Techno fantasy land

Hugz · Post by **Hugz** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:08 pm

True.

Collector Inspector · Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:29 pm

I like Charles as well do not get me wrong with that Mate.

Let us have a Great Holiday and a Messy Week.

Regards

CI

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Post by **John@sos** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:08 pm

Well it is my website and I'm leaving the tips there!

If you do not agree on how they work fine, but they work and cleverer people than me have explained why and I have had the explanations corroborated by very learned and experienced engineers. Good enough for me.

Who cares really why these tricks work anyway, just so long as they keep our gulls flying......

John
SOS

pistnbroke · Post by **pistnbroke** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:48 am

Vic · Post by **Vic** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:59 am

good job you dont work for the police

I think you should check up a few things, like reading THIS before making sarcastic remarks like that.

You have said what you believe about a couple of things on the website. Now shut up, we have all heard you! You have only been here for a couple of months and I for one am fed with with hearing from you on these topics.

rosbullterier · Post by **rosbullterier** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:25 pm

C'mon Vic, get a grip.
Its us English Anal Retentives who are supposed to master irony.
I suspect pistn might already have read John's CV and be referring back to it.
By the way, how do you insert a highlight word like that?

Post by **John@sos** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:36 pm

Had this in from Barrie this morning:-

Hi John,
Just wanted to say thanks for the tip on restoring the
spark with a drill on flywheel.
Fantastic. I have to say I had my doubts but it worked a treat.
Thaks again
Barrie.

I think the ends justify the means! The comments are really water off an old ducks back!

Cheers,
John

Vic · Post by **Vic** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 1:28 pm

Rosbullterrier

You are probably right but things like irony and sarcasm do not come across well on forums.

Still fed up with the bloke ranting on about it. FWIW I think the explanation of the flywheel spinning trick is correct but dont know about the plug gap thing.

To get the highlighted word (or any text) to form a link you have to construct the markup like the second example you see when you hover over the url tag. Sometimes I also enclose the required in bold tags as well.

The line I used in my post was as follows in which I have substituted curly brackets for the square ones to stop it operating.

{URL=http://www.saving-old-seagulls.co.uk/about_me.htm}{B} HERE {/B}{/URL}

Some forums have the facility to insert links like that directly but I am not aware of any quick way of doing it on here. If you are really clever you can even make pictures into clickable links.

Click the Seagull
.................................

Have you tried clicking the Seagull on Johns home page?

rosbullterier · Post by **rosbullterier** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 2:50 pm

Vic, I am yet again impressed and indebted by your I. technical knowledge.
However I tried to email the gull and it is a gif. rather than a jpeg which appears in hieroglyphics.
And when I scroll to the bottom of 'My Pictures' where I could save and possibly change its format, the computer shuts down (Windows XP) with a fatal error message that the Intel Graphics thingy has paused too long!
I shall try to open the gull somewhere else!
Andy
ps maybe I should spend less time using the SOS site for evening entertainment and log in to an IT site . . .

Post by **charlesp** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 2:55 pm

I suspect that spinning with a drill is one of those areas, like the Bermuda Triangle, the Crystal Skulls, Roswell, the whereabouts of Lord Lucan, and the fate of poor little Madeleine McCann, that will be the subject of debate until long after the last magneto has biodegraded to nothing.

There is plenty of room for all manner of theories, indeed my own favourite is that there are a number of things that can benefit from a healthy rotational stimulation. Magnetism in iron, maybe. Damp coil windings arcing to dry out, maybe. Condenser a bit below par having its charge holding capacities jolted back, maybe. And so on.

But as John says, it works, and that seems to help lots of people with otherwise dead ignition systems, so that's fine.

I am here to learn, and if someone challenges what I've posted I'm grateful to be pointed in another direction. This board is generally extraordinarily free of those afflictions of other Internet fora, the 'Wind Up Merchants' and 'Trolls'. Long may it remain so.

I think that the quote about..

good job you dont work for the police or similar where incorrect information should not be tolerated ......ha ha

..does rather stretch the aforementioned tolerance, don't you think?

Vic · Post by **Vic** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:54 pm

However I tried to email the gull

I seem to have emailed him OK at least to one of my own alternative (webmail) email addresses.

I right clicked on him and saved him to my own picture folder then attached the file there to the email. That worked fine.
I also tried using the "email picture" option but that ended up with the gull on a black background.

If the wrong box is ticked on my webmail then I only get a page of meaningless code.

How to while away a very wet afternoon wthout really trying !

rosbullterier · Post by **rosbullterier** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 4:08 pm

Yes Vic, thats the problem. I've saved the gull picture in My Pictures but new saved pics all join that folder at the bottom of it. Now when I scroll down to the bottom to view them the computer shuts down about three rows from from the bottom.
As I mentioned, the Microsoft fatal error message states that the Intel Graphics something which controls this section wrongly senses a pause which is too long and switches off.
I have tried the Intel site but have not fathomed how to rectify the problem. There is an Intel download supposedly for this but it has not worked. At least I know what the computer is doing when it shuts down.
So, thats about three rows of interesting pics I shall never see again . . .

Vic · Post by **Vic** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:15 pm

Yes Vic, that's the problem

I see. well I do but i cant help with the problem. My pictures display in alphabetical order and i cant change that but i can see the files in different layouts ranging from large icons to a plain list of files. I can also view them via MS Office Picture Manager and Fuji Finepix Viewer. Again I can't change from alphabetical order as far as I can see BUT Windows Photo Gallery allows me to view them in all sorts of orders and groupings .

Just a thought can you reorganise your picture files into a number of folders. Silly things like the Gull, pictures I have created or saved from Internet sites are in the outer folder but inside that I have the first few photos I took with my camera in one sub folder, then another for photos from 2007 and another for 2008. I was thinking that the pictures you have lost are there somewhere and if you made the folders smaller maybe you could find them.

Possibly rubbish!

Using Vista by the way

Thread drift they call this but I was fed up with the arguments that "Pissed and broke" started.

pistnbroke · Post by **pistnbroke** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:58 pm

twostrokenut · Post by **twostrokenut** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:57 pm

After 30yrs one would have to expect that you have gained some knowledge.
I've been "tinkering " with magnetos for just a bit longer , and don't personally agree with some of your views ..... life's life , that's how the world goes round.
I wouldn't however come on here downing your views in such an abrasive tone.

Andy.

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