We bought, we tried, we returned as it was complete poop.

[PMCG]

New one of those ordered, here tomorrow so will see if this one is any better.

[Petowner]

Bob, is that the same Rotax as the spiffing bike/kart engines ?



UH

No shouldn't think so , probably bought the name .
Rotax made car parts & aeroplane parts ,part of Lucas group , Large factory on Hemels major industrial estate of the time , think it took major hit when Buncefield oil \petro chemical plant blew up over Christmas break about 10 years ago.
Part of our training was an hours football (they had their own sports ground ) every morning , exercises in pavilion during winter (NOT so good old days) .
There was initiation routine for first years , involved lots of Swarfega\ barrier cream etc and removal of shorts after football, carried out by the second years , backs were turned by instructors . GOOD OLD DAYS!

We did EITB training with day and half college (City & Guilds) three years , l wanted to do electrics , did the first year electrical bias then Rotax said they wouldn't need anyone in a couple of years , so did turning & grinding .

Bob

[John A. Ross]

Apprentice initiation Bob a culural hertitage and right of passage frowned upon now and a ritual long since lost.

Pat you ever wonder why Findlay hardly had any hair all his days, that was when he started at SMT and the fellas reckoned body filler was the next big thing in hair gel, you dont want to know what they did with the seam sealer......... cleanup was wash bay outside the offices scrubbing brush and thinners....

[Petowner]

Yeah we were the worms that turned that particular year , we got more second years than they got us first years .

Sorry no pictures , didn't have availability of mobiles cameras back in the 60s-70s Maybe just as well !

[John A. Ross]

Sorry no pictures , didn't have availability of mobiles cameras back in the 60s-70s Maybe just as well !

Can you imagine Bob what they would show back them without the current snowflake culture we have been thrown into.

[Petowner]

Thrown into That's how the Swarfega and barrier cream was applied

[PMCG]

New one arrived, LR44 battery flat at 0.6V.

New battery fitted and seems to measure ok.

[John A. Ross]

Rest on end stop, set to zero, press red lever back all way, let it go back to rest, do 3 times, I got 3 different readings, if you touch the red lever and move it froward or back when holding it changed reading

[PMCG]

[John A. Ross]

Can measure PCB and discs now ou tried it gently not doing the "snap"

[Uncle Henry]

So its shite then and a waste of £25.

AG

[PMCG]

Can measure PCB and discs now ou tried it gently not doing the "snap"

Yes, seems ok.

[John A. Ross]

Andy

£14

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07S68X96D/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Uncle Henry]

And you're surprised its not very reliable ? Give me spinach

UH

[John A. Ross]

I am a optimist Andy Pat has one that seems to work, but then again I simply have no luck at all

Gotta just keep plodding away, even against the odds !