I have a feeling we may find out soon, electrics and water rarely get along without drama.
Having fixed the pump so it now runs, fixed the leak at both ends of the heater matrix I am more than a bit pissed off to see so many other bits have joined in the leak festival.
There is so much dripping going on its like being in Wales, I don’t know if I should try to fix it or admit defeat and use it to hide a hydroponics setup…
“India99 to base : Thermal camera has detected a heat source… Looks like a hot tub though”
Hmmmmm, whats the going rate for a quarter of Durban Poison ?
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The Tub is fixed!
That is the short version of events, all the controls had O-ring seals.
Had!
They now have them again and water stays where water should be while air goes about its business without getting wet until it hits the bubble jet.
Many Many limescales have been evicted, Thank you Thames Water, thank you right in the eye!
Speaking of eyes, what really cheered me up today was the ever growing thing on my eye went up to the size of a Sugar Puff.
Then with a jiggle the custard escaped!
Now I can see out of both eyes.
I could have gone to the doctors but GP surgeries are full of poorly people and I’m still avoiding them.
B3TA always has something to lift the day, sometimes its a bit dark
(Are we allowed to say dark any more?)
I has been haXord apparently and somebody has sent me a note about having full access to my computer and contacts and ALL my social media.
The sender has full control of my camera and has has a video of me “buffin my muffin” from my webcam and is going to blow up the internet with it.
So treat all incoming links with caution, especially any black and white films titled “DONKEY!”
Calm down , My webcam went to the father in law when I gave up on skype a while ago!
You are probably all safe…?!
Either you are all happy with my Muffin Video or the haXor was full of crap…
Today I was cheered up by a carb rebuild and a spot of light tuning.
Calm down, its a lawnmower, nothing exciting.
Its a Mountfield lawnmower, used to be self propelled but it spat the belt off and chopped it up some years ago, I thought well it still runs and I only need to push it half the time anyway so that didn’t get fixed.
Leaves more power for mowing the crap out of things.
Over time it has edged it way up the difficult to start ratings, Reluctant to Difficult to Obstinate to START YOU UTTER BASTARD!
Cleaning the plug and carb out only helped for so long so it sat in the corner.
The carb would not prime, it would run with easy start briefly but not from petrol.
Internet experts pointed at many things being a possible cause so I changed some gaskets, O-rings, air filter covering the majority of possible causes in one go and it fired right up.
However it wasn’t running smooth, it was hunting at full chat, some sort of conflict between the throttle position which is nothing more than a polite request to the engine room for full speed ahead.
If the engine room decides, She cannae take any moar Cap’n that is all you get.
The throttle pulls on a spring and the governer takes control of the actual carb opening.
A deft twist of a pair of pliers shortened this spring and the throttle makes the mower now rev.
All the vegetation has now been smooshed, most satisfying.
Strimmer ? Where we are going we don’t need no strimmer.
Top Tip: Roller skates make a lot of noise (and mess)
just don’t combine the power strimmer with the drone!
If it could lift my cordless chainsaw, STUFF could happen!
Probably bad stuff if you mix up the left/right and To Me/To You controls.
Moral being, a balloon can really mess up a drones ability to fly
#KillerDrone
Can a Public Information film be both entertaining and disturbing at the same time ?
‘Clunk Click’ - The Hardcore Public Information Remix.
Kids and water, They LOVE IT!
Is that you driving the red austin 1100 at the beginning ?
Sarge.
The Grandfather of drifting ?
No that is from a Public Mongformation Film about crossply tyres
The other Red Ferrari was from a series called “The Blunders” and had kerb proof tyres
Anyway, I done fixed another thing!
I bought a Gtech vacuum cleaner and for £20 extra it came with a handheld one which was great.
Was… It made a grindy noise and gave up.
Being under warranty we received a new one minus battery and the dust box.
It still didn’t work, the battery was deemed to be also broken, a new battery arrived and all was good.
This left a possibly dead battery and a dodgy vacuum body, both not very old so I did a post-mortem.
The impeller fan had made contact with the housing and welded the two together so I cleaned that up a bit so it would spin.
No life, so the battery pack was investigated.
Aha, an SMD fuse rated at 20Amps, open circuit!?!?!? Could it be that simple ?
I soldered a couple of copper strands across the ornamental fuse, this was deemed “adequate”.
It only works!!!
Major flashback…
I bought a laptop that was once a gamers object of desire, it still plays Quake3 rather well even though I am still rubbish at it.
… Opens case for his rose-tinted monocle
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Yesterday morning I was reading a book whilst undertaking the primary of the Triple S routine.
The book was from the XKCD series and I found a article I hadn’t read…
Later in the afternoon the subject of going somewhere sunny for Christmas cropped up, Lanzarote has been ideal in the past so we began looking at flight prices and places to rent maybe Lanzarote or perhaps one of the other islands for a change.
One of the rent a villa sites had a breaking news popup.
At this point it was noted that one of the islands had gone a bit explodey and quite a bit on fire.
Live feed available here was showing coverage 12 hours before the BBC took any notice.
Braking into the esses at castle combe, my passengers face as smell of burning rubber entered the car as windows down thanks to covid precautions.
It turns out that going out onto the marbles I had collected rather a lot on the fronts, circuit wasn’t in “race” format as it was a rides and drives event. Net result, braking from 60 (track limit for the day) and the inside locked up due to the camber - I suppose it was one way to clear the marbles, the next fake roundabout was a lot less slippy 
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A “could have been worse” picture cheered me up today.
I had a grumble about the Lancer fuel filler pipe being a bit crusty a while ago.
It annoyed me because a few pennies worth of go-go juice ended up on the floor if you brimmed the tank and I am an occasional tightwad.
Plus I hate having shoes that smell of unleaded
I stumbled across some pictures on a Micra forum today, I was looking for info about taking the cylinder head off and ended up looking at this.
Somebody way driving this about and passed several MOT’s with it 
Car names can be amusing, as exhibit A may I present the Toyota MR2, France didnt buy many of those.
But there is a new kid on the block for stupid names…
The Jeep Renegade 1.6 DAWN OF JUSTICE 5d 108 BHP
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202108136208152?include-delivery-option=on&sort=relevance&make=Jeep&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&model=Renegade&radius=1501&advertising-location=at_cars&postcode=ox447rw&page=1
I can just picture a retired JUDGE DREDD, too rickety throw a leg over the trusty LAWMASTER keeping law and order from this fearsome 108 BHP chariot.
Keeping the mean streets of Brighton free of perps
Before
After
One for you maybe ?
Would be ideal in the TFW stable, with half a ton of fireworks in the boot.
Sarge.
BT are rarely a source of amusement but they managed to deliver a chuckle when BT line lost its dial tone and didn’t ring anymore, BOOOO!
So I did a line test and logged a fault, and waited and waited…
Then after just four days it worked again, hooray for 1970’s levels of customer service.
But Wait, somebody has left a 1571 message, I wonder if its important… So I play the message
In a female voice doing a terrible rendition of Steven Hawkins Speak-n-Spell was a message from BT.
It was giving me an update on the fault progress and how it was going to be fixed very soon on
“Oh fieeive thh off myay teeweeenty teeweeeenty tewooo”
This progress update was left on the line that didn’t work, four days before it was mended.
Top Bombing!
Have a look at this, speakers up.
It is a “spinning” video from South Africa, all about when doing donuts goes wrong.
The first clip is the best just for the laughter of the guy filming 
