Replacing gas fire thermocouple

As it turned out, in this _specific_ case, you're quite right. For anyone else having to deal with exactly the OP's symptoms but no obvious visible sign of the fault, my observations will be quite helpful in understanding how it works and the issues in trying to perform electrical tests with a typical multimeter.

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Johny B Good
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Thank you.

Your points had pretty much been covered elsewhere in the thread and without the bloat. No need to write a books, less can be more.

Reply to
fred

So what you're saying in your roundabout way, is that my summation of the much greater verbiage covering, with just the odd erroneous fact, all the basics and the pros and cons of such a repair, won't be of any use to someone looking to pick the one posting worth filing away for future reference? :-)

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Johny B Good

What I am saying is that your undoubted knowledge across many subjects and delivered across many relevant forums is both generous and welcome. The delivery however could benefit, on occasion, from a more concise and perhaps less complete handling of the subject for the benefit of those with attention spans encompassing the 75 percentile subject norm :-)

Since Google f'ckd access to their usenet time machine, there is little point is posting for posterity.

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fred

Ah, a fair point well made . I do wish I could discipline myself to resist 'going overboard' a little more effectively when trying to impart the benefit of my experience and knowledge. :-(

That's a real shame. :-(

Still, just because google have gotten things cocked up at the moment, that's no excuse in my view, not to make some effort at making my contributions available for all to view and ponder.

There have been times in the past when I've reviewed my missives and decided to delete whole paragraphs' worth of, usually anecdotal, verbiage that seemed so essential until I asked myself the question, "That's an awful lot of text, is this really essential (or even helpful)?" and made "The Supreme Sacrifice" by deleting something I may have wast..., er, invested a good half hour's worth or more of my time in.

I don't think I'm making enough such "Supreme Sacrifices" to compensate for my tendency to create such offerings I aught not to have created in the first place.

And, with apologies for this, I'm about to demonstrate the very point you made by offering my analysis of my 'writing style'. Basically, it comes down to a desire to compensate for the supremely 'brief and to the point' explanations only 'science teachers' in the first vital years at secondary school seemed to over specialise in when explaining basic mechanical scientific principles to the class, often to the point of 'pointlessness' thus making the subject seem needlessly complicated when it really isn't.

The best analogy I can think of would be to keep the explanation of 'what a spear is' limited to by saying it has a very sharp point and leaving it at that, neglecting to mention it is only effective as a spear by possessing a suitable amount of inertia requiring a suitably fashioned mass attached to the blunt end of said 'sharp point', shaped for easy grip and in a form as far from that of a parachute as it could possibly be (IOW, a 'stick').

I find it very hard to resist going into (overly) great detail now that I'm fully aware of the sins of ommission that were routinely committed by a profession whose job it was to (properly) 'explain things'. I'm sorry about this but that is where my tendency to 'over-explain' things comes from.

Given my propensity of not knowing when to stop and tie a ribbon on it, if it weren't for mental exhaustion, my replying to any question could end up including everything from the "Big Bang" origin of the universe to the present day state of humanity's knowledge just to put my 'answer' into perspective. Thank God for "Mental Exhaustion" eh?

I obviously need to cultivate a more succinct style. I suppose I could start off by relegating any additional information, as a compromise between brevity and completeness, to footnotes for the reader to deal with at their leisure.

Perhaps I'll be able improve my 'writing style', now that I've publicly analysed what drives me to write such inordinately long postings. I'm certainly mindful of the need for brevity so there's some hope of achieving this desirable goal.

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Johny B Good

tl;dr

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Andy Burns

Knowledge is only imparted if the reader manages to reach the bottom of the post.

I fear that many would not reach the bottom of your more verbose ones.

F'ck me, there you go again.

You'll need to get someone else to write your epitaph, the granite needed to record one of your own would likely bankrupt your estate ;-)

I'll try to ignore your OCD in future if you'll consider ignoring my rudeness in bringing it up.

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fred

Well, I did warn you and apologised in advance. :-)

I'll leave that job to my surviving kith and kin.

I appreciate your honest and to the point criticism. It's not really rude if it's the plain honest truth unsullied by gratuitous invective.

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Johny B Good

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