Amal needles and needle jets .

I thought that the punishment of a spoonful of castor oil was something that only happened in “The Beano” !!
 
baz said:
Dunno
But I accidentally drank some R40 once!!
True story 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Ok… I’ll bite… how the f*ck did that happen ??

I can’t talk mind… I once accidentally drank some used cooking oil. It is not something I’d recommend…
 
ashman said:
Castor oil is banned in my house, when we were kids if we played up or got into trouble the one punishment we all hated was a dose of Castor oil on a large spoon and if you chucked it up you got another dosing, fark I can still taste that castor oil just talking about it so when my wife had babies she said castor oil is good for cradle cap that babies sometime suffer and I told her if she bring castor oil in this house she be shown the door + a few other word that I can't repeat here, some of the bad punishments that we endured when growing up, maybe should be brought back in the way some kid of today need, at lease when we were kids we respected our folks/parents more.
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Hi Ash , I remember, my mum buying some stuff (regularly) called Lanes emulsion, it was bought from door to door salesmen the brand was Rawleighs Healthcare since 1889 , it was a pearl cream colour , apparently had some cod liver oil in it , we got a dose of that now and then , it wasn't horrible but really unusual 😊 here's a link to the brand ,my mum was from Salisbury England, Stonehenge.
Lane's Emulsion - Wikipedia https://share.google/QhR2d2qBgJa1cgctc
 
Fast Eddie said:
Ok… I’ll bite… how the f*ck did that happen ??

I can’t talk mind… I once accidentally drank some used cooking oil. It is not something I’d recommend…
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I was at a party back in the early 80s in shepton Mallet zummerzet
It was in a barn next to a farm house and we'd already had a few drinks at the local before we arrived
My mate handed me this glass beer tankard and I poured a can of beer in and started drinking
As I got near the bottom of the glass the beer was getting thicker
With that the owner of the farm walked through and said " where tha bluuddy ell you get that glass" " thas wat I use to my oyl up on my byke and thas running on Rrrrr " my mate was pissing himself laughing
I tilted the glass up and watched it slowly moving across the bottom like a lava lamp !
 
baz said:
I was at a party back in the early 80s in shepton Mallet zummerzet
It was in a barn next to a farm house and we'd already had a few drinks at the local before we arrived
My mate handed me this glass beer tankard and I poured a can of beer in and started drinking
As I got near the bottom of the glass the beer was getting thicker
With that the owner of the farm walked through and said " where tha bluuddy ell you get that glass" " thas wat I use to my oyl up on my byke and thas running on Rrrrr " my mate was pissing himself laughing
I tilted the glass up and watched it slowly moving across the bottom like a lava lamp !
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Funnily enough, my used cooking oil consumption story also revolves around alcohol !
 
Apparently in the old, old days a dose of castor oil weekly was the norm to keep your healthy inside (so they recon), in my days it was used for punishment and it taste terrible, a taste you never forget and hard to keep down, we learned to take the whole spoon as if you brought it up you got a double dose, but it was hard keeping it down, but having a double dose was even worst and the spoon was the biggest pudding spoon in the draw, just the smell of it or think about it makes me want to throw up.
Triton Thrasher said:
Of all my accidentally drunk workshop supplies, I think brake fluid tasted the worst.
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What we do when we are drunk, I remember one day when we were young and silly we were hanging out for a drink and we had no money my mate at the time had old empty Bundy rum bottles all round his rooms so we were trying to get the dregs out of all the bottles just to get a mouth full but as we were empty them my mate said he use one bottle to bleed his brakes, well come the time to drink our mouth full all we could taste was brake fluid.
 
baz said:
By accident or a dare? 🤔🤣🤣🤣
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Ha! Good question…

By accident.

Remember when folk used to buy large plastic bottles of ‘cordial’ ie syrup to make diluted juice drinks?

Well, my parents used to when I was a teenager.

They also used to use empty ones to put used chip pan oil in before binning it.

The rest you can guess… too drunk to notice, I guzzled down a mix of old chip pan oil and water… was on my second glass before I noticed too… 🤮
 
Fast Eddie said:
Ha! Good question…

By accident.

Remember when folk used to buy large plastic bottles of ‘cordial’ ie syrup to make diluted juice drinks?

Well, my parents used to when I was a teenager.

They also used to use empty ones to put used chip pan oil in before binning it.

The rest you can guess… too drunk to notice, I guzzled down a mix of old chip pan oil and water… was on my second glass before I noticed too… 🤮
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All these young kids who say that don't touch alcohol - they don't know what they are missing! What sort of tales are they going to tell of their wild youth? It's going to be a touch boring methinks!
Actually, it's amazing what one managed to get away with when young and drunk - there must be a god watching over young drunk fools!
 
