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3 minutes ago, bubba said:
Same here, Jan. I had no choice with this vendor, as the only used DHL.
One other solution if you are buying a product in USA for shipment to Thailand is a shipping drop. We use:
When your shipment arrives, they notify you by email and you can log in and choose which courier you would like to use. For an additional $1, they will "lose" the invoice from the vendor inside the box and then you complete your own commercial invoice with the correct description and value.
Yes they are good but have limitations (at least size wise) on what and where they send to via USPS. I couldn't get a seat for my other bike off Ebay sent as the dimensions were just outside their limitations.....
NOTHING is easy!!
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I am absolutely conviced that DHL, Fedex, UPS are on a commission for the duties etc, I ALWAYS go USPS, which then goes to EMS in Thailand, it's just the postal service. I have lost 1 package (under $5) in 12 years! With the bigger companies you just get screwed, no kiss and sometimes a hand full of sand (just to make sure you feel it!). I now just don't get stuff sent unless they will go by post. Somtimes you can't get what you want but it is less painfull!
On a side note I had a 6 speed overdrive gearbox for my Harley sent from the States, and customs almost doubled the fees on it to what I had calculated. I was on a rig at the time and my accountant handled it, the bottom line was, you can dispute it but they will charge you X amount every day for storage..... "pay them"
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We have started changing all the lighting on oil rigs to LED because of the longevity and the bug factor. There are different colours of LED's though as there are with flourecent lights, I suspect there is some colours less atracitive to bugs than others. There is also less heat from LED;s
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Just visit your local technical college with a lathe......
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How many times do we have to tell you to keep the money offshore. The system is rigged against you here in every way. Like in a casino the longer you play you will see the odds in house favor over time.
Some people just dont get it or are too stubborn to learn from the mistakes of others!
You can tell me as many times as you like.
I will continue to live my own life free of the nervous nellies, with my Thai wife in Thailand and elsewhere as I see fit..
I lost a damn site more in the west than I ever will in Thailand.
My money and I will do what I damn well like with it.
Did you ever see a tow bar on the back of a hearse?
Stop counting the dollars and start smelling the roses.
I am curious if you will still be saying that down the line if your deal goes South......
Nothing wrong with insurance!
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Who the <deleted> would want to invest funds at 2 or (God forbid) 2,4 percent anyway - forget the alleged racism, think about the rational of the investment. You couldn't convince me to fart in bed for a 2 or 2.4% return.
As to buying a condo, get your Missus to buy it at the Thai price of 1.88M.
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having wife buy it would be counter intuitive as it would then not fall into the 49% foreign quota. thus narrowing the market for a resale
Thats a good point.
If they are married it will be split 50/50 on a break up anyway so what´s the problem who´s name it is in. If purchased after the marriage it is an even split, joint property...
Could she not buy it with the (supposed) intention of resale as an ¨excuse to get one of the 49%? But then maybe that is the real reason for the price difference, the units are potentially worth more because of the chance of a foreign resale?
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Lack of Freeon?
And where would this freeon have gone? Does the compressor (which is just a pump) which is designed to circulate it also burn it up?
I have an idea, MAYBE THERE IS A LEAK.......
Oh well get the gas bottles out again so it looks like we know what we are doing and we can justify the charge, plus we will be back in 6 months to do it again, and if we are REALLY lucky the compressor may have died by then and we can start the whole thing all over after making even more money...
If it works for 6 months than it is still cheaper than replacing the air-con unit, or compressor, in a rented condo, or trying to get the Landlord to do the same.
You may know air-con units but you may not know what renting is like here, or Landlords.
Only 10 years worth.
I pay mine every 6 months and make them fix everything before renewing (and paying) the next 6 months. It´s worked OK so far......
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So you are spraying water into an A/C with a hose, and the power is on and the fan spinning?
CLEVER!!
Maybe you shouldn´t rely so much on youtube!
Make sure you pay the extra 50 Baht for the quality flip flops.......
