What is it with tools? Why do I keep those, but nothing else?
https://photos.app.goo.gl/mnWPhQtPdaTcr3Lz5
I feel a bit guilty for derailing Champ's thread
On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:59:33 +0000, Neil Ronketti
<neil@ronketti.invalid> wrote:
I feel a bit guilty for derailing Champ's thread
NAHAY?
I feel a bit guilty for derailing Champ's thread trying to sell his ZXR,
so it's probably worth starting another one.
Like Champ, I was quite startled by the length of time that people have owned bikes, and as mentioned, my record is about three years. And then
What is it with tools? Why do I keep those, but nothing else?
On 30/11/2025 21:26, Mark Olson wrote:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/mnWPhQtPdaTcr3Lz5
I'm struck by how "mechanical" and "heath robinson" 1950's technology
looks. Look at that engine! A myriad of pipes and that gut wrenching
anxiety that people flew over the atlantic with those engines!
Like Champ, I was quite startled by the length of time that people have owned bikes, and as mentioned, my record is about three years.
IT kit is one of my crimes, I have cables, connectors, memory, boards
and drives. Just in case.
On 30/11/2025 19:59, Neil Ronketti wrote:
I feel a bit guilty for derailing Champ's thread trying to sell his
ZXR, so it's probably worth starting another one.
Like Champ, I was quite startled by the length of time that people
have owned bikes, and as mentioned, my record is about three years.
And then
I missed that, I've had the XJR now since September 1999.
I'd still have my 2006 Peg if some bastard hadn't stolen it.
I keep things because they work, and I am used to their foibles.
I sell Jean's bikes though :-)
What is it with tools? Why do I keep those, but nothing else?
IT kit is one of my crimes, I have cables, connectors, memory, boards
and drives. Just in case.
And that's even before I start on the books and magazines.
IT kit is one of my crimes, I have cables, connectors, memory, boards
and drives. Just in case.
IT kit is one of my crimes, I have cables, connectors, memory, boards
and drives. Just in case.
On 01/12/2025 11:50, YTC1 wrote:
IT kit is one of my crimes, I have cables, connectors, memory, boards
and drives. Just in case.
Willing to form a support group with you.
Aside from all of the usual cables I have:
-A bag full of coax cable, connectors, T-pieces, and terminators, and
the network cards they connect to, in case anyone wants to set up a LAN
Doom deathmatch evening.
-A working Compaq 286SLT laptop, circ 1994. It's not bad, size-wise, and
-So, so many laptops. They've all had their drives stripped out (and
kept, just in case) so they could just go to the tip... but, hey, who
knows when you'll need a Windows '98 machine with 2Mb of RAM, right?
On 30/11/2025 21:26, Mark Olson wrote:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/mnWPhQtPdaTcr3Lz5
I'm struck by how "mechanical" and "heath robinson" 1950's technology
looks. Look at that engine! A myriad of pipes and that gut wrenching
anxiety that people flew over the atlantic with those engines!
On top of that, I really dislike most modern bikes' TFT displays and
busy switchgear, which reduces my desire to change (FOMO ?) still further.
IT kit is one of my crimes, I have cables, connectors, memory, boards
and drives. Just in case.
On 01/12/2025 11:50, YTC1 wrote:
IT kit is one of my crimes, I have cables, connectors, memory, boards
and drives. Just in case.
Oh yeah. I've just been down the tip with this lot today, there's loads
more to go:
https://immich.plaxy.com/share/nVm86TY- RGds0jP3C3kgxgCQUeTpZ0XbSX-7sdBwLK_jy7KTHvRBbLffQTV3ADgqsKE
On 01/12/2025 11:50, YTC1 wrote:
IT kit is one of my crimes, I have cables, connectors, memory, boards
and drives. Just in case.
Heh. I have SCART cables for the same reason. Beat that.
On 01/12/2025 18:18, Simon Wilson wrote:
On 01/12/2025 11:50, YTC1 wrote:
IT kit is one of my crimes, I have cables, connectors, memory, boards
and drives. Just in case.
Oh yeah. I've just been down the tip with this lot today, there's
loads more to go:
https://immich.plaxy.com/share/nVm86TY-
RGds0jP3C3kgxgCQUeTpZ0XbSX-7sdBwLK_jy7KTHvRBbLffQTV3ADgqsKE
You did strip out all RAM, drives etc 1st, surely!
Today, people listen to iPods while sitting between two or four engines whose combustors act like blowlamps onto the turbines, the flames being hotter than the melting point of the the metal the blades themselves are made of.
Today, people listen to iPods while sitting between two or four engines whose combustors act like blowlamps onto the turbines, the flames being hotter than the melting point of the the metal the blades themselves are made of.
hotter than the melting point of the the metal the blades themselves
On 01/12/2025 09:32, Ace wrote:
On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:59:33 +0000, Neil Ronketti
<neil@ronketti.invalid> wrote:
I feel a bit guilty for derailing Champ's thread
NAHAY?
