Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Saturday, December 25, 2021

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Gas wall furnace noisy fan.

Gas wall furnace blower fan air control unit - noisy fan.

This belongs to family friends.

They have two of these gas wall heaters so we swapped this noisy unit for the fan unit in the other one that isn’t used – kids have left home.









Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Al's Kitchen - rice cooker

Finally gave in and bought a rice cooker.



What triggered the purchase was that my older daughter could not get one at her local Kmart so I did the walking and managed to do a click & collect at out local Brandon Park Kmart – so I bought two of them.

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Pixie has a new toy


Back home from shopping and Pixie has a new toy from a Two Dollar shop.



Buddha water feature not happy - part 2

Cleaning and testing the pump in the backyard Gazebo area at the wash basin.

Buddha water feature not happy - part 1

The solar pump water outlet flow is like a cyclic spitting?



Had to go up a stepladder which is at the end of a long pole (catch the sun) to remove the solar panel. At the workbench pulled the pump apart and nothing obvious jamming the motor - scratch head.

Sunday, December 12, 2021

Auto fill/recycle bird bath - part 3

Setup the bird bath in the front yard along with a V380 wi-fi camera to monitor activity and keep a eye on the water level in the bucket. XXX

Moved from the back gazebo area to the front yard.

Friday, December 10, 2021

Auto fill/recycle bird bath - part 2

After several hours of plodding between gazebo area, workshop and garden shed I have a working prototype to demo.

Working prototype – yay

Thursday, December 9, 2021

Auto fill/recycle bird bath - part 1

This is the current build with another post to follow with pump details.



Bunnings plastic bird bath for $19

Saturday, December 4, 2021

Bird bath auto fill & recycle prototype

 This is for friends who have a regular size concrete bird bath that is currently in high demand and has to be filled daily.


Prototype mockup to auto fill and recycle the water.

Medion Wireless Rear View Mirror - Revisited

Purchased this from ALDI in August 2015 and earlier this year it stopped working. I have been dealing all year with the left eyeball and poo...