What hobbies (other than motorhoming) do you have? (2 Viewers)

[CamperJack]

before the advent of widespread electricity these engines performed every task that might today be replaced with an electric motor.
Most commonly used on farms for anything from sheep sheering to milking cows but probably most commonly driving water pumps.
This example is water cooled but I have the same engine as an air cooled variant. Single cylinder 1.5 horse power petrol.
The air cooled demonstrated here driving two water pumps.

Very interesting and great to see. Nice to keep some of that history alive.

In a similar way I like to collect, restore and use antique fishing tackle. I have wooden reels that are well over 100 years old and about a dozen old cane rods plus a much older one made of greenheart wood. The greenheart is retired as they tend to dry out in their great age and tend to shatter explosively as used. A lovely object though. I still use all the cane ones. Very rare I use anything modern. The reel in this picture was made in 1944 or 1945.

I also have an old Hardy reel with the makers initials, RMS, stamped inside. This means it was made by Robert Marshall Scott who was employed by Hardy's for a period of 51 years between 1916 and 1967. The particular reel was made between 1932 and 1966. I think it's fascinating to know that.

Restoring the old rods is something nice to do that's fishing related in the colder, wetter winter months.

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[Outdoors Dad]

I have had many hobbies like playing football and cricket but obviously as I've got older I've slowed down. I've sporadically had motor bikes and currently have a Suzuki drz 400 which I'm trying to make into a Australian army replica. However lately my brother has got me into restoring old paraffin lamps and stoves. It's nice to give old equipment a new lease of life, like other funsters have mentioned.

 

[bobnick]

Flying, obviously... [and gyros do attract the... [cough] individualistic among us... That's why I chose them ! ]





Political Betting and Forecasting (I was, I think, the first to tip Trump in 2016, and made £50k when he became POTUS. I usually make a tax-free few grand on any election, US or UK, but the Donald was special...)



True Crime (I was credited, in 2018, by a crime author in his book, as having - on balance - solved what Raymond Chandler called "the impossible... unbeatable murder", in Liverpool in 1931. )

Goodreads

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William Herbert Wallace - Wikipedia

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And the overriding. life-long hobby, I suppose. How to beat the system?
2/3rds the way there...

I was looking for a new hobby, i think i've found it

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[dazandandrea]

I have had many hobbies like playing football and cricket but obviously as I've got older I've slowed down. I've sporadically had motor bikes and currently have a Suzuki drz 400 which I'm trying to make into a Australian army replica. However lately my brother has got me into restoring old paraffin lamps and stoves. It's nice to give old equipment a new lease of life, like other funsters have mentioned.

Look great.
I have an old Tilley lantern that my mom and dad used many many years ago.
Where do you get parts from ? Any idea. Thanks

 

[U.Toadifact]

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[Gaston aires]

Golf now. A moderate 18 handicap. Started at 49 when I had to give up my true sporting love, squash. Played for Moreton hall Bury st Edmunds, Newmarket, and Suffolk county over 45. All came to a sudden end after major back surgery, caused by tripping up stairs at home. I love quizzes as well. Applied for the Chase and pointless but no luck so far
Phil

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[TheAleMan]

May have answered this in the past but I’ll have another go

used to be mad on carp fishing but don’t go anymore. I do go metal detecting and have been since 2003, and I love bird & wildlife watching.

 

[Outdoors Dad]

Look great.
I have an old Tilley lantern that my mom and dad used many many years ago.
Where do you get parts from ? Any idea. Thanks

The site quoted above is useful, I usually use www.fettlebox.co.uk for washes seals and parts and some parts from www.tilleylampsandstoves.com
My next project is a 1944 WW2 hurlock stove

 

[Spriddler]

I'm not a motorhomer.
The motorhome is just a facility for enjoying my other hobbies; foreign travel, food and wine, French medieval history, motorcycling events, (meeting ladies from a French Grab-a-Granny dating site............)

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[Gaston aires]

I'm not a motorhomer.
The motorhome is just a facility for enjoying my other hobbies; foreign travel, food and wine, French medieval history, motorcycling events, (meeting ladies from a French Grab-a-Granny dating site............)

Ooh La La Mon Cherie

 

[John Barrett]

I've got a steam/model engineering thread running, but to make a contribution to this thread here's a few pics...

Latest creation, a Stuart Major Beam Engine, just sold to a guy in Switzerland - £3000!


A 5" gauge Stirling Single locomotive

A 3.5" Britannia Locomotive

Der Seekadett, a radio controlled scale model of a Swiss Lake launch.

 

[eurajohn]

Not so much hobbies more a way of life at any part of my lifecycle, always into motorcycles, road and racing, engineering, fabrication etc.
For many years always bikes, road (track) racing then drag racing making my own (and for others) bikes and race chassis with some reasonable success, as that tailed off with age or needs carp fishing, windsurfing, but always tinkering in my workshop nothing in particular just most anything mechanical.
Bought the Dennis as a basket case and over a few years re-made and rebuilt it, then it was filling my workshop and getting in the way so sold it.
Just tinkering with motorhome at moment.

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[joe and sue]

Staying healthy, cooking, wood turning, wood working in general, reading, listening to music, live music concerts, Classic bikes & cars (now in the care of eldest son) Days out with Sue. All in all just a gentle lifestyle after a lifetime of working to a set timetable!

