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I bought a 1961 Mk 10 3.8 litre XK six Jaguar secondhand in 1976 and I still have it. It was going to be cut up into a station-wagon and I rescued it. The first issue driving it home was a problem with the rear brakes. It was fairly sluggish and when it started making very odd smells, I stopped and looked underneath. The rear inboard disc rotors were glowing red. Cooled it down for another go to get home. Turns out there is a micro switch operated solenoid to stop creeping. Foot on the brake, pressure to the rear, microswitch on until the accelerator pressed, and a big valve locked to hold the rear brake on. Trouble was that it stuck on. This problem was only remedied by removing the solenoid and fitting a short piece of straight brake line.Next problem was overheating. Off with the head, nothing drastic or obvious, new head gasket and a valve grind, all back together and bubbles still in the radiator water! Time for engine out, and these Jags had a solid welded bar across the front, so the gearbox had to hang straight down to pull the engine straight up. Lucky I had access to a pit with an engine gantry. Stripped the engine, Southcotts Repco in Adelaide did the re-bore and piston reconditioning. It was a beautiful job, but all back together, and after warm up, bubbles in the radiator water! Oh no, not again!So engine out again, and getting close to despair. Our expert Jaguar mechanic had once said he filled the water jacket with kerosene to find cracks. So there it was, kero oozing out of a thin 2″ diagonal crack halfway down the bore on the second cylinder back from the front. Completely disguised by the honing after reconditioning. Off again to get bored, machined and a cylinder liner with a lip fitted. This time it ran without overheating, yippee! I also reconditioned the 3 big 2″ SU carburettors while everything was off. All went great until fitting the 3 big O-rings that seal the inlet manifold. The rubber had swollen by accidental contact with some petrol used for cleaning. What to do, the kits were so expensive, just for getting new O-rings. My brother had the smart idea of putting them into the freezer room. The almost frozen rubber shrunk down enough to fit their grooves and those carburettors were bolted on in record time, before they could swell up again.I then decided that it looked like a great white whale and decide to repaint it. I mean, it would take no time to do wouldn’t it? Back to bare metal was the best. I found out later that there were 9 layers of enamel, and I stripped each layer carefully with air powered circular abrasive, after taking off the doors and chrome and glass. 4 weeks later, working 10 hours a day, and painting it 2 tone Rolls Royce Silver-Gray and Black enamel, it was done. It looks a bit like this except the silver is on top.Some time I later drove it to Brisbane Queensland, where I took up residence a very fast, smooth 1,300 miles later. But it was not over yet. I reconditioned the burr walnut dash and door sills, taking off layer by layer of varnish with 600 wet and dry, and refinishing with 2 pack clear. 30 years later and it still looks great. After a few years after that, off for a weekend adventure, up a very steep hill it blew a radiator hose and it overheated again. Had to have a tow home. Off with the head, took it to Hagen Performance Motors where the owner was experienced with Jaguar heads. He tried to repair the head but it was full of tiny cracks that could not be welded. It had to be scrapped. He came up with the idea to take a fuel injected 4.2 Series III straight port, large valve head and make it into a 3.8 carburettor version. Heated the aluminium head over a furnace arrangement to expand it, then welded up the extra water jacket holes, and machined the inlet side to take the water cooled manifold, and the rear rev counter generator. Just like a bought one, except better. That cost $1000 in 1993.The brakes were really great in 1961, with dual Dunlop calipers, but not really that great for a 2 tonne plus vehicle. So I ordered the Coopercraft upgrade, twin pots each side and XJ6 pads. Bolted straight on and very nice. Those rear brakes got some new ventilated XJS disc rotors (that only just fitted with some handbrake mods) and now the brakes are very good. The twin master cylinders were reconditioned with stainless steel liners. Remarkable that in 1961 there were brake lines for the front, and a separate line to the rear, and the pedal pressed a swinging lever that, if pressure in either one or the other masters be lost, the brakes would still work on 2 of the wheels. The vacuum assist from a large rubber bellows was mechanical and direct to the brake lever.A most difficult car, with a list of other adventures and repairs, but I did not give up because I still think the engineering in that car is worth preserving for history.

