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The point I was making Rob is that some of the waters that I did fish and indeed hope to fish again you cannot get bank sticks into the bank, mainly due to them being made up off granite chips a good 6" deep so you can't get your bank sticks in, and the water is too deep to put in a bank stick there. The pegs are then sort of fronted with armco and the granite chips are put right up that, if you see what I mean. I have to agree with you however that you can on most waters get bank sticks in, (bet you can,t do it on the Victoria embankment on the Trent tho' ) I personally don't see me carrying a second rod pod as I carry enough tackle with me as it is, and not all pegs are big enough to get them in comfortably.

Hiya ever-one, just after midnight last night (1-jan) we had a power cut, no problem just the alarms going off down in the village, a very nice moonlite night so you could see for miles every where white with frost too so all in all a lovely night to see. I had been looking out of the window for a few minutes when I looked over towards the south east and saw a light in the sky, looked to be quite high up not very bright in fact yellow in colour rather than white and moving fairly fast. I thought that maybe it's a satellite reflecting the sun of it as I had seen one once before. I just watched it for a short while and then went out to the back and watched the fireworks down in the village and the valley. I noticed that there were 4 or 5 more of these lights over to the west and they too were yellowish in colour and moving fast. They looked strange seeing them through the trees, laughed to myself inwardly and thought "War of the Worlds" . Anyway I sat and watched them and the fireworks for a few minutes and out of the corner of my eye spotted a pink one coming up from the ground down in the village. It was more a pinky colour as I said and you could see a flame flickering in it so that answered my question as too what are they, they were small hot air balloons people were launching to celebrate the new year. Me being a country bumpkin have never seen them before and really liked to see them, in fact I look forward to seeing them again.

I totally agree with what budgie says. I use three rods at times and have used rod rests instead of the pod, but as I'm sure others will agree pods are the only way to fish on some waters where bank sticks cannot be used due to hard banks, concrete, stone, gravel etc. If using a three rod set up on the rod pod I will if at all practical use back leads and even use flying back leads aswell in some cases, and indeed have used leadcore aswell on one water that I used to fish, but not recomended on most waters. If using the pod and three rods I will try to put the back lead directly below the rod tip as it seems to work that way for me.

Thank you every-one, it really is nice to be back. I left you all when I was very ill and then I couldn't work as I had before, although I still worked,but hence lack of funds so things had to go the internet being one of the first. Then my wife had two heart attacks (not my doing I hasten to add ), then of course the dreaded reccesion and lots more time at home with little work but no money to go out and enjoy the time off. We are just about back on our feet now, tho' things are still a little tight but getting there fast. Oh, the wife is back at work now after having an angio thingy & 2 stents fitted, and is getting better all the time, so I hope that next year we will be away with the caravan and I can get back to my fishing also. Elton have you still got your Evolution? and Chesters1 do you still collect the intrepid reels? As I said above It really is nice to be back.

Hiya every-one some of you will remember me some won't ever have heard of me, hello to all of you. I hope to be on here for a long time again. I'll have a good old nose round the forums and I hope to be posting again very soon. Phill.

I know exactly how you feel, 3 years ago I lost my German Sheperd aged 13, he was born in my house as we had his mother, for about 6 months for the German Sheperd Rescue near to us. We had to have him put to sleep due to his health, not very nice at the best of times, but on your birthday not a birthday to remember with fond memories. But the memories of him will stay in my head for ever, as I know the ones from your dog will remain with you and your family for ever. Phill.

I always find it a very sad occurance when a racer or spectater gets killed or injured in any type of racing. Yes they do know the risks but they really don't think that it will happen to them, or they wouldn't do it. When someone does fall off I love to see them get up and walk away uninjured as I'm sure every one does. It's a good few years since I went to the Island to the T.T. but have been following it on ITV 4, and to be honest I would have loved to be there again, mainly for the sidecar races, I always liked them the best when I went to the racing, but in my hay-day it was Readie, Ivy, Hailwood, Agostini etc that we loved on the solos. I hope that the do-gooders don't get the T.T. stopped as they may well give a massive effort to do. Phill.

Yep got it should be with you now. Sorry for the delay, check your personal email inbox.

Chesters1, check your personal email address inbox. bushwacker.

Chesters, email me your email address and I will send them to you. Phill.

Hiya Nick, white smoke from a diesel engine is 100% of the time unburnt fuel. What can and does happen is, fuel is injected through worn or damaged injectors, and instead of vaporising the fuel it "blobs" that is large globs of fuel are sent into the combustion chamber and the swirling of the intake doesn,'t take place correctly, hence unburnt fuel. Worn or damaged pintels on the injectors are quite a common cause for this. Has the head been romoved recently for example without the injectors being first removed from it? them being damaged on the bench surface etc? The pump, maybe ready for recallibrating, the phasing may be out etc. Is the engine common rail? (I would expect it to be so) On the pump there is more than likley a small valve with wiring going to it, not the stop solenoid that is on the end but on the side?

Try pressure washer fluid rubbed in well with paint brush. Worked on our camper van a treat, then I washed it normaly with wash and wax. When it was polished it looked as good as new. Worked for us.

Billy, get a land rover mag and they will be advertised in there. Mine was a Kenlow, and took me about a hour to fit, dead easy and straight forward to do. But if I remember rightly you get 4 clips to attach the unit to the radiator matrix, and if you goof up you will have to by new ones from Kenlow as they are darn ingh immpossible to remove without destrying them, so be mindfull of that part of the installation. The hardest part to do was removing the old viscous fan (or vicious as we refer to them). I really couldn't fault the vehicle, it was excellent but not a real landy, too girly for me heater that works etc . I hope it's as good as the one that I had, you will be pleased with it if it is. I will try to find the details of the fan and send them to you if I can find them. Phill.

