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On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 20:38:31 +0100, damduck-egg wrote:
There was a 19th century loco used on the line kept by the side of the road, a quick google shows it is destined for a museum in Canterbury, it left the roadside location sometime ago. I used to walk past it every morning; it was rusting near the Riding Gate on the edge of Dane John Gardens. No wooden cladding left. In 1980 it was restored at York Railway Museum (it was the original loco). It's in the Canterbury museum now, but there is a lovely scale replica (2/3 I think) in Whitstable museum. I was there a few weeks ago helping them with some material and memories on the tunnel collapse. -- My posts are my copyright and if @diy_forums or Home Owners' Hub wish to copy them they can pay me £1 a message. Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 21:21:50 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"James Wilkinson" wrote in message news On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:25:19 +0100, Bod wrote: On 23/09/2016 19:16, James Wilkinson wrote: On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:22:08 +0100, Bod wrote: On 23/09/2016 08:59, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 23/09/16 08:17, Bod wrote: Had our Dyson coming up to 13 years and still works as good as new. Well that's not a particularly high bar to clear is it? No, but it makes James Wilkinson's claim that they fall to bits not true. I know about 10 people locally with Dysons. 9 of them said they're **** and that important parts fell off or seized up (usually the motor or clutch fails catastrophically). The 1 that likes them has a husband who is constantly repairing it! I saw it once, it was covered in tape and clamps to hold it together. And it's only 4 years old. How strange that everyone here has had the opposite effect. I think all the people I know have kids and pets and use them a lot. But normal vacuums for a fifth of the price don't wear out like that. And it's you that's unusual: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3688983.stm "The Dyson vacuum cleaner - famous for its bagless technology - is the least reliable of all upright and cylinder brands, a consumer magazine has said. A quarter of 5,100 upright vacuum cleaner owners surveyed by Which? failed to give their Dyson an all-clear on performance after six years' use. Nearly a fifth of Dyson cylinder users also reported issues. Despite the problems, Dyson owners remain the most likely to recommend the machine to a friend, Which? reported." So like Apple users, they have lots of problems Far fewer problems than android users in fact. In spades with Samsung users. and just keep on coming back. Because they have fewer problems than the alternatives do. But when you spend three times as much replacing it.... Morons.... Corse you didn't end up with 4 dysons yourself, eh ? I got them free. If something is free I don't care how unreliable it is. -- In 1961, 87-year-old Harry Meadows, a resident at the Haslemere home for the elderly in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved late-in-life notoriety when he accidentally killed another 3 residents of his care home by dressing up as the grim reaper and peering through the residents' lounge window whilst holding a scythe. The year before Harry's performance, another resident of the same home, the then 81-year-old Gladys Elton, for reasons best known to herself, had conceived the idea of performing a striptease for her fellow residents of the home; unfortunately such was the effect of Elton's performance that it caused the death of one resident by way of a cardiac arrest and the treatment for shock of five other residents. |
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James Wilkinson wrote
Rod Speed wrote James Wilkinson wrote Bod wrote James Wilkinson wrote Bod wrote The Natural Philosopher wrote Bod wrote Had our Dyson coming up to 13 years and still works as good as new. Well that's not a particularly high bar to clear is it? No, but it makes James Wilkinson's claim that they fall to bits not true. I know about 10 people locally with Dysons. 9 of them said they're **** and that important parts fell off or seized up (usually the motor or clutch fails catastrophically). The 1 that likes them has a husband who is constantly repairing it! I saw it once, it was covered in tape and clamps to hold it together. And it's only 4 years old. How strange that everyone here has had the opposite effect. I think all the people I know have kids and pets and use them a lot. But normal vacuums for a fifth of the price don't wear out like that. And it's you that's unusual: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3688983.stm "The Dyson vacuum cleaner - famous for its bagless technology - is the least reliable of all upright and cylinder brands, a consumer magazine has said. A quarter of 5,100 upright vacuum cleaner owners surveyed by Which? failed to give their Dyson an all-clear on performance after six years' use. Nearly a fifth of Dyson cylinder users also reported issues. Despite the problems, Dyson owners remain the most likely to recommend the machine to a friend, Which? reported." So like Apple users, they have lots of problems Far fewer problems than android users in fact. In spades with Samsung users. and just keep on coming back. Because they have fewer problems than the alternatives do. But when you spend three times as much replacing it.... Nope, they are the same prices as the high end samsungs and their batterys don't burst into flames. Leave the other cheap crap for dead performance wise. Morons.... Corse you didn't end up with 4 dysons yourself, eh ? I got them free. If something is free I don't care how unreliable it is. Makes a lot more sense to get free much more reliable machines. |
