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If you Google: "vapour pressure alcohol vs petrol" you will find scientific papers that suggest evap losses are higher for Gasohol blends!

Down for 6 hours this morning due to electricity supply to their server in Pattaya area(according to phone call answer)

Due here November/December

Ant.com works perfectly with Firefox and Windows!

I also found F1 on channel 48 last night and it was full screen as usual but not HD. BBC World News is on Channel 520.

You have BBC on CTH?

Is that cable or satellite?

Channel 560 is a Truevisions Channel!

I bought the curing salt there and made excellent ham and bacon using this recipe scaled down:

Home curing a ham is quite safe, but you will need to get a hold of some insta cure #1 (also called pink salt or D.Q. curing salt, among other things). This ready to use curing salt is sold as a pre mixed combination of 93.75% salt and 6.25% nitrite. It is the nitrite that guards against the slim possibility of botulism, and also what gives ham its rosy pink finish. Nitrite in high concentrations is toxic, so measure carefully (but don’t be scared either!!!). You can find this curing salt in better supermarkets and specialty food stores.

Step 1

Buy a fresh ham leg (uncured pork), a half fresh ham, or a piece of fresh ham in whatever size you're comfortable with. I am using the term ham here to refer to the hind leg section of a pig - you must buy fresh, not already cured pork. The size doesn’t matter; buy it as big or small as you are comfortable with.

Step 2

Prepare the brine.

I use a brine recipe from Michael Rhulman's book "Charcuterie" (which is excellent)

· 2 liters of water

· ¾ cup of kosher salt

· 1 cup of brown sugar (1 packed cup)

· 4 teaspoons of pink salt (insta cure #1) (4 teaspoons)

Stir all ingredients together until dissolved. This brine can be multiplied as needed, and if you are doing a whole ham, you will probably need to double it.

Step 3

Place your pork in a bowl or pot that is large enough to hold the meat completely submerged in the brine, but one small enough to fit in your fridge. Add the cold brine to the pork, and lay a heavy plate on top of the floating meat to keep it submerged.

Keep it in the fridge until done. It will cure at the rate of 2 pounds per day. A large ham will take about a week.

Step 4

Rinse it off and prepare it in any way you enjoy. This ham is better if smoked (see here for instructions on hot smoking a fresh ham) but you can just as easily bake it or fry off slices unsmoked, and it will still be great. It has become ham – it is done!

For ham Roast in oven in tin foil at 180 Deg C until 71 deg c internal temp

A last tip…if you find the ham too salty you can soak it in clean water in the fridge for a couple of hours to leach out some of the salt. I don’t tend to find that this is necessary.

Good news is Australia Network has returneed to 187, but still no BBC!

Hi Guys,

Heard a rumour that they are building a Big C Extra and a Central Festival in Bang Saray, is this just wishful thinking or is it true??

3 days for poor/no service in Pattaya area last Wednesday thru Friday

Mazda CX5 is brilliant and the new X-trail won't be out until December this year! The other 2 just can't compete!

VPNUK works perfect but it cost 6GPB/month.

If there is any problem they sort it out there and then by accessing your computer and fixing it on line. Excellent service!

Please PM me how I can get one of those APEC business travel cards. Thank you.

I had one when I lived in Hong Kong and here are the rules:

http://www.immd.gov.hk/en/services/hk-visas/apec-business-travel-card.html

When you apply you need to be in Businees and need to travel plus you need a letter from your boss(that was me as self employed) saying you need to travel around those contries listed .

It took 3months wait for HK and them 3 months wait to bounce it round other contries . I got them all except Malaysia...don't know why not them?

Thanks very much, found their shop in Soi Bunsophan, khao Noi Pattaya, 101 THB/kg

 

 

 

Let us know the results Burl,

 

Thanks

Bought 1 kg Green pork Loin at Tesco used a simple sugar, salt, nitrite cure, left it in 4 days. cooked it at 180Deg C in oven in tin foil, excellent dry ham, but still uncured in the centre.

Them bought 50 ml syringe in Pharmacy and injected brine into the centre of the next one, problem solved, but used pork hip meat from Makro, not so good taste and texture.

Just cured the Green Pork loin again from Tesco and injected it over 4 days. Same roasting to an internal temp of 71 deg c and lo and behold perfect again!

