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You could have had mine from my garden...Again, all I can say is my Hotpoint washer/never used dryer has been worth every penny it cost, having been perfectly suited to the task I have given it many, many times of producing clean, damp clothes
Although I didn't actually pay anything for it. . . just reclaimed it from my mates garden and let it dry off for a while before plugging it in.
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As long as you never use the dryer it will continue to be perfect! It is the dryer part of the combination that causes all the problems!Again, all I can say is my Hotpoint washer/never used dryer has been worth every penny it cost, having been perfectly suited to the task I have given it many, many times of producing clean, damp clothes
Although I didn't actually pay anything for it
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The car was caked in mud so I wheeled out the pressure washer and picked up the snow foam lance* - and dropped it:
That thin wall with a cut thread was never going to last was it? Unscrewed the remnant and perched it where it came from:
Can't see that being repairable - by me. I'm sure someone else would drill it out, turn up a replacement and braze it in place. All before his coffee cooled.
*I know it's a bit OTT but it removes caked on mud and bovine extrudate quite well. (Looks way cooool bro and bewilders the neighbours too.
That thin wall with a cut thread was never going to last was it? Unscrewed the remnant and perched it where it came from:
Can't see that being repairable - by me. I'm sure someone else would drill it out, turn up a replacement and braze it in place. All before his coffee cooled.
*I know it's a bit OTT but it removes caked on mud and bovine extrudate quite well. (Looks way cooool bro and bewilders the neighbours too.
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Miele are designed to do do three loads a week for seven years before having a service. In practice that's nonsense. They're basically indestructible.I don't see anyone complaining about Miele washing machines (As you'd hope, given the price!).
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A couple of years back maybe, the two wires to the bed thermistor came off the underside off of the Ultrabase pcb on my son's Anycubic i3 Mega printer.
I struggled with it then and the high temperature solder but managed to make it stick.
The joints came apart again yesterday.
I had a go earlier today and ended up using a mini gas torch and an 18W iron at the same time. Couldn't make it stick so smeared some Templars flux on. It flowed a treat. Thought I'd cracked it when the complete copper pad came off!
Lad's attempting to solder direct to the track now.
I struggled with it then and the high temperature solder but managed to make it stick.
The joints came apart again yesterday.
I had a go earlier today and ended up using a mini gas torch and an 18W iron at the same time. Couldn't make it stick so smeared some Templars flux on. It flowed a treat. Thought I'd cracked it when the complete copper pad came off!
Lad's attempting to solder direct to the track now.
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Thermistor or thermocouple? Thermocouple wire really doesn't solder well, you'd be better off soldering an inch of copper wire to the PCB, then joining the TC to that with a crimp.A couple of years back maybe, the two wires to the bed thermistor came off the underside off of the Ultrabase pcb on my son's Anycubic i3 Mega printer.
I struggled with it then and the high temperature solder but managed to make it stick.
The joints came apart again yesterday.
I had a go earlier today and ended up using a mini gas torch and an 18W iron at the same time. Couldn't make it stick so smeared some Templars flux on. It flowed a treat. Thought I'd cracked it when the complete copper pad came off!
Lad's attempting to solder direct to the track now.
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Little black bead dead centre of the PCB underside. It's soldered to two copper tracks that go north in the picture (thieved off the net) below. These tracks go to the edge of the board where they become two large pads in the black masked area. Green & blue wires soldered on. It's one of these pads that's come off:
Lad has cobbled a fix together twice tonight by soldering direct to the track.
We've just ordered a new Ultrabase.
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Managed quite successfully to drop my TIG torch and although it didn't look damaged has now decided to play up . have changed all the replaceable bit but no joy ,just a nasty splat and no pool. Tomorrows another day so perhaps it will heal over night. Seems to work OK on dc .
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My car! I was out first this morning, pitch black and icy. Did the Dad thing and de-iced my lads car for him before he came out to go to work then did mine. Because of the 3rd car now I'm having to park on the lawn until we extend the drive somehow. Means a tight swing for me parking.
