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Specmaster:

--- Quote from: xrunner on July 15, 2022, 04:35:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: Neper on July 15, 2022, 04:32:59 pm ---Enough already!

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I agree. All that arguing is why I don't post nearly as much as I used to. I have better things to do. I've been waiting to post an update but not until that crap dies down.


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Well I hope you won't mind if I say that is just plain silly, because failing to post your updates, news etc., is just highlighting their petty little spat / feud even more by not giving other members something more interesting to read, infact the lack of posts about any other topic just gives a bigger platform to the little petty rows, more likely the direct result of the unusual heat many of us are having to endure.

I think it comes down to many of us not really reading the posts fully, to really understand what the other person is trying to say. I can put my hand upto that myself and I think that my fellow sparring partner on here can do the same, but the big difference is that we are both grown up enough to put on our big boy pants and move on.

I hold both warring factions in high regard, they are as far as I'm concerned friends and have much to offer to each and every other member on this thread and the wider forum. I have attempted both publicly here and also by way PM's to defuse the situation. I'm also aware that at least one other member has also PM'd one of these two supporting him and blaming the other and to that I say those members really ought to be self-critical here and search their souls to make sure that they are really as squeaky clean as they make out they are. My mum taught me the old proverb, "people in glasshouses really should not throw stones" and that is a motto that I try and abide by, so please can I by way of this post please ask those two members to shake hands and resume normal service again, please.

AVGresponding:

--- Quote from: Robert763 on July 15, 2022, 07:54:48 pm ---And just because I don't need another 51/2 digit DMM I just had a offer on a Keithley 199 System DMM accepted...
The 199 is a smaller highspeed "brown" Keithley with large LED display.

TE incoming........

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*angrily shakes fist*   :rant:

*remembers the state of his bank account*   :phew:

Specmaster:

--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 15, 2022, 06:08:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: xrunner on July 15, 2022, 06:02:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 15, 2022, 05:56:37 pm ---That looks excellent. Nice job  :-+

Also thanks for noting the existence of clear laser printer labels. I had no idea they existed!

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Thanks. I didn't know either but I got them last year from an Ebay seller for a project in another hobby. I wish knew the original supplier name but all I got was a paper mail pack with 10 sheets in it (no manufacturer name). But yea it's a good thing to have in your tool chest, regarding restorations anyway.

I actually ran that sheet through the laser printer more than once and it didn't harm it.


--- Quote from: Cubdriver on July 15, 2022, 05:59:48 pm ---xrunner, that looks great!  Beautifully done.  Mine is in acceptable shape, but I'll keep the label offer in mind should the need arise in the future - thanks!

-Pat

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I'll keep them in my hp spares box here.  :-+

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Looks like you can get them for inkjets too, and they aren't expensive. The durability of the print may be a different matter however... though I suppose you could always put an extra layer of clear over the top to laminate it.

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Yep, I think you would have to do that, especially with an inkjet label, for sure.

m k:
Poster board adhesive sheet, what's a correct name.

There are or used to be sheets with one and three layers.
Single layer is just some glue between silicon papers when three layered has a film as a base.

Specmaster:
A quick update on the state of my new bathroom fit out. Day 1, the old fittings and tiles, ripped out by the builders. Day 2,  new bath suite fitted and new plumbing done by the plumber, new light and extractor installed by electricians and cable pulled to the new shower location (waiting on the shower to be fitted at the end). Day 3 and 4, nothing happened, no one turned, apparently the tiler was supposed to be coming but had Covid, they have hired another tiler but is trying to catch up with the backlog of jobs. Day 5, painter turned and decorated the areas that aren't going to be tiled, tiling should have been done before painting but new tiler, still playing catch up.

Day 6, I had a message while I was at RIAT, Fairford to say nobody would be arriving, both tilers, the painter and the floor layer all had caught covid, yikes. It is now looking like we will continue with a unfinished bathroom for at least another week while these people isolate themselves  :palm:

What I find so amazing about all of this is that still covid is not even being seen as a concern or talked about by the Government, they are still not even making testing kits free, so the virus will remain at large as many people cannot afford to test themselves.

To add insult to injury, the painter has done such a crap job that we are going to have to do it again ourselves. Paint is already peeling off the skirting board, in places, the old paint is visible through the 2 coats of new paint  :palm: In other areas, like window sill, old marks can clearly be seen coming through the new paint. That is what you get when housing associations and local authorities continue to go for the cheapest tenders all the time. Things like that would not have happened when they all had their own labour forces, but compulsory competitive tendering being introduced changed all of that, but I'll spare you all the politics bit of it.

So the big question now is, how long will it be before we can get it all completed so we can fit a shower screen and new cabinets etc, and the icing on the cake, it seems that the electricians have somehow managed the solar installation so  now the RCCD on the solar array pops out all the time, so we are having to pay top price for the power during the daytime  :palm: :scared:

 

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