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  1. I am still here ,been busy in the garden ,moaning the compost I bought has killed everything it's touched (poxy peat free crap) but on a new tablet and the layout is different so don't see the AN link that used to be first in line .

    Lovely someone misses me ,thanks for that ,Dave

  2. AH got you ,looks like we have more in common than I thought lol

    Not my type of music but I see the reference now .my grandson voice has changed so more gruffer ,thinking about it sounds like boys going through puberty which I guess is what's happening in 'his' case .hopefully there's no regrets down the line once the bottom lots changed out . Life's strange lol

    Good luck to your grandson 

  3. When it gets to number 1 I can proudly say I partly know somebody who partly knows somebody related to the singer .

    Little confused over "he's being hailed the next Adele" isn't Adele a girl ? Or is he like my granddaughter who now is almost my grandson (a bit more nature destruction and shims there) I am as confused as youth are today .I sang in the the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14? Not so much confusion back them lol

    AH I did get confused you are the grandfather ,nothing wrong with pride 

    Googling shows Adele was born a girl are you related to the beegees I can't see the route to Adele ? Forgive my thickness I was born with double the amount than normal .

    Not deliberately being rude but why Adele and not cliff Richard or Tom Jones ? ( It's going to be obvious I know but I didn't spot it)

  4. Seems the old timers are dead or half dead .I was very poorly on that damned Metformin and hardly left the house for a year (thinking about it was over two years) (yes if I went out I had plastic pants but found not eating the day before helped most) I got off those Then I had (or was happening all the time)problems with Warfarin ,they worked fine but you bruised so easily so they did thin the blood! But I couldnt go to the constant almost weekly tests at £30 guide a shot as for my early problem I could only go by taxi so I got prescribed a lesser drug rivaroxiban ,no idea if they work there's no tests to see if they are you just accept they are .

    Then to confuse the symptoms I had severe pain in my muscles and joints and thought about Sportman and his problems with Statins I asked the doc for alternatives and started to try every bloody statin out there rather than just except with me statin = pain (extreme pain like someone pushing their knuckles into you ) .must have been 5 or 6 types

    I started on it got pains ,came off them after a week they went away but to make sure it was them and not my head repeated it more than once so after a year then doc finally relented and prescribed something else and have almost been pain free since I get more aches than pains now due to laziness and occasional effort for a few hours at a time now the big shiny yellow ball is back.

    I will wander down the river to get my disappointment there's nothing but trout and streamer weed unfortunately My best stretch was sold and the old owner moved and I have no idea who owns it now ,not worth finding out even for the £7 or whatever it is to look it's so neglected there's hardly 10 yards of gap to chuck in a bread fly . The other stretches were decimated by cormerants I visited several times last year (with several bog rolls wet wipes and a change of dress)and only caught trout and saw crayfish so I guess my fishings days are over aswell .

    As cleverer people have said doctors don't prescribe 100% great drugs they simply treat the side effects of problems and introduce more ,and no-one ever mentions if that handful of drugs you just took are mixing up more drugs in your stomach making it all worse ,you just hope the drugs side effects are less than the medical problems side effects your taking them for .

    My biggest fear is prostrate cancer I had the high bps for years and am on two drugs to shrink the prostrate (they do little!) all the consultant wants to do is scrape the inside of my eurethra but I want the gland removed completely and he refuses scraping will never stop cancer he wants to fix the side effects not the potential problem .

  5. I wouldn't trust chatgpt to do anything ,it just trawls the net and hopes any answers are factual as it cannot do anything other than that ,if 50% or more says it's right then it will say that's fact even if it's not .I asked it what the first intrepid reel was ,it was wrong because it's not AI it's a net trawler 

    I entered what was the first k p morritt reel ,it failed to do anything because I haven't put the answer out there for it to use .It's nothing more than a search engine that hopes to provide what your looking for .If it fails to answer or gives the wrong answer it's not smart or AI it's broken or in human terms lying no matter how it replied.You can wrap a turd in shiny gold paper but when you open it it's still a turd

  6. Can't say I have ever done more than a quick paddle in warm water and some of my tackle is ancient .

    I don't like sprays it could taint the reel so you taint your bait when you use your reel .Not sure about bicarb it's alkaline as is salt water so it's not countering the salt and I know nothing counters bait orders even febreze is in fear of them

    Plastic reels are pretty immune ,chrome is attacked from behind and stainless depends on the type and quality of stainless so if salt water doesn't get inside to Ali components reels are pretty robust to the elements .Sand is your enemy especially if it finds grease to hide in .

