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A quick google says zinc melts at 420degC, Bronze 950 Brass ~900, so would that be OK being dipped?

I've tried DIY nickel & zinc electroplating and that seems to work quite nicely, considering sourcing a 200L drum or old bathtub to do some larger pieces if I ever get around to it.

On the ins & outs of the safety implications I would just re-iterate the golden rule that if you DO decide to give it a go, you must film it and post the result here

I'm not sure the RR is using hub motors, just using 2 motors per end mounted "traditionally" - a bit like the top end Cybertruck does, you can see it in the teardown here:

Although it's not to everyone's taste it's nice that the thing is so understated to look at compared to most of the hideous stuff on the market right now with a million angles and creases and swoops and other nonsense. I feel like this will age better than most.

Willing to bet if you needed a few one of the smaller spring manufacturers would be willing & able... I did have some catalogues somewhere from Southern Manufacturing Show.

Well now I can't remember which one I fitted to the 109 but it's definitely one of those two Edit - this one: And it fits this gear and works:

It does add cost, complexity, points of failure, and weight though... I just stick temperature telltale indicator labels around my vehicles and if anything ever shows it's got too hot I'll consider adding cooling - so far nothing ever has.

I saw the videos from the airport - also the one of some idiot floating a Porsche Panamera through the floods, sure that won't develop any electrical gremlins in future At least you knew where your air intake is, most folks just seem to plough straight into 3' of water and act surprised when they get washed away or the engine explodes

This feels like conflating using the wrong oil with just using fresh / better quality oil of the correct type... Most mechanical things will work for a quite a while with the wrong oil but unless you're sending oil samples off for analysis you won't know if you're knocking years off the life of it until, well, years down the line...

My neighbour once showed me a very long video from inside his Peugeot estate driving up a gravel track because he'd seen my 109 so knew I was into "off-roading"

I'm a big fan of magnetic drain plugs - especially Nige's insanely strong ones - for gearboxes and anything else with a drain plug frankly.

I don't think there's a single inch of my workshop that's as clean as that

Decoder tool says: Screw, Flanged?, thread Metric coarse (std.) M8, length 25mm, finish Zinc passivated (BZP) In case anyone was wondering

Willing to bet there's a lot of trucks running round on the original brake fluid out there... surprising how much better the pedal gets when you replace it with new after 20 years though!