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After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Ian Stirling wrote: After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the flex for the concrete mixer goes through them. Is that *before* or *after* the concrete has set? g -- Cheers, Roger ______ Email address maintained for newsgroup use only, and not regularly monitored.. Messages sent to it may not be read for several weeks. PLEASE REPLY TO NEWSGROUP! |
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On 14 Apr 2006 16:20:08 GMT, Ian Stirling wrote:
After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the flex for the concrete mixer goes through them. I assume your mixer now needs a new flex. -- Nigel M |
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Roger Mills wrote:
In an earlier contribution to this discussion, Ian Stirling wrote: After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the flex for the concrete mixer goes through them. Is that *before* or *after* the concrete has set? g Thankfully, before. Last look round the site, to see if there was anything else I needed to do. |
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Ian Stirling wrote:
After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the flex for the concrete mixer goes through them. LOL you too ? |
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![]() "Ian Stirling" wrote in message ... After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the flex for the concrete mixer goes through them. I predict a long thread ... Mary |
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Ian Stirling wrote:
After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the flex for the concrete mixer goes through them. Lol. Well done! My last mistake was designing a piece of wood to go where there was already another bit, and no neither could be removed or omitted. Quite tame. NT |
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 08:44:18 GMT, Peter Lynch had
this to say: On 2006-04-15, wrote: Ian Stirling wrote: After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the flex for the concrete mixer goes through them. Lol. Well done! My last mistake was designing a piece of wood to go where there was already another bit, and no neither could be removed or omitted. Quite tame. NT When you've cut out a particularly intricate piece of lining paper to go around an obstruction, apply paste to the correct side. Or when you've designed and etched a printed circuit board with the IC pins the wrong way round, so that you have to bend all the pins the other way up. -- Frank Erskine |
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Peter Lynch wrote: On 2006-04-15, wrote: Ian Stirling wrote: After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the flex for the concrete mixer goes through them. Lol. Well done! My last mistake was designing a piece of wood to go where there was already another bit, and no neither could be removed or omitted. Quite tame. NT When you've cut out a particularly intricate piece of lining paper to go around an obstruction, apply paste to the correct side. Write 'PASTE' in big letters on the appropriate side :-) Likewise mark the scrap side when you're marking a cut in sheet material so you don't forget which side of the line you're supposed to be cutting to. |
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John Kelly wrote:
In article , l says... On 2006-04-15, wrote: Ian Stirling wrote: After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the flex for the concrete mixer goes through them. Lol. Well done! My last mistake was designing a piece of wood to go where there was already another bit, and no neither could be removed or omitted. Quite tame. When you've cut out a particularly intricate piece of lining paper to go around an obstruction, apply paste to the correct side. Or when you carefully cut a tile to fix around an awkward part of the sink discover you've cut it from the wrong side. Oh you do not know how this has cheered me up! I thought I was the only stupid D-I-Yer! -- Please do not reply to this Email address, as all Emails are deleted before opened. |
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![]() Or when you've designed and etched a printed circuit board with the IC pins the wrong way round, so that you have to bend all the pins the other way up. Or years ago, built a ZX81 on the wrong side of the pcb !! Dave |
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Ian Stirling wrote:
After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the flex for the concrete mixer goes through them. Thats easy. Cut the flex and leave it for 'time team 3000' and fit new flex. |
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Frank Erskine wrote:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 08:44:18 GMT, Peter Lynch had this to say: On 2006-04-15, wrote: Ian Stirling wrote: After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the flex for the concrete mixer goes through them. Lol. Well done! My last mistake was designing a piece of wood to go where there was already another bit, and no neither could be removed or omitted. Quite tame. NT When you've cut out a particularly intricate piece of lining paper to go around an obstruction, apply paste to the correct side. Or when you've designed and etched a printed circuit board with the IC pins the wrong way round, so that you have to bend all the pins the other way up. Ah,,thats like the classic mistake in model aircraft construction..two left wings... My last mistake was in not realising that on a mains pressurised water system, although turning the mains off stops the water...flushing a toilet and allowing the ball valve to open will result in a loss of vaccuum and scalding hot water gushing out of the hot water pipe you have just cut off to add a new bit onto..until the tank drains down a bit too.. |
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Dave Stanton wrote:
Or when you've designed and etched a printed circuit board with the IC pins the wrong way round, so that you have to bend all the pins the other way up. Or years ago, built a ZX81 on the wrong side of the pcb !! Dave Actually the thing that gets me is the recursive installation problem. I need to install the tiles to put in the basin to establish the vanity unit height in order to be able to accurately cut the piece of MDF that sits behind the basin covering the pipes and which has to go in before the tiles are laid... |
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![]() Actually the thing that gets me is the recursive installation problem. I need to install the tiles to put in the basin to establish the vanity unit height in order to be able to accurately cut the piece of MDF that sits behind the basin covering the pipes and which has to go in before the tiles are laid... LOL |
