I'm sure I'm not the only one on here who misses him. Although his political posts annoyed some. Talk to him privately and ...well, shouldn't say should I?!
(Ooops nearly forgot.)
It was just a probably not very good joke pretending to confuse the celebrity chef with the James Martin who was latterly of this parish.EP90?
Gearboxes?
I love it that you are as old skool as me!!!
When I was young, gear oil had a distinctive smell, and when its subtle bouquet filled the air you knew you were doing some serious repairs. It made me feel very professional.
OK
Here is a pic of the said cistern on the back of our loo that was perfick after repairs to washers etc last Monday.
Started chucking water out last night.
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Looks evil don't it?
Like someone hit it with an ammer or summat. but obvs not.!
Cracks so wide I cannot even push them together
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And to prove that Stan hadn't got clumsy with anything when tightening stuff up, here are the only holes involved, not a mark on 'em.
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Calling all plumberists who might have a clue as to how this could have happened.
@brianp38dse etc?
Help, please?
Have you seen the prices of replacements in Frogland?
And they really don't do ones wiv the inlet pipe at the bottom.
Frost or Erfquake ?
No, I got the joke, and I do love the fact that with cars you can distiguish all the liquids that go in it by their smells.
So all you have to do is stick a finger in a puddle and sniff it.
Some wimmins turn their noses up and this and go "Yuk" and words of this ilk.
"ergh, how can you do that!!!???" Springs to mind.
Yet some of them smell of Patchouli oil which to me always smells of drains.
(Very common among the hippie types who used to hang around Walcot Street in Bath back in the 70s.)
My W hates the smell of ATF and I do sort of sympathise seeing as how the Disco smelt of it for ages until I got the auto box leak fixed. I actually quite like it though I wouldn't say thank you to after-shave smelling of it.
I remember Jay Leno saying that his wife complained about how long he spent playing with all his cars so he said to her, "Would you prefer it if I came home smelling of cheap perfume instead of transmission oil?
Each to their own!
Neeva as far as we can tell. I think it just objected to being taken off it's perch then being put back on it again.
It is obvious, as @brianp38dse said that it had been under stress as the cracks have a raised edge implying that there was tension there. The stress must have been there since it was fired.
Yes, I remember all the patchouli flavoured perfumes and incense sticks. After flourishing in the 1970s, there was a further vogue for that sort of thing in the 1990s with all the alternative/grunge/new age traveller culture that was going on at that time. I used to prefer Body Shop 'white musk' myself, which was a little less oppressive.
So here's a thing.
Mad old me is wondering how difficult it would be to make a hole in the base of a new toilet cistern to accept the bottom fill paraphenalia.
I could practise on the old one.
What would you use?
I was thinking of starting with a tile drill
@brianp38dse have you ever needed to do anything like this?
@Ian M in France I know you do work for ex-pats over here, or I think you do, can you tell me if the mounting and flush holes in the base of a French cistern are a near enough match to fit onto a Brit made pan such as the ones we have from B&Q?
The plumbing needed to plumb one in would have to be very unsightly as we aren't about to spend €500 odd on a new bog. Grr
TIA all!
Mad old me is wondering how difficult it would be to make a hole in the base of a new toilet cistern to accept the bottom fill paraphenalia.
I could practise on the old one.
What would you use?
I was thinking of starting with a tile drill
@brianp38dse have you ever needed to do anything like this?
@Ian M in France I know you do work for ex-pats over here, or I think you do, can you tell me if the mounting and flush holes in the base of a French cistern are a near enough match to fit onto a Brit made pan such as the ones we have from B&Q?
The plumbing needed to plumb one in would have to be very unsightly as we aren't about to spend €500 odd on a new bog. Grr
TIA all!
I have made a drawing of the holes to take with me when I go to look for a cistern tomoz. Dead easy, plant the old un on a bit of paper, reach in and draw though the holes!
Stone56
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Was wondering why I had that and couldn't see one on others I thought I had the plague or the pox thanks for that
Stone56
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And tastes like urine after a heavy night on the beer
Stone56
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Diamond core bit the same seize as the hole you want drilling slowlySo here's a thing.
Mad old me is wondering how difficult it would be to make a hole in the base of a new toilet cistern to accept the bottom fill paraphenalia.
I could practise on the old one.
What would you use?
I was thinking of starting with a tile drill
@brianp38dse have you ever needed to do anything like this?
@Ian M in France I know you do work for ex-pats over here, or I think you do, can you tell me if the mounting and flush holes in the base of a French cistern are a near enough match to fit onto a Brit made pan such as the ones we have from B&Q?
The plumbing needed to plumb one in would have to be very unsightly as we aren't about to spend €500 odd on a new bog. Grr
TIA all!
Yes, as they're quite a hard bake, diamond would be my first choice too.
You might need to enlarge the hole to fit a standard cistern onto the close-coupled base, in which case as there's nothing to guide the pilot bit, clamping it (gently) and using a pillar drill with the diamond core drill in it might work.
Stone56
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depending on your summer as Tom's love heat if out side I would stop them at 4 trusses not strings that's for tying things up when the first truss is set feed with potash
Righto @Hippo
here is the recipe I promised you.
It has a hand written thing on it as James Martin forgot to put it in!
I would only question the red wine glass size, We have some big enough so you dont have anything left in a normal bottle if served for 2
.We also have those tight wine glasses that go around 6 per bottle, but we dont use those much
.J
