Dellboy218

This may sound daft but make sure the compressor works for as short a time as possible. The only way to run any fridge is full. If you are trying to cool an empty fridge the compressors will be running for a long period of time causing the problems you have mentioned. If you unable to fill the fridge then use polystyrene blocks, as an example, to fill up the empty spaces. Is any of it iced up? It takes energy to keep that ice. As others have said check the door seals. There has to be a reason why your compressor appears to be running a long time.

How do you get used bunker oil? Like this:

Let me try and explain. Bunker oil is fuel oil. That means it goes through the engine/boilers. The only way 'USED' bunker oil leaves a vessel is up the funnel as a combination of gases and particulates. The most common cause of what you see in that photograph is some idiot pumping their bilges or pumping another tank out after cleaning.

Source: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/644095-oil-spill-virgin-coast-koh-samui/

How do you get used bunker oil? Bunker oil is fuel oil. Contaminated or otherwise unuseable but used..........

And Biofuel don't forget, the green movement has made it a very viable commodity, and inadvertently have contributed to enormous environmental damage.

And.........made worse by the E85 fuel. Perhaps some clever clogs out there can work out how much bio mass is required to make the stuff, how much land that takes up and how much land has been diverted from food cultivation because the farmer can make more money. Apart from the high cost of all the fertilisers of course and the transportation of same. As you say it does not work out quite so green. As for why farmers burn. Give them an alternative to clearing their land that does not take any energy, does not take any time and at the cost of a single match. That will be the way they look at it I imagine.

So what, T.I.T. Lots of talk, never ever change. Third world and always will be. No matter how many shopping malls they build!

Thailand and the third-world at large aren't the only places with forest fires ... and the smokey cities that can come with them. We have this problem in USA ... and it's a problem in Europe, Central & South America, etc..

Hardly the same is it. It is not just Thailand, it is the whole of S.E. Asia that is affected by burning. Currently Singapore and Malaysia are suffering from burning in Indonesia. Why would a farmer stop burning, it does not take any energy, it does not take any time and its costs the price of one match. Give them an alternative or force punative measures. This is only one factor in Chiang Mai. The air along Mun Mueang catches in the back of your throat, you can see clouds of it rolling up the street at times. That is traffic fumes mixed in to the pollution pot. If you remember the Government here did moot the idea of raising further taxes on vehicles based on emissions. If they were really serious a good place to start would be to ban all continuously smoking vehicles, no fancy equipment required. Tuk Tuks might not be happy mind.

Maybe too practical and not weird enough for this but I wouldn't mind one. Take 2 Royal Enfield 500's and bolt them together. Called the Musket, and not surprisingly there is a musketvtwin website.

You need to fill a form in, attaching the original translation of the birth certificate from Thai to English, you also need your original birth certificate, the full one not the shortened version, copies of your passport and visa.

The best way is to talk to the consulate on the phone, the people I've spoken to were very helpful. The fee is around 6000 Baht which includes postage for the application to go to Bangkok and then onto Hong Kong and the passport returned to your home address.

No idea why other people have said you need to go to Bangkok, it's not true. I wish people would not post answers when they don't know what they're are talking about.

I have just sent off to the UK for a new passport, as far as I am aware All passports come from the UK now, they no longer come from HK. Changed a few months ago.

Not a very good answer to me. Better get another quote. No way does it change if turns off and on a lot. If that is the case the Capacitor is bad, but sounds fishy to me. Mitsubishi is a great product so most likely a leak, as they didnt insatll it correctly.

The capacitor attached to the motor is to allow a 3 phase motor to run on a single phase, without it the motor would not turn. This is the simplest method. A crude way of telling if there is little gas left in the system is to feel the air off the outside condensing unit. The gas gets really hot when it is compressed so if the air coming off the condenser cooling fan is not 'very' hot you may be short of gas. The original question pose by the OP could be, as Winnie said, icing up. If there is a lot of dirt in the evap fins (the internal unit) this could restrict air flow causing icing, or of course the thermostat could be defective and the compressor runs until such time as icing occurs. as it happens all the time it is not likely to be a gas problem. If dirt in the evap fins is a problem then a service would sort that out.

Suthep must have known the truth when he was spreading the lies about this.

If there is anybody trying to split the country it is Suthep. He wants his undemocrstic south and Bangkok to have his people's council, the rest of the country wants a democrstic government.

Wow, 2 pints of whatever you are drinking mate. You don't think there may be a little truth to it that perhaps the blame cannot be at least a little shared. I wonder who gave you that notion.

ok u were under his knife for what and did it work, he is doing my knee replacement in march, just curious

That was for a minor Carpal Tunnel operation. If you are curious about whether to trust him, he carried out two operations on my spine 3 years ago which allowed me to walk and work again, otherwise I could only walk for 50-100 yards and stay on my feet for 90 seconds before being in agony. It took him seconds to spot the problem on an MRI that many other doctors all over town missed. He carried out the operations as there was no other choice. As others have said before, he will not operate if there is another option. I had an industry medical in Singapore a while after the spine operations and the comment from the doctor there was "your surgeon had good hands!" Good luck with your operation but I doubt whether you will need it.

He also has his own clinic, down the road from Grandview Hotel. Will he be closing that outlet also?

Dr. Sudhee gave up that clinic some time ago.

Was under Prof. Sudhee's knife again yesterday and for those that use his services, he tells me that he will cease wielding the scalpel at some point during this year. I imagine that at that time he will decide whether to oversee operations or cease altogether. Currently he still works out of the Ram Monday and Thursday mornings.

