YES!! ermmmm....I mean a cool "yeah, me too DHR." I don't know how those lids dissapear. Glad it's not just me. Socks too....but at least they are a small misplace and can be forgiven. I have some similiar socks that I will put together at times, so that I do not waste. Same design, but perhaps one with a green band and one with a pink band. I try to wear them. No one can see the difference. But...I know. And it's just weird. They usually end up at the back of the drawer...just to avoid the awkwardness.. I think I should seek some professional help when it comes to socks.
It's trendy now to wear mismatched socks! I think I need to start doing that. https://medium.com/fm-waves/5-reasons-why-i-wear-mismatched-socks-a7f51cd444ac
Who wudda thought. Mismatched socks are in style. I have a bunch of white , blue & black socks that don’t match . I could mix them . I’m gettin old and could probably get away with it.
I did a job today that I'd been putting off for a while. One of my jukeboxes, needed one of its motors servicing. This one. Although it's fifty year old technology, jukeboxes are quite sophisticated. They have four electric motors. The suspect one turns the record carousel. Lately it had been running a bit slow, so it would occasionally trip out. Much like modern electrical consumer units with their mini-breakers, this has three trip switches. Getting the motor out is a nightmare. Firstly I had to disconnect and remove the front panel which houses one fluorescent, the big 12" bass speakers and my little 60w heater, which I use to stop it getting too cold in the winter. To be able to see anything. Then the rear panel. Then get at the motor secured to the chassis by three bolts. You can't even see them here the access is that restricted. It would be impossible to get a spanner on the bolts, you need, "spinners," a socket on the end of a screwdriver type handle. You're doing it mostly by feel. "> Once out it's ready for disassembly. They used quality motors back in the day. The brushes are out and the commutator removed for cleaning. A need for some rubbing down with fine emery paper. Then the little gearbox needed the old grease removing and new packed in. Even in the sixties and seventies they were using nylon gear wheels for some things. Job done. The hardest part was putting the motor back again. It took me three hours from start to finish. The jukebox industry declined in the sixties and is no more. This is where this one was made in 1976.
Our all singin' and dancin' Sage Barista Touch Coffee machine packed up yesterday. When I turned it on I got a message "Error ER 05" contact the manufacturer. Found the service department website. It had a "live chat" facility, but that was unattended. Nothing as simple as an e-mail address. There was a phone number, so rang it, it was all automated, they try desperately to get you back on to the website, but by pressing the hash key enough times, I got an automated response telling me I was in a queue, "press 1" for a call back. So I did. I went on-line and found a site where problems with coffee machines were discussed, just by typing the error code into Google. This seemed to be a common problem with this machine, it was a fault with the steam sensor. It has a contact in a rubber mounting on which you sit the milk jug, which tells its computer how hot the milk is getting so it can turn it off before it boils. The cure was to "waggle the sensor." Some people said it worked, as many said it didn't After a couple of hours I dialled the repair depart again. But got politely told, "You're in a queue for a call back!" I went back to the site where I could post my problem, but there were endless questions to answer, many of them totally irrelevant. So I didn't bother. After about five hours I did get the call back from a nice lady, I think she was Dutch. The advice was "waggle the steam sensor." I explained I'd found this website that gave that advice, tried it but it didn't work. I'm not sure she believed me. So I asked her to e-mail the instructions. There's not much you can do yourself, all it has is an on/off switch and the rest is on a touch panel. Anyway, she sent the e-mail with the instructions, so I had an address to which I could reply. I've asked them to repair or replace it, I don't want a refund (they cost over £1000) as we like the machine. It has a two year guarantee and it's only a year old. We aren't "coffee machineless" as when my wife talked me into buying this one which she'd seen on her shopping channel, we had a perfectly good Smeg machine and a Cuisinart burr grinder at the time, which I'd carefully stored away for such emergencies. I guess I'd be asked to provide the serial number, which fortunately was on the carton I'd saved. It'll be on the underside of the machine. How daft.
