parallel/reserve LPG tanks

On or around Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:23:26 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Getting off the M-F 9-5 must be a relief but I've never worked that;
>even when I was an employee. I've been self employed for 13 years. I
>don't think I could go back to being an employee, even on the
>irregular hours I was on.

Same here. Mind, I'll never make much money by being self-employed, since
I'm too lazy.
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"Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!"
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In message <[email protected]>
Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:

> On or around Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:23:26 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >Getting off the M-F 9-5 must be a relief but I've never worked that;
> >even when I was an employee. I've been self employed for 13 years. I
> >don't think I could go back to being an employee, even on the
> >irregular hours I was on.
>

<snip>

Me too - life would be far too dull, running your own business is far
from the easy option, but the buzz is fantastic.

Richard

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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:26:38 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd
<[email protected]> wrote:

>In message <[email protected]>
> Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On or around Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:23:26 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
>> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>> >Getting off the M-F 9-5 must be a relief but I've never worked that;
>> >even when I was an employee. I've been self employed for 13 years. I
>> >don't think I could go back to being an employee, even on the
>> >irregular hours I was on.
>>
><snip>
>
>Me too - life would be far too dull, running your own business is far
>from the easy option, but the buzz is fantastic.
>

I like the flexible working hours when things are good but then as
soon as something goes wrong its horrible when it becomes 'drop
everything and work for all 24 hours of the day' (I work contracts
with a guaranteed minimum time but no maximum).

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:01:17 +0000, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On or around Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:38:27 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother}
>@"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:
>
>>On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:46:01 +0000, Steve Taylor
>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>'s bit of a haul for a weekend though.
>>
>>For 'a' but not for 'all'...
>
>have to say, living 12000 miles from the present govt. in this country and
>the EU has a certain appeal... There are a few practical diffuclties though.
>And there's no guarantee that the govt. in ennzed is or will remain any
>better.
>
>Tellyer wot I'd like to do, and that's go back to the days when you could
>get to oz for 10 quid (OK, 10 quid was worth more then) and work on the
>railway or somesuch for a couple of years.

They do a nice visa thing in Oz where you can get a 1 year working
visa (without having to get an employer first to sponsor it) so that
you can just turn up and travel/do casual work for a year. You have to
be under 35 though and you can only do it once.
I hope to get there in the next few years. I need to get the 101
sorted and tour some of the landmasses that i can easily drive to
first though!

On or around Sat, 21 Jan 2006 10:56:36 +0000, Tom Woods
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>They do a nice visa thing in Oz where you can get a 1 year working
>visa (without having to get an employer first to sponsor it) so that
>you can just turn up and travel/do casual work for a year. You have to
>be under 35 though and you can only do it once.

that's me buggered, then. 40 in a few months.
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see Chuck's face, a white oval turned toward the sky.
'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven.
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:16:17 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I for one would be happy to "sponsor" a box of bangers or a bottle of
>gas etc in exchange for a sticker or two - and depending on the charity
>of course.

Fancy sponsoring the 101fc.net calendar for Feb?

http://www.101fc.net/calendar/index.htm


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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00:08 +0000, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> wrote:

>that's me buggered, then. 40 in a few months.

How many months?

Double celebration at the unofficial maybe?

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:01:54 +0000, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> wrote:

>>I would REALLY like to take you up on that!
>
>I think the fuel consumption on the journey there might be prohibitive.

Not really, it'd use very little whilst in the container. Should I
ever decide upon such a holiday, I would probably only ever buy a one
way ticket...

Now tell me why you can't put a standard propane cylinder in the back and
connect it with a bit of rubber tubing ? (legalities apart anything in an
emergency)

Whatever happened to producer gas.

--
Larry
Series 3 rust and holes



"Steve" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Our 101 is running exclusively on LPG now, a. we can't afford petrol,
> and b. The tank has a hole in it.
>
> I have been given an almost new 80 litre tank that I would like to put
> in the fuel system.
>
> How best to do it ? As an independent tank, switched in with a
> changeover valve when the main tank runs empty, or in parallelwith the
> main, and no valve, which AFAIK means that the LPG level in the main
> tank would be enough to gauge the whole system.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve

Larry wrote:
> Now tell me why you can't put a standard propane cylinder in the back and
> connect it with a bit of rubber tubing ? (legalities apart anything in an
> emergency)
>

You can. But it hasn't borne any of the right duty, so it would be very
naughty.


> Whatever happened to producer gas.
>

We elected the retorts.

Steve

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:04:01 +0000, Austin Shackles wrote:

>> I've been self employed for 13 years. I don't think I could go back
>> to being an employee, even on the irregular hours I was on.
>
> Same here. Mind, I'll never make much money by being self-employed,
> since I'm too lazy.

Hum, thats probably where I'm going wrong. Though the bist of chasing
and promotion I did last year has paid off a little bit. I need to
chase down some commercials production houses in this neck of the
woods. Commercials rates are more or less double TV rates...

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On or around Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:59:35 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother}
@"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:

>On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00:08 +0000, Austin Shackles
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>that's me buggered, then. 40 in a few months.
>
>How many months?
>
>Double celebration at the unofficial maybe?

nah, birthday party at one of the local boozers, buffet, hopefully live
folk-music lot. If it get arranged and I can afford it.

's on the first of April, which is conveniently a Saturday.

dossing and parking and camping space available here, if any of the usual
suspects fancy coming along to make up the numbers.
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from the Little Book of Complete B***ocks by Alistair Beaton.

Austin Shackles wrote:

> dossing and parking and camping space available here, if any of the usual
> suspects fancy coming along to make up the numbers.

I'm at Trefach again for an astronomy do. If its clear, I'll be there,
otherwise we'll see you.

Steve

Reminds me of the health and safety cert I did some years back, some rubbish
about the different colours of fire extinguishers and then they promptly go
and change all the regs.


--
Larry
Series 3 rust and holes



"Simon Isaacs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:16:46 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
> scribbled the following nonsense:
>
>>
> yep, the foundation cert in food hygiene is taught in industry as a
> four hour course, with 3hrs of study, 1/2 hr revision, 1/2 hr test. 30
> questions multiple guess, need about 25 out of 30 to pass. Reminds
> me, ought to consider redoing my advance food hygiene cert as i took
> it 1995, but is still considered valid!
> --
>
> Simon Isaacs
>
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On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:56:02 -0000, Larry wrote:

> Reminds me of the health and safety cert I did some years back, some
> rubbish about the different colours of fire extinguishers and then
> they promptly go and change all the regs.

At least the UK managed to retain a coloured panel for the different
types instead of making them all one colour for all the different
types.

If I want an extinguisher I want to able to select the right one
quickly, without having to read the label. A row of single colour red
water, foam & CO2 extiguishers and an electrical or flamable liquid
fire I don't want to pick the water one by "accident".

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> Thanks, I dont have any instructions for it but I think its a Landi Renzo
> ( not a bad name for a system on a Land Rover). The wires on the gauge are
> green and black and they appear to go all the way back to the switch unit.
>
> Gerald
>
>

Similar experience. i went to get the lpg system installed in my landy and
the guy said to my "we'll be using landi equipment" and for a little while i
wasn't sure if he was taking the **** or not.

Sam.