Chancer
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When I started cabling my place the regs stated that I needed an ethernet connection in each room going back to the coffret de communications for "future proofing" well the future overtook them and me before I had completed more than 2 apartments, everyone wants Wi-Fi most devices dont even have an ethernet socket yet the regs and Consuel still insist on complying with the pasts vision of the future which is well in the past.
I have 12mb ADSL but its pretty flaky especially when all the guests try to connect, one family may have 8 devices on the go and at this time of year the router regularly runs out of IP addresses, I have noticed more and more customers using their own mobile data instead, most of them are with Free.
Meanwhile the fibre optic cabling is making its way to us from the main town, I have some of the installers staying here as we speak, I am getting loads of letters, E-mails and cold calls wanting me to subscribe to their fibre optic service, special rate for a business like me, only €100 ht par month [:-))]
Now I get a letter from the commune sayng that the fibre will come to my property but to use it I must take out an abonnement with their preferred supplier (someones BIL no doubt) they are spending millions but even if it got here tomorrow I doubt that anyone would subscribe when they could get a better 4G service far cheaper from FreeMobile or any of the others.
Another case of too little too late methinks.
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The site I used gave the street name and/or street crossing of each of the transmitters also their height, with the latter it was easy to find them, the high ones were on the château d'eau's and the lower ones on the top of an HLM, cycling round them checking the signal I found that the place you dont want to live is directly underneath one [:D]
Cant recall the site but you are good at searching and now you know the data is out there.
12 years I have been here and never knew that I had line of site to the antenne, now I know where to look and what to look for I can see it clearly.
Its dropped out twice now always on a Friday afternoon and comes back on the Tuesday, pretty certain its a technician that likes to finish his week in the café on Friday lunchtimes, the last time when I cycled up I found the gates to the château d'eau wide open so I went in looking for theur vehicle hoping they might be there, they werent but I did see an emergency power cut off, my computer and Freebox usually respond to a reboot so I gave it a try, nothing for me at least to lose, didn't make any difference but probably some people were hampered from uploading their selfies to Fessbook [:D]
Good luck with your mission, supposedly fibre optic is on its way to me but it has always gone as far as the corner of the road for the Airbus factory and the Aeropole but they seem to be pulling through completely new cables from the town.
If you do get optican fibre to the outside of the dwelling do you have to replace the twisted pair cable Inside?
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The thread asked should I do anything more?
If the OP was concerned that the dog might attack and maim even kill a child then absolutely but with the Gendarmerie not the hospital, unless the owner encouraged their dog to bite me I see nothing to gain by exposing a neighbour to years of grief with L'Assurance Maladie and their insurers, all it would achive around here is to have my hôtel burned down.
i'm with lindal, always say it was a diy accident working on your own home, you have nothing to gain and could become involved in a long procedure which will bring you nothing, if you were working on the black for a registered company that was negligent then maybe, just maybe you have something to gain but remember that you will probably be in your dwelling when it catches fire.
My commercial fire alarm system developed a problem with one smoke detector yesterday, replacing it is my highest priority (I have rigged the rest of the system to operate in its absence) peopel who own aggressive dogs are not usually the most understanding or calmest of people.
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Euthanasia or a ready supply of kittens for the dogs occasional cravings.
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[quote user="NickP"]I'm intrigued why people resident in another country would want to have a UK bank account. Knowing the hoops that a UK resident has to jump through because of the money laundering regulations it begs the question.[8-)]
[/quote]I would not be able to launder money without retaining UK accounts [I]
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You cannot (Harden and) temper mild steel AKA plain carbon steel, it has to have a higher carbon content or be infused with carbon (case hardening) tempering is done after hardening to remove brittleness, when a spring snaps it usually due to incorrect tempering.
Exposure to too much heat and then slow cooling will anneal the metal which is what has happened after your welded repair.
The blue heat and quenching described is the hardening stage which needs to be followed by tempering, this is done by heating up to approximately pale straw colour and leaving to cool, my memory is failing me here and I'm asking myself whether it should actually be requenched, my first recall is usually right but Google it or maybe someone will correct me if it is wrong.
If your tongs are not made of high(er) carbon steel all the above will be a total waste of time, you might as well be making a spring out of a paper clip [:D]
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Good to hear from you, 3 names from the wilderness now, has there been some kind of amnesty?
The link only went to an application form for a pro account, would really like to see what work you are doing now, I assume that you are still in france and am glad to learn so.
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Dick Smith and Gluestick in the same week [:-))]
Has someone been handing out pardons to celebrate something? [Www]
Well the forum had virtually died so drastic measures are needed to revive it [:D]
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I used the service between lets as I was so disgusted with the state the tenants had left the oven in and knowing that I would deduct it from their deposit there was little point me doing it myself.
It came to £35 including the hob and the young girl had to travel from Camberly to Gatwick and back to do the job plus she was working through an intermediary so probably got a lot less herself.
I guess the same service were it to exist in France would be a couple of hundred euros if they could be bothered to answer the phone to take a booking [:(]
I think there is a real need for specialist cleaning services to the rental sector, now we have AE (for the time being) I am surprised that many havn't appeared.
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If you have accurate scales then weigh yourself before going to bed and then first thing in the morning, you will look at your mattress in a different light thereafter!
Or for a more viusal representation sleep the night in an old uninsulated camping car with all the windows closed.
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One of my latex mattresses has (allegedly) a summer and a winter face, trouble is I dont know which is which, how do you tell?
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The barseal t**ds as opposed to the liquids work too well actually, I also used to use it on my race cars until one fatefull day.
On this X flow engined car the cooling system always used to vent a half a litre or so of coolant during a race via the pressure cap through a 1/4" bore hose to the catch tank (an MSA requirement) the bar seal actually managed to block this hose and the system overpressurised until the top rad hose blew creating a smokescreen of steam.
