I was in the local DIY Shed today - the automatic doors were obviously in
need of a bit of care and lubrication. I mentioned it to an assistant
manager who told me that the store will have a refit eventually and it isn't
in the branch's interest to do maintenance. Of more concern is that such
items just end up as landfill and new resources are used to make
replacements - yet we concern ourselves with not leaving the TV on stand-by.

Lack of maintenance causes an immense waste of resources. Our council likes
to let building get run-down and then it can have a new building. Recently I
saw a justification for a new building given as - "the building is poorly
lit"

Local play area will soon have some playground equipment replaced because
the local vandals have scraped off the powder coating. - With a bit of logic
it could be re-worked.

Office at work - poorly adjusted door closer - door slams - can't get it
fixed - wall gets cracked - result 3 days to fix what could have been
avoided with 10 mins preventative maintenance.

Gripe aired! Any other examples? (I won't mention neglected expansion joints
on motorway bridges leading to major renovation)

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John

John wrote:


Gripe aired! Any other examples? (I won't mention neglected expansion
joints on motorway bridges leading to major renovation)

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--
John

Nope, why not demolish the world and start again.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

John wrote:
Gripe aired! Any other examples?

No. Who cares? Get over it and get a life. Oh, get some new doors,
too. A drop of oil wouyldn't hurt. Cheers!

The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
John wrote:
I won't mention neglected expansion
joints on motorway bridges leading to major renovation

Nope, why not demolish the world and start again.

Useless.

Oh freddled gruntbuggly...
....thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabblegotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee,
My foonting turlingdromes.
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!


Resistance is useless. NQV, bnunt...

"Chris Bacon" wrote in message
...
John wrote:
Gripe aired! Any other examples?

No. Who cares? Get over it and get a life. Oh, get some new doors,
too. A drop of oil wouyldn't hurt. Cheers!

Ah well - back to low energy bulbs and TV Standby concerns to save the
world. (No-one seems to own an oil-can nowadays)


John

John wrote:
Ah well - back to low energy bulbs

I'm afraiud that I don't like those things... I'd rather do
without (say) a car journey, and use incandescents....


and TV Standby concerns to save the world.

Every little helps. It's amazing how much can be re-cycled,
for instance. I wish I could re-cycle polythene bags, but
they seem to be refused everywhere....


(No-one seems to own an oil-can nowadays)

I've got an old red one, and an old orange one, and a miniature
one that I've lost the screw-in "bung" for, unfortunately.

What about high-pressure grease guns, or "tekalemit" ones?

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:13:15 GMT John wrote :
Lack of maintenance causes an immense waste of resources. Our council
likes to let building get run-down and then it can have a new building.

Repairs are revenue, replacement is capital. So new is cheaper ... if you
don't look beyond next year's Council Tax bills.

--
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The message
from Chris Bacon contains these words:

Every little helps. It's amazing how much can be re-cycled,
for instance. I wish I could re-cycle polythene bags, but
they seem to be refused everywhere....

Most supermarkets have a carrierbag collection point.

--
Skipweasel
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

Chris Bacon wrote:


What about high-pressure grease guns, or "tekalemit" ones?

ISTR that was 'tecalamet' (or something close), or am I wrong? A long
time since I was involved with products from that company.

Dave

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:49:52 UTC, Dave wrote:

Chris Bacon wrote:


What about high-pressure grease guns, or "tekalemit" ones?

ISTR that was 'tecalamet' (or something close), or am I wrong? A long
time since I was involved with products from that company.

Tecalemit. There's a name from the past...

http://www.britishtool.com/images/lit-4.jpg

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John wrote:
I was in the local DIY Shed today - the automatic doors were obviously in
need of a bit of care and lubrication. I mentioned it to an assistant
manager who told me that the store will have a refit eventually and it isn't
in the branch's interest to do maintenance. Of more concern is that such
items just end up as landfill and new resources are used to make
replacements - yet we concern ourselves with not leaving the TV on stand-by.

Lack of maintenance causes an immense waste of resources. Our council likes
to let building get run-down and then it can have a new building. Recently I
saw a justification for a new building given as - "the building is poorly
lit"

Local play area will soon have some playground equipment replaced because
the local vandals have scraped off the powder coating. - With a bit of logic
it could be re-worked.

Office at work - poorly adjusted door closer - door slams - can't get it
fixed - wall gets cracked - result 3 days to fix what could have been
avoided with 10 mins preventative maintenance.

Gripe aired! Any other examples? (I won't mention neglected expansion joints
on motorway bridges leading to major renovation)


Not really. Tree down across road..phone farm manager, he brings
chainsaw. I bring chainsaw. Road open. More firewood in pile.

Pothole on road outside. I scoop up a bit of MOT I and fill hole.

