What have you been doing today?

Tidying up after a U VI post exam rave.......

New battery for the Honda arrived a little while ago so I fitted it straight away.

Got a Varta 096 E44 from Tayna. Ordered after 3 yesterday afternoon and arrived about 2 today. £102. I did toy with a cheaper Exide, but read some reviews about premature failure, which we can do without. Hence sticking with what we know.

Turns out that, although the previous battery was still turning the engine over (albeit struggling in very cold weather), it mustn't have had its full compliment of oomph, as when the new one went on, the car started without the usual huge jolt.

I guess any mechanics here can explain why that was happening.
 
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securespark said:
I guess any mechanics here can explain why that was happening.
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Sometimes if a battery is underperforming, the starter motor nicks most of the voltage and there’s not quite enough for the ignition circuit. When my bike turns over slightly slower and is hard to start, I know it’s time to either charge or replace the battery. First press of the starter button and it fires up before it’s even done one revolution!
 
Just fixed a leak under my sink. The unused hot water valve for the washing machine decided to start leaking. I wondered why our recycling bin always had a puddle of water in it. I couldn't even turn the handle any further closed as it was seized. Replaced it with a compression stop-end. I meant to do that 20 years ago when we got a washing machine with a cold only fill. Better late than never! :rolleyes:
 
securespark said:
Got a Varta 096 E44 from Tayna. Ordered after 3 yesterday afternoon and arrived about 2 today. £102. I did toy with a cheaper Exide, but read some reviews about premature failure, which we can do without. Hence sticking with what we know.
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I've read suggestions that Varta is from the same as Bosch. Same production line, just a different label at the end.
 
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Past few days I have been planning the logistics of steel box panelling the roof of our summerhouse and getting quotes for the material needed. It's been up a few years, and I originally just felted and it's been a constant battle since then, repairing the felt, due to the damage done by squirrels and birds. Damage has become much worse, since they turned the wasteland alongside my property, into a nature reserve. I replaced my 24' x 12' garage roof with the steel decades ago, then used the same on my workshop extension of the garage at the rear - since when neither have needed any attention at all.

The logistics were a matter of the slope of the apex roof, is marginal for working on, without my sliding off, and tools sliding off. Up to now, I have laid a ladder up to the apex, then lashed the ladder at the apex, down to the base and struggled with tools constantly sliding down.

I made a couple of timber brackets, with an old rubber dustbin lid on top, for the tools, rope attached, with a bag of sand as a counter-weight.

For me, I decided a rope over the roof lashed tight at the far side, with a pair of Prusik knots, locked onto the main rope. Climbing knots and techniques.
 
Just nipped over the allotment to harvest some crops for our tea tonight.

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I think I just saved another bird. I stepped out of my front door and next doors cat ran past with a screaming baby starling in its mouth. All the other starlings were going bananas. I chased it into the bushes on my drive, went round the front, chased it back, it went over next doors front, I ran round there, chased it back in the bushes, back round the front shouting at it and the last I saw was it running down my side drive definitely without the bird. It climbed the fence and went in its own garden. I noticed that the starling flock had gone quiet and had disappeared so I’m hoping that it dropped it and it flew off. Fingers crossed!
 
Printed off last years bank statements for my year end a few weeks ago, they have now vanished, searching everywhere
 
Still dibbling with the markets. Made about 3 mistakes so far, like leaving a position open over night, and getting a stop-loss triggered by a spike. Still, cleared just under 1200 in 10 days or so with spare money. It's ridiculously compelling, and dead easy. That's just by going long when they turn up and short when they turn down, and look for news. Hoping to get a program in Curl or Java or similar working with an API so I don't have to be there and it would be quicker. There are lots of ways to multiply, but I'm still learning.
I don't know why all STEM students don't do it. With more AI, the Rules will have to change, like they did in the US.
Ridiculous, pointless, immoral/amoral activity, which some here would say has no value. Sure, OK.

Everyone's focused on AI/tech, so there are lots of very low price shares in other things, like BT, and arguably some of our banks. I'm watching Editas medical, they have rights to aspects of the CRISPR gene editing process. Someone will produce a wonder drug, and they'll all go mad again.
 
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Early morning visit to the allotment because of the heat. Caught a couple of plot holders using battery powered water pumps and hoses to water their plots directly from the water troughs (hoses are strictly prohibited) and they quickly gathered them up when they saw me. I won’t say anything as they are getting on in years and their plots were the furthest from the water troughs. Planted out some carrot, parsnip and beetroot seedlings and brought home some garlic that I pulled the other week. Tried to make one of those garlic braids but failed so just bunched them up and hung them in the shed. Mrs Mottie said she might have a go later.

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Boiler engineer ordered a 4 yard skip as he is moving the oil tank further down the garden, (to comply with regs apparently).
When it arrived he said we could use up any available space when he had finished with it. As he was leaving on Wednesday afternoon, he told my wife he was done with the skip. He had only thrown about a 4" level of grass/soil in the bottom from the excavation for a new slab.
Today, me and my stepson, (under wifes 'guidance'), practically emptied some sheds, (11' x 9'), (4 x 3 x 6'), plastic shed and a 4' x 3' x 4' plastic garden box of all the crap in them.

Oh, and a trailer, 5' x 3' x 2'6" which was full of rotten wood and a few broken pieces of crockery.
To take it to the tip by car would have taken about 8 -10 trips, involving a round trip of 28 miles each time.
 
conny said:
Boiler engineer ordered a 4 yard skip as he is moving the oil tank further down the garden, (to comply with regs apparently).
When it arrived he said we could use up any available space when he had finished with it. As he was leaving on Wednesday afternoon, he told my wife he was done with the skip. He had only thrown about a 4" level of grass/soil in the bottom from the excavation for a new slab.
Today, me and my stepson, (under wifes 'guidance'), practically emptied some sheds, (11' x 9'), (4 x 3 x 6'), plastic shed and a 4' x 3' x 4' plastic garden box of all the crap in them.

Oh, and a trailer, 5' x 3' x 2'6" which was full of rotten wood and a few broken pieces of crockery.
To take it to the tip by car would have taken about 8 -10 trips, involving a round trip of 28 miles each time.
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"Give an inch, take a mile" springs to mind :ROFLMAO:
 
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