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They photograph them with filters to get that look though don’t they.

I’ve read a lot of comments justifying the design of the new LR Defender against crash standards and safety regulations, and its construction against modern standards and what the market wants - effectively not admitting that they’ve renounced utility to build a luxury car .... and asserting that what they built was the ultimate modern 4x4 - I think we are about to see that that is all nonsense. This is looking every bit the modernised Defender to me so far; with intelligent supply chain and profit margins, substance over style and utility at its core - and all that that means, and all done whilst having the same beam axle and separate chassis design, plus boxy iconic exterior styling. What do they say? The King is Dead - long live the king !.

It does look tidy 😊 What is supporting that plate the airbox sits on? I can see the folds following the line of bulkhead - but is there anything bracing the horizontal platform back to the bulkhead?

That curved front edge of the wing is a bit like the series 1 - he likes those, so I bet it’s a conscious choice?

Let’s get one up and move all the topics we have on it in there 😀

They are unveiling it on the 1st of July 😀

There’s a lot of work in those wine racks ! Are they for restaurant tables ?

I think it’s an enormous difference - especially if you fit the TLS fronts. There are people in the Series 1 club who have done that (servo and TLS) and taken it off again saying it was too much for such a short light thing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53190209

The bottom line is that car accidents don’t appear to be contagious.

What’s different here is the potential - Spanish flu killed 50 million people in the 20’s when next to no measures were taken. So I think 0.006% is due to the measures taken to reduce that impact. We’ll possibly never know what it may have been. Somehow I can’t believe the car accident stats are comparable - if 1 in 240 people died in a car accident every year, that would be 1 in 240 people from 75 per cent of all adults aged 17 and over in England (an estimated 33.6 million people) who held a full car driving licence in 2018. So do we really have (is it?) 140,000 people dying in RTA’s a year ? (If it is that period).

(That was great 👍🏻) quite cathartic this ...

Helped you out there Bowie.

Hmm I made a joke about his manner on it - he took it as an attack - I apologised on here - and the mods must have deleted it all. So I pinged a message over to make sure he saw that I apologised - it’s been read but no reply. Perhaps there is no interest in engaging with people 🤷🏻‍♂️

I vouch for them too.

That was them !! I remember mine wearing down quickly - but whilst they were noisy, they weren’t as bad as yours sound. I don’t think you’ll go wrong with them - they are an excellent road biased tyre, good on everything except mud in my experience, and (to soften the price) they last for a very very long time. I think I got about 50k miles off a set.

There was a copy of them I think - pretty sure I had some .. 🤔

Great info here. Thank you @David Sparkes and @SteveG Steve - how do you vent the duct that your fan runs in?

Thanks David. The stuff that came with the pot had said blast at as low a pressure as you can - and aim for between 15 -50 psi. My experience matched your suggestion though - so that’s encouraging. The Hoover is sucking through a filter - the one that came on the cabinet - but throughput makes a lot of sense. The hoover is an old ‘drag along dyson’ - so would hopefully survive sucking in airborne media. The bottom fills up quite quickly - so on this cabinet I couldn’t put the suction below the mesh - and it’d end up buried quite quickly, but I could easily put it low down on the opposite side to the filtered inlet I’ve been using to hoover from. The dust reduction I mentioned above was simply from having less media flying flying about in there.

Where shoddy bodywork is seen as character ?

Love that card 🙂

I’ve had a day trying to get my set up working for the first time. I’ve a 3hp compressor, a small blast cabinet I have made a pair of legs for, and a blast pot. I’m running Archifine in the blast pot at anywhere between 20 and 50 psi - and have found it hard to get it working well. The hose with the pot, that I routed into the cabinet is too stiff to flex in a confined space. So I’m looking for a replacement for that. I need a lot more light ! The plan for that is to buy a cheap 12v LED light bar and put that in the cabinet. My Hoover was doing a great job pulling through a shrouded filter in the cabinet - and keeping the dust down - until it stopped working. I’m hoping that’s just the thermal protection in it because it had been running for so long. Getting the metering and flow right wasn’t easy - I ended up on the smallest nozzle, the air on full, and the metering valve not fully open. That helped control the amount of media coming out and slowed the dust down a bit too. The layer of film over the window was a bit of a disaster - media got behind it at one point and I couldn’t see anything, so I pulled it off. I’ll need to replace that and read somewhere that florists film is a good cheap replacement. So - I’ve had some positive results and some struggles. I found it worked great when direct on metal - but a couple of parts had a layer of baked on grime on them and it didn’t want to shift that - however picking that away with a sharp implement and then blasting brought some good results. So I need a more flexible hose, lots better lighting, a better hose, and hopefully not a new hoover.

Yes same here - they said if I took the bits in they’d replace them. I’ve been meaning to do it for a couple of years now ....

Beautiful 90. I think this is a Pivlock copy ... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271811244906

Great news !