Wheels-Of-Fire

I had a problem with Freeview reception and a very odd fix.

The signal I get from my communal loft aerial is strong but noisy. With an ordinary STB I would often get picture break up and some days half the channels would go missing, I tried a couple of different boxes but it made no difference. Then I signed up to talk talk TV and they sent me a…[Read more]

The loudest concert I ever heard was Depech Mode at Hammersmith Odeon, the bass actually made my trousers flap 😁

Ah but it can’t be fixed Ed. You just can’t have the power in a battery that you have in a tank of fuel.

You don’t actually need a really noisy exhaust these days. The RC40 system sold by Mini Spares Centre is a straight through absorption  type with almost zero back pressure and it just has a “sporty” note 😁

I am going to take a guess here. The energy used to compress a really stiff valve spring must be quite substantial. You only need a very stiff spring at very high RPM so the valve stays under control. They must be saving something somewhere with a gas spring or they wouldn’t bother?

I fitted dual valve springs on my Mini engines because David…[Read more]

Multi user, multi tasking. Forget it !

Ah the old IBM main frames. The System 360 was about to be released at that time and even they were batch processors back then 😁

They finally got it right for the launch of the 1275 GT in 1972 and they transferred that setup to the Metro where it stayed until they replaced the A series with a K series 😁

They went through a fair few mods with the Mini gearbox to get it right. Type A gears, Type B gears, Full synchro gears and finally the type fitted to the rod change box’s. You also had “Magic Wand”, Remote change and Rod change gear linkages. They had 3 goes at the inboard drive shaft coupling before they got it right too.

Had it on a rolling road and it gave 86 BHP at my self imposed limit of 6500 RPM. Not bad for a 1293cc pushrod engine.

I am Mark. Watched a few of those videos. My interest was sparked by David Visard’s book “Tuning BL’s A Series Engine”. Lots of detail about CAM timing, lift and duration in there. I picked a Kent Cam’s 276 for my last engine. Slightly lumpy idle but still gives power above 6000 RPM.

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Online games tend to save player specific data locally and then back it up to the server when you quit, that way they only have to download the data at the beginning of a game if the server has a newer copy, such as if you start playing on a different device.

So yes, it almost certainly is saving data about your game play, locally AND online.

I have a mate who is mad keen on bikes, in fact he is just mad 😁, he lost his license for 3 months but decided to keep riding on false plates because his job is motorbike courier.

Anyway he got caught and his 8 month old Honda Fireblade was impounded. Even though he paid the fine the police would not let him have it back because he did not have a…[Read more]

The minimum specs for the engine are quite low, Core 2 quad, Radeon HD575 and 8GB ram.

I will give it a go when I get home on Wednesday but my RX480 only has a 4GB buffer. Will let you know 😁

The share arrow and copy on YouTube and then paste into forumite 😀

Yep 😁

I clicked on the share arrow and then copy. See if it works when I hit post.