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Hoping to get the Trevi dropped back with its owner tomorrow. So I gave it a bit of a once over this afternoon planning to take it for a bit of a longer test run. It still wasn't running great, especially at idle but was a lot better that we started with. Though I discovered something rather interes...

I am slowly getting buried under computers here...another two were picked up yesterday. One of which was a surprise. https://i.ibb.co/Yh9NR99/IMG-20220804-200612.jpg The first of the line of Toshiba's portables in what we'd recognise as a modern laptop format. While it has the same footprint as the ...

Over the last couple of days I got around to photographing all of the computer hardware I picked up a couple of weeks ago. Main reason for the trip really was the Apple ][ https://i.ibb.co/yny6WVj/IMG-20220729-191245.jpg The Acorn Electron was another one I was really happy to bring home having been...

While there was still no visible wear on the tyres on the van, the rear ones in particular were starting to perish quite badly. https://i.ibb.co/zXTYtcs/IMG-20220713-192949.jpg Given the amount of weight particularly on the rear axle of this thing I'm not willing to take chances. Quite how the rears...

TPA has been out and about again today doing normal car things. https://i.ibb.co/3C4qmQD/IMG-20220726-144206.jpg I do need to try to figure out why she occasionally has issues at idle/on light throttle after running for a while. It feels like fuelling, though I don't think it's delivery. Guess I pro...

It's going to be a little while before I get to testing the Apples. Before they go near mains the power supplies will need the Rifa filter capacitors replacing and the output voltages checked. Nothing to say I can't take a look at some of the supporting hardware though. First up I decided it was the...

Some cars can really surprise you. For instance I fully expected my Xantia Activa to be a fantastic motorway mile muncher...it's a luxury car with big cushy seats and plenty of power. You wouldn't really expect much in that regard though from the Caddy. Over the weekend she's covered a little over 1...

The Caddy continues to surprise me and make me realise what a cracking little motor it is. Today I drove from our house in Milton Keynes up to a friend's place just outside Ellon, Aberdeenshire. Of course this was a journey I chose to do when the northbound M6 was closed at Carlisle. A journey I can...

Oops. https://i.ibb.co/ZBB62G4/IMG-20220712-154042.jpg So much for self restraint. Insomnia and eBay are a dangerous combination. I always keep half an eye out for T1200s going cheaply as they're a big favourite of mine, despite being machines that don't cope with decades of hibernation very well. T...

Had the scans for a film from a couple of months ago come back today. This was a bit of a throwaway example as it was very ordinary Velvia 100 which was several years out of date. It hadn't been stored well, being found at the bottom of a box in our loft where it gets hotter than the core of the sun...

Not going to be a massive amount of progress to report over the coming week as it's forecast to be a million degrees and I simply cannot function when it's hot. So anything is getting done in about 20 minute bursts before I start fading fast from the heat. The Caddy has been working very well as dog...

What's the verdict then? https://i.ibb.co/ySw06DR/IMG-20220707-162933.jpg Well, it's back in the drive having got there under it's own power for the second time in a row which is a start! Had it out for about half an hour during which I basically drove back and forth between the same two roundabouts...

A package arrived this afternoon containing these. https://i.ibb.co/94wTmFx/IMG-20220706-162246.jpg Oh oh...No box, just two rotor arms in plastic bags. We've been here before. Or have we? Upon closer inspection, no they were in fact genuine Bosch parts. https://i.ibb.co/HxHMs4y/IMG-20220706-162305....

It turned out that the tracking on the Caddy was a long way out. The previous garage had set it pointing off to the left and with a little over 4mm of toe in. The book value is 1mm of toe out. Suffice to say with it set properly the car...van...whatever you would call this vehicle drives massively b...

Out in the van today noted that I had lost the nearside front speaker. From prior experience I knew this was almost certainly going to be down to the spaghetti associated with the stereo getting caught when reinstalling the engine cover as despite a couple of strategically positioned cable ties it s...