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RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Oxford Jack - 18-08-2021

I had had to adjust the clutch throw in France a couple of years ago and vowed that I would at the first opportunity make the modification of a bolt locked in the end of the cross shaft. I modified my clutch cross shaft to take a bolt earlier this year when I had the engine out. I needed to adjust the clutch throw a few weeks ago and at last got to use the mod. which worked perfectly. Although I have used the lever in the top method, this was so much easier. Literally no more than five minutes under the car, two spanners and job done! Some mods. are just a pleasure to have made and use.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Bob Kneale - 18-08-2021

In my neck of the woods it is referred to as 'Wreford's' procedure, after Alastair Wreford who first drew it to our attention. He posted it on the old forum  not long before it changed format, and no one seemed to notice!!
I've used the right angle screwdriver method for many years and found the radius arm gets in the way. I'm averse to sticking objects into gearbox orifices since a friend if mine managed to snap off the lubricator pipe.
I'm amazed that Austin or Stanley edge didn't think of it in the first place.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Reckless Rat - 18-08-2021

After a fairly lengthy period of higher than normal temperatures down here in Rekkersland, things have settled back down to a balmy 28-30° norm. This is usual after the 15th August, a time when many of the tourists also go home, leaving our beautiful region to those that can make the most of it. This afternoon I decided to give the RP a run round the area and tackled the climb to the summit of Mont Bouquet, just a short drive eastwards from Rekkers Towers.

Despite the still very warm weather, the old girl romped to the top without any protest or overheating, taking the steeper parts in 2nd but the majority of the climb in 3rd. It's only a short distance to the top from the village of Brouzet les Alès, about 4 and a half kilometres, but the average gradient is 9.5% and the steepest parts are 16.4%

This is a view from near the summit looking back east towards the Massif Central. Mont Lozère is in the far distance and if you zoom in on the centre of the shot you will see the entrance to valley where the RP lives. The big hill on the left of the valley is right opposite our house. It is actually higher than from where the pic was taken. Mont Lozère is quite a bit higher than Ben Nevis, at 1700m.

   

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Bob Culver - 18-08-2021

Living in a country with a low pop alwys seems curious that so much of UK and Europe is empty. 
When tramping in NZ common to encounter French and Germans (seldom visiting Poms). Yet there seems no shortage of mountains at home.  Perhaps hut accommodation here is lmore available and less expensive .

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Duncan Grimmond - 19-08-2021

Yes, despite our "high" population only 6% of the land in GB is under concrete. That is 3% under housing, 3% infrastructure.. . the remainder is open land of one form or another.

The astonishing thing is that the majority of that remainder is in the ownership of an extremely small number of individuals, most of whom are descendants of William the Conqueror's mates.... cf. Who Owns Britain by Kevin Cahill


An interesting statistic came up a couple of years ago (2015): the entire population of Britain could stand on the Isle of Wight with just less than 2 sq. metres per head. Overcrowded?

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Ruairidh Dunford - 19-08-2021

On a similar note - Northern Spain, 2016...

   

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Tony Griffiths - 19-08-2021

If the world's nearly 8 billion people were each given a coffin 1m x 1/2m x 1/2m, four people would fit inside 1 cubic metre. A 1 km cube is 1 billion cubic metres, so 8 billion cubic metres would be needed to bury everyone - and that's a pit just 2km x 2km x 2km. We really are very tiny.
Q2. Assume that the world's population of flies is estimated at a billion trillion and that each fly occupies a volume of 0.01 cubic mm, calculate the ......

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Nick Salmon - 19-08-2021

Arrrgh! I am transported back into the Dark Ages, sitting miserably in the maths lesson half-listening to the unbelievably dull teacher, who hated my guts, droning on about some bl**dy incomprehensible equation or other - and knowing that whatever I put on the page was going to be wrong.

Thanks a bunch Tony. [Image: confused.png]

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Malcolm Parker - 19-08-2021

A pit full of 8 billion people. That would pong a bit.  Property prices on the Isle of Wight would plummet!

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Charles P - 19-08-2021

Since you'd clearly have to fold or chop up the bodies to fit in your notional 1m x1/2Mx 1/2M coffin why not just pulp them?
The density of a human is about the same as water and if we assume that the average weight is 80kg you'd get 12.5 per cubic metre and use up even less of the Isle of Wight

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