Zel's Fleet Blog - BX, Jag XJ-S, Sinclair C5, Mercedes 208D & 230TE, AC Model 70.

[mickthemaverick]

I had my first when I left BT in 1990. Having had BT Mobile's Product Approval Lab under my management for the previous 5 years I was aware that the best performing products were Motorola and Sony. I had had Motorola's while on BT so I went Sony for a change and have never had a problem!

[Hell Razor5543]

My very first mobile phone was the Sony CMH333 (otherwise known as 'The Mars Bar Phone'). Most phones I have personally owned are Sony.

[Zelandeth]

As it was a pleasant day and I was "off the clock" for want of a better term, I pulled TPA out for the errand run today.





This was actually meant to be a quick run as I only had a couple of things on the list - but somehow I ended up having wandered around for somewhere around 40 or 50 miles by the time I arrived back home.

Two niggles turned up. One occasion she cut out. This was immediate, with no warning, and immediately restarted. I'm pretty sure this was down to scratchy contacts in the ignition switch as you can very visibly make the lights on the dash flicker by wiggling the key. Think some contact cleaner may be in its future. Failing that I'm at least 50% sure I have a spare floating around somewhere.

Second was an odd clicking noise coming from the front now and then after traversing a bump. This wasn't too hard to track down.



The mud guard has come detached at the rear edge. The noise was it bouncing around. This guard has quite a bit of corrosion at the rear edge and the bolt has just pulled through it. Given that this does also actually as a brace for the front of the shell it does want properly sorting. For now though I've gone with a very low tech solution and secured it with a cable tie.



Has been really nice to get this car out for a proper run again.

[myglaren]

Somewhere in the blog is a discussion on slide copying.
Found this today. No descriptions but looks clear enough.

There were a couple more but can't seem to find them.

[Hell Razor5543]

I got (a few years ago) s negative/slide reader that connects to the PC via a USB cable. I found it worked well.

[myglaren]

I remember that James, saw one but it doesn't look like it will work with Linux.
I really need one that will do 6x6 cm slides too.
A bodge it will have to be.

One of the others reemerged.

[Zelandeth]

It's been a while since I did any silly size comparison photos of an Invacar in the wild. So here's a picture of a Mini and a small car.



And next to my other small, two cylinder air cooled car. Not words I ever expected to be saying.

[CitroJim]

Even my AX looks tiny compared to a contemporary Mini Zel!

[Stickyfinger]

= Bigini