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WhiskyLassie
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Good morning.
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Today is a public holiday in saffer land
But why some of you may ask
Cause we won the RUGBY
just saying
But why some of you may ask
Cause we won the RUGBY
just saying
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Morning All. 
Not my turn to go get the paper but I couldn't lie in bed any longer.
There may be beers tonight, but hopefully no falling down and splitting my head open this time.
Have a lovely day.
Not my turn to go get the paper but I couldn't lie in bed any longer.
There may be beers tonight, but hopefully no falling down and splitting my head open this time.
Have a lovely day.
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apart from the fact that mine isn't on castors I put one of those up in my garage about 30 years ago.
Have to admit I don't use it much. Didn't have Utube to help me neeeva, how did I manage it?
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You either bought a shed load of beans or quite a few pressies.Morning
Dry here
Spent 100 quid in Tesco last night, only went in for beans, got some pressies though
Full English at Cafe this morning, help with my cholesterol
Stay dry all
You do have a CO alarm don't you???
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I have just returned from having my lugholes vacuumed out.
It was a very odd feeling and the right ear is now a bit sore, but all the crud is out.
Advice is to keep them "dry" and not submerge my bonce in the bath or when swimming.
"Stereo" service has been resumed.
It was a very odd feeling and the right ear is now a bit sore, but all the crud is out.
Advice is to keep them "dry" and not submerge my bonce in the bath or when swimming.
"Stereo" service has been resumed.
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Very glad to HEAR it!I have just returned from having my lugholes vacuumed out.
It was a very odd feeling and the right ear is now a bit sore, but all the crud is out.
Advice is to keep them "dry" and not submerge my bonce in the bath or when swimming.
"Stereo" service has been resumed.
Sorry, no need to shout now!!
Did you have to have them softened up for a while first ?I have just returned from having my lugholes vacuumed out.
It was a very odd feeling and the right ear is now a bit sore, but all the crud is out.
Advice is to keep them "dry" and not submerge my bonce in the bath or when swimming.
"Stereo" service has been resumed.
Mine need doing
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My God I HATE plumbering!!!
You think, "I don't want any leaks as this configuration of bits and pieces to go in that there 'ole is so tight and so hard to do up, I'll test all the "wet" bits first before final assembly."
So you do just that. To all the joints of various types, put your special plumber's grease on the O rings etc ensure it is all on, take a deep breath, open the isolating valves and ........... see tiny drips just below one.
So you re-isolate, tighten the compression fitting on the lower and upper part of the isolating valve, tighten up the rings on the "push fit" connection elbow right below it, (I didn't fit this remember!), and try it again.
Yippee! dry!!!!!
So you proceed to the monumentally flipping awkward placement of the rubber gasket the horseshoe sort of shaped flat metal bit through which the threaded rod goes up into the base of the tap, With its blasted 7/16" nut on, in a place where no normal spanner will fit cos of the proximity of the two copper pipes that come down right next to it, (not flexis obviously, thanks chum).
Struggle like flip to do it up tight.
Then try to position the plug opening and closing rod therough its lickle 'ole.
Won't go, tap too far back.
So you drag the whole business forward a tad, eventually get the whole shooting match working, and open the isolators again.
Ever so slowly a drip appears, but of course in a different place, when it has never dripped before. The very top of one of the copper pipes which are supposedly only supposed to go "hand tight" into the base of the tap.
Of course you cannot get any sort of a grip or wrench onto the solid fitting part right at the top as it is buried inside the hole in the top of the basin. And of course it is round not hex.
So you loosen the compression fitting in the top of the isolator, and do the best you can with water pump pliers on the thickest part of the copper pipe just above the isolator, to tighten it up inside the tap. It moves a hairsbreadth.
Then you retighten the compression fitting, open the isolator and ........... it is still weeping.
So you do this twice more, each time the weep improves fractionally.
But is still there.
By now my back and neck are aching and I cannot face taking the whole flipping thing apart to enable me to lift the tap up above the sink just enough to get a mole grip on the top fitting.
So I turn the isolator off again and resign myself, with choice language, to yet another attempt yet another day.
How do plumberists ever make any money at this game?
Rant over.
(Give me electrics any time. And I dislike them strongly! And I am too tight to buy anything else to make the job easier, like a flexi or even two.)
Have an enjoyable Friday Evening folks.
You think, "I don't want any leaks as this configuration of bits and pieces to go in that there 'ole is so tight and so hard to do up, I'll test all the "wet" bits first before final assembly."
So you do just that. To all the joints of various types, put your special plumber's grease on the O rings etc ensure it is all on, take a deep breath, open the isolating valves and ........... see tiny drips just below one.
So you re-isolate, tighten the compression fitting on the lower and upper part of the isolating valve, tighten up the rings on the "push fit" connection elbow right below it, (I didn't fit this remember!), and try it again.
Yippee! dry!!!!!
So you proceed to the monumentally flipping awkward placement of the rubber gasket the horseshoe sort of shaped flat metal bit through which the threaded rod goes up into the base of the tap, With its blasted 7/16" nut on, in a place where no normal spanner will fit cos of the proximity of the two copper pipes that come down right next to it, (not flexis obviously, thanks chum).
Struggle like flip to do it up tight.
Then try to position the plug opening and closing rod therough its lickle 'ole.
Won't go, tap too far back.
So you drag the whole business forward a tad, eventually get the whole shooting match working, and open the isolators again.
Ever so slowly a drip appears, but of course in a different place, when it has never dripped before. The very top of one of the copper pipes which are supposedly only supposed to go "hand tight" into the base of the tap.
Of course you cannot get any sort of a grip or wrench onto the solid fitting part right at the top as it is buried inside the hole in the top of the basin. And of course it is round not hex.
So you loosen the compression fitting in the top of the isolator, and do the best you can with water pump pliers on the thickest part of the copper pipe just above the isolator, to tighten it up inside the tap. It moves a hairsbreadth.
Then you retighten the compression fitting, open the isolator and ........... it is still weeping.
So you do this twice more, each time the weep improves fractionally.
But is still there.
By now my back and neck are aching and I cannot face taking the whole flipping thing apart to enable me to lift the tap up above the sink just enough to get a mole grip on the top fitting.
So I turn the isolator off again and resign myself, with choice language, to yet another attempt yet another day.
How do plumberists ever make any money at this game?
Rant over.
(Give me electrics any time. And I dislike them strongly! And I am too tight to buy anything else to make the job easier, like a flexi or even two.)
Have an enjoyable Friday Evening folks.
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Oh no
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I was just glad it's Friday
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If you had a clubcard it's would have cost you about 50pMorning
Dry here
Spent 100 quid in Tesco last night, only went in for beans, got some pressies though
Full English at Cafe this morning, help with my cholesterol
Stay dry all
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If you have a club card thay sell your details on to 3rd parties thay made
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