One of the local shops had just tracked me down. They had lost my phone number and their lights were not working.
All they know is my first name and that I drive a white van - they just kept asking customers if they knew me - and one of them did.
And what where the odds of the first light I took down being the cause of the fault? Certainly less than someone in the local shop knowing me.
Christmas is a miraculous time.
I had te same problem with te Xmas tree lights. SWMBO said '#they stopped working at the end of last hear'
One moments thought and I realised the quickest thing was to remove ALL the bulbs, and test them with a meter across teh wires. Two dead (how to TWO bulbs in a chain below) and then put them all back plus tow new ones. Voila!
That plus installing the new slim TV which went where I had always intended the TV should go....
However the FM radio which share the same bit of coax was staying where it now was. Um. I soldered a spur of coax to the downlead (originally extended to take it to the old, "new TV position", and bugger me, FM still works and TV gets all 106 channels of s*it plus some new HD ones.
The reflections must be vile. Thank Clapton for the old labgear distro amp..and enough boost to obliterate minor problems.
Now to get an RJ45 brass wall plate to connect it to the interweb and UPNP server..
Once again by a miracle the telephone socket, no longer used, has spare unterminated cat 5 going back to the patch panel.
Maybe you need to start giving out consumer unit magnets?
Owain
Will that be double time or for free in the Xmas spirit?
So there is something to this fault devining then.
Brian
In message , ARW writes
I can sympathise with you, I had a very apologetic phone call at 19:30 tonight, Christmas day, from the owner/manager of a local community radio station. A power supply had died, did I have a replacement? It was on his main mixer and so there was no output from the station, not good. Ah well at least it got me out of the house for a couple of hours and he now owes me a BIG favour :-)
Well I did not charge them. There was however a crate of beer waiting for me after I had loaded my tools up.
Mine was nearer to home... Went over to my parents on Christmas eve together with much of the family. Flushed the loo just before going to bed, only to find the water level settle far too high in the trap.
Christmas morning, I'm outside with drain rods, in between the yougsters opening their stockings, and breakfast, and got it all moving again.
Later in the day, dad poured several pints of goose fat down the kitchen sink, so I'm fully expecting to be out there again sometime...
Either your dad is a slow learner, or doesn't spend much time in a kitchen. I knew fat and drains don't mix before I was a teenager...
And goose fat is an expensive luxury item!
And the taxman can collect his share from the drains!
Good result.
I know he's your Dad and all, but that's pretty daft.
Makes terrific roast potatoes.
Yes, foodie son convinced SWTNFI to buy some, and they were good.
He knows someone else will fix it...
Indeed, it was used on the roast potatoes.
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