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Hippo said:
Fell er sheep last nite watching Minder on itv player fing. Its got them all eye fink. Eye likes Minder.
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It captures an era now gone. Great seeing all those street scenes and its very funny of course. I've got the DVD box set and its an old one so not subject to 'cancel culture'. I once made my own box set by copying them all off TV (back in the days of Granada Plus I think) using a DVD recorder with HDD, editing all the adverts out and transferring them to DVDs.

The problem with watching them on ITV+ player is that they are quite heavily cut for adverts and some dialogue is blanked out.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Yes we are in the south-east corner of the Tarn so couldn't be much closer to the Aude. Soz and all that it'd have been fun.
Never actually physically met a member on here yet although have had invites and one has watched me drive onto a ferry! Get in touch if your route goes anywhere near Mazamet or Castres. We are 3/4 of an hour from Carcassonne.
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We have driven it many times but recently not for a few years. I hanker after those heady days when I could fill my van with diesel for €35 and get from Malaga to Bilbao on one tank... I think in 2001 we did the return journey to the UK 4 times!

The usual route takes us through Pas de Calais - Somme - Seine Maritime - Eure - Orne - Sarthe - Maine et Loire - Deux Sevres - Charente Maritime - Gironde - Landes - Pyrenees Atlantiques before heading into Spain towards Vitoria. Sometimes we skipped France and went Bilbao-Portsmouth when P&O were still running that route.

Once we went 'down the other side' round Paris then down through Dijon, Lyon then past your area into Spain at Girona but it was a very long drive overall.

A couple of times we took a detour from the standard route to head round Pau and then over the Col du Somports into Spain at Canfranc which was fascinating, getting back down south via Zaragoza.

Quite looking forward to this trip and have ordered a Crit'Air sticker for the car which I was pleased to see came out as a '2'.
 
6pot said:
We have driven it many times but recently not for a few years. I hanker after those heady days when I could fill my van with diesel for €35 and get from Malaga to Bilbao on one tank... I think in 2001 we did the return journey to the UK 4 times!

The usual route takes us through Pas de Calais - Somme - Seine Maritime - Eure - Orne - Sarthe - Maine et Loire - Deux Sevres - Charente Maritime - Gironde - Landes - Pyrenees Atlantiques before heading into Spain towards Vitoria. Sometimes we skipped France and went Bilbao-Portsmouth when P&O were still running that route.

Once we went 'down the other side' round Paris then down through Dijon, Lyon then past your area into Spain at Girona but it was a very long drive overall.

A couple of times we took a detour from the standard route to head round Pau and then over the Col du Somports into Spain at Canfranc which was fascinating, getting back down south via Zaragoza.

Quite looking forward to this trip and have ordered a Crit'Air sticker for the car which I was pleased to see came out as a '2'.
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Sorry for laughing, 🤣 🤣 🤣 but the Frogs have decided to cancel all the crit'air poop!!!
We too have got ours, but I think that you wouldn't need them anyway.

When we come over here we go Caen Ouistreham, Alencon, Le Mans, Tours, Chateauroux, Limoges, Cahors, Montauban then veer off East one of about 3 ways until we get to Castres then on to home. This way you maximise use of the free autoroutes. The only sections not on autoroute are Tours-Chateauroux, (you pick up the a-route just before it) and once we leave it around Montauban.
When I was still working we did this return journey 4 times a year. And two of those times we only had 9 days including the driving so we were on the road almost as much as we were here.
But you obvs have your reasons for going the Calais-Dover route.
Whichever you choose I wish you a safe trip!!:):):)
 
6pot said:
It captures an era now gone. Great seeing all those street scenes and its very funny of course. I've got the DVD box set and its an old one so not subject to 'cancel culture'. I once made my own box set by copying them all off TV (back in the days of Granada Plus I think) using a DVD recorder with HDD, editing all the adverts out and transferring them to DVDs.

The problem with watching them on ITV+ player is that they are quite heavily cut for adverts and some dialogue is blanked out.
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We also have the boxed set of the Sweeney.
TV at its best, love it.
I annoy my missus by shouting out the makes and models of all the cars we see on the screen!!
I lovethe al;most total lack of political correctness although feminism is remarked on quite often and not always in a negative style. I was living around Notting Hill Gate at the time they were filming a lot of it and me and my flatmates used to watch it trying to work out which streets they were using. Minder wasn't bad but couldn't hold a candle to the Sweeney in MHO.
 
Well, W went to bed early tonight after we had a really early dins, so I have been spending the evening trying to find electronic components for those blessed thermostats you all know about.
It reminds me of trying to chase down parts for old cars.
Not only do the capacitors have to be right electronically but they have to physically fit on the PCB, so that is a right pain. They date back to 2008
I haven't even tried to find the relays yet.
I also looked at desoldering pumps, solder, and capacitance meters.

You all know that this is all new to me, so I am torn between simply ordering a full set of three caps plus one relay for each defective stat, and there are 8 of them, or ordering a meter, desoldering all the components and then working out which ones have gone fubar. They all seem to go the same way and the forum I found with a thread on it seemed to say that it was mostly just one type of cap.

