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Aug 3rd, 2021, 07:38 | #2601 | |
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I'm back in reality now - the RB looks fine the way it is :-) Alan
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Welcome back to reality Alan!
I've never understood women and their eyebrows - others even go so far as to pluck theirs out then have them tattoo'd back on! Also a bit dubious about Will Trickett and Gus Gregory and what they achieve. Will Trickett is an engineer and had (still has?) his own engineering shop and was often seen helping Kevin McCloud when he was doing the series about off-grid living in a shed in a remote field somewhere. As for Gus Gregory, he's a former photographer who although willing and enthusiastic, doesn't seem to have the knowledge and/or aptitude to diagnose cars and their foibles. Case in point was he stripped out the entire gear linkage on a cable operated gear shift (FWD car) because the gear lever motion was stiff to renew the cables. All it needed was some lube on the ball/socket the gear lever sits in. Could have been fixed in 10 minutes but he wasted a day doing something unnecessary! As for wrapping that MR2, i wonder how many takes it took and how many rolls of film they scrapped!?!?!?!?
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You may be right about needing quite a bit of spare vinyl to get it looking right on the MR2 (or maybe some professional car wrapping mate gave them a hand?). :-)
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I strongly suspect much of the work done on Flippin' Bangers is done by a "team" of workers with just a few shots of the jobs being done by the "stars" to make it credible. Do the maths on their business model as they purvey it - they both gave up well paid jobs and rented a workshop to buy and sell one car a week with the aim of doubling their investment. They don't always manage to double their investment but let's assume for a moment they do. One car, total investment £800, sold for £800 in a week. That's £800 profit - or is it? That workshop must cost a fair bit each month to rent including the utilities - let's say £1000/pcm as a ballpark figure, that's £230/week straight off their top line and only leaves £570 out of their hypothetical £800 car above. That's £285/wk each in wages, if they take any wages. Works out about £15k a year each, much less than they would have been earning. Also they haven't included their fuel for viewing/buying said cars, chasing round the country to get spares to revive said cars. Then there are the welding materials they use on many of the cars - no cost is ever mentioned for those. Also ebay listing fees..... Factor that lot in and call it £100/wk being generous. Drops their earnings to £235/wk or about £12k a year - all before tax etc as well! To actually make it pay and produce a living wage for the pair of them, they really need to be doing 3 cars a week but ideally more like 5 and turning them over in that time as well, not just getting them ready to sell. Work all that out and the only conclusion i can come to is that the production company is paying them to do it so they're never actually worried when a car doesn't sell via ebay (as some haven't and then there was that Alfa Romeo that folded itself round the two-post lift overnight so they scrapped it) and takes time to sell afterwards. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
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Some things have to be taken with a pinch of salt: like Will removing a Metro's rear subframe to clean its top, and then re-install - but the shows showcase all sorts of useful techniques, skills and products in an easily digestible half hour show with a few (normally car related) ads thrown in for good measure. ... I still like both programmes :-)
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Headlamp Wipers
I got round to having a go at fixing the spare nearside headlamp wiper motor I'd acquired recently. Readers may recall it was parking at the wrong place (at the top of the stroke, rather than the bottom).
The motor had been taken apart previously, so it was easy to access: ... you may see I have marked the orientation of the crank (the red piece) with a purple marker. The drive for the park interrupter is the small plastic cog at the top. The idea was to rotate the crank to about 180 degrees from its start position whilst leaving the motor and the parking cog in the original park position. Like this: ... this as a bit of an inexact science - I thought I'd try it in that position and then test and adjust (as they say at the shooting range). I tested it with a battery again and found I'd got the position just about right, so I plastic welded the back of the unit of with a soldering iron, and sealed up the seam with some black silicone I happened to have in the garage: It seems to work alright now (starting its rotation from the parked position in an anti-clockwise direction). I'll leave the silicone a couple of hours and then maybe try it on the RB this afternoon. Watch this space :-) Alan
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Great work there Alan! Fingers crossed it works as it should for you!
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Pedantry alert!
"Revert back" - I never thought that you would use that construct. My primary school English teachers would have invited me to write out 100 times that "back is tautological and should not be used with 'revert'". Hang your head in shame!
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And yet ... And yet ... How often are we asked to enter our PIN number, for instance?! Happens all the time, often without our even realising it!
Regards, John.
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