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Is it a setback or has it helped in rebuilding my Herald suspension?

Posted By : Susan Hare, 26-Oct-2006, 09:36pm

• Is it a setback or has it helped in rebuilding my Herald suspension?

  Posted By : Michael Charlton, 26-Oct-2006, 09:44pm

  Rons probably put them on e bay!
  
  Dunc came home the other week and a chassis, diff etc had all gone from the garden
  
  Rumour has it the Romanys were roamin around
  
  Mike

  • Is it a setback or has it helped in rebuilding my Herald suspension?

    Posted By : John Davies, 26-Oct-2006, 09:58pm

    When I first bought my house, it had a fire escape up the back of it - it had been in 'multiple occupancy'.
    
    I though this was really useful - we'll always be safe from fire - but 'er indoors wasn't keen, as I am often at work all night. So out with the angle grinder and it came down.
    
    What do you do with half a ton of wrought iron?
    You ring around the local scrap yards - please come and take it away.
    "Oh, no, Sir. Not worth my while, scrap iron is worth nothing these days" was the chorus.
    I needn't have worried. Within two days it just disappeared from the front garden!
    
    Those spanner gnomes are strong!
    
    John

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      Posted By : Danial Phoenix, 26-Oct-2006, 10:15pm

      iv done similar on perpose, i take out a cast iron bath to put in anew and then stand it near front boundry, tell the tenant ill come back the next day to pick it up but if anyone wants it say yes, and by next day someone has asked tenant for it or it vanishes, super saves me luging it. it disapears 50% of the time

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        Posted By : Dan Owen, 27-Oct-2006, 10:47am

        I heard an allegedly "true" story recently. This guy had an old fridge to get rid of, it still worked so he left it outside the house with a notice saying it was free to anyone that would cart it away. However, a week later it was still in position, so he changed the notice to "For sale, £50." Somone nicked it the same day...

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          Posted By : Brendon Elton, 27-Oct-2006, 11:22am

          Strange thing happend to me,
          
          
          I changed the engine in my (forgive me) coff: 2.0 L reg vauxhall cavalier, and I changed this on my neighbours drive (with his consent) which is more level than my drive, left the old engine on his drive overnight, next day after returning home from work..... bloody thing was gone! I had to use a hydraulic hoist to manouver the heavy bugger.... god knows how it dissapeared!
          
          
          Saved me messing around trying to dispose of it but 12 months later I needed a head which I was going to take off the old engine next day but ..... gone is gone
          
          
          
          Regards,

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      Posted By : Chris Taylor, 27-Oct-2006, 12:22pm

      But isn't it strange that the spanner gnomes have such an attraction to just 1/2" spanners? They tend to leave the others alone!
      I think they are quite modern gnomes too, as this phenomenon seems to translate into metric in that it's always the 13mm spanner that goes missing when metric are in use. And while you can sometimes use a 13mm on a 1/2" nut, and occasionally the other way round, the other spanner has always been "half - inched" (sorry, couldn't resist that!) by the gnomes too, so you are still left with the car in bits.
      On further reflection, perhaps that is the derivation of the term "half-inched" rather than rhyming slang? The problem is universal, and not just restricted to Triumphs!

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        Posted By : Danial Phoenix, 27-Oct-2006, 04:25pm

        in that case its time you used a diferent size bolt to hold the car together.

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        Posted By : Paul Bodiam, 27-Oct-2006, 08:30pm

        I think there must be a slightly different breed of spanner gnomes round my way - they go for 7/16 and 3/8 spanners in my garage.

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          Posted By : Claire Hill, 27-Oct-2006, 09:41pm

          We have a totally different breed of gnomes - they come and deposit Triumphs on the drive. My husband swears blind he has no idea where they have come from.....

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            Posted By : Danial Phoenix, 27-Oct-2006, 11:06pm

            i want those knomes!! but my wife would waight up to hunt them down

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              Posted By : Susan Hare, 27-Oct-2006, 11:44pm

              If we end up with anymore cars or bits of cars near our house I will leave a note for the 'spanner gnome' to take my husband away!!!

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                Posted By : Claire Hill, 28-Oct-2006, 02:10pm

                I was conned last weekend - "Don't worry, darling" - always a bad sign that word! "The stag is going today" He was right - it did - just replaced by a Spitfire AND a GT6.
                Must have a word with the goblins - I am sure I could think of a few fun things to do with a spanner!!!

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                  Posted By : Philip Charlton, 28-Oct-2006, 09:40pm

                  make sure some power is put into the recipe this time

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  Posted By : Hugh Glossop, 31-Oct-2006, 08:39am

  I had a mk4 spit rolling chassis hidden (well out of sight) in the garden the council took it away insisting it was hazardous waste and charged me £30 for the privelage, it seems that they now have a system of planning officers spying on residents reporting anything they consider hazardous materiel (in spite of my protests it was valuable spares) to all tssc members beware this attitude is spreading, if it isnt locked up in a garage you could loose it.

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    Posted By : John Davies, 31-Oct-2006, 10:51am

    What? When was this?
    Sue the b*gg*rs for trespass and damage to your property!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Certain public services do have a right to enter your property without permission to deal with problems - the electric, the gas and of course the police.
    But not AFAIK, the Council refuse Dept. who must ask permission.
    John

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      Posted By : Dan Owen, 31-Oct-2006, 11:37am

      Our bloody council use a helicopter to spy on us, comes over at least once a fortnight.

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        Posted By : Hugh Glossop, 06-Nov-2006, 08:19am

        It was back in june, the planning officer knocked on the door and was bloody officious, and actully got on to the refuse dept by mobile there and then, i actually went to the police and they said they are perfectly within their rights as the planning officer had declared it hazardous waste and the only way i could stop it was a court order,
        the moral of this story is hide your goodies under cover or face the prospect that you might loose it, i also put in for planning for a second garage, which was okayed by the local council, and objected to by the planning officer concerned, as he thought i might store hazardous waste in it, appeal for victimisation is ongoing!