No danger of missing the tick over on my 300 tdi with straight through exhaust (previous owners work).

Wow! That takes me back. I pioneered the sand-blast kits to do this. There was a time when all you could get was acid-etch kits in car-accessory shops; I smile, in those days, even car-polish had 'turbo' on the bottle.

As a school-boy I'd had tin-pot businesses. This was my first 'real' business. I was sat in a pub back in the late 70s looking at the 'Pint-mark' on my glass,  saw it was sand-balsted. Got to thinking.
 I used aluminium-oxide to blast via compressed-air thru' a stencil.   Started a business selling the kits, sold to insurance companies, the police and windscreen replacement outfits. They were hard to sell to.

Most sales  were via an ad in the 'Business-Opportunities' next to those selling Jacket-potato and hot-dog carts

Bought my first house at 21, had it paid for by 23 with that.

Now.. here's the irony. I've got some kits in the garage now,  not looked at them for 30 years.

Good evening all.
Just a quick note to introduce myself as the newbie James has been helping this past week!  Still to find my trucks engine number but haven't had a moment to myself this week.
Looking forward to meeting club members in time to come and knowing more about my S2a in due course.
KR Neil

I put on the original post.

The RETAINAGROUP scheme is secure and confidential and is backed by law enforcement agencies, who have instant 24/7 access to the International Security Register (ISR)

I suppose you get what you pay for.

Sweated more blood today and managed to load and move 4 engines to my store. Then sweated more blood off loading them.

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1 military grade reconditioned engine still in preservation state, 1 reconditioned civilian engine, 1 normal 24V military engine and a rather nice late Series 3 5Mb engine with 24 Volt electrics. Nice haul...

Just wondered.

Many thanks for all of that Alan.
Graham.

Back in the day the Police Crime Prevention team set up tents in supermarket car parks and did etchings for free!

Following on from that you could get a SmartWater kit and "paint" various components with the liquid as another level of protection. S2C members used to get a discount on the kits


 

Sorted out the recalcitrant sticking cheap and 'orrible placcy brake light switch plunger with a spray of silicone oil.
I'm fairly sure I've got a spare somewhere so will start a search for it.

Wasn't aware that there was a club discount available. Nothing on the website members section