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You have my sympathy. I have two a$$hole type brother-in-laws. They are younger than me, so if they live long enough they are going to have a great shock to find out their side of the family have been excluded ( with cover letters ) entirely from my will.
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You have my sympathy. I have two a$$hole type brother-in-laws. They are younger than me, so if they live long enough they are going to have a great shock to find out their side of the family have been excluded ( with cover letters ) entirely from my will.
I have only just (this year) started speaking to my sister after this episode and that was way back in the mid nineties. The main reason is because my mother is ninety four and I want her to be happy, they can fek off for me.
I was highly amused to see a little while later that "their plumber" had replaced all of the exterior waste pipes with the most horrendous looking white plastic, the gutters and downpipe were black. It looked horrendous but there is no accounting for taste, or ignorance.
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As the saying goes, you can choose your friends.....
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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You can intern your family.
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An Ender 3 Max. The end of the Bowden tube was scorched and there was a major clog. After unclogging and replacing the nozzle and Bowden tube there was still an issue. Each print started well, but the hot end clogged up again after 10 minutes. Had me scratching my head. Turned out the front fan wasn't spinning (needed the fluff and dust build up removing). Caused heat creep into the throat and the filament was melting in that area resulting in a big plug of filament building up. Couldn't figure the problem yesterday but had it fixed within 20 minutes today. That's three 3D Printers I've had to fix this week.
Barking Mat
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So been continuing engine change fun, pulled out this slightly tired 22 year old engine, 11000 odd hours, change it before it dies, engine.
Nov '22
Then I cleaned and repainted some of the bilge.
Before and after.
Then last week, new engine arrived, we chucked it in on tractor forks, it's winter, boats in yard.
Started Monday morning installing the engine, pulled the prop shaft out so we could have a woodruff key cut into the shaft at same time and changed the cutlass bearing at the same time.
That's all done, just the loom to install tomorrow and we're done.
Nov '22
Then I cleaned and repainted some of the bilge.
Before and after.
Then last week, new engine arrived, we chucked it in on tractor forks, it's winter, boats in yard.
Started Monday morning installing the engine, pulled the prop shaft out so we could have a woodruff key cut into the shaft at same time and changed the cutlass bearing at the same time.
That's all done, just the loom to install tomorrow and we're done.
DAPPH
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I put in 15 double gang switched wall sockets on three separate rings & two lighting circuits when I designed how I wanted the mancupboard to function just after we came here to Wales .
Had to add another four doubles and a double earth leakage socket to boot as well as wiring in the roller doors fused box spur
So pleased I put in a 9 way ( IIRC) consumer unit & most of the sockets some 17 yrs ago .
Barking Mat
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All of Monday morning of the above was spent enlarging a hole for the prop shaft by 20mm in a partition wall where it goes through, wanted to do a tidy job, tried to borrow a massive hole cutter and failed, no access with a jigsaw cutter, found a shop locally which had a 168 mm hole saw in stock, went and bought it 75€, before VAT, 89 inluded, we had an existing hole of 150mm. Had to block one side with ply, and build up 100mm of depth, so we could get a pilot drill in the middle, double partition wall, ply, gap, fibreglass.
Problem was big Metabo powerdrill wanted to break my wrist in confined space, barely had cm's to get the lot in with the huge hole cutter, gave up, finished with a Dewalt cordless, as it wanted to break my wrist slightly less, they don't half have some torque when they jam.
Problem was big Metabo powerdrill wanted to break my wrist in confined space, barely had cm's to get the lot in with the huge hole cutter, gave up, finished with a Dewalt cordless, as it wanted to break my wrist slightly less, they don't half have some torque when they jam.
Barking Mat
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Neh, dead simple, plug and play, it's more the pulling all the floors up, and passing the new cabling which will be time consuming.
it's an indoors and outdoors dual control arrangement, so twice as much fun.
Barking Mat
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Golden rule in life, unless your rich / stupid don't buy a boat.I've always had a bit of an afinity for boats , but i'm oh so glad I've never owned oneI do like a nice week on the broads and a bit of fishing .
Apologies to any forum owners who own a boat.
Been there done that, twice, not doing it ever again.
Scalarocco
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I once read a comment that went "the two best days you'll have with a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it." Never been tempted myself tbh.
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If it flies, fks or floats - rent it.
Was the advice I was given by a richer man than me.
Barking Mat
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The author ,name forgotten, of " The art of course sailing" referred to sailing on the Broads not as mucking about in boats but boating about in muck.I've always had a bit of an afinity for boats , but i'm oh so glad I've never owned one
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Ive owned a boat, and am the son of a man who also owned a boats……….good advice.
Today. 20 minute job to fit new starter motor to a Hyundai Generator……turned into two butchered spanners and skinned knuckles. Why do our far easten friends make everything so “swear word of choice” awkward.
16mm AF heads, arghhhhh no short stubby spanner that size, couldnt get socket in. Ground out 15mm but couldnt get enough movement to turn spanner over and get a bit more. Then cut bannana spanner in half, too long to get any turn and ground ring down to fit.