Power to the A/C is off. That's the force of the water spray spinning the fan. When A/C techs come to your residence to do a proper cleaning they will use this method but probably have a small pressure washer... and they will be wearing flip flops and charge a lot more than the cost of your setup...and of course the need to let the techs into your home. But if you don't want to buy a small pressure washer then make a hookup for use with your residence water supply...and using the spray adapter from a garden sprayer works great since it has a spray on-off control, adjustable spray nozzle, and is shaped a good way to spray inside the A/C. Understand and remember to turn the A/C off during the cleaning.
I turn mine of (at the switchboard), spray with degreaser, water from a spray bottle then blow it out with compressed air. A mate has a dive shop so we rigged up an old spare bottle with a thin hose and I just use the valve to control it. I do have an RCD fitted which I know works.
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Why is it that people ALWAYS think it is the gas? It is a sealed system, where did the gas go? Cars are a different story and have to be topped up regularly as they use rubber ¨O¨ rings for deals and they leak by nature. If your A/C needs gas it has a leak, if you don´t fix the leak you are wasting your time.
Old units can leak just a fraction of gas for whatever reason and you only notice this after a while. I had an old beer cooler that had this problem and I saw many units in hotels where the evaporator was covered with ice. In these cases the compressor never stops working, ecxept for clixon or other heat protector coming in. No cooling but high power consumption.
So unless the leak was repaired, topping up the refrigerant would have been a waste of time......
It doesn´t matter how old the unit is IT SHOULD NOT BE LOSING GAS. If it is there is your problem. Leaking for whatever reason? So they just leak? Do you think it should be doing this or that the leak should be found and repaired?
It is an easy way to keep getting repeat custom, just keep treating the symptoms and never apply a cure... Keep topping up the gas, don´t find the leak, that takes time and patience and may even involve work. Then you wont have to come around every 6 months to top it off and make a few more easy bucks.
If the clixon on the compressor was tripping out all the time I would be suss about the compressor, having being run with a leak for a long time.
Evaporators covered in ice is generally a symptom of gas problems (and therefore a leak).
I have NEVER seen a Thai A/C man use a leak detector, or vac / pressurise the unit and check for leaks. Is it holding a vaacuum? Purging and pressurising with Nitrogen for a period will also let you know if there is a leak and it has the added advantage of cleaning any ¨shale¨ from welding from the inside of the pipe ensuring there are no contaminants.
Take the time and do the job properly the first time and there are generally few problems until old age sets in (or the warranty runs out).
By writing all this it seems you prove that I am right.
It´s hard to get it through though isn´t it?
I think I am just losing it because it doesn´t matter what you post they either don´t read it or have some mental block ¨It´s the gas!¨
Oh well..........
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I now clean my A/Cs and their cage fans myself...basically just like in below youtube video. I use a bug sprayer adapter (like people use to spray around the house and what also appears to be what the guy is using in below youtube clip)...hooked some very flexible water hose to the adapter, run the water hose into the house, just use the water pump pressure which is around 35psi, and I made a plastic A/C wash bag to catch the water/dirt. Watch below short video and you see the plastic type bag at the very end....and I've also include an image of what a wash bag looks like...I just bought a large plastic sheet at Global House and made my own wash bag for about Bt50. I don't have to disassemble any of the A/C to accomplish the wash....I even wash the cooling fins. In the video this guy did some disassembly which he didn't need to do. And no, this is not me in the video...it's a good one to quickly give a person of how it done.
I cleaned one of my A/Cs I use 24/7 just last week using this method...it had been approx 4 months since the last cleaning...black dirt flowed out...cage fans can get so dirty and in a relatively short time frame....but my cage fan is now as clean as a new one and the vent air output is very even and strong along the entire length of the air vent outlet. I expect a person could also do a pretty fair job of cleaning with just using water from a bug sprayer (you know...just put water in the sprayer tank...pump it up and spray)...if you don't want to or can't go the water hose route for higher pressure.
