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General Discussion Area / Re: Gas & Leccy Bills
« on: 01 April 2024, 13:36:46 »
That sounds above the new price cap rates....

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/changes-energy-price-cap-between-1-april-30-june-2024#:~:text=Electricity%20rates,and%20Wales%20and%20includes%20VAT.

I'm with the ever useless British Gas since my energy company went tits up 2 or 3 years back, and they charge me the OFGEM rates for energy and standing charge.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 30 March 2024, 18:11:05 »
Changed the oil, I might have left the old oil in for longer than I'd normally like (but still well under half what JLR say,,,

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I personally think the 2.8i MkII is the pick of the bunch, and certainly the one I would prefer if I wanted a Grandad,.  In the obligatory gay Gold ;D

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General Discussion Area / Re: Starlink.
« on: 30 March 2024, 18:06:37 »
Zen replaced my copper landline with VOIP recently.
They are buttering me up for when they do mine...

I didn't put up much resistance, in fairness. Good excuse to disconnect all the garbage extension wiring. ;)
I wouldn't put up any. In fact I wouldn't take up their digital lines, as my main number is already a SIP based one with another provider.  I only had the line because it was needed as part of the broadband package way back when...

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 30 March 2024, 18:04:40 »
Put in a puddle that was a lot longer and a lot deeper than I anticipated ;D, no harm done :0

Then followed some tosser on the M40 for 15 miles who wouldn't move from the inside lane.  Out of principle I refused undertake, though many others did.  Knobjockey.  Merc ragtop, so to be expected in these parts.

Did you check he hadn't just gently passed away while on cruise control? ;)
Given it was a 23 plate Merc, I assumed their life was over about a year ago anyway...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Starlink.
« on: 29 March 2024, 21:06:16 »
Zen replaced my copper landline with VOIP recently.
They are buttering me up for when they do mine...

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General Car Chat / Re: Arrival of new Vehicle.
« on: 29 March 2024, 21:04:12 »
You never get stuck behind me
No, because you only have 150 horses ;D
150 horses is enough to lose your license fairly quickly if you try hard enough.
Even a 50bhp A series in a car from the A series era would be enough to end up in court.  Probably less so if fitted in today's lard arsed cars...

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 29 March 2024, 21:02:04 »
Put in a puddle that was a lot longer and a lot deeper than I anticipated ;D, no harm done :0

Then followed some tosser on the M40 for 15 miles who wouldn't move from the inside lane.  Out of principle I refused undertake, though many others did.  Knobjockey.  Merc ragtop, so to be expected in these parts.

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Omega General Help / Re: Is Sandwich Plate same as Intake Flange
« on: 29 March 2024, 20:56:31 »
Whilst the design could be improved in a number of ways, it is what it is, and works if technicians can be arsed to pick up a torque wrench.

Sadly, most are either too stupid to use on, or have egos that don't allow the use of them, with the result that many grades shag them, and many other parts...

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Omega General Help / Re: Is Sandwich Plate same as Intake Flange
« on: 29 March 2024, 11:39:07 »
Ok, what I believed is that the O-ring is around the brass spacer in a groove. When this spacer contacts the camshaft bit you can feel it. Turning more just destroys the thread. Have to study this more when back in my carage. Have there my old original covers. Now sitting in my Mobile Home, having nice Easter Time.
The o ring still sits proud.  8Nm is supposed to be enough to seal the hole, and still have some compression left in it. So defo possible to bend the covers by over tightening, as we've seen all too frequently by mechanics massively overtightening them, then claiming the covers are warped when the oil pisses out :y

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General Discussion Area / Re: Starlink.
« on: 29 March 2024, 11:35:09 »
It was a company called Jurassic Fibre (no me neither) that installed ours, and I've only seen one house on our road get connected so far.

I don't think that they could have put the connection point in the pavement by my house in a worse place if they tried.  Same with the neighbours as well.  ::)
Ours is on the wall at the end of the small front gardens so, if you get connected, they have to bury the cable under the garden. Don't think I'd trust them to take up my block paving and put it back the same.

Don't they just blow the fibre through the copper ducts that already go to the house.  That's what they did here in MK.  900Mb sync for £32pm.
Not all altnets are allowed access to Openreach owned ducts, so some have to dig up roads, pavements and the owner's property. So they run their own ducts and blow through them to their distribution nodes.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Starlink.
« on: 29 March 2024, 11:32:15 »
Yes, the current copper arrives in a duct, and Gigaclear and Swish have been in the area.

I think I got a leaflet through the door from one of them, saw no ISPs I recognised on the list of those available, so binned it.

I have a Zen fixed price for life contract currently so would need to be convinced I needed the extra speed to switch anyway, although ditching the shitty VDSL noise would be nice. That's more a problem of my neighbours not switching than me, however.  ;D
You HAM boyz.  ADSL/VDSL is like high voltage power lines to you ;D


Pre register interest in Gigaclear does tend to get a very good price offer when they finally allow ordering.  Hence I'm getting £30 a month off.

My Zen is also fixed for life, although I suspect they have a convenient get out clause in that copper phones lines are going, and my contract includes a copper phne line with Zen.  I will probably recontract the internet part when Openreach pull their finger out and provide FTTP here, possibly later this year.

Not sure what to do when OPenreach do do it, just go for the highest speed available (currently 900d/100u due Openreach's short sighted decision to use GPON, but new networks should be about to get 1800d/200u*, still based on GPON).  Or just get a cheap FTTP through Zen and also keep one of the altnets - once you've had a fast upload, its hard to give it up if you use any upload bandwidth...

...when I had the 900Mb service, it was quicker to use OneDrive to copy filies between PCs, rather than USB sticks.  It was the same speed to use OneDrive as it was to copy files across my LAN ;D.  And Youtube uploads dropped from about 3hrs to under 3m ;D


(Though that might get reduced to 120u, again due to stupid decisions around the utterly out of date GPON - GPON allows 2.5Gb download, 1.25Gb upload, shared by all users on that node, usually around 64 - 128 homes.  Altnets tend to use XGS-PON)

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 29 March 2024, 11:15:13 »
This - is it ever going to stop raining.

Unblocked scuttle drain and flushed out sludge (again). Might have to look at removing that rubber drain bung, but cant get my arms down past the pollen filter.

If the drain is clear, given the age of all Omegas now, next step is to pull up the passenger carpet and prod the triangular-ish shaped bit of mild steel plate that covers where the steering column goes through on LHD models.  Most of these are probably in a bad state of corrosion now, especially if scuttle drains have been blocked.

If it has rusted through, only real option is some kind of repair, not easy given near zero access.  TBE's was a painted steel plate (with a bolt through it to allow pulling from inside) stuck to what remained with nearly an entire tube of sikaflex.  AFAIK, its still holding now, not that its moved 3 years!

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General Car Chat / Re: Arrival of new Vehicle.
« on: 29 March 2024, 11:09:04 »
You never get stuck behind me
No, because you only have 150 horses ;D

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Omega General Help / Re: Is Sandwich Plate same as Intake Flange
« on: 29 March 2024, 11:08:21 »
Thanks, yes, have to be careful with those plastic parts. What I often wonder is the warning of cam cover bolts overtightening. How can you warp the covers? It is 'Metal to Metal". I tighten them as long as I can feel this metal contact when the brass spacer contacts the head and that's it.
The plastic cam covers can easily be overtightened on V6 engines  Remember there is an o ring between the cam cover and the camshaft bit it bolts to.

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