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I recognize the engine, but what is the bellhousing and gearbox?
Location: State of Washington, USA
Location: NW Devon
The photos on here are all just links. Just a special kind of link to tell the forum software it's an image. They don't have to be on photobucket, they just need to be online.
If you can get the address of the image (on Windows in the Chrome browser right click and select 'copy image address') and then past that into a new browser tab to see the image you can post the link here.
When you add it in here you just put \[img\] before and \[/img\] after the link like this.
\[img\]http://austinharris.co.uk/sites/austinharris.co.uk/files/styles/fullsize_lat/public/Shelsley-1928-Riley.jpg?itok=BRIwqjFK\[/img\]
That then displays this:
It's a problem with modern software that they keep changing the design so any instructions are quickly out of date. When I was in software we used to joke that was the fault of the UI (user interface) designers. People then cottoned onto the fact that UI people would often change things for the sake of change so they then changed their own name to be UX (user experience) to try to hide this fact!
This is also why stuff becomes obsolete so quickly now. The software allows changes to be made so fast so everything changes. You don't now get a gearbox designed 50 years ago with little change. You get one slightly different every time they update the cars.
Worse are cars with software in them (pretty much every car designed today). That will be un-maintainable in years to come. The software is all what we call 'closed source'. So only the manufacturers know how it works. And they don't like to say (especially VW!).
It is getting even worse. With all the messed up copyright laws (see the DMCA) it is illegal in some places to even try to work out how the software works. See the John Deere tractors issue to learn about this (http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/).
Electric cars will make this even worse since they are all controlled by software.
Personally I don't trust any car with a computer in it and will stick to my old, purely mechanical ones!
Simon
Location: Wellington
Dennis. How have you got on with the rear brake shoe issue?
Looking at the photos, I wondered if you had thought about stiffening the chassis by making the engine more of a structural component since it isn't as likely to crack as a 7 engine block.
Location: Cardiff
Location: NW Devon
Dennis - just noticed the Nippy remains! Out of interest, have you got any memory of things like the body number stamp on transmission tunnel (or indeed scrapped chassis number) from it, as its all useful for records despite being "gone"!
It also has interesting folding screen conversion on (does it look converted?) that would be interesting to have pics of for the Nippy/65 archive...
Simon
Not sure how i will get my pictures "on line".
Main computer with all pictures I have is using XP and I use firefox as browser.
The other is laptop Apple MacBook Air using Apple OSx and their browser " SAFARI.
I have become very disillusioned with MS and their windows.....a typical con to get your cash every time you upgrade the Operating System and even then no guarantee it works properly according to many I have spoken to.
The Apple Operating System gets upgraded FREE of charge as it comes out and I am now on about the third upgrade.
Obviously the drawback is learning the different terminology and way of doing things.......I am getting there! I wish I had started out with Apple in the beginning.
Agree with your thoughts on electronically controlled cars and fixing difficulties.
I have a lifetime as electronics engineer at sea in communications and all other electronic ship equipment including a large range of military electronics and am used to fault finding down to component level (resistors/capacitors/valves....then transistors....then chips and finally just boxes) Many very expensive equipments had built in fault indicating circuits..........they were not very good and to cure them most faults required deep knowledge of how it worked and the circuit info..diagrams and makers explanation. When even the car manufacturers sometimes can't cure their own fault what hope is there for the rest of us??
Good thing is that modern cars are so relatively cheep and you do not really have to lavish too much care and attention on them because they are not going to be long term and just lose their value whatever you do. ....future maintenance....not possible as spares are removed once car deemed obsolete.
As to automatic driverless cars, I shudder at the thought. I believe that the "they are safer than human drivers" statement just accepts that there are going to be lives lost due to electronic faults and- tough on the victims.
My Skoda Yeti at 34,000 miles with 1.2 (VW) engine has just had a new engine (paid for by Skoda UK (and probably VW) due to a timing chain too week design fault 2009 to 2012....kept quiet by them..... so stretch and slip on cogs so trashed internals....I am glad I was not doing 70 on the motorway with potential lock up and disaster that could have caused.
Is there really no little program that can be added to this website so we can just "attach" a photo/file the way you can on an email......i.e. click on " attach" then browse your computer or wherever, select item and click open or what ever the instruction is and bingo it is attached and often even appears in full before you send.
Dennis
Location: NW Devon
Location: NW Devon
Hi Dennis, as far as I know there is nothing like you suggest for this forum to add pictures. It only accepts links to them.
I am not sure the best way for you to get your photos online using a Mac. I am an Windows person so I have no idea when it comes to Apple software! I am not sure if there is a standard Apple online photo storage app but someone on here might know?
The software in autonomous cars will be interesting to say the least. My background is in software and software testing and I wouldn't want anything to do with them!
Simon
Location: Wellington
Hi Dennis,
I'm a long term Apple Mac user - since the mid 1980's and have no problem posting photos to this site. You need to follow the instructions described in the second topic down on the index page - "Posting photos on the Forum".
I simply upload photos from my Mac to my Photobucket album then choosing 'SHARE', copy & paste the image link onto this site remembering to change both sets of IMG caps to lower case img
Jeff.
Location: Almost but not quite, the far North East of England
Jeff - thanks for thatinfo. Will email you separately to save cluttering up this thread.
Location: NW Devon