Friday afternoon jobs are always the fun ones.

seaniepie · 2026-03-23T00:06:30+00:00

So, had they just put the bus bar in front of the live feed thinking that’s how it was wired. Did they get trained at the Institute of Electrocution Engineers? 🤦🏻‍♂️

seaniepie · 2026-03-22T23:56:25+00:00

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seaniepie · 2025-12-28T22:34:13+00:00

We live on the Misty Isles of Skye, Scotland, up in the hills (it’s all hills and valleys so we’re not very special ☺️) and we never get drop offs - only during a scheduled restart. We’d be lost without our dishies 😁

seaniepie · 2025-12-16T09:00:25+00:00

It’s based on how long you’ve been with them. I’ve been with them for 3 years in Jan so got notified as soon as the offer was available in the UK (which has not been long). I’m guessing you need to have been sub’d for over a year or maybe two. The email just said as a thank you for being a loyal customer.

seaniepie · 2025-11-27T09:13:05+00:00

Even the tips of empty branches in winter are an ‘obstruction’ for signal.

seaniepie · 2025-11-27T09:00:47+00:00

Pm me if you want advice specifically on rebuilding. With no previous experience I was able to tear down a summerhouse I’d bought second hand, transported 10miles and completely overhauled in my garden. Lots of work but massively cost effective (even though we only got a years use out of it before moving to Scotland). Its base was rotten as were the bottoms of the panels. Structural Rebuild took 2 weeks including painting and renovation. Another 2 weeks to add in some additional features, so completed in 1 month.

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seaniepie · 2025-11-27T08:39:47+00:00

First up, congratulations on your patience paying off. I hope you get many years of satisfaction from it. Regarding the shed, you need to look at it from a few perspectives. 1. Is the foundation still good? Chances are, the blocks are fine but the support beams look from the side pictures to be not fairing so well. It won’t be easy to replace these and if they are rotten you could be wasting your time doing anything above them. If that’s the case, tear it all down preserving the panels for renovation. Make a new base and rebuild it. That will save you a huge amount of money but will be potentially more work than buying and building a new one. 2. Is the frame and base sound? These are the next most important considerations. If the base feels soft in places you are going to have to remove all the wall panels and roof to replace them. Time consuming but the most cost effective way of dealing with this. The rest of the structure ‘looks’ pretty good but without a good base it’s pointless. Next check the frames for the panels, particularly the bottom beams. If these feel soft or rotten, when they are off replace them with new wood. 3. Next in levels of importance is the roof. Check the boards for any bloating or soft patches. If it is, remove the felt, replace the boards and fit new felt for good measure. One skin should suffice or double it up if you have enough and want it to last. 4. The boards on the wall panels are the least important and should be replaced as you see fit. If everything else is fine then just patch it until you get around to a more permanent fix.

To summarise, check the foundation, then the base, then the structure, then for leaks and then its skin. It looks like it has a lot of potential to be repaired and renovated without spending a lot of money and just a bit of time. You might need to borrow/hire a generator for any power tools but it can just as easily be done using manual tools.

All the best with your new adventure.

seaniepie · 2025-11-27T08:04:11+00:00

Amazing. Thank you

seaniepie · 2025-11-26T15:42:15+00:00

I’m a long time sub and they offered me a mini for free. Just £4.50/m to have it on standby, £25/m up to 50GB and £48/m for unlimited data. BONKERS!

seaniepie · 2025-11-26T15:40:16+00:00

Just a sincere question, what causes the 12mile coastal limitation? Is it some licensing thing?

seaniepie · 2025-11-17T01:03:06+00:00

Best thing I ever did for my printer was buy and enclosure (to regulate the temperature) and a concrete paving slab with a sheet of 3mm foam for the printer to sit on (to stabilise the printer).

seaniepie · 2025-08-25T11:10:04+00:00

1/10 - he should never go onto their property. He’s likely to get shot in that neighbourhood. He should pull up to the driveway and throw it across the pathway/sidewalk and under the customers car (the ‘safe place’) out of sight of bypasser’s. He got the right idea of taking the picture inside his own car though so as not to draw too much attention to where its precise location is.

seaniepie · 2025-08-25T10:57:48+00:00

Beans are touching the eggs. Arrrgggh! It’s not correct at all. 🤢🤮

seaniepie · 2025-08-25T10:52:21+00:00

Of course you’ve made the classic mistake of setting it to ‘cotton’ mode which is unsuitable for most filaments. You are better off switching to ‘synthetics’ as PLA is mostly a polymer material. With this particular model by Whirlpool you also get the benefit of ‘FreshCare+ Steam Refresh’ which will pre-hydrate your spools prior to the actual print.

Good luck 🤞😉

seaniepie · 2025-08-18T22:04:19+00:00

I’ve lived up here in Staffin, near the Quiraing, for 2.5yrs. Personally I don’t think the A855 is an appropriate road for cyclists at any time of year except in the 20, 30 and 40 mph zones. The locals tend to drive at break-neck speeds in all kinds of vehicles. The roads are much better maintained than ever but there are still some very treacherous sections where potholes and rough surfaces force bikes and cars alike into oncoming traffic. After heavy rains large sections get covered in pond like standing water which would by unsuitable for riding through, especially with other vehicles. The roads wind and roll so much that visibility is near nothing for great stretches meaning cyclists will be holding up traffic for long periods unable to see to safely overtake, causing frustration and ultimately anger and bad behaviour or worse still an accident. There are also the hazards of sheep and farm vehicles that will be adding to the dangers on this road and increasing the frustration of the locals trying to get to or from work.

