(another) new toy

You may remember me wittering on about a series 3 that had been made "an example of" at the local Seat dealer. Well, finally got it home the other day and thought that you all might want to see quite possibly the worse shade of blue I have ever seen applied in a manner that can best be described as hurried...........

At least it can keep the series one company in the yard until I find a new home for it / them.

I had a quick drive around the field in it and up and down the road now quickly, or should O say briefly.........lovely to drive. I found in the reciepts that the truck had a new gearbox 2 years ago, however when you think that the vehicle only does 300 miles a year isn't bad really!

Only a small amount of welding, about a 2 square inches, to sort the chassis and another couple of little jobs to do and it'll make someone a nice truck, er, or i might keep it!

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I will not be offended if someone suggests a new colour

Dave

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Dave R
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Hope this doesnt offend you, but I recon you should get it back to original.

That winch would look great on my 90 :):)

Reply to
Mark Solesbury

On or around 6 Sep 2006 13:52:40 -0700, "Dave R" enlightened us thusly:

it's a bit bright.

'ere, do us a favour, look at the bottom of the speedo face and report back what the little writing there says, also what type of speedo: with tripmeter or without tripmeter.

I'm trying to decode the numbering system so as to work out what speedo to hunt...

The one in mine is definitely under-reading by about 10%, mileage and speed, and so is almost certainly a "SWB" rather than a "LWB" one, notwithstanding the fact that it was sold as a LWB one.

So far, I have 3 speedos here. 2 of them are marked SNT-4212 and don't have a tripmeter, one is marked SNT-6209 and does. The 6209 and one 4212 have a the number 1536 at the end, while the other 4212 has 1408. The rumour has it that these last numbers are calibration, in which case, it may be that

1536 is SWB. If the one in mine that went senile is original, then 1408 may be LWB - the mileage was reading correct on that but the speed was reading way high.

I shall be looking at other SIIIs as I find them to look at, and see if I can make sense of it. I know a couple of not-in-use ones about here, just a matter of finding time to look.

Reply to
Austin Shackles

My pinz had a gearing adapter on the back of the speedo, it screwed into the speedo cable input, and had a receptacle at 90 degrees for the cable, and a gearing ratio on it. IIRC it was marked "VDO" so you might be able to get something similar.

Reply to
Ian Rawlings

It's all laid out quite well here Austin.

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Reply to
EMB

Thought the unoficcial colour was purple!

Reply to
GbH

GbH uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Thats not actually officially unofficial, some have covert Purple which is also acceptable as long as you can see it when you close your eyes. ;-)

Lee D

Reply to
Lee_D

On or around Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:39:40 +1200, EMB enlightened us thusly:

'tis, an' all. so it seems I want a 1408 or thereabouts, not a 1536 and the bloke who sold me the current on was a lying git or misinformed.

can't remember the numbers off the metric one I didn't buy for 50 quid.

I've a yet-to-be-proven theory that the first number (4212 or 6209 on the 90 mph series III clocks) might be a model number and they're different 'cos one has a tripmeter and one doesn't.

Reply to
Austin Shackles

On or around Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:00:33 +0100, "Lee_D" enlightened us thusly:

I still hope to form the purple land rover club, though, and use it as a means of blagging show passes :-)

Reply to
Austin Shackles

On or around Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:36:19 +0100, Austin Shackles enlightened us thusly:

more amusement: chap across the way has a currently-unemployed SWB, which has a speedo with 1504 on it. According to my calculations, that *might* be correct for 205R16 tyres...

and I found one on ebay which is a 1376, and apparently came off a 1983 SWB... although of course it might not be original.

hunting around, Paddocks have genuine 109" 7.50-tyre speedos for 85 quid, craddocks ditto for 90-odd. Craddocks also have a metric one for considerably less. So matey with his metric ones at the show for 50 quid wasn't really OTT.

Beamends' site can't be found tonight. I reckon there's a DNS up the shoot somwhere, but it's not affecting all addresses. Mind, I thought the DNS system was supposed to be multiple-redundant and so forth... as may be, the thing here says "resolving

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" for a bit and then says "can't find it."

meanwhile, nslookup from a cmd window gets me a timeout.

I'm gonna find out how to run me own DNS on XP one day... anyone got the IP address for beamends handy?

my mail and news clients have been told the IP numbers, not the words, for their servers. This makes things a good bit more reliable except when someone decides to change the IP of their mail server.

Reply to
Austin Shackles

Create the file c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and add the following to it if not already there;

127.0.0.1 localhost

Then add all your other important addresses to the file in a similar fashion, XP will then no longer need to look up those addresses in DNS. If the addresses are changed, just edit the file.

Note that the file has to be called "hosts" and not "hosts.txt", given Microsoft's daft "extension hiding" madness, chances are the .txt will be added for you by the "helpful" software. Apparently enclosing the name "hosts" in quotes in the "save as" box will stop that, or turn it off in your folder view options.

Reply to
Ian Rawlings

The outfit that runs our site server has had yet another spam attack causing a crash. There's not a whole lot anyone can do about it except break that b**tard who's doing it's fingers - permenantly.

Richard

Reply to
beamendsltd

well - you could host with someone who has a clue - only the pile-em-high, sell-em-cheap mob run mail and web from the same servers.

then, when stuff calms a little, you'll have more time to go a spam hunting :)

Reply to
William Tasso

Depending on how a site is hosted that may or may not work. You could use the IP address of the server for my site but it wouldn't get you to my site as that server hosts many sites and without a name in the GET it doesn't know which one to serve...

BTW

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does resolve here either (0925 8th Sep

2006). I have a local caching DNS that goes off to the root name servers if it doesn't know the answer. The cache couldn't find any servers...
Reply to
Dave Liquorice

Mr. Spellings is considerably knowledgable in what he's doing, and I'd certainly not describe him as "pile-em-high, sell-em-cheap". You can have as many servers as you like (he has rather a lot), but if someone puts the boot in there's not a whole lot anyone can do (witness Amazon, the banks, eBay, etc etc being brought down). Unfortunately, the attackers also know what they are doing.

BT provide our mail, which is working fine.

Richard

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beamendsltd

That's virtual hosting, and yes you can't get to it using just the IP address (the web browser passes the hostname in the HTTP request header) but the method I posted will work because the browser still uses the site name in the request, the only difference between using conventional DNS and this method is that the computer's resolving routines get their results from the file, not from DNS, the web browser is not affected at all.

Reply to
Ian Rawlings

someone

report back

notwithstanding

rumour has

here, just a

Austin,

This bloke

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makes an excellent job ofaltering the ratio of speedos - sorted my Austin-Healey 3000 a treat,and that read wrong on the odometer, mileometer and speed and all weredifferent !!! If you look on his site he has a guide to working outwhat ratio you need and can then change bits to suit. AWEM

Reply to
Andrew Mawson

On or around Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:36:19 +0100, Austin Shackles enlightened us thusly:

well, I went and blagged a 4212 1408 from the dead SIII down the road (up for grabs if anyone wants a project, but some b****rd has nicked the speedo;

2¼ petrol LWB hard top, all there but rough, apparently some extra bits and bobs available with it - I think he just wants rid. It was running a year or two ago.) which seems to work fine but lacks the trip meter. Now, it's fair to say that Edward II didn't have one before, but it is quite useful, so I may yet hunt one with a tripmeter and keep the 4212 as a spare.
Reply to
Austin Shackles

'tis true must try harder to keep up with thread wander... hosts files are ok provided things don't change.

Reply to
Dave Liquorice

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