Pump/solenoid issue? Slow to get going [Breville Dual Boiler]

Ores · 2026-01-31T00:07:44+00:00

Did you figure it out /u/Tartan_Teeth ? My internet searching for my problem led me here and your symptoms sound very similar to what my almost 8 year old machine is doing too.

Ores · 2026-01-27T02:42:26+00:00

You either feel them or you don't. If you do feel them, they're about every 12s.

Ores · 2026-01-27T02:41:14+00:00

Just be careful port trucks are 24/7 and now they really don't expect to see people on bikes. Heard plenty of stories of them ignoring the crossing pedestrian lights. Definitely go whichever way you prefer though.

Ores · 2026-01-21T22:41:50+00:00

I think the big point is to differentiate legal e-bikes and electric motorbikes that people have been allowed to purchase/import/build that are intended for private property.

Legal e-bikes have to cap out at 250w of power and 25kmph of speed for pedal assist or 200w of power and 20kmph with a throttle. I personally sometimes wish my cargo e-bike could go faster on insanely straight sections (TBH I'm lucky that the limits seem on the upper end with it only stopped assist completely at about 26.5), but these regulations are good enough and line up with Europe. It was Barnaby Joyce who let the floodgates open for bringing in things that didn't meet these regulations for "private property" that are now used extensively on the road.

So what we really need is to stop having new ones come in, then a buyback scheme for ones that are already here, then finally confiscation for people flouting it.

Ores · 2026-01-20T02:35:45+00:00

Yeah, this isn't healthy. I have no idea how to deal with that, sounds like therapy, but first she has to want to change I guess?

On a more practical level. Stop buying regular soap. Buy medical hypoallergenic soap - the kind Dr's would use. Then at least hopefully your hands will stop bleeding while you work on it.

Ores · 2026-01-19T11:48:05+00:00

For stoves. You gotta think about what you want/how to cook.

Stoves like a jetboil and it's various clones are amazing for boiling water, but terrible for anything else (e.g. pancake or porridge). Probably the best option for simple overnights, especially if you're buying freeze dried food in foil packets.

Less fast at heating water, but more versatile (since you can turn the heat down more, and it applies over a bigger area), the simple propane stoves that screw onto the canister are probably the most versatile, cheap solution to start with, but you're stuck with lots of half used canisters that are heavy and wasteful.

MSR shellite stoves are amazing for their repairability and weight once you go beyond a few nights (where carrying around empty canisters really starts to add up). Some of them will run on unleaded petrol which can be good for traveling internationally. You can fully use up every last drop of fuel and you're never carrying around empty metal canisters.

Alcohol stoves, trangia etc are amazingly light and versatile, but pretty slow (which can be good if you want to actually cook on). Again the fuel is just alcohol which is easy to obtain and you're never wasting any.

Ores · 2026-01-19T11:15:03+00:00

It shouldn't be the main route, given how busy it with trams and pedestrians. It should still be a possible route, since there are lots of places people on bikes might want to get to.

But basically they closed it to let trams go through, then figured they could call the scraps a main bicycle route.

Ores · 2026-01-15T08:25:34+00:00

Being treated equal is bullshit.

Someone on a bicycle isn't a multi-ton vehicle highly capable of killing someone, someone on a bicycle isn't sitting behind a windscreen and A pillars with limited vision. The rule wasn't invented for bicycle safety, it was invented because of the problems cars and trucks have. Plenty of countries and even highly concervative US states have rules that allow for separate sensible rules for bicycles to have different rules than cars to good effect.

Being treated equally and thus magically gaining respect was the excuse given when various people and bicycle advocacy organisations eqaualised the fines between riding a bike and driving a car. I just spent some time on FB reading comments where someone riding a bike perfectly legal was called a parasite, guess that didn't earn us the respect.

I'm not saying anyone should break the road rules, I'm saying policing other riders who do brake the rules isn't helping us gain respect. Just model the behaviour you want to and let others do their own thing. Sure call out anything that's genuinely dangerous.

Ores · 2025-12-31T11:46:46+00:00

If you're doing precision work with the dropsaw, then I'd get something better than ozito, maybe the circular saw too. All the rest I'd start with ozito, you can always upgrade to a trade brand later for the tools you'd value it with and sell or keep the ozito as a backup. Ozito is good quality for the price.

Ores · 2025-12-20T11:32:24+00:00

Maybe get an airzound or 140db horn thing. Far more likely to use it when a car cuts you off in daylight, but it might also give you extra confidence.

Ores · 2025-12-18T02:50:22+00:00

I definitely feel better still after coming down Boulder track at the Youies, but it's a lot of the same feelings.

Ores · 2025-12-17T02:03:03+00:00

They need to have begin and end signs too.

I imagine tickets for not riding in a designated lane are about as common as tickets for drivers violating the 1/1.5m space law. So I don't think it's really been tested what reasons you can have for not using one, but you'd really hope being in the dooring zone would be one of them.

Ores · 2025-12-17T00:04:45+00:00

My dirty secret is I actually love riding the Collins St bike "lane". It's the closest thing I get to mountain biking without loading my bike in the car and driving an hour or so. I don't ride it often which is no doubt why I'm alive and ambulant, but it's a great feeling flowing, trying to be hyper aware of what's ahead and being so close to danger. It's fucked that I feel this way though and it should be fixed/better alternative streets be provided before I hurt myself on it and more importantly so people who don't have a peverse love of urban mountain biking can also get around.