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![]() The Natural Philosopher wrote: Actually the thing that gets me is the recursive installation problem. Is that not just a loop, instead of "recursive"? Mungo |
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![]() "The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message ... Dave Stanton wrote: Or when you've designed and etched a printed circuit board with the IC pins the wrong way round, so that you have to bend all the pins the other way up. Or years ago, built a ZX81 on the wrong side of the pcb !! Dave Actually the thing that gets me is the recursive installation problem. I need to install the tiles to put in the basin to establish the vanity unit height in order to be able to accurately cut the piece of MDF that sits behind the basin covering the pipes and which has to go in before the tiles are laid... That sort of thing happens far too often for comfort :-( Mary |
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![]() "The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message ... Dave Stanton wrote: Or when you've designed and etched a printed circuit board with the IC pins the wrong way round, so that you have to bend all the pins the other way up. Or years ago, built a ZX81 on the wrong side of the pcb !! Dave Actually the thing that gets me is the recursive installation problem. I need to install the tiles to put in the basin to establish the vanity unit height in order to be able to accurately cut the piece of MDF that sits behind the basin covering the pipes and which has to go in before the tiles are laid... To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. ETV |
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![]() "Eric The Viking" wrote in message news:444217d7.0@entanet... "The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message ... Dave Stanton wrote: Or when you've designed and etched a printed circuit board with the IC pins the wrong way round, so that you have to bend all the pins the other way up. Or years ago, built a ZX81 on the wrong side of the pcb !! Dave Actually the thing that gets me is the recursive installation problem. I need to install the tiles to put in the basin to establish the vanity unit height in order to be able to accurately cut the piece of MDF that sits behind the basin covering the pipes and which has to go in before the tiles are laid... To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. Ah! I'll remember that if I don't forget it. Mary ETV |
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In article 444217d7.0@entanet,
"Eric The Viking" writes: To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. Recursion: to curse and curse again... -- Andrew Gabriel |
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On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 05:52:48 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote: Dave Stanton wrote: Or when you've designed and etched a printed circuit board with the IC pins the wrong way round, so that you have to bend all the pins the other way up. Or years ago, built a ZX81 on the wrong side of the pcb !! Dave Actually the thing that gets me is the recursive installation problem. I need to install the tiles to put in the basin to establish the vanity unit height in order to be able to accurately cut the piece of MDF that sits behind the basin covering the pipes and which has to go in before the tiles are laid... What about the proof that death never occours, its said that at the end, your whole life flashes in front of you, including of cource the flash, so at the end of the 1st flash, you see the 2nd, which contains the 3rd etc etc ......... Rick |
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Mungo wrote: The Natural Philosopher wrote: Actually the thing that gets me is the recursive installation problem. Is that not just a loop, instead of "recursive"? No, because you have to do something before you can do it - in a loop you'd just do it over and over. |
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Or...in the days before they invented 'Tile edging strip '; set up your
circular- saw bench with a stone cutting disc, mitre ALL of your external corner tiles so as to provide a neat edge. THEN realise you have mitred for an internal corner not an external one. AND ...since they were all cut to size they were no use for anywhere else....Whoops -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Ian Stirling wrote: After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the flex for the concrete mixer goes through them. Thats easy. Cut the flex and leave it for 'time team 3000' and fit new flex. reckon thats what I'd have done. Whatever you were building needed mains power. NT |
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On 14 Apr 2006 16:20:08 GMT, Ian Stirling
wrote: After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the flex for the concrete mixer goes through them. After accidentally vacuuming up a vital and unique screw, do not put it in your holed shorts pocket after carefully going through the dustbag in the garden. Then having found the screw after ages spent on hands and knees in the dirt, remember to put a new bag in the vacuum ready for use next time. Also when throwing out the old bag and not replacing it with a new one, remember to retain the bag holder for when it's needed a few weeks later.... cheers, Pete. |
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When your strimmer starts to emit clouds of smoke and stop working,
switch off the mains BEFORE cutting the wire off with a pair of scissors... |
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Rob Morley wrote:
In article . com Mungo wrote: The Natural Philosopher wrote: Actually the thing that gets me is the recursive installation problem. Is that not just a loop, instead of "recursive"? No, because you have to do something before you can do it - in a loop you'd just do it over and over. not necessarily. if tai recursive then it's equivalent to a loop. -- David Clark http://www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk $replyto = 'an.rnser.is.reqird' |
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Pete C wrote:
After accidentally vacuuming up a vital and unique screw, do not put it in your holed shorts pocket after carefully going through the dustbag in the garden. Then having found the screw after ages spent on hands and knees in the dirt, remember to put a new bag in the vacuum ready for use next time. Also when throwing out the old bag and not replacing it with a new one, remember to retain the bag holder for when it's needed a few weeks later.... Not your best of all days, was it? -- Ian White |
