Roast Grumpy Old Thread II - the grumpiness continues

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Gasometer said:
Let’s simplify

Hot or cold glazed Ham
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Glazed ham is a hot dish (and vile).

Much better off doing a pork roast with all the trimmings and grabbing a nice triple smoked leg ham.
 
You’d think getting a gas bottle refill for my camper trailer would be a straightforward exercise - take gas bottle off, go to Bunnings and swap it over for a fresh bottle but alas it’s not that simple.
I swap it over (smaller 3.7kg bottle) and get home but it’s too big (wide) to fit in the gas bottle holder on the camper.
This is when I realise that Swap N Go don’t have standard size gas bottles.
So back to Bunnings but this time no small size gas bottles available so off to another Bunnings where I find one that’s taller and narrower.
I get home and this ****er is too narrow!
So another trip to Bunnings after getting a rough measurement of what’s needed and swap it again. I get home and it’s about half a centimetre too thick.
So that’s four trips to Bunnings and no gas bottle that fits.
I contacted the holder manufacturer and they tell me I’m best off buying my own bottle and getting it filled.
So back to Bunnings where I seek a refund for the refill and the original purchase price of the swap n go bottle. They’ll refund on the refill but not the $40idh extra it costs to get the ****ing bottle in the first place. Manager won’t budge saying it’s Swap No Go’s “hiring fee”. Begrudgingly I take the refund for the refill and buy a standard size bottle.
Take bottle home and Eureka it fits!
Then I go first to Anaconda and then BCF to get my bottle filled but both told me they can’t fill gas bottles today because it’s too hot. It’s not even 35C on an Australian summer day but camping shops say it’s too hot to fill gas bottles.
So five trips to Bunnings, trips to Anaconda and BCF, being out of pocket due to Swap N Go thievery and still have an empty gas bottle.
Swap N Go can GAGF for not having standard sized gas bottles and for not refunding when I return their useless to me gas bottle.
Bunnings can GAGF for stocking Swap N Go.
Anaconda and BCF can GAGF for being too soft to fill up a gas bottle on a normal summer day.
 
blackshadow said:
You’d think getting a gas bottle refill for my camper trailer would be a straightforward exercise - take gas bottle off, go to Bunnings and swap it over for a fresh bottle but alas it’s not that simple.
I swap it over (smaller 3.7kg bottle) and get home but it’s too big (wide) to fit in the gas bottle holder on the camper.
This is when I realise that Swap N Go don’t have standard size gas bottles.
So back to Bunnings but this time no small size gas bottles available so off to another Bunnings where I find one that’s taller and narrower.
I get home and this ****er is too narrow!
So another trip to Bunnings after getting a rough measurement of what’s needed and swap it again. I get home and it’s about half a centimetre too thick.
So that’s four trips to Bunnings and no gas bottle that fits.
I contacted the holder manufacturer and they tell me I’m best off buying my own bottle and getting it filled.
So back to Bunnings where I seek a refund for the refill and the original purchase price of the swap n go bottle. They’ll refund on the refill but not the $40idh extra it costs to get the ****ing bottle in the first place. Manager won’t budge saying it’s Swap No Go’s “hiring fee”. Begrudgingly I take the refund for the refill and buy a standard size bottle.
Take bottle home and Eureka it fits!
Then I go first to Anaconda and then BCF to get my bottle filled but both told me they can’t fill gas bottles today because it’s too hot. It’s not even 35C on an Australian summer day but camping shops say it’s too hot to fill gas bottles.
So five trips to Bunnings, trips to Anaconda and BCF, being out of pocket due to Swap N Go thievery and still have an empty gas bottle.
Swap N Go can GAGF for not having standard sized gas bottles and for not refunding when I return their useless to me gas bottle.
Bunnings can GAGF for stocking Swap N Go.
Anaconda and BCF can GAGF for being too soft to fill up a gas bottle on a normal summer day.
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Go to 8kg, less variation.

Oh and just quietly a pol-pol hose is a very handy bit of kit 😉 ..
 

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koshari said:
Go to 8kg, less variation.

Oh and just quietly a pol-pol hose is a very hany bit of kit 😉 ..
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I bought my own 4kg bottle that fits like a thumb in a bum.

**** those swap n go campaigners.
 
blackshadow said:
I bought my own 4kg bottle that fits like a thumb in a bum.

**** those swap n go campaigners.
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I have a "forklift" gas bottle mounted at the front of our fuelpod. Keep our fleet of 8kg, 4.5kg and companion bottles topped up from that. Then when one goes out of date i do a bottleswap as they never check the dates at bunnings .
 
koshari said:
Deffo tv party at gassos now.
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I have bought a new Weber Kettle. I will use that for the Pork.

I will use the 12 year old Weber to do lamb and chicken

Do the Glazed Ham on the gas Weber for a little more control over the heat
 

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Gasometer said:
I have bought a new Weber Kettle. I will use that for the Pork.

I will use the 12 year old Weber to do lamb and chicken

Do the Glazed Ham on the gas Weber for a little more control over the heat
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We get the local butchers to glaze our ham.

Kudos to you for doing it yourself.

And fwiw i reckon weber kettles are to hit and miss. We got a mastercook smoker instead.
 
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Bloody Oki printers.

