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[chrisgixer]

Leaving the cable wound up on a real, I'm told, means its effectively a coil. In both senses of the word. Electrically, that means some sort of resistance or magnetic field or some weird voodoo magic that isn't good. As you can tell, I don't know exactly why.

Strictly speaking, an extension should be fully unwound then wound back in again each time it's used.

I've seen evidence of this on my 50metre macro special, where the outer insulation has melted very slightly, so the inner coils had juuuuust started to stick together.

...either that or it had been left out in the sun all day, which is equally likely.

[bigegg]

http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/index.php
 

[aaronjb]

That garage wiring looks like an electrical nightmare.. Did they get Bodgeit & Scarper Electricals in to wire it up?

As for welding clothing - t-shirt and some gardening gloves. You'll be fine. The burns heal quite quickly... (At a minimum, long sleeve heavy cotton clothing, long gloves or welding gauntlets, welding mask and I know some folks who wear safety glasses under the mask as a final layer of protection for when a little ball of molten metal jumps behind the mask and bounces around like a possessed firefly)

[Andy H]

Getting out, helping mates and generally keeping the brain cells occupied is probably the best way of promoting recovery.

You're not wrong there Andy 

PS
I know where I screwed up on your S3, the ROM I installed was a European ROM. This doesn't affect handset functionality at all, but KIES (which is a POS anyway) objects as it can't see the correct CSC for the UK.

Thanks Mark. The phone works fine so I don't see that you 'screwed up' (especially given the quantity of morphine you were dosed up on at the time)
I still haven't found any spare time to look into alternative ROMs but I would like to know what I need to do to when I di find time

[chrisgixer]

That garage wiring looks like an electrical nightmare.. Did they get Bodgeit & Scarper Electricals in to wire it up?

As for welding clothing - t-shirt and some gardening gloves. You'll be fine. The burns heal quite quickly... (At a minimum, long sleeve heavy cotton clothing, long gloves or welding gauntlets, welding mask and I know some folks who wear safety glasses under the mask as a final layer of protection for when a little ball of molten metal jumps behind the mask and bounces around like a possessed firefly)

Yes I've heard tell of these mental balls of molten metal. Guffer mentioned the ones that fall down the back your gloves/gauntlets and burn through your sleeve.

I presume once the setting are sorted these are less likely

[TheBoy]

Why? Ive got one, its rated at 13amp fully unwound

1) The cable takes a battering when being fully unwound
2) They tend to be so cheap and nasty, that their specs leave little leeway

3) That was what the fire brigade thought caused my problem.

[AndyRoid]

Thanks Mark. The phone works fine so I don't see that you 'screwed up' (especially given the quantity of morphine you were dosed up on at the time)
I still haven't found any spare time to look into alternative ROMs but I would like to know what I need to do to when I di find time

You need a program called Odin, and an insecure kernel......and that's it.

I have a suitable kernel here that includes ClockWorkMod recovery and SuperUser so you can make a complete "ghost" image of the handset in case you kill it along the way, I'll put a quick "how to" together along with the required files in the next couple of days for you bud 

As far as custom ROM's go, I tend to stick to Samsung based ROM's and I'd recommend OmegaROM as a good starting point as you dictate what the default system apps will be (eg, Facebook, etc) rather than your service provider (in other words, no useless bloatware taking up space).

You can also repartition the internal SD card to regain up to 3GB of internal storage dependant on system configuration, but we're probably better off saving that one for another day.

[Andy H]

Andyroid, thanks for the pointers. As we seem to be hijacking chrisgixers's garage thread I have started a new one http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=118279.msg1498985#new

[chrisgixer]

Ooff don't worry about that Andy, this is gen dis after all.

[Sir Tigger KC]

So do you keep any gas bottles in your garage Chris? 

[zirk]

How long is the cable extention?, I personally think you should start again from scratch. May be able to get my hands on some 3 core (4mm SWA Amoured) for a price of a beer if its of use to you, as long as its not hundreds of meters. 

[chrisgixer]

So do you keep any gas bottles in your garage Chris? 

Aargon.

Oh, and a can of liter gas. Best I can offer you there Digger.

[Andy B]

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Oh, and a can of liter gas.  .....

 
Is that, by any chance, something similar to lighter gas? 

[Sir Tigger KC]

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Oh, and a can of liter gas.  .....

 
Is that, by any chance, something similar to lighter gas? 

No, it's just a lighter gas than Argon, at least that's what I think he's on about...    I doubt he knows what he's on about himself really!!   

[dbdb]

It'll be hot air.  TB lost all his.