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  1. Jeff S

    Sat Nav

    There seems to be more complaints about the map updates and their customer service. But the consensus points to the TT. Any preferences for which version and can you get maps for traveling to the US with POIs? The software does automatic updates? Excellent! Thanks for the link Elton. I may be sold on the TT.
  2. Jeff S

    Sat Nav

    Thanks Jim, I had a look at your link- That is pretty much what I am looking for. Transferable between cars and easy to use. Although I'm not too big on the 12 month contract though I suppose I could maybe find away around that. I can't help but wonder whether or not the UK maps provided with the garmins supplied in the UK are any more accurate than the software I bought from the USA. I can enter partial postcodes but that only gets me close. The other reason I'm looking- for some reason on a trip down to Oxfordshire earlier this month my garmin let me down. I originally used it in a subaru impreza and then when the twins were born exchanged the scooby for a V40 Estate . The garmin won't charge from the cradle while in the V40, and the maps are outdated soo I wasted alot of time stopping to make sure that I was on the right route. So I'm now reading every review I can get my hands on. I've ruled out TomTom and would still consider a garmin provided the postcode search is up to standard. Not too worried about points of interests and speed cameras.. remember I no longer have the impreza. Cheers Sandy I'll have a look.
  3. Hello Everyone, I'm in the market for a good GPS unit. I have a Garmin streetpilot 330 from the USA with European maps but they just don't seem to be very accurate here in the UK. Entering postcodes is quite useless. Does anyone have a satnav that you would recommend - or what not to buy? Thanks in advance.
  4. Glenn, seems to me you have grounds to have the floor guy back in to fix it. Why should you have to deal with sorting out his mistake? Just my thoughts. I bet you paid quite well for it.
  5. I've heard of Turkey.... But Hungary??
  6. Jeff S

    Tools

    This got me laughing. I've been there more than once. Thought I would share. DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your soda pop across the room, splattering it against that freshly-stained heirloom piece you were drying. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned guitar calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, "Yeou sheeeet...." ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age. SKIL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make suds too short. PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters. The most often tool used by all women. BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes. VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. WELDING GLOVES: Heavy duty leather gloves used to prolong the conduction of intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub you want the bearing race out of. WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16" socket you've been searching for the last 45 minutes. TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper. EIGHT-FOOT LONG YELLOW PINE 2X4: Used for levering an automobile upward off of a trapped hydraulic jack handle. TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters and wire wheel wires. E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool, ten times harder than any known drill bit, that snaps neatly off in bolt holes thereby ending any possible future use. RADIAL ARM SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to scare neophytes into choosing another line of work. TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect. CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 24-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A very large pry bar that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end opposite the handle. AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw. TROUBLE LIGHT: The home mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids and for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads. Women excel at using this tool. STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws. AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts which were last over tightened 30 years ago by someone at Ford, and instantly rounds off their heads. Also used to quickly snap off lug nuts. PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short. HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent to the object we are trying to hit. Women primarily use it to make gaping holes in walls when hanging pictures. MECHANIC'S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use. DAMMMMIT TOOL: Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling DAMMMMMIT" at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often,the next tool that you will need!
  7. Sad thing is I know people that are challenged this way and I seem to be just as challenged... Sorry if you can't read them.
  8. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL2364504120071123
  9. And that, my friend, is why it has only gained 2.5 stars.. I should have researched! My wife wants one and I now have to tell her the reasons why she can't have it. I bought her a PDA a few years ago.. Maybe I'll see if I can get her to use it instead
  10. Sounds like a great concept for electronic books and paper.. Think of all the trees it would save.. Currently only available on Sprint mobile network in America So when will it be available in the UK????? Amazon.com search for kindle. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73M...;pf_rd_i=507846
  11. Jeff S

    Trout

    So what's with the policing?? I thought long and hard about where to post -settling on the non-fishing forum. Because it's not a course fish it MUST go to the fly fishing forum? Where in the link does it say the fish was caught on a fly? I did not intend for it to go here! Petty I know. Over the past three years I have spent nearly everyday here. Yet I find myself here less and less- and not from lack of interest. I've contributed, learned alot and been merrily tolerated. I think I've had enough. Cheers.
  12. Jeff S

    Trout

    Strange Catch And a Very Merry Christmas to you all.
  13. You can do quite a few things with wireless. I run two laptops and use a modem/wireless router hardwired to my desktop. What I found when trying to get connected was that most wireless routers run ethernet (category 5 cabling with rj45 connectors) while the modem I got from my provider (BT) only used a USB connection. I got around it by ordering this modem/router combo. If you want to connect to the internet from all of your stations you may need a wireless adaptor for each and they are all pretty much compatable (one laptop has a netgear the other a linksys adaptor). . Warning though if you do go wireless make sure you change the default password on your router, don't broadcast your SSID, and use some sort of encryption. WEP I've heard works well.
  14. He's not related to Harry? Good luck with the site Newt. Can you send me details of the site once it's up? My wife would really like some of his creations. I'm just leaving...
  15. F**K sake get over it already.... Newt isn't the only American that uses this forum. If I could learn half of what he has forgotten I'd be pretty well off. Well done Newt at least all the hate mail is electronic.
  16. Update: Just got a call from my daughter, their house split in two! Other than that everything appears to have 'weathered' better than most.. Trying to call back in but lines must still be down.
  17. [ 27. September 2005, 09:54 AM: Message edited by: Jeff S ]
  18. Same here LT hope you hear soon. [ 26. September 2005, 05:54 PM: Message edited by: Jeff S ]
  19. I haven't seen anything so far LT but I'll keep looking. Everything seems to still concern Katrina. I hope you hear something soon
  20. Thanks Newt well received. I haven't been able to reach them so hopefully they have already gone further inland to the lake. I just can't get my head around it. She's only 10!
  21. All bets are off on this one. It's going to set a new standard. The more that I think about it the less I think she is far enough away. Sad thing is no-one will have any comms for a while. Having to wait for word is going to be the worst part.
  22. Good information Newt. My daughter lives about 35 miles inland near Beaumont. Just spoke with her and they are moving farther north near Lake Sam Rayburn and hoping that she can go back to school on Monday.
  23. [ 27. September 2005, 09:56 AM: Message edited by: Jeff S ]
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