From owner-mgb-v8-6dek@autox.team.net Tue Dec 4 08:37:21 2007 From: "The Rays" To: "MG-V8 List" Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:36:22 -0500 Subject: Shifter knob needed I am looking for a shifter knob that will fit the original shifter used with the T35 automatic transmission. This transmission was used in the MGC and in a few cases, the MGB. Thanks, Jim Ray /// /// mgb-v8@autox.team.net mailing list /// From owner-mgb-v8-6dek@autox.team.net Sat Dec 8 16:48:45 2007 From: Barrie Robinson To: mgb-v8@autox.team.net,mgs@autox.team.net Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:47:25 -0500 Subject: Liquid to clean parts Has anybody got any recommendations for some liquid I can put in a bucket that will clean rusted/painted parts? Need it for both steel and aluminium bits. Thank you for your replies - in advance. In case anyone is interested the "hits" on my British Car Cottage Industries web page are not fantastic but still quite encouraging. I am pondering about adding some of our well respected specialists - and by that I mean specialists - not the guys who always seem to be a "specialist" in whatever it is you want fixed! Regards Barrie Barrie Robinson (705) 721-9060 http://www.britishv8.org/MG/BarrieRobinson.htm http://www.britcot.com /// /// mgb-v8@autox.team.net mailing list /// From owner-mgb-v8-6dek@autox.team.net Mon Dec 10 02:29:03 2007 From: "Paul Hunt" To: "Barrie Robinson" , , Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:19:05 -0000 Subject: Re: Liquid to clean parts For steel I'd use elbow grease and a wire brush in a drill. Bit aggressive for alloy, so I'd use paint stripper for the paint and a suitable grade of wet and dry for any oxidisation. PaulH. ----- Original Message ----- > Has anybody got any recommendations for some liquid I can put in a > bucket that will clean rusted/painted parts? Need it for both steel > and aluminium bits. /// /// mgb-v8@autox.team.net mailing list /// From owner-mgb-v8-6dek@autox.team.net Mon Dec 10 11:19:24 2007 From: "Dodd, Kelvin" To: "Barrie Robinson" , , Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:19:04 -0800 Subject: RE: Liquid to clean parts Barrie: You are dealing with different creatures. Paint has to be removed by solvent or media blast. Rust can be converted if it's a powder coating or removed by media blast. Corrosion on aluminium parts is much softer than ferrous oxide and has to be treated carefully. I'm not up on conversion products for aluminium components, but carb. cleaner would be a good place to start. The best process I've found for suspension components is a couple of days soak in a heated solvent tank (here in California we have to use aqueous solutions. This soak removes any grease and any loose paint. Then I media blast to remove the rest of the paint and any corrosion. For aluminium, you have to use different (much softer) media which burnishes the part without removing metal. For small rusty parts such as engine bits and brackets the best stuff I've used is "Evaporust", but it won't work on painted components. http://www.mossmotors.com/Shop/ViewProducts.aspx?PlateIndexID=47552&Sort Order=1 This converts the rust and does not damage critical surfaces. I've used it on lathe components and internal engine parts such as rockers and timing gears. It also worked really well on an aluminium steering rack center section. I'm interested to hear what others are using, as I am still a novice with all this new eco solvent thing. My last restorations involved a huge heated caustic tank that would strip the rust off any panel stuck in it. (no aluminium tho') Them were the good old days, and my old work mates are slowly dying off from cancer and other complications. Kelvin Dodd > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-mgb-v8@Autox.Team.Net > [mailto:owner-mgb-v8@Autox.Team.Net] On Behalf Of Barrie Robinson > Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 3:47 PM > To: mgb-v8@autox.team.net; mgs@autox.team.net > Subject: Liquid to clean parts > > Has anybody got any recommendations for some liquid I can put > in a bucket that will clean rusted/painted parts? Need it > for both steel and aluminium bits. > Thank you for your replies - in advance. > > In case anyone is interested the "hits" on my British Car > Cottage Industries web page are not fantastic but still quite > encouraging. I am pondering about adding some of our well respected > specialists - and by that I mean specialists - not the guys > who always seem to be a "specialist" in whatever it is you want fixed! > > Regards > Barrie > > Barrie Robinson > (705) 721-9060 > http://www.britishv8.org/MG/BarrieRobinson.htm > http://www.britcot.com /// /// mgb-v8@autox.team.net mailing list /// From owner-mgb-v8-6dek@autox.team.net Mon Dec 10 12:27:07 2007 From: Barrie Robinson To: mgb-v8@autox.team.net,mgs@autox.team.net Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:24:54 -0500 Subject: Valves Is anyone in the market for valves for the 1.8L or Rover V8 engine? I may be ordering from a remanufacturer and the more the better price Regards Barrie Barrie Robinson (705) 721-9060 http://www.britishv8.org/MG/BarrieRobinson.htm http://www.britcot.com /// /// mgb-v8@autox.team.net mailing list /// From owner-mgb-v8-6dek@autox.team.net Fri Dec 21 04:12:21 2007 From: "Paul Hunt" To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@autox.team.net> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:01:39 -0000 Subject: YOU'VE BEEN ON THE COMPUTER TOO LONG ... When