Andrew, just seen your profile picture -very nice motor mate (not biased!)
Knebworth is a pretty wicked venue for a show like that, isn't it? I've just put a piccy of mine in my sig page....

 

Thanks Theo.. i shall look forward to seeing them! ..... though i suddenly have a new job to do.. my sodding master cylinder! :mad it decided it didn't want to work on the morning i was gonna drive down to somerset!! still, i saved WADS of petrol money by driving an Espace there instead :D

And Andrew.... i was WORKING in Wardour Street, not lording it up in Mezzo (worst luck!)
:cheers:

... i'll come and say hi next time in J.L! .... never knowingly undersold!

 

Ooh, not so good when a master cyl decides not to work. Have you busted a seal or something?
Mentioning a trip to Somerset in your vette (or not as the case may be:cuss ) reminds me... You reckon you would have had it bad? I went home to Cornwall last summer, just after i graduated from Uni (Nottingham). There and back cost me 150 quid in juice. Bollocks.

 

Ker-Ching!£££ ... i did exactly the same thing.. drove down to falmouth a few years ago,shortly after i first bough the Vette ..£160 !!!! .. i STILL bring it up as an after dinner story!! :cry (i don't really.. i'm not quite THAT dull!)

Hmmm, yep, i recon master cyinder seals have gone , nothing major (he said!)... gonna fix it tomorrow (if daddy will help me :D )

 

Theo - I'd be interested in seeing the photos too. I havent taken mine to bits and would like to see the workings.
I didnt 'sign up' for a year after I got my vette either. I thought I wasnt really getting enough from it. Through the club I've met loads of 'like minded' people (read nuts :p: ). The trips and meets we do are great, especially for swapping info. The cruises are really great too. Donuts on the grass - couldnt condone that :cheers: !

Skeets - When I said Mezzo's I meant you may may be filming in there - sort of place 'stars' may go! Mind you the fixed pre-theatre dinner menu is great value and if I've been there cant be too exclusive :D . Let me know if you are in that area again we could meet up for quick drink perhaps.

Went to Silverstone on Sunday and the M25 had been closed between j7 +j9 so thought I was going to be late. Doing 90 up the M40 and saw a white van parked on a bridge with what looked much like a camera pointing out of it. Please, oh please tell me that was a film crew and not a speed camera. I couldnt take another fine :cry . Great race though. You could smell the money, so many helicopters it looked like a scene from 'apocalypse now'. The sound was deafening and really intoxicating. Worth the money - especially with Quo playing after :thumbs:

 

not ANOTHER speeding fine!!!

.... actually, i feel SURE it was a film crew Andrew (filming a motorway scene... from a small white van.... as you do) :lol:

Yeah.. i should be working in Soho again soon (3am-5am.. corner of old compton street.. dressed as a sailor :D )
...... i'll let you know when, & we can meet up and down some tequilas!!! :hurray:

(i'll complain about my master cylinder, and you can winge about the latest in your huge collection of speeding tickets :lol:

 

I've got to give it beans on the old work thing this week, but i'll get the pics going in due course - it's quite fascinating how the thing works actually.
Watch this space...

 

We must be really sad hanging on for pictures of a cruise control transducer. Hey - do you collect train numbers....Only joking :D

Glad to hear the beeb is filming motorways. Should improve the quality of viewing.

I glad to find someone else with a sailor suit. The missus only lets me wear mine on the third tuesday of the month. Must be great to be able to wear it to work too. :eek:

 

Hehe, tragic innit?
just wait til you see the quality of the photos - they're a bit of a mixed bag. I'm hoping my writing skills will make up for any lack on the visual side!
Oh well, it seems so many people are pissed off with their cruise system that it should be a worthwhile thing to try and help with.
I've got a report on the heat flows in a oil-cooled diesel piston to write up (grrrreat!) so that's why the photos aren't up on our server yet. Thats also why i'm in this bloody office at this time of the evening. Come to think of it, what are you doing here?!
Don't tell me you're "working" too?! :lol:

 

No, not working, on line at home. Dont get much chance at work to do interesting stuff. Like write on 'heat flows in.... :sleep: '
Yeah, loads of people are interested in CC. Most in the Uk have given up I think as we dont get to "cruise" much. Besides whenever I do I get a ticket :( :lol:
So I take it you are quite mechanically minded then? Cars or other stuff?

 

Doh! - i just assume that people are at work when they're online, since that seems to occupt a large portion of my day :lol:
Please don't get the impression i'm some kind of computer techno-weenie, it's just that the old "interweb" is about the best thing you can have when you own a car that no-one in your country has any knowledge of!
There's not a lot of cruising room over here admittedly (lets perpetuate the US image that the UK consists of suburbs of london town :lol:) - but it's such a novelty i just wanted to get it going again.
I suppose i'm quite mechanically minded, yeah - i've just finished a degree in mechanical engineering at Nottingham, and i'm doing my Ph.D here too (another 3 years of student living :cheers: ) in a project with Ford on engine heat flows. I guess 7 years of uni is a bloody long time, but they pay me to do this -so i'd just as well do this rather than a graduate job, since i'm getting the doctorate at the same time. (Better not speak too soon - only just coming to the end of my first year!)
So i guess its cars mainly, but i'll have a go at taking anything apart. I worked as a mechanic for a few years running, in my uni holidays. That was back in Cornwall, so it wasn't unusual to have a combine harvester come in for a tyre change, or some old fart desperate for me to fix his forty year old landrover using only baler twine and self tapping screws. Saw some quite amusing things there.... I'd love to do more of that but i'm afraid the whole academic thing's a bit more responsible and grown up!
How about yourself - do much to the vette, or do you have a trusted mechanic?

 

45778 - this is the number of the big blue train.
55567 - and this is the red train.


i DO have a life , i DO!

ok... just took the master cylinder apart... and annoyingly, it looks fine (was hoping to find some obvious problem!) :confused:

watch this space for the latest updates... it's gonna get REALLY exciting from now on :party:

 

It's finally done!
I've spent some time hosting my cruise control stuff this weekend. Sorry it took so bloody long, I didn't realise I'd have so much stuff to explain. I hope it's some use to you. Have a look at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eaztl1/...leshooting.htm

I'll put a new post in the forum on this, so everyone else can have a look - anyone looking at this thread by now would just think it's a bunch of crazy brits waffling about Cortinas, and give up reading halfway...

 

What a fantastic report Theo. I'm just going to settle down with a nice mug of cocoa and read the patent office site. :sleep:
Been offline for a while due to phone line problem but did you see the number of hits we got on our meandering topic! They must love our quirky sense of style :D
When i get a few days i'm going to try out your fixes, and I'll let you know - wont be for a little while, however.
Glad its up and running. :seeya

 

Cheers. I got a bit carried away :D
I started to describe what i had done, then realised how much i'd need to write to actually cover everything!
I sniffed out the patent 'cos i wanted to find some info on all the air flows and vacuums in the system, and how they change at different loads and speeds. I was hoping something like that would have it, but really it's just a very complex way of telling you how it works, not why it works!
Still it's quite amusing just to marvel at how the thing is written - I think the style of patents must be such as to convince the world that your invention is completely different - so you just have to confuse them into thinking so!

Does look like quite a popular thread, this one - those crazy Brits, what ever will they get up to next :lol:

Anyway good luck with yours mate....

:thumbs: