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Being a confirmed biker I only ever owned one car, it was my dad's first car and it's repainting featured large in my parents courtship. Its a manual, a newfangled four speed (cf 3 speed on prior models) and it even has lazy driver syncromesh on top which is nice as there's no space to heel and toe if you have bigger feet than a child. Just by way of confirming my bonafides as a luddite, earlier this year I bought a 2004 BMWK1200RS and was horrified to find the brakes were electrically operated it was sent straight back to the dealer in favour of a '98 model with rider operated hydraulics that work without relying on decades old electronics! The day I can't wind my own windows, adjust my own seat, turn on my own lights, stay in a lane and read a map let alone change gear for myself at the appropriate time is the day it's time to stop driving.

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Thanks very much for the explanation of the naming

Some exciting new parts coming with this set and interesting mechanisms, that said one thing that puzzles me, what is the purpose of 'ghost mode' IRL? And why is it called that, seems a car waving all its doors, bonnet and boot in the air is anything but ghostly ?

Voi Vod! there's a blast (quite literally) from my past!!! Anyone for Bathory? S.O.D.?

@SpacePolice89 Thanks for the heads up, Account created!

@aFrInaTi0n Thanks, I'm pleased with it. Thanks too for help with images and a big shout out to brilliant @Yperio_Bricks who's patience went above and beyond, teaching me what is obvious to most over on the Help topics! There is very definitely an element of 'form over function' but, as for many others, I have to share space with family and SHMBO was not amused when I showed her the labels at Brick Architect's Site.I thought about retaliating with some pointed remarks about the mess on the ( my display!!) shelves but I'm not that brave(stupid) More seriously, I have catalogued every last Lego item on a Brick Store database (another major exercise in IT incompetence , Youtube was my friend) along with drawer and division location. I keep the database open when building and its really easy to lookup where things are, also the drawers pull straight out so can have relevant ones to a particular part of a build sat on desktop. Editing the locations is a bit of a chore if I want to rearrange any drawers as locations are all text in remarks and comments fields - there is probably a better way/system for doing this but with my limited ability/knowledge this was the best I could come up with. I have to admit that I was somewhat surprised that there was not a more formal set of fields/system in these trading databases for stock locations as I imagine it must be a whole lot of work when buying and selling stock routinely (I'm not a trader), maybe it's there in the paid for systems but as we already established, I'm tight as a duck's a..e

Ah - that's quicker than the right click thing - thank you again. I am slightly lacking understanding again though, the link produced by Flickr this way doesn't seem to have the /filename.extension format I thought was required, just some sort of code (to my eyes much like the Google drive link that doesn't work), I'm not doubting you just maybe I should just stop concerning myself! Image size - do you only take/make/upload images of the correct resolution? If not, I assume this method uploads the native resolution which may be too large for EB? Since I can't find what my phone produces and Flickr seems to keep it a secret, I've been hitting Enlarge to right of Share - View all sizes - then choosing a suitable size - right clicking image into new tab then copy and pasting the URL. All of which is soooo much longer than your Share tip. I tried my first post this evening so I wait with baited breath to see if it worked (seemed to at my end).

With this topic surfacing again and having recently finished my workspace thought I would show too! It started as some shelves to replace some manky 50's units in the box room , I thought I was going to display my MOC's here but was far to slow off the mark - all the rubbish will be sorted one day and I'll grab a few shelves back from the chick-lit One thing led to another and I built the desk for general office activities, thinking how to support the desk I decided to build some basic storage for my Lego which was languishing in Ziploc bags in crates, not easy to use. Having already had a fit about the price of the birch ply for the shelves all the trays are from re-sawn shipping pallet - more money for bricks , right? Much better than the crates but I'm not getting any younger and crawling under the desk got old quickly so this area has now been relegated to bulk overspill storage. I'd have loved some large format draws like @allanp just showed us but the room size didn't suit that format (wife said NO!) so these are what I came up with: I was fortunate to happen across an eBay listing for a pallet of birch ply offcuts (nearly a cubic metre all told) for peanuts money but all quite small pieces which kind of dictated the design. This meant the depth of the under desk trays and the drawers doesn't match which does bother me a bit but not enough to alter the trays (yet!!) All the drawers are modular and can be swapped to arrange parts as I wish. one day I might make some double height variants. All the drawers have configurable dividers. The drawers have larger stacking 'bins' on top for bulkier items like PF motors and battery boxes, wheels, tracks etc. The final part was more general storage (flattened boxes, instructions and sticker sheets) as well as stations for our printer scanner and my new toy the P1s 3d printer (lovin' it) Last bit to do is make some pick bins out of the leftover birch for all the pins instead of the loud colour plastic items lurking under the desk but that can wait for next year and no it is never normally this tidy!

