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Message 1713138 - Posted: 14 Aug 2015, 23:32:53 UTC

Half a crown and a pair of eyeglasses, the poor nurse who witnessed it came down with a case of brain fever.

As before nothing is off topic except double posting. If you don't have the manners to obey this rule then you forfeit all your posts in this thread and they will be red-x-ed and removed. You have been told.

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Message 1713147 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 0:04:42 UTC

best thread ever part ii
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Message 1713152 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 0:09:45 UTC - in response to Message 1713147.  

best thread ever part ii

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Happy to see it return.
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Message 1713154 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 0:27:25 UTC - in response to Message 1713152.  

best thread ever part ii

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Happy to see it return.


+3 :)
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Message 1713157 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 0:54:23 UTC - in response to Message 1713154.  

best thread ever part ii

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Happy to see it return.


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Message 1713161 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 1:25:54 UTC

I used to know what the ends of may shoe laces are called,
but I have forgotten it now in my later years....


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Message 1713163 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 1:30:56 UTC

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Message 1713166 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 1:33:16 UTC

No, I mean the little plastic tubes
on the very ends of the laces....



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Message 1713168 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 1:36:59 UTC

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Message 1713171 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 1:46:34 UTC - in response to Message 1713168.  

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Message 1713370 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 13:28:37 UTC - in response to Message 1713334.  

Not looking good out there :-(

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And I think I have problems......oh my Lord.
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Message 1713374 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 13:30:27 UTC

reporgraming some of them is a nightmare too.
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Message 1713375 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 13:31:01 UTC - in response to Message 1713369.  

Finicky things these remote key fobs ....


Well, I've never had one for my car, but I do for my home alarm system, and the battery does need to be changed once in awhile. I think dust from our pockets gets in the workings, too.
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Message 1713378 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 13:37:54 UTC - in response to Message 1713369.  

No point putting this in a car thread, we all saw what happened the last time.

The replacement car I just bought 3 days ago suddenly gave up on the remote locking via the key fob. Oh no I thought, if the transponder has gone that could be expensive. Fob batteries don't go do they, never heard of it before. But I ordered a new 1620 3V the other day and fitted it this morning. Lo and behold it now works at 15ft! Yet the old one still measured 2V with my meter.

Finicky things these remote key fobs ....

Lithium coin cells can last some 20-30 years under ideal conditions.
But they do not retain the draw down ability after that long. In memory backup mode, they can retain the RAM on a mobo for some 20 years though.
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Message 1713381 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 13:39:12 UTC - in response to Message 1713369.  

No point putting this in a car thread, we all saw what happened the last time.


Getting pissy now, are we?
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Message 1713385 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 13:46:49 UTC - in response to Message 1713383.  

No, just being realistic :-)

Lithium coin cells can last some 20-30 years under ideal conditions.

Depends upon what ideal conditions are I guess. Key fobs have a hard life!

What.............ever.
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Message 1713392 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 13:54:28 UTC - in response to Message 1713383.  

No, just being realistic :-)

Waldorf: A car thread & not allowed to talk about cars? How realistic is that?
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Message 1713446 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 15:45:06 UTC - in response to Message 1713379.  

Well I know people with 5, 7, 10 year old cars where they still work fine. The only difference I noted was that the little red light on the fob glows loads brighter now. If yours glows dull it may be a heads up.

But of course the door key still works mechanically so you aren't locked out :-))

Well, perhaps your car. Mine does require an operational battery in the fob to start the car. Cars are getting smarter.

Something to check is to be sure where you carry the fob isn't pressing one of its buttons all the time and draining the battery.
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Message 1713463 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 16:21:23 UTC - in response to Message 1713450.  

Well, perhaps your car. Mine does require an operational battery in the fob to start the car.

Mine is an old 2007 runabout, they weren't too clever in those days :-)

You can lock keypads on mobile phones to ward against that, you can't do so for car key fobs. If that is a problem to the newer car owner, should they be driving in the first place?

2007 eh? Mines worse, it's a 1999, the fob unlocks doors, opens the trunk and deals with the built in alarm, but that's it.. The computer just manages the motor, heck I have hand cranked windows on the 2 car doors, but then I have a coupe, a 2yr model.
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Message 1713719 - Posted: 16 Aug 2015, 2:09:00 UTC

I had to have the garage door repaired. I am renting so I called a service since the landlord said he would pay for it. The repairman showed up and said that the problem was that the motor on the opener was too small.
I said that it was a 1/2 horsepower motor which is pretty much standard.
He shook his head and said, 'You need a 1/4 horsepower.'
I told him that 1/2 was larger than 1/4 and he said, 'NOOO, it's not. Four is larger than two.
I thanks him and fixed it myself.
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