Geez! I hate that!

[Citroënbender]

I’ll get there, plan A is to work carefully, if the brick is crumbly I go to Plan B which is to pull it up temporarily as you describe. It’s a bit harder because the cabling is older single strand; less supple. I’ve also got a couple of worn out 5 and 6,5mm SDS bits that I use as small chisels (hammer setting only) to finesse cutouts. If the cable had been laid in conduit I’d be finished three times over.

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

I’ll get there, plan A is to work carefully, if the brick is crumbly I go to Plan B which is to pull it up temporarily as you describe. It’s a bit harder because the cabling is older single strand; less supple. I’ve also got a couple of worn out 5 and 6,5mm SDS bits that I use as small chisels (hammer setting only) to finesse cutouts. If the cable had been laid in conduit I’d be finished three times over.

Sounds like it was done in the Middle Ages, I wouldn't put anything metal around something I can't see "electricity "
especially if the insulation is suss?


Cheers Billy.

[Citroënbender]

Originally Posted by Me

I’m swearing at a nameless electrician who decided a cavity drop was the clever way to get power to a wall socket. The brick is grabbing the sheathing, I can’t push it out the way enough to do my thing.

I win; pass the chemset and it’s a job.

[slowsnake]

Looks good, but why not get a router and just rout a channel on the wall surface and bog it up?


Cheers Billy.

[shedcoupe]

Coulda used a wall mounting plate eg Clipsal 449asd

[Citroënbender]

That would have been an OK compromise, didn’t think of it at the time.

I worked in one brick house from about 1920 which had heavy gauge copper plumbing inside the wall cavity. That did my head in, because the roof was pitched on the outside wall - so they must have put up the internal walls first, roughed in the water and gas (it had lead pipes buried in the wall for gas lamps) then finished the outer skin off.

[jaydee]

Got the latest Repco clearance catalogue email.
Had a look, heaps of stuff for panel and paint, rust inhibitor, sound deadener etc really, really cheap, I selected about 8 items.
Sorry not available in Perth. F.O.!!

[xkxlxm]

Just back from a walk; picked up a piece of polystyrene foam; my inner compulsive rubbish-picker-upper can't leave it there; that street had its rubbish collection today; why have we got so many morons who insist on putting this **** loose in their bins so that when the truck's arms pick the bin up and flip it over above the truck to empty it, it floats away ... Some of these brightest of sparks will even put loose polystyrene beads in their bins ... I would ban polystyrene if I could.

Then you get the builders who use it under concrete slabs and allow the left-over polystyrene to float away whenever the wind blows. I should suggest to my local council that builders using this **** be required to put up a $2,000 or so bond in case the wind blows ...

[marty351]

Originally Posted by xkxlxm

Just back from a walk; picked up a piece of polystyrene foam; my inner compulsive rubbish-picker-upper can't leave it there; that street had its rubbish collection today; why have we got so many morons who insist on putting this **** loose in their bins so that when the truck's arms pick the bin up and flip it over above the truck to empty it, it floats away ... Some of these brightest of sparks will even put loose polystyrene beads in their bins ... I would ban polystyrene if I could.

Then you get the builders who use it under concrete slabs and allow the left-over polystyrene to float away whenever the wind blows. I should suggest to my local council that builders using this **** be required to put up a $2,000 or so bond in case the wind blows ...

Actions speak louder than words.

[ford71V8]

Saw a long stretch of Barkly Hwy with bits of polystyrene strewn either side. Initially thought they were little flowers and then realised...it went on for many kms, near impossible to collect up.
Next town we saw a council guy picking up litter by the road as we entered... if he knew what was further down the road he would be defeated.

[xkxlxm]

Polystyrene is a real problem. It breaks into smaller and smaller pieces, over and over and over. It could be from building products, white goods packaging, fruit/veg. boxes, whatever. But it stems from people just not giving a **** about the environment. Two or three years ago I was driving on a freeway and ahead I could see all this white stuff ... some moron must have had a refill bag of foam beads in the back of a ute, unsecured ... it had blown out (surprise!!!), got busted and the beads were blowing all over the place.

Today, at a train station: 'they' use plastic zip ties to fix the latest cor flute advertising poster to a fence and when it's time to remove it, use the Stanley knife to cut the zip ties and just leave them there. Too hard to pick them up and bin them. This happens all all over the place, not just train stations.

There are more good-spirited people out there picking up rubbish, but the amount of rubbish is incredible/insurmountable.

[shedcoupe]

Luckily no idiot backpacker has ever taken a beanbag to the beach and breached it.
Oh wait ....

[slowsnake]

I used to pick up rubbish every Saturday night, usually coming home from the pub, but I always put it in a taxi cab in the morning!..


Cheers Billy

[xkxlxm]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-...an-up/13051702

There are reports of this happening on other Oz beaches and it's just as likely to be ****wit Aussies doing it.

[marty351]

Who was the butthole that disposed of the beanbag?

[.:4:.]

