Kate the XK8

Hey Paul - Great to find you on here - happy that you are making strides with Kate too - catch up soon - Chris 

Paul - Thankfully well down the recovery road - Great idea on bonding the repair sections - that's exactly how I would go about it at my end - I have a lots of panel bonding experience with the Jupiter's - should you need any pointers / supplier recommendations etc - please don't hesitate to ask - Chris  

Thanks Chris - glad it was not a completely mad idea! Yes please for a glue recommendation and any other pointers.

strikey - my other Jag is an X-Type that I rescued on it's way to the scrapyard. I didn't know if it was dead or alive until I opened the bonnet so i called it Erwin...

Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian-Irish physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935,[1] during the course of discussions with Albert Einstein.[2] It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The scenario presents a hypothetical cat that may be simultaneously both alive and dead,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] a state known as a quantum superposition, as a result of being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur.

Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor (e.g. Geiger counter) detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison, which kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other.

The thought experiment is also often featured in theoretical discussions of the interpretations of quantum mechanics, particularly in situations involving the measurement problem. Schrödinger coined the term Verschränkung (entanglement) in the course of developing the thought experiment.

Well that’s all fine and well until you use Sid the Cat. He would be hatching a plan to use the poison to kill rats and the Radio active source as a tracking device on those that got away....

interestingly enough,as soon as people see radio active source,most will see it in a negative light. Bit of useless information ,but certain industries use Radio active cable ties, so they can scan for waifs and stray bits of them after maintenance procedures.  Said cable ties are also very loud colours. I won’t go into further details, but it was a protocol adopted after bits of a cable tie couldn’t be accounted for after a routine mantainence job which resulted in a tear down to find the missing bits that cost several million pounds..

Wish i never asked now!! 🤣🤣🤣

I'll refrain from angry pussy sniggerisms!

Thanks Chris, I'll probably take you up on that.

I have a air fed step flanger / joggler that really makes light work of it - its a Clarke one and really gets the job done - I wouldn't bother with the manual hand operated ones - the ones on e bay all look to be by the same manufacture just with different brand names - there's a no name one that's £45  and its identical bar the colour to the rest of them 

www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=air+joggler&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=aig+joggler+

If you don't think that you are going find a use for it again you could always sell it on once done with it - the alternative is that you are welcome to loan mine - I wont be using it for the next 3 - 4 weeks or so - just the cost of postage from me to you then back - Chris