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Its a bugger to buy them for some odd reason as I have had my Phantom coming up for 2 years and my second set are just about worn down. The first IRC lasted 15,000 km and 4 years when I changed them a year ago and the second set of IRC Wild Flares are just about done after another 17,000 km.
I have been in touch with Pairoj in BKK and will go down there next week from Khampaeng Phet and do some other stuff as well, but he WILL send them to you in Thailand and you can get them fitted at a place of your choice.
I spoke to a Thai called Charlie yesterday but she is out of stock of Pirellis and Dunlops.
VocalNeal gave me this info a few weeks ago.
Phantom tyres
If you surf for BKK Riders you will find a website. Look under shops you will find Mr. Pairoj. He will ship tires all over Thailand.
Mine is not Phantom and I have Dunlop.
From Vocalneal
http://www.bkkriders.com/shops/index.html
Big Bendum
(Ek Pai Boon)Mr. Pairoj has a large stock of specialist bike tires. He can supply, change and balance tires for you. 481 Santiphab Road
Tel: 02-222-7535
Email: [email protected]
Dunlop tyres
Front 100/80 – 17
Rear 140/80 – 15
About 4,400 baht the pair
Slightly bigger and maybe better
http://www.competizioni-moto.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=57
Charlie 0890038886
Charlie is a Thai woman from Oz
Pirelli Diddy Demon
Front 3.00 -17 equivalent to 90/90 – 17 cost 1670 baht
Rear 130/90 -15 cost 1910 baht
Showpow has moved to Onnut 46/2. Pat or Charlie. Closed Sunday.
Dunlop tyres
Front 100/80 – 17
Rear 140/80 – 15
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I buy cantaloupe melons in the market next to 7/11 in the village and she has been charging me about 40 baht/kilo for a long while now but quite often she throws in some other fruit as well for free and the lady next door has been selling a hand (15) big bananas for 35 baht for quite a while as well.
The lady who sells melons also gave me a rose for Valentine's day.
In the 3 other markets, Monday afternoon, Wednesday morning and Saturday afternoons the price of cabbage is 10 baht for 2, onions around 40 baht/kg, both chicken and duck eggs range from 27 to 35 baht for 10 depending on size. Most veges are reasonably priced but the price of pork, chicken and beef I have no idea as my wife buys them though I think pork is around 90 baht/kg.
Oil and stuff like that I normally buy at Big C or Makro once a month.
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Back in the old days the penalty for piracy was hanging from the yardarm.
Why not revive the practice?
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If True indeed is going to use 850 MHz frequency than it basically means they bought CAT/Hutch network only for the towers, which is not a bad idea because towers need land and need building, so they save themselves some time and trouble.
On the other hand, the whole 3G delay here was because neither CAT nor TOT allowed 3G service on companies existing frequencies - 850MHz for True, 900 for AIS, and Dtac has also some of 850.
Now, in a sudden change of heart, they gave True the right to run 3G AND sold them the towers, and announced the same permission for Dtac.
There will be losers here, and they will cry foul. AIS, is one, TOT is another - it has its own plan to let other companies to use its 1900MHz, legal 3G, and then some consumer advocates will jump in, too - because of the 2100MHz auction going down the drain as no one will need it anymore, or could afford it after doing 3G on 850-900.
2100MHz is a "public interest" project, anyone can sue anyone else on the "public interest" pretext. They'll probably start with suing the government for delinquency first.
The two most expensive parts of any network in any country are infrastructure.
#1 is acquiring the land and building rights to put up a tower and building along with power from the main supply somewhere.
My wife has a small AIS site (outdoor so no building) on her land with a tower and mains electricity from the roadside 30 metres away. She gets about 30k baht rental a year for that.
#2 is the fibre optic links from the site back to a switching centre somewhere and from there into the main trunk routes back to Bangkok and then out to the world at large. When I started building networks back in 1987 that link was actually a phone line which went on to a microwave link and eventually now the fibre optics.
Therefore if you already have #1 then re-equipping and updating is easy as the equipment gets more compact with every generation.
However if you have to start from new it takes a fair time to process.
#1 First network planning has to decide what they want and where
#2 Next comes the site surveys
#3 If the site is available and OK then site acquisition takes it on
#4 Legal services get involved for leases and planning permission
#5 If all that is OK then the site goes out to contract for physical infrastructure, tower, power etc.
