Old stuff I still knowOur Ginger Fuhrer says that he could still code up a simple game idea in Amstrad Basic, while I'm your man if you ever need to rebuild the suspension on an Austin Allegro (1750 Equipe version). This stuff doesn't leave your mind - tell us about obsolete talents you still have.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 17:04)
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Nuts and BoltsI can look at most nuts (ooh err) and bolts and tell you what size spanner\socket to use, metric or imperial, used to be really useful when I had no money and couldn't afford to get my car\bike\scooter fixed....
(, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 18:35, 4 replies)
why was it useful? Did people pay you for that Rainman-like ability?(
Sallyrsm, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 18:38,
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just saved time really, and as I had such crappy cars\bikes\scooters on the account of being skint I was forever fixing the bloody things, sad really
(, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 18:42, closed)
I ciould have done with you the other day...looking for the nuts for my son's stabiliser's so I can give his old bike away to a mate, went to Halford's and wasted £l.68 on two 9mm locking nuts which don't fit....
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Sallyrsm, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 19:33,
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Imperial?Whitworth, cycle, fine or coarse in unified or British, brass, pipe or association. If you bought a late 60's BSA bantam you could get Whitworth, Unified, Cycle and some metric/imperial mutants on the same engine. And Whitworth changed during the WWII for economy reasons, my spanner tray is large and varied and there'd still some missing.
(, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 22:24, closed)
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