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  7. Brilliant it's nice when you can fix something Rather than chucking it .There's replacements out there but you need the time and the exact search term to find them .Some Chinese company will be knocking them out by the million for something totally unrelated you just have to use the phrase to describe them like they are using .

    I was looking for for something or other for months without success using searches for what I thought it was called then Spotted something very similar on a web page image search and searched what they called it and there it was ,cant remember what it was I spend many hours looking for something I need like a plug that goes a different angle than the norm for what I am trying to make and am puzzled why it's only me looking for it !

    AH I remember I have been experimenting using a 18650 welding machine trying to turn it into a jewellery welder but needed to make a new finer annode I I made one from a Tig welder head with a 1mm tungsten rod but needed to make the output leads removable as the fitted ones were soldered to the PCB .Looked for hours for some sort of chassis connector that could take 8 guage wire without success nothing I found could handle the amps then it was there under my nose the fitting used for welders (told you it was under my nose) so have bought a set from AliExpress and waiting for them to arrive I was going through page after page of connectors but they didn't pop up using the search terms I was using DOH

  8. Told this story before ,I was fishing down Folkestone warren (sea fishing the ponds long gone) A local (I spotted him on his bike earlier from the campsite we were camping on as I looked at the state of the tide)  walked over from the next spot who I had noticed kept recasting every few minutes but didn't appear to be using lures etc.

    What bait are you using mate he says noticing me unhooking a dreaded dog fish .
    "Lug and squid on this rod " I said

    "OH" he says" you want to try these they're great down here"

    Obviously the fact I was considerably older than him and had fished down there longer than he lived didn't occur to him,he obviously thought I was a newbie or gullible ?

    "What is this miracle bait " I asked

    He held out a crumpled bag of those haribo sour worm things "bloody brilliant" he says

    "How much have you caught "I asked

    "Nothing ,not a bite " he said

    I didn't bother to question the logic behind his life choices and just said OK thanks for the advise

    He went back to his spot ,casted every few minutes no doubt to replace his miracle bait that's dissolved into nothing then left just as it started to get dark which of course is the best time to start unless your lure fishing down there .Perhaps he found a better use for them like eating them just like I would .

    So just like the topic in question everything is viable in "artificial" baits and like the chaps choice so long ago I have only ever caught using artificial "grubs" when your throwing real maggots around the hooked artificial ,I presume they work in the rush to grab the offerings or are accidentally hoovered up by bottom feeders feeding on maggots on the bottom .As an alone bait I have caught nothing on them and I have tried many in desperation on those hot sticky days when nothing else works .Never understood fake worms though they don't wriggle and the real version are under your feet or a rotten branch .

    Not saying they don't work but I think it's unusual they do and not the first thing that pops into my head when bread is on the list which I have found catches everything inc predators no doubt grabbing it as a involitary response to something moving in the corner of their eye

    Not saying maties miracle bait hasn't worked either I have caught fish on bare hooks when they were gold plated and sparkled in the water but as a regular bait that's worked regularly I much doubt it.

