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No wonder I'm broke

Seems like it, BUT...... the original fluorescent had the connecting wires come out from the middle of the fitting while the new LED all seem to come out of the end. Which make life just a little more difficult when working upside down on a ladder. Also obviously more difficult replacing the whole fitting and rewiring the connection block, when up the ladder. Much simpler in the old days where just a half twist would replace the tube. Ah! the good old days

Agree replacing the fitting and tube in one go should be the easiest, as long as the clips are roughly the same and will fit. The other problem is the variations of light output now available. Recently replaced a tube that was so bright it hurt my eyes . 4000k I think it was, should have had a proper look before buying This is what I'm talking about:-

Anyone else have problems replacing those fluorescent strip lights with the new LED? Used to be easy to replace a old fluorescent tube, just go and buy and fit. The first replacement of fluorescent to LED is simple enough, just remove the old fitting completely and replace with new LED fitting and tube. The problem comes with replacing the LED tube. Seems simple enough, just like the old fluorescent remove old tube and replace.......... If only These new LED's have got more complicated. There is the choice of various Watt, Lumens and LM factors, on top of which replacement tubes from different manufacturers are not always interchangeable In trying to replace a LED tube in fitting I put up earlier I had one go pop and immediately burnt out and another blew the house fuse, but luckily the tube it's self was undamaged so was able to use it by using the fitting that it came with. So seems the only safe way to use these LED strip light is buy them with complete with fitting and replace the lot each time. What a pain

Cylinder head skimming has nothing to do with wear. Cylinder heads don't wear, they warp from overheating or get pitted from water or exhaust gas leeks, then need to be skimmed, removing a small amount of metal to get it all clean, smooth and perfectly flat surface again. Sometimes in a bad case the top of the block, where the head bolts onto also needs to be skimmed and that is an altogether more complicated job. Skimming gives a ever so slightly increase in compression ratio, but so little as no to be mentionable Barrel, actually the name is cylinder/bore, is where the pistons go up and dawn and they do wear. Fixing that is call a Re-Bore. Warning motor head trivia:- The word "barrel" is usually used by motorheads when referring to carburetors, "its with fitted a 2 barrel Webber" Cylinders can also be referred to as "pots" - "it's got a 6 pot lump (block) with twin 2 barrel Webbers and goes like the clappers"

No you don't.

Interesting series for those, Erm! interested:- Handmade: Britain's Best Woodworker Mel Giedroyc hosts as talented, good-with-wood craftspeople compete to be crowned Britain's best woodworker by award-winning architect Alex de Rijke and queen of furniture making Helen Welch. Woodworkers will be tasked with crafting beautiful and ambitious builds to exacting briefs, ramping up to a "big build." Series 3 episode 1 dropped on TVChaos. Full series 1 & 2 available on TVChaos and TGx Enjoy.

Oh Dear! Is that the total sum of all human knowledge that you would want to pass on to other life forms . Is this what space exploration is all about? So Sad

Not only is our Earth small in the vastness of the whole Universe, the area we can inhabit on the Earth makes our very existence very vulnerable. We can only exist in the narrow band of atmosphere that surrounds the Earth. We cannot exist under water or higher than a few thousand feet in the air. And what are we doing with this tiny, tiny fraction of livable space? Fighting and destroying our very existence. I sincerely hope the human race becomes extinct before we have the technology and the means to poison other worlds with our "lifeform"

This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed 'Pale Blue Dot'. Taken by Voyager 1 distance of more than 4 billion miles from Earth. From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on the mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. Carl Sagan

Slightly even more off topic:-

Sorry slight HiJack Computer Pencils What do they do

Great little free program so you don't forget any more important dates:- Simple Sticky Notes

A fascinating watch, especially if you remember the aftermath of Sadam Hussains invasion if Kuwait and the wanton destruction left behind as his troops scuttled back home. Lessons of Darkness IMDB Rate 8.0 Lessons of darkness is one of the most captivating, hypnotic experiences I have ever witnessed. I felt like I was in a strange nightmare and in an alien world. The film is almost purely visual; it is breathtakingly shot. It feels more like science fiction than most sci-fi films ever made. Absolutely haunting. This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it. Available with subs from 1337X and TGx and probably lots of other places.

Subs available from Addic7.com https://www.addic7ed.com/show/8726

What I meant was that Amorn did not seem to have area for repairs in the shop. Last time I was there I wasn't looking to repair anything so may have missed it.

In my neck of rural land there aren't many if any repair guys for this kind of small stuff. The nearest Amorn shop is Saraburi but it's only a small place and doesn't seem any sort of workshop area. They might have something out the back, or perhaps can send it away. Next time I'm in town will ask them. Seems odd that, considering how complicated battery replacement is on this thing, that they don't sell spare battery packs. Well anyway I can't find any

I only need it for this one job. I realise ฿1,000 isn't so much but for that I could buy a new pump and save all the bother of fixing this one.

Looks simple enough. I'm thinking of replacing the batteries in my Xiaomi air pump and getting the connections is a bit more complicated than what Bruce did. Guess the principle is the same so should work.

For connecting banks of Lithium type batteries that usually need to be spot welded. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/iremax-hwy-800-i2555155538.html?spm=a2o4m.searchlist.list.47.6aa1baeehATMAv Anybody tried this? Does it work?

I invented nothing. Just passing on something I read about some time ago that seems like it could work.

Another idea which I posted on here some months ago was to run a mail order business, without actually handling any goods yourself. Set up a store/shop on E-Bay or Facebook or some other international platform and advertise stuff for sale. Does not matter what kind of stuff but preferably something a little different from the usual things available. Any orders you fill by ordering the said items from, say Lazada and having them shipped to your customers address, you don't actually handle any goods yourself. Obviously needs some setting up with pay accounts and things but apparently some people are making a good living from this.

You've tried it and gone bust? Poor business management perhaps?

Now I think I really have seen it all, hats for chickens :- Available from Lazada. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/-i4772227439.html?spm=a2o4m.searchlist.list.52.12905845AodyV0

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