Cannon

Just to clear something up, she isn't my queen, and I am a firm anti-royalist. The monarchy stemmed from greed, violence and oppression of people just like you and I many years ago. Citizens of any country with a monarchy are part of the problem. They allow the royals to live luxurious lives at their expense, and are dim witted enough to think that it is a good thing. I'm a stong believer in equal rights for all, and the monarchy just doesn't fit in with those beliefs. How much revenue would britain make if they turned all of the royal council houses into 5 star hotels? A pretty penny I'm sure. If having your life planned and having to act in a certain way was such a bad thing, then why would anybody do it? The reason is quite simple. You're paid very generously to do it, and have all of lifes luxuries handed to you. Cars, houses, priceless artworks for your private viewing etc. How much do you pay in road tax per year on your car? Do you think the royals reach into their pockets to pay it? I don't think so, and they drive some of the most polluting vehicles on the roads. The monarchy has done such a great job on brainwashing the citizens of the country, that even the national anthem is about the queen. Any other country has a national anthem about the country or nation. It's most peculiar don't you think? As it stands, british citizens have accepted the status quo as a good thing. All those years ago when the farmers and paupers were killed, raped, burnt out of house and home to make way for the monarchy seem to have been forgotten. Not only that, but if you tried the same nowadays you would end up with life in prison. Up until 1998 you could still be executed for high treason. Another man made rule created to protect the greedy interests of the monarchy.

For £369 million you could have over 3000 citizens of the country housed in houses costing £120,000. You could have proper housing built for those who served in the armed forces and received debilitating injuries doing so. Instead they come back home from warzones and must beg and rely on charitable handouts to get by. What a way to say thank you eh? Or you could improve the condition of the roads. Let's be honest, they are without doubt amongst the worst of any current European country. Millions of pounds are brought in each year through tourism, but millions of pounds are spent each year on the royal family. The tourism money doesnt all go back into the country either, so you cannot categorically confirm that the country is X% better off because of the royal family. No amount of number crunching will give you an accurate figure of money retained by the country in relation to royal tourism. If you were a royal (which is a man made thing that someone decided to make up one day in order to elevate themselves above their peers. No doubt as a result of the bad aspects of human nature), you would be laughing every day at the mugs who support you. How about you all bow down to me and send me some of your hard earned cash because I am now declaring myself a King. Oh it doesn't work like that? Well I think you'll find that's exactly how it worked all those years ago, and you're now paying out of your own pockets to keep these spongers in a far more comfortable state of living than everybody in the country will ever experience.

Popcorn stuffed into the microwave for this one lol

He's not wrong you know. Churchill thought the same.

Well everybody is entitled to their opinion. I can't ever recall replying to any of your expressions of opinion with such blatant disregard as you have expressed here. Anyway, my opinion was formed from experience. Nobody is an #### for nothing. There's always a reason behind every action. Whether it's a persons inability to deal with things, a mental condition, poor upbringing etc. I reiterate my previous statement. If somebody is being arrogant, it's for a reason. Statistically it has proven the better option to walk away in these circumstances. If you think you're going to educate someone of elder years as to why their approach or reaction is wrong, then you're just looking for trouble. You're only adding fuel to the fire.

Regular brake fluid changes will lengthen the serviceable life of calipers, drum brake cylinders and hydraulic clutch slave cylinders (providing they share the same reservoir and are bled at the same time). Your 8 year old brake fluid may still be working and stopping the vehicle, but it will definitely not be anywhere near as efficient as new fluid. Because it absorbs water, it loses it's ability to deal with the heat generated by braking. This results in brake fade during heavy braking, and assists with the formation of corrosion within the braking system.

The best way to change the fluid is to use one of the pressurised kits. Alternatively you could use a Mityvac or similar vacuum pump. The pressure kits allow for simple one man operation. You can't go wrong with them. The job itself is simple in theory, but you need to be able to sort out any problems that may arise. For example, what do you do if you shear off a bleed screw? You need to have the tools, knowledge and confidence to drill the old screw out if needed. Until you get a replacement the car cannot be driven. Using tghe old two person method with ine loosening the bleed screws and the other pressing the pedal can cause problems. Master cylinder seals can flip, ABS modules can airlock etc. The cost of a proper tool to do the job as well as the brake fluid itself would be roughly £50 in most garages.

Sounds DPF related. Not sure if it's a wet or dry DPF system on your car, but a lot of modern wet DPF diesels are now using adblue. This needs topped up every so often. EGR valves can also create problems as mentioned above.

