pre65 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:42 am
Evri has now let me know that my two parcels are officially lost.
What a bunch of tossers.
Good news !
My two packages turned up at 08:18, my alarm was set to 08:20. So I was woken up abruptly.
Although I'm glad to actually receive them, it's been 3 weeks in total, and nothing from Evri or Autodoc to say that the situation (ie lost) had changed since the 15th Nov.
I have unpacked them, and they look good. Genuine Monroe made in the good old USA.
PS It is the original consignment cos the labels are dated 3/11/2023, ordered on the 1/11/2023.
PPS It seems I got an Email from Evri at 07:51 this morning advising delivery between 07:30 and 09:30
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Youselot might remember a while back when I enthused about Lithium AA and Aaa batteries. Using them in demanding modes - dab radio, busking amplifiers, bike lights.
I have had nothing but wonderfulness - current and voltage and reliability compared to weedy nimh types ( of which I've had the dubious pleasure)
And then one of the aaa batteries conks out ( used sparingly in a torch. - won't charge. Annoying!
Philosophers have only interpreted the world - the point, however, is to change it. No it isn't ... maybe we should leave it alone for a while.
Anyone else on here remember K R Whiston of New Mills who, years ago, used to do a catalogue of various "things" suitable for hobbyists and home machinists ?
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Flemings, in Westborough Road, Westcliff. Electronics stuff and associated tools. He bought up scrap boards you could buy and take the components off. Really old fashioned corner shop, almost like used to be the front room of a house. Go up to the counter, if the door behind was open you'd see racks of shelving stuffed with boxes of gear. He never threw anything away, so he might still have a card of ten 1950's GPO pointer knobs but with one missing, 'cause somebody asked him for one once so he bought a card of ten and still had the rest. Was taken over by his son, who kept it much the same, until he retired. He was a character too. One of those places I might drop into on my way to westcliff train station from college. But more often it'd be Bi-Pre-Pak in West Road. He could have some bargain stuff too. He used to do mixed packs of resistors, or capacitors, or transistors, for 50p a bag. Actually they were factory rejects, usually the values were wrong, but still usable. Some of them were quite old. The transistors were never any good tho.
"No matter how fast light travels it finds that the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
andrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:55 pm
Yeah I did wonder. My chum who lives in Hanslope admitted he hadn't a clue - just another target for our enemy to bomb.
Do you really think our 'enemy' didn't know about it before it appeared on the BBC?
Those Soviet maps fascinated me. They used to be available as a layer on the old-maps.co.uk website when it was free (before they teamed up with Landmark I think?).
How did they get that level of detail? Were satellites with good imagery available back then? They certainly didn't survey the country like the OS did. I would think...
The article refers to bridge heights and load capacities - it would be very interesting to see some of this info - our hauliers today aren't too hot on this in some cases.
