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General Discussion Area / Bloody fuses...

« on: 13 February 2018, 19:15:41 »

...no, not that pesky fuse19 fella


Plugged in my wanky Anker USB charger thing earlier, and was greeted with a huge bang - big enough I thought I might have to go for an exploratory wipe in case some poo leaked out.

I have a socket with a 4 way extension lead plugged into, which in turn has one of the UPS's, the powerline adapter and a further 6 way extension lead (which is conveniently placed for stuff that gets plugged in and out regularly).  It was in this 6 way one that I was plugging in the Anker shite.


It took out the 13A fuse in the plug of the 6 way, the 13A fuse in the body of the 4 way, the 13A in the plug of the 4 way, and the ring main trip.

What it didn't take out was the 3A in the Anker's plug.


Need to buy some more 13A fuses now, I've depleted my stock

197

General Car Chat / Rumbling noise from rear

« on: 12 February 2018, 18:56:26 »

Speed dependent rumbling noise, but doesn't change when going left or right.

Wheel bearing still family favourite?  If it was a prop bearing, that would be a much higher frequency presumably?

198

General Car Chat / Screenwash

« on: 11 February 2018, 10:20:01 »

What are peeps using. Now the Halfords -20C stuff is at a silly £5.63 (trade), I need to start looking at other options, esp given the way Mrs TB gets through the stuff in TBE.

TripleQX is out, as the remaining 25l of unopened stuff got chucked.

Any other brands people use work well, both on cleaning performance and resistance to freezing?  Round these parts, there are no independent type factors, its all Halfords, Euroshite and GSF etc.

199

General Discussion Area / Heating advice

« on: 12 January 2018, 18:04:06 »

I had to drain down central heating to replace a part (DTM - had to replace olives as well, else it weeped), and what came out was black-ish, but also had black bits in as well.

Worth running a cleaner through, then drain again, before refilling with 2 bottles of inhibitor?

200

Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / MOVED: Rear suspension problems

« on: 30 December 2017, 19:34:37 »

This topic has been moved to Omega General Help.

https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=141519.0

201

General Discussion Area / Dilemma solved

« on: 05 December 2017, 09:23:46 »

Wondering why the slug was so slow this morning, already 30m late....

Driver just come on PA, she’s a woman. ‘Nuf said


Silly bint has no idea why we’re so late, but it’s kinda expected with the Chiltern Slug

202

General Car Chat / Oil. How hard can it be.

« on: 06 November 2017, 19:56:11 »

Grrrr. I swear most of these specs are there just to make it impossible, so you end up buying the properly expensive stuff 

Found a couple that meet the spec, at a not too outrageous £30 for 5l.


I hope actually changing it is easier than trying to find it .  Guessing not, seeing as no dipstick, and all geared up for sucking out (but does have a sump plug, but its a pig to get to).  Chuck in 5l, wait 10m, then read the level, and repeat from there?

203

General Discussion Area / That time of year again...

« on: 06 November 2017, 18:16:49 »

...she wants to know what toys I want for Crimbo.  And, as usual, I have no idea.

Can the OOF membership give me inspiration?

204

General Discussion Area / Mrs TB 1, TB 0

« on: 01 November 2017, 18:36:00 »

Shit, she's right. Its now November. Apparently I said she could have the central heating switch on in November...

205

General Discussion Area / Images server outage

« on: 31 October 2017, 19:53:28 »

Our external host where our images are hosted have informed us that they will be upgrading their servers in the next 24hrs.

You may nothing images not displaying during this time, which is expected to last 2hrs.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

206

General Car Chat / Public transport

« on: 26 October 2017, 09:37:43 »

Is pointless.

Another day, and again the slug is chugging along at 35mph.

Car is so much less hassle, even taking into account the average modern tree hugging child on board shitbox drivers. Esp Nissan drivers

207

General Discussion Area / Fcek knows

« on: 24 October 2017, 20:28:24 »

Still, made for an entertaining evening sat in a car park in Winslow!

208

General Car Chat / Tunnie style

« on: 18 October 2017, 19:12:47 »

Fed up with picking up silly fines for work put me on work to rule

So my trip to Sheffield yesterday was driven at the speed limit.  I thought with less than half a tank when I set out I was going to have to fill up. But it made it there and back on quarter of a tank, if the gauge is to be believed.  It will need filling up before Colindale tomorrow though, as it had a special treat on the way back from work today...   ...a proper spanking.

209

General Discussion Area / Old Trusty

« on: 11 October 2017, 17:47:32 »

My own HP 6720s laptop, from the Vista era, isn't getting long from its battery again.  Its on its 3rd.


Dilemma - buy another battery, or replace it?  Trouble with latter is so few now have keyboards without the numeric pad.

210

General Discussion Area / OOF Outage

« on: 08 October 2017, 12:35:38 »

Unfortunately we suffered a bizarre incident last night that caused everything here to fail...  ...including the alerting system, which meant it went undetected until early this morning.

Clearly we are back up and running, but we will have to go down again for an hour or so later to resync the databases - not quite sure when, as I still have a lot to do getting all the infrastructure up and running.


It looks like we had a near simultaneous failure of 2 of our 3 storage solutions, one being a hyperconverged, high availability one, and the other being a standalone SAN solution. Trying to work back through the logs to see if it genuinely was 3 simultaneous storage server failures (unlikely) or 2 simultaneous hypervisor failures (unlikely), or something common that I haven't yet found (likely).


Sorry, as always, for the outage, and the fact you've probably had to talk to wives/partners or go down the pub!