- 21. Thank you list (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:06:18 +0100
- I've had an amazing number of cards and emails from so many people following my stroke in mid-September. Thank you all so much. I'm currently in "rehab" and will be so for a while yet but today I've
- /html/triumphs/2005-10/msg00355.html (7,095 bytes)
- 22. Re: TR250 Tail lamps update (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:57:59 +0100
- Three points here: 1. 'Grabbing what was available in the parts bin' - very implausible. The build ticket that accompanied each car down the line (the info that is now microfilmed and used to issue H
- /html/triumphs/2005-10/msg00417.html (7,999 bytes)
- 23. Re: no triumph contact drill bit sharpener recommendation (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:18:54 +0100
- the Hallelujah to that!!!! And what about (also as an apprentice) learning to file a lump of metal into a perfect square AND checking the accuracy of your work with a set square you'd also had to mak
- /html/triumphs/2005-10/msg00844.html (9,079 bytes)
- 24. Re: T/R 3 trannys (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:36:45 -0000
- the Herald only still Fred, nothing would give me greater pleasure but I've hit the proverbial brickwall for the time-being. Infuriatingly, the after-effects of this recent stroke preclude me doing a
- /html/triumphs/2005-10/msg00919.html (8,019 bytes)
- 25. Ain't technology wonderful? (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:54:48 +0100
- Been off list for 2 weeks and spending time deep in a forest with no phone, radio, newspaper or anything. Fantastic! Had to break into things at the end of the first week to be fitted with my new di
- /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00509.html (7,771 bytes)
- 26. Re: Tools and Fluifs (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:49:11 +0100
- Knowing the inclination of many on this list to use the British word for a component instead of the more home-brewed (or Webster?) version, how come a grease zerk is entering these sepulchered pages?
- /html/triumphs/2005-08/msg00541.html (7,486 bytes)
- 27. Re: Compression test (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:59:09 +0100
- If it helps in this debate, the factory did it this way. Reading 1: Cold and wet - with oil in the sump before engine was driven for approx 15 mins thru the flywheel with all the plugs out Reading 2:
- /html/triumphs/2005-08/msg00694.html (7,111 bytes)
- 28. Re: Tools and Fluifs (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:55:10 +0100
- come a spending all the seems http://www.machinerylubrication.com/article_detail.asp?articleid=584&related book I'm obliged to my learned friends who have responded on this important point of nation
- /html/triumphs/2005-08/msg00813.html (8,176 bytes)
- 29. Re: Tools and Fluifs (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:46:51 +0100
- Hell, he's a big boy now. I guess he can handle it? For the record, I've never seen either of his zerks :) JM -- Original Message -- From: "T. S. White" <tswrace@pacbell.net> To: "John Macartney" <st
- /html/triumphs/2005-08/msg01007.html (7,778 bytes)
- 30. TR bonnet release (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:06:29 +0100
- Met a guy today at a party who arrived in a TR6PI. Seems before he left home he wanted to do an engine oil level check but the bonnet release cable broke without releasing the bonnet catch. ISTR this
- /html/triumphs/2005-08/msg01008.html (7,042 bytes)
- 31. Mistaken Identity (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:07:43 +0100
- Here is a true story about two ex-Triumph employees about an event that took place no more than a month ago. For reasons of anonymity, I'm witholding their names but suffice it to say both are well-k
- /html/triumphs/2005-07/msg00390.html (9,278 bytes)
- 32. The Charles Macartney Award (long but neccesary) (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 10:05:46 +0100
- In spite of the crap that has been written previously I as Chief Judge of VTR took the advice of the Triumph List and expedited The Charles Macartney Daily Driver Award thru the VTR board and receive
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00001.html (10,159 bytes)
- 33. Surging rev-counter (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 21:26:30 +0100
- I may have posted this query more than a year ago - and if anyone kindly answered it, I can't remember what was said. The 2.5PI has started being used again after a too long break and providing a lot
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00023.html (7,944 bytes)
- 34. Re: Surging rev-counter (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 00:17:34 +0100
- I wish it was a binding cable, Steven - but between your TR4 and my 2.5PI, Standard-Triumph moved into the rocket science age and fitted *most* of their cars with errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrlectric rev co
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00031.html (7,782 bytes)
- 35. Re: Surging rev-counter (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:39:55 +0100
- Hey Tom - that's a waste of matches! I only use those for important things, like seeing where the fuel leak is coming from JM location of
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00092.html (7,936 bytes)
- 36. Re: parallel parking by touch (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:06:10 +0100
- As the Dinner was a special occasion, I think I'd have parked the car in the flower bed by the main entrance. After all, you could always blame it on brake failure and the cost of replacing the flow
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00443.html (8,219 bytes)
- 37. Re: exhaust note (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:15:03 +0100
- Whether its because the engine is undersquare or whatever, bothers me not at all. The six pot lump just sounds good. The other day and just for fun, I taped a hand-held tape recorder to the rear bump
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00444.html (7,000 bytes)
- 38. Today's 'courtesies' (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 12:28:57 +0100
- A month ago, I moved house from the country to a small country town where on-street parking is a major problem and there is no garage for my much-loved and fully restored Triumph 2.5PI saloon. Rather
- /html/triumphs/2005-05/msg00329.html (8,199 bytes)
- 39. Re: Floor jacks (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 12:43:30 +0100
- My hydraulic trolley jack has four metal wheels, stands 4 inches high when lowered, is 20 inches long and lifts 2 tons. It makes a great skateboard at the end of a working day when putting things awa
- /html/triumphs/2005-05/msg00352.html (8,002 bytes)
- 40. The VTR issue - last few days (long) (score: 1)
- Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 23:26:40 +0100
- Having been out of cyber-circulation for the last few days, I was surprised to read the range of feelings about VTR's apparent restriction to its site. To be honest, I haven't even clicked on it to s
- /html/triumphs/2005-05/msg00765.html (8,388 bytes)
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