dobbslc
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My wife agrees...No such thing as "suction" . . .
Discuss . . .
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Melvyn Best
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I once had a girlfriend that wouldn’t agree with your wife, Those were the days!
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Managed to break another toilet seat. Not with my overly padded posterior but trying to remove it with its quick release for cleaning. Surprisingly it's not the first or even second time but more like 5th or even 6th. Problem is the toilet is a Tavistock and the seat was an odd size as it was compact toilet, didn't know that when we bought it nor did we need a smaller one either.
First time the seat broke was the quick release mechanism seizing up, 2nd time I broke the plastic that holds the mechanism and that's when I found out the toilet had been discontinued along with the seat. Similar size ones available (and expensive) but need the mounting posts at maximum extension creating flex in the fixing so the quick release doesn't work easily and too much force (not a lot required) snaps the seat at the fixing. This time when it happened and the wife turns up with the duct tape ready to make repair without needing to be asked. After spending more on toilet seats than the cost of the toilet itself we decided to replace the toilet altogether, overkill but when you start to hate a toilet you know you have to do something about it.
First time the seat broke was the quick release mechanism seizing up, 2nd time I broke the plastic that holds the mechanism and that's when I found out the toilet had been discontinued along with the seat. Similar size ones available (and expensive) but need the mounting posts at maximum extension creating flex in the fixing so the quick release doesn't work easily and too much force (not a lot required) snaps the seat at the fixing. This time when it happened and the wife turns up with the duct tape ready to make repair without needing to be asked. After spending more on toilet seats than the cost of the toilet itself we decided to replace the toilet altogether, overkill but when you start to hate a toilet you know you have to do something about it.
Nope - it's atmospheric pressure you're feeling . . .
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Suction?
Craig-SM
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I don’t think so just flex in the brackets with post so far from the fixing making it bind.
The previous type had a push button that released the posts
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Yep, the way our physics teacher explained it: if you put your hand over a pipe and then put a vacuum in the pipe, there's nothing in the pipe. You can't pull against nothing so it's the something on the outside that's pushing, not the nothing on the inside that's pulling.
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The cyclone is up and running again.
I had a spare tub from one of the Lidl ash collectors that were so rubbish I don't know why I bought two, but at least I had a spare.
To prevent this one imploding, I rolled a ring out of 25 x 5 flat bar and hammered into the center of the tub.
It's a tight fit so I didn't fix it in place but just welded the ends of the ring together.
I also pop rivetted a plate over the original inlet.
We will see if this is man enough for the job.
I must say it is handy having a ring roller for the few times you need it.
I had a spare tub from one of the Lidl ash collectors that were so rubbish I don't know why I bought two, but at least I had a spare.
To prevent this one imploding, I rolled a ring out of 25 x 5 flat bar and hammered into the center of the tub.
It's a tight fit so I didn't fix it in place but just welded the ends of the ring together.
I also pop rivetted a plate over the original inlet.
We will see if this is man enough for the job.
I must say it is handy having a ring roller for the few times you need it.
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Farside
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If you connect mains pressure water to it, it will blow back out again, safely.
If anyone wants to know, just in case.
My first cyclone drum was a small plastic barrel that imploded on first use. It was replaced by the drum from a Lidl ash vac like yours only without the reinforcing ring & it hasn't collapsed yet!
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Were you leaning on it at the time?
