Exactly - buy it from an engineering supplier, not a DIY supplier on price alone.
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Guess who will get the London work due to being the new lad with recent experience . . .
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Almost 30 years, as have most of his drivers.
I bet a work's do is a hilarious affair, a bunch of dinosaurs complaining about their various illnesses and lapsing periodically into the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch. And I'll have to put my cast-iron "Yorkshireman" sign in the windscreen of the new wagon as well, just to let my adopted countrymen know where I'm from
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Don't knock us auld fellas, you too will be a dinosaur if you're lucky enough to live long enough.
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But aren't you a living fossil?Don't knock us auld fellas, you too will be a dinosaur if you're lucky enough to live long enough.
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MINE.
Mine I tell you.
MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You're DOOMED!
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They’re from eBay, the item number’s 152885624822.
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Yes indeed we had to buy some 16mm threaded rod for lifting and we ordered it from an engineering supplies. We also use a LOT of M12 studding as temporary fixings and you can always tell when we've ran out of the good stuff and had to use screwfix rubbish. You have to be careful not to strip off the threads when tightening.
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National Lampoon?More by way of a National Treasure
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I got home and found a wandering human waiting for me last night.
So a few beers and in the morning he did depart, with the following parting words.
Hay TYA I have some stuff for you. I just get it out of the car.
Here is what a Ex Boot neck left me.
A almost new Sat Nav.
Works as well.
A Halfords Battery Tyre inflator.
I have used one in the far past and I was not disappointed. Good to have one for the van.
Beat blowing up tyres with Nitrogen from the extinguisher refill bottle.
Lawn sprinkler and a service cabinet key.
To be honest I was thinking this lot is "not good".
Then with some odd noises for a human this was dumped.
Union Pillar drill, seized. But complete.
A Old Mamod. Box, or so I thought.
But I was wrong.
So a few beers and in the morning he did depart, with the following parting words.
Hay TYA I have some stuff for you. I just get it out of the car.
Here is what a Ex Boot neck left me.
A almost new Sat Nav.
Works as well.
A Halfords Battery Tyre inflator.
I have used one in the far past and I was not disappointed. Good to have one for the van.
Beat blowing up tyres with Nitrogen from the extinguisher refill bottle.
Lawn sprinkler and a service cabinet key.
To be honest I was thinking this lot is "not good".
Then with some odd noises for a human this was dumped.
Union Pillar drill, seized. But complete.
A Old Mamod. Box, or so I thought.
But I was wrong.
James1979
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That mamod is niceI got home and found a wandering human waiting for me last night.
So a few beers and in the morning he did depart, with the following parting words.
Hay TYA I have some stuff for you. I just get it out of the car.
Here is what a Ex Boot neck left me.
A almost new Sat Nav.
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Works as well.
A Halfords Battery Tyre inflator.
I have used one in the far past and I was not disappointed. Good to have one for the van.
View attachment 302853
Beat blowing up tyres with Nitrogen from the extinguisher refill bottle.
View attachment 302854
Lawn sprinkler and a service cabinet key.
To be honest I was thinking this lot is "not good".
Then with some odd noises for a human this was dumped.
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Union Pillar drill, seized. But complete.
A Old Mamod. Box, or so I thought.
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But I was wrong.
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Not at all, or vaseline.
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Had a few of those, over time. Seem to recall it was one of the few drinks commonly available, down South, which didn't resemble witch ****.
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Had a few of those, over time. Seem to recall it was one of the few drinks commonly available, down South, which didn't resemble witch ****.
Of all the southern beers, I like Newquay Brown Ale.
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Posted about this a while ago but picked it up today, £350 well spent, although not been on the road for 18 years. Much as I detest the phrase ”barn find” it did genuinely come out of a barn!
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Big like on that one. ^^^^
lotus_esprit_s1
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It is on the understanding I get it going again and use it, not just sell it on. It does unfortunately have a large rust hole in the underside of the tank.
