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| Author: | Twistedsanity [Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Other interests |
So following on from the "location location" thread I wondered what other interests that are non auto related members have on here? I do a spot of fishing although I haven't been out for a year and also enjoy clay pigeon shooting, I've got 4 shotguns and try to go once a week when the weather and my health allow me to, 2 Webley and Scott 12bores, a 100 year old double barrelled 12 bore English hammer gun and a nice little browning medalist 20g over and under that was a recent purchase, and I am dipping my toe into the world of home chicken keeping in the next few weeks no I have got my garden in order...... |
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| Author: | Z28DUNC [Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Other interests |
Me bike......the one at the front
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| Author: | Twistedsanity [Tue Jul 28, 2015 12:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Other interests |
Nice bike, I had one of those hardly movingson bikes a few years back but never got the rides out of it i brought it for as my back is fubared, nice background, where was it taken? |
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| Author: | NeilTheCop [Tue Jul 28, 2015 3:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Other interests |
Beekeeping. Lots of honey so that I can make mead and pursue my other interest of drinking. A little day trading on the stock market. Shooting. Nothing competitive just grab a few of my guns and go out the back yard and frighten a few tin cans. Our dove hunting season starts September 1st so again out to the back yard for that. Bit expensive cause I'm useless with a shotgun, one box of shells per dove is my norm  Lots of house repairs. Just lately I have resurrected my interest in electronics so I'm converting an outside storage building into an electronics lab. Well the small part the wife hasn't filled with shoes yet 
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| Author: | Z28DUNC [Wed Jul 29, 2015 12:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Other interests |
Quote: Nice bike, I had one of those hardly movingson bikes a few years back but never got the rides out of it i brought it for as my back is fubared, nice background, where was it taken?
Applecross, west coast of Scotland. My brother lives in the highlands. Going up there next week with a van and the bike. Doing another tour of the west coast. Best part is quite roads. Not constantly being held up by some duffer like most places in England/Wales.
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| Author: | Twistedsanity [Wed Jul 29, 2015 3:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Other interests |
I adore the west coast, got family in kilcreggan on the banks of the Clyde, wife's cousin lives on Skye and her uncle has a place on Arran, the East Coast just doesn't come close! I keep saying I'm gonna take the camaro up there one day. No idea what the road was but we went from west to east and it was like a deserted motorway ! I think in two or three hours of driving we only came across two other cars. There is an outstanding road through a national park as you go north from kilcreggan to the Skye bridge which I think is called the trossacks or something, I've been to Jamaica a few times now up in the blue mountains and that park is every bit as beautiful. So what do you mean when you say "electronics" Neil ? Its a bit of a wide field that I have dabbled in, ended up making nitrous oxide system controllers last time and hydrogen generators :-) |
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| Author: | 78 Camaro [Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Other interests |
Quote: hydrogen generators
Do go on....  Quote: There is an outstanding road through a national park as you go north from kilcreggan to the Skye bridge which I think is called the trossacks or something
I did some filming a few years ago in Scotland. I was doing the sound recording (that's an "other interest" there) and was also driving the equipment van. Had foot on the floor for a good couple of hours through some amazing scenic roads. Got some pics along the way i'll have to find them and post up.Film sound is an interest. I used to work at Pinewood Studios and do freelance sound editing. Always on the look out for any projects. Guitar, i try and get better. We have a guitar club meeting after work every 2 weeks. Space / science / universe that kinda stuff. Like to read up / watch videos on that kind of thing. It's a passive hobby in the sense that i don't do anything with it like build space ships, but i like reading and learning about stars, planets and the empty spaces between. |
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| Author: | Twistedsanity [Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Other interests |
The hydrogen generators is a bit long winded, met a lunatic who put me onto the idea and showed me one he had made claiming all sorts of witchcraft derived fuel saving uses from them. I decided that I would build an efficient good looking unit to market and see what happened from there onewards ............. I found a wholesaler in the bio-fuels industry (green fuels ltd)who took three to test initially and came back and ordered another 50 on the strength of the good reports he was getting from the test units (I didn't complain as I was charging £1500 on a unit that cost me £400 to make, he was selling them for £3500) Then the story gets a little odd, after selling the 50 I used some of the profit to test one at milbrook under real conditions and it actually made consumption worse ! This is despite having 52 out of the 53 units I had sold coming back with glowing testimonials from the end users about 15-25% savings on fuel  I'm not the type of person to flog a dead horse or lead anyone up the garden path so I decided to cease making them on the strength of the report. One of my wholesalers customers was a guy named Daryl Watts who ran a company called oil drum based at the university of kents business start up units on the campus and decided he would steal my product, claim it was his and use the university backing to give him credibility. I wrote to the university telling them of my concerns and got stonewalled followed by a letter from his solicitor telling me to cease and desist with my actions or face legal action. He got the university to patent "his" idea for him (how he managed to patent the thousands of years old process Of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen I will never know) and they entered him into an entrepreneurial competition where he was awarded tens of thousands of pounds for his "innovative " product and also lots of help from various organisations to further his business. Visits to No 10 Downing Street followed as he was doing his bit for the UK and environment (his product was a piece of crap and didn't work properly with regards to producing hho efficiently anyway) he went on to sell the licensing rights all over the world for somewhere close to a million pounds by my reckoning before anybody caught on to the fact his product was crap and the idea was floored then dissapeared into the distance never to be seen again, I think the fraud unit was after him at one point! the underlying fact was that there was a 6 million pound grant to expand the university campus in the offing and they thought his success would help them achieve the grant so they didn't care if it didn't work(that's just my personal opinion and I have nothing to back it up other than I told them he was lying, sent proof and they got the grant). If you google "oil drum, Daryl watts hydrogen scam Kent " in pretty much any combination you will find plenty about his wonderful invention and him claiming to have invented it himself. I even sent a letter to seda, the university and local Kent newspapers pre dating his claims to have invented it that he sent to me , it was on headed paper, signed by him in ink thanking me for the use of the unit he had got from my wholesaler telling me how well it performed for him in his "initial tests" So there you go, a bit long winded and type of a big university squashes the little guy to get a financial reward and helps a fraudster achieve his aims story, I did ok, made about £20k along with my business partner who got an equal share and learned a few valuable lessons along the way. A friend of mine is still flogging the idea but as an engine clean device, charges people £100 to run hydrogen through their engine for half hour which apparently cleans it, de cokes it and improves emissions according to the exhaust gas analyser although I have a different theory as to why the end result is achieved and it's nothing to do with cleaning |
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| Author: | chevy-stu [Thu Jul 30, 2015 9:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Other interests |
Quote: ....... wild and infuriating experience.....
 
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| Author: | Twistedsanity [Thu Jul 30, 2015 11:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Other interests |
The BBC made a documentary about the fact that the university backed it and it didn't work but as this link to the iplayer page shows it appears to have been removed http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sllf3 , can't have any bad press about the British education system indicating they might be a little dumb or crooked now can we There was a wonderful clip where the tea leaf fantasist is also at milbrook where the BBC has paid for the unit to be tested and the reporter shows him the test results and says "there is is proof it doesn't work Mr watts" to which he replied "well that's just your opinion isn't it" :-) , the UK company he ripped off was called Andel and last thing I heard they were trying to bring a class action against him for fraud, that was a few years back now though, I can only assume he managed to keep hold of the money he scammed |
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