He and I sat whilst our cars warmed up a bit and he drove off. I'm sitting there cursing a tooth that's playing up in the cold air. I then reversed off the lawn, between SWMBO's car and the laurel bush. The car was a bit icy still. My rear vision was a bit impaired. The car has perimeter alarms I might add they were warbling. Somehow I thought the alarm was from the front as I was swinging past the back end of SWMBO's. Concentrating on that I barely felt it as I hit the corner of the brick gate pillar. I couldn't have done it "better". Bumper, rear quarter and arch liner I think:
I don't know what's upset me more, the car or the pillar that my lad and I built together. Can't assess the damage to that until I look closely later.
A senior moment, the toothache, too much going on in my head? More likely a wake up call.
He and I sat whilst our cars warmed up a bit and he drove off. I'm sitting there cursing a tooth that's playing up in the cold air. I then reversed off the lawn, between SWMBO's car and the laurel bush. The car was a bit icy still. My rear vision was a bit impaired. The car has perimeter alarms I might add they were warbling. Somehow I thought the alarm was from the front as I was swinging past the back end of SWMBO's. Concentrating on that I barely felt it as I hit the corner of the brick gate pillar. I couldn't have done it "better". Bumper, rear quarter and arch liner I think:
I don't know what's upset me more, the car or the pillar that my lad and I built together. Can't assess the damage to that until I look closely later.
A senior moment, the toothache, too much going on in my head? More likely a wake up call.
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A wake up call Id say and too much going on in your head but luckily itll polish out if you only look at the other side!
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My favourite scraper
It was the right balance between blunt and sharp, the rounded end makes it more difficult to scratch stuff, it's been really useful for all sorts of stuff. Turns out it isn't any use for trying to persuade old plastic hinges out of a kitchen cupboard I've just stripped down. I'm more annoyed about this than I should be.
It was the right balance between blunt and sharp, the rounded end makes it more difficult to scratch stuff, it's been really useful for all sorts of stuff. Turns out it isn't any use for trying to persuade old plastic hinges out of a kitchen cupboard I've just stripped down. I'm more annoyed about this than I should be.
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Starlink. The upfront 30mA house trip went last night but the UPS maintained the Starlink.
Then this morning saying connected but no internet.
My money is on a mouse / rat having chewed the cable where I I routed it through a crawl space in the loft. Tbh just a short length was exposed. I won't know for sure until I crawl back down there. Not until I'm over this man flu!
Then this morning saying connected but no internet.
My money is on a mouse / rat having chewed the cable where I I routed it through a crawl space in the loft. Tbh just a short length was exposed. I won't know for sure until I crawl back down there. Not until I'm over this man flu!
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Ive found sometimes with our starlink, it kind of shuts down to protect its self after a surge/ power outage. I assume youve tried to power off and restart it.
Those cables are an expensive rip off!
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Today...
I really broke my just normally broken ultrasonic cleaner
I also destroyed an old 3 phase motor trying to get it apart, caught the windings with the fan
I'm also broken with a bad chest and cough and my back has gone into spasms that's needed Diazepam to sort. While at the doctor's/physio I've possibly been diagnosed with some BS form of arthritis I've never heard of. MRI to follow...
I should just stay in bed but I'd probably also break that too.
I really broke my just normally broken ultrasonic cleaner
I also destroyed an old 3 phase motor trying to get it apart, caught the windings with the fan
I'm also broken with a bad chest and cough and my back has gone into spasms that's needed Diazepam to sort. While at the doctor's/physio I've possibly been diagnosed with some BS form of arthritis I've never heard of. MRI to follow...
I should just stay in bed but I'd probably also break that too.
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I spent 3 hrs. yesterday making a 1200 mm high wood cutting table for when I do our seven new to us bungalow doors It's made from four spacers off pallets and each " Joint " is an Aldi preformed galve'd right angle that you just screw to the wood in the right place using any where between two & tens wood screws . , Purchased 10 packs of 10 of them many years ago for about £1.30 a pack .
About 90 x 35 & 40 mm turbo screws later and a nearly flat battery on the drill &b it was finished just before it chucked it down with icy rain.
This morning in between showers I put a 10 mm Stokboard top on it with a foot wide Stokboard runners on two opposite sides ,so I can cut up 28 half sheet chipboard panels into 1/4 sheets with the power saw, ready for getting them laid in the roof void by son in law .
