Mundane News

[biggs682]

Morning
Our ceiling hole gets repaired today

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
I'm gradually waking up.
Oh! I took a Contiflo tablet last night so my nose is bunged up this morning .
I can see some grey clouds moving across set against a light blue sky . It looks promising until I look to see solid grey sky moving in to replace it !

 

[Oldhippy]

More rain.

 

[biggs682]

More rain.

not here in sunny one county up from Bedfordshire

 

[Illaveago]

II

Take a picture of the one there now. Undo the two screws holding it in place and remove. Take the switch with you when you go to buy a replacement.

Most switches will just part when you remove the screws. Just don't touch what's left on the ceiling.

I would turn off the power first .

 

[Illaveago]

I've already removed the lower part of the switch box to see if I could bodge a repair (not a chance), while one of these from Screwfix would probably work as a replacement. The problem is that it means switching off the power at the fuseboard and disconecting the wires from the old one before reconnecting them to the new one - where there's not a lot of wires to work with and I'm bound to end up with too few wires or one left over!
Best leave to those that know what to do!

You would find that once you loosen the wires they will retreat back into the hole !

 

[Illaveago]

Why is the name Skoda now being pronounced Shkoda ? Has Sean Connery been giving elocution lessons ?

 

[biggs682]

First cuppa went down well
I have the joy of opening a new box of cereals today as i finished the open one yesterday

 

[Andy in Germany]

More rain.

Same here:

Also, someone seems to have pinched the Black Forest.

 

[Illaveago]

More rain.

No thanks ! Ones enough !

 

[Jameshow]

Change of plan Saturday likely be driving to Sunderland with my son to a clothing warehouse where he will pick clothes for his eBay business.

I'll have about 4 hours free time.b

So do I ride out from sunderland- perhaps up the Tyne valley?

Or do I drive back to Consett and ride out into the north Pennines?

???????

 

[Illaveago]

I have put my knights helmet on hold for a bit as I have been distracted by some other projects !asking some animal decorations and making a steel central boss for a shield . I took the shield boss to the men's shed yesterday but the chap wasn't there .
I tried lining up my visor with the rest of the helmet and found a few issues. I discovered that the brow piece of the helmet is now too low and obscures my vision when I line up the visor . A bit like being blind folded . At first I found that I couldn't move the visor close enough to the helmet as it wasn't wide enough at the back to overlap the helmet . I resolved this with a bit of hammering .
I still have some welding to do and I may have to extend one side of the helmet . It is a bit off centre . Positioning where the pivot point of the visor is going to be crucial and may require further pieces welding on . The visor has to be close enough so as not to leave gaps but it has also got to clear when being raised .

 

[oldwheels]

Cloudy but there are blue bits to be seen in the sky.
I took the trike out of the car before taking the car up to the local garage so no excuses there for not getting out.
Need to get my son organised to give me a lift up to collect it when finished but he is now training for a marathon on his next Taiwan trip. I always thought he went there to work.
My right arm where the covid jab was done is a bit sore but bearable.

 

[biggs682]

Here's the blue sky from the office at home window.
You will have to excuse the cacti

 

[Illaveago]

We have some sunshine here at the moment . Looks like some blue sky to the South .