Good. Thanks – the website said Friday as well. I was wondering whether it will go so fast it will (have already) punch(ed) a hole in the space-time continuum.

As I understand it it does stand for ‘Wireless Transmitter’ – the stencils mark the points at which earthing straps are attached so that different parts do not build up different charges. The primary source of charge would be the W/T. Interestingly there is often a DTD number next to them – this specifies the paint, which needs to have particular electrical properties as well.

Please don’t ask me to name my sources – it’s been a long time!

eBay are worried about being sued by big companies, so selling a copy of a ‘label’ design is something they will come down hard on, even if, as happened to Wyvernfan, the seller makes it clear it’s a copy.

This shows that they do understand that they arguably have some liability when it comes to what is sold – it’s just that they know they can’t be touched by anyone who can’t afford corporate lawyers.

The problem is that eBay know perfectly well that fakes are peddled via their site in vast quantities, across the globe and in all kinds of fields of interest – archaeological relics, motoring, literature, philately, you name it. It’s a multi-million pound industry.

If they were a scrupulous organisation they would listen when people call out the fakes – the way a council street market regulator would. Sadly they are not.

Well, every day is indeed a schoolday. Some very interesting figures here: http://www.machinedesign.com/recreation/unlimited-air-racers-ultimate-hot-rods

It seems racing Merlins are expected to turn at 3,400 rpm, and the ‘racing’ gear ratio is .42. So prop speed is more or less the same as stock.

The article says that race teams like to have prop tip speeds at an apparently optimum Mach 0.8. To do this at 550 mph would mean a prop diameter smaller than stock. So there ya go.

How on earth do I know? Because I have been there, on the shop floor. Have you? You got me there, though – I am now going to go away and Google Fred Kite (Edit: I now have. Character from a 1959 Ealing Comedy – or ‘contemporary satire’ in John’s world).

There are a lot of very poor (academically and in terms of attitude) university graduates out there. This is because there are now a large number of essentially commercial entities calling themselves universities who will take and matriculate anyone who can pay. This is the change that has happened, and it takes a lot of truth-mangling to make this the fault of left-wing influence on state education provision.

Eton kids empathising with Aldi Customers made me laugh – do you know how ludicrous that concept really is? Then I stopped when I realised that this is the problem we have – these people do end up running the country.

No, just manipulated.

John, have you considered that your view of what constitutes an education – for example, I’m sure it involves learning the Kings and Queens of England by rote – is exactly what employers find useless and what these people you call ‘lefties’ but whom I prefer to call teachers are trying to move away from.

By the way, that Nelson story is bunkum. It is a poor education that leaves a man accepting this nonsense as news.

I would be interested to see how a product of such ‘beacons’ as Winchester or even Eton would get on at an interview for Aldi. If they weren’t laughed out of the interview room they wouldn’t last five minutes on the shop floor. Frankly you are confusing two things when you talk of the excellence of these private institutions then decry a lack of preparation for real-life jobs.

As soon as someone finds something to negotiate with they might. But right now I’m ******** if I know what that is. We used to be able to say ‘we’ll walk out’.. we had the power of veto. When will the Bullxiters understand what the situation now is?