In the jungle

1.  Change police processes so that there is never a reason for money to pass from a member of the public to a police officer.

2.  Make it a serious criminal offence for both parties if such transactions take place.

That would be a start.

7 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

"What bugged me was the fact that they filled up two and a half pages of my new passport with a whole bunch of BS stamps and manuscript notes."

 

BUT How do you know they are BS stamps? Your attitude is so arrogant.  If at some time in the future you were in trouble for not having these 'BS' stamps you would be moaning even more.

I just went through  this transfer process last month. At no time did I consider any stamps to be 'BS', extraneous or unnecessary just because  I did not fully understand  them!

How do I know they are BS stamps?

Because I spent more than twenty years of my life working for immigration in a first world country.

Thai Grand Prix.

The braking point for turn one is the som tam stall on the right.

I went through this process recently.  A different visa category and at a provincial office.

The process itself was relatively straightforward with no demand for additional documents.  What bugged me was the fact that they filled up two and a half pages of my new passport with a whole bunch of BS stamps and manuscript notes.

1 minute ago, overherebc said:

Never tried a bsa twin???? Both pistons went up and down at the same time, that was vibration.

I have tried a 1960s Triumph.  If you clenched your teeth on one of those you would need a good dentist to fix the wreckage ????

4 minutes ago, overherebc said:

It's all a state of mind.

I reckon granny ain't getting much action after his sore prostate has been pummeled by that vibrating piece of junk.

On 1/27/2022 at 6:15 PM, pedro01 said:

True

 

The Z4 (pictured on the flatbed in post 1) - was 5.1 million. The Toyota equivalent - the Supra costs 5.2 million here. 

 

So the Toyota and the BMW are about the same price.

 

As for the C43 AMG - I am not sure what the equivalent would be - as I can't see an equivalently performing coupe from Toyota. So let's take it against the Toyota sports car - the GR Yaris

AMG - 4 million. GR Yaris 2.7M

AMG - 3.0V6, GR Yaris 1.6 V3 (lol) tuned close to death

AMG - 385hp, Yaris - 257hp (which you gotta admit - is pretty cool)

 

GR Yaris Interior (looks like the inside of a Thai Taxi)

 

C43 interior (looks like a tarts bedroom in this pic) - the lighting is standard, we have ours set to purple - to avoind Mongers gathering around red lights.

 

Yaris Exterior

 

C43 Exterior

 

Now - the Yaris GR is the closest I could find - and I think the AMG justifies the higher price being bigger and better.  The Yaris interior is horrific.

 

So I am not sure how these cars are so much more expensive than equivalents (both 3.0 V6) from other brands.

 

In fact - the BMW is cheaper than the Toyota!

 

We all have different tastes.

To my eyes that CL43 interior is horrific.  Too complex and a mish mash of different materials seemingly chosen at random.  And honestly I don't think it matters what colour you make the interior lighting it will still look like a tart's bedroom.

The Toyota interior is relatively simple and functional.  It has a proper handbrake and a proper manual gearbox.  It is doubtless high quality and it it will keep on working.

To my my mind simplicity is a virtue.

10 hours ago, it is what it is said:

if you watch the news, life's far more normal in the uk than in thailand. non of my uk friends will go anywhere near thailand at the moment

Yesterday in the UK there were 346 covid deaths.

One of my bikes is ten years old.  I bought it new from a Honda dealer.

The numbers on the numberplate do not match the numbers in the green book.  They are one digit out.

No government test station has ever noticed that.  I will sort it out if they ever do.

On 6/5/2021 at 10:45 AM, Lacessit said:

I would not know, all my vehicles are maintained regularly.

Perhaps this is what passes for unroadworthy in Thailand.

No.

That is good to go.  Just flip it over.

Useless.  How are you going to rape, murder and burn citizens with that?

1 hour ago, sometimewoodworker said:

As I mentioned my maximum during a power cut is 0.3~0.4 Bar, more importantly all the pipes are 32mm up to the outlets and virtually all bends are 45 degrees so friction and turbulence losses are small.
 

