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General Discussion Area / Leaking AA battery

« on: 18 December 2023, 14:33:47 »

SWMBO found a metal torch (like a Maglite) in the house. The bulb lit, but was very dim.

She tried to take the batteries out, but the end cap would not budge.

Enter Migalot! "I'll sort that out".

Using mole grips and a Stillson, I was finally able to get access to the batteries, but they were all covered in that white powder associated with a leakage.

Obviously, despite cleaning as best I could (what "dissolves" that leakage sediment?), the batteries won't budge from the main tube. I thought about putting a screw into the battery base and having a good heave. Now, I know that obviously that shouldn't be attempted on a lithium battery, but is it totally safe on a regular AA battery? 

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Radio on, no sound

« on: 18 December 2023, 14:18:35 »

Had an auto-electrican swap the rear door loom and all is well again! 

There was no visible break in the speaker wire, but when he put the circuit tester between the plug pin and cable end, then jiggled the rubber sleeve about, the signal was very intermittent.

Anyway job done. Thanks to all for the help and suggestions.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Selling out UK security to the globalists?

« on: 16 December 2023, 12:27:08 »

 

I don't know.... maybe they were spiked with an essence of revolutionary fervour? 

Do you seriously think that a US State Department official wandering around a protest camp is proof that the CIA orchestrated a coup in Ukraine? 

And fascists demonstrators?    Seriously?     

You've not read about the Azov Batallion. I used the word "fascist" to avoid the use of the more apt "N***" word.

Senator Eric Brakey spells it out here.

https://youtu.be/8SYzlEmJWOE?t=518

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General Discussion Area / Re: Selling out UK security to the globalists?

« on: 15 December 2023, 20:58:32 »

Some say that the downfall of Viktor Yanukovych was a coup organised by the CIA!    Now I love a good conspiracy theory, but given the well documented events of the time, I think it's more likely that the moon is made of Swiss cheese and that the Clangers do indeed live there. 

Wonder why Victoria Nuland was handing out cookies to the fascist demonstrators on Maidan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p84KzkdKZb4&t=528

Nine years old, but fresh at the time.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Selling out UK security to the globalists?

« on: 15 December 2023, 17:04:44 »

I believe that the expansionist policies of NATO and the  EU gave Putin the excuse to do what he did, but now he has done it he must be stopped regardless that.

It was the EU and their Association Agreement which kicked it all off much more than NATO, as Putin didn't want Ukraine becoming an EU satellite.

There was never any prospect of Ukraine joining NATO, although if they had joined maybe this mess wouldn't be happening. 

Wrong. Putin said he would accept Ukraine in the EU as it's not a military bloc (well not at the moment anyway).

https://www.euronews.com/2022/06/18/uk-ukraine-crisis-eu-russia

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General Discussion Area / Re: Selling out UK security to the globalists?

« on: 14 December 2023, 21:57:58 »

https://www.thepostil.com/the-hidden-truth-about-the-war-in-ukraine/

Recommended reading.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Selling out UK security to the globalists?

« on: 14 December 2023, 21:38:38 »

I always thought Britain should steer well clear PESCO even when we were members of the EU, as keeping full control of our armed forces should have been a massive red line that no British leader should cross. That we've signed up to elements of PESCO post Brexit is disgusting, even if it is for pragmatic reasons and we will get sucked in further for sure. 

I did note that Jim Ferguson said that Germany had caused two World Wars and he hoped they weren't going to cause a third. Well, nobody wants that of course, but also nobody forced Russia to invade Ukraine, and nearly ten years on there is still no justification for any of Russia's military actions in their neighbours territory.

It's been only two years and there are many events during the preceding years – particularly the Maidan coup in 2014 – which, rightly or wrongly, prompted the war. I have read a great deal about it and I can honestly say that Putin didn't wake up one morning and think "I'm bored. I think I'll invade Ukraine". However, listening and watching the Western mainstream media, you'd be forgiven for believing that.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Selling out UK security to the globalists?

« on: 13 December 2023, 13:23:16 »

Sunak, Cameron etc... committed Globalists.
 Starmer also and he will be advised by Blair, an arch Globalist.

