What's going on?

Yep. Twice :-)

Chris (Using NTL's news server.)

Yes if you wrote:- Although I'm 9 years short of your experience I've never had a problem with wheel nuts either. I've always just wiped my oily/greasy fingers on the studs and that has been just fine. And I've never used a torque wrench on a wheel nut. A bit like you for the vast majority of those 47 years I imagine. You know when it's right.

Gio

I did. Thanks for that. It still hasn't appeared on my screen, even though I sent it a total of 3 times, using two news servers.

Any theories as to why, anybody?

Steve

Three times, actually.

Yes, I can see them and I've using the german server news.individual.net.

Strangely my Tiscali news account isn't showing them. Then again, it didn't show any of Elder's posts on the mods newsgroup for about 6 months..

Mike P

When I used to use Outlook Express it could exhibit this behaviour sometimes - especially if retrieving articles too quickly after posting. Can't remember the exact cause (may have been something to do with if the server presented articles out-of-order).