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In article ,
Tim Streater wrote: In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Tim Streater wrote: Could be Tim simply lives in the sticks. A visit to a railway station being the highlight of his year. Why yes it is. Gosh Dave I'm impressed by your prescience: today I visited stations at Hythe, Dymchurch, New Romney, and Dungeness. Checking on our defences against all those nasty Europeans, I assume? Well you'll have to tell us Dave, since I don't know any nasty Europeans, unlike, apparently, you. Meaning you've been telling porkies in all the countless anti EU posts from you? Tomorrow my bro and his French wife pitch up here on their way to France. I'll let her know that there is some mad Scotsman called Dave with verbal diarrhoea who would appear to hate foreigners. I expect she'll mutter something about you getting back under your bridge. And Farage made a big point of having a German wife. As if that would pull the wool over anyone's eyes. -- *Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny? Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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En el artículo , S Viemeister
escribió: We have a DC01, bought about 19 years ago, still working well. Mine lasted about the same time. Had to chuck it when parts were no longer available (even s/h or pattern) -- (\_/) (='.'=) Bunny says: Windows 10? Nein danke! (")_(") |
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Tim Streater wrote: Meaning you've been telling porkies in all the countless anti EU posts from you? Nice try Dave, but as we all know the EU has nothing to do with European peoples. Of course not. Little England has nothing to do with people. Tomorrow my bro and his French wife pitch up here on their way to France. I'll let her know that there is some mad Scotsman called Dave with verbal diarrhoea who would appear to hate foreigners. I expect she'll mutter something about you getting back under your bridge. And Farage made a big point of having a German wife. As if that would pull the wool over anyone's eyes. You're still a mad Scotsman called Dave with verbal diarrhoea who would appear to hate foreigners. I'd not even call that a nice try. -- *Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them? Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On 25/09/16 18:22, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artÃ*culo , S Viemeister escribió: We have a DC01, bought about 19 years ago, still working well. Mine lasted about the same time. Had to chuck it when parts were no longer available (even s/h or pattern) VacsRus in Suffolk have a room full of dyson (s)crappers stripped and ready to refurb old Die soons. -- "I guess a rattlesnake ain't risponsible fer bein' a rattlesnake, but ah puts mah heel on um jess the same if'n I catches him around mah chillun". |
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On 25/09/16 18:57, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 25/09/16 18:22, Mike Tomlinson wrote: En el artÃ*culo , S Viemeister escribió: We have a DC01, bought about 19 years ago, still working well. Mine lasted about the same time. Had to chuck it when parts were no longer available (even s/h or pattern) VacsRus in Suffolk have a room full of dyson (s)crappers stripped and ready to refurb old Die soons. http://www.vacuumrepairsandsales.co.uk/ -- New Socialism consists essentially in being seen to have your heart in the right place whilst your head is in the clouds and your hand is in someone else's pocket. |
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On Friday, 23 September 2016 20:41:17 UTC+1, wrote:
Mine has rubbish suction after 10 years. You have a vacuum cleaner that sucks but not. I've taken almost all of it apart without finding anything amiss or bunged up. I CBA to take the motor assembly apart, everything else has been examined and found fine. Isn't that a recommendation? I doubt I'll get another, though Not that you need to for £20 I can't complain. Not that you need to |
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On Friday, 23 September 2016 21:06:01 UTC+1, James Wilkinson wrote:
I think all the people I know have kids and pets and use them a lot. But normal vacuums for a fifth of the price don't wear out like them. FTFY. |
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On Friday, 23 September 2016 22:43:54 UTC+1, Graeme wrote:
In message , Tim Streater writes In article , Graeme wrote: Perhaps it is just me, but 'the station' always means the railway station to me. Any other station requires qualification. But that because (I assume) you, like me, are an ordinary bod who normally has nothing to do with any other sort of station. Railway station most frequently, yes, but bus and police station too. As I hinted before, it's a question of context. Two coppers will be talking about the police station, two firemen about the fire station. If they mean any other sort of station then they'll qualify as needed. Agreed. All this is bleeding obvious. Well, yes, but if, for example, a pal said I'll meet you by the station, I would just assume railway station. Perhaps I shouldn't. Having said that, I have two pals who are police, and if they suggested meeting by the station, I would assume police station, but only because I know their occupations. I thought police used teh term 'factory' to describe their station. Well I think they did in the Bill about 20 years ago. |
