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A story very familiar for many young Remote Controlled Aircraft enthusiasts.
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A story very familiar for many young Remote Controlled Aircraft enthusiasts.
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Today I acquired a Yuasa car battery, replaced under warranty after just shy of 4 years old. New one is a size up in spec/capacity [and physical dimensions], so should be no more jump starting for the foreseeable....which will be nice. 
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Hope you have coded the new size to your car.Today I acquired a Yuasa car battery, replaced under warranty after just shy of 4 years old. New one is a size up in spec/capacity [and physical dimensions], so should be no more jump starting for the foreseeable....which will be nice.
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I used to have a helicopter like that, had about a 500mm rotor which broke every time I used it. Straight out the box on Christmas morning, fired it up indoors and smacked it straight into the radiator, clearly an outside toy.New blades ordered, in the garden, slightest breeze and smacked it into the fence.
On a good day, in a field I could get about 20 minutes flight out of it before breaking something, eventually I ordered a second, faulty one to borrow parts from. I've actually still got it somewhere, I wonder if it still works.
the one i got an emotion
it bounces quite well
we crached it quite a few times apart from loosing a leg now and again after a 5 mins search it has 4 wings you attach that protects the blades you know when it going to crash so just press the drop butten to stop the blades spining connection to camera is easy as install an app for your phone and the only problem if you crash you have to remove the battery to reset it and then relink the camera app can be a bit 
but was cheap and bit of fun for pocket money
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Mhhh, that's a good point. I have considered registering it since I got home [I didn't expect the replacement to be a larger capacity]. I've been thinking that a 'same type' replacement would be OK?
EDIT: Just done a bit of Googling [as you do
] and it seems that it's only 2004> onwards e60s that need a replacement battery registering - mine's a 2003 [among the very first] so should be fine?
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One Christmas about 10 years ago we walked into a toy shop in Cardiff , some &%*$£ inside the shop flew a RC helicopter straight at my wife who screamed when she saw it heading to her. I pulled her to one side and gave it a decent anti aircraft killer shot with my right crutch ..... sending it up into the mezzanine floor of the shop ....... KIA .
The " gentleman " with the control & a name badge that indicated " Charles Williams , Manager " ...... then told me I would have to pay £ 230 for destroying the helicopter .
I told him , " No " in an industrial & forthright military manner . He & his side kick gave us a wide birth as we walked back out the shop without buying anything .
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Today I acquired a Yuasa car battery, replaced under warranty after just shy of 4 years old. New one is a size up in spec/capacity [and physical dimensions], so should be no more jump starting for the foreseeable....which will be nice.
That depends upon the alternator and the voltage regulator in the vehicle . I lost count of the number of new batteries people have used to sort out faults with them .
What sort of DC voltage across the battery terminals is the alternator pushing when the engine is running at about 1,000 rpm ?
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Just acquired a number plate for my 56 oval beetle and a serious dent in my wallet 
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I don't know, I had assumed all the E60/61 needed it but as you know I am still very new to BMW ownership and you are just a bit tooooooo far away to 'just pop round' with the lap top and have a look. Can't even lend you Carly as you would need my phone to make it work.Mhhh, that's a good point. I have considered registering it since I got home [I didn't expect the replacement to be a larger capacity]. I've been thinking that a 'same type' replacement would be OK?
EDIT: Just done a bit of Googling [as you do
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Just acquired a number plate for my 56 oval beetle and a serious dent in my wallet
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thats what a private reg should look like if you have to expain the reg number its not a private plate its just a bunch off letters and numbers that mean something to the person that bought it
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With the old battery, it was iirc 14,3v - I've not checked with the new one in, and it's just too bloody out there today to venture out to do that.
Tomorrow's another day though, and I have all the boot trim to replace in any event so I can check then.
When me and the previous Mrs 4String lived in Oban, I used to howl with laughter when people told me how much they'd paid for a registration that ended in " ...0 BAN".
"So let me get this right, you've paid many thousands of pounds for a piece of plastic that has letters and numbers on it??" One of said muppets didn't appreciate me telling him that a piece of cardboard with "Look at me, I've got more money than sense!!" in his back window would have been a whole lot cheaper and have the same effect
.I bought B19 ALS on a whim.....I saw it on the DVLA website so I bought it for £299.......a few months later I was away in the Caravan and a fella asked it I wanted to sell it........I said if I got a good offer, he offered 3 grand....I took his hand off.........just checked its now on a Land Rover...
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Think I've told this story before.
Bought a car for a grand or so with number plate - B16 USF.
Sold the number plate to salesman at work (yusef) for £1400 (ish).
DVLA put it on previous plate: K80 BRY. Which i sold for £500 to a bloke (bryan) on local market.
Then i swapped the car for Transit van - which got stilen from outside police headquarters in Leeds. And insurance paid out £1500 on it.
The *only* time I've ever made a profit on a car.
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Two private plates that made me smile whenI saw then was a boy racer with G 9 1NCH & a little careful locating of the yellow plastic bolt heads . The other was a guy as old as dirt driving a very new looking metalic blue ford fiesta xr31 , sat at his side was a granny of equal or greater age ..the plate H15 EGO .
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This arrived at my place today, all the way from @pressbrake1 in Essex
Collected by my mate John and his very shiney Transit Connect
Collected by my mate John and his very shiney Transit Connect
