Testing My Thickened Bleach Ability To Remove Mildew Black Mould

The make your own mould removing thick bleach outcome test.

I've almost run out of shower area to test this on, the other Grot Buster applications left me my shower, bath and other areas with no mould other than the small area I kept and grew for testing, LOL how crazy is that.  I might have to go knocking on neighbours doors begging them to let me clean their shower tray, can you imagine their faces as they say NO thinking I'm some kind of .... LOL



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Ginger Cat Finds RoboRaptor House Guest Blocking His Way

One of the great things about repairing toys is that you get to pick them up broken for pennies, and then to TEST them when they are fixed.  I picked up this RoboRaptor for £5 UK and once it was fixed I took it round to a friends for the kids to interact with.  All kids loved it, the Cat on the other hand might take a little longer..

If you fancy your own New RoboRaptor with remote control, it makes a clean but a little noisy pet, then they are available at Amazon:

Or if you don't mind a pre-loved then try eBay:



I hope you like it, if so give it the thumbs up.

fixed1t

Fixing Sky Talk No Telephone Signal - But Fibre Broadband Working Fine

About a month ago,

Following a very dramatic and close electrical storms, I was left with a working sky broadband fibre but no telephone.

I called sky, regularly, and each time had to go through the idiots guide to checking the phone line.  They also kept asking if it was now working, why? they hadn't dome anything!

Dear Reader:

Make sure if you do that you get them to call you back as soon as they have verified your details, otherwise the long delays and waits allegedly for checking things will cost you dearly on your mobile.

MOBILE ? yes because the phone was dead, they commented many times that I was calling them from a mobile.

 They asked:

1) Does the line work? (Of course it doesn't thats why I'm calling etc)

2) Have you tried plugging in another phone. (Yes lots of them but as phones hardly ever fail its a bit of a non starter)

3) Try the other sockets (why is there a random socket killing elf?)

4) Plug it into the box that comes into the property.

5) Frequent 5 - 15 min waits whilst things are checked, allegedly.

I may be a cynic but its almost as if they are keeping you on the line for some reason!!

Eventually they agreed a BT Open-reach person would come round. They did the following week, asked when it happened, I mentioned the storm he said "blown panel fuse".  He removed the Original Panel:

He then replaced the panel with a new MK2 Version shown below:

The problem was fixed in minutes, with the fitting of this MK2 panel.

I then went online and discovered I could have bought the MK2 version of the panel myself, here:

I then purchased another as a spare and installed it myself in minutes, it worked.

So the bottom line is I could have purchased a MK2 panel myself over a month before, installed it once the panel had arrived, and saved myself weeks of time and mobile costs.

I can't guarantee this will work for you, but he said it is a very very common problem especially if the fibre broadband is still working. Also, if it doesn't fix the problem you have a spare for when an electrical storm does kill your panel.

Here is a video I did explaining the issue:

If this helps please Share it and gives it a thumbs up, and leave a comment.

Thanks fixed1t

Crazy Duckling Diving Into Pipe Whirlpool - Slowed Down

slowed up the diving duck for those who missed it.

fixed1t

Dave The Funky Monkey Building A Christmas Tree 8x Version

Dave The Funky Monkey Building a Christmas Tree 8x Version. This is a fast version for those with no time to spare, please share it.  He's a great present for the older person who just hasn't grown up. ;-) 

Malcolm (aka fixed1t)

The Monkey is available on:

Amazon UK:

Amazon USA:

Dave The Funky Monkey Building A Christmas Tree Real Time'ish

A great present for the older child as he/she hits the mid life crisis, it breaks wind and burps, so you can blame it all on the monkey.

The Monkey is available on:

Amazon UK:

Amazon USA:

Delia Derbyshire - Sculptress of Sound documentary 1/7

I really liked the Dr Who drama An Experiment With Space and Time a few nights ago, they had a lot of good lookalikes in it and there was a great scene of a 'Delia Derbyshire' lookalike tape spooling and running tape all over the studio wrapped around various objects.  The theme tune was so fundamental to the show it was a real shame that they didn't take a few moments to introduce Delia to the cast in the screenplay and therefore to the public at large.