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Please be careful!!! You should really be doing this with your continuity tester (battery and bulb, or your meter) with the juice off!

Yup. The "help" are very good at "finding something faulty" (ok, breaking it) and just putting it away for me to find when I need it. Please, just tell me it's busted and I'll sort it!!!

Yes, I know this is the DIY forum 🙂 We started out with an occasional drip from the valve on the wall under our bathroom sink. It developed into more of a dribble so it was going to need sorting. This is absolutely something I would fix myself but the space is tight and I'm not as young (or slim) as I was, so we got in a recommended "plumber". The guys (three) rolled up on Saturday. The Boss noted that our sink tap was actually a hot-n-cold mixer but hot was isolated (the tube had failed long ago), he asked if I would like the tap to be replaced and hot water restored to the sink. I like warm water to shave so I said yes (mistake number 1). Off they went to get the parts. A couple of hours (and nearly 10k Baht including parts) later the job was done. Excellent! Then! Later in the evening Madam said that the floor was full of water!! We had a definite gush and it was from up near the actual tap. 05ce9887-5026-450b-bdf9-fed69bd96ca1.mp4 Turned off the water at the wall and it stopped, phew! I was less than happy (ok totally pi55ed off). Madam called the plumber and sent them the video. Sorry cannot come until Tuesday! We had warm water at the sink so no real problem although cleaning your teeth with warm water is pretty yuk. Tuesday arrived, as did the guys. I'd assumed that they simply hadn't fully tightened the tubes against the O-rings and it would be a 5-minute job. After an hour they determined that the new tap from Thaiwatsadu was faulty. So, they went and got a replacement. It seems Thaiwatsadu wouldn't replace it as faulty, it's not clear why. The reason is never going to get clarified although I suspect that failure to RTFM is in the mix somewhere ("I wonder what these black rubber things are, oh well we don't need them"). So, they've just left, no leaks at present!! We shall see ...

Not really. Thailand is 3-phase 4-wire (3 phases plus neutral) so a single-phase supply is simply taken from one phase and the neutral. The 380V is phase to phase, the 220V is phase to neutral.

Time for a beer!!!

I'd start with a beer!!!

One note to add to the SS continuance. If you want to pay by direct-debit the account must be in your Thai name (at least according to our local SS office). This was rather less easy than expected, both BKK Bank and SCB said "cannot" (translate as "too hard, go away"), but I finally got an account sorted at Krungthai who actually seemed to know what was needed.

I did have separate TIN, SS number and Pink ID as they were all issued at different times and the systems are not interconnected. When I applied to continue my SS myself when my employment ended the SS department adjusted my SS to match my pink card. I've made no attempt to match TIN and pink. It can stay that way until someone asks.

Think as a mathematician not an engineer. Square root of -1 is i not j i over 8

Sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium. Batman!!

An after dinner joke:-

I work with many! 😞

There are 10 types of people. Those that understand binary, & those that don't. Make that 11 types. Those that understand binary, those that don't, and those who didn't grasp this joke even if they understand binary.

Why do software engineers confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because oct 31 = dec 25. I forgot my coat last time, fetching it

You should use the "half-split method". Start your disconnection in the centre. Then you know which half of the run has the fault. Then go to the middle of that section and test. Repeat until you find the fault.

Remind me never to ask AI to interpret a joke

Clue. Alternative spelling of "pendula" 🙂

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University lecturer - "Have you completed your experiments with pendula?" Student - "Yes, we are now sat on our ba, doing our sa". Fetching my coat ...

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