Some Piccys of Morph - 101 FC

Stephen Hull · Sep 19, 2005

In message <[email protected]>
"Graham G" <[email protected]> wrote:

>>>big mistake putting gloss on that one... You need one with straight
>>>panels afore you can afford shinyness.
>>
>>Yup. Thing is, having seen an ambi in gloss - with totally straight
>>panels, it does look the business (hence my comment on the site about
>>"being shotblasted first with bricks and pebbles" ;-)
>
>Said owner tells me that nitromors wouldn't work (lack of patience I
>think) so he used a scraper and heat gun. I recon he's warped the
>ally with the heat, cos I've seen plenty of ambulances and rarely is
>every panel on it as badly warped as that is. If it was a side or
>only a few panels I could accept normal wear, but if you look hard
>enough, there isn't a straight panel on it.
>
>Graham
>
That certainly explains why the panels are so distorted,
Nitromors would have done the job eventually given patience.

Steve.

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Mother · Sep 19, 2005

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:52:33 +0100, Stephen Hull <[email protected]>
wrote:

>That certainly explains why the panels are so distorted,
>Nitromors would have done the job eventually given patience.

I think it's the "given patience" bit that counts here!

Ask Emma... ;-)

Steve Taylor · Sep 19, 2005

Graham G wrote:

> Said owner tells me that nitromors wouldn't work (lack of patience I think)
> so he used a scraper and heat gun. I recon he's warped the ally with the
> heat, cos I've seen plenty of ambulances and rarely is every panel on it as
> badly warped as that is. If it was a side or only a few panels I could
> accept normal wear, but if you look hard enough, there isn't a straight
> panel on it.
>
Must be cack handed then, because my panels are still fine.

Steve

Lee_D · Sep 19, 2005

"Mother" <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> I think it's the "given patience" bit that counts here!

Me and Mum have the scars to prove it! ;0)

Lee D

Lee_D · Sep 20, 2005

"Graham G" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>> Yeah, like this?
>>
>> http://www.101fc.net/lrfest-2005/lrfest2005-030.JPG
>>
>
> LOL

Unreal , I just clicked that that is a recent piccy! What a butcher, last
time Al gives me any crap about gutting a proto type! Just unreal, I thought
it was an early pre sand coloured paint job. I used to actually be quite
envious of the straight pannels on that ambi. Tis a shame. Be a bugger to
replace too.... all them rivets to get exactky right , Cos if he doesn't
it's pay back time ;0)

Lee D

Mother · Sep 20, 2005

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:38:31 +0100, "Lee_D"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Cos if he doesn't it's pay back time ;0)

Get in an orderly queue now...

Tom Woods · Sep 20, 2005

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:29:02 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:38:31 +0100, "Lee_D"
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Cos if he doesn't it's pay back time ;0)
>
>Get in an orderly queue now...

Thats not Al's ambi is it? I knew he was repainting it, but didnt know
that he was going for the crinkle effect too?

Looks like he got a nice finish on the paint - shame about the surface
though

It took me about 30 seconds with my heat gun to notice that it bent
the panel and call it off in favour of the nitromors.

Tom Woods · Sep 20, 2005

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:59:02 +0100, Tom Woods <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:29:02 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
>wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:38:31 +0100, "Lee_D"
>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>Cos if he doesn't it's pay back time ;0)
>>
>>Get in an orderly queue now...
>
>Thats not Al's ambi is it? I knew he was repainting it, but didnt know
>that he was going for the crinkle effect too?

I've got the page to work now, so i know that it is Al's! (Martyn -
your hosting was down for me earlier today)

Mother · Sep 20, 2005

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:01:05 +0100, Tom Woods <[email protected]>
wrote:

>(Martyn - your hosting was down for me earlier today)

No it wasn't. It was planned maintenance ;-)

Alex · Sep 21, 2005

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:01:18 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:01:05 +0100, Tom Woods <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>(Martyn - your hosting was down for me earlier today)
>
>No it wasn't. It was planned maintenance ;-)

Any more unscheduled planned maintenance in the offing?

http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html

Alex

Mother · Sep 21, 2005

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:01:08 GMT, Alex <[email protected]>
wrote:

>>No it wasn't. It was planned maintenance ;-)
>
>Any more unscheduled planned maintenance in the offing?

