Is it safe to come out now? Has he gone?

[Tracy D'arth]

There is something or someone missing.

Its been quiet. Some sensible posts, not too many arguments.  No erroneous information.

Has Liquid Molly gone? Is he afloat somewhere or has his lifeboat failed?

[Athy]

What are you talking about? I have done a search, and we have no member of that name.

If we had, it would surely be a "she".

Wuld you care to explain?

[MtB]

4 minutes ago, Athy said:

What are you talking about? I have done a search, and we have no member of that name.

If we had, it would surely be a "she".

Wuld you care to explain?

 

 

Do keep up at the back there. 

 

You obviously never read the technical threads. Pretty much every thread about the BMC1.5/1.8 has been polluted by reams and reams of utter tosh by Liquid Molly, the poster's nickname.

[Arthur Marshall]

This is the guy TNLI or thereabouts? He does seem somewhat opinionated. Not at all like the rest of us.

[Guest]

25 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

 

Do keep up at the back there. 

 

You obviously never read the technical threads. Pretty much every thread about the BMC1.5/1.8 has been polluted by reams and reams of utter tosh by Liquid Molly, the poster's nickname.

 

I dont think it is actually a requirement of a moderator on here to read each and every thread. Is it?

 

When you made your application to be a moderator on here is that what you said you would be able to do?

 

Is that why it got knocked back I wonder?

Edited May 5, 2022 by The Happy Nomad

[john.k]

Most forums would have bumped him for spamming  long since.

[Athy]

3 hours ago, john.k said:

Most forums would have bumped him for spamming  long since.

As far as I'm aware, none of his posts has been reported, so there has been no reason for "bumping" If you'd like tro report one, it will of course be given due consideration.

If (s)he doesn't post as "Liquid Molly", what name does (s)he use?

[Mike Hurley]

11 minutes ago, Athy said:

As far as I'm aware, none of his posts has been reported, so there has been no reason for "bumping" If you'd like tro report one, it will of course be given due consideration.

If (s)he doesn't post as "Liquid Molly", what name does (s)he use?

TNLI, look at BMC engines on here.

[MtB]

Oh and I'd say the "Liquid Molly" nickname given by Tracy is a reference to the product "Liqui Moly", which you add to your engine oil to repair knackered big ends, broken piston rings, no oil pressure etc etc to save yourself the trouble of dismantling it and fixing it properly.

 

As a teenager I'm sure it used to be called "Liquid Molybdenum" but a brief search reveals that Liquid Molybdenum is now a health food supplement... 

[Athy]

Strangely enough I have just been looking it up. According to Wikipaedia it's a German oil and lubricants company. I've also had a look at the "BMC oil" topic in which he posts explanations of fuels and lubricants, so I guess that's what has given rise to the nickname.

Edited May 6, 2022 by Athy

[Tony Brooks]

Actually Liquid  Molly seems to be a brand name for possibly German engine oil that TNLI seemed very keen to promote. He also kept pushing used oil analysis very hard. On those two subjects alone I feel he could have legitimately have been banned for spamming. Not only that but he was advising purchases and actions that several of us who have some knowledge seemed to feel was incorrect, expensive, and potentially dangerous/ineffective. Then we had his constant talk of "high quality" while pointing to Ebay purchases and seeking cheap parts and equipment.

 

Despite a number of indications that he was technically incompetent (e.g. apparently not being capable of making hard to get lock tabs) he constantly kept trying to promote the several highly questionable bees he seemed to have in his bonnet about BMC engines.

 

I think I did raise the way he seemed to be misleading the less experienced with a Mod but it was found his posts were acceptable to the forum luminaries, I think on the grounds of them not having sufficient technical knowledge to make a judgement.

 

 

[MtB]

3 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:

Actually Liquid  Molly seems to be a brand name for possibly German engine oil that TNLI seemed very keen to promote.

 

 

Ah I see. After reading the first few posts of his I decided he had no idea of his subject and was just spouting stuff he'd found by googling. So I stopped reading his posts and I never saw his ramping of Liquid Molly oil products. 

[Athy]

46 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:

 

 

I think I did raise the way he seemed to be misleading the less experienced with a Mod but it was found his posts were acceptable to the forum luminaries, I think on the grounds of them not having sufficient technical knowledge to make a judgement.

 

 

Yes, that sounds possible and entirely reasonable - not everyone has your level of technical expertise.

I've just read a couple of pages of the "BMC oil" thread - any more than that and I would probably have gone back to sleep - and I see no evidence of "spamming". The poster comes across as a BMC specialist and recommends products which he has used and which have worked for him, including Liqui Moly, BP and Shell diesel. It's common for members to recommend things - products, marinas, pubs and more - to other members, and this can be viewed as helpful, can it not?

