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Feck me, that is horrific.

Mice.

Having a big garage and shed cleaning sesh - pulled out my relatively new leaf blower to find that Mickey had munched the bag, the little twat.

MingtheMerciless wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 4:20 pm Feck me, that is horrific.

The sparky said that the mess in the box was quite normal for here

And he's licenced to give house safety certificates .

Yorick wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 1:39 pm All repaired with shrink sleeving after chiseling some wall space .

Only wanted €25, so gave him an extra €20 as he came short notice and does us lots of little favours.

You've been out of Yorkshire a long time

Yorick wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 5:25 pm

MingtheMerciless wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 4:20 pm Feck me, that is horrific.

The sparky said that the mess in the box was quite normal for here

And he's licenced to give house safety certificates .

Puts another slant on how cheap properties are out there! Still, if you don't get too many houses burning down, the standards can't be too bad.

Potter wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 5:17 am In the UK I found the quality of new domestic installations was often terrible, the cable is stretched like piano wire through dry lined walls, no mechanical protection and noggins are held in by whatever screws/nails were lying around when the installer 6-week-course Part P person needed them.

I can't argue against any of that.
The quality of the UK housebashing work in general is very variable and personally I blame the fact that building control is often now done by in house building control companies instead of external council controlled people. People seem to get away with worse work.

demographic wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 6:13 am

Potter wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 5:17 am In the UK I found the quality of new domestic installations was often terrible, the cable is stretched like piano wire through dry lined walls, no mechanical protection and noggins are held in by whatever screws/nails were lying around when the installer 6-week-course Part P person needed them.

I can't argue against any of that.
The quality of the UK housebashing work in general is very variable and personally I blame the fact that building control is often now done by in house building control companies instead of external council controlled people. People seem to get away with worse work.

A few years ago a friend of mine rented a brand new house on a new development. One of the internal doors wasn't fitted properly so 'a guy' came out to fix it. He took the door off the hinges, took his Rizla's out of his pocket, placed the packet in the void in the frame as a spacer and refitted the door!
In fairness it did work, but feck me that's a bodgetastic thing to do, particularly right in front of the client !!

Jody wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 7:16 am A few years ago a friend of mine rented a brand new house on a new development. One of the internal doors wasn't fitted properly so 'a guy' came out to fix it. He took the door off the hinges, took his Rizla's out of his pocket, placed the packet in the void in the frame as a spacer and refitted the door!
In fairness it did work, but feck me that's a bodgetastic thing to do, particularly right in front of the client !!

Common practice to pack a hinge maybe a mm or so with a cut strip of the cardboard box that the hinges come in.
One thickness is maybe half a mm? Can't say I've had my micrometer on the stuff.
Not the wriggly cardboard cos thats too compressable to be able to accurately work how thick it is when its in but the stuff thats got no air voids in it is the best stuff.
Given the choice I'll avoid buying the hinges in the wrong type of cardboard
Ideally the strip is glued into the hinge recess so it doesn't fall out the first time someone removes the door to shift a sofa in.

I wouldn't really even class that as a bodge because done right it doesn't affect the strength or appearance of the fitted door.
It is a way to sort hinge recesses that have been routed or chopped too deep and whoever's fitting the doors really needs to remove slightly less material next time.

Personally I'd file that complaint under "Meh"

demographic wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 8:09 am
Common practice to pack a hinge maybe a mm or so with a cut strip of the cardboard box that the hinges come in.
One thickness is maybe half a mm? Can't say I've had my micrometer on the stuff.
Not the wriggly cardboard cos thats too compressable to be able to accurately work how thick it is when its in but the stuff thats got no air voids in it is the best stuff.
Given the choice I'll avoid buying the hinges in the wrong type of cardboard

In my last but 1 job we did loads of carbon driveshafts for large airliners (not gonna say which manufacturer obviously, but the list pretty much only runs from A to B anyway ). This was carbon driveshafts, UJs, spline joints and support bearings that move the flaps/slats on the wings. Maybe £100,000 for a full set of bits which go in a £100m plane.

Every kit had a beautifully machined 2.5mm (IIRC) titanium spacer and a spare set of titanium bolts 2.5mm longer. Said spacer was for when you got to the end of the string of 20 something shafts and you found you'd come up a bit short

Microsoft tablet keyboard. It randomly capitalises words in the middle of sentences, replaces common words with obscure ones and is generally not as Good as the First android efforts ten years ago.

