Ronaldo47

Things have obviously moved on in the half century since I acquired my crimping tool!

I guess the expression is a long-established contraction of "you can't miss seeing them". It's a bit like "a near miss", which if you consider it logically, should mean there was a hit, and which is a corruption of "an air miss". Isn't English wonderful?.

I normally use the uninsulated crimp terminals with a proper crimping tool that I had when working in industry in the 1970's that bends the edges of the wire-receiving channel over to dig into the wire. Another position on the jaws closes the edges of the insulation-receiving channel over to grip the insulation. When required, I use the appropriate insulating boots for spade and blade connectors or else heat shrink sleeving of the appropriate diameter and length cut from a coil. You used to be able to get this sort of stuff from your local Maplin shop, but now it's usually mail order from suppliers like CPC/Farnell, although I did recently get a box of heatshrink tubing in a useful range of assorted diameters and colours from the centre aisle of Aldi or Lidl.

For polystyrene plastic I use a liquid solvent, Plasweld, which consists of dichloromethane (methylene chloride). It is best applied using an artists paintbrush and wicks into the space between two pieces of plastic by capillary action where it dissolves the two adjacent surfaces so they become firmly and permanently welded together. The advantage for plastic kit construction is that it evaporates rapidly from exposed surfaces so you don't have a problem with glue oozing out at joints. I get mine from a local shop that sells model railway stuff.

The exterior shots of Nelson Mandela House , the tower block residence of Delboy in "Only Fools and Horses", were not shot in Peckham. Early episodes were shot in Acton, West London, later ones at a block in Bristol.

Most odd, if I log in after midnight, I can usually access this and other forums where I now get the "unsafe" warning, which is what I am doing now. However, if I then log out and retry, the unsafe warning usually reappears and it's back to using incognito again.

Were the knicker-throwing incidents at the time that the record "Leap up and down ( wave your knickers in the air)" came out? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_Up_and_Down_(Wave_Your_Knickers_in_the_Air)#:~:text="Leap Up and Down (Wave,in the UK in 1971.

Only partly true. Electric bikes with throttles that are limited to no more than 12mph under power and bought before the law changed, are still legal to use on public roads. We have two Powabyke Shopper bikes with throttles, the first bought some 20 years ago. The legislation prohibiting throttles as from its date of coming ino force, specifically provides that older bikes like ours that were road-legal when bought, remain legal.

I do not get that option with my phone: there is no button to the left of the address button to click, and I am not given the option of "proceed to site" when trying to access this forum, although I can "proceed anyway" on others. Going incognito works, for the present anyway.

I tried downloading duckgogo but my phone is too old to run it. It's odd, sometimes the forum opens with no problems, other times I have to go incognito, which means entering user name and password every time. Other sites are starting to go the same way, so it must be down to my phone.

So it seems that using a vehicle of a type which, if ridden on a public highway, would be criminal offence, would not be a criminal offence if ridden on a towpath (other than the rare case where the towpath is also a public right of way).

But is a tow path a public highway? If it is not, then using a vehicle that would be illegal if used on the public highway, would arguably not be illegal when used on something that is not a public highway. You used to need a special permit to use a bike on the tow path, indicating that a tow path was not a public highway, but I don't know if subsequent legislation has changed the towpath's legal status. Perhaps it would be covered by by-laws or conditions of use, which could mean it would be a civil law matter rather than a criminal law one. The last two times we hired at easter, it snowed. The first time it settled and was heavy enough to build a snowman figurehead.

We were looking at boat hire prices recently, and they do seem to be on the high side. Don't forget that Portsmouth now has a ULEZ zone that you have to enter to get to the IOW ferry terminals.

In my part of East London in the 1950's, about the only horse traffic was rag and bone men, brewery drays, and the mounted police. The draymen used to give their horses a nose bag when they were delivering.