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Yeah, Classic Gold is ok when I'm over the bridge. The only strong channels I can pick up here is Absolute Radio and Swansea Sound, though they do tend to fade at night. They play way too many adverts so basically they're never listened to.

Morris McKinnon wrote:Yeah, Classic Gold is ok when I'm over the bridge. The only strong channels I can pick up here is Absolute Radio and Swansea Sound, though they do tend to fade at night. They play way too many adverts so basically they're never listened to.

We have a few more here. 5 live and some of the local big city radio stations. However the aux lead that Josh fitted made all the difference as I could use my phone or Ipod on a long journey.

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I still use cassettes

Morris McKinnon wrote:I still use cassettes

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

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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.

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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JoshWard wrote: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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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!

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

david painter wrote: Wed May 16, 2018 5:40 pm 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

Didn't eat enough weetabix.....

Gee tc wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 8:29 am Didn't eat enough weetabix.....

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

Morris McKinnon wrote:

Gee tc wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 8:29 am 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?!?!?!?

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

balmy wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 5:50 pm

Morris McKinnon wrote:

Gee tc wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 8:29 am 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)