Today I acquired...........

sardine · Jan 9, 2024

A top quality skip find to start the year off .

Shox Dr · Jan 9, 2024

Been waiting a while for this Air bed pump. For the size it's crazy fast at blowing up a wide 100mm thick kipmat.

Bank card for scale

Wozzaaah · Jan 9, 2024

……. A rather large quantity of timber! One of my customers gets sheets of mesh delivered on 12’x6’ pallets and says they’re a pain to get rid of.
They will soon be getting put to good use for a shed build.
He even very kindly lent me his huge trailer to transport them.
From pallets to piles in about 1 3/4 hours. Just need to de-nail it all now.

MetalMonkey · Jan 9, 2024

I've gotton some pretty decent wood out of pallets before!

Onoff · Jan 9, 2024

I'd have likely used the 12' sides as is. Staple on building fabric thereafter and clad at your leisure.

https://flic.kr/p/XrW2tZ

https://flic.kr/p/28KXTzj

Wozzaaah · Jan 9, 2024

Onoff said:
I'd have likely used the 12' sides as is. Staple on building fabric thereafter and clad at your leisure.

https://flic.kr/p/XrW2tZ

https://flic.kr/p/28KXTzj

Nice idea but it's going to be on an allotment and there's supposed to be an 8'x6' size limit, though the one that's currently just about still on it is a little larger.

Onoff · Jan 9, 2024

Wozzaaah said:
Nice idea but it's going to be on an allotment and there's supposed to be an 8'x6' size limit, though the one that's currently just about still on it is a little larger.

Two storey it is this then!

Farside · Jan 9, 2024

Yesterday...

A proper AGM charger for the bike batteries.
Sorted. Now I'm fairly sure where I am with them.
Iow, don't need to buy a replacement quite yet, likely get another year or two out of them.

DAPPH · Jan 9, 2024

JOEPRO said:
When was the last time you checked the tyre pressures?

I check my car tyre pressures monthly. And more often than not there are differences. Aka if you set them on a hot summers day then check them again when ambient temps drop then expect them to under read a little.

Now you suspect issues you need to check them after 24 hrs and a few days later etc to see is there a leak. (Obvious really but I'm sure 97% of motorists sadly don't check or don't know how to check their tyre pressures and just wait until a warning light comes on or a tyre blows out)

Get yourself a digital pressure gauge, or better yet a cordless tyre inflater with digital pressure gauge unbuilt.

They were all checked two Saturday s ago by the RAC guy , that how we found the screw in the tyre , he repaired it reflated it I took the car to get the 100 mile retighten check yesterday when the low pressure warning light came on . There was a 10 pound lower reading on each of the old tyres. Every thing re inflated to the correct pressure and the sensor circuit reset as balanced .

Thinking about it if the low tyres were over inflated a few pounds and then lowered to the correct pressure again could this possibly be he solution ...ie it wasn't done on all four tyres when the damaged tyre was replaced . Likely it was just clicked as reset the system one the repaired wheel was put back on .
This afternoon sat in the car playing with the computer screens ..... finding out a bit more each day I noticed on the tyre check screen " Adjust all tyre pressures then reset the system " .

Re :- inflating etc . I undertook a 3 yr apprenticeship at full time military engineering college trained as a mechanic & electrician plus several higher technical advanced courses later over my 15 yrs service . Unfortunately getting zapped a few times in the last 46 years prevents me doing my tyres , I have to rely on motability and comply with their hire terms , can't even use the same tyre place two miles away that my wife uses for her car even though they have offered FOC checks .

I think it is to do with the Kwikfit places using nitrogen when inflating tyres ,, air migrates through the artificial tyre rubber walls 7 treads , apparently nitrogen does not . That would sound sensible too as Motability has a massive hire fleet that needs very careful husbandry & safe practices .

bricol · Jan 10, 2024

Seeing as air already has 78% nitrogen, and I've not yet heard of anyone, Kwik Fit included, pulling a vacuum on a tyre, then filling it with pure nitrogen, then the tyre only has a bit more nitrogen in it than usual.

Much more likely to be going down due to leaky valves, dodgy seal on the beads, than permeation through the tyre.

Kwik Fit got stuff by Watchdog for charging customers for nitrogen inflation without asking them first.

This is what Continental, who make a few tyres, say about it:

"The fact of the matter is that inflating tires with nitrogen is not necessary for typical everyday use on a passenger car. It might even be considered a frivolous waste of money."

Pigeon_Droppings2 · Jan 10, 2024

Nitrogen is meant to have better temperature stability I thought?

Half the problem setting pressure to remove sensor warnings I reckon is caused by people ignoring the basic laws of physics!

roblane65 · Jan 10, 2024

Yes it does but in every day the advantage is a minimal gain maybe in a race machine where pressures are more critical , to me it's just another click for the garages to spin more money out the " punters "

Shox Dr · Jan 10, 2024

Over 150kgs of beans through the last (domestic) machine over the last 12yrs its had its day.
Time for a better one. Im rattling Ive drunk so much this morning :laughing:

Pigeon_Droppings2 · Jan 10, 2024

roblane65 said:
Yes it does but in every day the advantage is a minimal gain maybe in a race machine where pressures are more critical , to me it's just another click for the garages to spin more money out the " punters "

I think it might be helpful where there's a tyre pressure monitoring system that's tripping in the cold due to pressure drops (and all else has failed!)....some cars seem to be very sensitive these days...I have no evidence other than the properties of Hydrogen vs air.

I find air works fine for me....but using a compressor to precisely fill the tyres is a bit of a fools errand. Better to slightly over fill and then come back a day later and adjust I find.

Craig-SM · Jan 10, 2024

Shox Dr said:
Over 150kgs of beans through the last (domestic) machine over the last 12yrs its had its day.
Time for a better one. Im rattling Ive drunk so much this morning
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Our Delonghi bean to cup threw up a fault that I couldn't fix so had to be sent it in for repairs in November last year. I had to buy a Delonghi Dedica pump machine to keep the coffee withdrawals at bay whilst the other machine was repaired. Unfortunately the couriers had a good go at trashing the machine with various parts damaged on its return to so was returned again and then again after its second return with more damage. I certainly got more new parts than I paid for in repairs. Anyway really enjoyed using a pump machine again and even with the same brand and roast of beans made a different tasting coffee but glad to have my automatic machine back and fully working again even if it has clocked over 22,000 cups, no idea what that equates to in kg's of beans.

Shox Dr · Jan 10, 2024

Craig-SM said:
Our Delonghi bean to cup threw up a fault that I couldn't fix so had to be sent it in for repairs in November last year. I had to buy a Delonghi Dedica pump machine to keep the coffee withdrawals at bay whilst the other machine was repaired. Unfortunately the couriers had a good go at trashing the machine with various parts damaged on its return to so was returned again and then again after its second return with more damage. I certainly got more new parts than I paid for in repairs. Anyway really enjoyed using a pump machine again and even with the same brand and roast of beans made a different tasting coffee but glad to have my automatic machine back and fully working again even if it has clocked over 22,000 cups, no idea what that equates to in kg's of beans.

The Kitchenaid Espresso machine I was using was going back so often, taking 2-3mths to be returned I bought another, 2nd hand. Expensive to buy new, very cheap 2nd hand. Based on a Gaggia Classic parts are cheap and available, it was an easy fix.

The new machine (ECM) is German and very well built, hopefully I wont have to claim warranty or it fail out of it. First job is to test the water supply and find out the best filtration type, and get it plumbed in.