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Yep..Ran with them myself 2 years ago...its an amazing place to be even if you don't actually do any running..party time! Bilbao was were we went to (apart from me and a mate that missed the flight so took another flight to somewhere else (not got a clue) and drove cross country for 5 hours!

D&T those were the days. In my final year i designed and built a fishing platform, and also associated rests and fold out tables. I bet things have moved on in the last 12 years (don't get to go any more) but i'm sure it is something you could come up with innovative designs for and combine different manufacturing methods and materials, metal work, plastics rubbers etc... Not sure of the significance of resistant materials though... for someone who has been out of school for a while what does it mean to be doing resistant materials? :yp:

I would like to point out that i did not use any search criteria associated with the name of this website! click here Think my girl friend would seriously question what i was looking for when i found this! :yp:

Yep, I've done the vegas experience........ I will say though...... don't go unless you want to enter a world of sin. A world of sin you say..... right thats my flights booked!

Do you want to contact the other person to get some money back or to report them. If it is about money then I don't think you will get any satisfaction. If it is to warn the other guy that he or his garage had done a shoddy job then, ok that would be ok. Cheers taz. Nothing to do with money, more to do with the risk of someone else getting hurt...

I had a sudden 'What if' moment today about an issue i had with my car so i thought i would pass it on. Earlyer this year i bought a second hand car, V plate, got a few miles on it but being German it didn't worry me. Well i have had a few problems but reading on the net it was all standard common faults that people get on newer versions and it was cheap enough in the first place to not get too worried about the additional cost of repair..however the other night the breaks failed, and it kind of freaked me out a bit. I had been doing fractionally over the speed limit down a local strech of motor way (not my normal habit i have to add but i wanted to push the car in light of some recent work done), all seemed fine and i pulled off at the junction for where i live, followed the road round, slowed down and took the first corner, come to a second turning and went to stop and there was nothing, not a sausage, only a grinding noise and very little resistance. Luckily i didn't actually have to stop completely and i was only doing about 20 mph at the time so the car soon slowed to a stand still, after gingerly testing to see what stopping power i had i concluded the H/break worked and there was still some front breaking (but not much) I was only round the corner from my house and it was late evening and not much traffic. i pulled into the drive, parked up, had a little rude word about the car costing yet more money and went in as it was Dark - no chance of seeing what was the problem. Anyway next morning, went out to have a look fully expecting a master cylinder failure or a burst break pipe but no, believe it or not as i looked through the wheel it was clear to see that the whole break pad, including the plate was missing..my first reaction was, What the Fu@k how the hell is that possible. got on the phone to a few mates and also my garage, no one has really come accross it happening but conclude the face and backing plate must have seperated. got the car picked up and wait for the call. Later that afternoon Dave calls me (the mechanic), he explains that the estate version of my car (like mine) has vented rear discs, 19mm wide, the saloon has solid, 10mm wide, some one had fitted saloon discs to my estate and once the pad had worn to the appropriate thinkness i applied the breaks and whoosh out shot the break pad..... Luckily there was no other damage but it has shook me up to think that only moments before i had been doing 70+ mph and if i had really needed them my breaks probably would had failed - with unknown consequences. What do people think - should i contact the person i bought it off (Feb/March 2008) and investigate if they had a garage do the work or if the guy did it himself? I'm not sure i have any paper work refering to discs being changed! Or should i just put it down to good luck that i found the problem and leave it at that?

If it is to be a doggy groomer surely "Doggy Style" would work

A Bump for a top guy, i can confirm these chokes are brand new and never had a shot through them!

thats a top notch job you have done there, funny thing is i found your thread because i was looking to do a similar thing myself - just wondered what people had already had a go at doing! well you have inspired me so i may have to see what i can do, i have considered trying to make a cast and then molding one possibly out of aluminium or a fibreglas resin..hmm will have to investigate further. thanks for the inspiration Sam

Are we related?.. that is exactly my choice, in both areas, i have 3 bottles of the fire water at home, the quarter cask is defo my fav!

cheers moe...

I'm not looking to get into a bun fight about stuff but I want to ask about the above statement, especially in relation to...bled the population dry with more and more taxes and borrowed more and more to pay their way.. What exactly does this mean? Are we saying that politicians rake in the cash and use it personally, is it a lord of the manor arrangement whereby they own the land and we are merely paying rent? Now I'm not sure exactly what the entire wage bill of all the associated political people and associates are but I can pretty much guarantee it is not a patch on the 300billion of public money that is spent within our own economy (which I think is about half although I stand to be corrected) that we provide and in essence keeps millions and millions and millions of people in employment - not to mention the direct employees themselves in civil service and all the people in the armed forces etc... which makes are economy grow year and year increases our wages and provides us with a modern standard of living... Now I don't disagree that the people who have the responsibility (elected) for making these decisions have not always made the best ones and some things have turned out pretty ****ty because of that, but a whole host of other things are ****ty for a whole host of other reasons...and for allot of that we should look at ourselves, think of the millions each year spent on repairing vandalism, think of the millions wasted on public services having to replace lost and stolen equipment, think of the millions having to be spent defending doctors and nurses in court from people who are chasing big settlements after someone who was trying to do their job to the best of their ability didn't get it quite right(i appreciate when mistakes happen that change peoples lives we should make sure they can maintain a standard of living) and so on and so on and so on Not all good leaders have been popular (not that i am saying brown is), and many of them at the time were openly criticized and lambasted but in the end it appeared they were right. I agree and have openly said that it really looks like Brown is not listening to the nation, but then I am not in his shoes and do not know what he knows - yep we are paying for it at the moment but if it means short term pain for long term gain then I am with it... something to think about, if 80% of the wealth of any country is owned by 20% of the people that means in China you have over 200million very rich people - over 3 times the population of the UK, if you factor in India with the same kind of numbers we suddenly start to be insignificant with no global purchasing power or influence - how are we going to compete for natural resource, food and water in such a situation. Things are rubbish now but how are they going to be when India and china make the decisions that effect the globe, when its China who "invades" countries based on a national security threat - the point is running a country is not easy and I certainly do not see any animal farm mentality in our democracy - Ok back to the point - do we seriously think politicians make these decisions to "pay their way"? I'm not convinced! Sure there are bad decisions and ones we certainly don't understand but if you are going to criticize then make sure you have you motives straight......I think people with money get into politics not the other way around.

Ermm.....I have a question....what does it mean to have ported barrels? Cheers for the advice Brian, it looks like i may have just gone and done exactly what you advised!

Well that has opened up an option, not looked at these before. looks like a very nice gun indeed! Would have to get me hands on one to have a feel..so to speak... thanks for the comment, mroe food for thought i guess!

Nice spot Gordon - might have to check it out. I'm always after a bargin but experience tells me if its cheap, there has to be a reason! Bargin hunting is all about hoping the reason is the seller..not the equipment! must have missed that one unless it just came up cheers