sometimewoodworker

Although they are the not the highest quality that I have, they are good enough for the job they do. The best tool for the job is dependant on your needs and the needs of the job. FWIW I have a couple of angle grinders from Hitachi from before the name and quality change, I also have 3 Hory grinders that all together cost half the price of the cheapest Hitachi or ฿258 each. They are cheap but for the job (grinding down and polishing welds) they are perfectly adequate and if they fail it’s a no brainier to replace them, there is no point in having 2 tools When you can have 4 and don’t need to change grinding wheels, if I were using them all day every day the answers could easily be different, but I’m not. Is the Hitachi a better tool? Of course it is. Is it better enough for the job? Absolutely not, the cheap Hory grinders do the same job for about 1/10 the cost. For an SCMS I have a Makita that was ⅓ the cost of the alternative and does an adequate job to excellent, while I could have afforded the ฿70,000+ for the better tool I didn’t have a need for the light weight and precision that the higher price got me.

To quote yourself, look again. The price I quoted included a battery and charger @ 23,000 the price for the tool alone is 21,830. However there are many who want the tool only as the already have batteries and chargers. I agree on the quality of hitachi and have a couple myself.

I gave you a link to a Thai supplier of the tool you mentioned so I don’t see the problem. I agree that searching in English isn’t the easiest but I have used the supplier I linked to as well as a few others for quality tools. The search function is made more complicated by the propensity of tool makers to change the names of tools in different regions so you have to investigate carefully to ensure that you get the tool you want.

There are a few that do, but you are correct that most don’t.

There is little point in comparing sterling prices as the prices in the U.K. are always much higher than in other countries. However that doesn’t address the point that the tool you are referring to is about 135% more expensive in the U.K. and is reasonably easily available from quality suppliers in Thailand by mail order and probably in person in Hardware House HQ

The price for the tool you post is ฿23,000 which is slightly less than the equivalent exchange rate for $700 https://itoolmart.com/product/89mz9/BOSCHGBH18V34CF18V so your quoted 32,000 is rather fantastic all the professional tools you want are available from a few suppliers. However the majority of buyers here want cheap tools or moderately priced better quality ones, very few want to pay the prices for the premium quality tools but they are available if you look hard enough.

Buy an angle grinder for 300 baht, if it fails, none of mine have, buy another one. then spend reasonable money on a circular saw as that needs to be good quality to do a good job

If you read your PMs you will find a reply

But only 2 active numbers

For the glass you need reflective blinds like these. They cut the heat being transmitted into the room by around 90%

Insulate it will save money and allow a faster cool down

That’s the second confirmed instance of dates changing. Which office was it? from the other report I can speculate as to the reason why there was no consistency, but as speculation it has no significant benefit. Also just accepting the changes without questions is not a bad policy, but it’s very useful to know that it may happen. Up to now I and almost everyone has assumed that it never does so your report is a valuable datum point

There is an option for 60 days (I am using that this time), though that is probably not necessary as you will be back before you need to put the application in.

However if you are outside Thailand during the under consideration period you will also have a reentry permit that will be limited to the under consideration report back date. I am well aware of this as the IO who stamped me in the time before last was extremely surprised that they were stamping me into Thailand for 3 days and was concerned that I might not get to Udon immigration in time.

@kimamey That is plenty of time, as long as you get all of your paperwork ready to go on your return. The application must be in before the extension finishes. You will get an under consideration stamp when you make your application, the consideration stamp is equivalent to an extension of your permission to stay. You can even go into immigration a couple of days after the report back date a there will be no problem. So please reassure SWMBO that there is no problem, apart from the English weather of course.

The second poster who got 13 months has confirmed that it was an IO stamp error and his date has been fixed

So far I haven’t had any need or desire for more than 2 and only 1 eSIM at once. I will in a few weeks have the opportunity to have 2 eSIMs active on my phone (Apple assures me this is an option) I will have my current AIS eSIM a GiffGaff physical or eSIM and possibly an Airalo eSIM. Time will tell

Quite possibly, or restricted to a single immigration office. I would guess that there are not many on a spouse extension in the far south and fewer, if any, of them are posting on TV

The poster is https://www.reddit.com/user/Wrong-Response5324/ You are welcome to ask more questions. a previous post he said That is the experience of virtually every other user and applicant I know of. And the reason for the question. However there is 1 stated claim of a different result + one applicant who applied to a different office who is likely to have received an incorrect stamp from the IO who is checking now or will shortly check. FWIW he is also adamant that he has a visa that he is extending and can’t seem to understand that an extension of stay isn’t a visa

@CMBob I doubt that I will get a definitive answer, however I infer that he applied close to the expiration of his previous extension, was given an under consideration stamp that was for the usual 30 days, that the processing time was longer, and that when the new (current) extension was stamped it gave permission to stay until March 2025, while his previous permission to stay was February 2024 The permission to stay never has the number of days written it has the application date the report by date the expiration date and the date it was stamped So the 400 days is a calculated number of days as are the standard 365 days of the usual extensions NB all the above is regarding a spouse extension

Did you actually have 3 active connections? I ask as all the companies I know of limit you to 2 active connections at any time. Was not your Thai sim dormant until activated for the OTP and did it not inactivate the French e-sim while it was active? This is likely rather difficult to prove or disprove as you would need to receive calls on both lines while getting an OTP. It is certainly an interesting question and it maybe that the activation of one number can temporarily inactivate another.

That is what happens all the time here so how is it different? That is also my understanding. However the poster is totally confident that he received more than 365 days. He also knows that the day of the month and month of renewal is not the same and is 400 days from his last extension. That is precisely why I am asking the questions regarding this unusual stamp, The Non-O visa and extension of stay being processed on the same day at the same time is the only unusual feature of your 2009 visit to immigration, the other dates are completely normal. It is unusual for everything to be done together today but immigration offices and officials have discretion so it is certainly possible that it could happen.

I know that, however the poster in the other forum is positive of the information given to him by the head of the office if the immigration office and the expiration date of his latest extension, which he received a couple of days ago, and is 400 days or about that, from the last extension. Given that and the other poster who is currently checking with immigration who has also received a more than 365 day extension I am not going to ask for more concrete proof, The forum is https://www.reddit.com/r/Thailand/ and you can join and request photos if you like

I am well aware of the usual situation. The under consideration period is dependent on the office to which you apply. in some offices it is 30 days from the date of application. in other offices (Udon is one) the application date is irrelevant and it is always 30 days from the the date your current extension finishes so can be a total of 75 days in every office that I know of the extension that is finally stamped into your passport is 365 day after the current extension finishes, this means that the day and month of the extension does not change. The under consideration period is not the question. a shorter than 365 days due to the passport period, is not the question. a different day and month because of a 60 day spouse visit extension is not the question. The report is that for 1 known user they received not 365 days but 400 days and the day and month changed. The question is has anyone else had their day and month change because they were given more than 365 days? The report is from the south, so region 6. The exact office is not specified but is likely to be Songkhla immigration office.

It should be 3 months.