ajlelectronics
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So law apart, they can use old engine oil? How would anyone else know the difference? Asking for an anonymous friend.
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James1979
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Because it stinks and it’s easy to tell!So law apart, they can use old engine oil? How would anyone else know the difference? Asking for an anonymous friend.
Customer keeps getting grassed up to SEPA by some cranky old biddy opposite his yard.
Luckily his girlfriend works there so she gives him the heads up to run it on Kero again till the old bat pipes down.
His case isn’t helped because it’s one of the big built in workshop ones and got a flue out the roof. When he’s got old oil in it the thing smokes like a beagle.
As with all this eco-ness, you can pay money in the form of a licence to make it go away.
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They appear to run well on a 50/50 ratio of used engine oil and diesel, I watched a couple of you tube videos on that very subject last night, and if they do eventually need a de coke they’re so simple to strip down to clean the combustion area.
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Yes it would smell like a chippy from the exhaust though
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Not worth agreeing to cookies to see 
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Warm here this morning
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But at least before you mentioned it, neither was anyone mocking you.C'mon, there are limits, old chap.
Don't care
(I've been called 'Teflon John' before) 
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Not sure how you’d filter it to use it for this purpose though
Amazing how quick you get used to it - after couple of months in upstate NY, I realised I was just like my American colleagues, walking to lunch downtown with my jacket undone, no gloves sometimes a hat, in -20C. I wouldn't like to be working on metal at those temps though!Watching a programme today about an airport in Alaska, one chap was changing an engine on a DC3 outside, he commented "it's a nice day today, only -10°C I don't even need to wear gloves"
One of those same colleagues mentioned the coldest he'd ever felt was visiting his new wife's grandparents in Ireland - hovering around freezing, but damp.
I didn't get used to -30 C in Finland though - PJs under work uniform, fleece and flying jacket - 30-45 mins outside, walking, was my limit.
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Don't care
Dread to think what outfit of yours inspired that nickname.
Are we seeing a theme here?
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slim_boy_fat
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Dread to think what outfit of yours inspired that nickname.
No get-ups involved, it referred to the fact that nothing sticks.
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Before and after pictures shows our coastline vanishing into the sea
Photos of terraced houses in Birling Gap, East Sussex, show how the sea is swallowing up property after property as the cliff falls away into the channel
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Having seen -40F with frost on the car windows so thick can carve 3D figures in it, and starting a V8 on just one cylinder, then two, taking 20 minutes and a gallon of fuel to get the tranny goo fluid enough to move, I hear you about the damp in the UK at 0C.
All comes down to what you are wearing.
Bonfire night tee shirt, jumper, light jacket;
Snowmobiling from small town to town bars doing shots of Jim Beam at -30 doing 60mph up and down the the ditches, tee shirt, thermal underwear, wool liner, jumper, very thick snowmobile overalls, big difference, could easily live outside at 0C for days with that rig.
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Shoulda come for a coffee, i live less than 2 miles from the harbour
Infact i did a job in the big pink house yesterday
I hope you flushed after
I put my boiler suit on yesterday and kept it on for the rest of the day as it warmed me up nicely. That onesie looks tempting.Another reason i never felt the cold today was i was in a foul mood..2 of the lads stood in dog sh1te and it was all over the ladders,i then got it all over my handsWhy cant people pick up dog turds from there gardens,more so when they are expecting workmen
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Smear some over their bill (after they've paid) and post it through the letter box!
I used to service Karcher cabinet car washes, busiest during the winter. One very cold day I was having to thaw my hands under the inbuilt frost heater so I could grip the spanners, snow falling round me, all for minimum wage. That was the day I decided enough was enough & started looking for another job.
A few months later I was a fitter in a food factory, all inside work, no long hours driving around the country and at well over twice my previous wage!
