- 281. RE: Gauge Lights and Unleaded (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:26:51 -0000
- Mike said, of the white/green gauge lights: ...this is designed to minimise glare. White light is relegated to the centre panel, whereas the lights in front of you are shaded green to avoid dazzle...
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00488.html (7,411 bytes)
- 282. Archives (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:10:12 -0000
- To mis-quote Murray Walker, Archives are Go! Go! Go! Yes, after a little discussion a few weeks back, Mark has implemented archives for the Spitfire list on the team.net website. They can be found at
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00489.html (7,083 bytes)
- 283. RE: my uj and bearing update - and brake light (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 08:58:49 -0000
- ...I do feel like a complete idiot now - not getting on to the UJs earlier was dumb. I remember your warnings about it to begin with. I feel I should apologise for my stupidity concerning this... Don
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00519.html (8,999 bytes)
- 284. RE: my uj and bearing update - and brake light (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:12:44 -0000
- The clearest sign of a UJ on its way out is a clearly audible single 'clunk' from the rear of the car when you start to accelerate, or lift off the accelerator. This may be just free play in the dif
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00520.html (9,607 bytes)
- 285. RE: my uj and bearing update - and brake light (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:33:37 -0000
- James asked: ...Just out of interest, what does happen if a uj breaks? I imagine one wheel loses power - and you start going diagonal?... The short answer is: you don't want to find out!!! The longer
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00544.html (10,087 bytes)
- 286. RE: UJs, Hypocondria and Mouse Traps (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:43:27 -0000
- ...I'm going to have spent about 600 pounds in 6 months (exhaust and bearings/shafts (plus labour) + consumables such as oil etc - not petrol though) - Im hoping that this isn't going to be a trend..
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00545.html (8,853 bytes)
- 287. RE: UJs, Hypocondria and Mouse Traps (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:01:54 -0000
- ...When I started, I got away with only a hundred pounds a month - it soon got a lot more expensive, though. Not that I wish to worry you or anything, but I think I averaged about three hundred pound
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00546.html (8,752 bytes)
- 288. RE: Optimistic! (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:27:08 -0000
- When I got my first classic 5 years ago, it was an MG BGT bought for #1900. Two days later my then girlfriend (now wife) and I set off for a weeks holiday in Dorset, 5 hours drive away - me a complet
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00553.html (8,045 bytes)
- 289. RE: Optimistic! (Dogs in Spits) (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:11:29 -0000
- You're not the first person to decide to dump the spare wheel in favour of a car of tyre seal! If you still can't fit it all in, there are a number of boot racks you can buy - either permanant ones
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00566.html (7,445 bytes)
- 290. RE: Back from the garage... (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:46:48 -0000
- John wondered: ...The down pipe gasket always blows, I'm on my 3rd gasket in a little under 3 years, it's not blowing at the moment although I don't think it will be long before it is again. I would
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00568.html (7,369 bytes)
- 291. RE: shipping charges (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:12:55 -0000
- It depends a lot on what shipping they used. ParcelForce (the parcels operation of the Royal Mail, our main postal provider) would charge #22.75 for a 4lb parcel sent standard delivery, but #34.30 f
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00572.html (7,825 bytes)
- 292. RE: Engine Number (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:24:23 -0000
- What you have there is quite right. Engines were all allocated their own number, starting with FM (for 1500 engines). Chassis were allocated numbers starting FH for Europe (although USA chassis were
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00589.html (7,923 bytes)
- 293. FW: oiling the trunnions (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:36:58 -0000
- You have the right oil. No problem there. You don't need to disassemble anything to oil your trunnions. If you wipe all the elderly congealed grease/mud/dirt etc. off the trunnion, somewhere under t
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00592.html (9,210 bytes)
- 294. Greasing/Oiling Trunnions (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:18:34 -0000
- It seems that in my reply to James about oiling his trunnions, I implied that those who grease their trunnions may not be the sharpest tools in the box - at least those who grease them without first
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00599.html (7,842 bytes)
- 295. Broken bleed nipples (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:32:22 -0000
- I now have not just one, but two brake bleed nipples that have the top half broken off, as they sheared rather than unscrewed when I tried to loosen them. I remember mention before of some sort of de
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00600.html (8,163 bytes)
- 296. RE: Broken bleed nipples (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:15:10 -0000
- ...What, you didn't check your manual for the proper torque when closing those nipples previously? Boy, that's pretty foolish. Not that those words are meant as a personal slur, just a general commen
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00602.html (7,521 bytes)
- 297. RE: HS4 Conversion (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:09:54 -0000
- ...For rebuilding, I very strongly recommend you use the more expensive correct rebuild kit from SU (or Burton or such as the company is called now)... I think you mean Burlen? www.Burlen.co.uk Richa
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00606.html (7,535 bytes)
- 298. RE: Newbie Archive Q's (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 08:47:29 -0000
- The archives always used to be stored on a different web-site, www.listquest.com, where they were easily accessible with a search facility and everything. This site stopped working some time ago, an
- /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00000.html (6,995 bytes)
- 299. RE: [spitfire-enthusiast] Haynes cut-away spifire t-shirts (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:58:06 -0000
- Sounds wonderful - but have you checked the copyright situation? The image is clearly marked "Copyright Haynes, 1978". If you don't have Haynes' permission to reproduce this illustration, you are let
- /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00004.html (8,372 bytes)
- 300. RE: t-shirts (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 14:26:27 -0000
- If, as Mike said, the image is clearly marked as Copyright, then you can be sure it is copyrighted. As Fred said, there are plenty of photos in the world that are not copyrighted, but if someone has
- /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00008.html (7,933 bytes)
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