Set the saw sole to flat and set the depth of cut to 15 mm then locked them off on the levers
First sheet cut well and easily second sheet something was wrong . The depth of cut had changed from 15 mm to more like 35 mm , the little lock lever securing coach bolt had broken leaving the saw in free fall ,,got a lovely deep cut in the middle of the table some 400 mm long as a result .
Then started the game of hunt the securing nut with the broken bolt in it . The super sized fishing magnet came into play in anger for the first time , I found it in seconds in the grass . three foot away from the bench which is stood on concrete .
What surprised me was that the locking lever had a hex hole in it to fit over the retaining nut and the retaining nut had a big circlip groove on it for a large flat external circlip washer to hold the lever towards the lock point . Had a hunt in the , " Might need this one day " boxes for a replacement 5 mm coach bolt ..found one after an hours searching .
That led me to take a look at the bed tilt locking lever .. identical to the depth lock lever but so sloppy it was nigh on ineffective . So I slipped the circlip off the nut .used a 10 mm spanner to tighten it then slipped the locking lever back over the nut & refitted the circlip .. " Jobs a good un " .
I was given the saw along with numerous other power tools , all of them have had to have silly minor repairs or minor loose or missing small parts that were repaired or replaced to make them like new .
About 90 x 35 & 40 mm turbo screws later and a nearly flat battery on the drill &b it was finished just before it chucked it down with icy rain.
This morning in between showers I put a 10 mm Stokboard top on it with a foot wide Stokboard runners on two opposite sides ,so I can cut up 28 half sheet chipboard panels into 1/4 sheets with the power saw, ready for getting them laid in the roof void by son in law .
Set the saw sole to flat and set the depth of cut to 15 mm then locked them off on the levers
First sheet cut well and easily second sheet something was wrong . The depth of cut had changed from 15 mm to more like 35 mm , the little lock lever securing coach bolt had broken leaving the saw in free fall ,,got a lovely deep cut in the middle of the table some 400 mm long as a result .
Then started the game of hunt the securing nut with the broken bolt in it . The super sized fishing magnet came into play in anger for the first time , I found it in seconds in the grass . three foot away from the bench which is stood on concrete .
What surprised me was that the locking lever had a hex hole in it to fit over the retaining nut and the retaining nut had a big circlip groove on it for a large flat external circlip washer to hold the lever towards the lock point . Had a hunt in the , " Might need this one day " boxes for a replacement 5 mm coach bolt ..found one after an hours searching .
That led me to take a look at the bed tilt locking lever .. identical to the depth lock lever but so sloppy it was nigh on ineffective . So I slipped the circlip off the nut .used a 10 mm spanner to tighten it then slipped the locking lever back over the nut & refitted the circlip .. " Jobs a good un " .
I was given the saw along with numerous other power tools , all of them have had to have silly minor repairs or minor loose or missing small parts that were repaired or replaced to make them like new .
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Still got a broken Starlink I checked the cable from dish to router. I was expecting vermin damage but nothing.
I had to squeeze along the eaves. All ratshit, wasp nests and sticky out sharp bolts. I seem to recall it was easier 4 stone ago!
All those bloody heating pipes, might as well be burning fivers!
I checked the cable from dish to router. I was expecting vermin damage but nothing. I had to squeeze along the eaves. All ratshit, wasp nests and sticky out sharp bolts. I seem to recall it was easier 4 stone ago!
All those bloody heating pipes, might as well be burning fivers!
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The Facebook group for starlink, is very useful for help, they have a cable testing tool I think tooStill got a broken Starlink
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I had to squeeze along the eaves. All ratshit, wasp nests and sticky out sharp bolts. I seem to recall it was easier 4 stone ago!
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All those bloody heating pipes, might as well be burning fivers!
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Ta. Did find this:
Starlink Gen 2 Cable Test Adapter - SPX to RJ45 | eBay
Test FULL or CUT Starlink cables using a standard Network Cable Tester (e.g. Screwfix # 93219 or Toolstation # 10555). These units contain full SPX connectors for the Starlink connectors and a standard RJ45 connector wired to T-568B standard.
www.ebay.co.uk
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Get them lagged!
