Stanleysteamer said:
Due to weather and forthcoming round of inviting peeps to din, which we always seem to leave till the last min, been a bit of a borin mornin.
Still, went through our stock of preserves.
Chucked out 3 big jars of gherkins which were basically too old.
Salvaged the over-gloopy Creme de Cassis by simply slopping a bit out of the bottle and replacing it with a bit of vodka, so that was good.
W making home made tomato soup as the test lot was lush! For guests tomoz.
I am about to steam clean the ground floor as a dog or two has brought in some weird stuff, no idea what and never seen it before.

Oh and a bunch of wasps have gone back to where the old nest was, roughly, and they seem to have young with them. We have no idea what they are doing but they don't seem pleased. Have yet to Google it to see what they are up to.

Yessdi, about 1/3 of the way up the mountain W's Pluriel's electronic power steering decided to go on the blink. So Stan had a real workout hauling it around all the bends to get us home.
The bonnet didn't want to open, which has almost never happened before. Once that was fixed, tried the usual bettery disconnect to reset it. din't work. So flipped about with it a bit more, and eventually the flipping computer decided to allow us to have the steering back as it should be.
I can't help feeling this is a safety critical item and it should absolutely not be able to happen when driving. Lucky it was me and not W at the wheel. :mad::mad:
Have a nice arvo folks!
:):):)
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How can a phooter switch oft power steering? Does it have a belt driven power steering pump?
 
Stanleysteamer said:
You can play around with V = π r2 h/3
The puzzle is a little "cheaty" as although it shows the varying heights of the liquid it doesn't mention the varying radii.
So height 10, radius 5 would give you about 362 volume.
But height 7 radius say 3 would only give you 66 volume,
Height 9 radius 4 would still only give you 151 odd. So well under 50 % of the original volume.
So height 9 radius 4.4 is the closest you can get.

So I am afeared that 90 % is going to be the answer. My bad. :(
(Still works if you begin with height 10 radius 4.)
:stars::stars::stars::stars:
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Tis easier than that. Make the triangle into a rectangle by using the top line of the triangle as the starting point. Said triangle will then have two empty triangles, one either side ovvit, making up the rectangle. Now compare the space of the empty triangle to the original puzzle. They is the same volume of the filled triangle.
 
Hippo said:
Tis easier than that. Make the triangle into a rectangle by using the top line of the triangle as the starting point. Said triangle will then have two empty triangles, one either side ovvit, making up the rectangle. Now compare the space of the empty triangle to the original puzzle. They is the same volume of the filled triangle.
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But we are talking volume here, not area. And a circle at the top, making a cone, so not really the same at all.
 
6pot said:
I meant to say after that pic of the wasps nest you posted that they look like different wasps to the ones we get here. The nests they build are open and have hexagonal compartments. Sounds like your ones 'home' if they are going back to where the nest was, I've never seen them do that here.

The electric power steering packing up in the Pluriel sounds quite alarming, it's a bit worrying if something safety critical as you say can go on the blink due to some wiring issue or an ecu blip :eek:

Electronics can become an issue and most of the recent faults we've had have been due to electronics, currently tyre pressure sensors seem to be a problem with it constantly saying 'adjust tyre pressures' no matter how many times I check and adjust them. It is supposed to self-calibrate after that and it is possible to cancel the message manually but neither method is making any difference. Randomly it warns 'punture' as well which I have started ignoring because there was no puncture. I have to admit one of the tyres had gone down a bit but not enough to trigger that warning and the puncture warning came up again while I was actually pumping it up :oops:
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Oh so true! Sadly.
 
Stone56 said:
It's a aluminium one and I haven't had a lot of luck welding that plus I didn't have eny rods
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Whoops! Ok, was sort of expecting that, what car still has an old skool brass rad?!
I have only successfully welded ally once and that was with one of those funny little kits that come in a triangular section clear plastic box. That worked, but welding with the powder and another bit of aluminium? forget it! And I have bnever tried shoving ally wire in my mig welder either.

Tis all sorcery!
Hope it is holding.
 
Hippo said:
How can a phooter switch oft power steering? Does it have a belt driven power steering pump?
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Nope there is no hydraulics involved at all.
A colleague's Punto did the same thing to her.
On researching it, it would appear one heck of a lot of cars have it now.
It can act on either the steering column or, as in our case, on the rack itself. The pooter reads stuff like steering inputs and then tells the system how much push, and in what direction, to give.
I suppose I ought to be grateful that it didn't just block the steering in whatever position it was.
But then it is only power assisted, not full power steering.
 
Flipping wasps have now swarmed close to where they used to have a nest. A lot stying relatively still while others come and go. We don't have any tins of the nest killing wasp killer, just tins of stuff to be used indoors, so they'll have to stay there until we can get some.
Persistent little barstaff!! :mad:
 
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Stanleysteamer said:
But we are talking volume here, not area. And a circle at the top, making a cone, so not really the same at all.
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And to think we once knew all these formulas by heart/rote.
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...for example.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Yet calculus I think must be important in designing carburettors etc, oh, oops, who does that any more?
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My higher ejucation was mostly applied and pure mathematics n geometry (engineering). So I can recognise the design in carbs, which is of interest to us in the classic bike world. And lots of other applications for Venturi (as in carbs) designs. Such as flow measuring equipment in water treatment (flume design), self-draining bilge pumps in the boat world, aircraft speed measuring, the list is long. I can remember learning fifth order differential equations, but never used it in life so have forgotten it all. I also remember a retiring lecturer telling me he was told on his graduation that he would never use 80% of what he had been taught, he told me it was in fact closer to 90%. On my retirement I could agree with him.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
You can play around with V = π r2 h/3
The puzzle is a little "cheaty" as although it shows the varying heights of the liquid it doesn't mention the varying radii.
So height 10, radius 5 would give you about 362 volume.
But height 7 radius say 3 would only give you 66 volume,
Height 9 radius 4 would still only give you 151 odd. So well under 50 % of the original volume.
So height 9 radius 4.4 is the closest you can get.

So I am afeared that 90 % is going to be the answer. My bad. :(
(Still works if you begin with height 10 radius 4.)
:stars::stars::stars::stars:
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Ok so ive just read bla bla bla bla bla na na nope eh wtf oh aye thats not the answer.

I dont feel so thick now 🤣🤣🤣
 
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