Indeed. Time for Reform. Labour/Tories are one globalist uniparty.

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General Discussion Area / Selling out UK security to the globalists?

« on: 13 December 2023, 12:05:59 »

Excellent interview with Jim Ferguson.

I was always happy to support an EU which was solely interested in trade and free movement. As soon as it became deeply political, I had worries so that's why I voted for Brexit. Seems my fears are coming true, but Brexit may not stop it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCIJeqseEec

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Radio on, no sound

« on: 09 December 2023, 21:54:35 »

The existing loom has probably got a break somewhere which is intermittently touching together.

I have thought about that, but I can't see how that would affect all the speakers. However, today has shown that with one speaker out, the others still work. Furthermore, I have now discovered that my new Kenwood unit will display an error message if it detects a speaker fault. I mean it MAY be that, but frankly given the weather (working at the roadside), the shorter daylight hours, the amount of time it would take to remove the door card (again), remove the membrane, replace the loom and re-assemble – well, I'm not sure I can be ars*d.

I'm willing to pay to get someone to fix it, but finding a willing tradesperson ain't easy these days. The guy who installed the new unit is not responding to texts or phone calls.

Ho, hum. 

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Radio on, no sound

« on: 09 December 2023, 13:54:36 »

On the verge of giving up entirely. 

I took the door card off yesterday (without damaging anything!) with the intention of checking the loom today. After taking the card off, I turned on the ignition and the speakers came on. Great, I thought, must have jiggled something. Then I discovered that, with that speaker disconnected, all the rest work. In addition, SWMBO just told me that she moved the car yesterday a bit to allow builders to park outside the next door neighbour's house - before I had even taken the door card off - and the radio came on full blast for the first time in a week!

That means, logically, that the existing loom is OK and the fault must lie elsewhere.

It's wet and windy and I'm thoroughly pee'd off with it. Just going to clear up and put the door card back. I've officially got the hump with the bloody car.  

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General Discussion Area / Re: Landline woes now!

« on: 08 December 2023, 16:29:23 »

At the conclusion of my marathon today, my problem still wasn't fully resolved, but I got £55 out of them.

Not sure if your issue was "landline" or broadband.  But, I mean, how hard is it to provide such a simple* service?


*I accept that the amount of complexity in providing both is high once you start getting back to more common areas, but assuming this issue is specific to your line, so assuming its simply a pair of wires and/or a bit of glass.

I was on BT fibre halo 3 100+. I renewed my contract and they changed me to digital voice, I thought that was it. When I did a speed test (after they disconnected me for two days for some reason) I was getting 72Mb down and 20 up, used to be 140. After much back and forth, they agreed I had been mis-sold my new contract, but they couldn't do anything about it because Openreach weren't accepting any new orders for my area until fttp had been implemented. They said my area had 'turned black' 
I could have cancelled and gone to another provider but, as they would have to go through Openreach, the result would have been the same. I could have gone with Virgin.......no. So I'm stuck, with some money as compo.
I refuse to get uppity about it, life's too short.

Just checked mine (FTTP): 487 Mb/s download and 427 Mb/s upload. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Landline woes now!

« on: 07 December 2023, 15:07:56 »

I have to say: I've been on and off the phone to BT about 7/8 times over the last ten days, including keeping one young lady ten minutes past her nine o'clock finish. Every customer service agent has been polite, patient and helpful.

I won't go into the details, it would take forever. Even though, to me, it's quite simple.

I found the same. If they had been quicker to install the FTTP, I would happily have stayed with them for my broadband.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Landline woes now!

« on: 06 December 2023, 20:15:55 »

So on the phone to BT then...

Phoned BT and now finally all sorted.

Turned out that to retain my landline on VOIP (which I need for work on the same number) and to take advantage of the FTTP with Open Infra, I need BOTH routers. The BT one for the phone and the Icotera for the broadband. BT played around at the exchange and because they missed their quoted deadlne for changing my landline to VOIP capable, they gave me an £80 rebate.

So, all up and running...and the VOIP landline is much clearer than before.

Job done!   

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Radio on, no sound

« on: 06 December 2023, 18:09:47 »

Thanks lads!

May have roped in an OOF member to help out!