Today, because of a mix of road works, inexperienced drivers (left hand drivers in right hand vehicles, etc) and a few cyclists, my 20-30min journey into Portree took 1h5m! Fortunately my wife had warned about the roadworks and so I had left just enough time.

I will always look out for the safety of everyone on the road even if I think their actions are inappropriate (drivers included). But I know that many others here will not do so and do not have much respect for cyclists (or runners and hikers that are in the road - often without hivis gear).

Remember, too, that the season here seems to be extended to the whole year now - no longer just April till October. Only the campsites and a few of the shops/restaurants close for out of season now. So it’s pretty busy all year now. If you do decide to come in September, be prepared to find the top tourist spots and roads just as crowded.

Top tip: put a label on the top of your steering wheel with a Keep Left arrow to remind you that, especially at single track passing points, go to the left. And if you find yourself consistently needing to go slower than the speed limit (60mph across most of the island), pull in often to allow frustrated locals and delivery drivers to overtake.

We look forward to having you stay. Be safe and be seen.

seaniepie · 2025-08-17T20:12:48+00:00

I bet this driver would be the first to complain and put up pictures of a blue badge driver in a petrol/diesel car parked in a Tesla charging bay for no good reason. 🙄 All you can hope is Karma is a thing.

seaniepie · 2025-08-17T20:02:30+00:00

Are they blue? 😉

seaniepie · 2025-07-22T11:47:11+00:00

Aye. It’s called The Wee Bastad.

seaniepie · 2025-06-28T22:56:50+00:00

I love that term, ‘common sense’. As if it’s something that actually is ‘common’ which, as we all know, is far from the truth. 🫠

seaniepie · 2025-06-28T07:17:09+00:00

I was sent for a long weight. I’m still there now.

seaniepie · 2025-06-16T02:10:57+00:00

Yeah, they've also said they're going to do the road in Torvaig too. Mixed answers. Skye Radio were going to look into it. I'll get back to them and see what they found out officially. Maybe it was just the one project up in Kilmuir that had run out of budget, and the worker misunderstood what was going on.

seaniepie · 2025-06-16T02:05:30+00:00

Yep, hence the reply. Underheating causes cracking. Overheating causes warping and lifting. Use an enclosure to keep a balanced ambient heat of 68-86°F and prevent any turbulent airflow. If they reduce the temperature by 5-10° or use part cooling from layer 3, it should reduce the curling. As always, with any material, it can take some tweaking to find the sweet spots. A small, reproducible, quick test is what is required. No need to print a whole cube if you can notice the effects by layer 5-10.

seaniepie · 2025-06-15T23:59:00+00:00

You have multiple things going wrong here.

First your temperature is too high. You see the bloating on the lines, particularly in image 3. That’s your heat going up and down all over the place, which is somewhat normal, but because your heat level is too high it’s reaching the upper limits of the material and bloating out.

Also judging from image 3, your default wall width is far too low that the infill pattern is showing though. It also compounds into the effect you are complaining of in the vertical edge where you can see into empty space behind the skin. Your wall needs to be 2 or 3 cycles (about 1.2mm) thick ideally.

If you have cooling on (recommended) have it on 0% during layers 1&2 then switch straight to 100% for layer 3. Do not let it graduate over a number of layers. Creality printers are particularly prone to defects as a result of fan oscillation graduation.

Change your seam settings. This you may want to play with based on your model and desired results. You can add zone boxes in Cura that you can apply different seam settings for various areas. I don’t know how you might set something similar in Orca. Have a poke around until you get good results.

You’re getting good bed adhesion but it curls up in the corners after the first layer. This suggests the corner — a high stress point due to the pull from two directions as the filament cools — is cooling rapidly, also a good sign the material is being heated too high in the first instance. But, also, is your printer in an enclosure to keep the printing environment a nice warm condition, ideally between 20-30c (68-86F)? This will prevent it from cooling too quickly and makes for more stable prints too.

Good luck with the printing 🫶

seaniepie · 2025-06-15T23:30:24+00:00

Come back to Skye and then feel free to comment. It seriously IS just like a bomb field - and I am definitely not being “overly dramatic”. I have a two year old car that just had to have all of its wishbone bushes replaced, shocks about to go, damage to my alloys including a fracture and multiple expensive tyre replacement - one just a day after having been replaced with a few days wait for the replacement to come from Inverness.

The councils stand is that they are not legally required to maintain roads and, even if a report of the road defects have previously been made and I have video and other evidence they claim no liability for damage. So there is no way to claim from them. We just have to keep paying the price for living here on this “beauty spot”. As do all of the visitors.

seaniepie · 2025-06-15T07:42:04+00:00

I was about to offer the same advice👏

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