How On earth is sentences mistaken for 'serf nerves'?

Mussels wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 10:09 pm Microsoft...

You coulda stopped there.

Gutted. I dropped my mug this morning. I’ve had it for almost 20 years. And it’s proper broken

It’s lovely to drink from and nearly a pint big. Haven’t seen one like it before or since it was given to me

Gutted

Noggin wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:48 am Gutted. I dropped my mug this morning. I’ve had it for almost 20 years. And it’s proper broken

It’s lovely to drink from and nearly a pint big. Haven’t seen one like it before or since it was given to me

Gutted

Araldite* works well on pottery if it's not in too many bits.


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Noggin wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:48 am Gutted. I dropped my mug this morning. I’ve had it for almost 20 years. And it’s proper broken

It’s lovely to drink from and nearly a pint big. Haven’t seen one like it before or since it was given to me

Gutted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi

cheb wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 8:43 am

Noggin wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:48 am Gutted. I dropped my mug this morning. I’ve had it for almost 20 years. And it’s proper broken

It’s lovely to drink from and nearly a pint big. Haven’t seen one like it before or since it was given to me

Gutted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi

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On Sunday I noticed my old Superduke which I traded with a mate was leaking petrol. The owner is away at work at the moment and he had already talked about switching back to the old tank. (I swapped the tank as the original was badly scratched)

I was pretty sure the leak was from a vent pipe at the back/ bottom of the tank.

I know the tanks are a PITA to fit as they are in fact a tiny bit too big for the space they occupy !. With this is mind I put the replacement outside in the sunshine to warm up a bit as I've been told that this helps.

I drained the bike tank and eventually got it all off. It was clear to see that the tank was, as I thought, leaking from the vent pipe. While it was all apart I modified the tank hinges as this also helps with refitting.
I took further advantage of the nice weather by moving all the cardboard the bike had been sat on outside to dry off.
I took the pump out of the leaky tank and found one of the O rings was knackered. My friend has a box of various sized O rings, not the right size for what I need, but very close, after a bit off faffing I managed to get 2 O rings in the groove, and get the pump mounted into the other tank.
While the tank was off I cleaned all around where the leak was and also managed to get off some very old grime !

Awesomely, with the tank having been in the sun plus the newly modified hinges, the tank went back on almost easily

Everything reassembled, dried out cardboard back inside the garage, bike fuelled and started, I even plugged it in to the optimate !

NOW the bits that BMP !!!

A- Once finished I decided to have a quick look at the leaky vent pipe, just to see if I could do anything with it..... It needed 1/4 of a turn to tighten it right up. I probably could have done that without needing to remove a single bolt from the bike
B- This morning there is a small puddle under the bike, from where the new tank is leaking.

So depending on my enthusiasm today I could well be removing the vent pipe from the old tank, refitting with some PTFE (not sure it's needed but it shouldn't hurt?) then refitting that tank to the bike.

Jody wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 9:10 am leaking petrol. one of the O rings was knackered.

Forty fucking quid for 2 O rings from KTM, one of which I/we don't even need but they come as a pair!!

Motorbike insurers whose quotation forms can't accept that your no claims length may be longer than the length of time you've held your licence, because they're not factoring time spent riding on a CBT.

Motorbike insurers who accidentally use words like "car" or "van" through the quote process. It's just a lack of attention to detail that makes you wonder if they really care about offering motorbike insurance.

Main dealers...

Car in for egr cooler recall which BMW will pay Vertu 2 hours labour to do which is fine and dandy apart from they have rammed in so many appointments in the diary that they need the car for the whole day so they can fit in their own ‘vehicle inspection’*.

They insisted I only arrive at the allocated time to minimise number of people in the dealership so surely they can schedule the work inline with arrival times...

* AKA how can we drum up some more work (bets are on tyres, discs and pads + routine service (4,000 miles away = 9 months at the moment))

My car went in for exactly the same recall (I assume - BMW 2 litre diesel EGR cooler leak inspection) and the dealer (BMW North Oxford) couldn't have been nicer about it. Gave me a courtesy car, apologised that it needed fixing at all, did the job and didn't come up with any imaginary work...they even uploaded the latest sat nav data for free "since we had it in anyway".