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11 minutes ago, Hi Tea said:

Is it easy to see the condition of the timing belt, there's no dismantling that needs to be done?

I think you are confusing the timing belt of a diesel with the fan belt of an ordinary car....

Even in my old model hiluxes you had to take off the belt cover, which meant draining and removing the radiator. I doubt it has got any easier or simpler with a modern vehicle !

^ apparently it has never been changed, all I could get was blank looks when asking about it. The sister doesn’t speak English, the wife’s English and my Thai don’t extend to mechanical stuff so it was hard to get the message across.

 The pickup is kept at the sister-in-law’s but was actually paid for by the now deceased British husband of another sister and is used by the family as a communal vehicle, which everybody uses but nobody takes maintenance responsibility for.

 My hiluxes back in Oz were older models with a mechanical odometer and a warning light at 100,000 km, so if it is 150,000 now that is a bit more comfortable, may not have done that much. Will have to check, I imagine the owner’s handbook has long since vanished.

Not specifically Thai related, but maybe somebody here knows ....does a warning light for the timing belt on a diesel (specifically a hilux) come on when the cars digital odometer shows the scheduled service distance, or does it take a reading from the vehicle's electronics somewhere else ? My S.I.L's pickup is 15 years old yet shows only 71,000kms because often none of the dashboard instruments are working, including the odometer. I asked her about it while driving the pickup today, she said they have not worked properly for years ! possibly a loose connection somewhere as they stopped working when i hit a bump, and started again when i hit another bump. We did over 200kms today but the odometer only increased by 35. So it could well have actually done 100,000kms or more and be due for a timing belt replacement, but if the warning light reads from the odometer it would not light up. I had visions of driving at highway speed when the timing belt failed, and the consequent repairs !

11 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Time to go to school, wherrre's ma gun?

Time to go to anti mask protest, where's ma gun ?

So there was at least 2 people carrying a weapon at this small casino ? They have crackdowns on everything else, maybe one day they will crack down on all the weapons being carried around. Of course, it will probably only last one day.

Bangkok bank passbook update machines  , and presumably others, will print a consolidated entry if you have several transactions over a period of time without updating your passbook. So if you have not updated your book to show that low balance, leave it for a while (3 months, I think?) then update it and it will look as if you had 800k+ all the time.

On 7/30/2020 at 7:49 PM, ukrules said:

Just before the 'flash'

 

 

During the 'flash' :

 

 

The flash is there for a fraction of a second.

 

I know that this video is going to be fodder for conspiracy theories, but if you are suggesting that the rider of the other bike shot the victim with a pistol at a range of around 25m at a speed differential of around 100kph, and scored a perfect hit....sorry, that only happens in the movies.

 If it was an execution there would have been 2 people on a bike coming up behind him when there was no other traffic around. And no CCTV !

 And the people who might have wanted him to stay quiet are not stupid, they would know there is bound to be questions asked about his sudden death. They would not want an autopsy to find bullet wounds !

 Have you thought that the flash might be something more mundane, such as the reflection of a light in a mirror ?

Somebody has never heard of paragraphs........

 Why not just put your home inventory out there as a simple plain list ?

If you want to try something different....espaliered citrus trees of whatever variety you fancy. Stick some posts in, string wires between them and train the branches along the wires.

36 minutes ago, madmen said:

Why all he did was ask questions and film.

And that is more than enough for a defamation case in Thailand. Here the truth is no defence, ask Andy Hall

I wonder if it is just coincidental that these charges get dropped just as they (finally) get around to investigating and possibly disciplining the police officers who were responsible for the lack of progress in the case ?

OP, you might be able to buy at that price but it will not be close to "civilization", it won't have easy access to electricity or town water supply, and it won't have a full chanote to build a house on.

On the other hand, it might be perfect for somebody who wants to go offgrid in the middle of nowhere.

2 hours ago, Venom said:

But didn't they predict a death toll of 2 million minimum? This must be a huge disappointment to many. 

“They” claimed it would all be over by Easter.....but “they” live in their own little dreamworld on Pennsylvania Avenue.

22 hours ago, yuyiinthesky said:

 

Please explain how a virus can spread if his hosts, which it needs to reproduce, die?

 

Everytime a host dies, it becomes unavailable for the virus to reproduce it. If survival and reproduction is the target, then this is a failure.

 

You may want to read up a little on Darwin and evolution, instead of scaremongering journalism.

Or are you one of these people which claim the virus has its own conscience, its free will and that will is to kill us?

 

 

 

With this virus you can be infectious before you start showing symptoms, and even when you do realize you are sick, you do not drop dead immediately! There is plenty of time for the virus to spread and reproduce before a host dies. You are giving the virus too much credit.

1 hour ago, Dante99 said:

All land has some restrictions, it is up to the buyer to research what he is buying to know what they are.  Same anywhere.

True, but the point is that the locals knew only they could use it for tourism but sold it to outsiders, then the locals complained about the resorts !

On 7/3/2020 at 3:10 PM, cooked said:

Scaffolding, now there's an idea my mind didn't get around the idea of not using a ladder.

So possible plan B, 4 x 12mm reinforcing rods in the concrete footing, over which I could place a 20cm diameter PVC pipe, fill with vibrated concrete, taking care to leave holes in the appropriate places.

I hadn't really thought about do-it-yourself solutions...  the idea of a galvanised steel pole of suitable diameter also looks attractive to me.

Thanks guys...

The cheapest (grade 5) 200mm PVC pipes will cost you at least 1200 baht per 4m length, plus concrete,rebar. The PVC pipes get expensive quickly as you increase the diameter. For the same price you could get a 6m length of 3in galvanized pipe.

9 hours ago, Laza 45 said:

 

$Au up from 21.17 June 23 to 21.59 at close yesterday.. so up 42 points.. an extra 420 Bt on a $1,000 Au.. at least it is in the right direction.  Lets see what happens on Monday.. 

As Monday is a public holiday, probably nothing will change from close of business Friday.

I thought the idea at drive-ins was to keep the windows closed and fogged up so nobody could see what was going on inside ?

1 hour ago, Guderian said:

 

That sign's a bit lax, they normally write the price in Thai script too to make sure foreigners can't grok what's going on.

 

I went to Khon Kaen Zoo once, where they had a big sign in Thai and English with the various prices. Not surprisingly the prices were different, but the thing that got me was that the English language sign had the same discounts for children and over 60s as the Thai script, but when I asked for the seniors price they said, "No, thats for Thais only" ......well why waste your time and money putting up a big sign in English advertising discounts then ? ......Idiots !