How many square feet do they require to go from cabin to house in Scotland?
We all can’t live in castles ya know! 😉
We all can’t live in castles ya know! 😉
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I'm in Wales, most of the castles here are English, well in Snowdonia. My house is tiny, though it has very thick stone walls, originally a one up, one down terrace.
A cabin here connotes a small building usually in the woods for hunting or camping.
Guess it depends on locale 😛
On topic......you wanna talk over inflated! building materials are crazy high for junk.....in order to get the same quality stuff you used to get 10-15 yrs ago you must pay double or even triple above what is now considered trade standard.
Worst part is people buying a new house, or having one built have no clue the junk that’s being used.
In fact it really slowed me down considerably just trying to source good materials.
Guess it depends on locale 😛
On topic......you wanna talk over inflated! building materials are crazy high for junk.....in order to get the same quality stuff you used to get 10-15 yrs ago you must pay double or even triple above what is now considered trade standard.
Worst part is people buying a new house, or having one built have no clue the junk that’s being used.
In fact it really slowed me down considerably just trying to source good materials.
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You only saw fat overweight hamburger and fries fed "Hunters" who can go nowhere without their cars. The degenerate end of 200.000 years of Human HUNTING evolution.
For the REAL DEAL:
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Wyoming ... pffffttt 🙄 Try Africa instead. 😀
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Yes, same here, I called it a cabin alluding to your mountain man roots, I know it ain't small, here it would be a Ty Mawr as oppossed to a Ty Bach, happy Googling 😉
I remember watching that. I don't know whether it was the same series or program but I recall seeing a group of people stealing a kill off lions by scaring them off shouting and waving sticks.
Oh, so you AGREE with me. Thanks🙂It's possible that there used to be herbivore humanoids which went extinct.
Since Guarantee of Death matches 100% with Extinction. 😀
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Got it.... main house, and cottage. It’s quite beautiful in your area, I’ve always appreciated the architecture over there.
In Scotland, apart from the Queen who has Balmoral Castle as her holiday home, we all live in But 'n' Bens! 😀
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Ty Bach is also a toilet 🙂 It's a pretty wild area, I love it, lived here for 15 years, at the moment I'm in lockdown in my home city of Birmingham caring for my elderly mother, still the weather has been great and she has a nice large garden so things could be worse........much worse.
I thought it was a way of gathering curtains together! 🙂
P.S. I hope you and your mum stay safe.
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Then you must have changed enough resistors in Sony CPD-1302's to have figured out what the basic engineering design flaw was, and that using genuine OEM parts from SONY only caused a callback.
I can't recall much about the CD players, but ever since they stopped making the Trinitron sets it seems they went downhill.The Sony plasma sets were poorly designed - dust-clogged cooling fans, poor ventilation, etc. Let's put it this way... in any given One year Period,.... I'd have dozens upon dozens of Sonys, Vizios, Samsungs, and maybe ONE or TWO Panasonic TV.s come in. Don't even get me started on the crap sets - Polaroid, Funai, Sylvania, Emerson, RCA, Sanyo, LG/Zenith, Philips, etc. I saw many issues with those.
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The Sony CPD-1302 was their flagship Trinitron computer monitor. I must have repaired a few dozen of those in the early 90's, ALL with the same fault, loss of one color, usually red.
There were 3 TO-220 resistors on the little PC board that the CRT plugged into. The original Sony parts were rated at 5 watts. The replacement parts sold to me by Sony were rated at 8 watts. The replacements failed quicker than the originals. The parts group sold the resistors to the engineering, and manufacturing group, assuming that they would be mounted on a heat sink, hence the 5 or 8 watt rating. There were simply soldered into a PCB which was mounted on the neck of a CRT inside a poorly ventilated plastic box, and subjected them to 2 or 3 watts of power, depending on how high the brightness knob was set. They were the load for the CRT cathode driver transistors, which also got extremely hot, but did not fail.
The guy at the Sony parts counter tried to sell me a replacement board that was "upgraded" for like $50. He said that the same board was used in some Trinitron TV sets with the same problem. After having several of the Genuine Sony replacements fail, I simply stuck the typical white ceramic / sand wirewound resistors in the monitors, and they lived on until the monitors reached obsolescence.
In the manufacturing world, sooner or later every manufacturer will make their "Chevy Vega." Unfortunately for Sony, it was the most popular multisync monitor in the computer world, and the only one that worked with just about every computer made at the time. Sony never recovered, and quietly left the computer market.
Sony recently got placed on my "never buy again" list by blatantly lying on the product box about a camera's capabilities, then refusing to support it. Ditto ASUS. I still have the product box that states "two year rapid replacement warranty." They however informed me that my warranty was only one year when it died in the 13th month. The code on the bottom of the PC did state 12 month warranty. I guess that "facts" printed on the product box are no longer required to be true.
After working inside a million square foot factory for 41 years, I know how this happens. Even though Motorola was a "communications" company, the different internal departments rarely actually "communicate" but they should honor what's written on the box, or go away.
There were 3 TO-220 resistors on the little PC board that the CRT plugged into. The original Sony parts were rated at 5 watts. The replacement parts sold to me by Sony were rated at 8 watts. The replacements failed quicker than the originals. The parts group sold the resistors to the engineering, and manufacturing group, assuming that they would be mounted on a heat sink, hence the 5 or 8 watt rating. There were simply soldered into a PCB which was mounted on the neck of a CRT inside a poorly ventilated plastic box, and subjected them to 2 or 3 watts of power, depending on how high the brightness knob was set. They were the load for the CRT cathode driver transistors, which also got extremely hot, but did not fail.
The guy at the Sony parts counter tried to sell me a replacement board that was "upgraded" for like $50. He said that the same board was used in some Trinitron TV sets with the same problem. After having several of the Genuine Sony replacements fail, I simply stuck the typical white ceramic / sand wirewound resistors in the monitors, and they lived on until the monitors reached obsolescence.
In the manufacturing world, sooner or later every manufacturer will make their "Chevy Vega." Unfortunately for Sony, it was the most popular multisync monitor in the computer world, and the only one that worked with just about every computer made at the time. Sony never recovered, and quietly left the computer market.
Sony recently got placed on my "never buy again" list by blatantly lying on the product box about a camera's capabilities, then refusing to support it. Ditto ASUS. I still have the product box that states "two year rapid replacement warranty." They however informed me that my warranty was only one year when it died in the 13th month. The code on the bottom of the PC did state 12 month warranty. I guess that "facts" printed on the product box are no longer required to be true.
After working inside a million square foot factory for 41 years, I know how this happens. Even though Motorola was a "communications" company, the different internal departments rarely actually "communicate" but they should honor what's written on the box, or go away.
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