Remote controlled spider

Impulse shopping - love it. IR remote controlled spider from Reject Shop for $10 bucks - batteries NOT included.

New vacuum turbo brush

Every couple of years we get a new turbo brush for the Nilfisk Bravo vacuum. This time Godfreys – Knox only had the display one so got it for $69.95. On a monthly basis I pull it completely apart and clean/service but even with all that TLC the plastic end bearings inevitably wear/overheat/distort. I'm working on a fix for this, intending to replace the eight skate board blade guide bearings on my homemade band saw with UHMW plastic from Carbatec and I'll use the leftover to make end bearings for the turbo brush.

Researching new TV's

Hard to find a 'normal' TV in the 55" - 58" range, SMART TV's are all the rage now and they are basically giant tablets - I want to watch TV on a TV. Was looking at the Soniq S55V14B 55" Full HD Smart LED-LCD TV (giant tablet) but on startup go's to a Cinevision Home screen full of adverts. Not Googleapproved not Playstored - pass. Moved on to the Hisense TV's but after browsing their Facebook page full of pissed off people - another pass. So...we are now looking at TCL. Harvey Norman has the TCL 55" Full HD LED LCD Slim TV L55B3800F for $695. They come with a 3 year in-home warranty - not bad.

And...it's a dumb TV !!!

L55B3800F

55" FHD LED TV $695.00

Features

• Full HD 1920*1080 Resolution
• DDHD (Digital Dynamic High Definition) Engine
• 100Hz CMI
• True Colour
• Auto Film Mode (3:2 pull down)
• Smart Volume
• SRS Sound
• Smart PVR
• USB Media Player
• HDMI 1.3  * 2
• USB 2.0 * 2
• Superior Energy Efficiency
• 3 Year Warranty

Need to buy a new TV

Researching new TV's - the owner of the Soniq 55" TV hanging on our lounge wall want's her TV back !!! more to come...

Ford Fiesta FOB not working

Older kid over this evening for tea and brought a car problem with her, the key fob suddenly stopped working? It's a 2010 Ford Fiesta. Found a YouTube video on how to change the CR2032 battery and followed the instructions below to re-program the key.

To program my key all I needed to do was put the key in the ignition, turn it to "run" and then back to "off" 4 times within 6 seconds. The car will make a beep letting me know it's in program mode. You press any button on the key fob and it will beep again to let you know the remote is programmed. After that, put the ignition in the "run" position again to turn off programming mode and you're good. Worked perfect

ET will not be happy!

It's like 1:20am Thursday morning and only a couple of hours ago ET cleaned Chester’s hutch, all nice and clean tidy. Covered up like that he looks like a homeless bunny LOL.

New phone system

We want to replace our aging Telstra 8200 five handset system so time for some research - I love researching stuff. Was interested in the Telstra Call Guardian 301 with extra handsets but they are not available WTF. Finally ended up at Harvey Norman Knox and unlike all the others that seemed to find even simple questions to difficult or not worth the time the guy at HNK was really good.