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by Alchemist
Thu May 11, 2017 7:39 pm
Forum: Useful Tips
Topic: Micro-blisters !!!
Replies: 14
Views: 7043

Re: Micro-blisters !!!

regarding car covers... I bought a fairly expensive one (around £120) for my Morris that lives outside (cover is definitely needed as our front garden is canopied by a sycamore tree which drops horrid sticky gum seasonally, and is a haven for collared doves who love flying down and perching on anyth...
by Alchemist
Mon May 01, 2017 7:35 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Speeding offences just changed
Replies: 49
Views: 9635

Re: Speeding offences just changed

It is not that people's speedometers are faulty it is just that they are per se inaccurate from model to model and car to car. That is why the statutory allowance of plus or minus 10% was introduced. Of course it matters not what speed your speedometer says you were doing, what matters is what spee...
by Alchemist
Sun Apr 30, 2017 7:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Morris Minor Security
Replies: 9
Views: 2465

Re: Morris Minor Security

I agree Steve and rotor arm is my favourite way of immobilising a car especially as most idiots who steal a car around here are straight out of school (if they ever went) and therefore would never have heard of a rotor arm....... I like the visual deterant effect of something like the gear lever loc...
by Alchemist
Sun Apr 30, 2017 6:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Morris Minor Security
Replies: 9
Views: 2465

Re: Morris Minor Security

I use one of the traditional triangle clamps .. well actually one I had left over from my brief spell as a County Court Enforcement Officer. which is greats for use at home but not very practical when you go out shopping...lol we also box Morris in on the drive with our other car and caravan...........
by Alchemist
Sun Apr 30, 2017 5:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Morris Minor Security
Replies: 9
Views: 2465

Morris Minor Security

Hi Guys no doubt somewhere in the archives this has been asked before but a quick search could not find anything. Call me paranoid but the locks on a Morris are really pathetic presumably because in their day you could leave your back door open all day without worry of theft.. or so my grandmother t...
by Alchemist
Thu Apr 06, 2017 9:58 pm
Forum: Concours Forum
Topic: Engine Bay, Again
Replies: 2
Views: 5408

Re: Engine Bay, Again

Yes they are the ones I remember having perpetual problems with them on my Austin 1100 and the garage advising me to get them changed this was back in 1977 mind... OK My guide to Concours prep led me to believe that ALL Aluminium should look like Chrome almost ..but then they also suggest that the u...
by Alchemist
Thu Apr 06, 2017 7:21 pm
Forum: Concours Forum
Topic: Engine Bay, Again
Replies: 2
Views: 5408

Engine Bay, Again

Hi guys just a quickie... I know that Aluminium carburetor parts are usually polished, but what about the other aluminium ancillaries like the windscreen wiper box etc are these polished or , dare I say it....painted aluminium...... and do you finish by lacquering the polished parts? Also should I s...