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If that damp patch is directly below the cracked / missing pointing above the 'flashing' you could do worse than getting some flash tape and doing a temp bodge until you can get it fixed properly.

Another alternative might be to fix the pointing with CT-1

Both of these bodges, done 'right' could last a good number of years.

Never thought I’d put a motor in this tt01 but ragging it around an empty church hall was too good to miss. chucked a silly brushless motor in it and had a blast. Much sideways action on the crappy stock tyres.

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Sounds like the room is / was quite cold? Putting some heat in to it will persuade the walls to let more of it go.

I also like the way that Vitsœ gets things off the ground.

Yep. Anything that can get off the ground should do. Anything that you can't get a hoover (or robot hoover) under is just creating problems for you.

Unless you have a very well sealed room it will always pull an amount of water out of the air as the air is being replaced by the damp(er) air from outside.

As long as you don't have 75% + humidity in the room it's 'dry'.

Sad news - thoughts with those who knew him.

Love it when the UK British refer to heat pumps as ‘bleeding edge’ lol.

Well, the underlying heat exchange tech is ancient, but don't the current generation have to be bleeding edge to meet packaging, noise (or lack of) and energy efficiency requirements whilst also working with shitty UK houses and legacy plumbing installations?

A lot of standard tech has been forced into the crappy bleeding edge zone where to meet new standards durability has been sacrificed - see modern gas boilers and ICEs, particularly diesel, for example.

Does it come with the rainbow jersey?

I heard that Eli travelled to a race in a Ferrari recently - is that where our money is going?

Assume top-end Santa Cruz now yields little change from £20k

Fuck me, thought £4k was spendy then spotted that the RRP is £7k

How did we get here?

The £7.5K grant has only exacerbated this by encouraging installer companies to spawn with for the express purpose of harvesting the grant and bumping up prices for everyone.

Well, I agree with this.

Don’t forget the patch of land next to it where something awful will be built.

Wait no that’s probably someone’s garden. Carry on :)

They were formerly structural beams

Presumably not pressure treated? If so, it might mean you need to be careful as to how you finish them.

Got photos of the exterior / interior?

Painting the external walls seals damp in so it tries to get out via the inside surface.

Materials like concrete are porous and will allow moisture to travel into adjoining surfaces.

Modern plasters trap moisture in brickwork until there's enough to pop the plaster off the wall etc...

Ohhhhh yea truckies... interesting

That assumes I have the time / willpower to do that :(

Yeah there's no cords but I just want to avoid that situation where they fail it anyway and you end up paying top-whack for a new tyre and fitment.

Halls not big enough for 1:10 imho - 1/12 on road is probably the safest bet, but the flat pan cars are both as expensive as the M-05 stuff and far more rudimentary (I pitched this as a STEM thing, so I'd hope we'd use something with at least a geared diff!).

Put some electrics in a TT01 I had kicking about and will bring it down for a test drive this Sunday.

I do have a full sized spare, and even had the shitty locking bolts removed so I could actually use it if I had to... It has a different tyre on it though.

Damage is a sidewall nick which has been there for at least six months, but it's a van, so, I'd probably fail it.

Mmm. I wonder if M-05 chassis stuff would be a better bet simply because the construction and shells are more interesting for similar outlay.

There's so little mileage on them that swapping one out should be fine.

CBA to search so will fall upon thy mercy

Need a tyre as sidewall damage is probably going to cause an MOT fail. Best (read not outrageously expensive and prompt) place to get a tire purchased pre MOT?

which current Magura models are still using metal bits on the brake handle instead of plastic?

None AFAIK. And if they did have metal leaver bodies they'd probably cost a lot of money.

Bleed port plug is a sacrificial item - buy a bunch of spares and go lighter on it next time.

Well done for getting out but yea look after yourself!