tomfromthenorth

Thank you Gary, good morning. This used to be my forum anniversary too haha, I first paid up on this day in 2013. Shame I let it lapse for a bit really. Well I'd planned this mornings drive in my head all week. I didn't plan that I'd left the passenger door ajar :lol: After a fairly tricky bit of musical cars with no option to stall the engine... (paddle clutch haha) I made it out into Wales... and spun up in every gear and got stuck in traffic and pestered by a jealous van moron. I'm going to try that drive again later on :biggrin:

I like your wheel Alic :thumbup1:

:-# Looks like it'll go for quite a bit at that rate!

Well if anyone sees one on ebay, give 'us a nudge :thumbup1:

If you find a whisky shop you can have tasters. Those you mention are afterall just 2 types of whisky. But you can get some wildly different flavours between, Lagavulin or something, a Speyside, Jack Daniels and Bushmills. As different to each other as Vodka and Sambuca. Singleton do a lovely one, it has a lot of sugars in it from madeira casks etc and tastes like soft brown demura sugar. This is not me being a whisky ninja, bjt the glass makes a big difference too. 3 shots of the same drink, one in a pint glass, one in a wine glass and one in a proper whisky glass makes a big difference to it's intensity. It is to do with the vapors and smell, which is a big part of taste.

I need one of those... Ebay!

I think Bourbon and Scotch are American terms for Whisky. I think Jack Daniels would be a Bourbon, as would Jim Bean. They would call Glenfiddich a Scotch. I am leaning my way around whisky. Scottish whisky as Trev said can be almost medicinal, like root beer and germoline, spikey and peaty, a proper fisherman's drink. Lagvulin is like that, I think of that as a Highlands/NW type (but I'm probably wrong) And Glenfiddich 12 (Green bottle) is more the other end of the spectrum, hints of pear, smoother and crisper, more like (a really really nice) varnish that the others. Then there is the rules of what is whisky. It has to spend 8 years in a barrel in the UK to be a whisky. It is like 1/2 in America. Actually I know a fair bit (3 years in Scotland) the flavours come mostly from what the barrel was made from and had in it before it had the whisky in it. Glenfiddich at their distillery, will distill water and malt and stuff into a clear very strong alcohol. That then spends the next 8/12/15... years in different wooden barrels. It may spend 4 in a second hand JD barrel, then 4 in a second hand Spanish Madeira barrel. It soaks up wood flavours, as well as fruityness from the wine cask and JD flavourings. Americans are only allowed legally to use virgin barrels, then they give/sell them to UK distilleries. I fancy a dram...

There we have it from a man who knows! :bow:

Happy Birthday Tony :) :happybday::thumbup1:

Aesthetically... measurably? In terms of technical achevement. Purely subjectively? I'd probably most like a 240z. But that is mostly an aesthetic and vintage special thing. But If I had one I'd want it to perform, not like a z32 but like a 350. Ours could out run a 350, give a 370 a good go, but may lose out on a circuit due to modern handling. (An educated guess) So measurably in terms of performance ours does pretty well. Technical achievement at launch, surely the z32 again was more cutting edge than the rest? I think the z32 is the best in most measurable ways, aesthetically it has aged very well. It's hard not to be super biased. For me its the z32 then the 240 then the 350.

ASH do a large range of pipes Alic they may have something.

Hello Andy, yeah, I realised that on the drive back to Shawbury just now. It's all sort of fun, it doesn't matter If I destroy it, it's still a nice ornament externally. I am learning a few things along the way. I would on a serious note, like to know more about electronics. I have a decent if shallow knowledge of electricity, physics and electronics. But it is fairly shallow. Except random military bits like RADAR, thermal cameras and the like. If any of you guys know more, I'd love to learn. What do you think was wrong with that clock circuit? Before I went at it that is. And to be honest, I think that resistor is still functioning as well as it did 3 days ago!

I was less and less gentle and ate an entire bag of baileys truffles but still failed. It looks like a battlefield but that is because I started plan B. Cut the thing out of the circuit and go over its head. See second image. I had that thing as hot as the sun and the entire board like a cup of tea and couldn't get it to budge. I am a competent man and I do not know how anyone has ever removed one of those. I'm going to do it with a Dremmel next wekeend.

Soldering iron heating up, taking James Blunt's second album off the CD player and putting The Feeling's first album on. Strong coffee. I'm going back at it. Motovation please lads

The ones on the PCB should be 180 too. But they're not. I'll tell you what they are though. Bloody well attached to the board!!!!!!!!!! Oh my God. I'm well into rage strength and can't get them off. I reverted to a technique I call "Alcatrazing it" This has got me out of a few pickles. I first did it cutting through a brake line bracket on a fiat panda. For many boring reasons, the only way was with a snapped 4 inch bit of metal saw blade, jagging into my palm but alowing me 5mm fore and aft to saw. It works. Like slowly cutting your jail bars with a hard bit of corned beef it works. So having nibbled at this resistor for an hour I am not through it yet!!!!

Stand by for the hardest photo I have EVER taken. Including ones taken hanging beneath a Sea King over the sea using this phone... with gloves on. Now same settings on the multimeyemultimer

So I went to Maplin and bought some 180 Ohm resistors and some jewelers' monacle things. I have 20:20 vision but this is a bloody eye test.

IC... er... Integrated Circuit? You mean the millenium bug in the middle! The discolouration looks like it has a sort of varnish or sealant on the pins but not in the centre. It's good to try things and learn about stuff. Sometimes (yesterday morning) I feel like I can fix anything, other times (more recently) I feel like Homer Simpson :lol: I was looking for burned bits, lifting tracks, breaks, loose bits. But to my novice eye didn't spot whatever you can see Andrew.

Pictures :) So O shpuld have given up, but I did an autopsy... Look at that mark on the LCD. I bet thats the problem

Not quite the advice I expected :lol: if changing the resistors doesn't work I may give it a try!!!

That clock does not work. I have had it clipped up to the zed battery every which way. I took my radio fascia off and looked in. The yellow chassis wire connects to the blue clock wire, and the black to black. (for future me to check). So next job, fix the clock!

I'm not dead but I think the clock is. Not a thing happened

I won't be long. If I'm long, Rolandas you're a murderer! :lol:

Correct me if I'm wrong. I could wire the clock straight to a car battery? It wouldn't blow it up.

I thought it was yes. I'm going to go and power it up in the car. C'mon you little...