What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Nick Lettington]

You should paint them silver before you hang them from the rafters Hedd. They'll soon start looking like Christmas baubles!

[Mark McKibbin]

Sorry another one, trying out the new camera this one with electronic image stabilisation. Those little elves in there are very busy. The car in jumping up and down (esp. around the 7:50 mark) but the horizon is calm. The camera is mounted on a suction cap on the mudguard and seems to pan left and right a bit when I go around corners. Otherwise a lovely day for a drive around the block.

[stuartu]

Very impressive, Mark. What camera is it, please?

Regards,
Stuart

[Reckless Rat]

Jack Reacher says "Hope for the best but plan for the worst". With my long 8 day journey to Santiago de Compostelle taking place in just over a weeks time I have been trying to cover every eventuality. Should a half shaft break I will be carrying a spare but I thought I'd best check that things could be easily taken apart should I be stranded at the roadside. One of the things was to make sure the nearside spring pin was not seized to the backplate. Having cleaned off some of the grime I tried to undo the cotter nut, but it wasn't there. It seems that in the dim and distant past someone had probably replaced it and had put it back the wrong way round. Rather than putting the nut on they'd secured it with a blob of weld, which took me the best part of two hours to grind away sufficiently so I could drive out the cotter. At least I've found it now with enough time to spare to make good rather than being stuck somewhere remote with no means of removing it. Lucky.

[Mark McKibbin]

Very impressive, Mark. What camera is it, please?

Regards,
Stuart

Stuart, it is an Akaso V50X there are lots of V50 but the X is the one to get it cost me about $150 AUD so thats about 80 pounds I think so very reasonable.

[stuartu]

Thanks very much, Mark, most useful info.

Regards,
Stuart

[Tony Griffiths]

Second Tuesday VSCC lunch at the Red Lion, Litton. Frazer Nash, pre-war Ford, V8, Riley and a couple of Austin 7s - one being Peter Fawcett's the very smooth-sounding, late-model Open Road Tourer. A good natter, this time about brakes, the lack of them, suddenness, fade, wear, drum polish, etc, etc....

[Hedd_Jones]

The other day. But it lives.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T8drVFcZCh8.

One plug had broken, so I replaced it with another J8 (that answers that question). 

Literally went 2nd pull. 

Drives too. The brakes however do not work. 

[Tony Griffiths]

The major problem, as I see it, is that the Austin badge on the radiator is not aligned correctly....

[Hedd_Jones]

lol....