Wrap it in bubble wrap to keep the water off and give it half a chance ...
Shimsteriom
Master Procrastinator
I'll give them a try on Saturday.Yer got a scroo fix nearby? They should have wot you need
Hippo
Lord Hippo
don't ferget ter vote fer @Broke Again in AG section
Shimsteriom
Master Procrastinator
According to their website they do have'em but the stoopid store locator doesn't know that me Island has got a store over here so I can't check if they have any in stock.
So I'll have to wait until they reopen in the new year.
Right, that's the second time you have put me down today!They're not called Bearded Collies for nothing!
New Year's Resolution.
Don't mess with DD!
Not meant that way at all! Look at the lovely laughing smiley- I don't do them very often.
You poor sod, any chance of disconnecting it and capping it one way or another, then filling the cistern with buckets, or even simply flushing with them? Or buying another isolating valve and fitting that? Screwfix would be bound to have them.I can't find the required diafram for me loo anywhere. The B&Q website said they had some but they dint. Been to a local hardware shop on the off-chance they might have one but they dint either, so I've had to order some off the bay which won't be here until next year
Of course the old one was so brittle that the simple task of removing it has completely destroyed it so I have to keep turning the watta off in the house when the toilet is full. I would use the isolation valve behind the loo but that has never been turned since it was installed and the brass grub screw itself has seized in the valve and the head has rounded off.
Best of luck
And I'm being tongue in cheek again!Not meant that way at all! Look at the lovely laughing smiley- I don't do them very often.
Gotcha!
Have a lovely New Year!
Shimsteriom
Master Procrastinator
It's fine. Living by myself I don't use a lot of watta to be honest.You poor sod, any chance of disconnecting it and capping it one way or another, then filling the cistern with buckets, or even simply flushing with them? Or buying another isolating valve and fitting that? Screwfix would be bound to have them.
Best of luck
All me washing is done so I'll turn the watta off until I need a shower or fill the toilet cistern.
Hicap phill
Well-Known Member
I got a stop cock that looks like a light switch .simple press to turn all the water off in the house.You poor sod, any chance of disconnecting it and capping it one way or another, then filling the cistern with buckets, or even simply flushing with them? Or buying another isolating valve and fitting that? Screwfix would be bound to have them.
Best of luck
Must remember to inform visitors what the blue switch does
(No cables/power etc done by water pressure)
....that I have made "some" progress with the "Lathe of errors".
The vendor has gone strangely quiet and has not responded to my questions requests for support.
I decided to take a "fix-it-or-fÜck-it" approach and so.....
I attacked it with a set of files and what were round holes for mounting studs are now vertical slots for mounting studs allowing some movement of the motor.
I also fixed the awful placement of the drive pulley and where it had been hammered on I prised it off the motor shaft and used needle files to make it a better "slip-fit" and the pulley can now be adjusted along the shaft.
I looked at the original belt and it is 90 tooth and 18 inches in total length but the fitting and fixing made it as tight as a bowstring because of a lack of adjustment capability of the motor (now-fixed).
Searching online I have found 3 alternative belts of the same tooth-pitch but of slightly larger tooth-counts and lengths and I am hopeful that one of them will meet the requirement and be within my "adjustment range" and a good fit.
For good or ill I am committed to making this P.O.S. work as it should.
I will let y'all know how it goes. I promise.
The vendor has gone strangely quiet and has not responded to my questions requests for support.
I decided to take a "fix-it-or-fÜck-it" approach
and so.....I attacked it with a set of files and what were round holes for mounting studs are now vertical slots for mounting studs allowing some movement of the motor.
I also fixed the awful placement of the drive pulley and where it had been hammered on I prised it off the motor shaft and used needle files to make it a better "slip-fit" and the pulley can now be adjusted along the shaft.
I looked at the original belt and it is 90 tooth and 18 inches in total length but the fitting and fixing made it as tight as a bowstring because of a lack of adjustment capability of the motor (now-fixed).
Searching online I have found 3 alternative belts of the same tooth-pitch but of slightly larger tooth-counts and lengths and I am hopeful that one of them will meet the requirement and be within my "adjustment range" and a good fit.
For good or ill I am committed to making this P.O.S. work as it should.
I will let y'all know how it goes. I promise.
Why does everything go on the blink at the weekend and holiday times?You poor sod, any chance of disconnecting it and capping it one way or another, then filling the cistern with buckets, or even simply flushing with them? Or buying another isolating valve and fitting that? Screwfix would be bound to have them.
Best of luck
On Christmas eve I had two of my four outside lights give up. I've just replaced them - in time for a New Year's Eve blast off.
Yep, just fill a kettle and a jug or two.It's fine. Living by myself I don't use a lot of watta to be honest.
All me washing is done so I'll turn the watta off until I need a shower or fill the toilet cistern.
Can't be worse than when we first moved into our place in France in the snow. no heating, no water, no electric!
Have a nice New Year all the same! If you can't drink the water...........!
Well you've now done so much to it you will have little case with the vendor or the small claims track anyway! I think you are actually enjoying the challenge!....that I have made "some" progress with the "Lathe of errors".
The vendor has gone strangely quiet and has not responded to my questions requests for support.
I decided to take a "fix-it-or-fÜck-it" approach
I attacked it with a set of files and what were round holes for mounting studs are now vertical slots for mounting studs allowing some movement of the motor.
I also fixed the awful placement of the drive pulley and where it had been hammered on I prised it off the motor shaft and used needle files to make it a better "slip-fit" and the pulley can now be adjusted along the shaft.
I looked at the original belt and it is 90 tooth and 18 inches in total length but the fitting and fixing made it as tight as a bowstring because of a lack of adjustment capability of the motor (now-fixed).
Searching online I have found 3 alternative belts of the same tooth-pitch but of slightly larger tooth-counts and lengths and I am hopeful that one of them will meet the requirement and be within my "adjustment range" and a good fit.
For good or ill I am committed to making this P.O.S. work as it should.
I will let y'all know how it goes. I promise.
Best of luck with it all!
Thank you! I am taking it as a personal challenge to make as good a silk-purse out of this "Sow's ear" as I can.Well you've now done so much to it you will have little case with the vendor or the small claims track anyway! I think you are actually enjoying the challenge!
Best of luck with it all!
neilly
Well-Known Member
No no no no no
. I'm just about to eat a curry.
