JimShortz

3 hours ago, ktm jeff said:

JimShortz , the shop you photographed doesnt sell Lifan , as you susspected. The Lifan dealer was near the train station but has had his right to sell withdrawn   * ( if ever you went in there you would know why ).  By chance i found the new Lifan dealer. Her name is Goong. 091-858 1802. Speaks perfect English. Really has a good business head on her sholders. The shop ( she has 3 ) is on the North bound side of the 108 near the Big C / Macro area. Outside is often a bike or quad on a raised platform. She sells Zongshem Ryuka , Infinity , Cub and "Pit" type bikes , Lion quads and some electric scooters. And Lifan , both the X-cross and theX-plore for about 47-49K.  If she remembers me i popped in on my orange off road Platium and we discussed the different gearchange patterns  on the Lifan bikes. I said the main probem with "this type"of bike i, s the dealers poor service and slow spares supply.  She explained her plans , and shes determined to offer a top level service , not sell - out the door - not my problem attitude of some dealers.   See *  .         I have no links with this shop but would have no hesitation on being a future customer.

You are an absolute star Jeff. Just what I was looking for. Thank you kind sir!  ?

So, went down Chareon Muang (train station road) today and it seems that the Lifan dealer is no longer there... at least from what I could see (many stores are still closed for Songkran)

Thanks canthai55, for your advice, I did at least find a Chinese bike dealer around where you said - actually it is immediately before the BigC Extra. From their sign they appear to deal in lots of brands of Chinese bikes, apart from Lifan, but since they are still closed from Songkran I couldn't go in and ask. Picture attached for reference for anyone looking for this place.

Thanks - it seems I will have to. The numbers posted on the Lifan site for Chiang Mai and Lamphun don't work...

1 hour ago, canthai55 said:

http://www.lifanth.com/en/about-lifan/62-lifan-group/233-lifan-thailand-agents-a-dealers.html

Thank you. That's much appreciated - although I am not sure how much I trust them to be up to date!

Does anyone have current information about the location of Lifan dealers, or places providing spares/service, in Chiang Mai?

Any up to date information much appreciated, thank you 

Also, unsolicited comments on how awful all Chinese bikes are will be very welcome - especially from those with no direct knowledge of the current state of Lifan bikes, but spewing the same old secondhand ill-informed messages...  Cheers!   :-)

The one my mate used was as per pic here (and he loves it). He tells me it was a white base and you choose the colour.

For undercoat give it two good coats of the pre-thinned shellac (pic attached). You can buy it from any local builders merchant, either in bottles, or larger plastic tubs. The first coat soaks right in and the second less so. This adds a little water resistance to the MDF and provides a good base for a top coat.
Dulux sell a good quality kitchen paint that has a semi-matt finish and is very hard wearing and washable - available from the large DIY stores. We used this over shellac on an MDF kitchen that I built with a friend. A coat of beeswax over the kitchen paint gave it a really nice professional semi-shiny and interesting finish. Beeswax is available as yellow disks from many markets, by the kilo. Melt it in olive oil and make your own excellent polish.
Picture of the finished hand-made kitchen also attached here - but that's just showing-off a bit!  ;-)

Thanks for all of the input.  Floor planks would work to leave a void, but won't really insulate the AC cooled slab from the heat beneath the house. AAC planks may be an excellent solution though. I wasn't aware there was such a thing. Thank you juehoe.  ☺️   I guess it's that or a polystyrene layer if without planks... 

Thank you for the advice eyecatcher. I had also been contemplating the AAC sponge issue...

I am building a small (4m x 4m) workshop that will have air conditioning. It's being built with AAC block walls and an insulated ceiling. The construction is fairly simple - 4 main posts with a beam around the base between the posts. This beam is 40cm deep and sat on the ground. The final floor level will be about 45cm above the surrounding ground.

