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Oh, and I have some 0.6 and 0.8 nozzles turning up from ching chong. Allegedly genuine Creality parts.  Don't use pattern nozzles with hardened steel tips, they tend to blow the tips out.

That should speed up some of my longer prints.

I've also ordered 10 reels of Hyper PLA RFID for £84 delivered from Creality, because, well, errr, its a fettish.  The printer will soon gobble them up, esp with the bigger nozzles!


Can't remember if I said I had stick on RFID tags for my non RFID spools.  That works well - I know it only takes a few taps to manually enter on the printer, but RFID is proper lazy

Tunnie...

Was your BMW built in Mexico and shipped from there to Blighty?

My M240i was and it took 13 months to arrive, probably because the Mexican workers were fast asleep under a sombrero and blanket for 10 hours each day. 

The K2 doesn't come with the extra feet like the K1 Max did.  TBH, it doesn't affect the amount of wobble.  Not sure about the standard K2, but the K2 Plus case a very rigid frame, far more rigid than the K1 Max, which does help a bit.

The wobble itself isn't necessarily a problem for the print and it's quality - that's why it does a bit of a shake test during calibration - but the furniture it sits on might not like it for long.

Mine is sat on a PLA printed drawer setup, with that having 2mm of TPU printed feet under it.

so put the battery on the charger which went right to current limit of 8A.

Nothing actually wrong with that, as 3 weeks of 50mA had taken a bit out of it.

They key is how long it takes a high current for - the longer the better, as that's an indication of it's capacity. Making it over simplistic, on a 80Ahr  battery (cant remember what Omega is? 74Ahr?), from totally flat (ignoring that would shag the battery), 8A would be needed for 10 hours to get 80AHr back in (yes, that's massively over simplified).


Again, overly simplistically, that 50mA drain will take:
0.05A x 24hr x 21d = 25AHr
from the battery.

That's quite a lot, and will reduce the capacity of the battery each time you do it. If it's a regular occurrence, consider a battery conditioner you plug in every time you park up for more than a few days.

Funny how the second anyone gets rid of an Omega, there's very little to actually do to a car

Whilst new fangled cars on company lease plans are great in principle, I do wonder where the catch is

I mean zero deposit and low payments on a £70k+ car has to have an almighty gotcha attached to it? Retail leases are circa £2k down and £1,700 a month and you still don't own it.

If your employer are picking up the bill then there's a massive implied benefit, likewise for charging at work.

I hope the car serves you well, and getting shiny things is always fun, I hope you've done your homework.

As you know, big Bro used to frequently lease cars, though stupidly went for a succession of S-Class's until he learnt his lesson there.

His initial+monthly payments (well, his business) came to around 15-17k over 2 years, depending on precise deal, which is less than depreciation on an S Class as I'm sure you know. He offered me an XF Sportbrake for £200 a month (inc the VAT I'd have to pay and not be able to claim back), no initial deposit, 2 year lease.  That was a brand new, decent car for under £5k over 2 years, only having to pay for fuel (everything else covered). Shame I really, really didn't want an estate!

Obviously in tunnie's case, half the real cost of the lease is by saving paying tax, making it favourable.  I have access to a similar scheme, but it only covers EVs, which is a step I'm not ready to take yet.

So it can work for a lot of people, depending on circumstances and often timing - in tunnie's case, he had to get a runabout for a few weeks, and even that was financially viable.  Equally, it's not for everyone.

I can't wrap my head around the maths. Surely there's a price to pay somewhere 

Its a tax avoidance scheme*, so that's where the money is...  ...rather than give to Rachael, it goes towards a car.


*to clarify, NOT a tax evasion scheme.

It didn't say what connector it came with, but seeing as I have PCL and euro lines available, I never really checked

Fitted a new battery. Car had been garaged for about 3 weeks over Christmas when I noticed the door locks were very sluggish to open, so put the battery on the charger which went right to current limit of 8A.

Turns out that with no load and the car in the garage, it had lost 50% capacity in just 5 days.  Checked quiescent current and that was less than 50mA after settling down, so no problem there. Alternator charging to about 14.7V so that’s OK too.

Battery was 6 years old or thereabouts, so about right I guess.
Anyway, all good now!   

Wishing I had bet more than the £50 to my gym partner that I could get down to my " fighting weight " by the end of January, well pleased 2 inches off my waist measurement now a youthful 34 inches, cut out alcohol completely & a very suitable diet for me of  steak & eggs mostly.

I hope you aren’t coming before 5 th Feb! We have had a lot of rain in the south,snow in the north and gales. Due to  finish the 5th.
Well done, Mick, you can have lots of fun getting back to normal now 

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You really don't know me very well, I'll never be considered normal..😂
This will probably only be a " temporary blip " once we get back to Spain I expect the beer may be too much to ignore.

Getting home to cold wet weather after 7 weeks of sunshine in Thailand.     

Oh and keeping the railway thread going.... South Western Railways, whose service has become utterly shite since they were nationalised last year. My train terminated at Salisbury today due to a 'signalling fault' and had to sit on a cold windy platform for an hour waiting for the next train that was going down to Exeter.   

I suspect that 'Signalling fault' means the civil servants who run the railway now, were having a LGBTQ alphabet soup meeting or something instead of running a railway!   

7 weeks in Thailand? You'll be worn out, lad 

I am. It's the jet lag you see.