Coronavirus - Keeping it light :-)

[telectrix]

i'll leave that to the experts (wet-pants). ex being a has-been and a spert being a drip under pressure.

 

[HappyHippyDad]

i'd rather be installing a sewage pump.

As opposed to watching sewage!

I love it!
It's the one night my boy is allowed to stay up late and score them all with me.
We live the life ?.

 

[telectrix]

if the UK enrty was Black Sabbath, I'd watch it.

 

[Julie.]

if the UK enrty was Black Sabbath, I'd watch it.

You're just being Paranoid now!

 

[Mike Johnson]

And tonights Space Station pass: Time: Tue May 18 10:52 PM, Visible: 7 min, Max Height: 51°, Appears: 10° above W, Disappears: 10° above ENE

 

[OnlQQker]

i'd rather be installing a sewage pump.

Very true.

They both churn out the same sort of sh*t!

 

[pirate]

A friend gave me these today, and I'm happy!
Struggling to buy a replacement 15V battery for the AVO...everywhere that lists them seems to be out of stock, but I'll persevere.

 

[telectrix]

loads of 15V AVO batteries on ebay. this guy has 550 available.

AVO 8 METER MULTIMETER 15v BATTERY BLR 121 AVOMETER | eBay

BLR121 BATTERY. capacity 72 mAh.

www.ebay.co.uk

 

[DPG]

I'm sure there are battery eliminates for the 15v battery. If it's the same one as the Avo 8.

Mind you I've had several pints and a couple of cocktails so I may not be the voice of reason.

I can recommend Jolly collier porter. Very smooth.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Four LiIon batteries at 3.6 should be close enough.

 

[pirate]

Thanks all for your suggestions. The one you linked to Tel is a square battery, for the earlier Avo, mine needs the cylindrical one, but i see that ebay seller has them too. I try to buy from battery specialists as they have fresh stock, and I've had mixed results with ebay items. However, all my usual shops are out of stock so i'll give that seller a try. The battery is very cheap though...

 

[telectrix]

the square one I put in my AVO has been in for 3 years, no problems.

 

[pirate]

Good to know, Tel...thanks! Mine is the squared-off cylindrical version with 2 sticky-out terminals. I have ordered one and will report back!

 

[littlespark]

Re. The Eurovision Song Contest.

pfffft last again!

well, not quite. As one of the big five, the UK get into the final automatically and don’t need to enter a semifinal.... we came 26th out of 39....


for anyone thinking why do we bother?
England hasn’t won the World Cup football since ‘66, but they keep on entering that.

 

[static zap]

I am looking at public voting on Euro-vision , with a weighted -
Unhappyness with Europe / Brexit stirrers quotient.
(Don't mention...)

 

[telectrix]

I was stopped last nite by Plod and breathalysed when I'd only had a pint earlier on. "81" he sez. "that's a fail"..........


" turn the bugger the right way up then , you plonker.it's 18. a pass."

 

[OnlQQker]

 

[Rockingit]

Re. The Eurovision Song Contest.

pfffft last again!

well, not quite. As one of the big five, the UK get into the final automatically and don’t need to enter a semifinal.... we came 26th out of 39....


for anyone thinking why do we bother?
England hasn’t won the World Cup football since ‘66, but they keep on entering that.

The U.K. music/TV industry has no great desire to win Eurovision, and even less since Brexit, all the other nations know it - and here's why....

Money. What a lot of people don't know is that it's the tradition that the winning country then get to host the next year, and hosting means just that - ALL the costs. And these are huge, I mean genuinely eye watering sums not only in the logistics/travel/publicity but all the technical production as well. Bizarrely, it's far cheaper unit per unit for lesser countries to host due to lower costs and overheads than it is for the larger ones. Some time back, Ireland won it twice in a row and had to refuse to enter a third time in case they won it again and they literally couldn't afford it.

There's now also a double whammy because since brexit, artists can't just drop into the UK anymore (nor vice-versa can I into Europe ?) to perform without needing a work visa and the bureaucracy and costs behind it - and frankly that's just an embarrasment.

The bottom line being the BBC can't afford it, the government would get minced under-writing it, the British music industry has no interest in making otherwise obscure overseas artists look good, so instead we need to remember that it's just a little bit of TV to make mockery of.

 

[littlespark]

Out of all the entrant to Eurovision, I think UK has the best chance of hosting it.
As a Big Five, we contribute financially anyway, hence getting the automatic final.

The dodgy voting has been going on well before Brexit was a thing. Was one of the reasons Terry Wogan stepped down as commentator.
Greece and Cyprus always give each other the 12..... always.

Ireland won 3 years on the trot.... 90, 91 and 92 I think.

Uk last won in ‘97 and I think we’ve been top ten only a handful of times since.

To lose is one thing..... to lose with absolutely zero points stinks of prearranged vote rigging.

Well done though to Italy, another Big Five.
The band reminds me a bit of The Darkness.
Better than Finland’s other rocky entry that sounded more like Linken Park.

 

[pirate]

Update: Ordered the correct battery from the supplier @telectrix suggested. very good service, arrived promptly and is the correct item. It's labelled as "Ample" and a quick google search suggests they are into EV battery swapping...
anyway, tomorrow will see me cleaning up the corroded terminals and installing the batteries and, hopefully, restoring the AVO to working condition.
It'll then sit on my display shelf beside the hand-cranked Megger and other items, but i expect it will also be fully functioning. Hate seeing such stuff going to landfill! What I love about the AVO is the replaceable fuse in case you make a mistake, and the fact that spares are carried on-board...useful, unless your face has been blown off!
Restoring the leather carrying case is a job for another day...maybe I'll ask the Repair Shop lady to work her magic on it!
Just a tiny foot-note...thanks to all you contributors on here, it has made life in lockdown so much better for me, and I bet it has done the same for many more...