 

[Techno]

Another restoration nearing completion.
It was proper fubard and had a fault straight out the factory

 

[Old Gibber]

Snap,

Spent 20 years restoring 80s Jap 2t
Was going to restore the IT 490 but it was a beast so sold it
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Brings back memories, I used to have an X5 200cc.

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[DerryW]

Ipswich Town FC supporter.

 

[haganap]

I'm a member of the 100 marathon club having completed over 100 marathons and ultras,
I'm also a 5 time Ironman athlete..

Love skiing too

Training takes up 75 percent of my free time, I love the motorhome as it serves as a base for all the things we do.

 

[David BW]

Dinghy racing, grand children, dog walking in lovely countryside, gardening & still trying to maintain & improve our house that was built in 1904, and that we have lived in for over 30 years.

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[Wildbill]

Renovating a old boat

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[martin west dorset]

Another restoration nearing completion.
It was proper fubard and had a fault straight out the factory
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A nice lister H type water pump.

 

[uzsnowdrop]

Just sit by myself playing with my didgeridoo…

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[DesandDek]

Hi all our hobby besides and along side motor homing is Amateur Radio (No not CB check out RSGB Radio Society of Great Britain). It is a great very diversified hobby from just chatting to other people with the same hobby 57,000 in UK, 700,000 in USA so many millions world wise. To learning to build your own transmitting equipment.
We visit Ham Fests (we recently visited the Ham Radio in the Messe at Freidrichshafen in southern Germany) around Europe and set up stations attached to our motorhome when we can.
I have a main station at home and love operating daily from home when not away. We operate in voice mode SSB, CW, morse code (yes it is still used), Digital modes and maintain our own stations to eliminate any interference etc.
The great thing about the hobby is we learn something useful every day. We contact other operators from all over the world and exchange information and can operate frequencies from Low Frequencies to Microwave.
Some Hams operate from the top of mountains from special locations, go on DXpeditions to uninhabited or exotic islands to contact the rest of the world, there are 340 contact countries which you can try to contact on all your licenced bands and modes, so there is always a challenge to contact that exotic location and receive conformation from them that you were able to make that contact with your maintained station.
Today's internet has still not surpassed doing the Ham Dance which is obligatory after achieving a new contact.
Sorry for being so boring to some but our hobby has bought us so many friends and acquaintances over the years as well as a direction in our working lives as the training gave us further skills (electronics) to develop our engineering carriers.
We are currently updating our antenna rotator controller and antenna switching system using the Raspberry Pi WiFi systems so always moving forward with technology and loving it.
Derek's callsign is G4XEE which is my main vehicles registration I also have G5 in the motorhome. Look at QRZ.com and enter my callsign for my details.
There are many amateur radio clubs in the UK who can train individuals to obtain a licence but go to the RSGB site to start your journey to this great hobby.
Video did not kill the radio star, it still shines at light speed.
Great coms when mobile in that great motorhome, free and you do not have to relay on mobile phone signals.

 

[Richard n Ann]

Cleaning up after Bod

 

[Guffy60]

Hide and seek, usually loose as can be found somewhere near the toy.

working on old cars and rallying either driving or navigating.

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[garry55]

Motorbikes.
Since I bought my first (legal) road bike 41 years ago, I have owned and ridden 98 other road bikes, plus countless off-roaders. And those that I rode before I was old enough to ride on the road (I started when I was 10 years old).
I currently own a 1996 Suzuki RF900 as my go-to road bike.
A 1968 Suzuki K11P 80cc classic that I use for classic road trips (did the 500 miles "3 Moors Run" last September then the "Tiddlers in Portugal" run later that month).
A home-built Suzuki V4 500cc track bike that is currently undergoing it's 3rd re-incarnation.
And 5 on-going projects (Triumph X75 Hurricane "replica", Triumph T575 "Steam Triple", Moto Cati V70 Monzta, Suzuki GSX1100S Katana and a Suzuki TDRGV250).

My other hobby, when I'm not tinkering with or riding motorbikes, is my mission to visit every Brewdog bar in the UK. 24 so far, and counting!

 

[cruiser]

Used to have a aviary . but have also done banger racing. that was fun. Then r/c cars and boats. Now walking the dog. And model trains 00. Also used to do , ballroom dancing in the distance past.

 

[EuroTrotters]

View attachment 126761 I built my 2 seater aircraft over 7 years and it's taken me to the canaries /north cape/ Croatia and over the top of mount blanc at 18000 ft,
fantastic way to travel if the weather is good, I tend to do my Motorhome touring outside the flying season,

You Built it?

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[Roby2008]

Not so much hobbies more a way of life at any part of my lifecycle, always into motorcycles, road and racing, engineering, fabrication etc.
For many years always bikes, road (track) racing then drag racing making my own (and for others) bikes and race chassis with some reasonable success, as that tailed off with age or needs carp fishing, windsurfing, but always tinkering in my workshop nothing in particular just most anything mechanical.
Bought the Dennis as a basket case and over a few years re-made and rebuilt it, then it was filling my workshop and getting in the way so sold it.
Just tinkering with motorhome at moment.

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I was one of the first year of kids that had to stay at school until 16 back in the 70´s, they had no idea what to do with us.......I spent a whole term cutting the grass around the school on one of these ...

 

[David BW]

And I’ve now added radio control model yacht racing (International One Metres).

 

[Chris]

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