Prolly quite a lot I should imagine, over the next couple of weeks.

Austin Shackles · Sep 21, 2005

On or around Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:01:08 GMT, Alex <[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:

>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:01:18 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
>wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:01:05 +0100, Tom Woods <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>(Martyn - your hosting was down for me earlier today)
>>
>>No it wasn't. It was planned maintenance ;-)
>
>Any more unscheduled planned maintenance in the offing?
>
>http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html
>
>Alex

careful...

I love the BOFH. 'specially the original set.

there are several bits of classic humour which will probably never disappear
from the net...

"vaxen don't belong" is one (rather dated, now)...

http://www.crash.com/fun/texts/vaxen-dont.html

helps if you've had experience of an 11/750 and the like, which I guess a
lot haven't, now. In its day, it was a good machine - you oculd have
something like 15 concurrent users

If you're young enough, you may have to check the date at the end in
wikipedia...

--
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"If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect
other people to be entirely to your liking?"
Thomas À Kempis (1380 - 1471) Imitation of Christ, I.xvi.

Simon Isaacs · Sep 21, 2005

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:57:52 +0100, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> scribbled the following nonsense:

>On or around Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:01:08 GMT, Alex <[email protected]>
>enlightened us thusly:
>
>>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:01:18 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:01:05 +0100, Tom Woods <[email protected]>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>(Martyn - your hosting was down for me earlier today)
>>>
>>>No it wasn't. It was planned maintenance ;-)
>>
>>Any more unscheduled planned maintenance in the offing?
>>
>>http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html
>>
>>Alex
>
>careful...
>
>I love the BOFH. 'specially the original set.
>
>there are several bits of classic humour which will probably never disappear
>from the net...
>
>"vaxen don't belong" is one (rather dated, now)...
>
>http://www.crash.com/fun/texts/vaxen-dont.html
>
>helps if you've had experience of an 11/750 and the like, which I guess a
>lot haven't, now. In its day, it was a good machine - you oculd have
>something like 15 concurrent users

>
>If you're young enough, you may have to check the date at the end in
>wikipedia...

used them at uni, running Minitab, then after we learnt it on VAX, we
had to go learn it on Mac and PC.....
--

Simon Isaacs

Peterborough 4x4 Club Newsletter Editor and Webmaster
Green Lane Association (GLASS) Financial Director
101 Ambi, undsergoing camper conversion
Part owner of 1976 S3 LWT, Fully restored, ready for sale! Make me an offer!
Suzuki SJ410 (Wife's) 3" lift kit fitted, body shell now restored and mounted on chassis, waiting on a windscreen and MOT
Series 3 88" Rolling chassis...what to do next
1993 200 TDi Discovery
1994 200 TDi Discovery body sheel, being bobbed and modded.....
1979 Range Ruster body shell and chassis

Mother · Sep 21, 2005

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:57:52 +0100, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> wrote:

>careful...
>
>I love the BOFH.

Prolly already posted this...

http://www.101fc.net/files/vids/JebsJobs.mov

13.6 meg tho' so only a broadband link...

Also some stuff of mine at www.commedia.tv

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of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being
increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs
In memory of Brian {Hamilton Kelly} who logged off 15th September 2005

Alex · Sep 22, 2005

>careful...
>
>I love the BOFH. 'specially the original set.
>
>there are several bits of classic humour which will probably never disappear
>from the net...
>
>"vaxen don't belong" is one (rather dated, now)...
>
>http://www.crash.com/fun/texts/vaxen-dont.html
>
>helps if you've had experience of an 11/750 and the like, which I guess a
>lot haven't, now. In its day, it was a good machine - you oculd have
>something like 15 concurrent users

>

Before my time. The first machines i remember using was a Digital
Microsystems 3B/102. A Minicomputer system capable of handling up to
256 dumb terminals on VT Ansi. Ran CPM/86 from 8" disk floppy or hard
in 64k of RAM

Most people have never heard of them. I've still got two or three
working examples. Must be over 25 years old now.