QUESTION: Which fridge/refrigerator is better single door or double door?ANSWER: Rather than pick at the 17 other answers (at time of writing), I will just go ahead with my (and my wife’s) thinking, when we most recently purchased a fridge.We got an LG model, combination refrigerator/freezer, in the North American fashion, that is 16.2 cubic feet in the fridge part and 8 cubic feet in the freezer compartment, for a total of 24.2 cubic feet under refrigeration.That probably sounds large for just two people (who aren’t rich and don’t care to buy a big Thermador…). We like it. We keep seeing/hearing references on news and other sources on TV and the web about how much food the average ‘Murrican or Canadian wastes every year. It astounds us. Other than tough skins and cores on some fruits and veggies, and bones and excess fat from some meats, we just don’t waste food. We buy from Costco first, and then from other stores for stuff that Costco doesn’t carry.The fridge hasa meat-and-cheese drawer (low and flat, the full width and depth of the fridge compartment) andtwo boxier, humidity-controlled drawers above that, for fruits and veggies (at least, that’s how we assign contents)the remaining two-thirds of the fridge volume, above that, is open shelves, and of course the shelves built into the doors.That volume is for- bottles and cartons (like juice, milk, condiments, white and rose wine),- other dairy, like yogurt, cottage cheese, tzatziki, butter- egg cartons (we get the 18 extra-large from Costco)- bulky perishable food in containers (like mushrooms and salad greens)- cooked-ahead staples like rice, quinoa, etc.- left-overs.That last category is a big percentage of what we have under refrigeration at any one time. It includes sauces and soups that we make in quantities that will become several meals. We often make a given meal, be it meat-and-veggies or a pasta-based or bean/pulse-based entree, in quantity intended to provide a second meal later in the week. Most weekends, I make what I call a frittata in a 12-inch pan, eat a good-size chunk for brunch, then portion the rest out for lunches during the week.So, that can mean a number of glass or plastic containers, taking up shelf-space in the fridge or freezer.The fridge is the double-door type, with the freezer compartment as a big drawer at the bottom of the unit.We decided that it made much more sense to have the freezer on the bottom, because:we don’t go into that section nearly as often, in a day, as we do the fridge section, so we want the merely-chilled, most-accessed section closer to eye-levelit makes sense that the coldest part of the whole appliance be at the bottomwe chose the most solidly-enclosed freezer-drawer style we could find, so that the cold air would not instantly spill out on the floor whenever the drawer was opened (similarly, see later about side-by-side fridge/freezer units)because the freezer is a drawer (actually with a smaller sliding drawer above the main bin, but still…) a person opening that drawer gets immediate view and access to almost everything, which minimizes open time by not needing to move items out of the way to find other items.We chose the double-door style refrigerator compartment because it is just handier for access. When you know which side something is on, you open just the door on that side.When you do open a door, it protrudes into the kitchen only half the width of the whole appliance. If it was a single-door style, the full refrig compartment would be exposed every time, and the door would be heavier and would swing much wider into the working/walking space. Two narrow doors is the way to go, with the option to open the other half, for trickier access to things-behind-things at any time.Also, several of the shelves are half-width and are staggered, so it’s generally easy to retrieve an object from near the back with minimum searching and minimum open-door time.We chose a model that was a bit wide for its depth (much easier when fronted by double doors) to get the volume we wanted with the least protrusion into the kitchen, beyond counter-depth.As well, any door with built-in shelves needs to swing quite a bit past 90 degrees of arc to provide maximum access to everything, and that would make a single door bump a wall on one side, or block the nukers and some kitchen cupboards on the other side — depending which side we put the hinges. So, in that respect, two smaller doors are better.I was mildly annoyed to learn that the chilled/filtered water dispenser, on the outside of one door, stops working when either door is opened. Who knew…Our unit has the linear inverter compressor. It works very well, and the noise level is low, overall. However, it’s not totally quiet, and the appliance, as a whole, produces an amazing variety of little noises. Not very loud, but “what’s that noise? is that the fridge?” was a frequent cry around our house for about a year. Though quiet, it was probably made more noticeable by our installation, around the same time, of a very hushed Samsung dishwasher, that made our previous one sound like a freight train. So there’s that.Anyway, we find the double-door fridge section on top of a freezer-drawer section to be functionally much better for our purposes than the full-height side-by-side refrigerator/freezer that we had for many years. Having both the freezer compartment and the refrigerator compartment tall and narrow (on that previous appliance) meant that:all the cold air spilled out around our ankles whenever the freezer side was opened, andwhether fridge side or freezer side, it was narrow for its depth, meaning it was a real pain-in-the-butt to find and extract containers and packages, etc. from anywhere behind the front row, andwhether fridge side or freezer side, one was constantly bending over to search and to fiddle with the lower shelves.Overall, I find the current layout - fridge above with double doors, and freezer below as a big drawer - is much friendlier, day-in and day-out. I would not willingly go back to either the old-style freezer-on-top-fridge-below, or the fridge-and-freezer side-by-side.Also, worth noting, when you look for an appliance, pull out the big freezer drawer and see if the drawer is a mostly solid container, or if it is basically just a big sliding basket. The former will tend to retain your hard-earned frozen air, more-so than a wire-basket style that lets every ounce of chilled air pour out on the floor whenever the drawer is opened. I don’t know why some are made as a basket.Maybe the basket style is more rugged than a moulded bin of thin plastic, especially in cold temperatures… but we’ve had no issue in the several years we’ve owned our current appliance.I hope that made sense.

