Re: I just use SI most of the time
100 x 0.9 is 90m
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With a few others.
Miles, it is on road signs.
Pints in pubs, no where else, 0.5l will do.
Weight now 100% SI, My car is roughly 2250kg. No idea of my weight in pounds, only to nearest couple stone in stone.
BHP, not made full move to KW yet.
Motorway coutdown signs are in a weird length which is 0.9m roughly.
Feet on full sized railway things, multiply by 4 to get mm. BR Mark 1 doors are 8mm wide.
As to cups, what size cup, A cup, D cup, GG cup?
I have done an imperial conversion for our software, they moan that our data is in mm, tough, do all the conversion in display and edit, all maths in mm and m.
I am currently working part time, about 5 to 6 hours max a day.
I am getting as much done as a full 8 hours.
First day back 4 hours, managed 3/4 of my work.
I even have a snooze after dinner, before restarting work.
Oh the joys of recovery and what feels like permanent fatigue.
Strictly is to be honest is a BBC type programme.
Imagine it on ITV with shouty presenters, or a choice of loud boomy music, or wasp in a tin can.
ITV have a rather naff skating show.
No definately a BBC one.
However I do like The Wheel.
I feel the licence is worth it just for the NHU output, and news coverage,
Original DTTV access.
BBC did tend to run loose with the specifications and exploiting the not realised loop holes. such as changing channels on each service forcing some receivers to continually retune until updated.
Press 1 for BBC1 get BBC Choice.
Picture though was superb then, like a DVD.
Pay was a bit pants though, CAM was required (on a shelf somewhere), I gave up on that about a week before the bankrupcy.
Freeview
Quite correctly the future of DTTV was handed to the major broadcasters. And a new specification was written up.
BBC pushed for no compulsary CAM (with ITV C4 C5 agreement) to protect their FTA access, and to prevent a paywall.
The first Freeview DTTV devices often had card slots but no hardware to support them.
DSO provided the first problem with moving from 2K to 8K, this knocked out quite a few tuners, some due to hardware limitations (first gen Sony IDTVs, Nokia dodgy boxes among many others), some due to lack of software support from the manufacturers (eg Pace).
I now use Freeview and Freesat, I have too much good TV to watch.
One PVR recommendation, make sure the word HUMAX is written on it.
To the downvoter my bosses got shot of the car because the gear box was erratic, supplier said no issue, ended up with one boss refusing to drive it after it played up on a roundabout. Very laggy, changed up, when down was required, it was terrible.
This is why iI offered to kill the gearbox so they would have to fix it, but instead they got shot and got a car with a torque converter auto (and extra electric motor).
To kill a DSG steep hill, reverse, walking pace.
I am doing probably another 15 to 20 minutes a day due to WFH.
But I do have over 1 hour of my own time for me.
Rather than counting down and as soon as 17:00 appears bolting out of the door trying to beat the traffic, I will finish what I am doing and leave the PC OK.
Then the long slow rush to work to get there 1 minute late, aghhhhhh. Much easier to drop on at ten to and get settled.
I have a late D2, so body on chassis, live axles, low ratio and the like.
It does have the modern extras of self levelling, traction control and disconnectable anti roll bars, but everything is solid, but to be honest if I did go on a long trip I would pack a crank sensor and a spare airbag.
I have never managed to get it stuck, drove onto some tractor generated deep mud by a ford, was diff locked, not a murmur from the TC, it just got through.
Despite all this it is a very comfortable family car, also very practical, does not handle too badly either, can corner quite quick if you are smooth. Engine is very torquey and remapped.
Best of all every part is still available new as a spare part.
Or the bits they buy in.
The only time my D2 needed road side assistance was due to the failure of a part made by Denso, part owned by ....... Toyota.
Needed a good jumping and a lot of bashing of starter motor.
But then I once drove it a few hundred miles with a failed (VDO) fuel pump.
The bits from Solihul have been OK.
But you need the Land Rover to extract the Toyota when it gets stuck.
To be honest it is not really a reliability issue, but taking of abuse issue.
Toyotas do break and break expensively.
Land Rover do have some very reliable engines. Pre 2007.
But abuse the vehicle and they will eventually fail, just takes longer with Toyota.
Hmm i think I will stick with my D2.
No snapping cranks.
Pretty reliable provided you actually service it.
I do need to disable the Romulan cloaking device though.
An interesting comment.
I spent 4 days working on it this year, the usual question was what was wrong, why? Because no one does servicing any more.
Replacing brake discs and pads - servicing.
Brake fluid - servicing.
Changing all oils - servicing.
However it does need some serious metal repairs. Do I get it welded or replace the rusty component? A component on most cars would write it poff,but on older Land Rovers can be treated as a replacement part.