So you are spraying water into an A/C with a hose, and the power is on and the fan spinning?
CLEVER!!
Maybe you shouldn´t rely so much on youtube!
Make sure you pay the extra 50 Baht for the quality flip flops.......
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Lack of Freeon?
And where would this freeon have gone? Does the compressor (which is just a pump) which is designed to circulate it also burn it up?
I have an idea, MAYBE THERE IS A LEAK.......
Oh well get the gas bottles out again so it looks like we know what we are doing and we can justify the charge, plus we will be back in 6 months to do it again, and if we are REALLY lucky the compressor may have died by then and we can start the whole thing all over after making even more money...
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We live in Mae Rim in a single family home we built; have had semiannual cleanings done for our 11 units. Three of those units are large hybrids with the distribution/blower units located in the overhead above the ceiling with ducting that pipes air into more than one room. The individual room units have all been flawless...the only issues experienced are the batteries leaking in the remotes (most of these room units are never used or sparingly used) and we've been in the home 10+ years. Two years ago, one of these 3 hybrids began acting up and stopped chilling the 2 rooms it services. Before going on the blink, those rooms were easily cooled to 21 degrees if needed. After repeated cleanings, refrigerant top-offs and other low-pressure/high-pressure system checks, the problem persisted. The culprit turned out to the lengthy (10-meter) connecting hose that runs from the compressor located outside in a shady space, up the exterior wall, over the ceiling and connecting to the distribution unit. They replaced that hose and the problem seemed to be corrected. The senior tech told us that it was possible that rats running in the overhead crawl space had chewed into the hose, damaging it and allowing the temperature in the line to rise. Everything else checked-out and thoroughly stymied the team. By the time the charge arrived at the distro unit, it was ineffective. Ergo, you might need to have that connecting line looked into as well.
This one has me intrigued.....
I take it you have ducted split systems¨ and this is what you are talking about?
A hose running between the compressor and the fan coil unit? There should be 2 copper pipes (usually with insulation over them and possibly a drain for the condensated water to escape.
You say ¨The culprit turned out to the lengthy (10-meter) connecting hose that runs from the compressor located outside in a shady space, up the exterior wall, over the ceiling and connecting to the distribution unit. They replaced that hose and the problem seemed to be corrected. The senior tech told us that it was possible that rats running in the overhead crawl space had chewed into the hose, damaging it and allowing the temperature in the line to rise¨
I would think that rats chewing through the foam insulation around the copper pipes would do almost nothing, rats wont chew through metal so I doubt if they chewed through the copper and caused a leak and any reasonable test should have shown there was a leak somewhere in any case. It is then a matter of finding it, which is the time consuming and difficult part quite often. Chewing through the drain would cause a water leak somewhere.
Sounds to me like in desperation (and I don´t blame them) they re piped and re-gassed it and it fixed the problem. The tech didn´t know where the leak was exactly or what caused it and probably considered (quite rightly) that the effort to find out was not worth it. Did you see the pipe and damage?
At least they found it and fixed it good for them, it can be an absolute nightmare especially with pipes running through ceiling spaces.
P.S. please let me know if the rats did chew through the copper pipes, that´s a a new one for me and interesting....
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properly needs re gassing
Do you mean it MAY have a leak that needs to be repaired?
Or a million other things......
Do you know that 9 times out of 10 it (should) not be the gas.......
It is more likely to be the thermostat (probe dirty, not in position, just broken) they operate many times in a day, the gas just goes round and round. Unless there is a leak, which there shouldn´t be !!!
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Why is it that people ALWAYS think it is the gas? It is a sealed system, where did the gas go? Cars are a different story and have to be topped up regularly as they use rubber ¨O¨ rings for deals and they leak by nature. If your A/C needs gas it has a leak, if you don´t fix the leak you are wasting your time.