#6 When that is done the RF installation team go in, build the equipment racks etc, antennas and feeders
#7 The RF guys finish all that get the site downloaded by the switch, fire it up and test it then it goes live and a new site is added to the network.
In addition to all that in a completely new network the owners usually put the job out to tender to one of the big telcos such as Nokia, Hua Wei, Alcatel, Lucent etc who then sub contract it on, so in addition to all of that most of the time you need the main contractor plus the network operators input at a lot of the stages.
The time span varies dependent on the skills of the various crews, the country you are in and somewhere along the line Sod's law will be waiting as well.
I had 25 years experience across 20 odd countries and operators and I am soooooo glad that I am now retired and don't have to put up with that crap any longer.
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Fredob; Billd:
I've thought about what you both have posted, and I think I'll take advantage of your experience. I now plan on holding off on any land purchases, and rent for a couple of years. I want to try living on Koh Samui or somewhere similar for a year and also try living near Khamphaeng Phet for a year. This gives me a chance to try both lifestyles and see which one works best for my wife and I. My wife and I will still have to decide which area to try first.)(
Next time I am up in the KP Phet area, I'll try and get in touch with you blokes (English word I think
), I'd like to buy you a beer or a cup of joe (American word for coffee) or something.Wishing you all the best.
Rick
I don't know about the JOE, Glad to hear that you read our post's. Both side's of the coin so to speak, and have thought about what we said. About Koh-Samui hope your loaded with $/bt was a nice place 15 year's ago but now to many farang and built up, like Phuket to many problem's. Only one step up from Pattaya Just. Here it's a different set up all together no beach but we do have the river Ping. And very Thai, good shop's not to many place's to get Farang food but it can be got. But the main thing is it's half the price for most thing's. And about 75% cheaper to rent or Buy. In a word it's Thailand. The other place's are just in Thailand. Give both a try and you'll see what I mean. Total different way of life.
I am up for that but it would be easier in KP as where I live there are no decent coffee shops and few bars as such which is OK for me but not necessarily so for a lot of expat retirees. Farang food would be in KP as well.
I think the farthest south I have been is Cha Am or Hua Hin other than flying to Nakhon Si Thammarat to buy my motorbike and coming back up to Bangkok by train on an overnight sleeper (but the bike went on a different train).
Fredob is lucky as he has the Ping river and I only have a klong which is almost dry now. On the other hand I do have the Mae Wong national park about 10km up the road and our land backs on to it as well.
I am happy enough here and I can always find things to do around the land and I go out now and again on my motorbike.
I have had enough of city life to make me glad to be out here though there are several things I miss, mainly bookshops and decent food once in a while but forget the overcrowding, traffic jams, pollution etc as it is something we don't see much here.
Best of luck to you.
Cheers
Bill
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You wrote: "You forgot your colonial helmet all that time ... it is pityful"
Oh, you had such a great chance to do a bit of a pun here. You could have said "pithiful" (in the image of the English pith helmets that they wore) instead of "pitiful"! Darn!
Did you mean one of these?
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When you said hobby, i hope you know how to get rid of them when the time comes
I have many villagers practically begging me for help to look for wholesalers with a hobby concrete pond of 2'000 catfishes
Hopefully I will only be running 30 or so fish at one time just for a hobby otherwise I will have to sell or give them away
If you only want fresh fish for the family it would be better to have them throughout the year and not just in batches 2-3 times per year.
to achieve this you need 4 small tanks in line, each one higher than the last. First month stock the highest pond, 2nd month move fish down and restock top tank. Repeat until 4 tanks stocked by this time you can harvest first fish. By doing this you will have fresh fish 12months of the year.Circulate and filter the same way that you planned before, gravity will take the water from tank to tank.
Now that is a good idea and one I hadn't thought about.
I suppose I could make all the tanks about the same size in a line and put a drainpipe between at slightly different heights.
Pump from the last tank and drain into the first tank and it should cascade down. I will think about that one.
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For an extension of stay you are now required to register your foreign marriage at the amphur. For that you need to follow the procedure you did, but once you have the certified copy of the marriage certificate you need to register it at an amphur and get a copy of the entry into the register.
It is a relatively new requirement for an extension based on marriage, that is why you might have slipped through. But in the future you could have some problems in that immigration will demand you register the foreign marriage at the amphur. Of course only if you apply for an extension based on marriage.