Heh. Not as such - I just think it's good form to not derail a selling >thread.
On 01/12/2025 11:50, YTC1 wrote:
IT kit is one of my crimes, I have cables, connectors, memory, boards
and drives. Just in case.
Oh yeah. I've just been down the tip with this lot today, there's loads
more to go: >https://immich.plaxy.com/share/nVm86TY-RGds0jP3C3kgxgCQUeTpZ0XbSX-7sdBwLK_jy7KTHvRBbLffQTV3ADgqsKE
On 01/12/2025 11:50, YTC1 wrote:
IT kit is one of my crimes, I have cables, connectors, memory, boards
and drives. Just in case.
Heh. I have SCART cables for the same reason. Beat that.
Today, people listen to iPods while sitting between two or four engines whose combustors act like blowlamps onto the turbines, the flames being hotter than the melting point of the the metal the blades themselves are made of.
There hasn't been anyone on ukrm for 20 years who'd want to buy an old
race bike
On 01/12/2025 21:59 PipL penned these words:
hotter than the melting point of the the metal the blades themselves
Been watching Veritasium <sp>?
On 01/12/2025 21:59 PipL penned these words:
hotter than the melting point of the the metal the blades themselves
Been watching Veritasium <sp>?
What is it with tools? Why do I keep those, but nothing else?
On 02/12/2025 10:44, boots wrote:
On 01/12/2025 21:59 PipL penned these words:
hotter than the melting point of the the metal the blades themselves
Been watching Veritasium <sp>?
No, something I remembered from a RR book of gas turbines.
On 01/12/2025 21:59 PipL penned these words:
hotter than the melting point of the the metal the blades themselves
Been watching Veritasium <sp>?
On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 10:22:58 +0000, Neil Ronketti
<neil@ronketti.invalid> wrote:
There hasn't been anyone on ukrm for 20 years who'd want to buy an old
race bike
-A working Compaq 286SLT laptop, circ 1994. It's not bad, size-wise, and
the keyboard is connected to the base unit by a cable, so you can
actually lift it out and put it on the desktop, it even has the little
tabs to tilt it up.
On 1 Dec 2025 at 15:26:44 GMT, "AndrewR" <andrew.rockface.spam@gmail.com> >wrote:
-A working Compaq 286SLT laptop, circ 1994. It's not bad, size-wise, and
the keyboard is connected to the base unit by a cable, so you can
actually lift it out and put it on the desktop, it even has the little
tabs to tilt it up.
Wahey! I never knew that! (though there's no real reason why I would, or >should, have). I need to get another photo of ours, to show off that keyboard >cable.
I'm involved with this Collection: https://nuhc.ncl.ac.uk/NEWUC:2014.0001
And our Founder took one of those Compaqs apart: >https://nuhc.ncl.ac.uk/moca/micros/SLT256.htm
We have hundreds of "pieces of old junk", as someone once referred to them. Of >course, it's not junk at all - it just hasn't matured enough, yet, to become >cultural treasure.
On 1 Dec 2025 at 15:26:44 GMT, "AndrewR" <andrew.rockface.spam@gmail.com> wrote:
-A working Compaq 286SLT laptop, circ 1994. It's not bad, size-wise, and
the keyboard is connected to the base unit by a cable, so you can
actually lift it out and put it on the desktop, it even has the little
tabs to tilt it up.
Wahey! I never knew that! (though there's no real reason why I would, or should, have). I need to get another photo of ours, to show off that keyboard cable.
I'm involved with this Collection: https://nuhc.ncl.ac.uk/NEWUC:2014.0001
And our Founder took one of those Compaqs apart: https://nuhc.ncl.ac.uk/moca/micros/SLT256.htm
We have hundreds of "pieces of old junk", as someone once referred to them. Of
course, it's not junk at all - it just hasn't matured enough, yet, to become cultural treasure.
Been watching Veritasium <sp>?
Coincidence then, I just last week watched the video >URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxVdC7pBQM
On Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:09:12 +0000, Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote:
On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 10:22:58 +0000, Neil Ronketti
<neil@ronketti.invalid> wrote:
There hasn't been anyone on ukrm for 20 years who'd want to buy an old
race bike
Err, when exactky was it that you bought the TZ?
I might of.^^^^^^^^^^
Sol wrote:
I might of.^^^^^^^^^^
And no-one has picked up on this after five days?!
Standards are slipping...
Sol wrote:
I might of.^^^^^^^^^^
And no-one has picked up on this after five days?!
Standards are slipping...
CT <ctrollen64@gmail.com> wrote:
Sol wrote:
I might of.^^^^^^^^^^
And no-one has picked up on this after five days?!
Standards are slipping...
Oh, it was definitely noticed. But I didn't want to be the one.
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