Claymore_wam wrote:BillShipton wrote:Talking of public transport, Hayley isn't talking to be cos I have blown 60 quid on all four volumes of the British Transport Films compilations on DVD. You don't have to like trains, they are wonderfully nostalgic - and the commentaries are pure Harry Enfield.
Incidentally, I can heartily recommend a side order of "
Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film". It features award-winning shorts: Snow (Oscar nominated), Rail and Locomotion for BTF, along with superb shorts for BP and Shell.
Ohh - think I might just have to get that! I've actually got Snow - was broadcast on Ch4 very late at night some time in the 80s, when I'd left a tape running after a recording (used to do that to "stretch the tape" before making important recordings), I found it again some years later by chance and transferred it to SVHS. Brilliant work, especially considering when it was done.
At the time I was making my own compilations by editing the videos of various tours and diesel galas I'd been to down to fit 4-minute rock and pop songs, edited to cut from scene to scene on the beats of the music. Home movies really are mich better when you cut out everything but the very best bits.
andy250 wrote:Thanks for the comments Claymore its the chassis thats going not the bodywork, once you start welding chassis it never ends i did last year, all the rust does is move somewhere else ie the other side of the weld.
I'm not sure what to do at the mo??? all thoughts would be gratefully recieved.
Chassis as in seperate underframe? Production cars havn't had those since the 1970s of earlier. Generally speaking the "sills" on modern cars are hollow box-sections that provide the main strength in the floorpan. Once they start to rust the vehicle is effectively dead, effective treatment is possible but costs a fortune, generally it's only worth doing for classics or high-value land rovers and the like.
You can buy cars with a few months MOT and tax really cheaply, though you've then got the headache of getting rid of them at the end, many breakers need paying to take away vehicles now.
TBH quite a lot of people have found that not having a car, but using taxis when needed, is actually cheaper - no tax, no servicing, no tyres or oil to worry about. Get a bike for local transport and to get to and from the nearest station, and use trains (on advance-purchase tickets it's a lot cheaper) to go distances, locking the bike up at the station for when you get back. The big supermarkets all do delivery services, I'd a mate who found that having a motorbike and paying a fiver for Tesco to deliver a big shop every now and then was cheaper than keeping his old Rover on the road.
Cycling has a load of health benefits too - it's the second best form of exercise known, after swimming, and swimming isn't much use for transport unless you live by a centrally heated canal!
Posted: 17 Jan 2007, 22:22
