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486DX22

posted on 2/2/16 at 06:52 PM Reply With Quote
An Intro

Well hello to you all.
This is not my first visit to the site but it is the first time I have registered with intent.
I was a member of a Satellite Forum a few years back, so whilst not entirely new to forums I will have to learn my way around.

I'm an appealing* speller, yes the worst (can you tell*) and a sloooow typer. Correcting spelling doesn't help
I like text as it seems ok to make up the spelling, and it hides my mistakes.

As far as motors go my first was an E93A I used to think but lately I realise I may have had the number wrong.It was an upright POP, with side valves. It required new king Pins so it was given to me. I managed that and many more tasks on it before i took on board a 100E Pop. I folowed that with a column Change, with bench seat, 6 cylinder Zepher a real "love" motor.
A Classic, not just a super motor from the past but a real "Classic 375 1500cc" the love of my life at that time i did everything on that, a new short engine clutches gear box repairs the lot. an Escort, and a couple of Mondeo's followed on I have an MPV now.

My log on comes from the first computer I researched and built from scratch including loading the software which i recall entailed loading a programme using 25 3.5" disks Other programmes also meant the use of 5.25 disks.

I have accomplished most household jobs from plumbing to roof tiles. I moved some years back to a large garden where many trees stood/stand some 40 foot or more and learnt how to fell them although i'm not as keen as i used to be at being up 20 or so foot and not having the right gear.
That will do i think for now.
ill be back soon with a question on computers if thats o.K

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LBMEFM

posted on 2/2/16 at 10:35 PM Reply With Quote
Welcome, it sounds as if you are about my age as your car history sounds familiar. E93A is the correct model number. My first car was a Mk1 Consul bought for 10/-, then onto a Corsair GT, several Mk1 Cortina's and Mk1 Escort, MK 3 Zodiac (how I loved that car) then dozens of cars including MGB's, VX490, Mk2 Cortina GT, Sierra's etc a classic Humber, Rover and a speedboat. Now a Citreon C4 coupe VTR, Renault Master van my beloved MK Indyblade and classic Mini I am restoring. Once again welcome to the site, just don't expect me to answer any computer questions, haven't got a clue about them.
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486DX22

posted on 3/2/16 at 10:48 AM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by LBMEFM
Welcome, it sounds as if you are about my age as your car history sounds familiar. E93A is the correct model number. My first car was a Mk1 Consul bought for 10/-, then onto a Corsair GT, several Mk1 Cortina's and Mk1 Escort, MK 3 Zodiac (how I loved that car) then dozens of cars including MGB's, VX490, Mk2 Cortina GT, Sierra's etc a classic Humber, Rover and a speedboat. Now a Citreon C4 coupe VTR, Renault Master van my beloved MK Indyblade and classic Mini I am restoring. Once again welcome to the site, just don't expect me to answer any computer questions, haven't got a clue about them.


Hello and thanks for the welcome.
Your guess about ages could be correct. whilst i know of most of those car models and even laid hands on some of them I could not aspire to so many motors. The nearest I ever got was when I helped out at a breakers yard and was given the freedom of the place. It was there that i learn how to do many jobs which seemed impossible until I was able to do them without fear of breaking my own. It sounds as though you have been and are still busy. I have to admit my love of laying in the curb with a torch in my mouth under my motor on a cold wet night whilst adjusting a clutch or the likes has gone south.
Nowadays unless the sun is shinning and the temperature above 9 degrees I don't even consider working in the garage,,Mr Softie that's me

As to computers my knowledge has been eroded by time and the constant march of technology. i know everything is simpler and more complex, even if that makes little sense I'm sure YOU know what I mean. It is much quicker/simpler to achieve much more than I could dream of 20 or so years back but if like me you are not in the In Crowd any longer. Every piece of information as to what the right question to ask is, in order to get to the answer you need, has to be sort before you can even compose the question and inevitably there are more questions than answers.

Now if you are that old you will have picked up on a couple of links to our past in the above.

Cheers

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LBMEFM

posted on 3/2/16 at 08:54 PM Reply With Quote
Hi, just to clear up the age issue I am 63 this August, I started my working life as a mechanic, then worked up to the position onboard ship as a catering officer, then .years in tourism management and finally 15 years running my own building refurbishment company. I am now semi retired, live in a recently purchased bungalow which I have stripped and fully rebuilt
together with a 45sq mtr workshop. There I intend to restore classic Mini's and also spend weekends track daying my MK Indyblade.

As regards to computers the most misleading phase is 'Plug & Play", more like "Plug & Get Frustrated.

Meanwhile what area do you live.

Best regards
Barry

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486DX22

posted on 5/2/16 at 11:27 AM Reply With Quote
Hi Barry,
I have just a few years on you and reside north east of your location.
Then again, so is just about everything of note, North that is, unless you are going to get wet feet eh!.

I have a problem with “retirement” let alone “semi retirement”
I “dropped out” took “gardening leave” became “resting” or as I really see it “self employed” 16 years back. I managed 37 years for a very large organisation taking on some very different jobs but always with the thought that I’d like to "do what I want" at 50. I achieved my goal at 49 & 10.5 months. I wasn't sure how it would pan out and I "helped" out, for what it cost me, a couple running their own business for 18 months or so .
I now maintain my own motor so far as it is practicable and possible without very special equipment, do everything in and around my home, help out with a village hall, set and guide country walks, more so in the nicer weather and often to a pub for lunch. More serious walks are taken in the summer evenings when along with a mate, setting off at 17:30 ish we can achieve 5 miles upwards, even after a 1/2 hour drive and before the light escapes us We then withdraw to a pub for a refreshment or two, he who is not driving that is the other just has to wait his turn to gloat.

I compute but sometimes nowadays get out of my depth with the nuts and bolts of the subject. You are so right about P n P being more plug and Curse

The problem I have with retirement is this…
I have been told many times, and it makes my blood boil. “It’s ok for you, you’re retired and have loads of time”. I should like to point out to those people and I often do. That I have those same 24 hours as everybody else. I worked every hour that came my way and then some. I saved what I could and worked to make it work for me when either I could not or did not want to work for it any longer. The shillings I have are those which I worked for or which are working for me, nobody else’s.

Some of my computing is still to make sure my workforce is up to the job and doing what it should. This task is harder today than it has been in the past as many of our age will be aware.

It brings me to a question for our readers…
If the guy who works as a bank manager carrying out many calculations and shuffling lots of paper in his “working “ day, can’t wait to get home to attend to his “hobby” of gardening and then doing so until the light fades, on many a summers night. Were to get to a stage where he no longer wished for the highest penny but was happy to “manage” himself and his own affairs in order to live just a comfortable life. He would I suspect be deemed as retired, would he not?
If this is the case, then the other guy who “works” as a Gardener and can’t wait to get home to make models involving many complex calculations and lots of drawings and similarly does so into the late nights, must be a fraud, surely?
Since he is only doing what the Banker does, and he has been said to be “retired”?

Or is it simply that the state of being “Retired” is one of mind and not body, being that the only difference in the two examples is that they do it for themselves and no longer at somebody else’s command. I’m now “self-employed” and hope to be that way for some time to come.

If you are happy in your "work" and get satisfaction from what you do. YOU SIR/MS ARE "RETIRED" as per the meaning and don't try to kid us any different.

Ah yes oh, er sorry! yes i'll, erm!! sit down now. Rant over

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