Recent content by Kittyhawk

At age 12 or thereabouts I had a morning paper run - around 60 newspapers that we loaded into bags on our bikes and delivered to subscribers around the neighbourhood. Pick up time at the depot was 6am, so still very dark in winter. From our house to the depot was about 2km and down a dead...

Only 12 feet??? I told you us singlehanders were loonies..

Well I did say in my original post that ocean sailors back in those times were misfits, dropouts and lunatics, but I'm older and wiser now. But I do wonder, where has our freedom to be a little crazy gone? The world is now full of people dictating what we can and can't do, based on the premise...

I'm a bit embarrassed to tell you that I don't really know. I bought the boat from a chap in the yacht club for next to nothing because she was only a hair breadth away from being a derelict. The fact that she was named 'Calypso' but known to club members as 'Collapse-o' will provide an...

Thought I'd chuck this one in - Gabriel's Gully taken from the spot where we camped. A nondescript sort of place but one that's bugged me for decades. Seen it now, time to move on..

After nearly three months on the road in our little motorhome we have arrived at a remote place called Gabriel's Gully which marks the southernmost point of our journey around NZ. Tomorrow we will alter course back to the north and head for home. I was a mediocre student at school, only doing...

Not 100% sure but thought the previous owner was a farmer. In fact that would work in well - NZ farmers are famous/notorious for never throwing anything away and really foster the 'that'll come in handy some day' attitude. Would also explain the 6 empty polypropylene seed bags I found folded and...

Identity solved. Entered accommodation radio make and model into Google and it came back with photos, one of which showed exactly the same fascia release key of which I have 20+ pieces. There are online manuals which are very vague with no info as to where the key should be inserted. But that's...

A radio fascia release key sounded good. There are two radios in the truck - one in the cab and another in the accommodation. In the years that we have owned the truck we has never switched either on, so had a good look at the both of them and cannot see anywhere that a release key could be...

If anyone knows what the item is then I would love to know as well. There are dozens of them tucked away in drawers, cupboards etc in my motorhome. Made of thin steel about 4cm long. Not identifiable by anyone in the motorhome fraternity.

I remember years ago an old lady making the news by complaining that she didn't like daylight saving because the extra hour of sunlight was fading her curtains.

The child bríde and I are coming slowly towards the end of a months long road trip exploring NZ's more remote places, in fact our preference has been for large areas with a population density of way less that one per sq/km. 20km down a dusty gravel road zigzagging its way towards the south...

I don't think it is. Here a pic of some little gizmo bearing the same markings as the PCB in the line just before my LED light. I find this code on similar devices on the internet and it is referred to as a LR209028 CSA Litelfuse. None the wiser as to why it is in each circuit immediately...

Yes, that makes sense. I recall the LED lamps in the boats had aluminium finned heat sinks behind them - the ones in the motorhome do not. A good explanation and I've learned something new. Thank you

Thanks for your reply. The job is done already, lights shifted and working fine so can't photograph. The PCB's were enclosed in shrink wrap which I had to remove in order to unsolder and resolder the feed wires for the new location. I also replaced the shrink wrap. Written on the original shrink...