What did you do to your van today?

[oppy]

You are in a lovely area, with the smell of the sea everywhere.

Morbihan is one of our favourites areas (especially Locmariaquer) and over the years I've walked Yvonne's feet off looking at all the monuments and megaliths.

Oh, and yes, shared a bevvy or three.

All things being equal we are off there tomorrow. We are currently on a campsite, something we haven't done for years (since we were tuggers !!) at a spot just below Vannes called Flower Camping at Conleau, a wonderful site with just about everything you would want and still much cheaper than a similar CCC one in the UK, and, yes you can smell the sea and a little wander takes you there.
Thanks Smiffy for the suggestion
Peter

 

[TeamRienza]

And not much dearer than the Aire at the gate. Great cycle path into Vannes, and a lesser used walk/cycle route into town nearby. Turn right out of camp and the path is on the right close to the inlet a few hundred metres (if memory serves). Also decent small supermarket U express on Rue Jean Francois du Surville, 2 minutes by car or 13 on foot.
Enjoy your trip. Vannes is one of my favourites.

Davy

 

[marchie]

Bet you were near us (Stoke / Staffs) the roads round here are a Total Disgrace & the Council are the same.

Not at all, Chris; we were roughly 18 or 19 miles south of Oxford on the A34

Steve

 

[gasgas]

If it isn't 2-pack expoxy and poly, no paint is "real" paint for our Trev

Years ago I had a BIG garage to play in, about 800sq.ft. I took to spraying cars, and campervans. A new 'can't scratch it' paint came available and I used it a couple of times. It was brilliant, gave a mirror gloss finish you could run a coin along without hurting it. The tin had a skull and crossbones on it and a big chemical word I couldn't even say, let alone pronounce.
I had a friend who was a pharmacist and showed him the tin. He asked if I had heard of a chap called Hitler. Yes. What did he use on the Jews? Cyanide. READ THE WORD he said. I slowly pronounced each syllable. I SO CY AN ATE. Precisely, he said. It contains Cyanide. When you see a car worth dying for, paint it with that stuff. You can lick it when it's dry, and if you ate some it would only give you a bad tummy. But breathe the spray in and you are in deep doo doo.
I didn't do any more cars with it, and soon after it was banned anyway.

 

[gasgas]

Today I fitted 4 new tyres to Polly's shiny wheels:

 

[wildebus]

Years ago I had a BIG garage to play in, about 800sq.ft. I took to spraying cars, and campervans. A new 'can't scratch it' paint came available and I used it a couple of times. It was brilliant, gave a mirror gloss finish you could run a coin along without hurting it. The tin had a skull and crossbones on it and a big chemical word I couldn't even say, let alone pronounce.
I had a friend who was a pharmacist and showed him the tin. He asked if I had heard of a chap called Hitler. Yes. What did he use on the Jews? Cyanide. READ THE WORD he said. I slowly pronounced each syllable. I SO CY AN ATE. Precisely, he said. It contains Cyanide. When you see a car worth dying for, paint it with that stuff. You can lick it when it's dry, and if you ate some it would only give you a bad tummy. But breathe the spray in and you are in deep doo doo.
I didn't do any more cars with it, and soon after it was banned anyway.

Nope, you can still buy it and use it if you are an approved business.
But yes, you MUST have the right protection. A regular face mask is not enough, you need an air-fed respirator mask to give a positive pressure.
I always avoided it even though I had the air-fed mask.

Edit: I should point out that it was not actually the paint that was ISO, but the lacquer.
The ISO lacquer was preferred for sure for the hardness and finish and you see a lot of SMART Repairs companies like Chipsaway use it - and often without air-fed masks, the excuse being they are spraying outside so it is dissipated immediately and not a risk.
I stuck with non-ISO lacquer (and if possible, would use a UV-Cured lacquer where you put the item you are painting into a special oven - that UV lacquer gave a great finish and was super durable)

 

[trevskoda]

trev, he is painting bloody motorhome wheels! industrial standards DON'T have to be met

Yes but will be a better job and look right/last.

 

[wildebus]

Yes but will be a better job and look right/last.

Trev, when good enough is good enough you don't have to look for better.
I thought you would get that seeing as you drive Skodas

 

[marchie]

Yes but will be a better job and look right/last.

I remember being taught the principles of Total Quality Management nearly 40 years ago, and Skoda was used as the example of the Rule ...

