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I called RAC for a flat battery in the early hours once after leaving my lights on and telling them I needed a jump. every half an hour I received a text to say I would receive an update in … half an hour. after a few calls and saying a patrol were allocated I received a text to say that there were no patrols available and they were looking at ‘trusted partners’ i had a text at just before 8am saying a patrol had been allocated - he called me a few minutes later and said he was on the way straight from home a few mins away. jump started in 2 mins and we had a natter. he booked on and the job came straight through. He was saying he only does days and at night there is a minimal crew on usually 1 or 2 per …. County!!! And these are used for getting people off the centre of a road or people who have broken down with a new baby and such and they won’t respond to standard jobs as the travel time from 1 side of the county to the other can take hours. I did say if they had just said I would have got someone to bring a spare battery out instead of sitting there for the best part of 7 hours! I must admit that I do have my current service with a third party as part of a package but I’m tempted to go with AA purely for their diagnostic abilities

I have worked a number of patterns. I don’t mind night shifts. The worse pattern was probably 10am - 10pm. With a commute either side it meant you couldn’t do anything productive before and when getting back everyone was in bed and you would join them to get straight back up again to do the same the following day. It was also hard work organising 2 half decent meals to eat during that time. it was also awful for seeing family or friends and if it wasn’t followed by a few days off I would not have stuck it as a permanent pattern

I found the insurance on these ‘little run around electrics’ absolutely huge compared to a similar ICE. it’s on another thread somewhere but the difference for me a year on a little electric VS a Ferrari was £200!

One of the guys in the office had the discussion with his mother a few years ago. it appeared mainly financial and she now has a taxi booked in every week for her shopping and bingo visits (that was the only time she used her car) and a ‘reserve’ for the ad hoc medical and such visits seemed to work for her and the yearly paid up cost was less than her insurance. I have spoken with people who get one of the bigger mobility scooters and use it just as a car to do the weekly shopping run and visits to friends and the social club and this seems to work for them. I see similar on the caravan site where some of the older folk appear to get dropped off by family then use their big mobility scooter

I use TCut or UPVC restorer whatever I grab first. usually a clean before summer then one at the end. I have been doing this for about 6 or so years. The joys of bangernomics

I also assume the money will come via western union and they will send a friend to pick it up (who could also pay cash and sign the form as the buyer) i know people in Ireland that will buy cars in the uk as they are a lot cheaper. they usually have the car inspected by AA or the like then if it’s got legs will fly over. I would be blocking any contact with the ‘buyer’

Can you not at least paint it green!!! Then drop a decent cammo net over it and make it look like a hill. Lol

I had shin the other day. admittedly it was aunt Bessie’s! it came as part of a £10 deal with veg roasts and a pudding

Depending where it is if that’s a door then it looks an ideal place to pop a side table and lamp. Should cover it perfectly. failing that if it’s a stud wall just cut around it and push it back in the wall and plaster patch the hole.

I have genuinely spoken with leatherman HQ in the US They have stated it’s a mail notch to assist in opening. if you wish to contact them to double check it’s up to you.

I also have the same on both of my older ones. the newer ones have a completely redesigned Phillips screwdriver when my discontinued tool came back after I broke the file (using it to open something that actually required a T Key) it also came with a note with ‘oil the joints’ highlighted in bright pink. Obviously they had done this for me on repair and as such it will be fine for another 20 years now!

Direct from leatherman US - don’t ask. fingernail notch to allow it to be extracted from the body of the tool. you would need long fingernails mind

Isn’t it the lock that keeps the screwdriver from flicking in. obviously depending on what model. I have a couple of older ones I will check in a bit. Did send it back for repair at any point? I have had parts replaced and they have been a slightly different colour as yours is. edit - I have just checked my supertool and I have exactly the same. The lock is on the other side

I think this is more of a case of a man who after suffering a stroke and with reduced mobility was leading a life as best he could and had an unfortunate accident.

Very heavy on tyres as said above. especially if you are in and out of car parks and going a lot of static wheel locks. rotating them helps but you need to replace in axle pairs as I found ever now and again you would get a ‘kick’ every now and again if they were replaced in singles