Sorry haven’t had a chance to pick it up for ages. Was hoping for a bit of time on my week off this week, but I’ve been found other things to do around the house. Including installing a new cooker and finding out the hob I fitted in a few years ago has had an electrical fault and nearly burnt out the neutral wire. No idea when that happened, but now have to get a new one and fit it. Not a single second to get any modelling done.
I might have to admit defeat with this little project.
Real life really has found a way of getting in the way of a lot of projects the last year or so.
This one though is strange. I don’t remember hearing anything pop or noticing a burning smell, so I have no idea when it happened. Until I flipped it up to put the oven in and checked the terminal under the hob, I had no idea and had been using it. I’m not going to use it again just to be on the safe side. I dread to think what could have happened had I not checked. Doing a bit of googling, loose wires arcing seems to be the most likely cause. So it’s possible the screw could have loosened. I don’t know. I think a new hob and new wires are the way to go.
I am currently replacing a lot of old light switches and power power receptacle in my own house. It is clear that in many cases, the plastic deteriorated with age, causing a few failures. In my kitchen, a few of the end connectors for florescent lights were ready to fall apart. I will rewire that for LED bulbs.
Wow! I don’t envy you that task. If I had to do that, I would be calling in the professionals. Sounds like you caught that just in time before something more serious happened.
But yeah, electricity is not something to be taken lightly. I can manage simple connections and changing plug sockets, but anything major I’ll get more qualified people. Gas, that I won’t touch!
Thanks for the great campaign and the unique campaign ribbon. When I saw the campaign ribbon of the UFO over the road, I really wanted it, hence I entered.
Thanks for running the campaign. It was fun seeing the builds come together.
Disappointed in myself that I never finished that little F-19. A very frustrating little model, probably should’ve chosen something better in hindsight. I’ll post some images when I do get around to it again.
How would all of you feel about an Alien Technology campaign? Build a model of a piece of alien technology, an alien wearing some form of alien technology, an alien craft, a human using some form of alien technology, and/or or a human craft augmented with alien technology. The alien technology should be an obvious focal point of the subject.
It is not an, “award style badge”. In the campaigns area, there is a article explaining how to make a campaign. Linked to that article is an instruction page for making extremely primitive campaign medals. The further away from those primitive designs a campaign medal gets, the more likely the administrator is to reject it. I regularly test the bounds of “award style badge” and sometimes go too far. Like now. When time allows I will try again.
Also, the administrator is upset with small campaigns with few participants so I am probably getting out of the campaign business. Science Fiction stuff does not get a lot of interest.