it appears that I have another one. Fortunately this one shouldn’t be a hard one to fix and hopefully won’t cost that much money.
I’m fairly sure the tyre has an inner tube, but I think it may have been damaged around the valve as when I push the valve to the side. air starts leaking out.
Too late for attention today though. I shall have a look at it tomorrow assuming I can fight my way through Ingrid’s rain.
In the aftermath of the leak in our mains water supply, I’ve been comparing our current consumption with our historic use and come to the conclusion that the leak has been present in some form or other since at least 2014! I didn’t spot it because the incremental changes in consumption were not that large and because there was absolutely no sign of a leak on the ground.
I dread to think how much that has cost us over ten years or more. Easily several thousand pounds, I would have thought 🙁
Turns out that the reason it was emptying itself of coolant was not a radiator failure at all. Apparently there’s a steel pipe that carries coolant from somewhere at the back of the engine to the front. That had corroded and split, spraying coolant through the radiator body from behind. It was a big split, too: about 50mm long
All fixed now and whilst a certain amount of stuff under the bonnet had to be removed, at least the front of the car didn’t have to come off as was the case when the alternator needed replacing (and I was fairly sure would be the case if the radiator had to be replaced).
Slightly concerning that a pipe carrying coolant is in a position where it can corrode all the way through, but I guess if it takes another 180,000 miles before it happens again, I shan’t be worrying about it.
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Oh, right. Thanks. That makes it so much clearer. Pretty much the same bullshit that everyone else comes out with.
Do the people who write this content-free drivel do so because their brains are also content-free? Or is it because they know the job is shit and can’t find anything genuinely positive and informative to say about it?
The world is in such desperate need of a ‘B’ Ark these days. I wonder if Musk could be persuaded to build one, and then leave with it?
Appears to be rather dark and foreboding, at least so far. The sky was so dark at 10am this morning that it felt like twilight. According to the forecast it’s likely to get even worse over the next few days, too.
Prompted by this quote:
“What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.”
It seems to be all too common that the handles of large trugs snap or break off the body of the trug. I have quite a few sitting around here.
Having found a bit of scrap 12mm ply and an offcut of old rope I thought I’d have a go at fixing one. I cut two pieces of ply per handle and screwed them to the inside and outside of the trug so the plastic should hopefully not be taking too much load, then drilled a couple of holes to take a knotted piece of rope for the handle itself. I used a countersink bit on these holes too, just to soften the edges a bit.
There may be neater ways to do this. Just cutting rings of ply for the reinforcement of the handles, for instance. Or perhaps to splice the rope back into itself to make a loop, avoiding the need for knots at all. I can’t see that doing away with some sort of reinforcement will work though — these are forty litre trugs and when full may be quite heavy.
Obviously after being given a lovely loaf of bread yesterday I had to use it for sandwiches this lunchtime. There was some bacon that needed using and we almost always have eggs because we “grown our own”, so bacon, fried egg and HP sauce sandwiches it was!
The bread is absolutely gorgeous, I can’t deny. Even the day after baking it smells fantastic when it is cut and it has so much flavour.
Checked on the peppers under the growlight this lunchtime and they seem to be doing well.
This one is quite odd though. It has four leaves at the top of the stem!
Obviously I’m going to leave it to see what happens 😀 I’d guess that the plant has some genetic defect that caused it to produce a second set of leaves before the stem branched (or perhaps it has branched and the branches are very short).