'Quality is conformance to requirements'

So, if you need a car to travel to yur zero hours contract job in the middle of nowhere and have only £500 to spend, a 20 year old vehicle with inks and dents, rusty wheels, an MOT, and every body panel a different colour, courtesy of the scrappie visits, will represent quality, because the requirement is for a functioning vehicle, and the aesthetics are not a requirement

Steve

 

[marchie]

Ordered a new, second S3 Arm , for the Fiamma Bike Rack, plus a new set of the straps for securing the wheels on the support rails. The straps began to feel brittle while we were away, so I'll change them at almost 8 years old, before I have one or more break in transit. I stupidly bought 2 x S2 Support Arms in late 2023, but managed to use them in a bit of a codge mounting on the old Ebikes. The Spanish Folding Ebikes that we bought in January 2024 have different frame shapes and brackets and make the codge mounting a time consuming nightmare, so we'll find out on Tuesday'ish whether I got it right this time ...

In other news, whilst we were in the Ferry queue on the outward leg from Portsmouth, an idiot French HGV driver hit the Thule Awning with his driver's side wing mirror [I could 1/2 understand if it hand been the passenger side, but the knobhat ploughed on and left a 3m deposit of plastic mirror cover on the casing!]. Fortunately the casing [which I had cleaned and polishd 48 hours earlier ...] and the awning were not damaged/creased and the winding mechanism is not affected, but my attempts to clean the scuff off during the trip have proved fruitless. Perhaps tomorrow will be more successful, provided that I can get enough street parking room to use the Henchman Ladders to get to roof height ...

Steve

 

[oppy]

And not much dearer than the Aire at the gate. Great cycle path into Vannes, and a lesser used walk/cycle route into town nearby. Turn right out of camp and the path is on the right close to the inlet a few hundred metres (if memory serves). Also decent small supermarket U express on Rue Jean Francois du Surville, 2 minutes by car or 13 on foot.
Enjoy your trip. Vannes is one of my favourites.

Davy

Yup, we noticed folks wandering from the aire into the site with their shower gubbins, but it was still terrific. Because I can't walk very well we caught the bus outside the site into Vannes and then the mini train tour, tres bon, 3 euros each return . Now we are at some place that I cannot spell, but Sue is the planning officer, I'm just transport, but the sun is shining and I'm having a rest day

 

[The laird]

Cleaned the inside out again after yesterdays tribe outing ,bbq cleaned out ready for trip abroad
Toilet cleaned out dishes air fryer etc cleaned,re sorted garage after the mayhem
Found a place for the grandkids ,father in law 92 years young out in the boats ex royal engineer very fit
Group pic of tribe great day all had
Fiona and my dil had a great birthday fi said best ever( kids all present

 

[runnach]

Typical image of migrants from Livi rocking up on the shores of Fife

 

[runnach]

Gogs, the cage image, is that them heading to Rwanda?

 

[The laird]

Gogs, the cage image, is that them heading to Rwanda?

It was bliss but the dog complained

 

[runnach]

It was bliss but the dog complained

They eat dogs over there, I’m not surprised dog was complaining

 

[gasgas]

I did lots of stuff to my camper and then discovered that my iPhone takes pictures in HEIC which won't attach to any posts. I need a teenager. I've watched five youtubes telling me how to change HEIC into JPG but a) they all talk too fast and in a funny yank language and b) nothing they show on their videos happens on my iPhone and c) the most obnoxious ones use microphones so big they hide the lecturer's face. They must be compensating for something. I know how to slow down the talk speed to only 200 wpm and to get subtitles but their videos still don't correspond to what happens when I press the specified 'buttons'.

 

[trevskoda]

Trev, when good enough is good enough you don't have to look for better.
I thought you would get that seeing as you drive Skodas

Best is better, bet you dont do half jobs.

 

[trevskoda]

I did lots of stuff to my camper and then discovered that my iPhone takes pictures in HEIC which won't attach to any posts. I need a teenager. I've watched five youtubes telling me how to change HEIC into JPG but a) they all talk too fast and in a funny yank language and b) nothing they show on their videos happens on my iPhone and c) the most obnoxious ones use microphones so big they hide the lecturer's face. They must be compensating for something. I know how to slow down the talk speed to only 200 wpm and to get subtitles but their videos still don't correspond to what happens when I press the specified 'buttons'.

I send my picks as emal atachment to my main pc, then change to jpg on it, have to so i can post pics on here.

 

[Burge]

All loaded up just getting Fuel for our first trip down Mevagissey in our Burstner 690g for a week