Today I mostly .....

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:15 pm

I am assuming Athlon 64 does refer to 64bit?

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:20 pm

So a 64bit XP Pro install. A 64bit single core CPU.

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:26 pm

Looks like I need to find 64bit drivers prior to doing an install....

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:33 pm

running some video editting software, email, web etc

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:18 pm

XP32 could be worth a dabble I suppose.

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:52 pm

The Athlon 64 is 2ghz where as the other cpu is 32bit and 1.9ghz

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:57 pm

Today went for a walk, stopped by to stay hello to the horses in one of the fields. While saying hello to Mr Horse, he decide to have a nibble of my arm, just a quick nip!

Hoodoo · Post by **Hoodoo** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:11 pm

excossack wrote:Today went for a walk, stopped by to stay hello to the horses in one of the fields. While saying hello to Mr Horse, he decide to have a nibble of my arm, just a quick nip!

Angle grinder's worse, John!

Regards,

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:16 pm

Hoodoo wrote:
excossack wrote:Today went for a walk, stopped by to stay hello to the horses in one of the fields. While saying hello to Mr Horse, he decide to have a nibble of my arm, just a quick nip!
Angle grinder's worse, John!
Regards,

It certainly is John as my left knee and several stiches will testify!

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:31 pm

Tonight, I mainly did some Pre-MOT checks on the 110. Adjusted the hand brake, checked the brake pipes, lights, seatbelts, steering box. I did find some play in a rear wheel bearing,hopefully not too much to fail.

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 8:00 pm

How cool is that!

daniel.b · Post by **daniel.b** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:40 pm

Spent the day stripping the ancillaries from the old combo engine and putting them on the new-to-me engine.

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:55 pm

Yesterday I
Checked the rear brake pads
Front brake pads
Hoovered the car

Today, I helped a mate put the gearleg back on his Evinrude engine then it started raining.
Not enough power in the battery to test the engine, so that will be saved for another day. At some point the boat will be for sale.(or is that sail?)

Listed some stuff on ebay http://shop.ebay.co.uk/excossack/m.html

Hoodoo · Post by **Hoodoo** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 6:35 pm

Went to a new (two months old) off-road site at Grianrhyd, not far from home. Got stuck in two feet of thick mud almost immediately! Pulled out, then went further into the site. Got stuck again and winched out, then recovered a Disco and tried another. My winch, although fine for the Niva, is no match for a bogged down Disco! Eventually I had to leave him there whilst others tried to recover him, and themselves!
Didn't stay long, as the idea of spending the entire afternoon winching doesn't appeal to me (too old now!

) But the ground at the site was all soft, with reeds aplenty, so it's almost permanently wet and boggy, if you like that sort of thing. The practice was useful though!
Owners / operators are friendly and helpful, and I met a few friends there (I do have a few!).
If I go there again, I'll need a different set of tyres!
What surprised me though was that nearly all these seriously kitted out motors lacked winches of their own. Don't understand the sense of that.
Regards,

ahma · Post by **ahma** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:23 pm

Both will be fine. Go for a synthetic rope at once, before scratching the surfaces with the steel wire. After trying syntethic you never want to use steel again.