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andyBeaker · 7/5/21

Scarified the lawn with the new scarifier, the electric version of the petrol one I have been using for about twenty years.

It was awesome.

I have always gone for petrol driven garden machinery (much needed ant the last place) but I wish I had bought the electric version in the first place.,Did a much better job than the petrol one ever did and much easier to handle.

Best bit though is it just works when you press the button. I had to take the petrol one out for dinner and read French 17th century romantic poetry to it before it would even consider starting.

Squag1 · 7/5/21

A very cultivated scarifier

Malone · 7/5/21

Why do you want to scare your lawn?

Minkey · 7/5/21

went to craft shop at local garden centre and purchased some card making bits and pieces, went around clothes shop and bought a new handbag for £11 last year was £28 result

Jaws · 7/5/21

Filled purged and bled the water system in the van..Drained down and repeated
Watched a load of youtube again
Lost one of the sky remotes.. found it hidden down one of the chars in the conservatory.. Culprit unknown as we had about half the family in and out all afternoon
Got to meet great grandchild #15 and patted #16 for luck as it is due in 7 days time

andyBeaker · 7/5/21

Jaws said:
Filled purged and bled the water system in the van..Drained down and repeated
Watched a load of youtube again
Lost one of the sky remotes.. found it hidden down one of the chars in the conservatory.. Culprit unknown as we had about half the family in and out all afternoon
Got to meet great grandchild #15 and patted #16 for luck as it is due in 7 days time

You can make your Sky remotes beep when they go walkabout...can’t remember how though.....think it is by holding a button on the box Down.

Jaws · 7/5/21

andyBeaker said:
You can make your Sky remotes beep when they go walkabout...can’t remember how though.....think it is by holding a button on the box Down.

Only with the Sky Q box Andy.. which I do not have or want as it requires main voltage and interweb

andyBeaker · 8/5/21

Tidied up the garage.

Found a wall bracket for the battery conditioner hidden in the bottom of the packaging so put that up.

Put all the necessary bits and bobs back in the car (air pump, small tarpaulin, thermal body blankets, first aid kit, keys for properties , phone charging leads, peppermints,umbrella, face masks and hand sanitiser) after getting it back from the dealers yesterday. Constant battle with ‘someone’ to stop put crap that never gets used in the car.

Did COVID test.

Made coffee.

The dream is being well and truly lived today......

Squag1 · 8/5/21

And keys

ogr1 · 8/5/21

Minkey said:
went to craft shop at local garden centre and purchased some card making bits and pieces, went around clothes shop and bought a new handbag for £11 last year was £28 result

They took out the £17 loose change?

Squag1 · 8/5/21

Minkey said:
went to craft shop at local garden centre and purchased some card making bits and pieces, went around clothes shop and bought a new handbag for £11 last year was £28 result

Only a bargain if you need it

Malone · 8/5/21

Received my long overdue Barnett clutch for the Norton from the States. Fitted it and then static timed the new ignition system. The broken cd/TDC disc has been removed after timing it. Whoo, the starter certainly whizzes it around.

Malone · 8/5/21

Also received a large bundle of wiring - I’m going to create myself a new wiring harness.

Jaws · 8/5/21

Went in to the work shop.. All the electric off
Reset the trips and still no lights but the ring for the sockets ok.
Pulled the front off the consumer unit and checked the voltage on the lights and ok
Pulled the front off the multi gang light switch.... nada !
Disconnected the 1.5 twin and earth from the box and put a shorting link on it, checked at the switch end.. open.......
I have no idea how or why it has happened but the feed (red) wire has broken half way along a straight run ( I stripped the sheathing till I found it )
Now I have to rewire the bloody lot and sort out the mess I made !

andyBeaker · 9/5/21

Drove to Eastbourne and had a pleasant stroll down the promenade, pier now open so had a wander along that and took in the food market at the end of the pier.

Normal Sunday activity on the way home, got overtaken safely by a motorised cycle, his two lemming mates followed him and the third in the group almost got hit by a car coming the other way, collision only avoided by car taking evasive action.

Be careful out there.

Squag1 · 9/5/21

andyBeaker said:
Drove to Eastbourne and had a pleasant stroll down the promenade, pier now open so had a wander along that and took in the food market at the end of the pier.

Normal Sunday activity on the way home, got overtaken safely by a motorised cycle, his two lemming mates followed him and the third in the group almost got hit by a car coming the other way, collision only avoided by car taking evasive action.

Be careful out there.

Darwin formula doesn't always work

slim63 · 9/5/21

Shooting, collecting knife parts a mate has made for me, avoiding the enemy

ogr1 · 9/5/21

Had a blat on the Passo.
Tis running much betterer.

Duck n Dive · 9/5/21

Finally got around to looking at my home WiFi.

I'd been getting some drop outs/slow downs for a little while.

Got an app onto the tablet so I could analyse what's going on.

Spotted a few things.

A neighbour seems to be using some mega WiFi boosters which are spilling way out!

Most of the neighbouring WiFi routers are all using the same channel.

A laser printer I have is using wifi when I only really use it via the USB connection to pc.

So turned off WiFi on the printer, forced the bt hub to refresh WiFi channel and it picked up the channel that no one else is using. Although set to "auto" it seems the hub only does that on switch on or when told to refresh - otherwise it sticks with the channel selected at switch on. Read the small print and bt are sneakily vague about how the auto channel selection works - they don't say it swaps on the fly!!

The end result is no more interference from neighbours and everything using using home network WiFi seems to have speeded up.

Not bad for a bit of research and no cost

Pow-Lo · 9/5/21

Duck n Dive said:
Finally got around to looking at my home WiFi.

I'd been getting some drop outs/slow downs for a little while.

Got an app onto the tablet so I could analyse what's going on.

Spotted a few things.

A neighbour seems to be using some mega WiFi boosters which are spilling way out!

Most of the neighbouring WiFi routers are all using the same channel.

A laser printer I have is using wifi when I only really use it via the USB connection to pc.

So turned off WiFi on the printer, forced the bt hub to refresh WiFi channel and it picked up the channel that no one else is using. Although set to "auto" it seems the hub only does that on switch on or when told to refresh - otherwise it sticks with the channel selected at switch on. Read the small print and bt are sneakily vague about how the auto channel selection works - they don't say it swaps on the fly!!

The end result is no more interference from neighbours and everything using using home network WiFi seems to have speeded up.

Not bad for a bit of research and no cost

My Sky wifi was constantly dropping out. Our house isn’t small and it’s old i.e. walls aren’t paper mache so that was to be expected. Sky gave us two boosters and that helped but the finishing touches were power line adapters to hardwire my Mac in the office and our alarm service engineer showing me how to lock the channel on our router to stop it changing on the fly which, incidentally, has stopped the problems we were having with the alarm.

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