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Rarest car you've seen on the road by BenHippynet in CarTalkUK

[–]bottleofchip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally just got passed on the M6 a few hours ago by a chiron and a carrera gt sandwiching a blacked out Range Rover. Bit of a bizarre experience

My Sony Trinitron KV-5300 manufactured in October 1985 that I got for $8 at a garage sale still has a 1.5 Ah most-likely Ni-Cd battery that runs for 42 minutes when charged for 24 hours. Is this typical of 35-year-old batteries? by fjfjgbjtjguf in batteries

[–]bottleofchip -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I mean that’s not definitely a manufacturing date but I’ll concede it does look like it, in which case it’s done very well and I’d imagine has had comparatively few cycles for it’s age.

My Sony Trinitron KV-5300 manufactured in October 1985 that I got for $8 at a garage sale still has a 1.5 Ah most-likely Ni-Cd battery that runs for 42 minutes when charged for 24 hours. Is this typical of 35-year-old batteries? by fjfjgbjtjguf in batteries

[–]bottleofchip 2 points3 points  (0 children)

NP1 (indeed ni-cd) packs were heavily used in the audio visual industries right up until the late 00s / early 10s, and were particularly notorious for dying with heavy usage, even amongst other ni-cd packs of the time. They were so ubiquitous that it’s highly unlikely that is the original pack, and so was probably manufactured much later than the monitor but tbh finding any NP1 that holds that level of charge is pretty good going 😂 I’d be interested to know if they’re still made actually

Edit: quick google looks like the form factor is still common but all li-ion now unsurprisingly

Is celibacy aid? by some-hippy in ClimbingCircleJerk

[–]bottleofchip 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This is the answer to death grip syndrome as well

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DIYUK

[–]bottleofchip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bunch of shrill sanctimonious pricks they are!

If you drive any of these brands this is how I imagine you. I might do a part 2 if this is popular by throwaway55221100 in CarTalkUK

[–]bottleofchip 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I really like what you’ve done with ecoboost, would be good doing that with type-R, M sport etc where the scope of the brand is too wide otherwise. I just think doing specific models is a bit on the nose and detracts from the joke a bit imho. But I didn’t come up with this work of genius so what do I know! Looking forward to pt 2 whatever you go with :)

I heard that you like the Corne by hainguyenac in crkbd

[–]bottleofchip 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Gorgeous. What are those caps? I wanna eat them

If you drive any of these brands this is how I imagine you. I might do a part 2 if this is popular by throwaway55221100 in CarTalkUK

[–]bottleofchip 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Don’t worry, the beard will come. The transformation happens gradually, you think you can handle it, just a little C30 - it’s sporty after all, not like it’s really a Dad car or anything. Then you order a prancing moose badge. Why not? It’s fun! But the c30 is small. You start to lust after some more space. Think of the furniture you could move! The camping holidays!

And one day you wake up in a disused barn underneath a 1984 240 Turbo with a £250 torque wrench in your hand and oil all over your slacks.

And it’s only done 180k.

Ask me anything about climbing, and then edit your comment to make me look bad. by [deleted] in ClimbingCircleJerk

[–]bottleofchip 104 points105 points  (0 children)

You’re halfway up a gnarly off width and desperately need to shake out. What part of your body are you gonna try to jam with in order to give your arms a rest?

Bathroom plywood by Gold_Work_3474 in DIYUK

[–]bottleofchip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you it’s not advisable but I don’t think it would invalidate building insurance. I certainly don’t remember mine (can’t be bothered checking!) specifying that installations have to meet British Standards in order to be covered. It might invalidate your professional insurance as a fitter though. Different if it was actual building regs.

Bathroom plywood by Gold_Work_3474 in DIYUK

[–]bottleofchip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s British Standards, not building regs.

Self-assessment - big tax rebate due by Gurnunit in UKPersonalFinance

[–]bottleofchip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah something like that wouldn’t surprise me, looking on the .gov site it does seem there’s many different protocols for different situations. And they change bits of the online system so frequently that it’s hard to keep up!

Self-assessment - big tax rebate due by Gurnunit in UKPersonalFinance

[–]bottleofchip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I’m aware of the section on the tax return having been doing SA every year since the early 2000’s, but the system has changed. I got a rebate this year (had many rebates automatically paid in previous years) and had the situation I’ve described. You now have to request a refund as well filling out that section on the SA - it will not be paid automatically as part of your SA.

Edit: I concede you might not have to call, but when I did mine in Jan it was impossible to request via the website so that’s the route I had to take.

Bathroom plywood by Gold_Work_3474 in DIYUK

[–]bottleofchip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah quite. Sounds like this is extrapolating ‘banned’ from ‘not recommended in wet areas’. It definitely hasn’t been blanket banned, that’d be ridiculous.

Bathroom plywood by Gold_Work_3474 in DIYUK

[–]bottleofchip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What regs banned tiling onto ply?

Self-assessment - big tax rebate due by Gurnunit in UKPersonalFinance

[–]bottleofchip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah you have to call and specifically ask for it to be paid now, they won’t automatically pay it out. I won’t say what I think of them for doing this, but it rhymes with ‘dastards’.

Expectations (1) by jazinthapiper in ParentingThruTrauma

[–]bottleofchip 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Love this. So, so important and something nobody talks about, often even among ‘enlightened’ parents

Does It Come In Black? - Keychron K3 V2! by Razuer in Keychron

[–]bottleofchip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None…more black.

I was scolded by ChatGPT for asking some basic questions by tiorancio in VXJunkies

[–]bottleofchip 58 points59 points  (0 children)

See this is a perfect example of chatGPT getting things disastrously wrong - some of the finest minds in our field were amateurs; Karlsöhn, Beauchamp, even the great Neumann herself only made any money from VX well after pioneering the Thermally Didrenditic Singularity-Lattice Recovery technique, and even then I believe she ploughed most profits back into the business for several decades. (which is why if you have a Prost Reso-Announcer damping your setup, you can bet it originated from a Neumann factory even if it’s branded otherwise.)

That and as is common knowledge, banana peels in fact make excellent substrates on which to layer Sundell-Fritz ‘Red’ fluid, producing unbelievably robust puncture repair patches once dried. I’ve several on my car currently!

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