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| bsfeechannel:
--- Quote from: Quarlo Klobrigney on June 16, 2021, 02:08:52 am ---You could buy a new car in any color you wanted, as long as it was black. --- End quote --- Fair enough. |
| vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on June 16, 2021, 01:49:28 am ---Aladdin kerosene lamp and charcoal iron. Beat that. --- End quote --- The Aladdin kero lamp with the mantle was a spectacularly good lamp----you can still buy bits for them! Do you mean a clothes iron with a cavity on top for hot charcoal, or a soldering iron?" My bro made a great little regenerative HF radio using a small "plumber's iron" stuck in the firebox of a "Metter's No2" stove for all the soldering work. |
| VK3DRB:
When the salesman looks at you strangely when you ask where the colour TV's are. When you know what four-on-the-floor, three-on-the-tree and a T-bar auto (pronounced "T-Bar Ordo") are. When (for the Aussies), you can remember K-Mart car products stating "Suits Holden, Falcon, Valiant." When a used car ad would mention "Ideal ladies car". I might try putting that in an ad next time I sell a car to see what happens. I'll make sure my house is insured against fire first. |
| Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on June 16, 2021, 06:38:17 am --- Valiant. --- End quote --- Fluffy dice hanging from the revision mirror. ;D |
| Gyro:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on June 15, 2021, 11:29:18 pm ---I never worked out why Brit cars were so hard to start in the morning. I can understand in the UK, because it gets a bit colder than most of Oz , but even in a Perth WA Winter, there was a profound difference. --- End quote --- I think it was a climate peculiarity, unless there' an extended period of sub zero temperatures, you have enough humidity for frost on the top and very wet engine under the bonnet. Although Austin/Morris British Leyland and Ford were bad, I also has a Peugeot 304 that was really bad. One very icy and snowy morning, the only way I could get it to start was to unscrew the top of the air filter and stuff a hair dryer into the top of the carburettor :scared: It started immediately then! The hairdryer and extension lead went on the back seat in case I couldn't get back home again that evening. --- Quote ---... The final straw was when it "died" just as I was entering a dual carriageway with quite a lot of traffic, then did its starting "party trick". --- End quote --- I narrowly avoided a 'life changing' smash like that. I was pulling out onto the A4, just after it narrowed from dual to single carriageway. There was a car in the distance that was going far faster that I expected, the limit was 40mph but he was doing 60+. I pulled out and of course the engine faded - He thought I was pausing half way across the road for him to pass, while at the same time I yanked out the choke. How he had the reactions to switch from an 'undertake' to an overtake, I'll never know, but there was much squealing of tires and horn. Luckily for me, he didn't stop, but shook me for a while (him too I bet). --- Quote ---The VW started impeccably every morning, the heater worked spectacularly well (another failing of the Ford), & left me with a very good impression. --- End quote --- The joys of an air cooled engine. Having a water heated carburettor also meant a water cooled carburettor on a cold morning. --- Quote from: themadhippy on June 16, 2021, 12:43:29 am ---1A. apply cloths peg to keep the choke out as the locking mechanism has broke --- End quote --- Ha yes, I remember seeing that trick in the reader section of Practical Motorist. The more official fix was to disconnect the end of the cable inner from the carburettor, pull it out part way, and apply a new kink with a pair of pliers (the original one having worn down). That was the locking / friction mechanism on most cars! |
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