RedRooster Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Banned from a hi-fi repair forum even before my first post, WTF... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 How did they know? Seriously though, How unreasonable! Maybe some ham-fisted admin hit the wrong button…., Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrookster Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 1 hour ago, RedRooster said: Banned from a hi-fi repair forum even before my first post, WTF... I'm impressed!! For the next level, you need to get yourself banned before you join............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escadrille Ecosse Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 43 minutes ago, thebrookster said: I'm impressed!! For the next level, you need to get yourself banned before you join............... Beat me to it there Phil RR you are obviously a man with underappreciated talent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escadrille Ecosse Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 @JohnD this popped up on my Facebook feed this morning. Caught my eye as as I thought 'I know that car'.... https://www.facebook.com/share/CdVw2FxTHxJ9QtE5/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Yes, I was led to it too. Nice pic! I don't know "Derbyshire Car Spotter" at all. His (?) Facebook page is full of all sorts of cars. RR, I was banned - well, I've been banned from the Triumph International, but that's a different story - from a well known US astronomy message board for describing astrology as "bullshit". I was told that children might read the site. Some admins (and officials) are just power mad. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escadrille Ecosse Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 48 minutes ago, JohnD said: I was banned - well, I've been banned from the Triumph International, but that's a different story - from a well known US astronomy message board for describing astrology as "bullshit". I was told that children might read the site. Some admins (and officials) are just power mad. given that it's a country afraid of using the word toilet it's surprising that they left it at a ban and didn't call in an airstrike to purge the world of you awfulness John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprint95m Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 On 3/28/2024 at 11:28 AM, JohnD said: A domestic "Bollocks!" We all use those spray bottles of cleaner around the house, but it seems a shame, especially when we should re-use and recycle, to throw a working spray bottle away just because its empty Many are made by Unilever, including the one I favour, 'Cif'. Unilever marketed small refill bottles of the concentrated cleaning solution, each about a tenth the size of the spray bottle without any spray, that easily emptied into the original bottle and was topped up with tap water. The refill bottles were recyclable. Were, because they disappeared from my supermarket, and when I asked Unilever, they said they had stopped making refills! No explanation, although previously the supermarket told me they didn't sell well. Anyway, Boo! to Unilever! Bring back refills! A small gesture towards recycling, but they add up. John Ah, so it is not just me who couldn't find any refills.... Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Ian, Cif refills still available on Amazon. Old stock, I presume, but at good prices. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 4 hours ago, Escadrille Ecosse said: @JohnD this popped up on my Facebook feed this morning. Caught my eye as as I thought 'I know that car'.... https://www.facebook.com/share/CdVw2FxTHxJ9QtE5/ But over on Fb, that's just bloody rude! "lelts Examination Scores", self described as a "digital creator" has offered "Fairly used cars for sale". 1970 Triumph Vitesse - Donington Park - Derbyshire car spotter | Facebook. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRooster Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 22 hours ago, Escadrille Ecosse said: Beat me to it there Phil RR you are obviously a man with underappreciated talent Thought it was someone who i had worked with previously who ran the site. Anyway in now, lets see if they can help as the NAD 402 tuner has also gone tits up and i was using that as a signal source to fix the amplifier. +-12V and 5V all present so maybe an IC?, could be terminal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 1 hour ago, RedRooster said: Thought it was someone who i had worked with previously who ran the site. Meanwhile….. at a lower level of technology….. though important….. things that make you say “POO!” This is the drain access chamber serving our downstairs bathroom Turns out it’s settled over the years and has now detached itself from the outflow pipe from the house. I say now…. But I reckon it did it a while back as there’s a fair old void. Chamber now on the wonk….. about 1” slope the wrong way….. so it’s probably moved about 2”. Arse! Fortunately our other bathrooms connect well downstream of this and are unaffected. Though it probably means that I should pull out the bastard (in)Saniflo and change the motor start capacitor to ensure 1 shower and 2 fully working toilets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeTRacted Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 1 hour ago, RedRooster said: Thought it was someone who i had worked with previously who ran the site. Anyway in now, lets see if they can help as the NAD 402 tuner has also gone tits up and i was using that as a signal source to fix the amplifier. +-12V and 5V all present so maybe an IC?, could be terminal According to the schematic there are +32, +12, +5 and -12 volt supplies. https://www.audioservicemanuals.com/n/nad/nad-60-7600/nad-402/12583-nad-402-service-manual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escadrille Ecosse Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 2 hours ago, Nick Jones said: Arse! Quite. Drainage work never fun at the best of times. Soil drains particularly so - no matter how long you scrub yourself in the shower you can't wash away the memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetecspit Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 12 hours ago, Nick Jones said: Meanwhile….. at a lower level of technology….. though important….. things that make you say “POO!” This is the drain access chamber serving our downstairs bathroom Turns out it’s settled over the years and has now detached itself from the outflow pipe from the house. Time to invite the sons over..