There is no such thing as a five minute job

[High Voltage]

Ah yeh I have one of those too lol got that first years ago, just in time for the slow cooker to break. Unsurprisingly I haven't used the yoghurt making functions or whatever else they are either. Mine was the Instant pot 15 in 1 when it came out, air frier lid is a bit fucked now but it was dropped twice lol. Works great for everything else still years later and air frier if I stuff the sensor down, sure they are like £80 now?

The ones I've been looking at is made by Ninja

I've seen a chap sound a proper how to clean it video and it looks do'able

 

[newme]

The ones I've been looking at is made by Ninja

I've seen a chap sound a proper how to clean it video and it looks do'able

Yeh Ninja seem to have overtaken them for this, the drawer system looks better for air frying but I am not sure how it works for the other functions

 

[High Voltage]

Here we go again

We have an extractor fan in the kitchen, nothing too "out there" about that except . . . long story short . . . it needed changing. This was YET ANOTHER five minute job that took about 3 weeks, but I've just completed therapy for this and I've been advised to not think about this too much again

But the problem was, the outside vent which "sealed" with a flap. The flap, made of ludicrously thin and tat plastic (you'll note NOT CHEAP LUDICROUSLY THIN TAT PLASTIC) broke. This allows an icy blast to come into the kitchen. Me, being slothful, I often "forget" to close the kitchen door allowing this icy blast to freeze my dearly beloved. Me? I don't feel a thing, in fact in summer the cooling breeze could be argued to be pleasant

Anyhoo - a replacement valved flap was ordered and duly arrived

Should be a five minute job. Four screws out, remove old vent. Align new vent onto pipe, four screws (supplied) back in. Job's a good'un

Except

I was lacking my DiY mojo - I recognise this characteristic in myself. If I force myself to do something - like an adult would do - whatever it is I'm making myself do will take hours longer, will be crap and I'll end up sulking for days on end

So I put it off - hiding behind "helping our elderly neighbours" with an ongoing building problem

That lasted a week

Then I finally thought I'd better crack on with it - I could feel my DiY mojo stirring

With freshly charged battery in my cordless drill / driver - the correct torx bit in the magnetic drive bit. The four screws whizzed out

The new vent was offered up to the "step down" adaptor (150mm fan down to 100mm through wall pipe) only to find that the flap vent was catching on the internal pipe - but with most uncharacteristic self control and rational thought - I simply pushed the adaptor until the fan and clearance was obtained

The new vent was attached to the wall - new, better screws were used to hold it home and a quick root around in the bag that came with the vent and the four plastic screw cover plugs were slotted into place. It was about this time that I thought that, maybe, it would've been nice it they'd supplied a few spares, yunno, incase I . . . <plink as one plug pops out of the screw hole> . . . dropped one . . . FUCK!!111!!1!1 Never to be seen again

Clip on the actual "vent" vent and in I go

A short period of time passes

Click . . . Click . . . Click . . . Click . . . Click . . . Click . . . Click . . . Click . . . Click

What could this possible be??? Mrs Voltz, who has the hearing of a bat, is reaching for a heavy blunt object, to be used on:-

1. The source of the Click
2. Me - as I don't really hear it, and anyway, I've got my headphones on

It would seem that the new flap / valve is so perfectly balanced that even the slightest of incoming breeze causes it to open and click shut FOR EVER

So this morning, hopefully, the problem has been resolved. Not with Duc/t tape but with 3 short lengths of fibre reinforced tape, acting as a shock absorber / sound deadener

We shall see

 

[Orang Utan]

Conversely, most of the jobs that take me years to work up to actually take just a few minutes to do. Such as cancelling subscriptions, replacing light bulbs, etc

 

[farmerbarleymow]

That's all well and good, High Voltage, but did you manage to fix your toaster?

 

[High Voltage]

Well, yes and no

The replacement elements I did have, the end ones, weren't marked as to which side got hot and which side stayed cool. Being the end elements this is important to identify

'Twould seem that I might not have oriented them correctly or the new ones need longer to toast

I may invest in a complete set this time (5 elements) and change the lot

Wonder where that 1/4" ratcheting spanner has gone though

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Might be easier - and better for your blood pressure - to just buy a new toaster.