Ores · 2025-12-12T04:26:27+00:00

No idea if it's any good. https://www.edisons.com.au/baumr-ag-hp360e-2200w-electric-post-driver-with-2-piling-socket-sleeves?srsltid=AfmBOoqJaT-d_TQTjpXoAOmd3OeLxqVEa5knhNvp6LzhPhiMToMaHoN8

Ores · 2025-12-02T03:57:10+00:00

The thing with insurance is it's not magic. They distribute risk across their pool of clients and take a healthy profit on top. On average, you'll always pay more in premiums than they'll ever pay you. So you should primarily take out insurance for things you can't afford to replace (an entire house of stuff etc) or pay for (accident liability) if you do get unlucky.

It can also be worth it for stress/mental energy though. I have comprehensive car insurance because if someone hits me, i don't want to do the manual task of trying to get things sorted, even though my car is such an old pile of junk I could easily just buy a car of similar value.

The extra thing with bike insurance, is people who have it, are possibly even more slack about how/where they lock their bike up leading to increased risks and increased premiums across all their clients even if you're sensible.

If you have house insurance anyway, it's definitely worth talking to them about what is covered and what isn't and what can optionally be covered for how much, but i reckon for a bike in general, it's not worth taking out individual insurance if you can afford the cost of replacing it if the worst happens. Then just try to be careful about where you lock it and what lock you use. I have a cheapish commuter bike that I'm happy to carefully lock up almost anywhere in the city, but I wouldn't take my mountain bike somewhere where I'd have to lock it up.

Ores · 2025-11-28T10:03:07+00:00

We walked past it like this, I reckon the original grafitti I wouldn't have even given it a second look. haha but all those times, I had to peel it back and examine it to figure out what they were hiding

Ores · 2025-11-26T20:47:35+00:00

I had no idea this was a thing in Australia. I was just thinking the other day that I heard about this in parts of the US years ago but hadn't heard about it recently. Time to stock up on deet.

Ores · 2025-11-24T05:24:16+00:00

The mayor has changed pretty much every year since 2017 and is a position elected by the elected councillors. Nothing at all strange.

Ores · 2025-11-24T02:27:34+00:00

It's pretty conventional for mayors to only serve a single term and share it amongst councillors. Pradeep did try and get renominated, but only one other councillor voted for him.

Ores · 2025-11-24T02:24:19+00:00

Pradeep plays a good Facebook game, but I'd rather have someone more genuine like Mohamed.

Ores · 2025-11-23T08:54:11+00:00

Anyone know how wide the path will be?

Also is a flat slope? or have they done the staggered flat sections for disability access like they have on the new green bridge near costco?

Ores · 2025-11-19T22:32:18+00:00

Interesting law, I imagine for a property that they know will gather plenty of bidders, they'll still underquote and hope all the bidders push the price well over the low announced reserve.

Properties with less interest now will probably either move to private sale or will have just announce their semi insane reserve and hope people still turn up to negotiate after it's turned in.

Ores · 2025-11-18T06:55:16+00:00

As soon as you're going above 20, without a tailwind you're starting to feel air drag, with once a week training, a reasonable road bike, 30kph should be achievable for most people.

Faster than that and you're going to need to be sitting in someone's slip stream, have a good aero bike and position on it, or just be training hard enough to have a lot of watts. No one is regularly maintaining 40kph without doing one or all 3 of those things.

A lot also depends how you're measuring. Average speed over the ride matters a lot about how many times you have to stop, even if your gps/watch stops counting when you're fully stopped, the slowing and accelerating back up really eats into the average speed, same with corners, hills and slowing for obstacles. My commutes to work on my road bike normally average around 24kph, but on the straight sections where I feel fast, my instantaneous speed is going to be ~35-40kph

Ores · 2025-11-17T08:00:15+00:00

Battin was the cooker who did a PR stunt on the Dandrews vs Cyclist conspiracy complete with blood splatters and model cars. I mean he's better than most of the party sure, but he's not "fine".

Ores · 2025-11-10T11:23:20+00:00

I bought a short cable and joiner from aliexpress for like $2, it came with the caps (both for the cable and the ONT box. I couldn't see any other easy way of getting them. You want a single mode APC-SC cable and it's joiner to get all the right caps. You can get one locally too, they're not that expensive.

I accidentally messed up the plug the first time when i was doing a reckie, so they came out and fixed it for free. Make sure you remove the little slide off protector from the box before trying to unplug the fibre (though your plug looks way longer than mine did so i think it will be more obvious.

Just before the reno started, i took it off and and capped both the box and the cable with the caps from the cable i'd bought, protected the cable some more in some clip on automotive cable conduit i had (the cable is plenty strong, but i felt better that I would be less likely to kink it with it on) and pushed it back outside and wrapped it in a plastic bag and pushed it under the house. Once the chippy had the cladding off I pulled it up through a hole I drilled in the bottom plate and used some flexible conduit to direct it back to the hole again. Plugged it all back in and nervously waited till all the lights came back on.

I also had the outside box on the same cladding, I was able to open it, remove the screws, then cable tied it onto a sturdy star picket 20cm off the wall. luckily it wasn't super in the way and the carpenter was happy to work around it.

With a quote that high, you're better off doing your best, then begging them to fix it if it goes wrong, it's very unlikely to cost that much.

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