[Aunt Sally]

From my father who (before he died) had his own car repair shop, I spent many happy hours watching him work (never on a Wankle engine though).  I even used to help him skim and undercut the commutators on armatures.  That was in the day when you could get starters and dynamos repaired rather than replaced.  

You would have LOVED his workshop Munty.  It smelled of engine oil.  he had an old baking tray of paraffin for cleaning things in with an old paint brush.  The number of times he dropped his fag in it  :roll: I used to get some of the duff jobs to like sand blasting spark plugs and testing the armatures on a growler to see if the windings were OK.

His lathe system was built by my grandfather and ran by leather belts running over big wooden tapered barrel thingies.  You should have seen his battery chargers.  they looked like something out of frankensteins monster  :shock: They used to spark when he moved the leaver over the contacts to "wind em up a bit"  

I still have some of the screwdriver that my dad made...  Ah Happy days - thanks for bringing them back Munty  

[muntjac]

:roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: OK OK OK OK  YOU CAN blooming STAY

 :oops: . NO FREKIN CUSHIONS N FRILLY dodo,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ONLY GREASE N OIL IN THE TEA .and NO BL;OODY FAIRY CAKES ..PIES N CHIPS ONLY ,

 :oops:  :oops: ,* beaten by a flippin apprentice oil jockey  :oops:  :oops:  :oops: ////// :oops:  :oops:
 :cry:


     

[Aunt Sally]

Can I be an honorary man Munty  :?:  

[muntjac]

Can I be an honorary man Munty  :?:  

 no .. im not agin women in the shop ,,,,,, just dont go tarting up the place like a country cottage  :shock:

[Sally A]

Am I correct in thinking that mazda took the wankel engine and so developed the rotary engine that was present many years after wankel stopped producing cars?

[Ice]

Wankel engines are not a very common type of internal combustion engine.  The rotary engine never seemed to catch on, piston engine being much more preferred, even though the Wankel engine is light weight and high powered.  It requires more complicated fuel injection technologies than for four-stroke engines, and they can be more susceptible to pressure loss at low RPM compared to regular piston engines.

However a positronic screwdriver is purely science fiction.  :roll:

 and you gleaned that litle bit of info from ?      

I thought everone knew that Munty.  Maybe you should go back to school.

[Gwiz]

cor blimey, guv' this place is infested wiv females.
who needs the dolly bird calender?

now if you wouldn't mind just lining up, ladies, while I get out me box brownie.

[Gwiz]

Just a thought, Is that a cobweb I see up in the corner Over there??

[richyrich7]

Just a thought, Is that a cobweb I see up in the corner Over there??

No it's just more of Shauns crocheting   :roll:

[gobs]

 

[shaun]

Just a thought, Is that a cobweb I see up in the corner Over there??

No it's just more of Shauns crocheting   :roll:

i beg your pardon  

[gobs]

Just a thought, Is that a cobweb I see up in the corner Over there??

No it's just more of Shauns crocheting   :roll:

i beg your pardon  

I thought you picked it up whilst we were talking, isn't it so? :?

[shaun]

I thought you picked it up whilst we were talking, isn't it so? :?

must have missed that gobby  :?

[gobs]

I thought you picked it up whilst we were talking, isn't it so? :?

must have missed that gobby  :?

Piss,I'm not gobby, I'm Gabi.  

[Gwiz]

( gives a loud sigh) I think I'll go awol for a bit, have a walk in the fields, visit the pub, go to the market and whatnot.
someone give me a call on the mobile if anything turns up.