Thats a Siemens Euro plug, earth strips are on the reccesses either side.

And very unlikely to find a wall socket in Thailand that fully fits such a plug incl. earth.

Thailand has a huge "selection" of different plug/sockets, not to name it "chaos"

Looks normal for Thailand. NO GROUND.

Thats a Siemens Euro plug, earth strips are on the reccesses either side.

After trying a couple of the ultrasonic dog/cat scarers I have come to the conclusion that all the local dogs are deaf! Their effect is marginal with the biggest effect appearing to be due to you quickly pointing 'something' in their general direction.

Meanwhile Deputy Prime Minister Phongthep Thepkanjana said, "We understand that the protest leaders are trying hard to force the government to use violence in order to increase their support fortheir own benefit.

Absolutely! It's a tactic straight out of the UDD copy book.

And fortunately the current governemment is showing more restraint. So far.

Agreed. PM Yingluck is handling the situation extremely well. The police must begin to protect government buildings - that is what they are supposed to do. The protesters don't have any right to repeatedly occupy government buildings. Right on, YL...you go, girl!!!

Which is precisely what the protesters want. Thank you for putting your views so precisely.

I know this might sound silly, but when was the last time you cleaned the laser? Just a thought.

Bird spikes these days tend to be made of a plastic with a strip of them glued or screwed in position to prevent the birds form roosting. We have a spike on each of our helipad landing lights for that same reason. Owls as mentioned and other birds of prey models apparently work for a time, I believe you can get a solar powered owl with a moving head! Rentokil apparently came up with a Capsicum paste that is painted on where the bids roost. Apparently once they get some on their bum they try and find friendlier roosting spots. Or of course you can get a good gas powered BB (thats tiny plastic/ceramic balls) pistol which is legal. That worked for me, the pigeons still have not roosted on the bedroom window ledge a year on!

I had a SPY alarm sent from the UK about 18 months or so ago with the intention of having it fitted to my BMW. Unfortunately I was warned off by those that fix these bikes that this could cause problems on the electrics. So I have, still in its box, a radar type alarm with a couple of remotes that are supposedly able to kill the engine from some distance away (3km?) and let you know if its being tampered with. I am away working at present but If you ever became interested I expect I could come up with further information.

It wasn't that long ago I saw tiger skins for sale at Tachilek maybe 5 years back? I haven't noticed them recently though I am sure they are available. I'm guessing that they are farmed somewhere these days rather than wild tigers. I'm sure there is still a thriving business for tiger parts in CM especially with the influx of Chinese visitors.

Indeed there was, in fact around that time a TV documentary was made about suppliers in Tachilek. In what looked like a series of lock up garages various cat pelts were available but apparently a tiger pelt had to be put on order as it would take a couple of weeks to obtain!

@Dellboy218

If you don't bother about the price, then why bother about converting to cheaper fuel? Completely contradictory.

Certainly you can buy some foreign, particular European made cars that have a fantastic fuel economy. I guess you could also get a Tesla that doesn't need any fuel. But what no money can buy you is a good TDI of any local made car (BMW may be the exemption, not sure). Just some fake hybrids that can barely drive 2km on battery.

Anyway, as the Thais say, it's up to you

Perhaps you should read the posts again. Conversions and costs never came into the posts. Can you beat 1000B to Bangkok? Yes you can. Can you buy a decent TDI here? You said you cannot get them here, I merely pointed out that you can which apparently you now agree with. I have no idea about locally made TDI's, but then that was never mentioned in the first place. Whether any vehicle is viable or financially effective is entirely a personal matter. I don't know whether you would call the Toyota hybrids ''fake'' doubtless Toyota would be only too pleased to answer that.

This might help to explain http://www.gt-rider.com/motorcycles-in-thailand/motorcycle-insurance-cover You will probably find that 1st class insurance is not available for smaller bikes. No idea about 2nd class, ask for a quote!

Skoda, BMW, Mercedes, VW

That's indeed very good advise for a car in Thailand. So you suggest to pay a premium beforehand instead of giving the government the tax money for the fuel later on. Well thought out

Who mentioned anything about price. The original comment was about cost per mile. A good TDI can beat it. Your comment was that a good TDI cannot be obtained in Thailand. Yes they can. Whether it is financially viable to buy one is another matter. You could also argue that unlike some, the fuel is available everywhere and unlikely to fluctuate much because of political pressures. So yes, I have thought it out as I read the comment in the first place.

A good TDI can! A medium family TDI car, can average over 70mpg these days or about 25kpl.

Thing is, you can't buy a "good TDI" in Thailand. Nothing even close to it.

Skoda, BMW, Mercedes, VW

CNG requires a high pressure tank, it's heavy and you have to queue with all the taxis. Range is not impressive too. LPG requires only a light tank, you can easily reach 400km with it and it's still very cheap (14.25B, in Bangkok even cheaper 12.50B), CNG is slightly lower priced.

There are 2 tank models, one in the usual "gas bottle" like we know from Taxis in the trunk, the other is shaped like a reserve wheel and fits into its place, so you keep the full trunk space. Preferred one.

The LPG systems are on the other hand very very simple, they sell you here only the low end stuff which injects or rather sucks the gas into the engine after the air filter, before the fuel injection. Thus your engine's computer has no control over it, the performance is not equally distributed over the load and you may get some warning lights flashing (O2 sensor). Expect some 10l or kg how they count it consumption. Still makes it very cheap. We have an Optra, that goes from Bangkok to Chiang Mai for just 1000B. Can't beat that .

A good TDI can! A medium family TDI car, can average over 70mpg these days or about 25kpl.