John Howe Posted September 28, 2003 Share Posted September 28, 2003 ... but what an interesting can of worms - possible Fortnums & Masons? JH Deliveries by Saffron, the yellow 222bhp Sausage delivery machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team SLR No.77 Posted September 29, 2003 Leadership Team Share Posted September 29, 2003 ........ or ASDA, but of course the choice is the buyers 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFA Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 What about Poundstretcher? Fat Arn Visit the K2 RUM website See the Lotus Seven Club 4 Counties Area Website here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team SLR No.77 Posted September 29, 2003 Leadership Team Share Posted September 29, 2003 Yes of course, we can all see that was another totally unbiased, balanced, unpredictable view point. Not. I think Arnie & Co., that you believe that if you shout loudest and longest, everyone will listen. Wrong. We appreciate choice, and choice is what we are being given. Commendation to everyone involved in the manufacture and / or provision of the afformentioned components - whichever market you may be aiming at. But as rightfully stated by numerous already on this thread alone, dont decry the competition for making a "different" product. It is possible to find fault with all carbon products on the matket, including the ones claiming to be the best beyond all others. Take heed - people living in glass houses should not throw stones. Jack & Walter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFA Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 Steve, People buy Alba hifi (terminology??) because they have choice. Not sure what this has to do with worms though. Fat Arn Visit the K2 RUM website See the Lotus Seven Club 4 Counties Area Website here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gee_fin Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 Arnie, I'm trying to comprehend this last post and I'm hoping that it's just your usual joking manner - suggesting that you receive a far greater quality of product as a part-time customer of the pre-preg source compared to those who are full time customers, I can only assume you are. Graeme. ________________________________________________________ graeme finlayson / tyre warmer / fluke motorsport graeme@fluke-motorsport.co.uk / www.fluke-motorsport.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFA Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 Graham, I have sold approx 200 rear wings, 30 nosecones, 300 front wings and have also led the design of carbon sill protectors, wing protectors, indicator pods, exhaust cans etc etc. ahead of Caterham. Can't say that really diminishes the scale of "part time". Quality is not linked to volume, otherwise Toyota would make the very best cars in the world. The simple fact is that even with one company supplying all the carbon bits into Caterhams market there is not enough business to make the kind of margins which would support myself, wife and child. I don't always have a joking manner, its just I rarely take things personally. Fat Arn Visit the K2 RUM website See the Lotus Seven Club 4 Counties Area Website here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V7 SLR Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 Er, sorry to interrupt but I don't suppose anyone's doing headlamp pods are they? I've seen some around and would love a pair. Do they come with the retaining ring too. Please? Worcs L7 club joint AO.//Membership No. 4379//Azure Blue SLR No. 0077//Se7ens List Tours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gee_fin Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 Well, for someone who has such a high level of self regard and an unbelievable eagerness to bad-mouth others I find the attitude of 'not taking things personally' ridiculous and no excuse for the way you are currently acting. Opinions are fine and you're welcome to them, however, reputation damaging opinions with no base whatsoever fostered purely for self-promotion/gain/sale are completely out of order. I still cannot fathom how you came about your views and perhaps one day you will mature past these current ways but sadly, for now, it's the rest of us who have to shake our heads in disbelief each time you post things like this. I would like to think you've been round long enough to have gained a balanced outlook and some sense of reason. I guess we'll have to wait just a little longer. Thanks Arnie, I think I'm going to call it a day on this thread though as I fear any minute now you'll be threatening to beat me up at playtime and steal my lunch money Graeme. ________________________________________________________ graeme finlayson / tyre warmer / fluke motorsport graeme@fluke-motorsport.co.uk / www.fluke-motorsport.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smurfy Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 Well said Graeme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Walker Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 Arnie, Can you please explain what Carbon/Kevlar/Honeycomble is?????????????? Do you mean Carbon Fibre Kevlar Twill Weave. I am having trouble understanding how you can have a honey combe sandwhich layer around the compound curves on a nose cone. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFA Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 Rob, Carbon/Kevlar/Honeycomble are the materials DITP uses in its products, though not necessarity all of them in one product. Honeycombe core is very flexible prior to the curing process and easily accomodates compound curves. Fat Arn Visit the K2 RUM website See the Lotus Seven Club 4 Counties Area Website here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanB Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 Graeme, I wouldn't worry about Arnie's vocally expressed 'opinions'. I imagine that most people who read Blatchat for more than a couple of days quickly realise that Arnie's 'humurous' posts, being as biased, misleading, offensive, patronising and frequently xenophobic as they are, are not to be taken seriously. Those who do not recognise the outpourings of Arnie's little tantrums (as you've spotted, the intellectual level involved usually struggles to reach the level of the average primary school playground bully) for what they are usually end up being part of the select band of 'Arnie's acolytes', for whom he is guru, prophet and fashion icon. After all, if Arnie wanted to be taken seriously by others, let alone himself, he would actually have responded to some of the serious questions posed in this thread and would justify some of the more outrageous comments which he has said, or prompted others to say, with something more meaningful than further abuse. Arnie, I am sure, will see this post for the humurous note that it is, as he so rarely takes things personally. 