Using the same parts lol

Honda, Skoda or Toyota.....avoid the rest. Then you recommend a Ford? If you're friend is recommending Skoda, he may as well recommend VW, Audi, Seat, Porsche and any other marque that is associated with the VAG group. They're all made with the same parts and mostly the same chassis.

Do those V50's not have Peugeot engines in them? Or are they the Ford powerplants? An older Volvo with 220,000 miles is not uncommon, but the latest Ford/Chinese muck has proven that the cars are now being made with penny pinching in mind. Get yourself a pre 2005 Volvo S60 or V70 with the Euro 3 D5 engine. You can get a low mileage (100,000 or thereabouts) well cared for example for around the 2k mark.

A faulty crankshaft sensor could cause this issue. If your garage has an oscilloscope, it shouldn't take too long to confirm it.

Which one? A bad crankshaft sensor could prevent starting, but the engine would turn over. I'm trying to find out if the fault lies with the ignition circuit, or somewhere else.

When you turn the key does the engine crank over, or does turning the key do nothing at all until the third or so attempt?

Easy job really. Just get a plug tap and take your time. The most important part is making sure you've got a tap with the correct thread and pitch. You probably won't be able to get a starter or tapered tap in, so make sure the plug tap is started properly on the threads.

Anything over 2mm can be used again, but it does depend on how hard or liberal you are with the brakes. Manufacturers of brake components will often match disc and pad material, so if you fitted Brembo discs and Mintex pads, they wouldn't necessarily be working at maximum efficiency. The cost can be reasonable if you supply your own parts. Eurocarparts have frequently had 30% off offers this year. Most garages would supply the parts at retail prices plus their own small markup.

72 Mackerel off the north coast of Ireland last week. Was fishing for Cod but couldn't get deep enough without hitting the Mackerel.

Any dealer, whether firearms or cars or whatever else, will always cry poverty. They don't seem happy to make a profit, because the profit isn't enough. Always wanting more etc. On the other side of the coin, if you trade a car into an independant dealer, most of the time the car gets washed and shoved onto the forecourt the same day. The dealers don't bother themselves with 150 point checks etc, as they cost time and money. They take your word for it and hope that you have been honest with them. This is the risk the dealer takes. It obviously seems to pay off, as the second hand motor trade is still a huge moneymaker. Cars are then passed onto innocent punters, who the dealers are hoping won't find any faults with the cars within their warranty period. The whole business is unscrupulous. Honest dealers are hard to come by, but so too are honest private sellers. It's a bit of a viscious circle. At the same time, if every private seller who sold their car to a dealer was honest, then the dealer would have a very easy way of making money. The hard work is done for them, so they action the repairs and sell the cars on for a lot more than what they paid, obviously having used the sellers reports of faults as a means to reduce the amount they pay for the vehicles in the first place.

.177 or .22. Either will do. .177 may be easier to shoot with due to the flatter trajectory. For bait, it's hard to beat peanut butter. You could make a paste out of melted chocolate, peanut butter and olive oil. It should be thick enough not to run, but thin enough so the rats can't pick it up and run away with it. Make sure to use a shovel or a litter picker to pick up the dead rats. Get somewhere to burn them as well.

12 ft/lbs is ideal around sheds etc. Anything above is perhaps too much. You'd need to weigh up the advantages vs the cost.

Making this thread a sticky would bring embarrassment to the forum. It doesn't matter how long you've been shooting for. You openly admitted to having a totally avoidable accident with a rifle.

It depends on the persons swing speed and club. Sometimes I can see the entire ball flight (straight off the tee) when playing with people with slow swing speeds, or old clunky clubs. Most times you catch a flash of the general direction of the ball coming off the tee, but only after a couple of meters or so, where you can then follow the flight path.

Well that's way beyond what it should have taken. Promises being broken already. We still haven't a clue about what's going on in the FEB, even though more clarity into their operation was also promised.

The bullet is obviously still heading up. You will have two zero points. Maybe 30 yards and 80 yards. In between them the bullet will be higher due to the somewhat lobbed trajectory of .22 (assuming you have a 22lr). After your second zero point the bullet will strike lower.

The original agreement was that applications would be processed within an agreed amount of time, and if the fee increase was approved, there would be accountability within the feb for failure to meet target times and so forth. The FEB have proven that they can process applications extremely quickly using the paper system. There was a point where variations were coming back in less than a week, even before the cover letters were arriving. I look forward to hearing the outcome of the BASC's latest discussions with the FEB and DOJ.