Got Wood? Posted January 27, 2020 Report Share Posted January 27, 2020 Inside is best side Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted January 27, 2020 Report Share Posted January 27, 2020 If your semi handy, the window can be a cheap fix if you take the door card off and have a look. You should be able to rig it so it stays up and doesn't open again very cheaply if you aren't bothered about it opening. Link to post Share on other sites
Hedganian Posted January 27, 2020 Report Share Posted January 27, 2020 It's the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. It's also International Holocaust Memorial Day. Over 17,000,000 people were killed by the Nazi regime in their genocidal quest for 'Aryan Purity', over six million of those were Jews, but also a great many gypsies, slavs, homosexuals and generally anyone the Nazis didn't like were rounded up and exterminated on an industrial scale. I'm already sick to the back teeth of the misinformation and downright ignorance I have seen in the media, especially on social media, regarding it... Link to post Share on other sites
Got Wood? Posted January 27, 2020 Report Share Posted January 27, 2020 If your semi handy, the window can be a cheap fix if you take the door card off and have a look. You should be able to rig it so it stays up and doesn't open again very cheaply if you aren't bothered about it opening.If you do want it fixed though, take it somewhere. I spent 15+ hours last year trying to rewrire and fix my BMW window mech. Absolute pain of a job which ended with me going to a garage with a carrier bag of bits. Link to post Share on other sites
Tinkerton Posted January 27, 2020 Report Share Posted January 27, 2020 take door card off. push window up. put block of wood underneath window. 'fixed'. Link to post Share on other sites
sandstorm Posted January 27, 2020 Report Share Posted January 27, 2020 Seen that "fix" a few times on "Flipping Bangers", as they're airing it here. Link to post Share on other sites
Gunmane Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 As much as I would be fine with just having the window up permanently, the folks think otherwise so it is off at some friend of my father who lives deep in the countryside to take a shot at it. Why it could not happen in the summertime instead of now only Murphy knows. Physical pain wise, having to pull multiple pallets today after my legs already shot from yesterday makes me a more sore lad. Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 I am back into bike training. I am doing 5 sessions a week. I am no longer a "young" man and my body is not happy. My back hurts, my legs hurt, I can't feel the lower three fingers on my left hand. It'll be worth it eventually. Also, my DnD character has been going through some trauma recently. Link to post Share on other sites
Mike_West Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 *fruitcage* *suitcase*. I just got feedback from Brussels regarding work stuff, and it turns out that somehow I was able to get three kinds of wrong results using pretty much the same set of IT tools. Don't ask me how it's possible, because I don't rightly *fruitcage* know. Link to post Share on other sites
Hedganian Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 Just occurred to me to check on the broadband situation at the new address. Virginmedia doesn't cover it, so can't get the fastest broadband available. Not sure what the best option will be, but no one else offers speeds over 70mbps whereas Virgin offer upto 300.Just another thing to be unhappy about with this move. Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 Genuine question, do you need 300 meg? Link to post Share on other sites
Hedganian Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 Well, I can't afford 300, but I was on the 200 package.Since the wife isn't well, we can't go out much. We watch a lot of shows on streaming, and often she'll be watching something while I'm on the xbox in the other room, so it can bottleneck on slower connections.It's more that it's not available if I do want it than whether I need it or not. Link to post Share on other sites
Got Wood? Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 We have 100mb in our house, with the wife always on her phone, me PC gaming, and our lodger streaming football. Only slowdowns we ever get is when I rinse the entire bandwidth downloading games. Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 I've got 350. I get actual 385 most of the time. It isn't just download, I can upload 20 which is pretty good, when you are hammering the internet I find my uploads to be the problem. Streaming 1440p or 1080p at 60fps at double speed can tap out the WiFi in my laptop but my hard wired things always work well. The other day I got a call from Virgin who were trying to up-sell me. "You can have more channels, more free calls and another box and whatever". "Nope, just want the internet. Don't watch TV, don't call people." "That can't be right, let me look at your usage statistics and - dang. OK have a nice day." Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 Fair enough. I'm on a 38 meg package. Right now I'm watching YouTube on an iPad, flicking around on my phone and sometimes watching YouTube on that too, the boy is watching Netflix on the TV, and my wife is upstairs on her computer and playing Spotify on her phone. No issues with that. No waiting or buffering. Just saying 🙂 Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 I'm running a plex server, an ftp server and a p2p thingo out of my spare bedroom wardrobe. In is a NAS server to the computers in the house too. Despite that I can download GTA 5 in less than half an hour. Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 I don't need that capacity! Link to post Share on other sites
Gunmane Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 See, I wish I could have Stunt's view imparted on my folks, as I keep telling them they don't need cable to watch what they want, but they too set in their ways. Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 If a product or service is invented before you are 18 it is the most natural thing in the world and may as well have existed forever. Between 18 and 35 and it is the cool new tech and you absolutely have to have it. 35 to 65 use it if you have to, look stupid doing so. I liked my nephew's clip on TikTok but everybody responded with Egg-plant emojis, what does that mean? 65+? What was wrong with the good old days? This is needlessly complicated, why can't I just watch it on TV? What do you mean I can't call them that? There are only 2 genders, no son of mine.... Link to post Share on other sites
Got Wood? Posted February 4, 2020 Report Share Posted February 4, 2020 Had a go at soldering again. Remembered why I always hand it to someone else. 4 deans connectors ruined, various items burned with a soldering iron, and a gun with no connectors. So annoying. Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted February 4, 2020 Report Share Posted February 4, 2020 The key is to have the iron hot. Put a very light coating of solder on the iron (tinning). Tin the deans connector. I like to do the sideways one first since it is harder to access. To hold it in place I use a heavy pair of pliers with an elastic band around the handles. Tin the end of the wires. Place the wire on the tinned deans tab and press down on the wire, not the tab with the iron. As the solder on the wire melts it will melt the solder tinned onto the deans. Melted solder seems to conduct heat better that solid solder. Make sure you are still holding the wire in the right place and remove the heat. Hold until the solder cools and goes dull. That should do it. Link to post Share on other sites
Got Wood? Posted February 4, 2020 Report Share Posted February 4, 2020 Sounds simple enough, but when it’s in my hands it just doesn’t go that way! Link to post Share on other sites
Gunmane Posted February 5, 2020 Report Share Posted February 5, 2020 If you elect to get one, the little "handyman" vice stands with the alligator clip hands tend to help out immensely, at least for me. I will be the first to say I am not that good at soldering myself, but with time I've become confident enough to be able to do it regularly. I will also say a side effect of learning to do it is that now you will want to rewire all the things (such as me planning on rewiring my bizon tommorow for GATE NANOASR mosfet instead of its current inline mosfet system that taking up too much space). Link to post Share on other sites
Got Wood? Posted February 5, 2020 Report Share Posted February 5, 2020 Yeah I already have one of those. It’s a piece of junk (my one in particular) as it’s lighter than the soldering iron and falls over! I’ve got some bullet connectors which I’ve done before and find much easier so I’ll give it another go later in the week. Thanks for the advice guys! Link to post Share on other sites
sandstorm Posted February 5, 2020 Report Share Posted February 5, 2020 Is this how you try soldering? https://images.app.goo.gl/4oNoLJyzT8ozcKwA7 Link to post Share on other sites
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