I think I may order the meter, take the components off a couple of stats and see how the land lies. If it was a relay on a car I would know how to test it, but I am not sure when it comes to one on a PCB. It says on the side "24VDC" but it also says 16A/250v-/AC1 so I am wondering if 24 volts would open and close it. I have a normal multi-meter. I can see me replacing all the caps and the blessed thing still not working until I have replaced the relay.
Whole thing is honestly a PITA. But I am determined to get to the bottom of it and fix 'em. At least the components are cheap!

Nite all!
:):):)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Sorry for laughing, 🤣 🤣 🤣 but the Frogs have decided to cancel all the crit'air poop!!!
We too have got ours, but I think that you wouldn't need them anyway.

When we come over here we go Caen Ouistreham, Alencon, Le Mans, Tours, Chateauroux, Limoges, Cahors, Montauban then veer off East one of about 3 ways until we get to Castres then on to home. This way you maximise use of the free autoroutes. The only sections not on autoroute are Tours-Chateauroux, (you pick up the a-route just before it) and once we leave it around Montauban.
When I was still working we did this return journey 4 times a year. And two of those times we only had 9 days including the driving so we were on the road almost as much as we were here.
But you obvs have your reasons for going the Calais-Dover route.
Whichever you choose I wish you a safe trip!!:):):)
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I have to say I had read that the scheme might be being cancelled but by the time that happens it will be too late for our journey and its so cheap and easy to get that it was a no brainer. It is not possible to get through Rouen without a sticker and the detour to avoid it is complicated and tedious.

Incidentally it seems much more lenient than the Spanish scheme, which also does not allow issuing a rating to foreign registered cars. The Spanish scheme is not entirely logical, suffering from some of the vagarities of Spanish bureaucracy - a 'B' is worse than a 'C', there is no 'A' and '0' is for zero emission cars yet includes certain hybrids, which are normally category 'ECO'. On the plus side it is free and if you've got a sticker from certain other EU countries such as France, it is recognised, so via that method you can drive a non-Spanish registered car in a Spanish LEZ!

Re. the crossing, we're usually coming from the London area so Dover suits. Forgot to mention we did the whole journey by train once, which would be different now that the overnight hotel train has been replaced by TGVs and AVEs.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
We also have the boxed set of the Sweeney.
TV at its best, love it.
I annoy my missus by shouting out the makes and models of all the cars we see on the screen!!
I lovethe al;most total lack of political correctness although feminism is remarked on quite often and not always in a negative style. I was living around Notting Hill Gate at the time they were filming a lot of it and me and my flatmates used to watch it trying to work out which streets they were using. Minder wasn't bad but couldn't hold a candle to the Sweeney in MHO.
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Have to admit I did love The Sweeney though I haven't watched one in ages. Was part of a Sweeney fanclub at work!

I've got all the Sweeneys on VHS and never got round to changing to DVD. The pilot 'Regan' was v. good too. I had a habit of looking up all the cars on the DVLA look-up...
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Well, W went to bed early tonight after we had a really early dins, so I have been spending the evening trying to find electronic components for those blessed thermostats you all know about.
It reminds me of trying to chase down parts for old cars.
Not only do the capacitors have to be right electronically but they have to physically fit on the PCB, so that is a right pain. They date back to 2008
I haven't even tried to find the relays yet.
I also looked at desoldering pumps, solder, and capacitance meters.

You all know that this is all new to me, so I am torn between simply ordering a full set of three caps plus one relay for each defective stat, and there are 8 of them, or ordering a meter, desoldering all the components and then working out which ones have gone fubar. They all seem to go the same way and the forum I found with a thread on it seemed to say that it was mostly just one type of cap.

I think I may order the meter, take the components off a couple of stats and see how the land lies. If it was a relay on a car I would know how to test it, but I am not sure when it comes to one on a PCB. It says on the side "24VDC" but it also says 16A/250v-/AC1 so I am wondering if 24 volts would open and close it. I have a normal multi-meter. I can see me replacing all the caps and the blessed thing still not working until I have replaced the relay.
Whole thing is honestly a PITA. But I am determined to get to the bottom of it and fix 'em. At least the components are cheap!

Nite all!
:):):)
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Oh for Maplins still being around. Are RS still trading?

The relay will likely either have the operating coil or the contacts rated at 24VDC and 250VAC respectively or vice versa. I would guess that with 16A being mentioned that will be the current carrying capacity of the contacts so 250v for those, 24v for the coil.
 
Mornin
Cool an dull, no rain yet
Reflectors arrived from Temu, 60p each and excellent quality
Had an idea for the clock, cheap coasters, not sure though
stay busy all
 

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6pot said:
Oh for Maplins still being around. Are RS still trading?

The relay will likely either have the operating coil or the contacts rated at 24VDC and 250VAC respectively or vice versa. I would guess that with 16A being mentioned that will be the current carrying capacity of the contacts so 250v for those, 24v for the coil.
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Thanks for that.
Any idea how to test one? I can do continuity with a meter, but as for clicking it over.....
 
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