Dead K1200s

Try "jumping" the dead battery with another while the dead one is attached
to the Optimate. It can fool the Optimate into thinking it's got something
to work with and when the "jumper" is removed, the Optimate keeps on
charging.

 

something said in another place reminded me that Halfords sell bike
batteries - you can get a Bosch/Varta MF battery from them for the
same price as the Dynavolt. You can check stock, reserve and collect
from store
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/...uctId_264175_langId_-1_categoryId_165697#dtab

 

OK ta.

 

Fucking hell. Even I throw them away. These days.

My old Dad, otoh, used to keep Lucas sealed-beam headlamps that had
popped a filament - for years. **** knows why, or what possible use he
had in mind for them.

 

The ones my dad kept came in handy for when we went rabbiting over the
fields with an old Moggy Minor pick-up. 12V car battery on the floor of
the pick-up bed and you hold the sealed beam unit in hands and shine
into the rabbits eyes while your mate lets loose with his 12 bore. He
holds the light for you to take your go at the next one, then swop with
the driver for his turn.

 

Sometimes I use a single 50W filament as the load to test the exact point a
set of points open, plenty of "wetting" current and a visual indicaton of
open/closed condition.

They also make good dummy loads for testing/excercising batteries.

 

Must have been a PITA picking the shot out.

Ferrets are what you want for rabbit hunting.

 

Lamping with air rifle.

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..22 with silencer. Accurate and doesn't scare everything for 5 miles.

 

Yep, but need an FAC. A pneumatic .22 air rifle can be supressed quite
nicely though.

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[snip]

I ordered a battery from Tayna on Tues for delivery today. All was fine
until I idly looked on the UK Mail order tracking web site to find that
UK Mail had given my order to someone else. So that's a whole day sat at
home waiting for nothing. As I type I am waiting for the bod at UK Mail
to call back and try to explain his way out of this. It doesn't seem to
bother UK Mail that an item addressed to me can be signed for by a bloke
called Allen some 40+ miles away.

It's at times like this I wish I had the eloquence of Nige.