Magical Mystery Mission, AKA "The Mission".
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 2:16 am
As mysterious as I'm trying to make it sound, this mission is probably not. It shall not be spoken of by definite terms. It shall only be spoken of by necessary supplies and equipment. A mission of moderate size and with only a modest team, this mission shall be great fun, or a great disaster. Only time will tell. The members of the team may or may not be obvious, and may or may not post here in this thread. They may choose to use proxies as a distraction technique, or to post themselves to give the impression of not going after having seen this preamble. The destination and origin of the mission could be equal, far, close or vice versa, no one really knows for sure. When the mission shall take place is also uncertain, at least to you, soon, though, very soon. I'm sure, though, that you could guess one of the team members based on the author of this thread. May the mission planning begin!
Strategy, two team members on the plane, two checked in bags, two carry on bags.
Go to it!
Fred.
PS, those with any prior knowledge of the mission are expressly forbidden to discuss the nature of the mission or their knowledge of it, however are welcome to participate in the mission described a few lines above.
Strategy, two team members on the plane, two checked in bags, two carry on bags.
- All irreplaceable and non security risk items to be in carry on baggage.
- All security risk items that are irreplaceable or in any way valuable or necessary shall be distributed among the two checked in bags equally in order to create redundancy.
- READY Tie down straps, 25mm, strong, 4 of, 2 in each checked bag.
- READY Jaguar ECUs, 2 of, 1 in each checked bag.
- READY A modified pulley with a missing tooth pattern attached or cut into it, lucky dip, one only, one checked bag
- READY A suitable sensor for reading that missing toothed wheel, same bag as above
- READY As much closed cell packaging foam as can be fit in the bags with the other contents, both bags, maxed out.
- READY Four Riedel red wine glasses, two in each bag, redundant and perhaps insufficient in the case of one loss.
- READY Two Debian laptops, one in each carry on bag.
- READY One gopro style camera in one carry on bag.
- READY One DSLR style camera around one good man's neck.
- READY Spare underwear in case things get exceedingly scary.
- PARTLY Two sleeping bags and one or two self inflating mattress, distributed into both bags as equally as possible.
- A decent sized wad of cash, held tight to one team members chest and not let out of his/her sight.
- PARTLY A four-post wasted spark coil in working order, and some matching leads of sufficient length, stored in one suitcase with maximum luck.
- PARTLY Minimal tool kit for on-road repairs in the middle of no where
- PARTLY Blankets/sheets to protect interior from luggage and parts
- PARTLY Some vacuum hose to attach between manifold and MAP sensor
- Yeah, yeah, nah. Electric carby fuel pump just in case
- NOPE :-( Plug for coils and ignitors to drive them
- READY A bunch of thick cardboard for packaging heavy dangerous infamous items.
- READY One bottle of long-cellared wine for shared consumption.
- AVAILABLE One bottle of freshly-purchased wine for shared consumption.
- READY One heavy dangerous infamous item.
- READY Two boxes of associated items that assist in making the heavy dangerous infamous item properly dangerous and infamous once in action.
- READY One 6.6kg circular device from a famous model of automotive weaponry, skinned with something near worthless that doesn't last long when abused in a stationary fashion.
- READY One or two good soldering irons, and some solder, and insulation tape, etc.
- READY Some moderate hookup wire to solder to various unnamed items with enthusiasm never before seen.
- READY A functional and usable timing light.
- DUBIOUS Patience and tolerant neighbours.
Go to it!
Fred.
PS, those with any prior knowledge of the mission are expressly forbidden to discuss the nature of the mission or their knowledge of it, however are welcome to participate in the mission described a few lines above.