What "man jobs" have you done today?

dcsarge said:
Now I need to sort out my ageing pc and the PS4s in an effort to restore some gaming peace and quiet .
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Sorting out the PS4 is on my list too. I have one of the original models, and it's so, so loud. So bad that I tend to avoid using it.

Horizon Zero Dawn is out soon for free (or already out perhaps?) so I should probably finally re-thermal paste it before then.
 
doug_1986 said:
Sorting out the PS4 is on my list too. I have one of the original models, and it's so, so loud. So bad that I tend to avoid using it.

Horizon Zero Dawn is out soon for free (or already out perhaps?) so I should probably finally re-thermal paste it before then.
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HZD definitely sends mine into full take off mode (Star Wars Edition oddly louder than the launch model a friend gave to my daughter).
 
dcsarge said:
HZD definitely sends mine into full take off mode (Star Wars Edition oddly louder than the launch model a friend gave to my daughter).
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Hmm, yeah, it may be too much. I might have a go at replacing it tonight and see how it fares.

I know what'll happen though - I'll start playing it, like it, hate the noise, so buy it on the PC! :p
 
bloodiedathame said:
Make sure you clean the crap out of the heat sink fins and do the thermal pads as well as the paste.
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theone8181 said:
Mine did too (ps4 pro), I stripped it down and replaced all the thermal pass which were tiny.
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So do I need to order some new thermal pads then, before I do this? Not just a matter of cleaning the ones that are there?

Don't fancy cracking it open twice to be honest.
 
I read that the standard ones are a bit crap so got some thermal grizzly 1mm ones. I've opened mine up so many times because I failed to clean the heat sink fins the first three times....
 
Any tips for a slow draining toilet?
The type that fills up with a flush and doesn't take everything with it.
Move into the house and it's been like that since day 1.
Tried bleach, fairy liquid+hot water, a short toilet auger and tried to the get garden hose in but I think the hose is too stiff. Plunger and a can of compressed air toilet unblocked thingy I found in the house. I've also attempted various points outside with drainage rods but the toilet is a vertical drop after the u-bend on ground floor so not sure where it goes, "crawl" space just shows its straight into the ground.

I can only think of getting a longer auger or trying enzymes down it.
 
Bit boring but fitted some new rim tape to my wifes rear wheel. Found a complete flat on it the other day, took me a while to figure out the air was coming the inside of the tube where it had snagged on the spoke hole. Rim tape was all over the place.

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ash_scotland88 said:
Any tips for a slow draining toilet?
The type that fills up with a flush and doesn't take everything with it.
Move into the house and it's been like that since day 1.
Tried bleach, fairy liquid+hot water, a short toilet auger and tried to the get garden hose in but I think the hose is too stiff. Plunger and a can of compressed air toilet unblocked thingy I found in the house. I've also attempted various points outside with drainage rods but the toilet is a vertical drop after the u-bend on ground floor so not sure where it goes, "crawl" space just shows its straight into the ground.

I can only think of getting a longer auger or trying enzymes down it.
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Do you know what sort of toilet it is - Is it a old one or a new one - if it's old do you know what a syphonic toilet is. I had to unblock one once - as you flushed it the level rose to top of pan but didn't flush stuff away - no pipes were blocked so got a plunger on long pole and shoved it down to bowl - away it all went - The problem was in the cystern - the screw holding the plastic lever that pulls up the plunged was lose and arm had slid along square arm and as you flush it didn't lift all the way up.

Also a mate had same symptoms and his turned out to be 50 yrs worth of his wifes hair building up in outside down pipe - they cut a piece out and it looked like a drowned black cat .

I had a blockage but I knew where it was -right on the bend outside the bathroom window. -Couldn't rod either way so got on roof and pushed rubber ring thing downvent pipe and away it went. I have a bungalow.

Hope this helps
 
Bench job complete, 45 quid-ish all in. Sleepers from Homebase, Wickes only had the 150mm stuff. Brackets from Toolstation. Still a bit flimsy for my liking so I'll look to cement the posts in.

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Loads of odds and sods in the gardens, shifted a few shrubs, dug up and got rid of hundred of crocosmia bulbs, dug over some borders and planted eight silver birch trees

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fobose said:
Bit boring but fitted some new rim tape to my wifes rear wheel. Found a complete flat on it the other day, took me a while to figure out the air was coming the inside of the tube where it had snagged on the spoke hole. Rim tape was all over the place.

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<snigger> Rim tape :D. I followed a YouTube video for dismantling my ps4, it's a bit disconcerting as stuff doesn't always want to come apart.

Sorry not sure how to quote om that bench, but have you got any brackets underneath or is it purely that visible joint? If you don't have any brackets under there, you could probably put some of those ~2 inxh ones and they wouldn't be visible unless somebody kneeled down.
 
theone8181 said:
<snigger> Rim tape :D. I followed a YouTube video for dismantling my ps4, it's a bit disconcerting as stuff doesn't always want to come apart.

Sorry not sure how to quote om that bench, but have you got any brackets underneath or is it purely that visible joint? If you don't have any brackets under there, you could probably put some of those ~2 inxh ones and they wouldn't be visible unless somebody kneeled down.
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Just the lap joint. It is snug and Gorilla glue'd although I do have some old angle steels I could throw on.
 
DXP55 said:
Do you know what sort of toilet it is - Is it a old one or a new one - if it's old do you know what a syphonic toilet is. I had to unblock one once - as you flushed it the level rose to top of pan but didn't flush stuff away - no pipes were blocked so got a plunger on long pole and shoved it down to bowl - away it all went - The problem was in the cystern - the screw holding the plastic lever that pulls up the plunged was lose and arm had slid along square arm and as you flush it didn't lift all the way up.

Also a mate had same symptoms and his turned out to be 50 yrs worth of his wifes hair building up in outside down pipe - they cut a piece out and it looked like a drowned black cat .

I had a blockage but I knew where it was -right on the bend outside the bathroom window. -Couldn't rod either way so got on roof and pushed rubber ring thing downvent pipe and away it went. I have a bungalow.

Hope this helps
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Sorry only had the alert just now you've quoted.

It's an old one. I've tried a plunger when the water was low, are you saying I should try when the water is high?

No air vent by this toilet, but away to Google a syphonic toilet.

In my process or trying to it help it it does let out the odd gurgle now at the start and appears to want to start a whirl pool when it's emptying.

I do suspect it's the old medicated toilet paper, the one price I removed from the dispenser was like grease proof. Didn't even start to break up in the bowl after many flushes.
 
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