Ramblings
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Replacing the calorifier tank
Blue Opal’s calorifier tank, until yesterday, was the one that was installed when she was built. A few months ago (actually, last year.. damn COVID time travel), it started producing brown water, and I figured that was a good reason to change it out – it’s not like I could get the interior of the…
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Summer anti-fouling and other yard works
I know that most people don’t get their boat hauled out and anti-fouled in May, but COVID has meant Blue Opal has had to sit in the water for quite a while with the consequence that the local marine flora and fauna had taken up residence. I took her up to Malahide Marina (and marine…
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Network-enabling a Panasonic SA-PM31
I have a not-quite-vintage SA-PM31 radio/CD player/cassette player – it’s a mini HiFi type arrangement, and I bought it in the early 2000’s; my grandparents were visiting, and memory says that Grandad offered to buy me a radio as a present (potentially related to my first paying job after college, but my memory is really…
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Plant growth
The veg are doing well in the VegTrug. 17 days on, and everything is looking healthy.
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Renovating the studio – parts 24 and 25
With the skim coat finally a consistent colour, I was able to get two base coats and a soft sheen coat on. Good thing I mentioned what I was doing to the guy at the local hardware store, otherwise I might have put vinyl-based paint right on to the skim coat, and it would have…
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Renovating the studio – parts 22 and 23
Well, the builder is finished, and it’s now a case of waiting for the light fixtures to arrive so the sparky can install them.