Practically Classics Forum

Apart from a little work on the model railway, it's been pretty dull in my little world today! However, the afternoon looked promising so I eventually got one of the tractors out and took it for a run to lift its spirits. I had intended a "quick" run for about a mile in each direction, but called at...

Bought a nice longer-handled mash hammer (lump hammer) last year - just the job for the tractors! I reckon the favourite is a set of decent AF ratchet/combination spanners that I bought at a show about five or six years ago. They are American-made, with a nice "flight case" and have a really smooth ...

I don't know if the big one (that JPB was at) is meant to look like anything other than a modern industrial building - though is clad with red brick. The old one (near the station) is typical '60's supermarket and has offices on two stories over part of it (I used to work in one); it sticks out like...

^^^WHS^^^ You can often tell which is leaking by the colour - darker stuff tends to be engine and lighter stuff from the gearbox. It's easier to tell if you put a white plastic tub below the hole - not so easy to spot on concrete. It's a it like my old Fergy (Standard engine of similar era) - if it ...

spiderbloke - yes, it's still there, though I haven't been through the doors as I don't live in Wigton and don't like hospital food (I believe it's much the same as the other pubs etc)! Remember that Wigton was the first place in the country to have a curfew about six years ago! It depends who you t...

I must admit, Wigton is still "old fashioned" - many independant shops, with a Coop supermarket being the only big supermarket. Unfortunately though, that's soon to change: Lidl (I think) are building a new store and Tesco's are busy buttering the locals up as they are intending to build a big store...

Even though my Golf is only doing four or five thousand miles a year, it gets changed annually. That's a 2002 PD engine with 10K (or more) oil changes specified in the handbook, which also states annual changes if the car does less than 10K pa. In the PD engine's case, cheap oil isn't an option - wh...

Having given up reading PC (in protest about the sudden departure of the old forum), I checked their site for the first time in two months and there's a link to here, so I'm looking forward to chatting to my old (and young) friends again! As my main interest is classic tractors, and I buy three trac...