Thanks for the update Mario.
I am on a retirement visa at the moment so no problem as long as the GBP/THB rate stays at a reasonable level as it is now.
My extension is due at the end of July and I have all the paperwork anyway.
Now where did I leave my wife last time?
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I have been fortunate never to have lost my passport or have one stolen so I have a lot of sympathy to anyone that happens to.
What I have done is scanned all the relevant pages used so far into my computer along with the departure card, 90 day reports etc and should the worst happen I have a record that I can print out for the various departments that may require it.
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You were legally married in the UK. The Thai government only makes a note of this marriage in their registers. You do not marry again in Thailand with registering it here.
My wife and I were legally married in the UK and while I was living in Bangkok I went to the UL embassy for confirmation of the marriage and then on to the MFA out at Chaeng Wattana and got a certified translation of the marriage certificate.
I have always used that with no problems and as yet we have not registered at the amphur.
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What an awful situation to be in - displaced under threat of gunfire and strafing from foreign hostile forces and the army saying '90%' it's okay! These people just want a peaceful existence without interference of politics and chest puffing power brokers with metal hanging on their stupid collective chests. And you can't blame them...
Miss Thailand 2010 Kritchaporn Homboonyasak and her runner-up Worarat Niyomdech also visited the villagers at Kantharalak district office yesterday morning to give them breakfast and see many of them off back to their homes.
What a joke.....:jap:
Why is it a joke?
At least they got of their a** and did something.
Did you?
I know that I didn't but that is because I live about 500 km away.
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When you said hobby, i hope you know how to get rid of them when the time comes
I have many villagers practically begging me for help to look for wholesalers with a hobby concrete pond of 2'000 catfishes
Hopefully I will only be running 30 or so fish at one time just for a hobby otherwise I will have to sell or give them away
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Ah Chiang Rai for the water tank.
That's about 5 or 600 km away from me and I have looked locally to find a small tank without much luck so I suspect that I will build a concrete one.
I will hopefully do this as a hobby rather than a business and see what happens which is one reason to be small and cheap.
However if nobody minds I will pick your brains every so often.
Cheers
Bill
I guess using fiberglass would be too expensive for your purpose....?
Not so much expensive for the tank but by the time I have gone around a few places getting nowhere the costs tend to stack up compared with knocking up a small system from concrete blocks about 1.5 x 1.2 x 0.6 metres on a 2 x 1.5 slab 5 cm thick.
As it will only be a hobby plus a way of getting fresh fish in small numbers for the family and fresh salad stuff as well I really don't want to lash out too much money where I don't need to.
The land we are on is on a slope and less than a metre or so down is rock which is why I thought of rebuilding the sala anyway, putting the growbeds onto the sala and the fish pond at ground level.
The problem with growing large amounts of fish and veges is selling them on a daily or so basis. 20 fish a week is not too hard to get rid off but 50 or 100 a day means trying to find a buyer before you start and getting a price to cover costs and make a small profit.
Up here nobody is really interested in paying extra for pesticide free veges as they don't have the money for it and as for selling larger quantities of fish, well that maybe easier as we have a daily market plus 3 weekly market days.
Last Wednesday I bought 2 carrots, 20 baht, 2 cabbages, 20 baht, lettuce 10 baht.
How can I compete commercially with prices like that bearing in mind they were mostly sold by local ladies?
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Well Fredob43 my experience is totally different from yours so I guess I will leave it at that.
Just because your's is ok does'nt mean that there are not other folk's with problem's that are living here. You might be one of the lucky one's I didnt say all were like It, just a lot. Normally caused by family.
If it's your first time living here best to be on the safe side. All I wish is for all people to be happy. Life is to short for problem's. If your clued up about things' that can happen it more than likely won't, or it'll at least give you a fighting chance as you would be one jump ahead.
I never said I had a problem on the contrary I'm a very happy chappy. Not had one bad word in over 12 year's, and laugh every day. But I can point out several peep's in K.P.Phet alone that are not having a good time of it. Load's/hundred's more through out Thailand.
I gather by your post that you dont agree with what I say. If you think I'm wrong. Your very welcome to discuss. Preferably with some constructive criticism, as this will help all. It's nice to hear from other Farang's that don't have problem's. Or even one's that do.
The majority of the farangs that I know around this end of Khampaeng Phet province up by the Mae Wong national park are pretty much a happy enough bunch of guys though I know of one who has a problem.
