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Some of the brass faucet inserts in areas that use our well water have suffered from dezincification which causes the insert body to become brittle and fail. The solution was to replace these inserts with stainless steel. Below photo shows a brass insert that has become brittle and cracked alongside a stainless steel replacement from China. We have machined down the spindle of the replacement to fit the faucet lever. It can be difficult finding inserts that are an exact match.

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Now there's a point worth noting in our entertaining EV topics.

And if bugs remain in software the right set of events can lead to failure. Electrically, ICE vehicles have the ABS pump and control module to handle. EV's throw regenerative braking into the same mix adding one more control function to the braking system logic.

Easy now, the confused emojis are already running rife. You got to keep it real simple.

OP, until a lot more water has passed under the bridge you are no going to get solid answers about the durability of Chinese EV's or other important factors to consider when purchasing a new vehicle. Our house masters sister has recently moved from Honda Jazz to MG4 and I know for sure her decision was based more on the cars looks and electronic trinkets rather than its ability to replace her Jazz. A YouTube influencer provided the killer sales pitch. She likes the car a lot but being a worrier admits the thought of not having enough charge to complete a journey and being unable to find a charger might never go away. Her stress levels were not helped when owner of the excavator sales and service next door to us jokingly asked her to park it on the other side of our compound away from his stock. The brother in law then went in for the kill by saying it would be best left in the street well away from our masters wooden house. All those nasty Tube videos putting ideas into people heads. An EV service industry is already developing outside of the main dealers which might be good news for those concerned about affordable support for ageing EV's. We need to see more tear-downs and feedback from those repairing these Chinese masterpieces. Just for fun …

We have many stray cats in our compound where in the past some have survived what looked like a severe case of flu. Very important the cat is drinking, if it refuses force using a syringe. Remove any discharge from around eyes, mouth and nose, keep in a quiet place away from other cats.

Relax, the futures looking bright.

A serviced apartment building near to us has banned EV charging in the car park located directly below the apartments at ground level. My brother-in-law who provides services to this building was asked to disconnect several wall sockets in the parking area and erect warning signs. The building insurers were communicating with the owners about this along with complaints about trip hazards created by cables charging electric scooters. It's quite understandable that insurers would want to reduce risk from vehicles parked within a building structure knowing that some are extremely difficult to extinguish when on fire. I guess risk assessment for EV's on charge is still in its early stages.

Shows are listed by season and episode # not season and show #. Three episodes of a new show Constellation have been released.

The best acting in The Beekeeper movie comes from two maintenance guys fixing a leak in ceiling of the FBI field office.

Above ground tank cleaning Our product wash supply tanks are cleaned three times a year using strong chlorine and brush. To make this an easy task all pipe connections are fitted with barrel unions which allow the tank to be quickly disconnected tipped on its side for cleaning and upside down to drain and rinse. PVC inline barrel union.

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By open vessel I am referring to there being no isolation (bladder) between the compressible air pocket and the water. The air control assembly as it is called injects air into the tank. The item is made up of several components which is why it is called a control assembly. Control is used in the naming of this device because it keeps the level of air in the pressure tank under control. The compact house pump range use pre charged pressure vessels with isolation bladder rather than a large tank with air pocket below the pump. Example pre charged bladder tank used on compact pumps.

Pumps with open pressure vessel have never had bladders. Item 16 on the diagram is the air injector which maintains the pressure storage air pocket in the vessel. Each time the pump starts a diaphragm in the injector uses pump pressure to inject a shot of air.

The air pocket is maintained by an injector which will likely have increased capacity on pumps with a larger volume tank. Because you are keeping the same size pump and injector I can't see any problem with you using a larger capacity tank. Most important when fitting these replacement tanks is a good seal on all upper connections of the tank because this is where the air pocket is maintained. It makes sense that pumps with larger capacity require increased pressure storage volume.

There is no bladder, pressure is stored in a maintained compressible air pocket directly in contact with the water. If all of the fittings align correctly there should be no problem using a larger tank.

I personally rejected the explanation my friend was given and applied my own reason :- We do not accept yellow books as proof of address because the immigration office prefer we send all applicants to them for fee extraction.

After rejection of yellow book at Pattaya Land Transport Office, a friend asked the office supervisor for an explanation and got the following reply. The Pattaya office has not accepted the yellow book for several years when applying or renewing a licence that covers all of Thailand. Some exceptions were made during the Covid lockdown period. The Yellow book is acceptable if a Chonburi area only licence is required. The office has decided an immigration resident paper is more reliable for obtaining up to date residence status because it is connected with the latest TM30 information.

Depending on AA cell type and brand, it might even be possible to exceed 3000mAh in this very low discharge rate application.

Simple solution LM3909 IC probably get 2 years operation from a D cell. LM3909 Datasheet 2.pdf

Back on planet Europe our washing machine isolation valves and hose connections were located in the adjacent cupboard. Came in useful when a washing machine solenoid valve failed to close.

A simple ground rod connected to the refrigerator ground terminal will not be useless (do f/a as the experts describe it). Functional in that it will almost certainly handle any inverter filter currents and maybe small fault currents. How it would handle large fault currents to a level defined by the protective device can only be determined with proper fault loop test.