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DaveW #723935 07/11/21 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by DaveW
Steam is really the ultimate fascination for me. It has the ultimate fettle potential.


Hydrogen burner, producing steam. What is not to like?


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Originally Posted by DaveW
I must admit that having watched a MINI factory documantary a few years ago, the production is truly amazing.

And I'm tempted. However, although the interiors are well executed, I find the overall shape, and especially some of the wide mouth fronts to be a bit hard to like.

One of the strangest things is watching one of the spot welding bays stop, red lights flashing, the feed of panels automatically pauses, all because the welding robot can tell it's electrodes are shot, it swings round to a grinding station, cleans the tips off, fires a test weld & then returns back to the panels...and the whole line shuffles into action again, no human intervention - amazing


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Originally Posted by Peter J
Originally Posted by DaveW
Steam is really the ultimate fascination for me. It has the ultimate fettle potential.


Hydrogen burner, producing steam. What is not to like?



'Whistling Billy' ...... 1905 White steam racer ..... if all else fails I could definitely see myself whizzing up the road in a hydrogen fired one of these with my hat on backwards and some Mk8 goggles 🙂


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Originally Posted by DaveW
I must admit that having watched a MINI factory documantary a few years ago, the production is truly amazing.

And I'm tempted. However, although the interiors are well executed, I find the overall shape, and especially some of the wide mouth fronts to be a bit hard to like.

The next generation Mini may not be quite what we're expecting. Meet the Mini Urbanaut!

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/quote.One of the strangest things is watching one of the spot welding bays stop, red lights flashing, the feed of panels automatically pauses, all because the welding robot can tell it's electrodes are shot, it swings round to a grinding station, cleans the tips off, fires a test weld & then returns back to the panels...and the whole line shuffles into action again, no human intervention - amazing[/quote]

The human intervention was at an ealier stage when humans imagined all the things that might / could go wrong, devised solutions, specified the sensors, wrote the response programs, tested the actions, built the response devices and moved on to the next brain stressing issues. Not bad for mere humans.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-59254298.amp


And so it begins! ..... slashing and bashing next ..... then extended to all cars that don't meet with their idealogical standards (which will be 'all cars' in the minds of some of them) ..... Law and Order contingent on meeting some pressure group's current dogma .... interesting times.

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Ps .....I don't like 'Chelsea Tractor' townie SUVs either .... but that's not the point

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Bloody disgraceful behaviour. Absolutely no call for or defence of criminal damage to people's property in this way, especially when they have no way of knowing the circumstances of the owners.

Just gives a bad name to anyone trying to encourage people to think about how they can reduce their environmental footprint.


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Would that stand as a criminal act if caught mid-twattery?


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Originally Posted by Alistair
Would that stand as a criminal act if caught mid-twattery?


Possibly Section 22A Road Traffic Act?


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Originally Posted by Alistair
Would that stand as a criminal act if caught mid-twattery?


Letting someone's tyres down can easily result in the tyre having to be replaced, so criminal damage I'd say.


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