This means that we have walking water during power cuts and have no need for any stand by tanks and as it is plumbed we don’t need to take any action. Sure the heaters turn off but that doesn’t stop the water flow mid shower, obviously  since the supply pressure drops from 4 bar to 0.3 bar the flow drops, but as designed it doesn’t stop. So all in all it functions well enough and as expected when it was designed in the house planning. Would an 8 metre tank be better? Of course, but it would have needed a separate structure. As is the tank location is built into the house.

 

living in the boonies we get frequent power cuts, so designed for them. My usual cooking is on an induction hob, beside it is a gas hob so little difference and no inconvenience. 

I think where we differ is in what we consider reasonable flow and pressure.  I think we can both agree that 4 Bar is reasonable pressure.  I run my system at that pressure as do you.  Is 0.3/0.4 Bar or even 0.8 Bar reasonable during a power cut?  You say yes.  My view is no, as in not worth bothering putting a system in place to achieve that result, but my view is influenced by the fact that power cuts here are generally of short duration.

4 minutes ago, JAS21 said:

Mr STWW is of course correct in that if you can maintain 0.8 Bar at the shower head then you can have a reasonable shower… provided of course you use a suitable shower head. 

Well you could have 0.8 Bar at the shower head in a power cut if the tank was maybe 9 metres above the shower head; which his tank almost certainly isn't.

18 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:

You may be the OP hasn’t said that he is, in fact if you read carefully it would only be gravity feed when there is a power cut.

 

You clearly have a poor understanding of the possibilities of plumbing if you think that having a high level tank means that you can’t/shouldn’t  also have a pump and that that the supply pipe size and routing is only relevant with a pumped system. 
 

The larger diameter pipes and smooth routing are far more important when there is no power. Pumped or not makes a difference to the losses but they are usually only noticed when there is no pump.

 

If your system was supposed to be pure gravity feed then your supply pipes should have been better designed and sized.

 

 

Yes.  I know all that.

I was talking about the performance of the system under gravity feed.  If you look at my earlier posts I made specific reference to the performance of the downstream system in my second post before you chipped in.

The OP is interested in what happens in a power cut.

I know all about pipe diameters, the angle of the bend and yada yada yada.

Try addressing the OP's question.  Performance when there is no electrical power.

1 minute ago, sometimewoodworker said:

Pressure or flow, it isn’t really that important, the point is that your supply pipes from the tank are too small or badly routed so you have significantly high losses from friction and turbulence.

 

A water tank at 8 metres with good plumbing will give amply strong showers. If yours didn’t QED your plumbing was causing the problem.

The OP and I are talking about a system without a pump.  Gravity feed only.

The only way what you say makes sense is if you are talking about a pumped system.

2 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:

If the pressure is that bad then it’s your supply pipes that are badly undersized or have poor routing.

Wrong.  Pressure is determined by the height of the tank less pressure losses in the system downstream.

It is basic physics.

At 5 metres your water pressure from the water tower would be 0.5 Bar less pressure losses in the pipework thereafter.

I have a water tower you can have for free.  It's 8 metres tall and made from concrete ????  I discontinued using it because the water pressure is feeble, power cuts here are generally less than half an hour and I don't want the liability of people working at 8 metres height on maintenance and repair.

In your situation I think I would either go for a generator or buy candles and torches.  Bear in mind that a generator would have particular maintainance requirements by virtue of infrequent use.  Also bear in mind that if you use a generator you must not backfeed power into the electricity grid.  Imagine some poor soul up a ladder trying to fix the problem and you are pumping power into the system.

I went for the candles and torches option. 

It's Chinese.

Low quality, poor brand support, carburettor.

10K tops.  Probably less.

He is 12 years old.  Something second hand and cheap.  At that age there is a reasonable chance it will get lost, broken or stolen.

Haven't his relatives got a cast off phone somewhere?

I haven't bought a new phone in the last 15 years.  I use my wife's cast off phones.

7 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

On my Formula 1 car I prefer to have all four tyres matching.

 

On my Hilux I'm happy if the tyres are round and black.

I watched a vlog recently where Nico Rosberg interviewed Alain Prost.  He said that one of the ways he gained a competitive advantage was by mixing compounds on his F1 cars.  On certain clockwise circuits, for example, he might choose to have three medium compounds and a hard rear left.

I think Alain was fairly unusual in this approach but there you go.

Is it four wheel drive?  What is the vehicle?  What are the tires and their sizes?