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    Quote Originally Posted by p38arover View Post
    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.
    Jees I hoe you don't live too close to the Main West Line.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cuppabillytea View Post
    Jees I hoe you don't live too close to the Main West Line.

    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? ) 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.

    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.


    You should have been there Cuppa.

    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.
    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.


    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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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post
    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? ) 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.

    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.


    You should have been there Cuppa.
    Were it not for the fact that they pay me to, I would never go so close to a Railway.
    Cheers, Billy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cuppabillytea View Post
    Were it not for the fact that they pay me to, I would never go so close to a Railway.

    Not even to board a train?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post
    Not even to board a train?
    Oh ok, if I have to.
    Cheers, Billy.
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    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.

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

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by p38arover View Post
    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.

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

    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.


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

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    Unhappy O brother.

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by jx2mad View Post
    Not quite buying faulty goods but the machine broke down half way through my colonoscopy on Tuesday. Encore performance on Wednesday week
    I bet that left the Specialist in the **** or what may have been what was left after your cleanout.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by p38arover View Post
    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.

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