    Artificial baits are a moot point flies work great when your fly fishing but stick one under a float and all changes ,I think your "artificial" has to show a semblance of reality to work ,artificial worms and maggots don't wriggle but nor do dead ones or real or fake casters so there's something fish sense we don't that determines if you catch I think ,perhaps what looks real to us isn't that real to fish

    Take mackerel feathers for instance ,cast them in and your lucky to catch ,jiggle them about and your catching ,both exactly the same thing but acting differently ,acting more naturally looking like what the fish expect them to look like

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  9. Or just lazy bastards like me

    We have 3 freezers and a fridge and for years have been trying to monitor them as over the years we have lost food because either someone has inadvertently turned them off or simply they died for some reason .Of course regarding the fridge it's best to keep the contents in a very narrow band about 3-5 degrees to keep Mr food poisoning at bay (been there !)

    Tried about every thermometer out there the best (until now) was one that had two sensors that were ok but ate lithium batteries they reported to a module on the wall that beeped if the temperature went above the temp you programmed it to .(We set it at -10 so it didn't have a fit overtime we opened the door)

    But as I said we have 4 chillers and ones in a shed the other is the fridge so we ended up with 2 separate beep buggers that had probes going into them on a wire .

    BUT that's now been solved and Alexa can tell you the temperature when you ask or tells you if it's above the temp you want if you set up a routine .

    Unfortunately the sensors need a hub

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BC6KN2DK?ref=nb_sb_ss_w_as-reorder_k0_1_8&amp=&crid=PQ805QMI10BP&amp=&sprefix=tapo+hub

    But the thermometers themselves despite not being advertised as working in freezers work very well .We also use them in the garden and greenhouse and the other version with a display in the living room .

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Tapo-T310-Installation-Notifications/dp/B0BJ28DJ7W/ref=sr_1_7?crid=209ZMWJL8XYD5&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uzq2_si69ivB16Te1_BKBsCAc_-pj8XVavGqsEs87borhIov-rdhWiicag2HzKBBrurkpMvIOVQxrrI_ZMAm86qR6D1WcWmmxB7As3vORMTDLehHk5po9oQa9sk9Jd0say_YcQ6T25d9DM8DhZTljD6WPxdFETC7oZi0X2RWbUFy6BoxVN5oZckkmgk1Hg03IWOuVEpCnXFslYU_e-fIQBnLQxpG_B0Z79LEw_9P67fg7tabbk-o_st9GLy0UxJTJE9CT641YczvrI-1iAUSU_c9qnHo6CNgec0pUXmRC4k.EnLKjOTW5jZ-bkBEcsDlTr6ULE4S7YI3cA7dI5Dbe28&dib_tag=se&keywords=tapo+thermometer+wifi&qid=1748088564&sprefix=tapo+thermom%2Caps%2C115&sr=8-7

    We also have a tapo leak sensor under the water filter incase that springs a leak (without a pressure regulator the water pressure at night used to split 10" water filter canisters so Rather not take the risk anymore .

    Not sponsored by tapo I wish I was they sell some juicy tech but if it works it works .Worried about the shed freezer sensor it's away from where the hub is in the kitchen but touch wood it's working so the range seems great .

    Just to make sure they were ok I put each sensor with a moisture bag in a vacuum seal food bag and double sealed them, to date all are working the battery life is far longer than the old sensors that used AA lithium batteries that are not cheap.

    Another great thing is the hub has lots of alarm sounds you can trigger with the App which annoys the Mrs whens she's doing wife stuff in the kitchen but restrict you fun if she's using a deep fat fryer you may end up on the couch whilst she's on a trolley in the hospital corridor with 90 % burns

    Another feature I just remembered is the sensors log the temperature in a graph so you can see if the temp rises to much on a hot day which will be great for the shed one as the shed gets very hot in the sun ,leaving the door open is ok when the sun's not hitting the freezer perhaps I should improve the air flow to the freezer from outside but being that awful feather edge cutting a hole for a vent isn't easy ,perhaps in the autumn when I run the network cable up there

  10. There's an explosive part on the rear of the nail . It's very gunlike with a firing pin but instead of pulling a trigger you press the whole gun forward which compresses a spring which once compressed springs forwards driving the firing pin into the rear of the nail triggering the bang .As I said not sure how they are legal with modding you could shoot that pin like a bullet (I presume err allegedly) no barrel as such so wouldn't be accurate but I am sure gifted chaps could remove the washer and "de restrict " it

