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Friday: drop the cooked engine out of the bini this morning then a meeting with the accountants in the afternoon.... Exciting stuff
Saturday: spend what will probably be all day cutting up steel for a footbridge I'm making
Sunday: day off!
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friday: work then sailing club meeting
saturday: painting at the sailing club, 24v c5 work, saab fixing, 306 fixing
sunday: painting at the sailing club, 24v c5 work, saab fixing, 306 fixing
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today: 'work', well college until 12. Then go to High peak to hopefully buy a 206hdi
tomorrow: grease sliders on 330's front brakes, mess with the 206 if i have it
sunday: have no idea lol
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Friday - Work in Nottingham hopefully have an early finish. Takeaway and Big Bang later.
Saturday - Sort holiday clothes art.
Sunday - Mundane tasks. Food shop ect.
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Friday - finish work early, walk dog. Mrs is changing jobs so she's out on a last meal with her old work colleagues so I'm having beer and pizza for tea and watching something on tv
Saturday - dog walking, then having dinner with my dear old mum as my dad is away, then mundane tasks all afternoon.
Sunday - working
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Saturday - Cleaning both cars inside and out - Golf and GTi6
Sunday - Tidying the shed, neatening up the GTi6's interior and trying to figure out how to fit my oil cooler
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Friday - machine polishing the new daily to death as part of its winter prep and because it's new (to me) and swirly....out for lunch with my mate next door then need to nip to the scrappy to get some oem speaker connectors for the mondeo.
Saturday - finishing machine polishing, then glaze, seal and wax said new daily. Oh,and sell old Mondeo and hopefully watch Leicester best Chelsea
Sunday - probably complain a lot that my shoulders and arms hurt from all the machine polishing. Sit on my arse, drink cider and pack for week away to east coast for half term with the family.
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Nothing special Tom. A diesel Insignia. I'm doing 70 miles a day to work and back and an old thirsty V6 Mondeo just doesn't cut it anymore.
59 plate, 61k, full history. Neighbour sold it to me cheap at £4k. Does 50mpg on the work run. I'm happy!
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Solid daily mate. I know all about long commutes I've been driving to Hinckley from Grantham every day for last 3 months! Thankfully I'm back at Peterborough now!
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Ooooof. Thats not a nice drive at all!
She's starting to look pretty good after a polish....
Been working on technique and starting to get a serious amount of gloss out of the paint as well as getting about 95% correction....
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Today: Work then home. Missus is off out with her friend for the evening and I'm on cab duty. Cleaned the house and slobbed on the sofa awaiting the drunken phone call to collect two drunk girls....
Tomorrow: Work at 8am for an hour and then pop round to see my nan for a cup of tea. Nothing after that!
Sunday: Go to collect a fridge, chill out
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It's as much about technique as it is kit....
I use a Flex VRG machine. It's a direct drive DA. Power of a rotary, safety of a DA.
Get some decent compounds and pads. I use Menzerna compounds and Lake Country pads. I had a DAS6 to start with and had good results with CG Hexlogic pads and Menzerna compounds.
Again, it's as much about technique as anything. Find the right pad/compounds combo for your paint and the machine just makes it easy.
Get yourself onto Detailing World.........so much info on there!
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