Here is the official answer to your question! Mind you I didn’t create this, but it’s the most commonly known one:Still sore from the night before, Germany has had one too many pints. It is sucking up to Russia, deciding it doesn’t want to pay for the drinks that France insists it owes. They then drunkenly shout out that Austria is its brother, man, and Italy is their long time best friend. Sauced now and belligerent, Germany is glaring angrily about the bar. Italy is already marching around, challenging everyone to step outside. America had left the bar some time ago and no one was sure where it’d gone. With nothing better to do, Germany challenges Soviet Russia to an arm wrestling match at the Spanish table, while Japan was in the back room whacking China with a pool cue. Armwrestling over, Germany goes to the bar again and orders another pint and one for Austria. Glancing over to Czechoslovakia, Germany says, “Hey, nice shirt. I want it”. Before Czechoslovakia can jump from the bar stool and take a swing, Britain walks over and stands between the two, saying, “Can’t we just get along? Come on, now, Czechoslovakia, just the shirt, that’s all.” Humiliated, Czechoslovakia hands over the shirt and Britain walks back to the corner table with France saying, “See? Peace in our time.” At the other end of the pub, Italy has finally found someone to fight: it kicks Ethiopia in the goolies as they walk in. Germany, raises their pint glass in salute to Italy. Then they look at Russia who’s wandered back in after checking on Japan in the back room and both look over at Poland who’s been sitting by themselves at a small table….. right next to Germany.England and France stare at Germany and England wags their finger at Germany. Germany gives them an “aw shucks” grin and then turns and knocks Poland’s beer off the table. Poland stands up to confront Germany beckoning for England and France to come over and help. Russia then taps Poland on the shoulder and when they turn around Germany grabs the chair and smashes it over Poland’s head. Russia then rushes in and begins kicking Poland repeatedly as they lay writhing on the floor. Germany turns to England and France and makes a “come on then” gesture, but England and France slink back to their table and continue to utter threats in low voices. Denmark, Norway, Holland, and Belgium who popped in for a quick one after work all look worried and finish their drinks in a hurry and yell for the bill. Finland who’s been sitting in a corner quietly notices Russia is distracted going through the unconscious Poland’s pockets, and quickly sneaks up behind them and smashes a vodka bottle over their head. Russia gets up, shakes their head, grabs Finland by one arm and tosses them against the wall, knocking them completely out. Russia then goes back to their table in the far corner and sits down to sulk. Japan notices this and slinks out back to see if China has woken up yet.England grabs the phone and calls Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India and tells them to get down here right quick and oh could one of them pop around to the United States and tell them to grab their baseball bat and come over. Then England walks over and stands by France confronting Germany, Italy and their mates now standing in the middle of the room. Everyone else quickly pays their bill and heads for the door. Germany crosses the room, rolls up its sleeves and with four punches knocks Denmark, Norway, Holland and Belgium out cold. Germany then grabs all their wallets and tosses them on a table to sort through later. France is upset that its little cousin Belgium has been taken out and rushes to get at Germany. Italy has finally finished going through Ethiopia’s pockets sees France on the move, sticks out its leg and trips them. When France gets up Germany picks up an entire table and smashes it over their head. France is knocked out for several hours and when they finally wake up they’re slightly schizophrenic and crawl off into a corner to argue with themselves.Outnumbered and alone England barricades itself behind the bar and begins tossing empty pint glasses at Germany, hoping the kids show up soon. Germany and Italy begin sorting out the other tables and strut around the bar. In a corner booth Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania seeing what just happened, stand up and declare that Germany and Italy are their new best mates and buy them a round. Across the street the United States is getting concerned about all the noise and broken windows and wants to go over and take a look, but the missus tells them to sit down and finish their dinner. Shortly after dinner, United States hears a noise in the backyard and investigates just in time to see Japan smashing its tiki themed