sometimewoodworker

Not at all, our electricity is at about 7,000 and we do include everything phone and internet (2 phones and fibre) village festivals (including funerals and weddings) garden spending (well worth the 1,000 a month) car costs (newish Mazda and old perfect condition pickup) including fuel animal care House sundries; this is a big one as we employ family to assist and of course we pay for materials this is 15~20k so about 45k excluding pocket money. our own spending money at about 18k each insurance about 12k a month beer maybe 500 every few months, though I probably get through about a bottle of Pastis ever couple of months so high life? Not remotely. Comfortable and we spend less than we get and can afford almost anything we want, absolutely Do tell what is the high life? I am serious as I really don’t know what I should be doing that I’m not.

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That is completely dependent on the people. it can be 3,000 per month SWMBO’s mum. our spending is about 90,000 per month for 2 people. We are in an Isaan village as is SWMBO’s mum. YMMV

Mistaken absolutely. You misunderstand the ability of some people to spend vast amounts of money, specially if it is not theirs. the question should have been “What is a reasonable family expenditure” the answer to that in a reasonably comfortable style is probably in the 10,000~15,000 range but that very much depends on the size of the family and other factors.

Having repaired a couple of microwaves that were thrown out and not fixed a third. The problems were 1) a bulb that burned out 2) a blown glass encased fuse 3) something more serious Thai I didn’t spend much time on as it was free No 1 & 2 functioned perfectly for about 15 years. Time taken, about 15 minutes for each, it’s worth 10 minutes of your time to check.

Neither did I !! Personally I learned the basics when I was knee high to a grasshopper and find it incredible that it’s something that can be so misunderstood. Thanks, I see the hours spent are showing through 😜 Well I thought my original reply was enough but probably not, so no harm in belabouring something that is obvious to me It certainly should but that maybe somewhat more challenging. With that your reservoir opening is large, the drain is small and you aren’t sucking gunk out. So a bit less good of a technique IMHO. There is one point that hasn’t been made and that is that letting water flow into the tank during siphoning is a good idea.

It seems that you really don’t understand how a siphon functions and don’t know to start one. You don’t need a pump. no a hose pipe is not going to work or is going to work badly as the pipe is too small diameter STEP 1 fill the tank to 100% fill the 1 ½ pipe to 100% any way of filling it works STEP 2 get someone to hold one end of the pipe higher than the tank. Use your hand to block off the other end of the pipe so that little air enters put that end of the pipe under water in the tank STEP 3 put the end of the hose in the tank just above the gunk level get the person who has been holding the other end of the hose to put it below the bottom of the tank using your bamboo pole put the tank end into the gunk you will have a flow of several litres per minute of watery gunk REPEAT steps 1~3 until it works. Keep filling the tank. as a wise man said “I can explain it to you but I can’t understand it for you Though what @Daffy D said is strictly true, in practice it isn’t A ¾” hose will be poor without a significant hight difference (the OP only has about 1~1.8 meters) For that small a differential you need at least 1” but 1.5” is better bigger than that doesn’t make enough difference to matter.

Have you tried filling a pipe that size by sucking on it? I know for sure I can’t, and I doubt that even the most talented BG has the lung capacity.

If you are using a 1½” (the best pipe size to reduce friction but going bigger doesn’t reduce friction losses by much) sucking to start the siphon is going to be a really interesting experience, so filling the pipe a different way is going to be required.

Don’t do it. The fuller the tank the better it works the full tank is 2.6 psi the half empty one is about 1.2 psi siphon pressure. use a minimum of a 1.5” pipe as a small one kills on friction losses. A ½ pipe is about 80X worse than a 1 ½ one. the only time you run the tank down is before taking the drain plug out and that doesn’t do much if anything for cleaning gunk. @Daffy D has about 8+ psi

While I wasn’t there I can virtually guarantee that it was for cost savings and supply and that the extra splatter it generated was either explained or ignored as I doubt that the welds were critical along with the practical aspect of practice in grinding off the BBs i do have a baby CO2 tank and a small Argon tank but much prefer the 75% 25% mix

