Rant of the Day v2.

[Pontius Navigator]

It's an ill wind........

[CharlieOneSix]

Not truly a rant as I can understand the reasons - at my visit last week I had noted that my excellent dental hygienist had raised her fees for a half hour appointment from £40 to £50 when she restarted seeing people. I didn't think to query it but a friend who went to her did query it and the reason is it's £10 extra for the single use PPE for her and the nurse. Hopefully when things return to normal and PPE is no longer required for procedures involving water/airborne particles the fee will reduce.....

[OFSO]

That is a rip-off. Both local dentists here have always (i.e BC) used one-off protective clothing.

[Pontius Navigator]

C16, both our dentist and assistant now wear masks, it used to be just the dentist. The masks now are much more akin to an oxygen mask with a hard shell and tight fit. I don't think they are one time though. NHS prices have risen too by about a pound.

[k3k3]

Our dentist surgery does a full decontam procedure between patients which limits the number of patients per day.

[Pontius Navigator]

Same here though they manage brilliantly. They are open 12x7 and give you a timed appointment, ie a check is 20 minutes, some an hour and you never have to wait. They are able to give an appointment same week even.

[ExSp33db1rd]

Blxxdy Motor Bike won’t start. Good battery turns over the motor at a fair lick, tank is nearly full and fuel in the carb. sumps checked by opening the drains , so not a fuel starvation problem, choke mechanical operation OK – can’t see what it actually does, but all the external connections and movements are normal. I suspect ignition of course, but to check the plugs I have to remove the tank and major bits which I don’t have time to do at the moment. I could put an external plug on one of the more easily accessible leads to check, but Murphy recently dictated that whilst undergoing some garage clearance I didn’t need a few old plugs that were lying around, so I don’t even have one old plug to play with. Never throw anything away. I doubt that all four plugs would fail at the same time, anyway and suspect the handlebar kill switch. I’ve given it a good squirt of aerosol switch cleaner and blown it dry with an aerosol of compressed air to no avail, and the man-wot-does says that in the event that this is the cause then it can be wired out of circuit, which suits me., the central ignition switch is working OK. A new kill switch, even if available some 35 years after manufacture, is a major, being an integral part of the whole right hand handlebar throttle assembly.

Any experiences ?

[ribrash]

Blxxdy Motor Bike won’t start. Good battery turns over the motor at a fair lick, tank is nearly full and fuel in the carb. sumps checked by opening the drains , so not a fuel starvation problem, choke mechanical operation OK – can’t see what it actually does, but all the external connections and movements are normal. I suspect ignition of course, but to check the plugs I have to remove the tank and major bits which I don’t have time to do at the moment. I could put an external plug on one of the more easily accessible leads to check, but Murphy recently dictated that whilst undergoing some garage clearance I didn’t need a few old plugs that were lying around, so I don’t even have one old plug to play with. Never throw anything away. I doubt that all four plugs would fail at the same time, anyway and suspect the handlebar kill switch. I’ve given it a good squirt of aerosol switch cleaner and blown it dry with an aerosol of compressed air to no avail, and the man-wot-does says that in the event that this is the cause then it can be wired out of circuit, which suits me., the central ignition switch is working OK. A new kill switch, even if available some 35 years after manufacture, is a major, being an integral part of the whole right hand handlebar throttle assembly.

Any experiences ?

Years ago I couldn't get my Capri to start.Checked every thing,changed what I could.Rang my garage man.He told me to check the butterfly valve in the carb ( manual choke in those days ) Can't remember if it was stuck open or closed.Cleaned the inside of the carb and everything went back to normal.

[OFSO]

Years ago my Daimler Benz motorhome would not start after a rest stop on the way back to Germany from my getting married (first time). All my in-laws on board. Engine inside the vehicle, under a cover. We phoned Mercedes directly and they said hit the starter relay with a hammer. We replied done that with a large screwdriver handle, to which the guy at Mercedes said "use a large hammer - the Mercedes is a refined vehicle. " We did and it started. (Never happened again. ) Father-in-law was a blacksmith by trade, worked for Opel. Found incident hilarious.

[ExSp33db1rd]

Been through the starter motor saga, eventually replaced the starter motor, but not that this time and the starter winds the motor over at a fair lick. Not had time to investigate further yet, next action to check if I'm getting a spark at the plugs, suspect not.

[G-CPTN]

I had a vehicle which had a propensity for destroying distributor contact-breaker points sets.

[llondel]

I had a starter motor failure on my current car. It was showing signs of something not being happy, although that was fixed with a bit of percussive maintenance with a length of 4x2 I kept in the car. Until one day it didn't. Of course, it was the day when I was up near SFO, and it was dark. Of course, being an automatic, you can't just bump start it. Had to pay for a tow home, and ordered a new starter motor, which I fitted. Except I forgot to reconnect the radiator fan, and in traffic a few days later I became aware of clouds of steam rising from the bonnet. Plan B, engage the emergency cooler - open the car windows and turn up the heat and fan inside the car. That got it down low enough to get home and plug the fan back in. I'd figured out immediately what the problem when I saw the steam, so it was just a case of get it home and fix it.

[Pontius Navigator]

Based on TGG's scurrilous post elsewhere :

TGG, I gave that as much attention as BM's posts.

My cheap chinky phone spell checker is pretty good. It is the Amazon one that is particularly inept and frustrating.
I type a word and it displays something else even though the first was correct. I back space, correct and carry on but fail to notice that it ignored my correction.

Or it spots a typo, offers the correct word but if I then enter a comma or period ignores it's own correct suggestion.

Or there maybe a small correction, say I want to add an S. I back space to the word and enter S only for it to display word S which necessitates further back spacing and deletion of the space.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Based on TGG's scurrilous post elsewhere :

TGG, I gave that as much attention as BM's posts.

My cheap chinky phone spell checker is pretty good. It is the Amazon one that is particularly inept and frustrating.
I type a word and it displays something else even though the first was correct. I back space, correct and carry on but fail to notice that it ignored my correction.

Or it spots a typo, offers the correct word but if I then enter a comma or period ignores it's own correct suggestion.

Or there maybe a small correction, say I want to add an S. I back space to the word and enter S only for it to display word S which necessitates further back spacing and deletion of the space.

[Boac]

PN- any clues which

scurrilous post elsewhere :??

It is the Amazing one that is particularly incest and fermenting.
I type a weird and it displays something else even though the fist was collect.

Have you actually tried turning it off?

[Pontius Navigator]

I might try and find out how

[TheGreenGoblin]

PN- any clues which

scurrilous post elsewhere :??

It is the Amazing one that is particularly incest and fermenting.
I type a weird and it displays something else even though the fist was collect.

Have you actually tried turning it off?

This one Boac.

viewtopic.php?p=304450#p304450

[Boac]

I might try and find out how

What is the tablet? On my 'Fire' it is at

Settings
Keyboard & Language
Current Keyboard Settings
Auto-correction

Mine went off on day 1!

[4mastacker]

Fck'n BT....nuff said!!

[Pontius Navigator]

47 years
"Would you like t put some pasta on?"

"Where is it?" Now it could be in the pantry or it could be in the cupboard that she is standing in front of.

"Get out of the kitchen"

It is entirely analogous to "Pass me a screw driver." My garage, my tools, after 47 years I don't ask for the 1 1/2 inch dome headed jappened screws and blade screw driver. Ever since pasta morphed from spaghetti or macaroni i have no idea.