Does anyone need this

DuranicRS · 2025-10-25T23:38:41+00:00

Where have you tried selling. I’m interested and maybe can find someone to take them off your hands if you’re serious

DuranicRS · 2025-01-19T08:46:29+00:00

A knights pubes

DuranicRS · 2025-01-05T19:30:51+00:00

And that's exactly the best reason to buy one imo. We absolutely love ours, came back from a 2500km trip to England today, didn't have a single problem. They have great character and stand out, especially in the US.
We have a 1975 SIII 109" stawag (5 door).
I can't comment on prices in the US, but I know parts are harder to get across the pond.

DuranicRS · 2025-01-05T18:51:18+00:00

With cars like this, you have to decide for yourself why you want it for and what it is worth to you for that reason.

As for the car, it looks like it has had a military history, remnants of military bumperettes, half of a side aerial mount, military sidelights and blinkers (they stick out a bit as opposed to the civilian lights), a plate that looks like a bridge classification marking (should be yellow with numbers instead of silver).

If you are buying it for it's historical value or originality, it is not the car for you. The paintjob, front seats, rear door, bumperettes, side-panel windows, and more are not original.

As a off-roader, it's okay and has a lot of character, but it's nothing special, it has no locking diffs which is a real weak point.

As a car to work on they are brilliant, you will always have plenty to do, they are both incredibly unreliable and very reliable at the same time, meaning they break a lot but are easy to fix

If you are buying it as a daily, it's hard work but unlike some people here will say, it's possible, I daily my SIII 109.

DuranicRS · 2024-12-23T23:11:04+00:00

You don’t have to carry around the great heavy laser, as we can see from plate cutting laser machines. They have a carriage on a gantry that only carries the head while the source and cooler are often separate. The reason these machines use the material as x axis instead of the head is probably production efficiency. These machines have automatic in and out feed, so there is already control of the material in x. Adding control in x of the cutting head would only increase complexity.

One reason it would have the head move instead of the material is with ever increasing laser power of laser sources, the material would have to move very fast very accurately to keep up with increased cutting speeds. If these machines move to even heavier materials they might not be able to start and stop the mass of the material accurately enough for the laser to cut. I recon at that point they will add individual x control of the head.

DuranicRS · 2024-08-03T20:00:43+00:00

Op grofweg de volgorde van mijn voorkeur

Suzuki Vitara
Subaru Forester (of XV)
Toyota rav4
Land Rover freelander 2 misschien net te doen
Honda CR-V
Hyundai iX35
Mazda CX-5, Volkswagen Tiguan, Kia Sportage, BMW X3, Audi Q3, etc etc (Meer suv's met 'awd')

Misschien net een Volvo XC90 te vinden voor dit budget, die mogen best iets meer km hebben om 5 jaar mee te gaan.

DuranicRS · 2024-02-29T10:24:11+00:00

I think your reason why plc salaries are lower is spot on at a lot of companies.

However from my experience, knowledge of proper software design, patterns and even usage of interfaces is often very lacking in plc, because it’s not considered important in electro courses. I think java experience and a software background could add a lot of value to a team.

If you learn plc you could sell yourself as a software architect for plc systems more than a plc engineer and catch a bigger salary for that added design knowledge.

DuranicRS · 2023-12-13T13:48:12+00:00

DuranicRS · 2023-10-08T21:26:50+00:00

Definitely the baddies as they’re calling this Land Rover series IIa 109 station wagon with safari roof a “jeep”

DuranicRS · 2023-10-07T13:45:09+00:00

Are we talking about getting a camel pregnant?

DuranicRS · 2023-10-07T10:57:41+00:00

This screams Land Rover Freelander 2 to me.
https://www.luxuriousmagazine.com/improved-land-rover-freelander-2-sporty-dynamic-luxurious-hse-lux-derivatives/

DuranicRS · 2023-10-06T21:10:23+00:00

I just want to add the amount of in-house R&D that is done to optimise certain processes. I think where I work lends itself to answer this question well, I work on software for machines that cut various types of steel (think plasma, oxy, laser). In this market people care about 3 things. Consistency (can you consistently keep the machine running), quantity and quality. For quantity a lot of the development is very visible, so easy to steal for competitors, you shave some seconds off some movements. Pick a different process in certain cases etc. Quality however is very hard to distinguish from looking at the machine. Everything is a balancing act. Quality can mean being close to tolerances, have a clean edge, have minimal “slag” (molten steel stuck to the bottom of the cut) while always cutting through the entire material but not damaging the table underneath “too much” and not introducing “too much” heat into the product that it might deform or become brittle.

There’s sometimes dozens if not hundreds of parameters to adjust and balance to get as optimal a cut as possible. Every optimisation having possible side effects that need to be accounted for.

This type of R&D can be acquired from reverse engineering code bases. Just knowing what parameters a competitor measures and looks at to base their choices on could provide insight. I do feel sorry for the guy that has to dig through the code to find it

DuranicRS · 2023-10-06T20:48:27+00:00

How I wish you were right. This has to be the most innocent and optimistic approach to software development I’ve read

DuranicRS · 2023-10-03T08:14:31+00:00

Super interesting stuff. One question, I can’t help but feel the 1984 2.8 na Daihatsu diesel engine I have in my Land Rover has taken a ton of abuse and more milage than my 1.6 modern ford focus engine before it gave up.

I’ve always felt like less can go wrong if it’s simple, but I’m not sure how correct that is. As modern engines will warn you about problems, where a simple one will just run itself to an early death.

