Cat on lap

Presto is working !!!

Gave it another go this morning and all devices working again - as normal.

1. T-box OK
2. Win7 desktop OK
3. Lenovo tablet OK

Presto - Damage control

 

Hi Alan,

Thanks for getting in touch, and apologies for the inconvenience. We appreciate your frustration, and can assure you that we are working on a resolution for those affected customers.

If you’ve not already, please confirm and go through the troubleshooting steps provided. As an initial troubleshooting step please perform a soft reset on the t-box, by pressing the reset button underneath for approximately 2 seconds.

As a gesture of goodwill, we will extend the length of your promotion so that you have a further month free.

In the interim if you can view Presto on an alternate device, such as a smartphone, tablet or desktop device, we will work towards identifying the root cause of this issue, rectify and update you as soon as possible.

We appreciate your patience on this and will work to update you as soon as we have a resolution.

Thanks,
From the Presto Support Team

Presto is stuffed !

Been enjoying my (6 months free) Presto for a 2 months now, last night managed to stay awake right through Divergent !!!

Tonight is a different story - Presto is stuffed !!! No matter what I choose pressing the Play button throws up 'no entitlements for this user' ???

Checked Presto website and looks like this has been a ongoing issue for weeks now.

Planned Telstra cable outage

Currently we have no broadband internet !!!
Was notified by Telstra well in advance of possible outages today from 10.00am - 3.00pm

Not to worry, to keep us going the desktop PC is now tethered my Samsung phone!

Day 2 mum on vacation

Cats have gone to bed !

Mum on vacation - Day 2

Not even 5.30 pm and Pixie's gone to bed!

Milo - Cat in the drawer

AGL Electricity phone app

Android app to follow so will just have to wait...

ALDI – Clothes dryer purchase

Off early to ALDI this morning to buy a clothes dryer for the younger kid and her partner.

RBA interest rates

Bad news for us retirees, the million dollar plus man at the RBA has decided to push the lever forwards and cut the cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.00% – bugger !!!

When I retired in July 2010 the cash rate was 4.5% and were getting 6.0% for the term deposit in our SMSF.

Al's Woodshop - kids tricycle repair

I've been given a kids wooden tricycle to repair. I feel like I'm running a community men's shed.

The damage is obvious, the handle bar was made from a softwood so no surprise the thing broke off. Here I'm knocking the pin out with a pin punch.

Found a nice piece of hardwood, I think it's Balau timber.

Used digital callipers to measure the diameter of the steering shaft - it's 28 mm. Later on when I fit the handle bar on I'll need to figure out how to drill that blind hole...hmm.

Used the original as a template, I'll drill the centre hole first.

I have several boxed sets of Forstner bits and hole saws, went through them with the callipers and found a 28 mm hole saw. It pays to drill a test hole - in the same material - so did that using the off cut - good to go.

When the drill bit breaks through turn over and drill through from the other side.

Drilling from the other side.

Done.

The blade on this 14" homemade band saw is to wide to cut straight around those ends so I'll have to keep cutting out to drop the off cuts and then pick up the line again.

So far so good, now for some sanding.

I don't have a belt sander (future project) so I'm using my improvised Bench drill drum sander to smooth those curves.





And the homemade disc sander will do the ends.





Now for the tricky part, I need to (blind) drill the handle bar so that it lines up with the hole in the steering shaft. I'm using a drill bit to mark a line across the top of the shaft, then I'll have to measure down to the centre of the hole and transfer that to one side of the handle bar to get a starting point - fingers crossed.





I've tapped the bar onto the shaft with hammer and a block of wood - it's a nice snug fit. We have a centre line now to measure down and centre punch the drill point.





We got it right (phew), the hole is off to the left because my bit of timber is a bit thinner that the original - that's fine.




Tap in the pin - done.





The grandparents will paint the handle.


This ends this particular men's shed session - Cheerio