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Better off spending any cash in ISAs now, can't see any point in being the richest guy in the cemetery.

Not to mention that if its in a cash ISA its likely not anywhere near keeping up with inflation, so its buying power will probably be shrinking quite dramatically with each year that goes by. 

Didn't even occur to me. Would this work?

YouTube seems to think so.

https://youtu.be/uBZ7NIEEvck?si=RsJt0OTwc-akTvJI

It might be useful to know what the values should be. But given the age of boiler, I suspect it won't be that precise.

 

Thanks Jimmy.

The photocell is easy to remove so I'll give it a try.

My photocell is the same as the second on in your video, only longer. Mine appears to be 80mm, the one in the video looks 40mm.

have you checked the nozzle for any signs of oil?  if dry then it sounds like a fuel issue ( pump or solenoid)

pump - you can check it is reaching pressure with a cheap ~10 quid pressure gauge

solenoid - check the resistance - open circuit - suspect the solenoid

typically there are diagostic flow charts on line for whichever burner you have so have a look for that and follow it - oil burners are pretty basic tech so not hard to diagnose tbh

I've pulled the unit out and cleared the 'back box' (no idea if that is what it is called) of soot. Removed the nozzle which appears black and blocked and have left it overnight in white spirit. I'm hoping it is this that is stopping ignition if no fuel if getting through.

I will also adjust the igniter tips that should be set 3mm apart, and level with the top of the nozzle.

Eon again.

Gas smart meter no communication from meter to them, made arrangements for them last month to sort or exchange the unit but no one turned up.

New appointment today for 8am to 10am  and yes no one turned up yet again.

Just on the phone making a 2nd complaint.

State pensioners, like me, have already had a £200 winter fuel allowance and will get about £550 next April. There's nothing to moan about there. Also, over 65's get to keep their full £20,000 tax free isa allowance.
Anyone who complains about the reduction to £12,000 from April 2027....well....you can hardly claim poverty if you can afford to save that much.

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Better off spending any cash in ISAs now, can't see any point in being the richest guy in the cemetery.

Everyone's circumstances are different. My wife still, officially, has 12 years to go until retirement. She won't wait that long, of course.

You've got a wife

Obviously a long suffering one.

State pensioners, like me, have already had a £200 winter fuel allowance and will get about £550 next April. There's nothing to moan about there. Also, over 65's get to keep their full £20,000 tax free isa allowance.
Anyone who complains about the reduction to £12,000 from April 2027....well....you can hardly claim poverty if you can afford to save that much.

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Better off spending any cash in ISAs now, can't see any point in being the richest guy in the cemetery.

Everyone's circumstances are different. My wife still, officially, has 12 years to go until retirement. She won't wait that long, of course.

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That's handy Steve, you can spend her salary as well 👍

Thing is with the DC10/MD11 it's large enough to be useful but not so large as to be too expensive to operate. If UPS and FedEx suddenly have to scrap them, then there's not much to replace them with. The A330 doesn't age well and all the bigger Boeings are either already converted or have been scrapped 

It's a surprise that this failure hasn't happened more often and it will be interesting to see how many aircraft are about to fail. It also begs the question as to how such a high cycle airframe had yet to reach the inspection threshold. Replacing the parts and dropping the inspection to 2,500 hours might be enough.

The only operators that might not be able to afford it are the flying hospital and the fire tankers which is a bit ironic as they're probably better maintained due to their more specialist uses.

State pensioners, like me, have already had a £200 winter fuel allowance and will get about £550 next April. There's nothing to moan about there. Also, over 65's get to keep their full £20,000 tax free isa allowance.
Anyone who complains about the reduction to £12,000 from April 2027....well....you can hardly claim poverty if you can afford to save that much.

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Better off spending any cash in ISAs now, can't see any point in being the richest guy in the cemetery.

Everyone's circumstances are different. My wife still, officially, has 12 years to go until retirement. She won't wait that long, of course.

You've got a wife

State pensioners, like me, have already had a £200 winter fuel allowance and will get about £550 next April. There's nothing to moan about there. Also, over 65's get to keep their full £20,000 tax free isa allowance.
Anyone who complains about the reduction to £12,000 from April 2027....well....you can hardly claim poverty if you can afford to save that much.

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Better off spending any cash in ISAs now, can't see any point in being the richest guy in the cemetery.

Everyone's circumstances are different. My wife still, officially, has 12 years to go until retirement. She won't wait that long, of course.

What they're saying is there were pre-accident fatigue cracks in 3 of the 4 mounting lug surfaces for the #1 engine. The engine "fell off" when the 4th lug gave way under the overstress of the take off. Whilst it's possible a bird strike was the straw that broke the camels back, the root cause of the accident is the fatigue cracks. It appears the design can withstand cracks in one and two of the 4 lugs, but if/when the third cracks the fourth isn't strong enough to hold it all together. And you wouldn't expect it to be.

So the report will IMHO concentrate on how/why these cracks occur, and how to inspect them such that the fault is detected when the first crack appears, rather than waiting for the engine to fall off when all 4 become cracked.

Indeed. Bird strike or not, that aircraft was an accident about to happen when it started its take-off roll, and potentially so is the rest of the remaining  MD-11 / DC10 fleet. Given its obsolete status and the fact that there are relatively few airframes left flying, I wouldn't be surprised if the inevitable inspection and rectification actions that would be required to continue safe flight turn out to be prohibitively expensive.