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Aye.. Was an arse of a job.. A real struggle to get some of the pipes off.
Coolant, rust and mud in both eyes too. And to top it off the new metal pipe didn't have a new drain plug on it so had to put a rusty piece of crappy bolt back on.
Its crap all round. Only plus point is that i became very quick at changing them in the end. An ally version would be ideal.
Why not get one made then?
Will you not get a galvanic issue?
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This more money than sense white elephant that's in the house we bought gets my vote.
Clearly it burns gallons of oil but it's also crap at its job.
50% bigger than a normal cooker yet it only has one oven (other doors are controls, a blank and a plate warmer).
Oven is far hotter in one corner than the rest.
Temperature control is vague at best.
Should be serviced every year at about £150.
Corroding pretty badly after a decade.
It is also a boiler but at £5000 to buy that's barely relevant. Bloody awful thing.
The original Gaggia Cubika, anyone who says that the water tank comes out easy, is either a liar, or a gynaecologist, or maybe both.
Luket,
Get an AGA. Amazing piece of kit
But an Aga isn't a boiler so is an even worse piece of design, it merely cooks and can provide hot water but only at skin stripping temperatures, and then only if you are prepared to wait. Oh and they cost how much? Buy an ordinary cooker and a decent boiler.
Can I add to the list - The RHI Scheme.
Aga? Do you leave your Range Rover running all night just in case you want to pop down the shops? I'm with Bear.
I lived with one as a kid but I never had to pay the bills and hadn't heard of climate change at the time. They're good to cook on but no reason a normal cooker should be less good.
I'm wondering whether it's more irresponsible to the environment to keep using the thing or dispose of it...
Why the RHI? It is a bit silly/crude but we need something to do its job and these mechanisms are never perfect. It's a means to get people using more sensible technology than Agas and the like!
Because the RHI scheme makes money for those that can afford to install the technologies.
It should be about becoming less reliant on fossil fuels and not a scheme to make money, fine if you use these technologies and they cost more to install, then fine reimburse people up to the value of the install, not beyond (in some cases way beyond).
I have to say as well like many of these things it is a huge paperwork effort and I know of a few where they have qualified but there is no way that they should have been allowed to let the appliances run......
The one way system in Kendal.
If we're moaning about sink plugs, then the stupid flippy spiny ones get my vote. You have to put your hand back into the dirty water to open it and they get stuck with the tiniest bit of grit.
Yes. Whatever happened to good old plugs with a chain? 😕
Re: those Dyson Airblade hand-dryers, I've noticed that when you put your hands in the trough thing to activate it, it is actually quite easy to accidentally touch the plastic at the bottom and therefore compromise the whole point of a 'touch free' dryer.
Obviously if you are mindful you can ensure that your hands don't touch any of the plastic but after several pints in the pub this gets less and less likely I should think.
Brembo monobloc 4-pot caliper brake pad retaining pins. Taper fit steel pins in an aluminium casting that gets soaked by road spray. Very nearly wrote a caliper off last night trying to drift a corroded-in pin out.
In a similar vein: Land Rover's conteputous use of aluminium and steel in the same structure for a vehicle that was designed to spend its life covered in mud.
Fiat's rear drum brakes up to about 2004. The official method of adjusting being to replace absolutely everything, then reverse at full speed and jam the handbrake on repeatedly.
The drum assembly that bosch sold fiat to replace the above mechanism. Seemingly designed and built by an out of work Schwartzwald cuckoo clock manufacturer's incapable apprentice.
Re air hand driers : there was a recent study done that showed using an air hand drier increased the transmission and spread of bacteria which is pretty obvious really when you consider how they operate.
The one way system in Kendal.
good shout
The UK housing stock.
Which has generally taken no account of where the sun is, are often packed in so tightly you never get much sun, and as a result make the entire country even more reliant on vast quantities of stuff dug up from the ground in another country, to keep warm.
The ancient greeks had this stuff worked out a few thousand years ago ffs. South facing windows. Space between houses in north/south direction. Nothing so tall it obscured the sun for houses behind it. Etc.
chainring bolts, tiny fiddly bits of aluminium that chew the little slots in the back if you try to get them off, would be much better to have two flats on the outside of the back bolt to get a 9mm spanner around
The one way system in Kendal.
Its like a mobius strip
edhornby - Memberchainring bolts, tiny fiddly bits of aluminium that chew the little slots in the back if you try to get them off, would be much better to have two flats on the outside of the back bolt to get a 9mm spanner around
Sorted:
Lifer - even with a tool like that you need 3 hands to do the job
Don't tell me how many hands I need, fascist.