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Tearing apart my Miele S5210 vacuum cleaner
December 29th, 2009This is my vacuum cleaner.
Miele S5210.
It’s a Miele S5210. It’s a very, very good vacuum cleaner. Well, it was until the point that it broke! Actually I was somewhat responsible for that. For a little while now I have been restoring a car (OK, almost 6 years but I am nearly done – www.asciimaton.co.nz/pics). [...]
A door alarm for my house and garage.
December 26th, 2009If you’ve looked about my sites you’ll know I make things. Lots of things. This means spending lots of time in the garage. Often I am dashing about between house and garage as I am busy making stuff. My house actually has two garages, an old on on one side of the house and my [...]
An extremely dead, mummified rat
December 21st, 2008I was cleaning out my old garage, which was in a total mess after having a new roof put on it, and among all the sawdust and off cuts and dead leaves and so on I found an extremely dead, totally mummified rat!
The skin is completely dried and is very tough and all [...]
Momentous occasion – 1000 empty Tic Tac boxes!
August 19th, 2008There are certain times in your life where something remarkable happens. Today is one of those times.
Today, I finally reached 1000 empty Tic Tac boxes!
Please note, this isn’t a collection (or a 3 dimensional array). I haven’t actually gone out of my way to collect empty Tic Tac boxes. I just haven’t thrown any away.
For about [...]
Actually completing projects.
June 2nd, 2008Yes, amazing as it seems I am actually finishing off some of my projects. No, not R2. He isn’t good enough. I have however finished the dumpster Dyco drill and it came up great in the end.
After cleaning up all the parts I spent a week or so painting them. It all got several coats [...]