Good to know! Thanks again all, for holding my hand through something that turns out to be so simple. Flickr account made and being loaded! Shied away in past as I know less about photography than IT if that's possible

One last query purely out of interest: Back when I first tried posting images in 2021 my brother had previously made my business a very basic website, I really wasn't very interested in it for the business (ungrateful swine that I am) but since I was paying for hosting space got him to load the lego images to the web server. for me. I pasted the following link format into the post: www.companyname.co.uk/filename.jpg It showed fine in the practise forum but when posted for real, some could see it and some not, seemed to depend on the browser the reader was using, did this happen because I had omitted the http(s):// prefix? Bruv couldn't sort it for me as we lost him shortly after and I've been fighting the same illness since 2020, just so you know why I'm asking my dumb questions here!

@Yperio_Bricks Thank you so much for such a clear and concise explanation. So I have to find somewhere other than Google drive to store photos out on the internet, somewhere that returns a link with filename.jpg when the image is opened in a new tab. I see on many posts people say use Brickshelf or Bricksafe, unfortunately they have not been accepting new registrations since 2020 to my certain knowledge which has added to my uncertainty, also I have read on here that Flicker are getting restrictive about how one uses their site. I will take a look at the Directupload.eu site you show in your examples, once again thank you so much for laying it out so clearly for me

@aFrInaTi0n Thanks for the reply, unfortunately the test topic link has not displayed. Just a box that says I do not have permission to see the topic! If I understand the next bit correctly, I need to make sure (edit if necessary) that any image links start with https? @Yperio_Bricks Thanks for your input. This is my problem, I wouldn't have a clue on how to correct it I think I have understood that the system now needs the appropriate file extension (.jpg .png or .gif?) where it didn't before? So how would I correct this please? https://drive.google.com/file/d/173_HQwpzuqbufdtNnHi5EoBXyVFLMR3F/view?usp=sharing Amen to that ! It would certainly seem the case that many people are confused by both the need to host externally (didn't read the guidelines and confused by the 'Drag file here...' bit at bottom of reply box) but also the mechanics of linking is also confusing to many judging by the number of posts with image links that lead nowhere (I don't mean the hosts that restrict UK access) I tried to read everything back in 2020 and much of the explanation available then dated from many years earlier and had already been superseded (toolbars that no longer existed!) and as far as I can see nothing formal has been added since, maybe my IT incompetence is stopping me finding it. My most recent formal IT training was for Toshiba Tosdic 247 distributed control systems back in the late eighties and the hard/software was acknowledged as well developed (read mainstream obsolete) at that time (but largely bug free). The secretaries had terminals on Vax clusters, am I showing my age? Not complaining because I really appreciate the huge amount of time that @aFrInaTi0n and his colleagues must spend keeping this site running for our benefit, would just like to contribute something more!

Hello, When I joined Eurobricks (2020) there was a forum to make test posts in order to get to grips with the way the forum worked, has this area been discontinued as I cannot find it? The reason I ask is that back then I tried posting images from my own server space with mixed success (some could see them some not) and so I have not attempted to post anything (images) since. As I understand it the forum has undergone some major updates and I reckoned it was time to try again preferably in the test area. Finally is there a current up to date description/sticky topic etc of how to post remote hosted images? I have struggled to find anything other than random snippets, out of date info and the links in site guidelines are broken/circular. I understand the principles of (and reason for ) hosting images externally but have limited IT knowledge, to get to grips with why I struggled before eg. I see the phrase BBcode mentioned but have no clue what one is!

I'm firmly in the simple motor club, I have motors from 4.5/12V through 9V and on to PF. I do have some PU as I received 42100 as a gift. Since TLG stopped PF I have purchased from 3P motors of Chinese and German origin now totalling over 50 mostly PF XL clones but also 12 Cada micromotors. TLG micro motors were great in their day (I have 3 still functional) but once mounting clips and power connector are attached they're not so micro. Anyway by way of contributing to the topic about 20 pre PF Lego motors, 30 PF family Lego motors against 50 3P (30ish PF clone) motors and counting. No plans to buy any more TLG motors with possible exception of 2 Large Angular PU which I will convert to PF connectors.