I plan to fill the base with dirt, then sand, then a layer of AAC blocks, before pouring concrete on top of these - to get a floor that has some level of insulation - any better ideas? I don't really want to use polystyrene because termites can eat it - I have had a cooler eaten through...  AAC blocks are pretty cheap these days. 7cm blocks laid flat on their sides will only work out to be about 130 Baht per square meter - a total for this building of a little over B2,000

 

I wonder if someone can help me. There is a pinned thread at the top of this forum entitled "Thai - English Building Terms". Unfortunately I am unable to download either of the documents linked to within the thread. All I get is some nonsense message about "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below..."

Can anyone help?  I have tried on two different windows 10 computers with the same result.

Thank you...

17 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

I have the Stanley 10" one (some of us like yellow tools). It's on its second blade after someone (no not I) tried to cut Conwood with it.

 

https://www.homepro.co.th/product/1035571

 

Crossy, do you have any opinion on the Stanley mitre saw?  It's next on my shopping list, and that's a very reasonable price...  Any input much appreciated  :-)

If all you are after is a decent Arc/Stick Welder, I have been extremely happy with the Polo PA 140 that I bought off Lazada a couple of years ago. It has served me very well, no issues: http://www.lazada.co.th/polo-pa140-igbt-896745.html

On 2/8/2017 at 9:28 AM, petejjj said:

Cost breakdown:
1/corrugated roof sheet 0.35mm thick blue scope steel brand made in Australia was THB115/m (linear metre). The shop had a cheaper locally made sheet for THB95/m, or a thinner version 0.30mm for 85/m
2/ insulation foam (PU Foam) was an additional THB140/m (linear metre). We used silver on the underside. Choice was white that was paintable or silver
3/ facia board is cement sheet based by SCG. We used 8" and it was THB300/m. 6" was 260/m and 4" was 180/m
4/ the roofing screws were 65mm long and cost THB300/bag of 100.

The company we used was BK Group Roofing.

I just wanted to post to say thank you to Pete for taking the time to share this information - very much appreciated. I have been looking at the Bluescope website and seen the coated steel, but no mention of the insulation (at least that I could see). Thank you!

All 75 selling tables are sold out, but if you are looking to buy be there on Saturday morning... :-)

Thanks for the ideas, but no... I have now tried Homepro, Global World, Thai Watsadu, and also SCG (Home mart) on the 121.

SCG had the best selection of brands, but all stores seem to just carry 2.6, 3.0 and 4.0mm rods. Annoying, since I know that Thai-Kobe Welding, a brand that they all stock, does 6013 rods at 2.0mm in 3 variants! i just need to find someone who stocks them... I'd like 1.6mm, but i will happily take 2.0mm.

Anyway, I have contacted Thai-Kobe Welding through their website to see if they have stockists of 2.0mm in Chiang Mai. You never know, they may even respond...

Actually, full kudos to Thai-Kobe Welding - their website is in in Thai and real English (not a crappy auto translation), and they have their full product catalogue in English too. See http://www.thaikobe.com/products.php

The rods i am after are on pages 33 to 35.

These thin rods are easy to buy in UK and USA (where hardly anybody stick welds!), but I am struggling here in Chiang Mai. The thinnest I can find here are 2.6mm, but for the tube steel used all over the place here the 1.6mm (1/16") electrodes would be much better and avoid me blowing holes all over the place...

Does anyone know a shop that stocks them?

Any help much appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Thank you to the two members who contacted me and donated their old laptop batteries. I have disassembled those and found mostly useable batteries.

Any more would be very welcome?

It's unfortunate they stop at the 9th grade level....We have 2 in Lanna but 1 goes into 10th next year.....Unless we want to tote her to the train station area from Lanna Pinery/Canal Rd area she's out in the cold.....I tried explaining to Lanna they are throwing away a few million baht out of their system that they could cultivate/keep just by setting up some type of van/shuttle to the higher leveled school (parents cost) - but they don't seem to be able to be innovative......

There's not even a decent Thai school in the area for the upper grades....

Like the kids are getting tossed out into the cold after partaking in the system......

Odd thinking.....

