AlexMF

Finished my degree! In other news I have a sore head.

thank you Robert, I am somewhere around the working hard / hardly working range... as for this morning, I'm just having my 1st coffee of the day, reading notes ready for this afternoon's adventures!

i hope not sean, yesterdays was all right, todays was good...just 2 hours tomorrow and i'm out of education (til my NVQ when i start work in a week...)

exams, today tomorrow and wednesday. then my degree is done!

they don't half bounce about when they're empty eh! made my dad car sick when i borrowed one from work for the weekend...

people who do not keep their promise of returning your phone call!

realised i hadn't read a book for pleasure in a while, so I've treated myself to a Series 3 Land Rover Haynes book of lies Manual!

in answer to 3. barry, back in my warhammer days i'd have called that white metal, which i think is a tin/ lead alloy... I believe the greenstuff is a gamesworkshop product also? just having a huge nostalgia moment!

righto, do you mean boarding over the orange insulation up the side of the roof? the chipboard flooring is far too thick (minimum thickness 18mm) for the job, the t&g make it most effective in situations where it needs to take a lot of weight... (unless you just mean about asking for damaged goods, in which case, oops) just plasterboard will do fine available in 8x4' sheets too! not wishing to teach you to suck eggs either, but compressing the insulation is not energy efficient, I'd advise you to use batons to increase the rafter depth to greater than that of the insulation, then to board over it. just had a huge nostalgia moment of trying to explain to a man why he couldn't use a sheet of OSB as a fence panel, and explaining to a woman why 20 5.4m lengths of slate lath with 4m poking out of the sunroof wasn't advisable... oh that and a man walking in with a picture of a bunk bed and asking what wood he needed to make that!

I used to service cars in the evening, but now I've got the missus back I've come over all domestic! Which brings me to the subject of my latest eBay spree... my house mate keeps lending my Dyson to his sister, who abuses it, (doesn't turn the brushes off when hoovering tiles) so as my tenancy is up at the end of June (Steph and I will be getting our own place..) I've decided I will replace all the worn parts etc (not until the night before we leave though!) and get it working back as new, so the new place can remain clean! so new carpet beater brush, attachments (between house mate and his sister they've all gone missing or been broken), filters, clutch (which is currently slipping) and belts (which are stretched). most interestingly however, a tool for stretching and tensioning the drive belts during fitting and a Snap-On T-15 Male Torx screw driver... Dyson claim you need to pay a technician to fit all these bits, but hey, if I can build a range rover I think I'll chance my hand with the hoover!

what boarding are you using? walk into a decent timber merchants (not B&Q etc) and ask if they have any damaged stock, (i brought 30 8x2" 21mm peel clean t&g chipboard boards home from work over summer for pennies each because they'd been bashed about by orang-outangs on forklifts, they are currently providing a floor in the hall of an investment property and in my parents garage loft!)

didn't mean you no trissle, meant Captain spatial awareness in the BT van...

thanks tris and marky I find your work ethics something to aspire to! Chris, one can only hope! been thinking about a landy as a next car recently

yeh Bill, very capable off road though despite the soft looks, I have driven one round the test track at halewood!

time to let his tyres down/ take the gear lever off/ phone the five oh...

30,000 applicants for 1000 jobs. not too bad odds! thanks!

thanks all. halewood factory (opposite Liverpool john lennon airport) I Will be building range rover evoque's and land rover freelander 2's

starting at jaguar land rover on the 6th of june, found out today! yippeee!

in the affordable bracket, robert gillmor does some nice animal prints, in the not affordable bracket, anything from the '50s or 60's by Vignale, sketch, real deal a ferrari 212 cabrio for example. i was fortunate enough to know the cars first owner, and see it in the flesh. after the owner died, my father and i took it to goodwood in '02 and sold it there... for a lot less than it was sold for last year in america!

passed my face to face interview at landrover, think i might have a job!

right have just taught myself (via t'internet) how to run the c20xe off a vaccuum advance distributor, so, I have bought, mkII cavalier 1.6s distributor, coil, accuspark electronic ignition (to replace the dreaded points) accuspark HT leads and king lead, NGK plugs. it's been an expensive weekend.

more car parts today, a facet fuel pump (red top competition spec, if you're bothered!) to feed the engine in the mini, (at full chat it will monster 45gallons an hour bear in mind minis have a 7.5 gallon tank, "you plonker rodney") a malpassi filter king fuel filter/ pressure regulator, as the pump will kick out at 8psi when the carb wants 3-5psi and some banjo fuel fittings for the carbs. still on the scout for some ignition components...

building the range rover evoque and freelander 2! (if i get the job that is...)

got a set of sportspack arches for it, think the only thing still to buy is wheels/tyres... halewood (where i will be) make the evoke and the freelander 2 mate

320gb western digital passport, at a bargain price...going to use it to rescue all of my music/photos/documents/movies etc then reinstall windows on my laptop!