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    Nice big-ish compressor for nowt!!

    in House Renovations

    Posted

    That is the difference with our guy C. He is totally genuine and will

    help anyone. We have been really lucky and on the odd occasion that we

    have had to go to another dechet we really notice the difference.

    We are on first name terms with the boss there and take anything we want to be rid of for other people, so there is a ballance. As we are sorting out for our move that is getting more too! [:-))]

    When we go with our trailer full of garden waste he takes the fork off of SWMBO and helps me empty it. When our neighbour takes her trailer he reverses it up to the skip and does the same for her. He is a real gem!

    That sounds like a really nasty and stupid thing to do to a pressure tank! Hopefully the bloke in charge made sure it was destroyed!

    I have just had a gander at my new toy and all is well and nice and shiny red, no marks at all..

    Nice big-ish compressor for nowt!!

    in House Renovations

    Posted

    Yesterday we had a de chetterie run and just as we were leaving I saw a

    nice big-ish red compressor outside the office. People leave stuff there

    for anyone who can use it. I was told that the woman who bought it in

    just said it didn't work.

    So now I have a nice big-ish red

    compressor [8-|] that runs fine, but doesn't pressurise the tank. there

    is slight pressure but not enough to show on the guage.

    So far I

    have disconnected the compressor to tank pipe, lots of air flow. Swapped

    the tank pressure guage with my small compressor and run the small one,

    the guage is OK. The small machines guage in the big job still shows no

    pressure.

    So I took the head off to have aa gander at the

    gubbins and found 2 reed valves, one for in and one for out. The out one

    was in 2 bits!! Golly gosh was my expression and I had the idea that I

    have a couple of sets of feeler gauges that haven't been used in years.

    IBM standard issue! I measured the thickness with my dial very near,

    vernier to you, 10 thou. So after I have chut a 10 thou feeler to size I

    fitted it and then put the head back on and tried it.

    This is the head and shows both the broken bit and the new. It's 25 metric things and as near as dammit to 10 thou

    [URL=http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Odds%20and%20sods/IMG_1175_zpse1c4gxkw.jpg.html][IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Odds%20and%20sods/IMG_1175_zpse1c4gxkw.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

    The cylinder bit

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    Now I am the proud owner of a big-ish, 50 ltr, compressor for nowt but a bit of my time

    Secret to selling a house in France

    in Finding/Owning French Property

    Posted

    I have just had a look at the site you posted Norman, didn't get chance before. It seems strange to me that you could have a totally Gerry built place with a really well built one beside it and if they were the same area they would be worth the same? Totally on the m2.

    It seems a bit like that a good make car is worth the same as a real c r a p job as long as it has the same size shadow with the sun directly overhead?

    Use of Real name rather then Pseudo

    in Forum Technical Support

    Posted

    <BLOCKQUOTE><table width="85%"><tr><td

    class="txt4"><img

    src="/forums/completefrance-forums/cs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif">&nbsp;<strong>AnOther

    wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td

    class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td

    width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4">So NickP is your given name

    then is it

    ?<br></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

    OK ALBF, or is that ALBOF now?? What the hell is all this Bollockquote business? The same for numerous other Bollockquotes?

    Perhaps the P is silent like the P in swimming, but P or Y, Y P [8-)]

    French Speaking Plumber in Burton on Trent

    in French Artisans

    Posted

    Close to Carcassonne you don\'t see them from the A61. The southern banking blocks the view, but from that bridge it's just that bit higher.. Going east the Carcassonne Aire has a beautiful view of the Cité

    This is it

    [URL=http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Old%20Cite%20from%20A61%204_zps1the2au1.jpg.html][IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Old%20Cite%20from%20A61%204_zps1the2au1.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

    If you catch it right you have the old and the new together. Ryanair fly almost directly over it and it makes for quite a contrast.

    French Speaking Plumber in Burton on Trent

    in French Artisans

    Posted

    [quote user="alittlebitfrench"]There is no end to your talents Jonzjob.

    I did not realise that you could see the mountains from Carcassonne. Very nice part of the world.[/quote]

    I have been called an artist numerous tomes, but that's normally when I have a glass in my hand so I'm not sure if that's a talent or not [8-)]

    The Paie-a-knees are about 80 miles south of us and on clear days it looks as if you could touch them. One of my favourite views is in the car crossing the bridge over the A61, going north, by the old hospital, on a clear day you have the Cité in front of you and the mountains in the mirror. I would love to get a photo of it, but it would probably lead to an accident. It is lovely here and it was a very difficult decision to move!