patio set in retaliation for suggesting they had too much to drink. United States is very upset at this and heads down to bar. Japan also eggs The Netherlands’ house and moons Australia as it heads back to pick on China some more. Italy, while the Germans have their backs turned, decides to pick a fight with the Balkans Football Club which has been sitting in the corner. The BFC is a lot tougher then they look and offers Italy a few good smacks to the face. Italy quickly runs behind Germany and peeks out from behind their legs. Germany turns around with a “WTF!” After sorting out the BFC with some help from its new bestest bud Romania and Hungary, Germany looks around the shambles of the room. England is yelling threats at them from behind the bar and Canada is behind them passing a fresh supply of empty bottles to toss.Then another cry for help from Italy – they’ve decided to rifle the pockets of Egypt who passed out earlier in the children’s sandbox in the corner, but England sicked Australia, New Zealand and South Africa on them and they’re all smacking Italy about the kneecaps. Germany sighs and wonders where it can get some better allies. As Germany makes its way to the sandbox, it makes eye contact with a stretching, knuckle cracking Japan, who gives a knowing nod. Japan puffs its chest and makes its way through the ocean of spilled beer to the United States, who’s standing there flat-footed, laughing hysterically, one hand slapping its knee. But USA looks up just in time to see Japan midswing with a big section of broken table. USA reels backwards into Germany, which is not amused and promises to get USA once it’s taken care of the sandbox. Japan, in the meantime, turns around and wails on poor Netherlands, cowering on the floor. The Philippines meanwhile walks out the door, vowing to return. At the end of the bar, India, trying hard to mind its own business gets splashed with beer and starts to get up. After dealing with the sandbox, Germany walks over to Russia hand outstretched in greeting. Russia takes it and get rewarded with Germany’s boot to the nads, and Finland, Hungary, Italy and Romania all pile on.Bloodied and dazed Russia backs off into the storeroom. To distract Germany, England whispers something to Canada, who sneaks across the room and tries to smash a beer bottle on Germany’s head. The bottle fails to break and Germany turns around, grins and punches Canada in the nose. Holding their bloody nose Canada retreats, but keeps a supply of empty pint glasses flowing to Britain. Australia and New Zealand get an urgent call from their wives to come home because Japan is lurking in the garden, and they dash out. South Africa still pissed at England for making them take on both Italy and Germany and continues to sulk in the kid’s sandbox. Germany goes looking for Russia in the storeroom to punch it some more, and notices the attractive walk-in freezer with hanging loops of sausage and schnitzel, not realizing Russia is hiding inside waiting with a frozen haunch of ham….. Germany otherwise occupied, Britain kicks sand in Italy’s face. With things getting a bit too quiet in the main bar, Britain and Canada start throwing pickled eggs at Germany’s back. Germany and Russia, encouraged by their new buddies Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Finland and Ukraine, have started a serious game of Russian Roulette in the freezer, so Germany fails to hear Italy’s pitiful screams for help. Italy, having decided that beating up on Ethiopia was training enough to punch at their own weight level, decided to take on Britain, but runs away after getting sodomized by their giant British boot.Meanwhile, our friendly bartender Switzerland is still sitting there, watching this all unfold, dishtowel in one hand, drink in the other, ducking the occasional flying bottle/chairleg/billiard ball. Our other friendly bartender Sweden is still sitting there, watching, order pad in one hand, weapons licenses for sale in the other and selling brass knuckles to both sides. USA, Canada and England now working together, piledrive Italy and knock them unconscious. Then, South Africa, New Zealand and Poland (who left to get a new set of trousers and just got back) all join together and rain blows and kicks and elbows on Germany until it can’t help but beg for mercy. Even Brazil from down the street jumps in as does France who appears to be fine again. Italy and Germany decide that enough’s enough and cry for surrender, with the bar now completely and utterly ruined.Japan is still poking USA in the back. With a little help from some engineers patronizing the bar, USA heaves the piano over the second floor railing and it lands with deafening noise squarely on Japans head. From underneath a tiny white flag rises from rubble.