Today I mostly .....

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sun Aug 07, 2011 9:33 pm

Thats lucky for you then!

Zelandeth · Post by **Zelandeth** » Sun Aug 07, 2011 10:13 pm

Somehow survived the flights back from holiday. Departed Lansing, MI at 19:35 local, arrived in Chicago approx 1 hour later, had about two hours there, then the eight hour slog from there to Heathrow, collapsed at a friends house for a couple of hours - then back on a flight from Luton to Aberdeen.

...Thankfully my flatmate gave me a lift from there to the flat or I'd have had to fork out £25 in taxi fares!

Sleep now...unpack tomorrow...after work. Blarg.

PS: Bloody freezing here after 25-30 degree C weather for two weeks!

Eddy · Post by **Eddy** » Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:30 pm

hoverfrog wrote:...
France is big, very big, ...

wow! 547,000 sq. kms! ... that's about 3/4 the size of South Aust ...

( just playing a little "mine is bigger than yours" game )

Enjoy the trip anyway!

Eddy · Post by **Eddy** » Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:49 pm

hoverfrog wrote: I'm quite happy to go 745 kms in my Niva (and back - if I'm lucky ) - but a lot of people think I'm mad

yeah we get some of that here to ...
Many said my son was mad ... drove his Niva to Darwin, stayed for six months then drove it back again. (about 3,200 kms each way)

Alejoint · Post by **Alejoint** » Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:51 pm

Put back in the Bronco's pedal bracket, and spent 2 hours trying to get a small recess on the steering wheel stub to line up with the steering shaft so that I could reinstall its damn bolt... Without success.

Dremel time tomorrow.

Gunsnlada · Post by **Gunsnlada** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:24 am

Eddy wrote:
hoverfrog wrote:...
France is big, very big, ...
wow! 547,000 sq. kms! ... that's about 3/4 the size of South Aust ...

( just playing a little "mine is bigger than yours" game )

Enjoy the trip anyway!

...and about 1/18 of Canada.. I win

Eddy · Post by **Eddy** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 2:29 am

Gunsnlada wrote:
Eddy wrote:
hoverfrog wrote:...
France is big, very big, ...
wow! 547,000 sq. kms! ... that's about 3/4 the size of South Aust ...

( just playing a little "mine is bigger than yours" game )

Enjoy the trip anyway!
...and about 1/18 of Canada.. I win

yeah yeah ... you're near 10% water tho ...

Gunsnlada · Post by **Gunsnlada** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:03 pm

by any chance did you keep the measurements of the plate for the door??

NIVAD · Post by **NIVAD** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 2:50 am

My niva got its annual use of which i got up on the pickup back and cut my coniferrs.

Much safer than a ladder

daniel.b · Post by **daniel.b** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:55 pm

Ordered the inner CV boot for the Cinquecento. It's inner joints use gearbox oil and the boot split the other day so it drove 5 miles home with no gearbox oil. So hopefully when the boot is refplaced and the gearbox is refilled the grinding noise will go away

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excossack · Post by **excossack** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:08 pm

A winch bumper for a Niva I guess?

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:19 pm

And it that the inner workings of Demon Fab?

Zelandeth · Post by **Zelandeth** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:37 pm

Spent most of the evening trying to kick my PC into letting me display images on all three monitors at once. Thus far without success. I can get display on any two at once, but not all three.

If anyone can tell me how to get triple monitors working under Ubuntu on a Geforce GT430, please feel free to pipe up. Yes, I know that's not a very powerful card, but A: I'm not a gamer, and B: it was free.

I don't NEED triple monitors...but as I have three sitting here on the desk, not using all three seems a bit daft!

I've spent enough time chasing myself, xorg.conf and the nvidia-settings config manager around in circles for one evening though I think.

Zelandeth · Post by **Zelandeth** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:18 pm

Hmm, interesting. Will need to have a rummage around and see what I can find then.

Something like this? link?

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:12 pm

I purchased a 2nd torque wrench 5-25Nm from machine mart.
Some gasket sealant from Land Rover