    I'm not sure that you can see the mountains from the Cité inself? I think it may be just a tad too low? Next timr we are there I will see if I can remember to look. But with my memory, or lack, don't hold yer breff [:-))]

    Mods

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    It is with 3 immobiliers here and 2 are 'supposed' to be putting on leboncoin, but as yet they haven't so we will be doing what Mr Bean does and start kicking bottom tomorrow.

    We also have it on 2 U.K. selling sites as a private buy. What fascinates me is how the immos here warrent 5 or 6% !! That's something like 19,000€ if they sell our place! [:-))]

    Mods

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    [quote user="alittlebitfrench"]

    I am bewildered that a site that promotes France has a forum. This forum can't sell many houses.

    BTW, yes I am bored today. Too hot to go out.[/quote]

    It ain't sold mine yet!! Perhaps yer right and it's too 'ott to go out?

    landline telephone with a second handset

    in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone

    Posted

    I agree ET, unless the handset is dragging the line down until it's answered?

    We have had the Siemens Gigaset S455 for over 10 years now and due to changing from having a fixed line and ADSL together we now have 4 handsets on it. Great because we have then in different parts of the house and my workshop. One of the best is that we can have 2 or more handsets, SWMBO and me on the same external call. We can also use them as an intercom system. Useful if I am in the workshop and SWMBO wants to contact me and she is upstairs in our mezannine. No problems and the batteries have lasted for years!

    Great system. We can also allocate different rings for special friends/family as well as having the call identifier naming who's calling if they are in the memory [8-|]

    Bin busy again..

    in Working with Wood

    Posted

    I've been busy at my hobby again and I saw the light again. Well, for the forth time really. I love turning lamps. Angle poise to be precise and this is the biggest one yet.

    Beech stem and arm peices, oak base and leylandii shade. I was given a not very nice looking lump of oak on a visit to a wood supplier in Carcassonne a couple of years back when I bought a couple of beech planks, 2" x 8" x 10' for some other job. I have some of the beech left over, so I decided to make this lamp.

    The base is about 12" diameter and took 1/2 of the oak. This is a before/after photo

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    It turned out better than I had expected. I wanted to hide the cable in this one, apart from the elbows of course. I had to do the upright in 3 sections as my lathe bad is about 3" long, so I cheated with the join by putting a contrasting ring between the bits. It would be very difficult to get the 2 to align perfectly and it looks awful if they don't.

    [URL=http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Lamps/Tall%20angle%20poise%20lamp%20mk2%2010_zpschaluhof.jpg.html][IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Lamps/Tall%20angle%20poise%20lamp%20mk2%2010_zpschaluhof.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

    The shaft top knucle was fun too, but it was a good finish

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    The shade is that stuff that every gardener this side of the pond adores, especially if it's the neighbours ajoining hedge, leylandii! It is lovely to turn though and takes a lovely finish too.

    [URL=http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Lamps/Tall%20angle%20poise%20lamp%20mk2%2011_zps35pm7u34.jpg.html][IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Lamps/Tall%20angle%20poise%20lamp%20mk2%2011_zps35pm7u34.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

    And the completed lamp is now in use each evening in our lounge. But the photo was taken outside before anyone comments

    [URL=http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Lamps/Tall%20angle%20poise%20lamp%20mk2%2012_zpsavngskl5.jpg.html][IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Lamps/Tall%20angle%20poise%20lamp%20mk2%2012_zpsavngskl5.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

    Next? I have a 12" long by about 8" diameter leylandii log on the lathe and I hope to make about 6 small dishes from it. It's good fun as it's all shapes and lumps, but I know there's are lovely dishes hiding in there. All I have to do is dig them out

    Keep Digging Donald

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    The expression "promoted to the height of his incompetincy" comes to mind.

    As far as his earning power is concerned, I remember reading somewhere that the only real try he had at making money was a total failure. I can't remember where I read it though? The money he has was inherited and lets face it, oney makes money don't it!

    Are "Social media" harmful?

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    I have had accounts on both, but kicked them in to touch ages ago. Now I don't touch them, now even with a long stick! Instagram? I had to look it up to see what that's about? No thank you again.

    I think that one of the dangerous uses of them are by idiots that trype first and think, or probably not, later. The new prat I/C the USA is a good example of that!

    Forums are different. Yes, they tend to have 'families' too, but at least they are monitored, smaller and much better managed. At least the ones I subscribe to and if that changes then I just opt out.

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