🤔 Dan 3 broken ribs and no Fury.... 🙆🏻 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypoid 90 Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 arnie shut up you tit ! you don't half spout some ****e 🙆🏻hole Edited by - BevD on 29 Sep 2003 19:29:06 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenbeards Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 I've sampled both the Fluke carbon seats from Germany and the tillet jobbies in Caterham's very own R500. Exact same weight, the seats themselves are practically the same shape - but significantly cheaper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFA Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 John's done a better job below. Fat Arn Visit the K2 RUM website See the Lotus Seven Club 4 Counties Area Website here Edited by - Fat Arnie on 29 Sep 2003 20:22:15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Howe Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 DanB. I'm a simple East End lad, born in '42. If you had posted your comments about my peer group, with the evenings drawing in, I wouldn't be safe to go out in the dark. Now I can understand some of your charges about Arnie, but he is a bit like the Club, you take the good with the bad - just look at our Chairman's postings of late to see what I mean (viz, BTW). Arnie has just stepped forward not only to save the Rumble but made it a great success. Susan and I agreed to have his Le Mans containers to stay at the farm and because of this we got to learn just how hard he has worked for Club members. I hope, therefore, you will understand that if a line was drawn in the sand, then I would step forward and admit to "being part of the select band of 'Arnie's acolytes'," for whom he is not a guru but a friend. Now I did grow up in the Eastend... and the nights are drawing in! Come on, we all need each other, or there isn't a Club but please no personal criticism from anyone. JH Deliveries by Saffron, the yellow 222bhp Sausage delivery machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RESOLVIWOLF Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 "I imagine that most people who read Blatchat for more than a couple of days quickly realise that Arnie's 'humurous' posts, being as biased, misleading, offensive, patronising and frequently xenophobic as they are, are not to be taken seriously." IRTA: 'the simon scuffham of the caterham world' *mad* *mad* *mad* *mad* *mad* *mad* *mad* *mad* *mad* *mad* *mad* *mad* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 I've no problem with Arnie its that B**tard Archie I can't stand!!! Will She Find Out.Com, we need your stories tell us all the low and deceitful things you have done and became the WSFO pinup of the month! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Perry Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 Love him or hate him, the fact is that Arnie has put a lot of time and effort into the club and its members over the years so I guess that is why he has more latitude on here than many of us would have Edited by - Graham Perry on 30 Sep 2003 06:50:23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team SLR No.77 Posted September 29, 2003 Leadership Team Share Posted September 29, 2003 Come on Graham, there is no reason why one member should have more "right" than any other to make any statement - unless you're suggesting there is a hierarchy unto which we must all bow. I perceive you are suggesting a situation of "all members are equal, but some are more equal than others" As a forum to which we all express ourselves, surely it is fine to voice a view or an opinion, positive or negative, but to have a pop at an individual or their product is going over the fine line we tread. Anybody who does so should expect to have the wrath of the masses upon them - whoever they are or whatever they may have historically done for the club. There are many many members who put a great deal of effort in for the benefit of the club, its wellbeing and its members - some do it quietly, some shout about it. Don't suggest that the silent masses are any lesser value to the club - together we can speak louder than you may imagine. Stu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypoid 90 Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 its seems to me that arnie can upset anyone ,piss anyone off ,bad mouth them do anything he likes and get away with it ,well its wrong ,if i started spouting crap like he does and slagging people off badmouthing them i am sure something would be done ,as for this hierarchy that there seems to be i for one aint going to bow to it ! arnie you have crossed the line to many times ,i hope someone gives you a slapping to remember and i hope its me 🙆🏻 hole its about time something was done about this idiot ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team SLR No.77 Posted September 30, 2003 Leadership Team Share Posted September 30, 2003 Oooopps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokin Joe Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 😬Dogs In The Park.....Mog gies, would it be a Fluke if the rspca showed up and caged em all. Carbon F is not hard to work with especially in flat panels grab you a sheet of window glass, wax it well, apply some cf mat, saturate with resin, lift off when cured and hey that was easy, and super smooth on the side that was against the glass For the adventurous place in heavy duty garden rubbish bag attached to "shopvac" with duct tape, suck out air, and let cure under heat source (sun works here!) 😬 Wait I can get in touch with "Gator In the Swamp" and sell you some! CF is really, really hard involves hundreds of man hours, comercial vacuum machines, autoclaves, very complicated expensive stuff.......... Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Flatters Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 Regardless of whatever has been said on this thread, the threatening of violence is completely and totally unacceptable. I suggest all parties withdraw and take a cold shower. I would also suggest either 'Heavenly' or Mr Sweeney shut this thread down before someone does or says something that he/she or more importantly the club might regret. *arrowright*Harry Flatters *arrowright* AKA Steve Mell of Su77on Se7ens and Joint AO - Surrey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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