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| Thread ID: 86152 | 2008-01-06 03:58:00 | Old car window winder handle | chicken one (6501) | PC World Chat |
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| 627814 | 2008-01-10 04:00:00 | A bandicoot is a small Australian animal that is good at pinching potatoes from gardens, so if a vegetable grower saw that a few metres of potato had been mysteriously dug during the night, the mischief would be sarcastically blamed on bandicoots. A nocturnal harvester near us found that the name on his rural mail box had been replaced with "A. B. Bandicoot". Anybody suspected of pilfering could be similarly re-named, and petty theft or re-location of items was called bandicooting. If something moved from it's traditional location, it was said to have been bandicooted. It was a common enough expression where I lived in the '40's, but it seems to have become almost extinct now. A bit like the original animal. What a shame the person who left your new window mechanism out in the weather did not have the courtesy to make it an electric window. Have fun with your bus, but don't leave it too long to arrange a mortgage for a fuel filling otherwise the (rumoured) falling house prices and the rising fuel prices may cross while you are not looking. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 627815 | 2008-01-10 09:00:00 | A bandicoot is a small Australian animal that is good at pinching potatoes from gardens, so if a vegetable grower saw that a few metres of potato had been mysteriously dug during the night, the mischief would be sarcastically blamed on bandicoots. A nocturnal harvester near us found that the name on his rural mail box had been replaced with "A. B. Bandicoot". Anybody suspected of pilfering could be similarly re-named, and petty theft or re-location of items was called bandicooting. If something moved from it's traditional location, it was said to have been bandicooted. It was a common enough expression where I lived in the '40's, but it seems to have become almost extinct now. A bit like the original animal. What a shame the person who left your new window mechanism out in the weather did not have the courtesy to make it an electric window. Have fun with your bus, but don't leave it too long to arrange a mortgage for a fuel filling otherwise the (rumoured) falling house prices and the rising fuel prices may cross while you are not looking. The numbnut put the pax seat too close to the window. The window winder couldnt be used so it rusted up. Bus cheap to run less than 100 litres diesel from Amberly to Auckland its got a 3.6 litre 4 cylinder runs on the smell of an oily rag. I use my company fuel card so fuel free only taxpayer misses out. Dont care how much fuel cost I just pass it onto customers rate now 1.50 per km for call out. |
chicken one (6501) | ||
| 627816 | 2008-01-24 04:27:00 | A possible cunning plan. You have already remade a set of window guides out of more modern jap parts so why not do the same for the winder. Or go one better and fit electric windows. Otherwise old Holdens ie HQ and older also used the 1/4 square drive on the windows |
geeves (13252) | ||
| 627817 | 2008-01-24 06:24:00 | A possible cunning plan. You have already remade a set of window guides out of more modern jap parts so why not do the same for the winder. Or go one better and fit electric windows. Otherwise old Holdens ie HQ and older also used the 1/4 square drive on the windows Thanks for advice but got handle from Ford ten club in Swanson its off a 1951 Prefect C1 |
chicken one (6501) | ||
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