asked about a bus schedule, you wonder if it is 16 or 32 bits. When you are counting objects, you go "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D...". When you dream in 256 palettes of 256 colours. When your wife says "If you don't turn off that damn machine and come to bed, then I am going to divorce you!", and you chastise her for omitting the "else" clause. You try to sleep, and think sleep(8 * 3600); /* sleep for 8 hours / When you are reading a book and look for the scroll bar to get to the next page. You mis-dial a phone number part-way through and look for the backspace button. When after fiddling around all day with routers etc, you pick up the phone and start dialling an IP number... When not only do you check your email more often than your paper mail, but you remember your {network address} faster than your postal one. When you look for a icon to double-click to open your bedroom window. When you go to balance your chequebook and discover that you're doing the maths in octal. When you look for a trash can icon for throwing the rubbish out. When you get in the lift and double-click the button for the floor you want. /// /// mgb-v8@autox.team.net mailing list /// From owner-mgb-v8-6dek@autox.team.net Tue Dec 25 00:03:16 2007 From: Barrie Robinson To: mgb-v8@autox.team.net,mgs@autox.team.net Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:58:23 -0500 Subject: Totally off topic but funny I get extremely annoyed at this 999.999 price list business. Every damn price tag is in the 99999 class - I mean how dumb do they think we are. SO this is the ploy I use to get back at these stupid price tags. I go into a shop to buy something and tell the clerk that I find 9999 prices offensive and insulting - so I want him to show me whatever (shirts, tools, etc etc) but if he/she gives any price in 99999 I will walk out and NOT buy anything. So then the fun begins !!! He/she will struggle to quote $50 instead of $49.99 etc etc. I allow one mistake but on the second - I look at the number of goodies I was going to buy....and walk out - to return next day IF I have seen anything I really want. It is tremendous fun! I continually fight this insane doohickey and call people idiots when they quote me in 999999999. Isn't it about time we put a stop to this - As MG people we should lead the way !!!! There are houses here that are advertised at $399,999.99 - I kid you not !!!!!! Regards Barrie Barrie Robinson (705) 721-9060 http://www.britishv8.org/MG/BarrieRobinson.htm http://www.britcot.com /// /// mgb-v8@autox.team.net mailing list /// From owner-mgb-v8-6dek@autox.team.net Wed Dec 26 11:02:22 2007 From: Barrie Robinson To: Bob Howard ,david_breneman@yahoo.com Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:43:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [Mgs] Totally off topic but funny A $1, $10, $20 or whatever note STILL has to go into the till even when change is not required - but with taxes the final price is more than a straight 00000 price !!! If the clerk is going crooked there is better chance to steal when till is open! My father, when retired, took on a pub in England (oh happy days!!!). He told me to watch fingers when the register till was open - It was the best place and time for the staff to snaffle a few bob. At 08:24 AM 12/26/2007, Bob Howard wrote: > There is another explanation for this less-than-even dollar pricing, >one I read in Invention & Technology magazine, I believe. > This story said that in the early days of cash registers, when >customers were not accustomed to them and did not necessarily expect that >they would be used for each transaction, merchants learned that 95 cent >and 99 cent pricing would usually require the clerk to make change. To >make change, he had to use the cash register, thus causing the bell to >ring and the cash drawer to open. >Bob > > >On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:55:18 -0800 (PST) David Breneman > writes: > > --- Barrie Robinson wrote: > > > > > I get extremely annoyed at this 999.999 price list business. > > Every > > > damn price tag is in the 99999 class - I mean how dumb do they > > > think we are. > > > > Well, your real enemy isn't the poor clerk, but Mr. James Cash > > Penney (real name) who popularized this pricing strategy in > > his stores in 1902. He must have been on to something, because > > JC Penney is a very successful department store chain to this > > day. I find the malls themselves so annyoing that anything > > that happens within the individual stores pales in comparison. > > > > > > > > David Breneman david_breneman@yahoo.com > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________________ >___________ > > Be a better friend, newshound, and > > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > _______________________________________________ > > Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html > > > > > > You are subscribed as mgbob@juno.com > > > > > > Mgs@autox.team.net > > http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/mgs > > > > http://www.team.net/archive >_______________________________________________ >Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html > > >You are subscribed as barrie@look.ca > > >Mgs@autox.team.net >http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/mgs > >http://www.team.net/archive Regards Barrie Barrie Robinson (705) 721-9060 http://www.britishv8.org/MG/BarrieRobinson.htm http://www.britcot.com /// /// mgb-v8@autox.team.net mailing list ///