Mend it and make do

[mudsticks]

I wasn't too impressed by a new German Autobahn which was featured on Massive Engineering Mistakes this week! It was built to cross a peat bog and they sank 30 metre foundation piles into 50 metre deep peat... The road quickly broke up and started collapsing!

They should have done like those canny Scots..

Apparently the train line over the bogs of Rannoch Moor is just supported by a few* floating logs or suchlike.

* there may be slightly moor to it than this..

 

[ColinJ]

Such as emissions defeat devices.

"It's what makes a car a Volkswagen..."

They should have done like those canny Scots..

Apparently the train line over the bogs of Rannoch Moor is just supported by a few* floating logs or suchlike.

* there may be slightly moor to it than this..

The engineers thought that the raft-like road with 30 metres of piling would be stable but they underestimated how squidgy deep peat can be with a heavy load on top.

I think they now have to sink 50 metre piles down to the bedrock.

 

[oldworld]

They should have done like those canny Scots..

Apparently the train line over the bogs of Rannoch Moor is just supported by a few* floating logs or suchlike.

* there may be slightly moor to it than this..

 

[Grant Fondo]

Coaxed a 10 year old laptop back into life, swapped out hard drive, doubled the memory latest windows 10 pro... works a treat

 

[Andy in Germany]

I wasn't too impressed by a new German Autobahn which was featured on Massive Engineering Mistakes this week! It was built to cross a peat bog and they sank 30 metre foundation piles into 50 metre deep peat... The road quickly broke up and started collapsing!

Ah, that wasn't me.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Such as emissions defeat devices.

That wasn't me either.

 

[Drago]

Was the V2 one of yours?

 

[lazybloke]

Had to cut the flex off Mrs L's dremmel because the wires had broken.
A quick trim and reconnect - good as new. Have got a drill that suffers the same problem - its flex is getting a bit short!

 

[Gunk]

Fitted a new timer in our 25 year Dualit toaster last week, total cost £12. Now works perfectly

 

[TheDoctor]

I've so far built two doors and an airing cupboard from a load of T+G pine cladding I bought in a closing-down sale about 20 years ago.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Was the V2 one of yours?

Steady on, old chap, I've only been (half) German for two years or so...

 

[Blue Hills]

A lot of electrical appliances are far too complicated these days . Why do I need to be told that I have just wiped the top of the cooker over ?
Yes ! I can tell that the freezer door is open as my hands are getting cold looking for things !

Am happy that I am was totally unaware of such things existing.
They talk to you?

 

[Drago]

I heard talk of a proposed law recently that would make all electrical gear repairable, ie, easy to dismantle without special tools, and parts available for a notional period of time after the model goes off sale. I don't know how far the government got with that.

 

[Blue Hills]

Have replaced a washing machine "window bowl" - bust one of the fittings putting it in but it never leaked until the machine eventually broke down.
The problem of course with many of these things, with companies selling many essentially identical bits of kit under all sorts of names, or not even putting the model number on the front, is figuring out which bit/component you actually need.

 

[Blue Hills]

I heard talk of a proposed law recently that would make all electrical gear repairable, ie, easy to dismantle without special tools, and parts available for a notional period of time after the model goes off sale. I don't know how far the government got with that.

yep I remember hearing about that.
Wasn't it a European proposal though?