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Crossy

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  1. I'm no security expert, we have a K9 alarm system and a moat (no crocodiles). A portable angle grinder or reciprocating saw would be through your sliding bolt in 30 seconds ???? You could possibly slow things down somewhat by welding a 5mm steel plate across that area on the outside or even a full height strip of 5mm to hide where the sliding bolt(s) are. You also need to protect the hinge side from activities with portable power tools. I might be tempted to sheath the whole of the outside, including the grille at the top in some decently thick steel, make sure that the sliding bolts and hinges are not visible or accessible through the door gap. In reality though, anything you do is only going to slow the bad guys down, if they're really determined they'll come through the wall or roof.
  2. Decolgen works for me. Should be readily available anywhere.
  3. Just passed local low, much lower than it's been for a goodly while, next local high will be at about 8PM. The Village Oracle Lady says that the level will continue to decrease until the end of the week. Sadly her crystal ball / tea leaves / tarot / amulet gets cloudy around the time of the peak tides next weekend. We shall have to wait and see.
  4. Our local songthaw (pickup bus) has QR codes in the back (one for "short ride", one for "long ride"), press the bell and scan the relevant QR. Driver gets an SMS that someone has paid, wave your phone at him when you exit. Drivers behind when he stops are very happy with the reduced delay whilst people pay. Thai's really are inherently honest and I've not seen anyone not scan and then wave their phone.
  5. I just paid by TrueMoneyWallet at our local Tesco Lotus's. Took seconds because I was ready, app loaded and logged on (the QR is valid for 15 minutes), and I won 5 Baht on the True/Lotus's "Lucky Bag", I'll try not to spend it all at once. The major issue (and at ATMs, ticket machines and the like) is that people are not ready! "Oh, I'm at an ATM (having queued for 10 minutes), it wants my card, I'd better look for it!". Grrrr!
  6. But at least they're (hopefully) mostly your germs on your phone
  7. Or mine, although we do use TrueMoney to pay.
  8. It would be nice if you could get to a screw on the motor itself, but the hanger would probably be adequate.
  9. And with that the Moderation Fairy closed the thread. If our OP want to continue he can PM me.
  10. Well after a week or so of nothing much happening level wise (apart from tidal effects) we have a max about 10cm lower today. Hopefully this will continue before we get the high tides next weekend. Garden is sodden, we have already started losing trees ????
  11. I'd just give it a go and see what occurs. Not sure what that diode is for, but I doubt it's the cause of your issues.
  12. Yes, it's a real product! Yes, people bought them! Yes, people actually used them before returning their rented DVDs! Not helped by places like Blockbuster putting "Please Rewind" stickers on their DVDs. EDIT It gets worse, there was even an online service. Cost a dollar US, and people paid! Digital Velocity wanted to rewind your DVDs for you. Just enter your credit card information on their website (Just $1 per DVD), then insert the DVD into the CD tray of your computer, and fifty-nine seconds later your DVD will be rewound.
  13. From the linked article it looks like he contacted one of the 25kV lines, in which case he's very lucky to be alive (saved by using a bamboo ladder perhaps). He also appears to have damaged the sign on the way down.
  14. Yeah, my bad there, not being clear, sorry about that. It's also just filtered through my addled brain that the camper is in Aus, so getting cells from Lazada probably won't be on the cards ????
  15. Where's the diode shown in the PL20 manual? The only mention of a diode in my copy of the manual is to say that it doesn't need a "catch diode" across the relay coil (although I'd probably install one anyway).
  16. If you do decide to bring/ship the beast as a complete unit and have a high end GPU I would unplug it, bubble wrap it and pack it separately or put it loose inside the case with more bubble wrap. These things are pretty heavy and not well supported when in their slots. A slight misinterpretation of "Fragile" as "Football" may result in it ripping off the main board connector or snapping the GPU board at its own connector (or both), neither of which is good. It might also be worth removing the CPU heatsink for similar reasons although they are usually rather better fixed. Also, although it won't apply to our OP since he's in Sweden, if you come from a 120V country make sure your PSU is set to 220V or is of the "universal" 100-250V type before plugging it in.
  17. Not new, but it circulated back into my eyeline today. As a U.S. Navy ship was approaching the pier at it's homeport, the captain noticed a sailor on the flight deck waving semaphore flags wildly. On the pier, a young lady was standing on top of a station wagon waving flags back at the sailor. Concerned, the captain asked a signalman, "What messages are those two people sending to each other?" The signalman replied, "Captain, he is sending the letters FF, and she is flashing back the letters EF ." The captain ordered the sailor to the bridge. When he arrived, the captain asked, "Who is that woman and why are you exchanging the signals FF and EF ?" The sailor replied, "Captain, that is my girlfriend, and she wants to eat first."
  18. Yup, strip the beast down to mainboard, drive and any plug in cards, buy a cheap box and PSU here.
  19. Check out the used LiFePO4 golf cart cells in my Car Port thread, you just need 4 of them and a 4S BMS. The ones on our solar are going just fine. The DALY Smart BMSs work pretty well, have BlueTooth and aren't silly money. EDIT Do you have the charger manual? pl20.pdf
  20. I'd use VCT, run it in the trunking with the pipes. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/pks-vct-4x15-vct-4x25-20-i2861128502-s10436703739.html? 20m for just over 1,100 Baht.
  21. I don't recall the "measures" being mind-bendingly effective last year. Little has changed this year apart from the possible reduction in traffic due to the covid situation, a reduction which the government will likely take credit for of course.
  22. I had a double deposit a couple of times in the UK. UK employer, UK bank. They simply reversed the deposit and it appeared on my statement as "Correction". Note that the bank didn't call me or anything, they just fixed the error, no drama, no worry. I agree that tagging it as "Purchase of Goods" is counter-intuitive.
  23. Yeah, there was method in my suggestion for 2.5mm2. In the future one may wish to sell the house, the new owners would very likely want to install Thai outlets. 4mm2 cable with it's associated 32A breaker would constitute a fire hazard when used with the unfused 16A Thai plugs and outlets.
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