    Lots of YouTube vids

    There not a obviously percussive cap iwith a firing pin t's just a plastic ? Tube on the nail but it sure acts like a cartridge ,you clear what's left of the explosive bit by pulling the front tube that holds the nail backwards so it's every similar to a crude slamfire device .very powerful for most DiY uses

    https://youtube.com/shorts/aUFRS2Ot9IY?si=var1YFKPaaSWrMi0

  11. About the same as Amazon on the standard nails and no next day . Technically as an explosive an over zelouse border force guy sick of bowing to immigrants and waving them in could just bin them in customs or worse send the squad round to investigate incase you have faarrr right leanings and you are nailing those Faarrr right symbols the St George flag to your soffits as a sign of rebellion

    A warning about my warning the nails are naff they (as I mentioned earlier) should be barbed ,I just hung a hanging basket on a hanger where I nailed the top hole and screwed the bottom (the hanger is in a difficult place as you have to bend dangerously forward over a large storage box we have that cannot support 'big boned' chesters1 so your on a stool reaching the post top hence using the nail to get it in position in the first place  )

    It's not one of my 45cm baskets just a little diddy one ,the nail popped out as soon as it took the weight luckily the lower screw held it up until I could take the basket off  . Will have to rethink the hanger and definitely use the nails in more suited areas that don't have any weight applied to them in future

    As Ant mentioned earlier the "uses" of this are slowly diminishing they are noisy so nailing your baby to the wall to stop it walking wakes it up ,you would blow apart any thin wood unless you wasted lots setting the "gears" 🤣 to short for construction work, to long to pin a note to your fridge .No doubt it will get used ...one day

    PS the armoured cable is still in place ,know where you can buy reddish black filler to hide the split bricks on the blown one

  12. I noticed that on temu  otherwise I would've bought from there .I wanted the bolts and they are twice the price of the nails so I bought the Amazon one because it came with both and far easier to return if the bolts weren't what I expected .

    The nails could be longer and perhaps barbed to hold in tighter but for the price even from Amazon worth the gamble .The same as you now I have used it for the cable and 5 bolts where it will be used again I don't know but that's the same with most speciality tools they do a job then sit and wait for the next one ......perhaps fitting the lid to my coffin who knows

    I highly recommend using face covering at least going by the two marks in my arm had that been my eyes I wouldn't be typing now so my eye protection was first on doing the second job followed by my welding jacket which is heavyweight material just in case both ear plugs and glasses were provided in the box but of low quality but it's fricking sleeves they left out lol

    As for Temu not that much cheaper than the cheapest on Amazon and no next day so not so much incentive .the white or Rather non coloured nails are much louder than the ones that came with my tool ,I took bought the cheapest on Amazon lol

    The stainless pipe clips with nail are out there but I just bought 10 stainless single hole clips Rather than the pukka versions .I do recommend the bolts I bought the same nails as you when I bought the err gun but waited to see how the bolts held up and ordered them once I tried them ,twice the price but twice as useful

    PS I stored the bangy bits in a airtight plastic box with a 50g moisture absorber in it to make sure if I needed it again the chances of it working was there in the future for when the zombie apocalypse happened but fettling would be needed if they weren't 10 seconds apart

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  13. I used it yesterday to refix an armoured cable to my wall ,the original plastic fixings were getting cracks .You can get single hole clamps and position the nail in the center of the brick I think using the two hole versions would split the brick .

    Boy it's loud lol

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  14. Just bought one of these ,be very careful if you use them I used this one

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DD3HGGTF?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_2&th=1

    And it works as it should but foolishly I was wearing a long sleeve T shirt and as it fired I felt a sting like pain in my forearm (not the one with the toy but another one I have that was holding the bracket I was nailing) I seemed to have been hit by shrapnel from the nail ?

    Two tiny marks which then proceeded to bleed prefusedly due to being on blood thinners so much so I had to get a cold drink from the fridge whilst my Mrs applied plasters .

