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Thanks, chaps.

I have a bench drill which I didn't use for many years, and was stored outside under cover. It now generates insufficient power to drive the belt, although I can get the motor to run by manually spinning the pulley on the shaft. I haven't looked inside the casing of the motor, but it runs quite freely under no load. I saw an internet video which suggested that the capacitor is at fault. I took that off, and the motor still starts by hand and runs, so I will try a new capacitor. It is a type CBB60 SH, 6.5uF (+/- 5% Class B, if that is relevant) 450V AC 50/60Hz. I see on Lazada a lot of capacitors for fans, some rated at 6uF and 8uF. There are also some designated CBB60, seem to be for washing machines and the like. The nearest on offer is 6.3uF, then 8uF. My two questions are:- 1) Will the 6.3uF work ok? 2) Is there any advantage or danger to fitting 8uF? I have a very feeble grasp of matters electric, so simple explanations would be appreciated.

Some countries, the USA and UK to name but two, don't have a "national carrier" as such. Perhaps the more relevant criterion is that it should be a direct flight, which would in many cases rule out a low cost airline.

Nothing new about this. I remember being recommended to gargle with salt water over 60 years ago to reduce my susceptibility to nose and throat infections.

Indeed, walking up 2nd Road from the Royal Garden Plaza is a shop where I bought a cheap carry-on case.

That's what you get from unedited press releases. According to Wikipedia "Founded in 1862, it is China's oldest automobile maker.[4][5] It is currently the smallest of the "Big Four" state-owned car manufacturers of China..." I wonder what the 1862 model looked like.

Sorry, that's not quite correct. Black Rod is sent from the House of Lords to summon the Members of the House of Commons to the Lords. As he approaches the Commons the door is slammed shut, and he (or she, as the present incumbent is female) knocks three times for it to be opened, so that the summons can be issued. Just a symbol of the traditional independence of the Commons from the Monarchy.

On this document - 9303_p3_cons_en.pdf (icao.int) - the International Civil Aviation Organisation, which sets the agreed standard for travel documents says this:- "Unknown date of birth. Where a date of birth is completely unknown, that data element shall appear in the date format used for dates of birth by the issuing State or organization but with Xs representing unknown elements (numbers and/or letters) of the date. Examples: XXnXXnXX XXnXXnXXXX XXnXXXnXX where n = a single blank space or a period (if numerical format is used). If only part of the date of birth is unknown, only that part (day, month, year) of the date shall be represented by Xs as per the date format used by the issuing State or organization." So your wife can be issued with a passport which caters for her incomplete dob, and should be issued with a visa unless there are other perceived issues. Without wishing to disparage your wife in any way, I do recall as an enforcement officer dealing occasionally with Thai illegals arrested by the police in massage parlours, who came up with a story of having been facilitated to the UK by a "boyfriend" with whom they were no longer in contact. It is quite possible that the IOs in Oz 20 years ago thought she was on that game. I doubt very much that as your wife of many years she will have that problem again.

What i/d? Foreign travel requires a passport. I'm searching my memory of 20 years as an Immigration Officer and can't recall seeing passports showing a year of birth only, though I may be wrong. In these days of machine-readable and digitized passports I suspect the systems would be unable to cope with an incomplete date of birth, and it is quite likely that in the absence of day and month, a passport will show these as 01 01, as certainly used to happen on refugee documents. I suggest that you trot along to your nearest Passport Issuing Office and see what the score is - far more reliable than any answer you're likely to get on here.

If it wasn't for Netflix I wouldn't have seen 'Breaking Bad', arguably the best tv series made in decades. A more up-to-date series that I've found worth watching is 'Designated Survivor'.

Just a bump to this thread, in the light of this article:- Tax change for expats living in Thailand - Thai Examiner Tony M's questions in the OP, which have been ignored by the Consulate, seem to be even more pertinent, and it would be nice to have some confirmation that our representatives understand the potential implications for us expats and are prepared to do something about it.

They don't burn Catholics any more, even in effigy, thank goodness. I was amused to see a report that a village in Kent is this year burning an effigy of Sadiq Khan, the much-despised London Mayor, because of his punitive taxation of motorists.

Try a government hospital. I enquired about a booster at the Bangkok Rayong Hospital early this year, but was told that they and most private hospitals aren't bothering because there's no market for them - the Thais know they can get them for free at government hospitals. I subsequently went to our local place and was given one for free - no bother. If you have paperwork and a "Thai id number" from a previous vaccination that will help the process..

I'm not sure this is still the case. Please see my post on the previous page dated October 20.

Yes, but I don't recall seeing such as 'To meet overseas Visa requirements' as suggested above. The options I have ticked are either "Pension payment" or "Living expenses" - but I don't rely on income transfers for my retirement extensions.