JohanB

Now, thanks to this thread, I know what I had in nov-2017. It was on my back just below the left shoulder blade. Not very painful or itchy and at that time I didn’t know what it was. It just faded away, but I took a photo before anyway…. It was seven years ago, so it’s said I have a 5%-risk/year of having it again. Going to do the Shingrix vacc this autumn, when I return to Thailand. Have checked with a hospital in Nakhon Sawan and costs around B 5500 for both. Very costly here in Sweden (SEK5500 = US$500)

Bangkok is very vulnerable to extensive damage from long-distance EQ due to amplification of ground waves in the type of soil & clay layers under the city. This was known since these papers was published in year 2000! https://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/2145.pdf SEISMIC HAZARD IN BANGKOK DUE TO LONG-DISTANCE EARTHQUAKES Pennung WARNITCHAI1, Chanet SANGARAYAKUL2 And Scott A ASHFORD3 SUMMARY A seismic hazard assessment of Bangkok is conducted. The results are presented in the form of predicted peak ground accelerations for various levels of probability of exceedance in a 50-year period and the corresponding elastic response spectra. The results indicate that Bangkok, though located at a remote distance from seismic sources, is still at risk of damaging earthquake ground motions similar to those found in Mexico City during the 1985 Michoacan earthquake. ……………..

If you’re in that situation, better have a car without airbags or a button installed that you can disconnect the airbags. Otherwise you’re a sitting duck. These monsters know how to discharge the bags with a blow and you can’t move your car. Same if your followed by some thugs waiving guns in a car. Just break hard & reverse hard into their front and drive off. That will release the airbags in their car and/or destroy their engine. Other situation is if someone tries to stop you on a lonly country road in the middle of the night, or otherwise tries to stop you. Don’t stop and just drive through with force. Same here and you must not have airbags in your car or be able to disconnect them before taking action. I have already gone through these situations in my mind and have ready plans for different scenarios, to act imedeately. Johan, 2008 Isuzu Gold PickUp without airbags (it was a choise) but w very good belts. PS Secure your rear number plate with extra screws, so it would’nt come off easy……

Renewed my 2 pcs 5y DL yesterday in Nakhon Sawan. Have a yellow book & pink ID-cart so I logged in at DLT e-learning the day before. I logged in with my thai ID number. That was a misstake. The quite informative learning was with english subtitles but control questions only in thai. I answered all ok and got a QR-code. When at the center they didn’t recognized the QR-code and say ALL foreigners must use their passport number to register at the DLT E-learning to get the right QR and have the control questions in english. Just had to look at another 1 hour soap opera type good driver/bad driver episode. Got my licences right after that. 760 B totally. By the way, in Nakhon Sawan they have a copy service on first floor, så for 30 B you get all the nessecary copies on your documents you need for 2 licences. The lady there knows exactly what’s needed.

I’ve built an quite large bungalow type T-shaped house in 2008 The T is 20m by 22m and there are 5 wc’s. I’ve have a vent on the 3000l septic and 1 11/2” went up to the roof in each end of the 4” main tubing that connects from the toilets to the septic. Normally no or very little smell in the bathrooms, but sometimes was very heavy smell when the wind comming from a special direction Found out that the smell came from leaking connections between the toilet bowl and the 4” pipe in the floor, You can’t normally seal that from the outside as there is vent holes on the back side of covered bowls you can’t reach. Checking in the building warehouses there are almost no hardware to do that seal. Only some rings of soft clay type to put there and lower the bowl and hope the clay will be pressed out and fill out the space airtight to the floor…….? That is very difficult to lower the bowl straight down on the clay ring and not disturb or deform the ring. Instead of reinstalling the 5 toilet bowls I put a small 60mm 12V type Pabst ball-bearing axial computer fan in one of the 2” end-vent tubes, that sucks air out of the tubings. These type of fans are really low cost and runs for years wit no problems. I mounted it just with duct tape (Thaiwatsodu) and connected to an old 12V mains adapter. It draws only 0.7Watt I then cut and restricted the 2” area to 1/2” in the other end of the toilet waste went, to keep a slight under-pressure in the system. This totally and finally solved the smell problems from the toilets in all 5 bathrooms at the same time. I then made the same trick to the vertical vent from where the drain and sink pipe go together to the concrete septic and put a 3” water lock to the pipe entering that septic (no2 after the black water septic from the toilets) Thi also slowly sucked the smelling air out of the drain system and floor water locks (the thai ones on the picture in this thread dries out in a few hours) Good luck with your other solutions, but these small fans really made it!