    They work ok I blew out a couple of bricks probably because I had it full force (you have to unscrew a screw or two so some of the blast doesn't hit the nail end and vents sideways)

    Not to sure how long before they get banned there's no safety device and after buying I spotted an YouTube vid of one being used to despatch a water buffalo so non DiY uses have been found .I bought more bolts (they are very useful) just incase the government banned them and they became impossible to get .There is mention of "silencer" in the instructions a bit of a laugh they are so noisy I thought firearms police would be knocking my door down they are a gun after all and sound like one.

    Not sure what two of the things are in the spares box do they appear to be threaded and fit the end but as we know Chinese instructions are sparse if indeed included and are usually in Chinglish which doesn't help ,"gears" means settings in both this and 18650 battery welders 🥴 In this case 5 gears means all the little screws are left in place and it's full power ,5 screws = 5 gears🤣

    Just occured to me I saw the Lock picking lawyer use a similar device to open padlocks he called it a ramset whether it's the same thing I don't know

    Edit not exactly the same the ramset uses a .22 cartridge to shoot the nail this one has the charge attached to the nail itself so cannot be used in the way he did

     

  15.   On 4/20/2025 at 6:28 PM, Martin56 said:

    Hi Dave, you can get Expanding Bands from Aldi/Lidl which do just that as the Stems grow thicker. You get Loads in a pack for a couple of Quid. I watch, "Weekend Shed Head" channel on YT.

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    The ones supplied (20 rolls so will see me out) seem ok ,they should break if the stems get to thick and by then the plants branches will be supporting the main stem on the cross canes .I start with a 4 pole pyramid then join all 8 plants together lenghtwise then front to back .This lets me put hooks on each fruiting stem supporting the weight from the cross cane above

    Seen this shed guy hes a little overenthusiastic for my taste but his shed is better than mine i cannot see my bench i have more stuff that can fit ,you move something and theres no where to put it down again .

    Lidl stuff is ok and fairly priced but its a grocers not a tool merchants so have little idea what they actually sell customer service is a joke they didnt even know their rechargeable 9v batteries were actuallly 7.2v and in a machine that thinks 8.5v batteries are dead disapointing

    Another time a glue gun was advertised as working unplugged with a internal battery .It didnt so i told them and they insisted it did so i stripped it down and sent them a picture of the thing and told them to point out the battery .All went quiet so i did it 3 times their response was " misunderstanding the makers instructions translation" and i can return it ,no recal, no change of the advertising ,no appologies for lying to the world

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  16. I recon an aspidistra would be easy eith death by dryness or bog .Unlike myself she has no regime so things suffer .A goldfishes memory (actually they have ok memories) due to her epilepsy don't help .I program most important things by Alexa (my memory is fading fast) the day before but she just forgets lol

    Love Alexa we have Alexa enabled stuff in every room and two sheds if something pops in my head i tell it to remind me because i know by experience going to write it down will be forgotten in seconds .Its also great on calenders it will tell me at set times before an event ,a week before so great for sending cards and the day before etc it will also keep reminding you every hour until you tell it to stop ,great for when something crops up and you forget after it reminds you at x time

    Not only am i a serial collector i am a serial planner ,sad chesters1 dont ask how long i research stuff before buying it

    That reminds me i got some date palms from seed last year ,no sign of them i guess they died under her care i had forgotten about them i grew several

     

  17. Yes they are the original version ,i just use the cheap granules in 1 ltr tubs aswell as a sprinkle of water retension crystals.

    I had problems over the years with blossom emd rot on one particular but very tasty tomato so i started using a expensive feed including calcium which countered it to a certain aspect but its stupidly expensive so this year i added a tablespoon of garden lime to each bucket (i grow my toms in builders buckets which sit in gravel trays full of water to stop splitting ) hopefully back to basics will be ok .

    Hopefully this year will be better than last and i can curse the sun vs the rain

    Not got any living potted houseplants my mrs easily kills spider planst and those chip shop succulants so anything else has no chance

     

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