So, ive sorted my boat trailer out. It was a time and finances kind of thing. So even isolated, i knew that the batteries were flat. So i pulled 1 of the 2 out today. I run dual 730cca deep cycle marine batteries and those things are phsically larger then a car battery and weigh significantly more. So my smart charger wouldnt recognise the battery as it was too dead. My 40 odd year old dumb charger also did nothing. So yeah, making the assumption battery 2 is just as cactus, cannot do anything about it right now as theres no point with lockdown, but its looking like 2 new batteries for me. The boat technically doesnt need the dual battery setup. However its a reliability thing. Set the selector to both on the run out to go fishing, set it to 1 battery when sitting on the water for hours with electronics like the radio on. So worst case if that goes flat the other is apples to start her up. So even when the currently seemingly small world opens back up, its still going to punish my wallet getting 2 marine batteries.

[slowsnake]

Charge it with a 3 amp or bigger solar panel on a very sunny day, after 12 hours it will jump back in ya boat and connect itself, will be that full of beans!



Cheers bWilliam

[Citroënbender]

Have you got jumper leads?

Give it a few minutes charging off the car, then put the dumb charger on for 30 minutes. After that it should be OK for the smart charger.

If they are completely dead, you should get $30+ the pair in scrap.

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Have you got jumper leads?

Give it a few minutes charging off the car, then put the dumb charger on for 30 minutes. After that it should be OK for the smart charger.

If they are completely dead, you should get $30+ the pair in scrap.

Never been a fan of smart chargers, except to keep a trickle charge in my 4x4 batteries if it was parked up, had a plug in front guard to plug my 300 watt solar panel into when I was prospecting, my second battery was 120ah glass matt, my Waco fridge would pull 3.4 ampere hour, but that solar panel was magic, had 2 more 120ah glass matt's in the camper trailer too, had more weight in lead than bloody gold, lol..


Cheers bWilliam

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Have you got jumper leads?

Give it a few minutes charging off the car, then put the dumb charger on for 30 minutes. After that it should be OK for the smart charger.

If they are completely dead, you should get $30+ the pair in scrap.

I did something similar, charged my spare car battery which is good. Hooked it up to the marine one for a few hours to see if the boat battery would take any charge. But both my multimeters confirmed its a yeah nah. And for confirmation, the dumb charger would work on the car battery, same as the smart charger. But neither would do anything for the dead marine battery. And for reliability sake, im not going to bother investigating or attempt anything battery revival wise. Its new ones for me, but only when the option of being able to use the boat is available. For the time being, to turn the thing over, a car battery is fine. Its a 4.3L black anchor v6. So a marinised chev v6 with a mercruiser sticker on the air filter cover.

[MITCHAY]

My toilet inlet has been leaking from the stop cock for a while.

So I went down to Bunnings today and bought a braided hose (in place of a fixed pipe) and proper thread tape. I thought I did it all good but yep still leaking. **** me dead. This toilet has been a **** for 4 years!

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

My toilet inlet has been leaking from the stop cock for a while.

So I went down to Bunnings today and bought a braided hose (in place of a fixed pipe) and proper thread tape. I thought I did it all good but yep still leaking. **** me dead. This toilet has been a **** for 4 years!

Was the ribbon dope white, yellow or pink?


Cheers WB

[five 7]

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

My toilet inlet has been leaking from the stop cock for a while.

So I went down to Bunnings today and bought a braided hose (in place of a fixed pipe) and proper thread tape. I thought I did it all good but yep still leaking. **** me dead. This toilet has been a **** for 4 years!

If it's the flexi braided hose i'm thinking of theres sealing washers in the fittings no need for tape, maybe sealing washer fell out. For brass fittings you can't beat hemp and graphite grease, just rough up threads first by dragging a hacksaw to down to make burrs so it catches the hemp fibres.

[slowsnake]

Have you got a thread gauge?...could be imperial if old or Metric but different pitch, shouldn't leak at all really, so am wondering about thread compatibility!


Cheers Billy

[MITCHAY]

I think I just either need to get the right amount of tape or just buy another stop cock. For the moment though it is leaking less so maybe I will get around to it next weekend.

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

I think I just either need to get the right amount of tape or just buy another stop cock. For the moment though it is leaking less so maybe I will get around to it next weekend.

I just took mine off, put back hand tight, no leak?
Thread tape no good, it stops the nut going deeper onto thread as mine seals on a black rubber cone that seals inside the stopcock thread which is machined about 30° like a countersink but inside threaded pipe fitting, so it's sealed by rubber not on thread!


Cheers Billy.

[Citroënbender]

Yes, overtightening will damage the conical rubber seal inside the flex connector. “Man” finger tight plus 1/3-1/2 turn with a shifter is plenty.

Mitch, can you identify exactly where it’s leaking?

[slowsnake]

Also mine runs on half setting, just slower to fill tank, so don't turn tap/knob on full bore or pressure!


Cheers BBBBB

[danzvtil]

My ex is looking for a new car and asked me to "help" her. After compiling a list of wants, i head off to do new car homework , and present a list of 3 cars, all within the price range, with the features she wants, and at the pointy end of warranty on offer.
Car 1-NO-doesnt like the sun visor.
Car 2-NO-her friend just bought one of these, and she cant copy what the friend has.
Car 3-NO-she went to the dealer to look and NO ONE* came up to her to see if she needed help *she does have resting bitchface, so theres that
She then asks what i think of some Peugeot SUV thats $10k more expensive than her budget and 1 size smaller than the shortlisted cars. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I give up!!

[Citroënbender]

She should just buy what her Facebook friends tell her to. That will minimise angst. Besides, not your problem anymore - feel happy about that.