Hiya Billy, I got rid of mine about 3-4 years ago. That was a V8, older than yours tho', and to be honest I couldn't fault it in any way, after I did a mod on the cooling fan. I fitted a Kenlow electric fan and then removed the viscous fan thats fitted as standard, made a vast difference on the fuel economy. I bought mine I suppose on a whim. I have had series Landies for a few yeras and worked on them for a living for 6 years, just as the 110 was being introduced. The company that I worked for did in fact buy several early 110s direct from Rover, but I digress. I bought my disco and expected it to be a Land Rover, not a car, but it was an excellent vehicle. None of the leaky roof's, doors tops, and windows etc. It was quiet, you could have a radio on and hear it without having the volume right up, it didn't smell either, being as it had a proper roof not a "tent" on the top the exhuast fumes stayed outside. The exhaust was a bit of a problem when I had to have a new one, as it was part Range Rover, and when the exhaust place ordered the new one it came as a standard one. When they realised the mistake they had cut the old one off, so had to rush round like headless chickens to get the right one, so that they could free up the ramp for the next job. I hope that the one you have bought is as good as the one that I had, it was brilliat, but as I said not what I wanted, I should have known really, but there you are.

Newt, that is awfull. The anti blood sports brigade will for sure be on your back now. Like it tho.

I ahve to agree with what Newt has said about the quality of the bolt croppers and the locks that they will cut. Only soft metal will be cut by them, so only a cheap padlock, but some people can't afford a good quality lock so have to make do with the cheaper ones. I have got a good quality set of bolt croppers, that I have used in the past to cut through some reinforcing mesh. I tried them on an old Squire padlock that I had lying around and they cut it with ease, mind you they cost around the £100 mark so they should, but I don't think that the average "Chave" will go out and buy them, all the same you can't be too carefull.

Whoops, sorry Den the wifes name is Denise and it was just habit.

Thanks for the info Denise. As you can well imagine I was very wary of using it on the side of the wheel. I went on a new grinding wheel course in June 2005, after not doing one since I was an Apprentice back in the early 70s. I have in fact got a green wheel on the wet/dry stone grinder that I use for the engineers lathe, as well as the tools for the wood lathe. The other grinder just has the good old grey wheel that I use for the drill bits etc, being reasonably accurate free hand (years of practice I suppose) but want to get them really accurate for use on the lathe, and now that I have a good drill press, (a Fobco star engineers drill press) instead of the diy one that I had before I can get the holes a bit more accurately drilled. A hand held pistol type drill isn't that accurate as you never get them 100% square to the job or hold the drill as rigidly as a pillar drill so freehand sharpening was not a problem. Coming back to the drill jig, the small sliding part on the front end I assume, has to be pushed up to locate the cutting edge, then clamp the drill bit with the knurled screw. Move the sliding portion on the square shaft forward and adjust it to enable the second cutting edge to be set at the same distance for grinding that second cutting edge. Am I right? Phill

It looks lovely. I love to see old vehicles mainly goods vehicles restored to their former glory.

If you run the drill bit on the circumference of the wheel it, because the jig moves side to side it it grinds the bit with a radius instead of a nice neat and true flat edge. The shaft only locates the rear of the drill bit, but the two 45deg mitres (one at the front and one at the rear) have the drill bit in them. I may be missing some thing here so you have any ideas please let me hear them. A guy that I know has a similar drill jig to the one shown, but his uses the side of the wheel, and as you more than likely know it's not a good idea to do this. I very rarely see the guy so can't ask him if he can explain how it works or even if he has any destructions for it. I did a search for them but didn't come up with any results. I've just to hope now. Phill

Thanks Jon, yet again you've helped me out. Cheers, Phill

Can any-one tell me an easy way to attach a pictuer to this topic or even put one on for me if I mail it to the.

Hi every-one, I need to locate some instructions to a small drill bit grinding jig. It is as follows, a small angled plate with a sloted hole in it locates on the bench, and to this is attached a verticle shaft which in turn has a small alluminium casting onto this. Above that is a moveable casting with a vee shaped portion that the drill bit sits in and a square shaft runns from this to the shank end of the drill bit which is adjustable to advanve the drill bit forward to the grinding wheel. I assume that then the jig is moved in a lateral movement to regrind the cutting faces of the drill bit. The only way that I see the jig working is if it uses the side of the grinding wheel, which is a strict No NO. Can any one help me please, if they have a jig of a similar nature would you consider scanning a sending me a copy of the instructions if you have them please. Screw fix sell one near enough the same I believe, but that has no instruction s on it's use included. Thanks every one, I will take a pic of the jig asap ans post it on here to assist in it's identification. Phill. drill_jig_resized.bmp drill_jig_resized.bmp

Ferret, how do you set up an ignore list? Na, I can't ignore you mate. Lets face it theres precious few of us from our county as it is, so we can't ignore each other.

I know Bill Maynard very well, had many a pint with him a few years ago. If you can remember the programme based in the working mens club called "Oh no it's Selwyn Froggat ", it's based on characters in a real working mens club in the village that he lived in at the time. The lady behind the bar that counts the total of a drinks order on her fingers was the lady behind the bar at that time. He made all of the observations himself and they were written into the script. Just a bit of useless information for you there.