In the jungle

I believe I am right in saying that these Hitachi jet pumps are less efficient than a submersible ie more Baht per litre pumped.

Someone with better knowledge than me could explain the physics but I understand that the Hitachis actually pump a percentage of the water pumped up back down into the well to get them to work to a greater depth.

I considered the Hitachi pumps but I am leaning towards a submersible even though the well I have is only 10.4 metres deep.

I think the cop is asking her to explain the scam in every detail.

Because his wife has some spare time.

There are plenty of companies that make clay roof tiles in Thailand such as:

denchan.com/

You could try and find a company like that who would be prepared to make a small batch working from a sample. Doubtless it would be expensive per unit.

If it were me I think I would probably go for the green tiles that are available and try and match them with paint. It's an imperfect world.

Union member = fish food

It sounds to me like the clutch is not fully disengaging.

The bag of hammers sound suggests to me that the clutch release bearing may have failed. Part number is 96100-60010-00. Less than 100 Baht from a Honda dealer.

Not more than half an hours work to check and replace this part if necessary. Budget for a clutch casing gasket and oil change at the same time.

What happen if man with more powerful amulet is involved in the crash?

One area where I think the Spark is much better than the Wave is the way the suspension works.

Both the Wave and the Spark have much the same cheap suspension but my feeling is that Yamaha put a lot more resources into optimising spring and damper rates.

There are bumps on a route I use often where the Wave is quite harsh yet on the Spark they are barely noticeable.

An obvious problem with the Wave is trying to find it in a bike park when faced with half a dozen near identical bikes. I quite often have to check the registration number to make sure I have the right one and one time I put the key in the wrong bike..

Yes.

It's like pick a word and then laugh.

Innovation, trust, education, equality.

Take your pick.

And she paid One Hundred Baht for the ticket!

Surely not possible given that the angry man in uniform forbade it.

Very well done and good luck for the Olympics.

But, being pedantic, she is not the World Champion as the headline claims.

She is the world number one ranked player.

The current World Champion is Carolina Marin of Spain who won the women's singles in the last World Championships in August 2015.

A piston pump is a positive displacement pump so I think in theory it will pump to pretty much any height if the power source is up to the job.

To give you a real world example I have a 1" piston pump which I use to pump water from a shallow bore hole to storage in a water tower. The total head is about 18 metres (1.8 Bar) and in that application the piston pump works much better than a good quality (Mitsu ACH375S) centrifugal pump that I tried. From memory the 1" piston pump has a 750w AC motor.

Piston pumps (as in BSJ's photo above) are belt driven so you could drive them with either electric or internal combustion engine. The piston pump I have is "Diamond Hand" brand and it has worked fine for the last three years.

One restriction to bear in mind with piston pumps is that you cannot close off the system downstream of the pump with, for example, a float valve in a tank. If you do that something will break; most likely the pump or the PVC pipe.

Do Home carry pretty much the full range of Honda Power Products and a 3 inch Honda pump will be nothing like 12K from them.

Less than 9K I would say.

I would buy the Honda rather than a Chinese pump as it will be better value in the long term.

But for your application, pumping up a hill, and depending upon the head, you may be better off with a piston pump which are readily available in Chumphon. Do Home do piston pumps too but I haven't looked at them.

You can also get solar DC water pumps from Amorn in Lotus Chumphon if that is any help. It's the same old piston pump you see everywhere but with an, I assume Chinese, DC motor and, possibly, a gear reduction drive as part of the motor.

"The new Mercedes Benz models have a black box just like planes."

No, they don't. They do have an ECU controlling the cars various functions, that's all, no "black boxes".

Same same but different,

you say potato I say potato.

It is a combination of Hardware and software like a computer with memory, so they can take out the data from last trip. It is not a black box, but it does have the same functionality (logs of incidents)

please see wiki info on ECU

In automotive electronics, Electronic Control Unit (ECU) is a generic term for any embedded system that controls one or more of the electrical system or subsystems in a motor vehicle.

Types of ECU include Electronic/engine Control Module (ECM), Powertrain Control Module (PCM), Transmission Control Module (TCM), Brake Control Module (BCM or EBCM), Central Control Module (CCM), Central Timing Module (CTM), General Electronic Module (GEM), Body Control Module (BCM), Suspension Control Module (SCM), control unit, or control module. Taken together, these systems are sometimes referred to as the car's computer. (Technically there is no single computer but multiple ones.) Sometimes one assembly incorporates several of the individual control modules (PCM is often both engine and transmission)

Some modern motor vehicles have up to 80 ECUs. Embedded software in ECUs continues to increase in line count, complexity, and sophistication. Managing the increasing complexity and number of ECUs in a vehicle has become a key challenge for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

I think you are right.

I have a car manufactured in 1989 with a GM ECU. It has a host of datalogging functions built in including throttle position, gear selected, speed, rpm, g force fore and aft (both positive and negative) as well as many others that would be irrelevant to this investigation such as air/fuel ratio, coolant temp, air temp and so on.

Some of the datalogging is derived I think in that g force can be calculated from acceleration and gear position can be derived from speed and rpm.