I'm trying to work out which school you are talking about. It's clearly not Lanna International School, as that goes to Year 13 (Grade 12) and has done for over 20 years!

I've tried Googling "lanna school chiang mai", but nothing else comes up. Is the "Lanna" that you speak of a school without a website?

Does anyone know another school with "Lanna" in their name?

I work at Lanna International School (LIST) and don't want to get involved with school comparisons, but just to clarify what is happening in terms of campuses:

At the current campus it is only possible to have single form entry throughout the school (meaning roughly 25 students in each Year Group). The campus is old, small, and not purpose built as a school. It is now "bursting at the seams" (it's nice to be popular!), with waiting lists for most Year Groups; and it is really showing its age.

So...

A new campus is being built about 7km south of the current site. It is behind Kad Farang/Koolpuntville 9, roughly halfway between the Hangdong Road and the river. Here's a link: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=z7nUIyvJbu_U.k-qu0pbfaORw

The Primary school (Kindergarten through to Year 6) will move to the new site in August 2016. At the new site the Primary school will become 2 form entry (48 students in most Year Groups; less in the younger Years). With the Primary school moved the Secondary school (Years 7 to 13) will have then have room to expand to two form entry on the old site; before also moving to the new site in August 2017.

The new site has spacious classrooms, a large pool, a giant indoor gym, a purpose built theatre/auditorium, astroturf pitches, and space! Everything the old one lacks...

I hope that pretty much clears up what Lanna are doing. For anyone who wants to take advantage of the doubling of capacity I recommend contacting the school and arranging for an appointment fairly soon - I know that some Year Groups are almost full for next year already. The new site is designed specifically for 2 form entry; there will be no further expansion beyond that. I believe that is with the aim of trying to maintain it's small school atmosphere.

I believe that they have additional buildings on the current site underway; instead of moving.

As far as I know, LIST (Lanna International School Thailand), the school that I work at, is the only one moving. We're moving about 6km south (kind of behind Kad Farang/Koolpuntville 9) - and we really needed it, lol. We were the ugly campus winners

A question posed on here before, without a satisfactory answer...

Well, if any of you are still holding on to them, I will be happy to take them off your hands.

I plan to work with some of the students from the school that I work at to harvest the good cells from your old batteries and reuse them to build battery packs for an eco-friendly electric trike project (and to build the trike too - should be fun!).

So, please help prevent man boredom by donating your old batteries... smile emoticon

Just send me your LOCATION and PHONE NUMBER and I will call you to arrange collection. If you're not in a rush I will try to get a few in the same general area and come and collect on one day soon - at your convenience, of course.

Thank you in advance.

Just to add my two penneth worth... A friend of mine was eagerly awaiting the release of the R3, because he wanted to buy a 300 and new it would be a sharp looking bike. However... he recently rented one for a day and tested it along with two friends. They all found it to be twitchy in the corners and lacking in power compared to other 300cc bikes; hugely disapointed - it looks the part, but apparently doesn't deliver.
He went ahead and bought a CB300F and finds it better in pretty much all areas... although wished he had perhaps bought the CBR300 for the better wind protection (he is a hard and fast rider by the way).

I agree with the others; just not a practical proposition...

On the plus side, the CBR250 prices have come right down since the 300s were released. you can easily pickup a 2011 model 250 with ABS for around 60,000 Baht - a bargain in my opinion. Still cheap to run and maintain, but with much more go than the 150 version.

see http://www.kaidee.com/c149-motorcycle/?q=cbr250 (open in Google Chrome and have it translate for you, if you don't read Thai)

BTW, I have a 250 and it really is well suited to Thailand. Enjoy!

I recommend the Asus Zenfone 5 - my teenage son loves his. You can get one very close to 5K. Great screen and 2GB Ram too...

http://www.lazada.co.th/asus-zenfone5-dual-sim-champagne-gold-850037.html

Some even a little under 5k:

http://www.lazada.co.th/catalog/?q=zenfone+5