Telephone cable down to house. Cut offending branch, and rewire myself.

Round here we just sort stuff out and bugger authority.

If we forget to leave the bins at the gate, the guys walk 20 yards down
the side of the house and drag em up.

They don't put em back tho

Bob Eager wrote:

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:49:52 UTC, Dave wrote:


Chris Bacon wrote:



What about high-pressure grease guns, or "tekalemit" ones?

ISTR that was 'tecalamet' (or something close), or am I wrong? A long
time since I was involved with products from that company.


Tecalemit. There's a name from the past...

http://www.britishtool.com/images/lit-4.jpg

Pure nostalgia. :-)

If I remember, they were very big in the auto lube systems in the
sixties and the company that I used to work for then, used their various
valves etc. to work with air driven machinery.

I once went for an interview for a company that used these devices for
their proper use and they could not believe what I had been using them for.

I was 21 years old and full of knowledge about all the world ;-)

Dave

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:41:38 +0100, Guy King wrote:

|The message
|from Chris Bacon contains these words:
|
| Every little helps. It's amazing how much can be re-cycled,
| for instance. I wish I could re-cycle polythene bags, but
| they seem to be refused everywhere....
|
|Most supermarkets have a carrierbag collection point.

We have given up using supermarket bags, We use Lakeland Square bags.
http://www.lakelandlimited.co.uk/product.aspx/!2155
Much more convenient in the car.

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method of accessing usenet. GG subscribers would be well advised get a
newsreader, say Agent, and a newsserver, say news.individual.net. These
will allow them: to see only *new* posts, a killfile, and other goodies.

John wrote:
I was in the local DIY Shed today - the automatic doors were
obviously in need of a bit of care and lubrication. I mentioned it to
an assistant manager who told me that the store will have a refit
eventually and it isn't in the branch's interest to do maintenance.

That's the failure of the financial system in this country. When Mr B and
Mr Q owned the stores maintenance made sense to them, saved money, saved
waste. Now they are PLC's their only concern is to whore themselves to the
shareholders - who don't give a crap about anything other than money.

Refit = good PR story. Maintenance = overhead.


--
Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
John wrote:

I was in the local DIY Shed today - the automatic doors were obviously
in need of a bit of care and lubrication. I mentioned it to an
assistant manager who told me that the store will have a refit
eventually and it isn't in the branch's interest to do maintenance. Of
more concern is that such items just end up as landfill and new
resources are used to make replacements - yet we concern ourselves
with not leaving the TV on stand-by.

Lack of maintenance causes an immense waste of resources. Our council
likes to let building get run-down and then it can have a new
building. Recently I saw a justification for a new building given as -
"the building is poorly lit"

Local play area will soon have some playground equipment replaced
because the local vandals have scraped off the powder coating. - With
a bit of logic it could be re-worked.

Office at work - poorly adjusted door closer - door slams - can't get
it fixed - wall gets cracked - result 3 days to fix what could have
been avoided with 10 mins preventative maintenance.

Gripe aired! Any other examples? (I won't mention neglected expansion
joints on motorway bridges leading to major renovation)


Not really. Tree down across road..phone farm manager, he brings
chainsaw. I bring chainsaw. Road open. More firewood in pile.

Pothole on road outside. I scoop up a bit of MOT I and fill hole.

Telephone cable down to house. Cut offending branch, and rewire myself.

Round here we just sort stuff out and bugger authority.

Hear, hear !
Forgiveness is always easier to get than permission.

Once worked in a University and had to pass through 20 doors on way to
canteen - all squeaked due to lack of regular maintenance - nightmare.
They stopped squeaking mysteriously very early one Monday when an
unknown portly man in a balaclava (CCTV) sneaked around and lubricated
them all (c;

Chips.

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Chips'll make it better.
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John wrote:

Office at work - poorly adjusted door closer - door slams - can't get it
fixed - wall gets cracked - result 3 days to fix what could have been
avoided with 10 mins preventative maintenance.

Had one of those in a hostel we were staying in when visiting
Prague. Being the landing door next to our room, it didn't make
for a good night's sleep. A quick tweak of the right adjusting
screw and all was silent again.

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

John wrote:

Lack of maintenance causes an immense waste of resources. Our council likes
to let building get run-down and then it can have a new building. Recently I
saw a justification for a new building given as - "the building is poorly
lit"
[...]
Gripe aired! Any other examples? (I won't mention neglected expansion joints
on motorway bridges leading to major renovation)

"this program takes too long to run, I need a new PC"
"No you don't you need t run the right program on the right kit."
example: researcher wastes a month trying to analyse web logs on shiny
new PC with WinXP, every 3-4 days it locks up and is rebooted. When they
eventually ask me I put it on the 10 year old cast off running BSD and
the job is done in a day.




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http://www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk
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