For me:-

• Beefed up the wiring for the solar in anticipation of adding another 9 panels later this month.
• Fixed the non-starting mower. Emergency repair so the gardener could actually garden (clogged carb main jet). Mower is actually pretty tired, maybe time for a new one soon.
• Replaced the front bearing on the pool pump which became noisy 1 month outside warranty and a week later went quiet because it seized! New bearing 90 Baht from the farm shop, replacement a couple of hours of farang swearing (I really must buy a puller - like I said I would last time a pump went belly-up).

 

I managed to stay alive in this frikking humidity in spite of getting 1/2 the lawn mowed.

2 minutes ago, bankruatsteve said:

I managed to stay alive in this frikking humidity in spite of getting 1/2 the lawn mowed.

 

Yeah, waking from a nights sleep is always a bonus!

 

I'm sorely tempted to buy a ride-on but they really are silly money.

3 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

I'm sorely tempted to buy a ride-on but they really are silly money.

I had a much older version of this in the states.  Best mower ever.

 

Repaired the gate after our grandson headbutted it during a tantrum.

Just now, bankruatsteve said:

I had a much older version of this in the states.  Best mower ever.

 

If only it were 2 grand US here ...

17 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said:

Repaired the gate after our grandson headbutted it during a tantrum.

 

Grandson a potential Muay-Thai / Sumo / MMA ?? Or just a crumby gate?

 

14 minutes ago, bankruatsteve said:

I had a much older version of this in the states.  Best mower ever.

 

Until it left and sent you a John Deere letter.

2 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

Until it left and sent you a John Deere letter.

 

That has to be older than me, but I'd never heard it before!

 

How do I get beer out of my keyboard???

5 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

That has to be older than me, but I'd never heard it before!

 

How do I get beer out of my keyboard???

Open Time Machine and choose time before spilling it, click Restore.

 

If it doesn't work, your Flux Capacitor license expired or you're out of Plutonium.

1 minute ago, tomazbodner said:

Open Time Machine and choose time before spilling it, click Restore.

If it doesn't work, your Flux Capacitor license expired or you're out of Plutonium.

 

Can I get spares locally?

 

 

25 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

Grandson a potential Muay-Thai / Sumo / MMA ?? Or just a crumby gate?

 

All of the above...

8 litres Tipco Cherry Berry juice, 1 kg sugar, 1 pack Lalvin yeast, juice of a lemon.

See you in two weeks!

Saturday morning on Racing.com (Australian racing), cut about 1 rai of grass in the afternoon as there was no rugby last weekend. Sunday, a day of rest with the rain.

I drank a few beers and had sex 3 times.

Finished all my "chores" in a prior life no more of that nonsense. Renting a nice big condo sure makes life more free, easier, simpler, and much more enjoyable.

I pulled apart the dash from one of my cars, removed the instrument panel, dismantled it - and then replaced the speedo gauge with one that measures kilometres and not miles. It had been annoying me for a while, and I was apprehensive about doing the job.

Anyway - mission accomplished - everything replaced. No squeaks or rattles!

Had a few beers to celebrate!  

11 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

I drank a few beers and had sex 3 times.

 

Only 3 times?

 

But do note this is the DIY forum 

 

 

 

By the way  -   when IS the week-end here?  In my retired relaxed state - every day is a week-end for me.

1 minute ago, G Rex said:

By the way  -   when IS the week-end here?  In my retired relaxed state - every day is a week-end for me.

 

Have you been taking @KannikaP's advice??

4 hours ago, Crossy said:

So what did you Do Yourself this weekend?

Checked the farm for water and lecky, found what was wrong with house fence lights, down some Chang beers. ????

9 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

I drank a few beers and had sex 3 times.

Finished all my "chores" in a prior life no more of that nonsense. Renting a nice big condo sure makes life more free, easier, simpler, and much more enjoyable.

Bragger. ????

38 minutes ago, carlyai said:

Bragger. ????

 

10 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

I drank a few beers and had sex 3 times.

Finished all my "chores" in a prior life no more of that nonsense. Renting a nice big condo sure makes life more free, easier, simpler, and much more enjoyable.

Did he have a partner or sex with his friendly hand and a bottle of lotion while watching porno?

Fitted an electric  garage  door and shoved the ceiling up after  completing the metalwork, then I  built a  scale  model of the Queen Mary  out of recycled glass and tin cans and created a cure for  cancer..............I  must  learnt to stop exaggerating 

 

Well, I had my dog's help, but I'm the trainer. ???????? We went hunting for rats in the irrigation canals.

On 9/1/2021 at 4:47 PM, Crossy said:

 

Yeah, waking from a nights sleep is always a bonus!

 

My single favorite thing....

24 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

My single favorite thing....

 

You mean none of these apply?

 

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things

 

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things

 

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things

 

 my little generator khrapped out, in that the Pull StarterRecoil Assy did a total self-destruct...  of course it is one of those generic china-built 'throwaway' gennies - for which there are No Spare Parts Replacements...  SO the task was to replace the entire pull start recoil with whatever might be available? but which will also fit into the miniscule compartment surrounding that end of the motor. 

Well, I sourced some whippersnipper RopePullRecoils on eBay, dictated solely by what was 'small enough' to fit in that space??    

Well this weekends task is to create a steel adaptor plate that will mate the engines (Recoiler) mounting points, with the mounting points on the new little Recoil unit ???? 

  Last night I fashioned a 'template' unit out of the plastic lid from a 1kg Yogurt container - namely due to it being very thin, thinner than tinplate even... I know there won't be much latitude regarding the thickness, when a final steel/tin 'adaptor plate' is put in situ; in regards to providing the correct clearances between stationary and rotating parts...

   I am still visualising that this project is a sort of scaled down version akin to making an adaptor plate for mating a 4cylCarClutch, onto a v8 engine ????  The final Smoke test may be interesting to watch, albeit from behind safety goggles...

On 9/1/2021 at 8:25 PM, Crossy said:

 

Can I get spares locally?

 

 

That may need Time... 

4 minutes ago, tifino said:

The final Smoke test may be interesting to watch, albeit from behind safety goggles...

 

Please post the video, successful or not ???? 

 

You eat yogurt by the kg?????

1 minute ago, Crossy said:

 

Please post the video, successful or not ???? 

 

It could be a ripper...