I am not saying that you are right or wrong as you are expressing your opinion as I expressed mine earlier.
There probably are many more throughout Thailand and I can't speak for them as I have been living out here onshore and offshore for about 7 years.
My mother in law has been living with us in a separate house for the last couple of years while my father in law still lives down in Bang Na in Bangkok where he keeps an eye on the other members of the family. Parts of the family usually come up for the holidays but mostly they stay down there away from the ban nok side of the family.
I used to support them but due to the exchange rate in the last year I stopped doing that in November but if things are needed then we help her parents and vice versa.
The problem is that you can choose your wife (and she you) but you can't choose the family that comes with them in Thailand or elsewhere for that matter.
I was married for 21 years to my UK wife but I felt stifled by the marriage and as I worked offshore around the world I met women from a few countries and Thailand was one of them. I met my current wife through work down in BKK and though she told me she had land in KP it was just a place on a map to me as I used to work over in Issan.
After 4 years in Thailand the job ended and I had to move to another country and as my UK wife was here at the time and asked me what I wanted I told her that I wanted a divorce so I could marry someone else.
In the subsequent divorce I kept my pensions and personal stuff and she got the rest.
A year or so later I remarried and have lived reasonably happily ever since.
We bought more land up here and built the house 7 years ago and since I retired nearly two years ago Thailand is now my home though it was before when I was here and offshore.
Will the marriage last?
Who knows, I am sure my first wife though so and I probably did for a long while.
I would agree with you and urge the OP to come over and live here out in the sticks and rent rather than buy land and build straight away. I would also agree with keeping the OP money etc offshore for quite a while and bring in what is necessary as and when required and also to learn how to speak Thai with reading and writing as a bonus.
I wish I could speak Thai far better than I do but out here good Thai teachers are rarer than the teeth on my hens and learning by CD is hard especially at my age.
To the OP, come over and try it out but be careful how you spend your money and don't throw it around as sure as hell you will have a long queue outside all waiting to help you spend it. Also have faith in your wife because you know her more than anybody else here.
Cheers
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Ah Chiang Rai for the water tank.
That's about 5 or 600 km away from me and I have looked locally to find a small tank without much luck so I suspect that I will build a concrete one.
I will hopefully do this as a hobby rather than a business and see what happens which is one reason to be small and cheap.
However if nobody minds I will pick your brains every so often.
Cheers
Bill
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I was in a place at Nakhon Sawan yesterday that sells loads of sump pumps and they are now selling a pump called
Lucky Pro GP250F which has a max lift of 7 metres and a max flow of 8,000 litres per hour.
Far too much I know but it also has an electronic float switch and when the tank level is too low it kicks the pump in.
The only timers I have found so far allow for 2 on/off cycles per 24 hours.
I was looking around NS yesterday but still could not find any sort of tank to put fish in and baths were on off at 9 to 12,000 baht which sort of defeats the object.
I suspect that in the end I lay a concrete slab about 1.5 wide and 2 metres long and 1 metre high and build a brick tank that can be expanded if the need arises.
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Well Fredob43 my experience is totally different from yours so I guess I will leave it at that.
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My wife used to do a lot more in the village several years ago but has cut back on a lot of things.
Saying that however a friends Dad died yesterday ans my wife was up helping out with the cooking etc for about 8 hours and is back there again to day with another friend.
I was helping a little last night with the wiring up of the lights etc as nobody had thought to bring a torch or electrical screwdriver.
I am looking after the little girl of about 3 while this is going on and around 4 pm something will have to change as the kids are coming home from school and get dropped off in the village 6 km away so someone will have to be there for them.
I can't really leave the little girl nor would I want to get the other two as I only have my motorbike as my wife has the pickup truck.
Should my wife die before me I will stay here as I have a few Thai friends plus the house and land will all belong to my son and he will live here as well.
I mostly do my own things and if my wife wants me to do something I will. If I want to go off for a couple of days on my motorbike I tell her early and then go off, similarly for her.
If she dies before me then the house and land go to our son and I become the legal guardian and can live here until I die.
Thailand is now my home and other than a short holiday I have no desire to return to the UK.
For me life is good here and far better than I would be able to live back in the UK.
I know my neighbours here but when I lived in the UK I don't think I knew anybody from 3 houses or more away from ours.
