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sultanoswing

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R.I.P one of the best technical, free, electrics trouble-shooting sites for our beloved B's.

https://www.mgcars.org.uk/electrical

It's interesting to see this site going back to good ol' book format, in this so-called brave new world of the web.

What was once pleasantly free, is soon to be a paid-for book. Not that I begrudge the author his due rights (this rant excepted)...it's just that I already find the Hayne's manuals super-expensive for what they now are: soft-covers with thin, brownish, cheap-feeling paper. I hope the Veloce manual is not similarly spec'd.

What I want to know is: who were these 'site visitors' with their 'lot of correspondence'? Sounds more like some Veloce reps. to me with dollar signs to me. I mean, I can understand wanting a book in addition to, but not instead of, the website. Sigh.

Rant Ends.
 
One thing that has made this hobby easier for me is the abundance of free or very low-cost information available on the web about these cars. Of course, someone probably had to pay for that info at some time, and was generous enough to post it for all to see.
I know when I've posed questions to other MG forums in the past, the respondent was getting the answer from their own Bentley manual or other such reference. It would have been easy to tell me to get my own, but they didn't. Maybe one day I can make a positive contribution.
 
Here's a thought... Go to the link, and save the sites pages on your computer. It'll always be close, and available even if your internet service is down!

I've done that with a few sites that aren't around anymore (but not MG related), and I have them burned onto a cd somewhere.
 
I printed the site to a PDF, I need to go back add some of the mid-page links. If someone needs something from the site I very well may have it.
 
Kenny and Chris, Your average stupid computer person here. I started to save all of the pages as files and I think that I did get all of them to a folder. I even burned them to disc, but then what? That took a LOT of time, and I have a VERY fast processor with a gig of ram connected to a four meg cable connection. I am obviously missing something here. Is there an easier way to download the entire site in such a way that it can be opened and reviewed just as if it was on a server somewhere? Or, is there a way to download the pages to some application so that it might be converted to a printable condition? You know what I'm getting at, I just want to save all of the information to something that will be there when I need it, instead of waiting and finding out that the guy has just taken it off the server an hour and forty five minutes before I logged on. Jack
 
I can't remember how I did mine, was a couple sites on how to make your own still. I wound up with a complete fileset that I could click through like I was on the web. Did it on dialup too. I might have used Frontpage to download the pages, or redirect the links to the local computer files.

If you do each page individually, you should be able to load the info individually too.

Since then, I've just been saving PDF's that are available with the info I want, and printing out everything else.

Start a binder. You can find the info quicker that way, if you index it. And it'll be there at the car. Much more useful. Usually if I get up from the computer, someone else is on it before I get back.
 
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