Old units can leak just a fraction of gas for whatever reason and you only notice this after a while. I had an old beer cooler that had this problem and I saw many units in hotels where the evaporator was covered with ice. In these cases the compressor never stops working, ecxept for clixon or other heat protector coming in. No cooling but high power consumption.
So unless the leak was repaired, topping up the refrigerant would have been a waste of time......
It doesn´t matter how old the unit is IT SHOULD NOT BE LOSING GAS. If it is there is your problem. Leaking for whatever reason? So they just leak? Do you think it should be doing this or that the leak should be found and repaired?
It is an easy way to keep getting repeat custom, just keep treating the symptoms and never apply a cure... Keep topping up the gas, don´t find the leak, that takes time and patience and may even involve work. Then you wont have to come around every 6 months to top it off and make a few more easy bucks.
If the clixon on the compressor was tripping out all the time I would be suss about the compressor, having being run with a leak for a long time.
Evaporators covered in ice is generally a symptom of gas problems (and therefore a leak).
I have NEVER seen a Thai A/C man use a leak detector, or vac / pressurise the unit and check for leaks. Is it holding a vaacuum? Purging and pressurising with Nitrogen for a period will also let you know if there is a leak and it has the added advantage of cleaning any ¨shale¨ from welding from the inside of the pipe ensuring there are no contaminants.
Take the time and do the job properly the first time and there are generally few problems until old age sets in (or the warranty runs out).
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Why is it that people ALWAYS think it is the gas? It is a sealed system, where did the gas go? Cars are a different story and have to be topped up regularly as they use rubber ¨O¨ rings for deals and they leak by nature. If your A/C needs gas it has a leak, if you don´t fix the leak you are wasting your time.
Of course when they installed it they vacuumed the system down, purged it with Nitrogen and checked it was holding before gassing it (as you should). More likely they just opened up the valves and used the pre-charge in the system while purging it. Never checked for leaks in the first place.....
Depending if the leak is on the high or low side a leak will burn out the compressor it is only how long it takes. Even if the compressor still works it probably wont be very efficient afterwards.
Assuming that they did cool the room(s) once get the outdoor units cleaned, this is where it gets rid of the heat, if the coils are dirty it will cause this. Quite often they are installed in some inaccessible place where it is too hard to get at them so they only service the indoor unit. If you live around a traffic area it may cause the coils to clog quicker.
A/Cś don´t make cold air, they remove the heat. If the compressors (and coil) are in the afternoon sun the coil will have trouble getting rid of the heat. They may have to be relocated, which will cost pipe and gas as well as labour. Good luck with that one....
Under the cover inside you will see a small (probably black) little tube, usually mounted on the fins under the filter. make sure this is clean and in the airflow (clean the filters). This is the probe for the thermostat, it wil not read correctly if it is not sensing the air flow.
If the unit isn´t sized correctly or just running all the time your power bill will double or more.
Personally if my bedroom isn´t like a freezer I hate it, probably just decadence but their you have it, to each his own......
Good luck, let us know if you nail it
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I just contacted 1111 .... spoke to a very well ' english speaking gent ' who took down the details and advised he will forward it onto the correct department ...
so ... now i'm relaxed ....
The round ¨filing cabinet¨ under the desk....
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¨The Captain of the boat is Khun Paiboon aged 59 and confirmed that apart from him, 1 Thai National and 9 Burmese Nationals were working on his boat. He also claimed that the foreign fishermen were working legally and had the correct work visas, despite the fact he was unable to produce any documentation to back up his claims.¨
He had left their ownership papers at home but they could check the brands anyway!!
Was the girls boy friend part of the crew?
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"reminding Thailand that it needs to keep its promise"
I don't think I've ever seen the word "Thailand" and the phrase "keep its promise" in the same sentence.
How about :
¨Thailand didn´t keep it´s promise¨ ??
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At least are going to form a committee now........
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I could be wrong but I thought a liquor license needed a fixed address. For example they wont want you selling outside a school.
