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5 hours ago, jackdd said:

but the guys talking in another forum say something like 80-90k, so you have an idea.

 

I'd figured around 70 ~ 80 K, so I guess with application fees, gun marking fees, this that and the other, I'm looking at 100K. Do you hold a firearm? What about range fees/membership, ammunition etc etc?

I'm sorry, I thought you had a sense of humour. My mistake. 

4 hours ago, grollies said:

Anyway, why do you need a concealed-carry permit on your private hotel grounds? Just curious.

One of my counterparts elsewhere in the country, female, carries a little .22 pea shooter in her handbag. One day she strayed off the reserve a few hundred yards and someone saw an opportunity to make money. She was arrested and it cost her 50K to clear up. I'm not about to make that mistake.

1 hour ago, Spidey said:

Why not employ an armed security guard?

I can imagine it now. "Mr Bad Guy, please stand still and don't do anything, while I call for my armed guard"

Negative, we both work for the same company, how we met. The head office is in Bangkok. We manage the north, and we're not far from the border with Burma. I'm just not interested is reading cheap one liners, so zip it or I'll pop a cap in yo ass MoFo, with my new piece. I'll hold it sideways as I shoot, like a gentleman of colour.

Moving is not an option, I'm married to the business and we're not about to walk away from what is a very successful enterprise. As I said, I'm not here to be lectured, I'm mature enough to know that a gun is a weapon of last resort.

Without going into details, I want to make it clear I hate guns and I don't want to carry one. However, I've found myself in a position of risk in a relatively remote and potentially unsafe location and I'm pretty vulnerable in case of lunatic or criminal assault (plenty of lunatics and druggies around my neck of the woods). I'm also in a position of authority in a business highly vulnerable to intruders, so the company has decided to put me through the process of concealed carry certification and I'm in the market for a gun. I'm not in the slightest bit interested to read any comments from pacifists or tree huggers, nor am I interested in comments about the law, I know the law well and I couldn't give a $#!^ what you think about guns. . .

What I AM interested in is anyone with experience buying. I know guns are very expensive in Thailand, but this is an irrelevance to me, there is no price that can be put on my life or that of my loved ones. I've got my eye on a Walther PPK/S calibered in .380. Anyone know the price in Thailand and availability?

What's your phukin problem fruit trader?

This one I'm working on right now as we speak... 

6 hours ago, Fruit Trader said:

Wow 2000 meters volts drop, hope they are smart enough to splice at the transformer end with all them minibars and all.

We have 4 transformers in that cable run, and the cables are as thick as your wrist (hyperbole). It's basically the same system you'll see streetside anywhere in Thailand installed by the PEA.

About electricity theft, it more than a minor problem. Aside from the recklessness exhibited by electricity thieves (i.e. risky behavior with regards to safety) it's almost as though many people feel entitled to do it. One of my weekly chores is to walk around our private electricity system, much of it running along power lines on our unused land. The LV 3-phase part of it is about 2 kilometres long. It's no surprise to occasionally find local villagers have run a long cable to our systems and spliced into one of our phases. It would otherwise go unnoticed as our bills are so big anyway. We spend around 30,000 Baht per month just keeping minibar fridges cold.

To summarise, I wouldn't be at all surprised if your neighbours feel 'entitled' to use your electricity. You are an excessively wealthy farang after all. You need some help burning power.

No civilisation I can think of achieved greatness or survival without war and superior military power. Peace is for phukkin' hippies.

3 minutes ago, janclaes47 said:

flexibility would make it easier to lay cables underground.

 

Hey wait, that mean LDPE would be recommended.

 

 

 

Pfft, have you ever tried pulling 16mm cable through a pipe with bends in it? Flexibility my @rse.

5 hours ago, beddhist said:

According to kamalabob2's post #15 it has to be single core.

I'm scratching my head about that. I generally use singles cores underground anyway because it's cheaper and easier to handle, but I really don't see any reason not to use multicore, and I see it deployed regularly even on PEA installs. If there is such a rule I'd be interested to read about it.

Ditto, sort of. My family are all dual nationals. Cost me a fortune. When my sister in law realised how much I was struggling in old Europe, she insisted we come 'home' to Thailand, at her expense. They are completely dedicated to me, and I to them. Swings and roundabouts.

On 11/8/2018 at 8:11 AM, sometimewoodworker said:

 

Though it's often easier to get a single phase motor 

 

One of the purchasing errors made by my predecessor was installing single phase motors on our water systems, even though three phase power is available everywhere at our site. As as result I'm changing start capacitors on an almost weekly basis. Always get three phase motors if you can to avoid this sort of time consuming nonsense. Even the most expensive capacitors won't last for five minutes on a pump.

In contrast, all of our swimming pool pumps are three phase and they haven't blinked for five years (three phase pumps don't need capacitors to start).

I once left my car idle for two years. I knew it would be a long stretch so I removed the battery, all 4 wheels, covered it and sealed up the doors with tape. The problem is rats, they got in via the ventilation system and ate through cables. They also made a home in the aircon fan housing.

After repairing the cables and clearing out the nest, the car started first time, a second after turning the key. I changed the oil, scrubbed the rust of the rotors and it was good to go.

43 minutes ago, Notagain said:

You must not drink much water

Well I drink the normal amount required by a middle aged human working in a hot environment. If you can show me why my maths are wrong then please go ahead.

I run a hotel, so yes we take delivery of large quantities of glass water bottles used as free water in the rooms.

I did a lot of research into filtration years and years ago. To do it properly (hard to filter chemicals, there are lots of them that the "do it all" filters vendors don't tell you about) I quickly realised that it's no more costly and probably a hell of a lot more convenient to just buy bulk packs of Nestle bottles et al. I don't have to worry about filter maintenance. I don't have to think about this that or the other. I know I'm not spending any more than I would have if I did my own filtration.

These things use Peltier modules. You can buy them on ebay for next to nothing. I use them to keep outdoor networking cabinets cool in the hot sun. If you're handy with a soldering iron and a couple of heat sinks and fans you can make your own with some polystyrene boxes.

42 minutes ago, Guderian said:

 

They also seem to have forgotten that plenty of expats will choose to live in cities while abroad, where owning a car is pretty much unecessary as public transport is cheap and efficient (e.g. Bangkok and Pattaya, where close on half of all the British expats in Thailand live). These expats won't ever have bothered getting a Thai driving licence so what are they supposed to do when they return to stay out in the sticks in the UK for a month and there's no public transport if their UK licence has become invalid?

The decision not to get a DL in Thailand is understandible if you don't want or don't need to drive. However, the consequences if that decision are obvious. If you need to drive, you can't, and you're lying about your residency on your UK license. . Simple as that.