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| 1081.1 | I can probably find the phone number if necessary | IOSG::MITCHELL | Elaine | Tue May 22 1990 17:31 | 5 |
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Try Bracknell College, they do all sorts of practical courses (that's
where I did my welding)
Elaine
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| 1081.2 | Buy some spanners, open the bonnet, and dive in! | IOSG::MARSHALL | I have a cunning plan... | Tue May 22 1990 18:26 | 12 |
| I learnt most of what I know about car mechanics by buying a tool kit and the
relevant Haynes manual and just getting on with it. That's OK if your car is
old or not worth much, but maybe not the best idea for newer cars, as to start
with you might accidentally adjust something the wrong way and make things
worse. Also newer cars have all sorts of nasty wires under the bonnet, and
lack contact points and carburettors and other nice things, which makes DIY
repairs a little harder.
College evening classes could be the best idea. Bracknell's the nearest I can
think of; if they're no good, Slough or Langley would be worth a try.
Scott
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| 1081.3 | | VOGON::ATWAL | Dreams, they complicate my life | Tue May 22 1990 18:46 | 14 |
| thanks both; i'll give the bracnell college a ring, may also pop into the
library tomorrow (anyone know where that is in reading?) to see if they have
any info...
couldn't cope with touching things under the bonnet of my car-far too many tubes
and wires there...
really want to do the course so that i'd feel competant enough to build a
caterham 7 well
cheers...
...art
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| 1081.4 | How to get to Reading library | IOSG::MARSHALL | I have a cunning plan... | Tue May 22 1990 19:11 | 6 |
| From Broad Street, standing with your back to Heelas, turn right. Keep going,
straight across at the lights by Jackson's Corner. Library is a modern
building a few yards further along on the left. It's opposite the new
Blackwell's bookshop.
Scott
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| 1081.5 | Buy a wreck, and take it to pieces for fun! :-) | IOSG::MITCHELL | Elaine | Tue May 22 1990 20:11 | 15 |
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>>really want to do the course so that i'd feel competant enough to build a
>>caterham 7 well
Most of the courses I've heard about are very limited in their scope - and
I would be surprised if they would give you the type of training you
are hoping for. I would say that much of the expertise you will need is
not of the "maintainance" type, but of the "how hard can I hit this
before I'm going to break something" type, or what to do when the
manual says "undo the six bolds and remove X" and bold number 6 (the
inaccessible one at the back) refuses to budge. This obviously doesn't
apply if you're building from all new parts, but will be important if
you've got to dismantle a donor vehicle.
Elaine
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| 1081.6 | Educated at the University of Life | RUTILE::SMITH_A | No-one puts baby in the corner | Wed May 23 1990 17:22 | 16 |
| My mates and I used to go over to the scrap yards and find the same
type of car as the one we were working on or on planning on working on
and then dismantle it !
We did actually put things back together sometimes too, but we were
very lucky in that the scrap-yard was a 'wrecker' rather than a
'dismantler'. So the cars in there used to hang around until he
thought he couldn't sell any more off of it, then straight into
the crusher. So I think he used to turn a blind eye when we dismantled
a the front suspension of something to get the window winders we
'wanted'.
Lovely way to spend a Sunday. Brilliant way to learn how cars are
put together.
T
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| 1081.7 | | ANNECY::MATTHEWS | M+M Enterprises. Thats the CATCH | Wed May 23 1990 17:53 | 9 |
| re: .6
But ALWAYS make sure to work on the car near the top of the heap.
Trying to get anything off the one at the bottom, which has no wheels
and is already dissappearing into the mud is no joke.
The way luck has it, the one I want is always the one at the bottom
Mark
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