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Aug 17 2012, 02:52 PM
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QUOTE (HJD @ Aug 17 2012, 01:33 PM) The reason i was ticked off was having been charged £170 for a service that just entailed an Oil & Filter change. Did'nt feel like thanking them for anything after that !! Having mechanic friends helps, you see. I buy all the oils and filters, help my buddy out doing it,he charges me £25. Stamps my book. Happy days.
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Aug 18 2012, 01:28 PM
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QUOTE (Timbo @ Aug 17 2012, 03:52 PM) Having mechanic friends helps, you see. I buy all the oils and filters, help my buddy out doing it,he charges me £25. Stamps my book. Happy days. Not sure that the stamp in the book is of any value with a job done by a "mate" and no guarantee such as you would get from a reputable garage. No doubt the friend lifts it in the air to check all your joints etc. I doubt it.
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Aug 18 2012, 04:39 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Aug 17 2012, 02:04 PM) I really have no clue (and please I don't want to know) what a cambelt is for... I believe a pair of nylons worked in an emergency. Have heard (long ago) that a pair of nylons can turn a belt-driven alternator or a water pump in an emergency, but not replace a cambelt or chain!
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Aug 18 2012, 06:56 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Aug 18 2012, 07:12 PM) Nylons are a fond memory.I just get told what to do. Were they not the favourite gift in 1942 - near to US air bases? Later, Brentford Nylon sheets with their electrical charge?
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Aug 18 2012, 09:41 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Aug 18 2012, 09:10 PM) I think so.Not that I ever wore any. Apart from Hershey bars which are rubbish I think . I spent my youth in digs near to theatres. It was all Brentford nylons. Nightmare. ce Never did the Rocky Horror?
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Aug 18 2012, 09:58 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Aug 18 2012, 10:41 PM) Never did the Rocky Horror? That takes me back - Dr Frank N. Furter? On a date with a bird from Greenwich in the West End.
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Aug 18 2012, 10:00 PM
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QUOTE (Newbelly @ Aug 18 2012, 10:58 PM) That takes me back - Dr Frank N. Furter? On a date with a bird from Greenwich in the West End. It is/was a great laugh. I went to a show in Oxford in '88!
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Aug 18 2012, 10:11 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Aug 18 2012, 11:00 PM) It is/was a great laugh. I went to a show in Oxford in '88! And then "Return to the Forbidden Planet" - a spin off, more The Tempest perhaps, and the crew met you on the stairs going in to the theatre. The lead guitarist was a spit of Brian May, who joined us for a drink afterwards in a pub in Victoria.
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Aug 19 2012, 12:46 PM
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QUOTE (Newbelly @ Aug 18 2012, 11:11 PM) And then "Return to the Forbidden Planet" - a spin off, more The Tempest perhaps, and the crew met you on the stairs going in to the theatre. The lead guitarist was a spit of Brian May, who joined us for a drink afterwards in a pub in Victoria. Forbbiden Planet is the Tempest.....
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Aug 20 2012, 05:46 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Aug 20 2012, 06:07 PM) Originally down the Kings Road in an old enema. (Stop it ce) The Chelsea Potter was always a bit arty and farty in the 80s. The Queens Head was where the real action took place.
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Aug 21 2012, 04:57 PM
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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Aug 21 2012, 05:51 PM) Yet another thread dragged well off topic by the inane ramblings of 'Nothing Much'. Lighten up, the topic was exhausted anyway.
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Aug 22 2012, 11:36 AM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Aug 21 2012, 06:14 PM) And Penelope ,I never started it. I was being serious to begin with. It was indeed hard work keeping up with technical knowledge.. and seemed to have run out oomph. My nylon comment was well meant Honest. And now I find myself hoisted on a car lift again. ce I do agree to a point, when everyone else is talking readable English you spout some complete nonsense that even if it is correct it's not worth reading. Is there a point to it?
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