I won't go into it but a while back, by transfer belt packed it in. I sourced a similar model printer and recovered the transfer belt which was the same part number. I recovered the fuser as well, just in case I needed it and I then disposed of the printer in the local hard waste collection seeing as it was now junk. My own printer however, was working properly again.

Until a few days ago when the fuser unit blew (who knows why???).

Printer throwing error 280 i think.

Anyway, I had a spare fuser so I plonked that in.

Error message still showing. Darn!

Googled it... I needed to install a BRAND NEW fuser to clear the error, or get an Oki tech to come around. Screw that - the printer is 12 years old.

Apparently a brand new fuser has a fuse embedded, which is in parallel with a resistor bonded in epoxy. The printer has to see the short circuit, blow the fuse, then see the resistance to reset the error. Some Russian dude has a YouTube hack showing how to fake this but I've watched too many crazy Russian hacker videos to even think about doing this.

So I found another printer, different model but with really crap printing, symptomatic of the transfer belt problem I originally had. As my transport belt is good, I nabbed this new printer.

It's a newer unit and a higher model so on the assumption my transfer belt fixes his printer, I'm likely to be laughing.

Partial success.

The prints were reasonable, but still not clean.

The Oki site clearly advises that the cartridges are not compatible between the two printers. Each requires a different part number and the OEM cartridge prices are a far bit different (aftemarket are more similarly priced but still show as incompatible between the two printers).

My updated diagnosis is that the cartridges in this newer printer are either dud, or the cartridge unit itself is knackered.

With nothing to lose, I popped my cartridge unit into the newer printer, which also now has my transfer belt unit. I just left my toner cartridges mounted as they were.

Wham... That worked, although one of my cartridges was empty. Swapped it out with one from the newer printer and everything is good.

I have a non-original, but compatible transfer belt unit, non-original and supposedly incompatible cartridge unit with three cartridges, and one supposedly incompatible cartridge but the whole thing is working like a beauty.

So I think Oki is full of shit when they state which cartridges are compatible with whatever printer.


But here's my dilemma. Last week, because my wife wanted to print some recipes, I went out and bought a Xerox colour laser printer so now I have two of them, an Oki and a Xerox.

I'm guessing somebody in the family is getting a colour laser printer for Christmas.
 
Samsquanch said:
Bloody Oki printers.

I won't go into it but a while back, by transfer belt packed it in. I sourced a similar model printer and recovered the transfer belt which was the same part number. I recovered the fuser as well, just in case I needed it and I then disposed of the printer in the local hard waste collection seeing as it was now junk. My own printer however, was working properly again.

Until a few days ago when the fuser unit blew (who knows why???).

Printer throwing error 280 i think.

Anyway, I had a spare fuser so I plonked that in.

Error message still showing. Darn!

Googled it... I needed to install a BRAND NEW fuser to clear the error, or get an Oki tech to come around. Screw that - the printer is 12 years old.

Apparently a brand new fuser has a fuse embedded, which is in parallel with a resistor bonded in epoxy. The printer has to see the short circuit, blow the fuse, then see the resistance to reset the error. Some Russian dude has a YouTube hack showing how to fake this but I've watched too many crazy Russian hacker videos to even think about doing this.

So I found another printer, different model but with really crap printing, symptomatic of the transfer belt problem I originally had. As my transport belt is good, I nabbed this new printer.

It's a newer unit and a higher model so on the assumption my transfer belt fixes his printer, I'm likely to be laughing.

Partial success.

The prints were reasonable, but still not clean.

The Oki site clearly advises that the cartridges are not compatible between the two printers. Each requires a different part number and the OEM cartridge prices are a far bit different (aftemarket are more similarly priced but still show as incompatible between the two printers).

My updated diagnosis is that the cartridges in this newer printer are either dud, or the cartridge unit itself is knackered.

With nothing to lose, I popped my cartridge unit into the newer printer, which also now has my transfer belt unit. I just left my toner cartridges mounted as they were.

Wham... That worked, although one of my cartridges was empty. Swapped it out with one from the newer printer and everything is good.

I have a non-original, but compatible transfer belt unit, non-original and supposedly incompatible cartridge unit with three cartridges, and one supposedly incompatible cartridge but the whole thing is working like a beauty.

So I think Oki is full of shit when they state which cartridges are compatible with whatever printer.


But here's my dilemma. Last week, because my wife wanted to print some recipes, I went out and bought a Xerox colour laser printer so now I have two of them, an Oki and a Xerox.

I'm guessing somebody in the family is getting a colour laser printer for Christmas.
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So Hoju or Gaso getting it?
 
koshari said:
We get the local butchers to glaze our ham.

Kodo to you for doing it yourself.

And fwiw i reckon weber kettles are to hit and miss. We got a mastercook smoker instead.
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I have Lamb down pat

Full beads

Place lamb in a throw away foil container and lie on the bottom thick mix of spuds and onions

Rosemary, garlic and salt and then cook for around 6 hours allowing the coals to burn right down

No knife needed, just pull the lamb from the bone with tongs

The spuds and onions are torched by this stage but they lifetime the meat up off the tray
 
Gasometer said:
Christmas table settings

Sit wherever you like or set seats?
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Head of household at end of table & set seats if family?
If it’s for Bigfooty for the spread you are putting on, think we can just find our own
 

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