You may find the license (if there is one) for the combi vans are tied to specific locations and this is the ONLY place(s) they are allowed to sell from. Of course there would be no reason (probably) that you couldn´t attend private functions.
As for the hot dog van, excellent idea, but I suspect even if you could pull it off (and you are not a Thai street vendor) you would end up coping so much flak from the locals it wouldn´t be worth risking your life and limb over.
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"80,000 views and hundreds of negative comments"
Not enough negative comments in my opinion. I understand that tourism to these destinations is a significant part of the Thai economy... But the ecology in these areas (which is unique in the world) has to be respected well before any profit margin gained from tourism.
But the ecology in these areas (which is unique in the world) has to be respected well before any profit margin gained from tourism.
You either don´t live here or havn´t been here long?
OLD THAI SAYING : ¨If it moves eat it, if it doesn´t move then eat it later¨
They don´t respect their own people what hope does the ecology have?
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What he REALLY means if he and his High-so friends in Bangkok can't then make the money they have been by continuing to exploit the poor Thai and Burmese/Cambodian/and Lao fishermen as they have been up to now..... then he won't be able to get a new Mercedes for his next Mia Noi teenage girlfriend.
And that would cramp his luxurious lifestyle.
DAMN!!! So that´s what I´ve been doing wrong? The scooter wasn´t enough I should have go ta Merc.....
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They have had enough time in reality, it´s not just 6 months!!! They should get what they deserve and more!!! Everyone on the down side of this deal should be compensated with more than the usual Thai style compensation IMO.
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Smedly no intention of slight in my part it was merely pointing out that a million of that and I'd haphazard the most on the streets at any one time was 250-300K nowhere near 1 million, really is a small number when there's 47 millions on the electorate.
You yourself said it wasn't a small number, 2% being generous at that is intact a very small number and the poster you criticised was figuratively speaking was correct.
But after months that number dropped drastically anticipating the collapse of Yingluck and it simply didn't happen.
Staging such a large protest which I supported initially was indeed brilliant, but the constant final final final pushes wore even the ardent supporters out, they had lost the momentum and the protests stalled.
I stopped the support after the blockading of the polling stations, the one chance the PDRC and the Dems had of proving beyond all their claims that they had the majority of support of the country fell apart like a paper canoe in a bucket of acid!! The Dems threw teddies and a coup was always going to be the only way to resolve it.
Had they allowed the elections to go unimpeded and the Dems grew a backbone, they could have proven they had the majority, but the blunt truth is that it's merely hearsay, it's like me claiming I have the biggest tadger in Thailand, it's never likely to be proven false or true!! ?
Then they had the opportunity again for July elections but the PDRC were spent, even blind pew could see that it was becoming farcical, it was when Surhep started making the threats about seizing the government house and imposing his own government chosen by his people there wasn't much more Prayuth could do, if he allowed that to happen the Reds would have kicked off ten times worse.
The attacks on the protests had not increased at all, they remained almost a constant, and the fatalities were the same, less people on the streets, less targets, simple logic really.
But we are straying off topic as the subject is 2010 and the MIB out of which only 5 have been detained nobody seems to be spilling their guts like many on here claimed they would, their case has been put back till July now as well O believe.
Why do you think that now the BIB have been rained in, only 5 are in detention out of how many? 20-30+.
You ever considered the fact that perhaps the MIB are Not meant to be found as it could be "rather embarrassing" if it was found out they were on both sides of the divide? It's a possibility that needs to be kept in thought, dismissing it it folly, as history is full of such duplicity!! ?
it's like me claiming I have the biggest tadger in Thailand, it's never likely to be proven false or true!! ?
I have to agree with you there, everything your missus told me (which pointed to the opposite) is still only ¨hear say¨ I guess
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Have I been had by DHL?
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I have never had a problem with Royal mail, but I had to go to customs in Phuket town also once to dispute charges, I just showed them the emails from the company (on my phone) and they just said OK no problem, VERY reasonable I thought!!