• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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  1. Robert

    I don’t like our new induction hob

    We have induction. Mrs bought a set of 'induction ready' saucepans. They are aluminium with a steel layer on the bottom for the induction to work....and they are pretty rubbish. The smallest pans don't register on the hob as being there so do not heat up at all - they've been given away. The...
  2. Robert

    Grinding aluminium

    Back when I was working we didn't do a lot of aluminium fabricating but as I remember it we used artificial tallow on the sanding discs to prevent clogging. That’s angle grinder backing pad and sanding disc not grinding wheel. Virtually all weld grinding was done with sanding discs as grinding...
  3. Robert

    Bread Baking

    I bake in loaf tins quite regularly. A tip I picked up and works for me is never wash a loaf tin after use - scrape any adhered bits out if there are any and next use nothing sticks. The other thing I do is tip the loaf out of the tin 5 minutes before the end and put in the oven upside down to...
  4. Robert

    Emergency alarm call

    When we got the emergency call in Greece it made your phone beep a few times and then displayed a full screen message in Greek and English telling you what was the problem and what you should do. It wasn't a text message and if you touched 'OK' it disappeared never to be seen...
  5. Robert

    Emergency alarm call

    Worked here. I was in Kefalonia Greece a couple of weeks ago and it worked there too. Wildfire warnings came through with evacuation instructions - fortunately for a different island not ours.
  6. Robert

    Mike builds a teardrop (tongue box and conduit)

    There are other considerations that might affect choices. How are you going to recharge the battery? Do you want solar panels to do that (flexible ones are light weight)? Do you want to power anything with mains voltage from the battery (100A from a single LiFePO4 battery will give you just over...
  7. Robert

    Mike builds a teardrop (tongue box and conduit)

    I've a small solar setup in the garden shed running garden lights and providing power for music etc on the patio next to the shed. It's been running for a few years now. I started off with a 'leisure battery' which was a large lead acid battery. Within a year it was down to half its rated...
  8. Robert

    Old photo

    I had a cousin when I was a kid who was killed on a motorbike when he was that age (not his fault) so me going anywhere near a motorbike was family taboo. To this day I've never sat on one let alone ridden one. No one to be worried now but I'll not be learning to ride. From riding a cycle I...
  9. Robert

    Mike builds a teardrop (tongue box and conduit)

    Mine is pumping to an open pipe so never sees pressure build up from a tap being closed so it would never turn itself off. I use a timer for on and off.
  10. Robert

    Mike builds a teardrop (tongue box and conduit)

    I've some experience of 12V DC water pumps. For a few years now I've been doing hydroponic veg growing and the nutrient water is supplied using 12v pumps. When I started out I bought submersible pumps (I have 2 systems running) one was whale brand the other some chinese no name. neither lasted...
  11. Robert

    Can't get at woodhaven from PC

    Since Kaspersky became a no no I've been using Bitdefender. so far so good. It has blocked the odd link but none that I wanted to use. I paid £20 for 5 devices for a year last time. Currently £15 on Amazon prime day.
  12. Robert

    Can't get at woodhaven from PC

    Googling 'ssl errors on one PC only' (is that correct?) Brings up wrong date or time on the PC as the usual cause and a bunch of other stuff that all seem unlikely. No problem here either btw.
  13. Robert

    Delayed emails

    If you can work out how to either view source or view headers in your email program you can see how the message got to you and when. An email goes through servers to get to you. If the server is busy or has problems the message goes in a queue. the headers list all the steps and the time it...
  14. Robert

    Close encounters.

    We had a sparrowhawk chase a pigeon into our patio doors. I saw and heard it crash into the glass and drop to the patio. The hawk managed to stop and grabbed the dead or stunned pigeon and fly off with it to the top of the garden to eat it. Think it was too heavy to go further than our garden as...
  15. Robert

    In need a catch to hold a lid down. Finally got a roundtuit

    Cabin hook or 'cabin door hook' come in various sizes but maybe not really a furniture fitting...
  16. Robert

    Double-glazing problem

    Depends on the design of the glazing. We had a UPVC conservatory with external beading. I replaced a blown unit and was shocked how easy it was to remove the strips with just a screwdriver and lift the panel out. Conservatory is long gone now.
  17. Robert

    Double-glazing problem

    I can't see glazing strips that you remove to take out the sealed unit so they must be on the outside which may be a bit of a security risk.
  18. Robert

    Garden Table

    Are you sure you really need that cross arrangement at the top of the column? The table top looks like it will be a pretty strong item. Why not just fit a short horizontal block say 300mm long and the width of the 2 middle cross bars to the column and screw the top on through that. have a...
  19. Robert

    Electric Motor Problem, 2nd new motor rec’d, and resistance tests

    I've been out all day. Good news with the new motor. This thread has reminded me how much I don't know :)
  20. Robert

    Electric Motor Problem, 2nd new motor rec’d, and resistance tests

    I didn't expand your quote reply so didn't see the numbers until now. I took ONC electrical engineering and HNC electronics back in the 70's. We covered induction motors on the ONC but it hasn't been part of my working life so no claim to expertise just memories and a general electrical...
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