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On Saturday, 24 September 2016 01:51:51 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 23/09/16 22:29, Graeme wrote: In message , whisky-dave writes On Friday, 23 September 2016 16:00:43 UTC+1, Graeme wrote: Perhaps it is just me, but 'the station' always means the railway station to me. Any other station requires qualification. David Bowie had an album called station to station maybe the drugs confused him too. Perhaps he had been playing trains with his mate Rod the Mod. I always assumed that the album title referred to radio stations. Really where did you get that idea. Unless you're radios recieved sounds like a steam train when tuning in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY77zDzNmYw |
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In article ,
Tim Streater wrote: In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Tim Streater wrote: Meaning you've been telling porkies in all the countless anti EU posts from you? Nice try Dave, but as we all know the EU has nothing to do with European peoples. Of course not. Little England has nothing to do with people. Nul points Dave. We were talking about the EU. Last thing you do is *talk* about the EU. Repeat anything you can find which shows it in a bad light, yes. -- *A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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In article ,
Tim Streater wrote: In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Tim Streater wrote: In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Tim Streater wrote: Meaning you've been telling porkies in all the countless anti EU posts from you? Nice try Dave, but as we all know the EU has nothing to do with European peoples. Of course not. Little England has nothing to do with people. Nul points Dave. We were talking about the EU. Last thing you do is *talk* about the EU. Repeat anything you can find which shows it in a bad light, yes. And that is "talking about the EU". QED. But, of course, you've not mentioned the pound dropping against the Euro today. -- *Lawyers believe a man is innocent until proven broke. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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En el artículo , The Natural Philosopher
escribió: VacsRus in Suffolk have a room full of dyson (s)crappers stripped and ready to refurb old Die soons. http://www.vacuumrepairsandsales.co.uk/ Thanks for the tip, bookmarked. There's a guy locally that refurbs them and sells them on. He took my old DC01 in partex and gave me a DC07 with the HEPA filter, serviced, filters, belt and clutch changed, looked new, for 40 quid. The colour is pretty vomitous, though. Purple?! But it works. For now. -- (\_/) (='.'=) Bunny says: Windows 10? Nein danke! (")_(") |
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On Friday, 23 September 2016 21:04:03 UTC+1, James Wilkinson wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:41:15 +0100, tabbypurr wrote: On Friday, 23 September 2016 19:16:22 UTC+1, James Wilkinson wrote: I know about 10 people locally with Dysons. 9 of them said they're **** and that important parts fell off or seized up (usually the motor or clutch fails catastrophically). The 1 that likes them has a husband who is constantly repairing it! I saw it once, it was covered in tape and clamps to hold it together. And it's only 4 years old. Mine has rubbish suction after 10 years. I've taken almost all of it apart without finding anything amiss or bunged up. I CBA to take the motor assembly apart, everything else has been examined and found fine. That happens to every vacuum and is a complete mystery to mankind. Normally it's sorted by a cleanout, especially the bag filter My Vax is 25 years old (nothing's broken except one of the brushes, which I replaced on Ebay for a fiver). But the suction isn't as good as I think it used to be, maybe my memory is at fault. I HAVE taken the motor apart, and everything looks fine. All the filters are clean etc aswell. I don't know why it would suck less. I assume motors can't get weaker with age? no I doubt I'll get another, though for £20 I can't complain. £20 for a Dyson? I had said I'd never get one, but at that price I went for it. It has disappointed on suction, and is excessively heavy, but manouvres well. NT |
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wrote in message ... On Friday, 23 September 2016 21:04:03 UTC+1, James Wilkinson wrote: On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:41:15 +0100, tabbypurr wrote: On Friday, 23 September 2016 19:16:22 UTC+1, James Wilkinson wrote: I know about 10 people locally with Dysons. 9 of them said they're **** and that important parts fell off or seized up (usually the motor or clutch fails catastrophically). The 1 that likes them has a husband who is constantly repairing it! I saw it once, it was covered in tape and clamps to hold it together. And it's only 4 years old. Mine has rubbish suction after 10 years. I've taken almost all of it apart without finding anything amiss or bunged up. I CBA to take the motor assembly apart, everything else has been examined and found fine. That happens to every vacuum and is a complete mystery to mankind. Normally it's sorted by a cleanout, especially the bag filter My Vax is 25 years old (nothing's broken except one of the brushes, which I replaced on Ebay for a fiver). But the suction isn't as good as I think it used to be, maybe my memory is at fault. I HAVE taken the motor apart, and everything looks fine. All the filters are clean etc aswell. I don't know why it would suck less. I assume motors can't get weaker with age? no I doubt I'll get another, though for £20 I can't complain. £20 for a Dyson? I had said I'd never get one, but at that price I went for it. It has disappointed on suction, and is excessively heavy, but manouvres well. I wish my other half would actually use the friggin thing |
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