What did you do to your Marina today?

[Morris McKinnon]

I still use cassettes

[Gee tc]

I still use cassettes

I do use both cassettes and the transmitter in the Escort.

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[mickthefitter]

Cassettes not used much, but I kept my pre-recorded ones but binned my home recorded ones a few years ago. Still got a deck to play them on, and a 70s Grundig portable that was a Christmas present over 40 years ago (ulp!) and I have a teeny tiny collection of old car radios and radio cassette players when I went a bit berserk on eBay about four or five years ago. Though I've got a Clarion with digital display that was new to me in 1990, one of those pull-out jobs with a handle that you carry around like a suitcase to stop it being nicked, before they thought of removable face plates! My favourite to potentially go in the Marina (which still has its original Radiomobile push button MW/LW radio) is a mint looking, but never tested, Sharp FM radio/cassette that is identical to the one that came out of my mum's club book (Empire Stores) in 1978, and went in my Mk3 Cortina when I was a learner. My Mk1 Marina was the last car that Sharp radio graced, in 1985, by which time it had chewed a few too many tapes, before I went and got a Mk1 Astra with a Philips Turnolock radio installed. Though the Astra only stayed with me for six months, after the best part of four years with the Mk1 Marina.

[JoshWard]

That’s no good as an advert for selling the other radios Tony lol

AM was rubbish in East Anglia with Smooth radio being just about the only music station I could pick up here, but then a few months ago Radio Caroline came back to AM with their transmitter on the Suffolk coast!


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[Gee tc]

That’s no good as an advert for selling the other radios Tony lol

AM was rubbish in East Anglia with Smooth radio being just about the only music station I could pick up here, but then a few months ago Radio Caroline came back to AM with their transmitter on the Suffolk coast!


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My good lady likes Smooth FM Josh.! It's the compromise I needed to make! However it's a nice Radiomobile model with the FM so the upcoming Devon trip will fray tempers should I have 5 live on all the way....

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[Morris McKinnon]

Well, that was a nightmare to get off Did a quick oil and filter change on PTH earlier.

That filter was stuck fast! I tried everything from a filter chain tool to smashing a screwdriver through it to turn it. Had to chisel the thing from the base in the end and even that took some brute force. I put that filter on myself last year only hand tight like I always do. I've removed rusty oil filters from engines that have been on for maybe thirty years and even they have been easier to remove than this!

[david painter]

Wow that looks like it was a mission!! Did you put a smear or oil or grease on new filter seal? I find it helps when trying to remove it next time.
Dave

[Morris McKinnon]

Wow that looks like it was a mission!! Did you put a smear or oil or grease on new filter seal? I find it helps when trying to remove it next time.
Dave

It was indeed a mission! Yes, I always smear a bit of oil on the rubber. I think I read that in PC years and years ago

[Gee tc]

Didn't eat enough weetabix.....

[Morris McKinnon]

Didn't eat enough weetabix.....

Bah, Weetabix is for try hards, two shredded wheat is what the big boys eat

[balmy]

Didn't eat enough weetabix.....

Bah, Weetabix is for try hards, two shredded wheat is what the big boys eat

Hmmm. I have bitesize Shredded wheat in a morning. What does that say?!?!?!?

[david painter]

Think that filter needed three full sized Shredded Wheats!!!!!
Dave

[Morris McKinnon]

Didn't eat enough weetabix.....

Bah, Weetabix is for try hards, two shredded wheat is what the big boys eat

Hmmm. I have bitesize Shredded wheat in a morning. What does that say?!?!?!?

I think it says, some people can't handle the full size servings! (I better stop or there'll be Queensberry rules at the nats)

[david painter]

Loaded brown Mk3 Coupe on the trailer to take it into work going to put new Clutch, Slave Cylinder & pipe in it then try and remove trim to get it painted work diary looking quiet this week that may change though.
Dave

[beniboyz]

Had a lucky escape - was moments away from having this burst. Feed from stat housing to heater core... it slipped onto the exhaust manifold on the Turbo... whoops. The car obviously didn’t like red pipes... replaced with a standard heater hose and re-routed away from extreme heat...






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