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charlotte from brighton
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 Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:26 pm Post subject: Fan Belts |
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| Ever used a pair of Black 60 denier opaque tights as a replacement fan belt..? |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:11 am Post subject: |
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| I find that very unattractive. |
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BeachBall
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:53 am Post subject: |
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I remember my mother taking her tights off for my father to use as an improvised fan belt when I was about 8. Don't think they were 60 denier black opaque, however.
I've never had a fan belt go on one of my own cars, so never needed to resort to that sort of improvisation myself. |
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astrocan
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It is possible to do this with older cars, like my 1968 Triumph, but modern engines tend to run all sorts of things via one belt and they are often under quite a lot of tension so I dobt that it would work.
My advice to any men reading this is, if you want to get a girls tights off use a proper chat up line or an old car.  |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: Re: Fan Belts |
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| charlotte from brighton wrote: |
| Ever used a pair of Black 60 denier opaque tights as a replacement fan belt..? |
Never tried it with that exact type but I did try it once many years ago.
They don't work.
As a chat up line, it may be more sucessfull though. |
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minigirl
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| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| astrocan wrote: |
It is possible to do this with older cars, like my 1968 Triumph, but modern engines tend to run all sorts of things via one belt and they are often under quite a lot of tension so I dobt that it would work.
My advice to any men reading this is, if you want to get a girls tights off use a proper chat up line or an old car. |
i have my doubts as to whether this would work at all, but if it does i agree that it would be most likely to only work on a car that is at least thirty years old. things are so complex under the bonnet of a modern day car that you probably couldn't even find where the belt was supposed to be anyway.
let's just say that, if i'm in a car that breaks down in this manner, i'm not about to start taking off my tights.  |
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minigirl
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| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| astrocan wrote: |
| It is possible to do this with older cars, like my 1968 Triumph................. |
btw - what sort of triumph is it? a 2000 or 2500 or something sporty like a stag or spitfire? |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Its a very attractive Mk1 2000.
Spitfire..... sporty??
Shame its not a Stag tho. |
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BeachBall
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I read soemwhere that they only ever made about 17,000 Stags.
(My primary school headmaster had one of them, and a SWB Landy. He was pretty cool ... for a headmaster.) |
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kinghelfer
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| Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| BeachBall wrote: |
I read soemwhere that they only ever made about 17,000 Stags.
(My primary school headmaster had one of them, and a SWB Landy. He was pretty cool ... for a headmaster.) |
...and i think every one of them overheated because Triumph fitted a Radiator that was to small for the engine......
I had an art teacher who had a Datsun 240 Z or 260 Z back in ,77..... |
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minigirl
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| BeachBall wrote: |
I read soemwhere that they only ever made about 17,000 Stags.
(My primary school headmaster had one of them, and a SWB Landy. He was pretty cool ... for a headmaster.) |
i thought that figure looked a bit low, so i did a bit of googling and it seems the correct figure is around 25,900. someone up the road from me has a nice white one. |
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minigirl
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| Its a very attractive Mk1 2000. |
nice - you don't see many of the earlier ones out here, although there are quite a few mark II's still running around (although a fair few of them are 2500's)
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| Spitfire..... sporty?? |
well, at least they look sporty.............. |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| minigirl wrote: |
| astrocan wrote: |
It is possible to do this with older cars, like my 1968 Triumph, but modern engines tend to run all sorts of things via one belt and they are often under quite a lot of tension so I dobt that it would work.
My advice to any men reading this is, if you want to get a girls tights off use a proper chat up line or an old car. |
i have my doubts as to whether this would work at all, but if it does i agree that it would be most likely to only work on a car that is at least thirty years old. things are so complex under the bonnet of a modern day car that you probably couldn't even find where the belt was supposed to be anyway.
let's just say that, if i'm in a car that breaks down in this manner, i'm not about to start taking off my tights. |
Some of us know enogh about cars to work on modern ones.
So what would you do if you're in a car that breaks down in the middle of nowhere? |
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nbear8
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:17 pm Post subject: Schools |
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| Our Headmaster's secretary had a Stag brand new purple .It had a problem of the battery going flat caused by the boot light staying on when the boot was closed ,took the dealer a lot of trips back and battery boosts to get it sorted |
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minigirl
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: Schools |
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| Our Headmaster's secretary had a Stag brand new purple .It had a problem of the battery going flat caused by the boot light staying on when the boot was closed ,took the dealer a lot of trips back and battery boosts to get it sorted |
this happened to me a couple of years ago. after recharging the battery on a number of occasions, i thought there was probably something wrong with the charging system (i knew the battery was ok), so i took the car to an auto electrician. when he told me it was working properly i asked him what he thought might be causing the trouble. he was convinced that i was forgetting to turn the lights off but when i told him i definitely was not, especially that number of times, he paused and thought (it appeared to be a painful experience for him) and said maybe the boot light was staying on and - guess what - it was. for some strange reason the boot lid had moved a bit out of position (no, i hadn't had an accident) and wasn't pushing the switch far enough. the bolts that held the lid in place were so tight that i couldn't undo them to fix it, so i just took the bulb out. |
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