Terrible Tassimo Tea Trouble

Aka all my lights are flashing

I have had a Bosch Tassimo tea machine for a few years now but for the last year it’s not been used due to the flashing lights phenomenon.

Today I found out what the problem was (a task in it’s self!) Holding in the big button and powering on I noticed the heating light lit on its own briefly before all the others came on.
Pulling off the covers and poking a tourch inside it I noticed alot of air bubble in the pipes (not good for any kind of plumbling) I grabbed the cleaning disk and filled up the water tank.
Putting the disk in and closing the lid made no difference so I held down the big button, After 20 seconds the cleaning process started and water started pumping around thesystem (heater wasn’t making any noise) and I noticed the bubbles being pushed through the system.
After the 2nd cleaning cycle the air bubbles were nearly all gone and the heater started up, after another cleaning cycle all the lights (bar the “Heating”) went out and heating light came on.
I popped out the cleaning disk and refilled the the water tank and left it on for 10 mins and it starting brewing away!

So in the end my problem was airlock.

I’m posting this in the hope that it will help other’s, remember readers
Hold in the big button for a long time!
If this help please drop me a message.
Right I better pop out and put the rest of the screws back in.

New toys and lact of updates

Well Been along time Since I have remembered to update this, so……

1st After 3 years I had to dump my bicycle and buy a new one,after keeping to the sub £200 market I finally had enough (probably spent the same and what I initially paid for the old bike in repairs!)

My new bike is a Forme Elements ( well with one or 2 alterations thanks to Ralphs cycles of Taunton)

And so far I’m quite happy with it but for the problem that my knees are now hurting due to inflamation of the joint (nothing to do with the new bike, just coincidence that it flared up with the new bike).
The bike cost £499 but I got it for £399. It is incredibly light weight for its size and came with a lifetimes free servicing, sweet, Just hope I last for a long time.

2nd – Wargames

Well Got board and decided to start another Warhammer 40K army so Now I Have 3(4) 40K armies !
World Eaters (Chaos Space marines),
Forces of Ultramar,
Eldar,
Add to that 2 Warhammer fantasy Armies
Dwarf’s,
High elves,
And a whole host of other models from various companies (Pegasus, Sodapop miniatures).
I should really be out painting *groan*.

3rd electronics
After looking for a Cheep Internet tablet I went for the Superpad III, this is an android powered Chinese tablet in the sub £150 market and so far I’m happy with it.
I’m trying to get into electronics and wanted an Oscilloscope Seeing the Arm DSO quad from seed studio really I cheep I ordered one unfortunately It’s stuck @ Chinese customs and my supplier is doing everything to solve this problem (Thank you for you help!).
I’ve also invested in an Arduino Uno with the intention of Home automation however, I came across a Netduino Plus

which has a built in ethernet shield for the same price, I just hope I keep remember how to program it. After having had the ceeling in my room replace due to asbestos I now have LED lighting in the room making the whole automation process simpler.

I just need to remember to update this and learn how to use all my new toys.

2 Jquery UI Accordians on the same page.

Well for the revamp of my web site I wanted 1 Jquery UI powered accordion to power the sites navigation and 1 for the blog style posts.
After searching for ages I still couldn’t come up with the solution, While on holiday it finally hit me all I had to do was define 2 instances (if that’s the correct terminology) and bingo it worked.

My code:
$(function() {
$( “#accordion” ).accordion();
$( “#news_accordion” ).accordion();
});

Then I just had to call them at the required positions with
id=”news_accordion”
and
id=”accordion”
and it all works !!!
just need to sort out a size issue and I’m finished and can go onto the other scripts.

Thank you Tauring

Well the wait was long but I now have the permission I hoped for.
Tauring @ http://tauring.deviantart.com/
Has finially been able to get back on DA and has given his permission for it’s use.
Thank you friend!

Painting bone & white

Showing how the white skulls stand out on ble armour.

Well came across a realativly simple way for painting Bone and white colour models.

Prime area in skull white,
Paint surface in bleaced bone,
(the above can be skipped if primed in Army painter bone primer)
Dry brush skull white,
Cover in Gryphone Sepia,
Drybrush in skull white.

To make it more white keep drybrushing in skull white to desired shade.

iTunes has stopped working.

I was trying to import Jeff Wayne’s War of the world Musical when I kept getting “iTunes has stopped working” every time it tryed to import track 1 (The eve of the war).

How did I solve it?
Rather annoyingly I had to uninstall the current iTunes version and download the latest fresh version and install that.
Dunno what the issue was but it was cured in the install.
Never mind I can listen to something interesting in work now.

The Meaning of life.

On the first day, God created the dog and said:

‘Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.’

The dog said: ‘That’s a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I’ll give you back the other ten?’

So God agreed.
On the second day, God created the monkey and said:

‘Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I’ll give you a twenty-year life span.’

The monkey said: ‘Monkey tricks for twenty years? That’s a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the Dog did?’

And God agreed.
On the third day, God created the cow and said:

‘You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer’s family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.’

The cow said: ‘That’s kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years.. How about twenty and I’ll give back the other forty?’

And God agreed again.
On the fourth day, God created humans and said:

‘Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I’ll give you twenty years.’

But the human said: ‘Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?’

‘Okay,’ said God, ‘You asked for it.’

So that is why for our first twenty years we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family.. For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren.. And for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.

Life has now been explained to you.

Fire extinguishers and Rotten eggs.

Engineers in my line of work have to deal with loads of issue with fire extinguishers but the one long running issue noone has cured is rotten eggs!
What have rotten eggs got to do with fire extinguishers?
Well…. Cartridge fire extinguishers have to be opened each service session to inspect the internal part how ever most when opened up let of a strong smell of rotten eggs, Normally this smell is caused by sulpher.
Fire extinguishers only contain Water (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) and no sulpher !

So, you may ask, What causes the smell?
As it turns out its caused by the CO2 ! Apparently when CO2 rises to above 5% it becomes an hallucinogen, and most people exposed always think the smell Rotten eggs (for me its most of the time). If a test machine could be hired cheaply I could verify this but alas that’s an impossibility.

There’s plenty of information on this but if you want to know what triggered this line of thought it was a program by the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/killerlakestrans.shtml

What an arse !!

Well as the Chairman of the towns only known out of school wargames club you would have expected me to be nice to one of the new members but no I was down right rotten to him (an in front of his dad too!!)

Why I hear you ask?
I didn’t want to play Warmachine I had turned up with all the scenery for the another members to use and watch another Warmachine game as I really suck (in terms of gamers I a total noob!) Not taking no for an answer he pushed and pushed and I gave in and played a rotten game beeting him into a pulp untill another member joined him and beet me ! grabbing all my models I threw then in the case and smashed a tape measure throwing it into a case.

Arse I suck at all games and I don’t know why I bother at times.

Nevermind I’m away now for 2 weekend’s maybe I will have calmed down by the time I get back to club !

Orphan Work owner now found.

Farseer by http://tauring.deviantart.com/

For years I have been using this image as a forum avater but its only today (12-03-2010) that I have finially found the owner.
The Images is cut from http://tauring.deviantart.com/art/Warhammer-40K-Farseer-77717710 and is created by Tauring.
So its with great gratatude I would to thank and credit you for you great work.
I hope you will allow me to continue using it now that I can credit you as the rightful copyright .owner