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![]() "DJC" wrote in message . uk... Rob Morley wrote: In article . com Mungo wrote: The Natural Philosopher wrote: Actually the thing that gets me is the recursive installation problem. Is that not just a loop, instead of "recursive"? No, because you have to do something before you can do it - in a loop you'd just do it over and over. not necessarily. if tai recursive then it's equivalent to a loop. -- Recursion and looping are different. Looping is where you just repeat the same thing over and over again. Recursion is where the thing you are doing causes the thing you are doing to happen. ....however I am unable to determine whether this part of the discussion is recursive, or is just becoming repetitive;-) ETV |
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![]() Rob Morley wrote: In article . com Mungo wrote: The Natural Philosopher wrote: Actually the thing that gets me is the recursive installation problem. Is that not just a loop, instead of "recursive"? No, because you have to do something before you can do it - in a loop you'd just do it over and over. Hmmm... sounds like a circular dependency chain, hence a "loop". Mungo |
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![]() "Mungo" wrote in message oups.com... Rob Morley wrote: In article . com Mungo wrote: The Natural Philosopher wrote: Actually the thing that gets me is the recursive installation problem. Is that not just a loop, instead of "recursive"? No, because you have to do something before you can do it - in a loop you'd just do it over and over. Hmmm... sounds like a circular dependency chain, hence a "loop". Mungo A loop is when you repeat the same sequence of things until the job is done, the tiling issue was more like a chicken and egg problem which is kind of recursive. ETV |
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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article 444217d7.0@entanet, "Eric The Viking" writes: To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. Recursion: to curse and curse again... That sounds more like it. Twas on the monday morning that the gas man came to call.. |
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![]() "Eric The Viking" wrote in message news:4442b018.0@entanet... A loop is when you repeat the same sequence of things until the job is done, the tiling issue was more like a chicken and egg problem which is kind of recursive. ETV Talking about chickens and egg mysteries: One of my bantams went broody so last Thursday I got some fertile eggs to slip under her, I was advised that five would be a good number, they like odd numbers. The next day I saw that she'd kicked one out and later that to the resulting four a fifth had been added - laid by our other bantams who normally lays in a different coop. I removed it. This morning I found another fifth egg from the other bantam. Since the first is sitting tight at all times except when I lift her to make her eat and drink (and the other is also out) I want to know how these extra eggs are getting under the broody. And when is the second bantie laying - and how is she getting her egg under the bossy broodie? Mary |
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![]() "The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message ... Andrew Gabriel wrote: In article 444217d7.0@entanet, "Eric The Viking" writes: To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. Recursion: to curse and curse again... That sounds more like it. Twas on the monday morning that the gas man came to call.. Someone had to say it! |
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Mary Fisher wrote: Talking about chickens and egg mysteries: One of my bantams went broody so last Thursday I got some fertile eggs to slip under her, I was advised that five would be a good number, they like odd numbers. The next day I saw that she'd kicked one out and later that to the resulting four a fifth had been added - laid by our other bantams who normally lays in a different coop. I removed it. This morning I found another fifth egg from the other bantam. Since the first is sitting tight at all times except when I lift her to make her eat and drink (and the other is also out) I want to know how these extra eggs are getting under the broody. And when is the second bantie laying - and how is she getting her egg under the bossy broodie? Mary You'll have to set up a video camera, to find out. g -- Cheers, Roger ______ Email address maintained for newsgroup use only, and not regularly monitored.. Messages sent to it may not be read for several weeks. PLEASE REPLY TO NEWSGROUP! |
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![]() "Roger Mills" wrote in message ... In an earlier contribution to this discussion, Mary Fisher wrote: Talking about chickens and egg mysteries: One of my bantams went broody so last Thursday I got some fertile eggs to slip under her, I was advised that five would be a good number, they like odd numbers. The next day I saw that she'd kicked one out and later that to the resulting four a fifth had been added - laid by our other bantams who normally lays in a different coop. I removed it. This morning I found another fifth egg from the other bantam. Since the first is sitting tight at all times except when I lift her to make her eat and drink (and the other is also out) I want to know how these extra eggs are getting under the broody. And when is the second bantie laying - and how is she getting her egg under the bossy broodie? Mary You'll have to set up a video camera, to find out. g That's an idea. The coop (an Eglu) is small and unlit, I suspect it must be happening at night. If I undertake this exercise again I'll bear that in mind, she can sit somewhere else. Mary -- |
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Huge wrote:
Do not dismantle your faulty cesspit pump on the ground next to the cesspit, then knock it over, causing several vital parts to fly into the cesspit. Do not kneel down to inspect a full cesspit if you own a goat. (Happened to a friend. Fortunately he didn't go all the way in... only his head.) -- Ian White |
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![]() "Owain" wrote in message ... Mary Fisher wrote: You'll have to set up a video camera, to find out. g That's an idea. The coop (an Eglu) is small and unlit, I suspect it must be happening at night. If I undertake this exercise again I'll bear that in mind, she can sit somewhere else. The small and cheap CCTV cameras have little built-in infra-red lights, so work in darkness and won't disturb the hens' sleep. Oh - I didn't know that. I was thinking of my webcam. Mary |
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