Originally posted by ladymuck
View Post
- Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
- Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!
test please delete
Collapse
This is a sticky topic.
X
X
Collapse
-
-
Hoping to have the ignore list business sorted out today… wish they didn't make everything so complicatedComment
-
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
Hoping to have the ignore list business sorted out today… wish they didn't make everything so complicatedmerely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
-
Walk briskly walked, green ring closed
It was damp with a very bracing breeze, then a bit of rain started in the last hundred yards or so. But overall, quite refreshingComment
-
No trundling has occurred or will occur, as the struts propping up the stable roof make it impossible to get the bin down the now open-sided alley, and I'm not giving myself a hernia trying to shift the temporary barriers erected to keep us out of next door's back yardComment
-
Originally posted by ladymuck View PostMy Dad keeps nagging me to check my car as it's not been moved for a month.
I know I should but I just can't be bothered.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
-
Originally posted by vetran View Post
Whip out start it up and listen to the radio for 10 minutes. Or wait till you need it and have a flat battery.Comment
-
A very nice tea tonight: pork chop, chips, peas and gravy
Only the one chop as I had three left in the freezer so needed a single-chop meal to balance things out, and decided I'd save the other two. So a double-chop meal awaits in the not-too-distant future
They must have been in the freezer for about a year as I got them from the market shortly before Lockdown 1.0 started, if I remember correctly. Still very nice and flavourful though.Comment
-
The Strangelove(tm) battery charger is an heirloom, which was purchased in about 1963 to charge the battery of the then current StrangeloveMobile, being a Wolseley 6/80:
https://www.classicandsportscar.com/...s-wolseley-680
Commonly used as a police car in the 50s, so causing all sorts of trauma.
TheCromptonCrypton AE3 Electric battery charger had copper oxide rectifiers that yours truly replaced with silicon diodes back in about 1972 when the old rectifiers died.
The replacements are so much more efficient that it required a voltage drop to stop it grossly overcharging.
There's also a rather bigger charger/starter that's heavy enough to require wheels.
Here's a picture of an AE3 battery charger:
https://picclick.co.uk/Vintage-Crypt...531575033.html
It is graced with a moving iron ammeter which gives the true rms current reading of what's going into the battery, which a moving coil meter wouldn't.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 5 March 2021, 16:53.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
-
I stopped the charger briefly an hour or so ago so I could check with the multimeter, and the voltage is at a much more acceptable level. It must be getting near fully charged by now so I'll probably stop it overnight; I'm sure my Halfords charger's auto-stop feature will work rather than it burning the place down, but you can't be too careful and I can finish it off tomorrow
Tonight's viewing has been some more Trucking Hell while dining. Might knock that on the head for a bit; it gets rather repetitive when they explain all the intricate details of how to tow a lorry three times in the same programme
And then more of The Americans: S3E2 Baggage (TV Episode 2015) and S3E3 Open House (TV Episode 2015)
Goodnight allComment
Partners
- Home
- News & Features
- First Timers
- IR35 / S660 / BN66
- Employee Benefit Trusts
- Agency Workers Regulations
- MSC Legislation
- Limited Companies
- Dividends
- Umbrella Company
- VAT / Flat Rate VAT
- Job News & Guides
- Money News & Guides
- Guide to Contracts
- Successful Contracting
- Contracting Overseas
- Contractor Calculators
- MVL
- Contractor Expenses
Advertisers
Contractor Services
CUK News
- Streamline Your Retirement with iSIPP: A Solution for Contractor Pensions Sep 1 09:13
- Making the most of pension lump sums: overview for contractors Sep 1 08:36
- Umbrella company tribunal cases are opening up; are your wages subject to unlawful deductions, too? Aug 31 08:38
- Contractors, relabelling 'labour' as 'services' to appear 'fully contracted out' won't dupe IR35 inspectors Aug 31 08:30
- How often does HMRC check tax returns? Aug 30 08:27
- Work-life balance as an IT contractor: 5 top tips from a tech recruiter Aug 30 08:20
- Autumn Statement 2023 tipped to prioritise mental health, in a boost for UK workplaces Aug 29 08:33
- Final reminder for contractors to respond to the umbrella consultation (closing today) Aug 29 08:09
- Top 5 most in demand cyber security contract roles Yesterday 08:38
- Changes to the right to request flexible working are incoming, but how will contractors be affected? Aug 24 08:25
Comment