FloofahNZ

I bet you could hear them sh*ting themselves !!

No need to repost it, thanks. There’s something seriously amiss in their operating procedures and their ground crew management imo. How could even un-specialised contractors think it ok to remove more than a few nuts at a time?

I’d guess the contractors were not properly instructed. This brings a point, who were the contractors working on this? Did they have any relevant experience, or were they simply casual labour?

I’d expect all procedures to be fully documented and importantly regimented into crews. But seemingly not in this case, how the hell could this happen?

Occam’s Razor strikes again.

There are, I guess, 4 tower feet, they are very big structures. So my guess is that the "workers" were told remove the leg bolts, sand-blast the foot, then renew the bolts.

"Now guys, I’m off for a smoko, have it done before I’m back". "OK guv".

Instead of doing it one foot at a time, the obvious method, the "workers" then rush off, "Hey Mick, you do leg one, Jim you do leg 2, Manuel you do leg 3, Franco you do leg 4". "OK let’s go".

In 10 minutes all the bolts are removed, the wind picks up, the lateral force on the cables increases and bang, down she goes.

We’ve got a huge power outage up here in the Far North, seems there’s a Transpower problem cutting off power to the whole of the Far North.

Luckily we have a UPS for Internet until the battery runs down.

Edit: It’s still off after 2 hours. Apparently a transmission pylon tower collapsed, no further info, but oh boy, this will likely take a while to fix I suspect.

Edit2: Power came back on after around 5 hours.

I had my flu/covid booster on 11 April this year. It’s only appeared on MMH very recently. I have to say MMH, both the web based and app, isn’t that good imo, especially the iPad app.

I can see those vaccination records were added by a nurse at our GP, even though they were done at a vacc centre.

I have an app/web link to Manage My Health. All of my medical things, like prescriptions, vaccinations, blood test results, and doctor visit reports are logged, and are available on-line. I can see when each of my Covid vaccines were given.

I may be wrongly assuming everyone in NZ has online access to their medical info, idk.

How many Covid jabs have you had? I’ve had 6 and I see there’s a 7’th available now

Glad to see you got the fan working. Well done 👍

Happy Birthday, and thanks Dave for your untiring efforts in keeping it going 👍👍

OK, that’s unlikely to be a high tech circuit board. Try simply resoldering the connector pins, I’m guessing there are 4, but that is a guess. Apply the clean iron tip to each pad in turn, and run a little fresh solder to them.