Batten Down The Hatches 2017/18

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This week's storm seems a good opportunity to close the BBQ Thread and start on Toffee Apples and Ghoulies instead. (That's "Ghoulies" :rolleyes:)
 
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Was thinking the same thing myself. You beat me to it.
 
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Given that there's fireworks going off round here, yeah, seems about right...
 
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a storm that met office is gonna think its climate change when its not
 
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It's weather ;)
 
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If we adopted the Japanese 'koromogae' way of thinking - the mass seasonal changing into winter/summer clothing on the correct day - and apply it to the respective threads, we would keep things nice and tidy :D
 
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Drat. I haven't put my T-Shorts away yet.
 
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I'd take my 80cm down but I haven't a clue how to get it back up there tracking the arc accurately :D

Is the 'move your dish to 1w before strong winds' saying a myth or something that is actually worth doing? Its only scheduled for 46mph down here in Romford but you can never be too sure.
 
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Drat. I haven't put my T-Shorts away yet.
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One of the years I was over there happened to be during the October 'changeover', and our Japanese tour guide explained the custom. She said the locals wouln't think it odd that most of us Europeans still wore so-called flimsy Summer attire, as we were only foreigners (gaijin) :)

I was there in the Eighties, perhaps things are a little different these days.
 
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dankargo said:
I'd take my 80cm down but I haven't a clue how to get it back up there tracking the arc accurately :D.
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Before you do anything, can you, very carefully, scribe thin marks across the dish mount and the adjacent part of the mounting pole to clearly show that the two are correctly aligned in that position - and then carefully remove the complete dish and dish mount as one unit without disturbing the bolts (etc.) between the two.

When you refit the dish mount and dish, realign the marks on the mount and on the mounting pole - and the dish should now be pointing in exactly the direction as it was before you took the stuff off the pole!

ALSO, before you remove the dish, it might help a lot to fit a car exhaust clamp around the pole immediately under the dish mount to stop the latter dropping when you loosen/tighten the mounting clamps, and thus making it easier to align the scribed marks when you refit the dish:D
 
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Never bothered either stationing or removing mine.

One the rare ocasion it's gone walkies, it's always been due to the dish/motor assembly slipping around the pole and put right with little more than a judicious shove in the right direction.
 
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Lazarus said:
Never bothered either stationing or removing mine.

One the rare ocasion it's gone walkies, it's always been due to the dish/motor assembly slipping around the pole and put right with little more than a judicious shove in the right direction.
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As I said earlier, fit the clamp and scribe the pole and mount/dish mount - and that should make realignment even easier :D
 
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They are marked ...... with Tippex!:-lol
 
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Lazarus said:
This week's storm seems a good opportunity to close the BBQ Thread .... /QUOTE]
IIRC, last year, "some people" were still telling us that they were having BBQs in December! :D
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Anyway, back to the storm .... I was on animal and property watch on Monday and Tuesday as my neighbours had gone away fr a few days at lf-term. On Tue am, I saw that their childrens' trampoline (A dirty great big one) had taken off in the night and landed upside down wedged in their plum tree. It missed one of their cars by a whisker!
 
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"Tippex" can wear/wash off - scribed marks should not do that:D
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The facility to erase marks is useful. Any changes in architecture can easily and quickly be accommodated without creating confusion. I are proper engineer, innit!
 
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.. I are proper engineer, innit!
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Well (sort of, but never a very good one!) I also was. That's why I would use a scriber - better buy one tomorrow :D
"Tippex" is/was for "typists" ! :D
 
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Lazarus said:
This week's storm seems a good opportunity to close the BBQ Thread and start on Toffee Apples and Ghoulies instead. (That's "Ghoulies" :rolleyes:)
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Toffee Apples? Our tesco has all the bloody christmas sweeties out. They will probably have the damn easter eggs out next week...
 
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