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Thanks IA for that info but I suspect that I am about 5 or 600 km from the nearest beach but there is a new mega homepro type of shop down in Nakhon Sawan that might have something.
I vaguely remember the last time I had or used a bath would have been in the UK back in 2005, and no I am not a soap dodger.
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I am interested in aquaponics though a complete newbie at it.
I have found a couple of links here
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aquaponics-Thailand/170218083004597
and here
http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/
I have a sala which is not used and I am thinking of re-roofing and reflooring it and using it as a starter for aquaponics.
I think I can use 6 storage boxes from Makro which are internally 70 x 50 x 44cm each filled with gravel or small stones to 30 cm making about 100 litres per box.
I will interconnect them all for the water in from the fish tank and the same for drainage back into a fish tank at ground level with about 300 litres of water.
A small submersible pump will pump up to the feedbed boxes and all the outputs of clean water will run back through a tap into the tank.
According to Backyard aquaponics I should flush the whole system through every hour and preferably use an aerator as well. They recommend a maximum of 2kg of grown fish per 100 litres of feedbed.
I was thinking of Pla Nin or Tilapia which is what the family like to eat at about 400 grams each.
I am still in the planning stages and it will only be a hobby so far. I can grow different veggies in each box and only in small numbers to begin with.
If it works then expansion is simple using the same methods and a different part of the sala.
What I am really having a problem with is finding a plastic tank fish tank of about 500 to 750 litres and about 200 x 100 x 50 cm which would slide nicely under the sala.
I live 75 km southwest of Khampaeng Phet but there is nothing local that I have found for the tank.
The rest of the stuff is easy apart from perhaps a timer for the pump.
I will try to draw up something this week and post it on the forum.
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I am far too old now but if I was asked I would go back to an Air Force job again but only on the understanding that my son now aged 6 NEVER went into the Army.
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There was an ed-op piece in the paper whose name cannot be mentioned by a guy called Voranai V entitled a Plague of Fanatics which I found very interesting this morning.
He makes a lot of sense if you can spare the time to read it.
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I have gone into this a little and for me it is a non starter.
The problem is that I live on a slope and about 1 metre down I come into rock which makes it possible but it would be long and wide.
150,000 would give you a tank of 1,500 cubic metres or at 5 metres deep it would be 10 metres wide by 30 metres long. The one I was planning was 6 x 4 x 3 metres deep or a little lass than half the size of the one you would like to build.
The reason I chose 4 metres wide was that you can buy precast slabs 4,000 x 300 mm to make a roof for the tank. All the weight will be taken by the base and walls but bear in mind you will be putting 1,500 tons of water into that hole and depending on the depth of the tank will be the thickness of the concrete walls and base.
Also remember that for 1,500 cubic metres of water tank you will have to take out more spoil that that for the concrete.
Sometimes up here there is no water for a month or so during march, April and early May and despite the heavy rain last year my fishpond is now empty and drying out. Given that it holds about 400,000 litres and it leaks through cracks in the rocks as does the neighbours on each side it was a waste of money.
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Are you sure you got your figures right 150.000 litres. that's the size for a condo water tank, nearly 3 times the size of my swimming pool.
It depends if you are a farmer or not.
If you need more information pm me and I will dig the file out.
The volume was estimated from the typical water consumption per person per day of 250 to 300 litres. Given that during the rainy season I don't need to make provision for saving water I think 150,000 litres is reasonable to see two persons through the rest of the year.
Also I think you will find, if you check, (http://www.poolandspachemicals.co.uk/volcalc.htm) that 1,000 litre = 1 cubic metre therefore the tank size needs to be 150 cubic metres not 1,500 cubic metres. Usig your suggestion of 4 metre long precast slabs then the size I would go for would be 12 x 3 x 4 which gives a volume of 144 cubic metres or 144,000 litres.
You are correct about the size. Sorry my brain flipped that day.
Land Near Kangphangphet
in Central Thailand
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I ride a Honda Phantom 200cc which is a good reliable bike but there are times I could do with a bit more poke as it were but buying something like an old Honda Steed means I need another bike if I have a problem with it as there isn't anybody who can fix them around here. The only one I know of is "owned" by a cop over in Klong Nam Lai but I have no idea what the plate is from, no green book either but I don't think he worries about that sort of thing.
I have never found any farang eatery up in KP yet but I haven't looked too hard either.
Cheers
Bill