Alex

Austin Shackles · Sep 23, 2005

On or around Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:04:46 GMT, Alex <[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:

>Before my time. The first machines i remember using was a Digital
>Microsystems 3B/102. A Minicomputer system capable of handling up to
>256 dumb terminals on VT Ansi. Ran CPM/86 from 8" disk floppy or hard
>in 64k of RAM

the 11/750 at lampeter uni was linked to the inernet via a 9600 baud leased
line. Bloody amazing to think of that, now. Mind, it was enough for
text-only.
>
>Most people have never heard of them. I've still got two or three
>working examples. Must be over 25 years old now.

excellent. Such things should be preserved. around the place here I have
(non-functional, though) a Pet, a Siruis B and a Dragon 32. I think the
Dragon still works, if ICBA to get it out and fire it up.
--
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"There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards
too" Sir Francis Drake (1540? - 1596) Attr. saying when the Armarda was
sighted, 20th July 1588

Stephen Hull · Sep 23, 2005

In message <[email protected]>
Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:

[snip]

>>Most people have never heard of them. I've still got two or three
>>working examples. Must be over 25 years old now.
>
>excellent. Such things should be preserved. around the place here I have
>(non-functional, though) a Pet, a Siruis B and a Dragon 32. I think the
>Dragon still works, if ICBA to get it out and fire it up.
>--

A Dragon 32 rings a bell with me, I had a TRS-80 which apparently used
the same chipset.
I bought a BBC B which had an internal modem built in which I used to
access Prestel.
Anyone remember Prestel? and the area on teletext where you could
download programs direct from the TV to the BBC computer.

Steve.

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Simon Isaacs · Sep 23, 2005

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:56:04 +0100, Stephen Hull <[email protected]>
scribbled the following nonsense:

>In message <[email protected]>
> Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>>Most people have never heard of them. I've still got two or three
>>>working examples. Must be over 25 years old now.
>>
>>excellent. Such things should be preserved. around the place here I have
>>(non-functional, though) a Pet, a Siruis B and a Dragon 32. I think the
>>Dragon still works, if ICBA to get it out and fire it up.
>>--
>
>A Dragon 32 rings a bell with me, I had a TRS-80 which apparently used
>the same chipset.
>I bought a BBC B which had an internal modem built in which I used to
>access Prestel.
>Anyone remember Prestel? and the area on teletext where you could
>download programs direct from the TV to the BBC computer.
>
>Steve.

spent hours with my dad one week trying to get it to work. I seem to
recall that we had to have a large box attahced to the BBC B, all made
out of the same colour plastic.
--

Simon Isaacs

Peterborough 4x4 Club Newsletter Editor and Webmaster
Green Lane Association (GLASS) Financial Director
101 Ambi, undsergoing camper conversion
Part owner of 1976 S3 LWT, Fully restored, ready for sale! Make me an offer!
Suzuki SJ410 (Wife's) 3" lift kit fitted, body shell now restored and mounted on chassis, waiting on a windscreen and MOT
Series 3 88" Rolling chassis...what to do next
1993 200 TDi Discovery
1994 200 TDi Discovery body sheel, being bobbed and modded.....
1979 Range Ruster body shell and chassis

Mother · Sep 23, 2005

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:26:16 +0000 (UTC), Simon Isaacs
<[email protected]> wrote:

>spent hours with my dad one week trying to get it to work. I seem to
>recall that we had to have a large box attahced to the BBC B, all made
>out of the same colour plastic.

Proof, not that it's needed, that the rationale for the proposed
creation of: uk.comp.vintage was correct...

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of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being
increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs
In memory of Brian {Hamilton Kelly} who logged off 15th September 2005

beamendsltd · Sep 23, 2005

In message <[email protected]>
Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:26:16 +0000 (UTC), Simon Isaacs
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >spent hours with my dad one week trying to get it to work. I seem to
> >recall that we had to have a large box attahced to the BBC B, all made
> >out of the same colour plastic.
>
> Proof, not that it's needed, that the rationale for the proposed
> creation of: uk.comp.vintage was correct...
>
>

the comp.sys.acorn.* groups are very active, though mostly
RISC-OS these days. Plenty of Beeb knowledge about though.

As with most groups, the majority are very helpful, but there are
a couple (well, one really these days) of people who will rant
if you top-post, over quote, etc etc

Richard
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