6 bar!! It should probably be 0.6 bar and a 6 metre tower😇 but maybe he is also the control tower for the airport

Physics: The hight of the water level in the tank (usually about 1.5 meters +) above the outlet is the thing governing if the siphon is going to work, not the location of the bottom of the inflow tube. I’m not going to give a lecture on physics, the fact is that it will function. try the experiment for yourself, it’s simple enough if you use a small dimeter pipe, less than ½” for the experiment, probably more than 1” for the cleaning pipe FWIW the bottom of the column of water (your tank) can be far below the outlet pipe, with the inlet pipe well below the the level of the outlet pipe and it still functions and the siphon still siphons EDIT as @Daffy D said a greater hight between the top of the water column and the bottom of the outflow will work better. 10 meters = 1 ATM or 1 bar of pressure. Also he needed the extra hight as he severely restricted the flow by using a small diameter flexible pipe. It worked so all is good

The use of piles may well be preferable to waiting for natural compaction or digging the foundations to below the fill level.

Of course there are but when you talk of using CO2 as a welding gas it’s logical to assume 100% CO2 and that is a poor gas to use unless you are needing to use the cheapest and don’t care about throwing BBs off. If you are talking of the most common welding gas for those who can’t mix their own and don’t buy enough then it’s 75%Ar 25%CO2 and nobody I know of would call that CO2 And it is 6 X the 75/25 cost, is suitable for a few metals (not steel),good for robotic use and unforgiving of less than perfect manual welding See above.

Our lad was filled 7 years before building, I can assure you that a single year however wet will not have been enough to compact the soil, and the fill trucks won’t have done very much. Probably about 3 years along with compaction. the soil has at least 30% air when filling. The only way to reduce the time for settling is to compact after each load is dumped and spread and you will still need time for further compaction. The trucks driving over the fill will do little as the load on each tyre is designed to be comparatively low. A heavy 50~100kg vibrating plate compactor or a heavy road roller or better a vibrating road roller will do a better job.

It’s untrue that paint must be sanded off before repainting, probably sanded but not sanded off. But it is possible that your paint was in such poor condition that it required sanding off. It is equally possible that his large sanding machine cut his time enough to make it cost effective. So lying? Yes, or possibly no.

Just eliminating the majority of adds is just one part of premium and you can’t get everything that premium offers in one place and as simply as YouTube offers.

The correct way is to install a tank and pump from the tank. What you are doing is either illegal or against the water supply regulations.

Really!!! That would be a very unusual choice of gases, pure CO2 will splatter, helium isn’t a common welding gas as it’s expensive. The standard is 75/25 argon/CO2. You can use pure Argon but it isn’t optimal for the material being welded.

SWMBO just told me that we were getting a new on and got a Samsung RH64A53F115/ST, the third door is amazingly useful. Due to recent surgery I have had to sleep within 2 meters of it for the last week and the loudest sound is the ice maker dumping occasionally, the compressor is totally silent. We bought a clapped out fridge for a couple of hundred baht to trade in, it reduced the price by 3,000. We bought from HomePro online as it was cheaper than from the HomePro store.

Is anywhere safe? However flying has the lowest number of incidents/accidents causing passenger injuries of any mode of transport. So safe? Yes. I am giving reasons why you shouldn’t make unfounded claims, and why the claims are badly wrong. I have no problem with misstatements that when pointed out are corrected, but when they are compounded and reinforced, that is where I draw the line.

You think wrongly, all tickets have wording that allows for delays, equipment changes and route changes, so no broken contract, just someone who doesn’t read the details of ticket sales.

That is taking what I said totally out of context. There are no pilots trained to fly all aircraft. There are a huge number (the majority) of trained pilots who are not certified to land using CATIII You are demonstrating that you have no knowledge, not even cursory, of the way flights are planned. You really should know something about the subject before you make such false scenarios. Flights are planned with sufficient fuel to allow for division (usually with at least 2 alternatives) they also have radio so can get information from the airports along with PIREPs and information from the text message system. They receive a weather briefing and will not fly if the weather has the strong likelihood of preventing landing at the destination airport along with the alternatives. So your examples are totally fatuous.