Well I don't know where this thread got derailed, maybe change the topic?:cool: When I was in high school, 48 years ago, 1970's the drinking age was 18yo. I graduated when I was 17yo. When we were 16yo we all had fake ID's. A friend's father had the contract to print the blank ID's for the County. He gave me a stack of them. I would tell my friends to go to the local K Mart to the photo booth and get a head shot. After they provided that, my GF would type up the card, and I would laminate it. You were good to go to most pubs/bars. You could go out to lunch in Highschool, go to a bar, and have a few beers, a sandwich, then go back to school if you chose to do so. Drinking and driving was as common as wiping your ass. If the MAN was behind you with lights flashing, you were typically throwing bottles and weed out the window, only to be picked up the next day. I got busted once, two blocks from home, the cop called me an asshole, took my keys and told me to walk home. It's not like that today. The drinking age was raised back to 21yo in 1983. Oh well, a point in history. And yes, I could tell you plenty of stories. Nowadays weed is legal, pot shop on every corner. WTF?
 
NORTSTER1974 said:
Well I don't know where this thread got derailed, maybe change the topic?:cool: When I was in high school, 48 years ago, 1970's the drinking age was 18yo. I graduated when I was 17yo. When we were 16yo we all had fake ID's. A friend's father had the contract to print the blank ID's for the County. He gave me a stack of them. I would tell my friends to go to the local K Mart to the photo booth and get a head shot. After they provided that, my GF would type up the card, and I would laminate it. You were good to go to most pubs/bars. You could go out to lunch in Highschool, go to a bar, and have a few beers, a sandwich, then go back to school if you chose to do so. Drinking and driving was as common as wiping your ass. If the MAN was behind you with lights flashing, you were typically throwing bottles and weed out the window, only to be picked up the next day. I got busted once, two blocks from home, the cop called me an asshole, took my keys and told me to walk home. It's not like that today. The drinking age was raised back to 21yo in 1983. Oh well, a point in history. And yes, I could tell you plenty of stories. Nowadays weed is legal, pot shop on every corner. WTF?
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got my fake ID from a small ad in the back of CycleGuide magazine. Beer shall not be denied...
 
Back to the subject of drinking nasty stuff.......Four of us were driving to the Shore/beach to LBI on Route 72, One way in and one way out. @ Richard Tool. On the way in, traffic jam as usual. We were all drinking beer... routine. Some of us jumped out of the car to take a leak. The driver decided he would piss in an empty beer bottle. Somewhere down the road he said" I better throw this thing out" before I drink it. Well I'm sure you can guess what happened, he threw out the wrong bottle. It was funny watching him take a sip and spitting it all over the dashboard. We all had a good laugh.
 
I believe in teaching kids how to think and not punishing them. My father was a soldier during WW2, and when I was in high school , we had 6 o'clock closing in Australia. So I have never smoked, and I did not drink alcohol until I had finished my first diploma at age 29. My father only ever hit one of us - it was my brother. 3 of us slept in the same room, but Jim was still awake and could not get to sleep - he yelled 'stop breathing',so my father hit him. I have come to blows with my father - nobody should try to kill their relatives. If he had ever really punched me, I would be dead, He was all kid's stakes. He probably could not fight his way out of a wet paper bag. It was funny when he got a job behind the bar in a pub and found out what it was like to cop that bullshit. I like bullies - I usually immediately challenge them to a fist fight.
 
acotrel said:
I believe in teaching kids how to think and not punishing them. My father was a soldier during WW2, and when I was in high school , we had 6 o'clock closing in Australia. So I have never smoked, and I did not drink alcohol until I had finished my first diploma at age 29. My father only ever hit one of us - it was my brother. 3 of us slept in the same room, but Jim was still awake and could not get to sleep - he yelled 'stop breathing',so my father hit him. I have come to blows with my father - nobody should try to kill their relatives. If he had ever really punched me, I would be dead, He was all kid's stakes. He probably could not fight his way out of a wet paper bag. It was funny when he got a job behind the bar in a pub and found out what it was like to cop that bullshit. I like bullies - I usually immediately challenge them to a fist fight.
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Erm ?
 
Well after all this Amal discussion :) I looked up the correct needle for my 750 but initially I got the wrong needle for the 932 , and then i found the Norton commando specific 4 ring 3 groove needles, the needles in the carbs were 2 ring ! , they have much more taper , yesterday I fitted them and it is a lot leaner than how it was , I expect my mpg to increase a lot , seems to ride ok , obviously if you wack the throttle open it has a dead spot, but normal throttle revving is ok , I've put them on the standard middle groove , done a 70mph run and killed it to look at the plugs , ngk 6 , insulator looks clean to the bottom ? , although some more magnification would be beneficial to see if there is a slight ring at the bottom , winter here at the moment , so a lot cooler , any thoughts , I could lift the needle and or go to the std ngk 7 heat range . Cheers
 
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