I have recorded data logs over an hour long using a very old lap top with 120 Mb storage (old because I communicate with the ECU via a serial interface). My usage was mostly in looking at cooling system and braking performance (the latter comparing two different cars of the same model).

That is what GM were doing 27 years ago so it is not hard to envisage a high end Benz doing all those things and more with on board data storage in 2016.

Similar to blades for my Honda HRJ216 lawn mower.

300 Baht a pair from a Honda dealer in Australia.

1900 Baht a pair from a Honda dealer in Thailand.

Like a Thai house.

No plan, no standards and nothing works.

Look at the word Honda on the grass bags in the two pictures you posted.

Somewhat calls into question their competence.

"Ducati .......probably the best designs"

I completely disagree.

I have had three Ducatis in my life and two of the three are now worth a fortune.

The third one, the modern one, was a triumph of style over substance.

One simple example. The steering head nut on the modern one was a thing of beauty that required a hundred dollar special tool to remove whereas just about every other manufacturer uses a fastener that can be removed with conventional tools.

Another. Plastic covers over a plastic fuel tank of dubious quality that distorts when subject to gasohol secured by numerous cheap fasteners requiring about five different tools to remove.

It would not even run right unless you were prepared to stump up an extra THB 80,000 for the DP ECU.

I like Ducati and have many fond memories of riding them but I would need some convincing to buy a new one.

And, getting back on topic. Ducati 959? A pretty compelling reason to hang on to your 899 if you are lucky enough to have one.

"It was believed to be the updated version of the old kuman thong, the fetal fetishes containing the soul of a child traditionally worshiped, but without going to the trouble of obtaining a dead fetus."

Because tracking down a dead foetus is such a pain and so last week??

The filters I use are here:

http://www.itec.co.th/

Crossy is right.

Do not go smaller on the suction pipe and, if anything, go bigger. Use a footer valve.

I use agricultural water filters. Around 100 Baht each for one inch. You can clean them so you do not have an ongoing maintenance cost. They are fairly coarse filters which have pros and cons.

The pro is maintenance is minimal and costs nothing.

The con is that they do not get the really small particulates out.

What always puts me off the carbon/osmosis/whatever stuff is the demo always has a pathetic trickle coming out at the end and the salesman is always a charlatan with a smile and shiny pointy shoes. Plus the daft maintenance costs.

I get around the fact that the filters I use do not catch the small stuff by using water storage as settlement tanks. The tanks are drained, flushed, cleaned and steriiised in rotation. 30,000 litres of storage in total for a house that normally only has two people. In the dry season we pull around 3600 litres a day from our well. Most of the water we use goes on the garden.

There are a whole bunch of controls for the system. Most are simple water level switches. The only electronic one is a timer switch to minimise stress on our not terribly productive well.

I use a Mitsu ACH375S as the well pump and the suction head is, currently, 5.87 metres. They work fine and cost around 3K a pop with one Inch inlets and outlets. But they are a throw away pump. If it goes wrong you throw it away and get another one.

I have fancied trying the Hitachi pumps you mention but when you are solely reliant on well pumps, as I am, if the well pump fails you fix the problem fast and the Mitsu pump I mentioned is what I can get quickly.

The Thai (AC) insulation may be OK in your application where, I assume, it is not subject to UV and knocks and abrasion.

In my application it is pretty hopeless.

My hot water system is copper pipe. 15mm I think.

The pipe runs are quite short but I have not been able to find any good quality insulation here. Everything I have seen in Thailand appears to be made from natural rubber.

If the Honda HRJ216 is too expensive I can recommend Patco mowers which are made in Thailand.

We have one of these too (mower #3 of 4!)

The Patco mower to go for is the one with the aluminium deck. It uses the Honda GXV160.

The Patco is a push mower and quite a bit lighter than the HRJ216. 19 inch deck. I think we paid THB 15,000 for ours about four or five years ago. In that time it has had only one component failure which was the throttle mechanism on the bars. A fairly cheap replacement.

We also have a Honda H3011HSA ride on mower (we have more than one property).

It has a hydrostatic transmission and a 30 inch cutting deck. It is relatively simple as ride on mowers go, very well made and the transmission is reputedly bullet proof.

It took me five years searching on and off to find one worth buying.

It cuts a given area of lawn in roughly half the time the HRJ216 takes but uses about double the fuel. The HRJ216 gives a better quality cut on a lawn that is not flat.

The H3011 now uses four swing back blades. I designed the system and it uses HRJ216 blades. I did this so that I would not be locked into buying new ride on blades from the States or Europe.

Of the mowers readily available in Thailand I have no doubt that the Honda HRJ216 K2 is the best there is. It is in a different quality league to anything else I have seen here.

I have only two criticisms of the HRJ216:

1. It is a heavy beast at 48 kgs. You don't really notice this if your mowing consists of long straight runs but you will if you are constantly weaving around bushes and plant pots.

2. The blades are very high quality. I am still using the original blades after more than two years. But in Thailand they are hideously expensive at THB 1900 a pair c/w fixing bolts. I get my blades from Australia where they are one sixth of the Thai price at THB 3000 for a box of ten pairs c/w fixing bolts. My wife's niece hand carries them from Oz so we are not paying freight or tax.