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General Murphio's Meanderings

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General Murphio's Meanderings

I've asked this before....

What's that MOT that you keep going on about.. it seems by all accounts they are getting rarer if you won't have any left so I want one for my collection
 
fiat500 said:
Good job he was a youth though; no way I could have read the chassis number and he couldn't proceed without it.
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Oh the joys of getting older ?!

Fortunately I only have to wear them for reading. If I go to work and forget them I am stuffed.
 
fiat500 said:
I need them for welding....and that's under a very dark mask with hot metal as bright as the sun.:cool::bang::bang::bang:
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I use these for work. Well worth it for £12. You can get them in different diopter to suit.

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Peter,
I just received a new king pin set from Passion500
its the bronze bush type.


They have now improved it since the last set I used on Franko.


The pin is far better quality with a really good ground finish where as the previous one was a machined finished and needed polishing in the lathe.
It also has the hole down the centre where as the other one didn't.
The bushes were a great fit on the pin.
However they are slightly oversize outside diameter and will need to be pulled into the holes and probably reamed out.
However this was the old fashioned way of doing things with an interference fit.
My Dad turned a piece of wood to a slightly larger diameter than the internal diameter of the bush. Then pushed the bush onto the wood, then turned the outside diameter of the bush to a couple of thou under the inside diameter of the hole.
Then stuck them in with locktight.
No reaming needed.
They wont go anywhere as the pins just turn in them.


But if you have a reamer then I suppose the old way is perfectly ok
 
Congrats to Peter and Murphio for getting voted Fiat of the month on Axel Gerstl's site


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fiat500 said:
Thanks for that....I didn't know and in fact I had forgottten that I'd sent a few images after a prompt by the infamous "Hugh Jarce" (y), whose picture has been there before.
Nice to know that a scruffy northern tyke of a 500 can be up there with the big boys.:):):)
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Yeah but more to the point did you get a voucher from them to spend?
 
Yes, well done Peter--and I bet that you do far more mileage in your car than most of those on the continent!:worship::)
 
Well done Peter, that's 2 UK cars of the month, I was last December. We must be doing something right. Glad to see you sent in the winter scene for the latest competition. I'm in there too, but I think your picture will get lots of votes.

Cheers
Hugh Jarce
 
Hugh Jarce said:
Well done Peter, that's 2 UK cars of the month, I was last December. We must be doing something right. Glad to see you sent in the winter scene for the latest competition. I'm in there too, but I think your picture will get lots of votes.

Cheers
Hugh Jarce
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Thanks Gary, I wonder if we will be able to contribute to this European website after 2019? :D

I must go and look for that now and decide who to vote for. ;)....it won't be for me.:rolleyes:
 
Hugh Jarce said:
Hi Peter

You got one from me in the bag,

Cheers
Hugh Jarce (aka Gary)
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Thanks for that Gary. It was hard to find my photo on the site and because it's quite a complicated shot it doesn't jump out at you. Similarly with this one from today, which could have been in the same competition:

MAL_6511 by Peter Thompson, on Flickr
 
Hi Peter

I know what you mean, they keep re positioning the photos too, still here's my effort for this year. I got 6th last year, won a clock in the shape of the white round speedo. I'm not sure about this year though.

Cheers
Hugh Jarce (aka Gary) :cool:
 

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Will I ever be able to properly end this thread?:D
We shot off to my favourite part of the best part of the Scottish mainland...Kentra on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula.

MAL_6937a by Peter Thompson, on Flickr

For most of the day the sun was shining and it was glorious.

MAL_6879 by Peter Thompson, on Flickr

I had only one work-related visit to do, so I had to justify my existence by meandering around the area to take scenic images for use on the website; Murf just kept getting in the way. :D

MAL_7044a by Peter Thompson, on Flickr

MAL_6895a by Peter Thompson, on Flickr

MAL_7036a by Peter Thompson, on Flickr

MAL_6897a by Peter Thompson, on Flickr

By the time we got back we had covered more than 270 miles. Ahhhh

MAL_7061 by Peter Thompson, on Flickr
 
I think anyone can get good photos as long as a travelling Fiat is featured in them. :) It does seem unlikely that the pictures here are going to stop any time soon, although Murf was almost stopped in his tracks today. We had set off on the dark at 5am. on what turned out to be a 290 mile return journey to the small island of Lismore; a place we have never driven on before. Unfortunately, when we got to the ferry terminal it had been cancelled because of a mechanical problem,:bang::bang::bang: I did find useful things to do and had the benefit of setting off earlier than expected on the long slog home. At Fort William, which is about 75 miles from home I stopped for a coffee. When I re-started the car there was more than the usual noise from the starter-motor and it only just got the engine going. The symptoms were like a flat battery; bearing in mind I had driven for two hours in the pitch black on full-beam, I suspected the alternator or belt or battery cable connections. I've since checked that the battery is charged and the connections seem good. So it's likely to be the refurbished starter-motor I fitted back in March.
It's surely just a co-incidence, but I have trying out the 123 distributor again. Last time I did that the dynamo and regulator packed in soon afterwards:eek:.
But despite this setback, we made it to 20,000 miles travelled since the rebuild of the car.
October 8th 2014
BRA_8615a by Peter Thompson, on Flickr
November 9th 2017
MAL_7241a by Peter Thompson, on Flickr
Lovely matching cottage:
MAL_7226a by Peter Thompson, on Flickr
Ganavan Beach at Oban where seaplanes for Atlantic patrols were based during WW2.
MAL_7235a by Peter Thompson, on Flickr
Heading for the mountains?
MAL_7183a by Peter Thompson, on Flickr
 
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