Well whatever it was that went up, it certainly did it in style, look at the aftermath, buildings have been flattened, windows smashed over a huge area, thats one hell of a mess to be cleaned up and many people will be adversely affected.
Meanwhile in other news, my switches have arrived so that I can get back on with my 7150 plus meters and finish off on the updating of the input jacks to accept standard shrouded leads.
In other news, off-topic but may be interesting, I have a small Karcher pressure washer but since my eldest son burrowed it to wash his car, I can't find the pressure hose and gun for it anymore in the garage because its a bloody tip in there. I was looking idly at Gumtree over the weekend and I saw this pressure washer listed for sale a few miles away from me for £25. It had been on there for a few weeks, so I rang the seller and did what everybody does to me, offered a lower amount of £20 which was accepted. The seller said that it made noises but did not pump any more and I thought that it was likely to be a simple fix.
Yesterday I tried it out and discovered that the gun had a leak and water was not quite gushing out, but was coming out pretty quickly without switching the pump on. Switching on the pump and it ran, stopped as pressure built-up without the trigger being squeezed, as normal then because the leak was happening, dropped, pump kicked in and the cycle repeated. This meant the 2.1kW motor was taking somewhere around 8 times its normal running current and was getting hot to the point, it stopped and just hummed.
Pulling the gun apart and the reason was easy to spot, there were the remains of an O ring laying inside the housing. Ordered a set of O rings from Amazon, they arrived today, new O ring fitted and gun re-assembled, pump all connected together and switched on bingo. It only now works perfectly and the beauty of it is the same pressure house also fits my old Karcher which has considerably less power though. So I can now wash my car at home and save a small fortune on car washes, not to mention £48 a year on having our wheelie bin cleaned by a mobile power washing company, once a month. So for a total outlay of just £25 with the O rings, I now have a massive pressure washer working at 12 bar. The upside of all this is going to be hopefully more cash for TEA
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