Techenders needs you! please read and advise on how this will continue.

I have carb tuning kit, its a little time consuming but not rocket science as long as they are jetted right (no expert of course but could help with pointers on that job)

 

I've had a p.m off Paradox asking about the location, Para your inbox is full but for everyone who doesn't know it's here
http://www.victoria-farm.org/

 

Birdy has mentioned to me he wants to come along to one of these. Sure we could twist his arm with a bottle of vodka to do some instructional stuff.

 

Thats your 7000! lol

 

jesus 7000 posts and it's about Birdy........ i wonder if he will dress up as John Barrowman for me?

 

well once the date is sorted hopefully one of you southern lot can encourage Birdy along then, zed has said all being well he will turn up and hopefully some of the original teachers may be free for the next one, i am meerly trying to promote it a bit better as the last one was a tad of a let down i'm told.

 

I went as complete novice in April 2011 and it was a great weekend , Punnet was fantastic at explaining the basics what's happened to him ?

 

Well then it sounds like you best get Zed and Birdy signed up first lol ;-)

 

OK, I confess I am the bulb changer!

It sounded simple but you really need 3 hands and a multimeter to workout why there was voltage and a current to the socket but the bulb still didn't work even though the bulb worked on another socket! Turned out to be a contact issue and therefore an incomplete circuit!

I'm a complete novice as you probably can guess but I felt that most people were really helpful despite me saying many time "what's that thing I'm looking at or what the heck do you mean by advanced?"

Like I said to someone most specialisms have jargon and it's not until someone shows you something does it really click. Which is what I found most helpful about TE.

However, I would like see at TE a full service demonstration and then have a go myself but that's the most comfortable way for me to learn when I'm new to something, others may just need a helpful ear to bend when they are stuck on something.

Anyway, enough techy stuff.

I think the camp site and Eddie is fab and I agree paying up front may put people off and a hassle. Also I think Eddie just likes the company of so many VW enthusiasts.

Rob.

 

Hi guys I am well up for this as I'm only in the next village along (Leicester) and after reading both threads I can't wait to meet Eddie! I've also still not met any other TLB'ers yet!

I won't be able to commit until a date is set and I've got a fair few jobs to finish to get Molly in a state fit to camp but I totally love and respect what TE is about.

Paying up front wouldn't put me off once I was committed to a date as with most campsites you have to have paid up before you arrive anyhow as stated by others its their income!

Not sure if I have anything to offer in the way of skills to my fellow TLB'ers except what I have learnt so far and whatever I learn between now and then!

Keep up the good work promoting the next TE, your doing a top job as your getting everyone talking / debating it which all helps!

Robo...

 

There is a quote from zed on the dates post which makes sense to me so i'll copy it here, basically it seems that the old hands just go with the flow and if it works it works if it doesn't it's no big deal..... it seems that they're happy to see how it goes and thinking out loud to myself i suppose that's fair comment, the way i read the situation from speaking to Tuesday wildchild was that he didn't really want to do any organising - he just wanted to turn up and play, i also got the message that the original organisers were far too busy to worry about it, so maybe this isn't the case i don't know? anyway long and short of it is, we have until September anyway which is months away, Tuesday will book a date within the next week and we will then just see what happens up until nearer the time and maybe if nobody steps up from the original bunch then i'll stick my oar back in.... it does seem reading between the lines that the old hands on here are confident that laid back is the way forward, i was just trying to fill it up a bit as the way i read it from Tuesday is it was pretty poor compared to previous ones, this don't mean i've given up helping or promoting but i think maybe the initial panic was possibly unfounded, anyway once we get dates lets see how it goes, here is the quote from zed off the other page.
ZED SAID....
My views:
Paying peeps not on. I for one would feel I had to get up early and perform. I get on fine staggering about scrounging from the others.

In the past it has been more organised as far as teaching people to service their engines and brakes. If there are 10 people all servicing their engines for the first time it works. But it's not always like that.

As far as organising the actual "event" it's just pick a day from Eddies choices and get him to book it in. Then nearer the time let him know approx how many are coming so he can set the price as cheap as possible - I know this sounds unlikely but but's true! That's it for "organising".

Anything after that is icing on the cake. Historically it was first geared as a low key event where if you were lucky someone made veggie soup and bread for 10p and everyone serviced and braked in military fashion in the wind and drizzle. A few attendees had the idea that it didn't need to be as miserable lol so we started having huge camp fires, bbQing steaks and chicken, getting more charles the terd and doing bigger jobs - top end rebuilds even. It got more fun every time for a while as the bar was set higher culminating in a TE where we banqueted in a large tent under chandeliers cooked for by a Michelin starred chef and Laurrie pettit came and took an engine to bits. Another time there was a cocktail bar and the chaps dressed as ladies for the night.

It can be whatever it wants to be really, There should be spannering and learning but the rest is up to whover comes to organise. There has never been one organiser for the event other than booking the site.