What I Did This Weekend - In Pictures!

proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Gramaisc said:
As the perpetual weekend continues, I hit on a way to solve a small issue.

I often don't need all the six bench lights on and one would be sufficient in the stove/cooker area, but I didn't want anything in the way.

The last threaded bar hanger for the shelving needed to be just over a metre long, so it had a coupling nut near the bottom, this meant that it could be opened to slide a swinging arm on and then reassembled for its primary purpose.

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A run of flex and a torpedo switch supplies the power for the lamp. The wire is on the side away from the flue pipe, just in case.

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It works nicely and will be handy if the cat wants to read.
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I liked this because it puts my kettle and microwave set up in the garage to shame.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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The combination lock on the outside door to the shower room has been a little iffy lately, and it needs to be reliable, if I am going to rely on it...

I took to bits, but didn't really find anything guilty-looking, just a bit of wear and a few small burrs. I cleaned it up and (finally) reassembled it. 33 springs and dozens of loose bits - it's not an easy task.

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It seems to be working reliably now, after a night back in place. It's been there for 25 years now and it is a great way to control access, no need to take a key away, just to get back in with.

If you ever need to get in when I'm not here, then I have carefully hidden the code in a non-public area on @Carole's butt.
 
Gramaisc

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I got this at the boot sale years ago and have finally got around to fixing the broken connection it had - it's running well now.

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It's a solar-compensated timeswitch - much used in streetlighting up to around fifty years ago.

Once you set the time and the date, plus your selected on/off times, it will maintain those times in relation to the sunset/sunrise variations through the year, although you can set 'fixed' times, too.

This means that I can set the central hall light in the house to come on as darkness falls, and go off around 1am, as I do now, but it will adjust the 'on-time' accordingly through the year, all by itself.

It would need the time to be reset after a power cut, but that would be happening less than the six or eight times a year that I have to alter the 'on-time' now.

 
littleme

littleme

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The carer turned into electrician extraordinary today after the lights suddenly tripped last night for no obvious reason.

Bathroom pull light renewed & downstairs bathroom pendant replaced as water had got into it when the minime spilled water out of the bath.....
 
Gramaisc

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littleme said:
The carer turned into electrician extraordinary today after the lights suddenly tripped last night for no obvious reason.

Bathroom pull light renewed & downstairs bathroom pendant replaced as water had got into it when the minime spilled water out of the bath.....
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Thank goodness he had loads of electrical bits that hadn't been thrown away...
 
Mudgie

Mudgie

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Trumpet said:
Overnighter in St Albans.
Couple of beers by the fire in The Boot followed by dinner here
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Great food, service and atmosphere.
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My last visit to St Albans was just over five years ago, November 2018, with local resident Roger Protz leading several of us round ten of the best pubs including the Boot, but no time for dinner.
Then twenty minutes on the train and a night across the road from St Pancras station.
 
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