Impressive stuff but a little too effective.
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Off topic again [;-)]
I thought the greatest marketing coup that the Krause bond company (name chosen to sound technical and German) ever did was to realise that there were loads of mug punters remaining that were incapable of removing a spark plug to squeeze in the magic toothpaste, so they invented a new compound for the non technically minded (as they described them in their add) twas a can of liquid containing two lead pellets that you poured into the petrol tank which then miraculously went on to rebore your engine.
I believe that the company is still running but these days you text your registration number to a premium rate number and in 5 minutes your engine is rebored and no longer burns oil [:-))]
In all seriousness I use a motor trade cash n carry warehouse (Maccess) and there is a whole long rayon stuffed full of modern day snake oil products, injector cleaner, octane booster etc etc.
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Dont forget the Batman pills (Bataid) [;-)]
I will never know if it was the Kraus paste or one of the liquid rebores but the Mini that my sister bought had been dosed with something which prevented crankcase breathing just long enough to sell the vehicle and for her to drive it home, it smoked like a pompier thereafter!
Perhaps these re-enamelling kits, (now there is a lie if ever there was one), have some anti-gravity additive to allow the self levelling to work on the sides of the bath [;-)]
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That made me chuckle " the epoxy is self levelling so scratches disappear"
That may well be true for the bottom of the bath after all the paint on the sides has found its level, at the bottom of the bath! [;-)]
I think that spraying is the answer for me especially given the cost of these snake oils.
I have just remembered that I sprayed several radiators for an ex with the 2K aerosols and they still look good after several years and havnt turned brown.
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Interesting, I had forgotten all about vitreous enamelling.
So you reckon the kits are just two pack aerosols then GS?
I can get these mixed to any colour from a local paint factor for £8 per large (400ml) aerosol, thats in England I hasten to add, I dread to think what the cost would be in France.
They give a good spray pattern and the finish, dependant on the conditions is usually as good or better than the production orange peel of modern vehicles, one can will cover a front wing or door, beyond that they are not practical for vehicle refinishing, once hardened the finish is as rock hard as any 2K paint.
I am on the lookout for une baignoire sabot but most seem to need refinishing, I had not thought of two pack paint.
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Do they actually work? Or are they just a good vehicle to convince folks to part with large sums of money for simple aerosol paints?
I ask because stove enamelling is a very specific process, I have never seen any paint that comes anywhere near to its resistance even powder coating which has pretty well taken over from stove enamelling these days.
There was, and I think still is, a company in Forest Row, West Sussex called Bathshield that re-enamels (or so they claimed) cast iron baths.
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[quote user="Starless"]
They don't seem to have offered any compensation though, just their apologies, so no money saving there.
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Compensation for what exactly?
You would not have received even the apology from French foods in France [:D]
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The fresh milk that we get is not homogenised. It is gently pasturised in a banne marie, or however you spell it. We get it from either of the bio supermarkets here in Carcassonne. they also have raw milk sometimes and that has a shelf life of just a couple of days. Fresh goats milk is there too! The pasturised cows milk always has a nice layer of cream on the top and it is semmi skimmed milk!
The problem with homogenised mik is that it is forced through a very fine mesh to break up the fat globules, this is why you will never see cream on the top, and the fat globules are so fine that if you suffer with a 'leaky gut' the globules can pass through the stomatch wall into the blood system.
These days we have been trying other things and I really like the 'oat milk', slightly sweet and lovely on proper porrige [8-|]
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My mate tels me that he tried horses milk at a fête at Boulogne sur mer, his French is not good but he is quite intelligent and I dont think he was misled.
Re homogenising milk, it is not seived but molecularely (dont even know how to say it!) reduced by high velocity impact, I used to make the homogenisers during my apprenticeship in what was known as the "Homo section" of our factory! The machines resembled a huge stainles steel piston engine but powered by even huger electric motor, the milk was aspirated and on the compression stroke forced at high velocity through a narrow orifice onto a titanium impact ring.
As Jonzjob says the fat is still present in its full percentage but no longer visible as cream and cannot be smelt until it is very very sour, when we drink supermarket milk after one week, plus of course its time on the shelf, delivery etc, it is the same as drinking fresh milk from the milkman after 10 days except of course that our palate and taste buds are fooled into not making us puke.
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It is not "fresh milk", the only ones lucky enough to still drink this are those that still have a milkman in the UK.
For the rest of us "fresh milk" in either UK or French supermarkets is homogenised, that is why we it appears to last all week, in reality after one week it would be the same as "milkmans milk" if it were able to reconstitute, would you drink curdled milkmans milk at that stage?
Try closing your eyes and doing a blind smell test of homogenised milk "fresh" from the supermarket and the one that has sat open in the fridge for a week if you need convincing.
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Not specifically a French food enquiry but I have recently bought a juicer during an "at that price I must have one!" moment and would like advice as to how to get the best from it.
Dont worry about teaching me to suck eggs as I know naff all about the subject.
My theory was to buy the fruit and veg from our local Arab market at 12:30 on Sunday when they virtually give it away and make fruit juices and smoothies etc. I am recovering from what I hope is my last operation and off the drink and want to do that little bit more if I can.
I have had a play with apples (with and without skin) apple and kiwi mixed and oranges, again with and without skin. The orange puree with skin looked great but tasted too tart, the apple was fine either way but looked a bit frothy/scummy with the skin and I reckon it would seperate in time.
I havn't really thought about introducing veg into the mix and would appreciate comments.
Are there any specific rules? i.e. certain fruits must be skinned or cored to avoid blocking the machine etc etc.
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What about a book written in French?
Even childrens books are challenging and entertaining, if you find something on a subject or topic you are interested in it is much easier to read and keep on reading.
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