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  1. Bye bye Thailand, its been fun but over the last 2 years about the only that hasn't increased is my pay packet.....

    Another expat, that are here for all the right reasons sad.png You will be sadly missed by your friends outside 7-eleven. Have a safe Aeroflot flight back home! w00t.gif

    Looks like this tax increase sorts the wheat from the chaff... if so - well done Thailand ! clap2.gif

    You booked your Airoflot flight yet ? thumbsup.gif
  2. Don't know where to get it here but the product is called "Ether".

    Also - Try not to use it, it's terrible stuff for the engine, its highly volatile which is why it works so well. However you may have heard of engines getting addicted to it. That happens because the explosion takes place early (extremely advanced timing as it were) when the piston is still lower than normal and on the upward compression stroke. Combustion is so violent when compared with normal petrol / diesel fuel and timing that the resultant explosion can force the piston down with such force or even back down rocking the engine backwards, that the connecting rods can be bent ever so slightly each time it happens. Over time the con-rod gradually shortens, the piston no longer reaches as high up in the cylinder bore as before reducing the compression - this in turn adds to poor performance and poor starting issues - hence the addiction. - Source "My little head"

    I question your theory a little smile.png as diesels are built to withstand much more force than petrol engines, via 17/18-i compression ratio, and off idle the turbo increases forces a lot. Using gas to start a diesel is OK, used it decades ago on primitive diesels. thumbsup.gif
  3. Whats ''Starting Fluid'' ? smile.png

    Never lived in a cold climate, that's where I was familiar with it? wink.png Also, when I would rebuild a carburetor or engine, helps to jump start the fuel system.

    Starting fluid is sprayed into the engine intake near the air filter or into a spark plug hole of an engine to get added fuel to the combustion cylinder quickly. Using starting fluid to get the engine running faster avoids wear to starters and fatigue to your arm with pull start engines, especially on rarely used machines. Other uses include cold weather starting, vehicles that run out of fuel, and sometimes with flooded engines. Mechanics, especially amateur mechanics that lack diagnostic tools, sometimes use it to diagnose starting problems. If sprayed into the air intake on a car, it can be used to determine whether the spark and ignition system of the car is functioning and the fuel delivery system is not, since the engine will run until the starting fluid vapors in the intake system are exhausted. It is used more often with carbureted engines than with fuel injection systems. It is not recommended for starting some diesel engines that have preheat systems in the intake or glow-plugs installed as this may lead to damage to the engine.

    Source - Wiki

    Thought we were in LOS. laugh.png Phew.
  4. British ex-pat suspected of selling class 1 drugs in Pattaya

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    PATTAYA:--Immigration Police arrested a 54 Year old Englishmanon Sunday Morning, accused of possession and sale of a class 1 drug.

    Officer arrested Mr. Duncan James McGee, a well-known Pattaya ex-pat, at the conclusion of a covert operation on Pattaya Third Road opposite the now-demolished Xzyte Discotheque.

    Police state that contact was made with the suspect and it was arranged to sell a quantity of Cocaine to an undercover officer posing as a drugs buyer. During questioning, Mr. McGee claimed he would purchase the drugs from a foreign agent based in the Nana Entertainment area of Bangkok for 2,000 Baht per packet and would re-sell for between 3,000 and 4,000 Baht. On this occasion he was in possession of 9 packets of a white powder which Police tested and found to be Cocaine.

    Full story:http://www.pattayaon...-drugs-pattaya/

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    -- Pattaya One 2012-08-20

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    Must confess, his mug looks very familiar to me, and I'm not talking about LOS. ermm.gif
  5. If you are just having the exhaust pipes straight out, whether bent up-straight or down, remember when the boat is left for periods of time the exhaust pipes must be on a downward angle so rain water will not accumulate and enter the manifold/valves etc.

    This can possably be achieved with the angle of the engine on the gimble??.

    It is a great project and am looking forward to seeing pix and actual in Dec.

    Yep, point down at a slight angle or put a trap ''doors'' on, like big rigs. smile.png
  6. Kinda' funny that some people are disappointed to see more McDonalds in CM. Perhaps some people come here to get away from stuff like McDonalds.

    The reason that there are so many McDonald's is not for foreigners. It is because many Thais like to eat there. Thailand is not a theme park. People that can not put up with fast food restaurants on crowded city streets might try travel to the Antarctic. I don't think that they have any there.

    Never said the fast food restaurants were for foreigners. Same with the 7/11s. I did say that foreigners might be a little disappointed to travel half way around the world (in some cases) to see an exotic land and culture, and then see McDonalds, Burger King, Subway… everywhere. Contrary to your statement that they can go to Antarctica, they can simply go to Laos, Cambodia, or Myanmar if they don't want to see too much of the biggest cliches of their own countries already established here. I mean, it's not difficult to understand why someone wouldn't want to go all the way to Thailand to see McDonalds. Interestingly, I never saw a McDonalds in Vietnam.

    Honestly, suppose you decided to go see the pyramids. You wouldn't really want to go inside and find a Starbucks AND a McDonalds, would you? Why bother going someplace different if when you get there it's the same tired old shit that was boring you to death back home.

    Kinda' like going to Vang Vieng and watching Friends on TV all day. Why the #%@$ bother? Oh, well, yeah, of course, some are here 'cause it's cheap and they can get cheap sex. That's true. But other people are more interested in seeing the world.

    I too don't want to see too many McDonalds, mostly because it's boring. Otherwise I might as well just stay at home if I am just going to see American fast food chains and white people. That said, I do occasionally eat at said restaurants.

    Theres a McD's discretely hidden away near the entrance to the Tower of London. It is not in your face so it can be done discretely if the town planners control applications as in UK. smile.png
  7. Dated a good girl once. Boring. Lots of visiting pretentious places smiling and taking photographs. Never again.

    The normal girls are best, not too good, not too bad. Don't go looking for a good one.

    Normal girls are found everywhere that isn't a whore house, nor somewhere you must get dressed up to go.

    So your a yob. ? clap2.gif

    I went to this pub in Manchester. They had a sign at the door saying "no work clothes" but there was loads of guys in there with ties on....

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    What the sign meant was ''NO YOBS''. smile.png
  8. Dated a good girl once. Boring. Lots of visiting pretentious places smiling and taking photographs. Never again.

    The normal girls are best, not too good, not too bad. Don't go looking for a good one.

    Normal girls are found everywhere that isn't a whore house, nor somewhere you must get dressed up to go.

    So your a yob. ? clap2.gif
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