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 11 hours ago, Escadrille Ecosse said: Quite. Drainage work never fun at the best of times. Soil drains particularly so - no matter how long you scrub yourself in the shower you can't wash away the memory My line of work brings much nastier things than soil drains…. , though pretty rarely these days. There was a bit of settled nastiness due the levels now being wrong, but all washed away without difficulty. The irritation is the sheer physical labour of sorting it correctly, plus some worry about why it’s settled and why there’s a void between it and the house - and what’s to be done about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRooster Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 14 hours ago, DeTRacted said: According to the schematic there are +32, +12, +5 and -12 volt supplies. https://www.audioservicemanuals.com/n/nad/nad-60-7600/nad-402/12583-nad-402-service-manual 29.6v present, so near enough, can't see that being the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetecspit Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 2 hours ago, Nick Jones said: My line of work brings much nastier things than soil drains…. , though pretty rarely these days. There was a bit of settled nastiness due the levels now being wrong, but all washed away without difficulty. The irritation is the sheer physical labour of sorting it correctly, plus some worry about why it’s settled and why there’s a void between it and the house - and what’s to be done about that. Sons should learn to dig well.... I would be looking at flexy pipework connectors, a bed of hardcore/MOT type1 or similar, and plastic chamber. Should allow a bit of movement. But that looks like it could have been broken many years, and would have just got worse and worse. But who knows. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escadrille Ecosse Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 6 hours ago, Nick Jones said: The irritation is the sheer physical labour of sorting it correctly, plus some worry about why it’s settled and why there’s a void between it and the house - and what’s to be done about that. I suspect that the backfill round the foundations was inadequately compacted after the house was built so a bit of decent fill in that area will sort things out. Along with the accompanying physical labour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 6 hours ago, zetecspit said: Sons should learn to dig well.... The “Dog” is a champion digger. The “Cat” doesn’t believe in physical labour unless it’s cycling…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRooster Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 My primary carer managed to put some much on to a kitchen corner swivel shelf that it decided to part ways with the hinge, my fault as I built it .... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Failing to account for unexpected peak loads….. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpbarrett Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 not sure this fits into Today bollocks... but is really frustrating. I have brought a nice new Microsoft laptop, cheap but nice quality and seem to work well (I5 chip 8G byte ram and 250SSD). This was to replace a very old Acer that I used for tuning the Herald EFI. Transfer all the software over, backed everything up onto our NAS box and then copied everything onto the new Windows 11 laptop. This is where it went wrong.... The menu for the file explorer seems ok, copy everything from the NAS box into a directory off the documents folder. But when I took the PC into the garage couldn't see the files. It seems the default is that the documents folder is a subfolder on the cloud rather than the local hard disk. All's fine if you are in range of your WiFi (we are in the middle of broadband issues so dont have coverage in the garage, another long painful story). So the files you think are on your local disk are actually in the cloud. Great until you try to tune your Megasquirt in the middle of the fens and cant find the previous tuner files! Stupid and all seems hidden from the user unless you are very careful. Windows 10 was fine but Windows 11 seems completely focused around cloud computing. There seems to be an assumption that you can always be connected that really is not true anywhere outside of a large town! Your files are not really where you think they are! Mike, feeling very grumpy..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escadrille Ecosse Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 1 minute ago, mpbarrett said: Windows 10 was fine but Windows 11 seems completely focused around cloud computing. There seems to be an assumption that you can always be connected that really is not true anywhere outside of a large town! Your files are not really where you think they are! Yes, Windows 11 is rather tiresome generally in my opinion. But even with current versions of Windows 10 the effing thing keeps trying to default save your stuff to the cloud. Pain in the arse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpbarrett Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 1 minute ago, Escadrille Ecosse said: Yes, Windows 11 is rather tiresome generally in my opinion. But even with current versions of Windows 10 the effing thing keeps trying to default save your stuff to the cloud. Pain in the arse. W11 complete PITA, I just want complete control of MY PC to do what I want with it, not what MS wants to do... mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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