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Came yesterday and tested it today. That crimper is great – really good ratchet controls, and cuts, strips and crimps really well. Pleased with the connectors – just made up one lead, and luckily one would have been wrong if I had crimped without checking the pass-through. The price of that crimper is amazing really – there was a 5% promo on it as well – and it helpfully has the A and B pin-outs stamped on it if (like me) you haven’t done any for a while and have forgotten. Tried a couple of legacy connectors with and they were fine too. Thanks for the advice – I am set fair now.

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Blimey – that sounds rough – all the best for a full and quick recovery.

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Ah gotcha…..yes I sometimes photograph the two ends and zoom….normally let’s let spot the culprit.

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• Those cheap cable testers have one LED for each of the six wires Ed, so you can eat least see which ones have a diss or are wired wrong, but only after the crimp, so just the same for pass-through or legacy connectors. Cheap and cheerful but use it all the time.

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Went for the first crimp tool in Dave’s post, and another set of 50 connectors (also £19) purely as they come with sleeves. Thanks for the help.

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Thanks Dave will get on it. Wasbit I think I need a new crimp as (a) my existing one, the connector goes in nose first and buts up to a plate, so there is nowhere for the pass-through wires to go and (b) it won’t cut off the pass-through wires.

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Thanks mate – I’ve got the krone tool and the tester, and I want a crimper and connectors that cater for passing through the individual wires. Thanks for the info though, but connectors aside I have all that stuff – by pass through I mean something like this

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Yes very sad news Bob. He still lived locally and was poorly with dementia for some time now. Once of the game’s gentlemen and who nobody ever said a bad word about (except when he signed for Spurs!). I think that’s 5 of the 66 team no longer with us and a few more not in the best of health. A real shame – RIP.  Geoff Hurst is now the last surviving member of the WHU holy trinity of 66.

Nothing better sums up what has gone wrong with football than the contrast between the rabble running the club now and a true gentlemen like Martin Peters.

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yes I googled it and found it was a very hooky scam.

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absolutely John – do it all when the weather is dry else you are keeping moisture in not out. Bit of kitchen roll on then off the connections won’t do any harm.

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welcome John – that tape – cut a length off and stretch it for 30 seconds in/out in your hands – it will start to feel a bit warm and will stretch/thin out. That’s the time to wrap it and then clamp the end with finger/thumb down when you have finished wrapping. You need to peel the backing tape off before you wrap – a good tip is to leave an inch of backing tape before the actual tape after your first cut – makes life a lot easier. A few tutorials on YouTube but when you have the tape in your hands it should make sense.

 

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Its a straight swap John – same satellite. Just be careful not to disturb the dish – it doesn’t need re-alignment – as long as you don’t knock it out of alignment. I would recommend using self amalgamating tape on the F-type connectors for water-tightness. You’ll want a spanner (small adjustable will do) to slacken and then tighten the F-types.

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I signed up originally with a  free “personal” 365 code that came with a Linx tablet. Not sure if this still works, but you used to be able to sign up for office personal as per above (cheaper), stack another 4 “personal” codes and then upgrade to “home” – which then applied the upgrade to the 4 extra years you stacked (i.e. converted single-user “personal” to multi-user “home”)

I’m pretty sure you can create a free MS account and add a “365 Home” code that you buy to it even if the above hack has been shut off.

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Ed I think for good or bad that end devices are increasingly mobile and that for anywhere except business and a few niche users, a genuine PC user will eventually die off.

A great number of younger people do all their “computing” on a phone, and as the phone’s get bigger even (especially) laptops and tablets are on the endangered list.

I completely agree with the sentiment, but think the issue is bigger than that – in a generation or so the PC (and so Windows) won’t exist as a domestic product.

I’m saying all this as someone who still far prefers the screen size and ease of typing of a laptop, but I’m a dinosaur. I’d be very surprised if Windows is still a consumer product in 10 years.

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PM – wish you the best mate – had a flare up in my ankle (nothing compared to your strife) which was cured with a couple of days of diclofenac (I always stock up abroad now as you can’t get tablets aka voltarol here without prescription now and also about 100th the price abroad aka voltaren). Can only imaging the grief yours is causing and sincerely hope you get a bit of relief soon.

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Happy Birthday!

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I’m referring to the 365 codes that stack on your existing account (i.e. add a year to what you’ve already got). I know some of the “too good to be true” offers for new subs are shut down by MS. I’ve been adding codes to my original account for a good few years without issue – be interested if you’ve added a year that way and had it chalked off later.

 

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I use OneDrive as my main back-up option, mainly as with Office 365 the cost per user for 1TB is about as cheap as it gets. I find it reliable and reasonably easy but it is not the quickest. MS really messed up years ago when they changed the OneDrive online/offline features (you used to be able to see and access your entire online 1TB from even a 16GB tablet, and you could choose which folders to sync locally as well. They lost that with Windows 10 – but I did think they had bought back some “selective sync” functionality? I got rid of the app an back up manually via the browser. Cave man I know but I want a back up of specific files not to sync everything.

For photos I use google photos for unlimited backups (compressed but still excellent quality) and I manually bung the uncompressed versions of ones I want to keep on to OneDrive.

Four of us using OneDrive with 1TB each works out typically around £10-£12 each per year (using Office 365 Home codes from ebay – but even full price is reasonable for multiple users).

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Bob just to add always worth checking the W10 ISO you have is current – the old versions will work but can extend your “windows update” chores considerably. The latest ISOs (also downloadable to create a USB installer) are available here. Despite the end of the “free upgrade” from 7/8 to 10 I have done several using the W7 key when asked by the W10 installer and they have all activated fine online (most recently within the last 6 months at a guess).

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I’ve been on Netflix that I signed up for “in Turkey” for ages now – the line up you get is based on where you are not where you signed up. I think Duke is right, they don’t “actually” care even if they “officially” should – as long as you are paying them for it somewhere. They have clamped down on VPNs under pressure from the Studios but most suppliers have workarounds for that now – USA Netflix is probably still the best stocked.

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