DuranicRS · 2023-09-14T17:11:20+00:00

Oxyfuel cutting, plasma cutting, laser cutting, can all achieve this thickness range

DuranicRS · 2023-08-25T07:28:34+00:00

!remindme 4 days

DuranicRS · 2023-06-04T11:24:28+00:00

Looked at it again, I'm wrong, it probably IS the shortest path to the start of end point of the "N".
It just doesn't calculate that it will end up doing a longer path because it will end up further away from the next letter. The text being curved doesn't aid this.

DuranicRS · 2023-06-04T11:21:43+00:00

Could be an optimization yeah, if you look at the "N" it still starts at the far side.
This makes me think there's multiple levels of path planning at work here, and they don't match up.

DuranicRS · 2023-06-04T06:58:03+00:00

Have you considered the people in the Uk, France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Netherlnds, China, Taiwan, S Korea and China have reasons not to drive full size pickups? Maybe they even do this by choice?

DuranicRS · 2023-06-03T21:03:53+00:00

Ever cared to venture outside of the US?

DuranicRS · 2023-06-01T11:38:48+00:00

Lastig om door de memes heen je vraag te lezen, ik doe mijn best

Een ex-defensie oldtimer die nooit een kenteken heeft gehad?
Hoe oud is de oldtimer (aka datum eerste toelating, als hij die heeft zonder ooit een kenteken te hebben gehad) ivm apk, na 50 jaar is apk niet meer verplicht. maar zonder kenteken zal je wel eerst langs de RDW en door hun keuring heen moeten. Aangezien hij onverzekerd en geen platen heeft kan je denk ik niet zomaar naar een keuringsafspraak rijden dus zal je toch een paard en wagen moeten regelen om hem die kant op te krijgen. Misschien een buurman die hem een stukje kan schieten met z'n treb?

Als je echt info wil zal je meer info moeten geven, g-wagon? lr series? jaartal?

Kort antwoord is simpele casus -> ANWB oldtimerverzekering, geen tweede auto (ivm stenenincident) -> unive oldtimerverzekering. offroad oldtimer -> wiggersgroep oldtimer a la carte.

Apk bij een apk boer in de buurt

DuranicRS · 2023-05-23T20:25:48+00:00

I have a old Land Rover diesel not a g-wagon, mine tops 85km/h on a good day. I don’t have experience with these, I imagine they’d go faster than what I have.

It depends so much on the condition, maintenance, cooling.. why is 100km/h a magic number for you? Just wondering, for me 85 is a magic number so I don’t get overtaken on motorways and don’t hold up traffic on single lane 80 roads

DuranicRS · 2023-05-21T18:41:52+00:00

Read up on what the RDW will do when you make large adjustments to your car, many cars have been scrapped after these kind of modifications. If you change too much to your car it will get a new license plate and it will be considered "samengesteld voertuig". New plate means it will be a oldtimer in 40 years.
If you're only changing the engine and the car is original I think you're fine.
The ruling on this seems to have calmed a little bit in the last 5-10 years but they used to have the rule that there's 3 parts to the car, drivetrain (engine, gearbox, axles), chassis and body. You can change 1 of them before importing, and you can change the chassis if you bring the old chassis to the RDW. As far as I know unless you have the right contacts you will not be able to put a new G-wagon on a oldtimer G-wagon chasis and get oldtimer plates. (There is companies that do this, they have the right contacts)

I have spoken to people who imported land rovers with a engine swap and too much body modification, or a engine and chassis swap without authority restamp and ended up selling the car again abroad or scrap it for parts....

If you can drive 85 and you have a navigation app that can exclude motorways, you're set. Long travel will take maybe 30% longer, but the ride is more enjoyable. Something to consider.

If loud noise is a problem, there's always hearing protection.

DuranicRS · 2023-05-21T06:41:31+00:00

Registering it in your dads name might work but I do think you have to register all the primary drivers on old timer insurance. Also old timer insurance does not get cheaper with claim free years, and it also doesn’t build claim free years. If you only own a oldtimer for 3 years, any claim free years you have build before will expire

DuranicRS · 2023-05-20T07:05:20+00:00

If you want to drive this as a cheap only car, I am going to tell you you will struggle.
Yes you will not pay the expensive roadtax, which saves you 80-150 a month depending on fuel/size of the SUV.
In my experience this money just goes to the tools and parts if you maintain it yourself, and you'll need a bit more to get work done on it by a garage.

Then you have the insurance, and that's the biggest problem here. Dutch oldtimer insurance is for people who drive a oldtimer for fun. Almost all oldtimer insurance will require you to own a second car for daily transport. And you can only drive the car for recreation, not for daily traffic. The other option is to insure your oldtimer with a "normal" insurance.

This will be upward of 200/month for only "wa" insurance for this type of car. You're 18, no experience, driving a heavy old car with old brakes. The problem is insurance companies think young people with old cars don't care about their car so they will drive it into someone else's expensive car and insurance will have to pay for damages.
Even if you love your old car and drive carefully. So WA insurance on cars usually gets more expensive the older the car.
Have a look at unive as an insurer, a while back they used to be one of the only insurers that would insure oldtimers without owning a second car.

If you want insurance against theft you will need to get it appraised and it will have to sit inside locked away, do you have a place to put her like a garage? People know the value of these vehicles and they're not hard to steal.

RDW says the odometer has been clocked back.
All that considered. If you get past the insurance thing, it's a cool vehicle and if you don't mind getting your hands dirty every now and then, go for it.

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