Check this out from the Custom's web page:

• • Criteria for a Permanent Import of Used/Secondhand Vehicles 

• An importer is eligible to import only ONE used/ secondhand vehicles for personal use.
• In case where the importer is a nonresident, he/she is required to stay in Thailand for at least ONE year and present a non-immigrant visa issued by the Immigration Bureau, the National Police Office together with a work permit issued by the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare at the time of importation.
• In case where an importer is a Thai resident marrying a foreigner, he/she is required to present documentary evidence of marriage and proof of changing residence to Thailand. Also the importer has to own and possess the imported vehicle for at least one and a half year while staying abroad, from the date of transferring the ownership to the date of arrival into Thailand.
• In case where an importer is a Thai resident, he/she is allowed to import a vehicle only when such vehicle is accompanied the owner on the change of residence and he/she has owned and possessed the imported vehicle together with the valid driving license for at least one and a half year while staying abroad. 

However, you still hear stories about Thai students going to US Universities and bringing back new cars duty free as part of their household!

My information was based on that available 5 years ago so beware, they may have changed the rules again!

 

Thai's, when they move their household back to Thailand can import 1 car tax free as long as it has been in their name in the other country for more then 1 year.

 

The import tax is around 320% of the value in What Car UK and some other site(check out the customs page, Perkins??) plus the CIF costs(carriage insurance and freight).I brought in an old Merc and managaed to sell it for more than all the costs I paid, but it was a struggle and I hated the bit when we had to interface with the slimy customs official!

 

Hi Burt

Can I just check on this.... Thais can import 1 car tax free if they own it for a  year?

 

I ask this as I (british) have been considering bringing my 14 year old mercedes CLK 320 over with me when I move to thailand in 2015.

I am married to a Thai national

 

I have read many posts on here, some going back many , many years, and they all pretty much conclude with it not being worth it, with astronomical charges and corrupt customs officals , mostly resulting in you either leaving you car to them (presumably the plan) or paying silly money.

 

My car is probably worth £2k only but is lowish milage (50k)and I would hate to part with it..However under no circumstances am i going to pay 3 or 4 times ( or more??) to import it.

 

I was meaning to ask the forum if there was a way to ship it to another country and then drive it into Thialand, but now seeing your post think maybe there is another way.

 

Would you suggest that if i transferred the car into my Wife's name now , that in  a years time I could ship to Thailand and pay no import taxes?

 

I would love to hear more  on this

 

 

 

For those of you who used to frequent this excellent man's shop in Chaiyaphreuk 2, be advised that he has moved to Sukhumvit Soi 89 opposite Greenway Driving Range.

Nice to see his happy smiling face again!

In pattaya there is a guy named sompan who works for securitas alarm monitoring mob in pattaya. Sorry cant find his card at moment. Securitas bkk no is 021687400-1.

He installed one in my place when we went through on rechecked all my earths etc. We also installed a new earth rod as the other rod and earths were not installed correctly. We also connected an men link in the consumer box that caused the safety cut to continuously trip. He persisted and contacted the saftey cut help line and we paitently worked out the problem and finished late in the day with everything working and tested. At 6pm it would have been easy for him to blame something else and remove the men link but he didnt. We also dug up the earth rod and tested leakage etc which again he didnt have to do unless he is a good tradesman. His rates are good and he has 2 of his family as apprentices. I give u this extra info as many contractors wouldnt make the effort he makes.

He is not a qualified electrician and still joins earths but with connectors.

He is one of the better contractors .

Thanks for that!

Is that the security company bottom right on Pattaya Tai just before 3rd road?

Brilliant!

The possibility does exist that he simply wanted to sell you a new one!

No chance he's a Thai wire twister!

+1 Forky.

Failing that, does it trip if you press the "Test" button?

Sorry can't do that he has removed the wires from the safe t cut!

Any electronic device will eventually fail over time.

Once a Safe-T-Cut is installed, the installer should test it with the right equipment. To make sure it conforms to the manufactuers requirements. Once this is done, then a 5 year warrantee should be good. However these devices need to checked on a regular basis, most manufactuers recommend every 3 months, after the initial test, using the test button. After 5 years the device should be tested thoroughly with the right test equipment. Then tested every 2 years after that.

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OK thanks for that, but where to find someone competent to do what you say in Pattaya?

Hi folks,

bought and installed a safe-t-cut 5 years ago when I moved in. Has worked fine, but now after installing a 6kW water heater my Thai "electrician" says it has died.

Is this possible, I thought these things were supposed to last a lifetime?

Or is he just trying to annoy me?

(he already wrongly wired up to my old water heater connection as follows:

Earth green to red wire

Live red to white wire

and neutral black to black wire

he also refused to use terminal connector saying they will melt and catch fire!

so I don't have a lot of confidence in him ( he now has changed the wires to the correct colours after I refused to pay if he didn't!)

But seriously do Safe-t Cuts die after a period of use??

I thought they had a shop in Pattaya but as I have never been there and the website was Phuket that they had moved.

 

I don't suppose you have their GPS location do you?

Not accurately, but must be near 12.918456, 100.914623, but have a picture from Google street maps!