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Old 14-05-17, 12:29 PM   #4461
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The world does not revolve around the US.

I bought a 2 ring camping stove for my daughter to use with the local scouts as they have big pots but not a suitable cooker. I fitted a propane regulator to one of their burners and gave them the use of one of my 47KG bottles. (Bet they loved shifting that from my van (Yes they borrowed that too) to the kitchen tent) But they can only fit one pan on the little stove.

Well the new burner eventually arrived yesterday. Not from Ireland as stated in the ad, but China. So too late for them to take fortunately. As when I opened it the fitted regulator is US GCC1 20PSI.

I did think about ripping off the supplied regulator, But I cannot find a POL (UK) regulator of equivalent pressure. 20PS = ~1.3 Bar. I can get 1 or 2 bar. But 1 is slightly undersize and 2 is well oversize.

So I have opted to buy an adapter to convert between UK bottles and US regulators hoping that the 20PSI is optimised for the burners 8KW each.

So my gripe. When a vendor is selling into the UK. WTF can they not making their stuff UK compliant?
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Old 14-05-17, 01:39 PM   #4462
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Took the front off the SV to sort the intermittent indicator. Sorted it,cleaned contacts etc put it back together. Tested fine.
Parked in the garage and the indicator didn't work.
Wasted hour.
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Old 14-05-17, 02:04 PM   #4463
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OMG. I'm a retard.
I haven't checked for a fault with the lamp.
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Old 14-05-17, 08:49 PM   #4464
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Developed a stye. Bloody pain and hoping it doesn't affect my vision as I'm riding and driving millions of miles in the next few weeks.
Pharmacist told me to rub my golden wedding ring on a stye to get rid of it. Does seem to work
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Old 14-05-17, 09:15 PM   #4465
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Weekly BT Infinity junk mail through the letterbox.

I can only get <512K ADSL (aluminium cable 6 miles from exchange) and no Infinity. So why do they keep annoying me telling me to go Infinity when their infrastructure will not deliver.
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Pharmacist told me to rub my golden wedding ring on a stye to get rid of it. Does seem to work
Better value to take it to a jeweller tho
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Old 17-05-17, 07:44 PM   #4468
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My gripe is my broadband is down. Anyone else having trouble with Virgin Media?

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Ok for some. Big outage down here and probably won't be fixed until tomorrow.

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