[john.k]

Liqui _Molly was one of the recommended oils for my 1950 Harman dragline............in those days the company was owned by MolyDag ,which was English......subsequently ,the name was bought by Castrol,and so Caltex ownes the name today..........Incidentally ....DAG-------Dixons Airspun Graphite..........and who here hasnt dumped a good spoonful on Dixons Airspun Motor Graphite into their ailing A40 to get maybe one more term out of Coventries Revenge.

[Athy]

3 minutes ago, john.k said:

.and who here hasnt dumped a good spoonful on Dixons Airspun Motor Graphite into their ailing A40 to get maybe one more term out of Coventries Revenge.

Another mystery: what is this?

[MtB]

27 minutes ago, Athy said:

Another mystery: what is this?

 

I think he means "Coventry's Revenge" actually.

 

Hope that helps....

 

 

[cuthound]

1 hour ago, MtB said:

As a teenager I'm sure it used to be called "Liquid Molybdenum" but a brief search reveals that Liquid Molybdenum is now a health food supplement... 

 

Which is probably just as effective at restoring knackered engines as the original... 🤣😂

[Athy]

Just now, MtB said:

 

I think he means "Coventry's Revenge" actually.

 

Hope that helps....

 

 

Silly boy. I didn't really think that there was more than one Coventry (gawd, I hope not anyway).

But the "A40" suggests an Austin car. I remember a neighbour having one when I was a boy - it was also known as an "Austin Somerset2 in the days when British cars bhad sensible names rather than ones which sound like something off an Italian restaurant menu.

But surely all Austins were built at Longbridge (known locally as "The Orstin" in Birmingham?

[MtB]

Just now, cuthound said:

 

Which is probably just as effective at restoring knackered engines as the original... 🤣😂

 

It's now claimed to work on humans instead! 

 

 

1 minute ago, Athy said:

Silly boy. I didn't really think that there was more than one Coventry (gawd, I hope not anyway).

But the "A40" suggests an Austin car. I remember a neighbour having one when I was a boy - it was also known as an "Austin Somerset2 in the days when British cars bhad sensible names rather than ones which sound like something off an Italian restaurant menu.

But surely all Austins were built at Longbridge (known locally as "The Orstin" in Birmingham?

 

 

BMC, latterly British Leyland had many sites in the midlands including several in Coventry. They also built a series of cars cars called the Austin A30, A35 and A40. 

[cuthound]

3 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

It's now claimed to work on humans instead! 

 

 

 

So it is still used for restoring damaged rings... 🤣😂

[David Schweizer]

13 minutes ago, MtB said:

BMC, latterly British Leyland had many sites in the midlands including several in Coventry. They also built a series of cars cars called the Austin A30, A35 and A40. 

 

I had several in my youth, including a Somerset and a Devon. All purchased for a couple of quid and run until they irrepairably failed their ten year test (remember them?) and then scrapped in favour of anothr £2 car.

 

 

Edited May 6, 2022 by David Schweizer

[MtB]

8 minutes ago, David Schweizer said:

 

I had several in my youth, including a Somerset and a Devon. All purchased for a couple of quid and run until they irrepairably failed their ten year test (remember them?) and then scrapped in favour of anothr £2 car.

 

 

Blimey I paid £20 for my first car, an Austin A35 four-door. Looks like I was stitched up like a kipper! 

 

 

[Athy]

29 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

It's now claimed to work on humans instead! 

 

 

 

 

BMC, latterly British Leyland had many sites in the midlands including several in Coventry. They also built a series of cars cars called the Austin A30, A35 and A40. 

That's correct, and the A70 which was a sort of expanded A40. I think the A40 name was revived for a small estate car around the late '60s.

I thought that BMC's Coventry factories built Jaguars and Daimlers, whereas their Austins were made in Brum, their MGs in Abingdon and their Morrises in Oxford. Not so? Perhaps when "badge engineering" came in in the 1960s (Austin A60, Morris Oxford, Wolseley 16/60 and the like) there was some intermingling of building locations?

[Chris Lowe]

2 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:

I think I did raise the way he seemed to be misleading the less experienced with a Mod but it was found his posts were acceptable to the forum luminaries, I think on the grounds of them not having sufficient technical knowledge to make a judgement.

 

 

 

I certainly wouldn't have judged his posts about this as I most certainly don't have the technical knowledge to know any better, maybe Dan needs a techie Mod.

[Mike Hurley]

51 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

Blimey I paid £20 for my first car, an Austin A35 four-door. Looks like I was stitched up like a kipper! 

 

 

My first was a 1965 A40 Farina, 1098cc but had no brakes hence only 10 quid. That was in 1974.