TBH I've been really quite shocked at how easy it is to put together a genuinely useful system for a fraction of what all the installers charge, and how much of an outright scam the whole "installation certification" stuff is. Fortunately, Octopus will quietly forget all the critical safety ...

I've done a solar system at the shotgun club. 4 x 415w commercial panels bought of Facebook marketplace, plus an Aferiy P310 integrated unit (not my choice). It's a 3.8kwh battery and does a great job of powering interior lights, outside floodlight, the CCTV system and the Starlink. At least it did ...

This. And he somehow still has a 38% approval. More than a third of the country looks at all this stuff and goes “yep, top bloke, nice work”


The bit that's hard for us to get our heads round is just *how* much some of the relative moderates *hate* the democrats/government in general. Fox News ...

My daughter's comment on hearing Jolene aged c.8yo - "That doesn't sound like Jolene's problem"

As this thread has been bumped anyway, I've been very much enjoying the mini-rifle lately. I had a surprisingly good result in a club competition, which qualified me for national one.

Here's one of my stages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHHtA9LASD8

And here's my mate showing how it should be ...

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Nice one Dave! That all looks very familiar :D

Watch out with budget with the airsoft guys. Some of them spend crazy money. One of our guys was showing me ...

I bought my site manager a Ninja Cafe Pro bean to cup machine back in December by way of a Christmas bonus (on special offer in Costco - £450 instead of £800).
I was a bit sceptical about the Ninja brand, and it did take him a couple of weeks of playing with the various settings to get it *down ...

Massive congratulations, man.