Barty

2 hours ago, DrJoy said:

Legal only with Thai tax payment receipts, have to work for a Thai company.

Hold Work Permit for 3 yrs before applying.

Married to a Thai lady + have  child/ children

You do not have to have children. I recently received Thai citizenship using marriage to a Thai citizen and we do not have any children.

Tops Club has Killer Hogs rubs and Kinder's rubs and sauces. Smokey Mountain Foods in Pattaya have a variety of rubs as well.

The website "this to that" is useful for figuring out suitable glues for various projects. I came across it years ago, I don't know if they ever update it with new products that come on to the market, nevertheless it is useful for getting you pointed in the right direction.

https://thistothat.com/index.shtml

2 hours ago, canopy said:

Helical is also better cutting quality--no more chatter marks around knots. I love helical, there's no going back.

Thanks for the advise. The Byrd and Shelix cutters are eye watering expensive by the time they are imported in Thailand. If it looks like I have enough work to justify it, I will probably go with the Byrd helical cutter on the DW735.

19 hours ago, canopy said:

 

There are 2 decent bench top thickness planers sold in Thailand: dewalt and makita. I have owned both. The upside of the makita is it is pure metric units where dewalt did a half baked job of customizing for metric. The Dewalt is 13" wide and Makita is 12". The most important thing is to use carbide blades which are available aftermarket for both. And going with Helical carbide cutter heads make them into dream machines. The woods here like teak blunt HSS very fast.

 

Thanks for the info. I have looked at a few YouTube videos on the Dewalt and will probably go with the DW735.  Are you buying the carbide blades or helical cutters locally?

On 5/2/2021 at 9:20 AM, sometimewoodworker said:

There is no comparison possible  between mine and the DW735, so no I can’t comment 

Thanks for letting me know.

Any opinion on the Dewalt DW735?

1 hour ago, sometimewoodworker said:

Absolutely here’s the latest table top, it’s just about to come out of the clamps, then the edges will get trimmed and shaped. It’s not rubber wood but pine so quite a bit softer. 

 

I haven’t made the legs for this one as the ready made legs will do a good job

 

here is the joint detail. 
 

What brand of planer thicknesser are you using? Would you recommend it? I just got some walnut and white oak that I will need to run through a thicknesser.

Also, what do you think of the Bigwood dust collector?

On 1/27/2020 at 1:48 PM, simple1 said:

Did you also need to have a Thai international drivers permit?

No, just the Thai license.

I have rented a number of cars in the UK using my Thai drivers license. Never had a problem.

In Facebook search for "La Costena in Thailand". Reasonable prices.

Purachai Piemsomboon

A rip off of the Ken Block gymkhana videos

2011 525D with 110,000 km. No squeaks or rattles from anywhere. The liner looks ok on my car.

http://www.veerasiamhardware.com/

Bring a fat wallet with you.

Awesome, am starting to watch it now. Barty for president!! Meanwhile, question, why is his voice so strange. I also heard he renounced his US citizenship -- a snub or implication, or?

(edit: on a sidenote, the guy doing the interviewing is super annoying). Still watching though....

My understanding is that he renounced his citizenship for US tax reasons, although I am not 100% sure that is true.

If you want a little more detail about his life you can read his book;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ocx7RMNqj0

Not that I disagree, but realistically there already seem to be more than enough forks in the fire to keep all resources and manpower busy into the next millennium. That a lot of these problems could be resolved simply by paying foreign companies to come in and fix them is a moot point. That the Thais will refuse to allow this to happen is also a moot point, and instead bungle their own solutions until the legitimate concerns and problems are ten times greater in proportion at present.

Who do you think is doing these transmissions lines now in your vast experience of Thailands pipe line construction ?

"kwonitoy" correct me if I wrong but believe NACAP is an international pipe line construction/maintenance company is it not ?...

and who is doing the construction in Thailand...believe it's NACAP if i am not mistaken ?

@ 'cup-O-coffee'....Thats your expert opinion shot to sh*t

If that is true, then please accept my apologies for being uninformed on this. Thank you.

It seems odd not to have mentioned that in the OP, does it not?

Nacap no longer have operation in the Asia Pacific area. They are operating in Australia and Europe. They last worked in Thailand on the Sai Noi project which ended a few years ago.

The pipeline that is being installed along highway 331 is the Forth Transmission Pipeline. It is a 42" pipe and is being installed by Punj Lloyd.

All is good imho,

Although would not want to be around a gas pipeline

when a thai is doing a hot tap might just be a little too dahgerous for me

having done hundreds of hot taps with gas ,oil,chemicals, and water

going through them live i no how dangerous it can be!

When there is hot taps scheduled, irrespective who is doing it, I try to make sure I am not around and preferbly 100 miles away...

I have been involved with a few hot taps here in Thailand. The standard to which the Thai companies do it is the same as in the west. All of the hot tapping equipment is made by western companies and is operated within their parameters. Everything is engineered and reviewed by consultants. A hot tap undertaken here in Thailand would probably be no different than one being done in California.

Having said that I agree with Soutpeel, it's good to be somewhere else while they are going on.

I said IMO, to which I'm entitled. Anyone who has lived in Thailand, if only a short period of time, would know that safety is a very low priority here. Haven't you read some local newspapers or are you just blowing out your ar_se? I don't see why Thailand's O&G industry would be any different from any other Thailand industry....it is the Thailand bit that makes the difference.

I seen a few of these threads about PTT and pipelines in Thailand and I usually ignore them, but in this case I feel I need to step up in PTTs defence. I own a Horizontal Directional Drilling company here in Thailand. More than 90% of my work is for PTT. We install gas pipelines from 4" up to 42" using HDD and have been doing it here in Thailand for nearly 14 years. The safety standards are as good as anywhere else in the world. Large projects have international consultants such as Bechtel overseeing the design and construction. The pipelines here in Thailand are as safe as anywhere else in the western world.

That's good to know with regard to the pipes you've laid in the last 14 years. But installing them is different from maintaining them. Some of the pipes in question are over 30 years old. Are you guaranteeing those to be in good condition?

You know, we could go around and around about this but I guess everyone has an opinion and they don't always match. All I can tell you is what I have experienced first hand after working with PTT for nearly 20 years. They are a professional organization that installs and maintains their pipelines and facilities to a high standard. They have billions of dollars worth of equipment and pipelines and it is within their best interest to look after their investment.

When is the last time that you heard about a PTT pipeline that had a leak or an explosion due to the way the pipe was installed or due to maintenance? When was the first time?

A friend of mine who lives upcountry gets his X5 serviced there. When he travels overseas he drops it off at Millennium for servicing and from time to time I help out by picking it up if he is away for a long period. The person that I normally deal with is Khun Siam. He speaks English very well.

They seem to be able to handle most things without any problem and there doesn't seem to be any issues with spare parts. The only issue that I am aware of is that the X5 had a problem with leaking air suspension and it took them a while to diagnose which part it was that was causing the problem.

A few years ago I owned a 5 series that was serviced by another dealership. Millennium is 100 times better.

Have you found anyone to take care of the kitten? Please contact me via PM if you still are looking for someone.

Thanks,

Barty

It wasn't clear to me that you needed to repair a Japanese vehicle.

For large comercial diesel engines (Cat, Cummins etc.) I use;

Rayong Diesel Co.,Ltd.

Bosch Diesel Center

Tel +66 37 650659

Fax +66 38 808990

[email protected]

They have a fully kitted out injector and injector pump service centre. They may be able to help you out.

Barty

Can you let us know what make and model you are wanting repaired?