My propensity for buying faulty goods continues.

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Originally Posted by p38arover

Faulty by association?

Our daughter bought us a new stovetop kettle (bloody expensive - I wouldn't have bought it).

Anyway, instead of a whistle, it has two reeds in the spout that vibrate when the steam passes through the spout. It sounds like a diesel train.

It lasted about 2 weeks before one of the reeds vibrated enough to break off so it no longer whistled (dieseled?). Fortunately, the supplier replaced it once we sent a photo of the reed sitting in the spout behind the safety mesh.

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Jees I hoe you don't live too close to the Main West Line.

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Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Jees I hoe you don't live too close to the Main West Line.

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Or any other mainline. A real Loco rumbles past the debris & through the house. Kerschlunk! She says, "if you are making a "cuppa" (see how your name was woven into your thread cuppa? [bigrolf]) can I have a biscuit with mine darls?"

He's too far away up the hillside to hear while trying madly to locate the sales Docket.


There is a rail level crossing near here that seems to to have the track within 2 metres from the house back door.
They just have to be railway nutters. 1km long freighters pass though at all hours of the night & early morning.

Hope they don't have one of Ron's faulty kettles.:Rolling:

No idea how that was allowed as they don't need blokes with red flags & lamps & there never was a gate. As a matter of fact when on a Night Hike with the scouts real yonks ago, me & a mate actually slept in the Halt shelter shed (now gone) on the other side of the crossing. Overnight there must have been 6 or 7 snarling, fire breathing big Steam Locos pass by, some slow & some fast. & jesuz they sounded like they were coming through the GI screen. Not much of a night hike as it was ****ing down but was an interesting night all the same.
It would have been handy if one had stopped & allowed us to fill a billy can from the outboard steam line for a cuppa but of course they never did.

EDIT. Oh yeah the Crossing Warning Gongs drove us bonkers all night. That'll learn us.[bigsad][bigsad]


You should have been there Cuppa.[bigrolf]

So much SAR then ANR infrastructure was removed when the Comm rail bunch started to concentrate on moving freight.



ie. Track side Shelter sheds Electrically Driven Loco Turntables, water tanks & railway dams, platforms, signal gantries & masts, & heaps & heaps of other misc gear consigned to the scrap heap or reused.

If you didn't know different you would not have known a Railway even existed there.


One suspects the UK's Dr Beeching was in charge here.

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Dr Richard Beeching is much maligned as the Chairman of the British Railways Board who wielded his axe, closing thousands of miles of railway and stations in the 1960s.

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The branch line to Mount Pleasant via Oakbank, Woodside, Mount Torrens & some other Halts through the Onkaparinga Valley near here was closed & it was a lovely, lovely rail journey at the time. I believe I witnessed the very last Steam Hauled Goods makeup leaving Mount Pleasant while on a trip I did & coming back to Adelaide by car from Mannum.


The low level Woodside "Station" would have taken Battalions of WW2 Troops from the camp onto Troop Trains & sent them on their merry way overseas.
Station Yard at Mt Pleasant is now a bare sports Ground & the Track Bed the whole way is a bituminised Cycle track.

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Originally Posted by 4bee

Or any other mainline. A real Loco rumbles past the debris & through the house. Kerschlunk! She says, "if you are making a "cuppa" (see how your name was woven into your thread cuppa? [bigrolf]) can I have a biscuit with mine darls?"

He's too far away up the hillside to hear while trying madly to locate the sales Docket.


There is a rail level crossing near here that seems to to have the track within 2 metres from the house back door.
They just have to be railway nutters. 1km long freighters pass though at all hours of the night & early morning.

Hope they don't have one of Ron's faulty kettles.:Rolling:

No idea how that was allowed as they don't need blokes with red flags & lamps & there never was a gate. As a matter of fact when on a Night Hike with the scouts real yonks ago, me & a mate actually slept in the Halt shelter shed (now gone) on the other side of the crossing. Overnight there must have been 6 or 7 snarling, fire breathing big Steam Locos pass by, some slow & some fast. & jesuz they sounded like they were coming through the GI screen. Not much of a night hike as it was ****ing down but was an interesting night all the same.
It would have been handy if one had stopped & allowed us to fill a billy can from the outboard steam line for a cuppa but of course they never did.

EDIT. Oh yeah the Crossing Warning Gongs drove us bonkers all night. That'll learn us.[bigsad][bigsad]


You should have been there Cuppa.[bigrolf]

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Were it not for the fact that they pay me to, I would never go so close to a Railway.

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Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Were it not for the fact that they pay me to, I would never go so close to a Railway.

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Not even to board a train?[biggrin]

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Originally Posted by 4bee

Not even to board a train?[biggrin]

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Oh ok, if I have to.

It's struck again!

A NAS box I bought secondhand recently has been working fine up until a couple of days ago. Now it looks like the power supply has failed. [bigsad]

(I don't blame the previous owner, these things happen with electronics - well, to me at least! [biggrin] )

My wife suggests there is something in my make up that destroys things by touching.

Now to open it up and to see if I can fix it.

At least there's nothing valuable stored on the box hard drives.

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Originally Posted by p38arover

It's struck again!

A NAS box I bought secondhand recently has been working fine up until a couple of days ago. Now it looks like the power supply has failed. [bigsad]

(I don't blame the previous owner, these things happen with electronics - well, to me at least! [biggrin] )

My wife suggests there is something in my make up that destroys things by touching.

Now to open it up and to see if I can fix it.

At least there's nothing valuable stored on the box hard drives.

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That is probably what killed it, it's lack of Acceptance & Character, so decided to end it all.

Not quite buying faulty goods but the machine broke down half way through my colonoscopy on Tuesday. Encore performance on Wednesday week

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Originally Posted by jx2mad

Not quite buying faulty goods but the machine broke down half way through my colonoscopy on Tuesday. Encore performance on Wednesday week

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I bet that left the Specialist in the **** or what may have been what was left after your cleanout. [bigrolf][bigrolf]

You really only want to that once until next time don't you.

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Originally Posted by p38arover

A NAS box I bought secondhand recently has been working fine up until a couple of days ago. Now it looks like the power supply has failed. [bigsad]

(I don't blame the previous owner, these things happen with electronics - well, to me at least! [biggrin] )

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I had the same thing happen with a not so cheap quality Sony slide/film scanner. I got about 2 scans out of it before the power supply failed. Fortunately, the Nikon SCSI scanner the guy added to the deal is still running fine. :)