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[bricol]

What brand of trials car ?. ( ex Liege owner)

One that beats Leiges . . . mostly . . . Mr. Lack beat me by fractions of a second on the Yorkshire Dales earlier in the month . .. tied on 5 (from the same restart)

Class 7 Dutton.

A Class 8 Dutton under construction . . .

I like Lieges - I was a student when they appeared - remember giving the first one a serious coat of looking at when he had a stand at the kit-car show at Stafford county showground. I keep thinking what I could do with one to make it so much better at trialling - they always seem to be working so hard to get up a section I simply drove up. I do look every now and again, but with limited numbers built and the amount of pounds they go for when they do come up . . . I keep throwing my 500 quid (inc trailer) Dutton at the scenery

 

[Parm]

I don’t know about in house labs but maintenance predictions using oil analysis is quite common.
My oil supplier offers it

I’ve seen this for big. Martin’s diesels but not busses and lorries

 

[bricol]

Test Types - BES Group Asset Reliability

We are able to offer a wide variety of oil and lubricant analysis tests through our independent oil laboratory.

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This is what I'm meaning

Standard sort of thing for industry, transport fleets etc - I just can work the relevance to tin pellets dangling in a tank doing nothing useful?

I did see one lot (might even be the brocket one) that claimed they worked in the presence of iron - ie the steel petrol tank . . . which should be interesting in plastic tanks . . .

Regarding the Hurricane claim - something on another forum made me smile - a reminder the gov wanted everyone to eat carrots at that time so you could see in the blackouts . . . a rather more believable claim as the contain Vitamin A, without which you can have eye problems . . .

 

[pressbrake1]

I’ve seen this for big. Martin’s diesels but not busses and lorries

I’ve only personally had it done once and that was to check for glycol in transmission fluid as there was suspicion of some sort of osmosis going on

 

[Kayos]

Standard sort of thing for industry, transport fleets etc - I just can work the relevance to tin pellets dangling in a tank doing nothing useful?

I did see one lot (might even be the brocket one) that claimed they worked in the presence of iron - ie the steel petrol tank . . . which should be interesting in plastic tanks . . .

Regarding the Hurricane claim - something on another forum made me smile - a reminder the gov wanted everyone to eat carrots at that time so you could see in the blackouts . . . a rather more believable claim as the contain Vitamin A, without which you can have eye problems . . .

This was war propaganda, we had radar and used the carrot story to explain why we could see planes coming and ze Germans couldn't
(Hugely simplified but the basic point is there)

 

[cheb]

Standard sort of thing for industry, transport fleets etc - I just can work the relevance to tin pellets dangling in a tank doing nothing useful?

I did see one lot (might even be the brocket one) that claimed they worked in the presence of iron - ie the steel petrol tank . . . which should be interesting in plastic tanks . . .

Regarding the Hurricane claim - something on another forum made me smile - a reminder the gov wanted everyone to eat carrots at that time so you could see in the blackouts . . . a rather more believable claim as the contain Vitamin A, without which you can have eye problems . . .

Tin might help lessen or prevent microbial contamination, it used to be in anti fouling paints. Tributyl tin IIRC.

On a more personal level, I remember reading that copper based IUDs were more effective than non copper based.

 

[addjunkie]

I’ve seen this for big. Martin’s diesels but not busses and lorries

Normal every day business in the shipping industry too. On large marine diesels you dont change the oil, just top it up and centrifuge.

Oil analysis is good business, reducing down time and manual maintenance. Saves lots of money, they then waste talking about what there not going to fix under the guise of a maintenance strategy.

 

[500e]

Use it on the turbine engines they can tell you which bearing is going to give trouble By different trace elements

 

[Lewis_RX8]

Use it on the turbine engines they can tell you which bearing is going to give trouble By different trace elements

Ah I never knew they used that to find out the bearings, Quite smart not sure why I didn't think of it myself

 

[redlig]

One that beats Leiges . . . mostly . . . Mr. Lack beat me by fractions of a second on the Yorkshire Dales earlier in the month . .. tied on 5 (from the same restart)

Class 7 Dutton.

A Class 8 Dutton under construction . . .

I like Lieges - I was a student when they appeared - remember giving the first one a serious coat of looking at when he had a stand at the kit-car show at Stafford county showground. I keep thinking what I could do with one to make it so much better at trialling - they always seem to be working so hard to get up a section I simply drove up. I do look every now and again, but with limited numbers built and the amount of pounds they go for when they do come up . . . I keep throwing my 500 quid (inc trailer) Dutton at the scenery

Thanks for reply you obviously had a good drive. I'm sorry but I had to check results and was pleased to see that a liege won the class. Ray and Trevor are two long standing acquaintances of mine and can be very determined competitors. The best result I got ,in a very short 'career', was 2nd to Ray in the Allen trial a couple of years ago. Unfortunately I started car trials too late in life and found it a struggle to maintain the car , just old age . one thing I didn't like about the Liege was the lack of chassis behind the drivers seat which meant that everything was supported by the f/G tub. Have fun

 

[bricol]

Thanks for reply you obviously had a good drive. I'm sorry but I had to check results and was pleased to see that a liege won the class. Ray and Trevor are two long standing acquaintances of mine and can be very determined competitors. The best result I got ,in a very short 'career', was 2nd to Ray in the Allen trial a couple of years ago. Unfortunately I started car trials too late in life and found it a struggle to maintain the car , just old age . one thing I didn't like about the Liege was the lack of chassis behind the drivers seat which meant that everything was supported by the f/G tub. Have fun

I was pleased to beat some of the class 8s