Investigate again, success.

It seems that I had the non-polarised LCD display plug fitted in reverse, I shall now consider Peter's TV to be saved from the rubbish bin, for a while at least.

Two problems here.

Problem one: Peter's back room TV became as lively as a dodo a week ago so muggins volunteered to give it a check over. The dodo-ness was due to a blown fuse and oddly a shorted inductor, some bad mojo must have played on his power lines.

 A makeshift repair was slapped together from a scrap inductor (the bad one is lower right on the photo) and a near enough fuse. Result is TV powering up fine, backlight fine, voltages seem OK, but not having any picture output. That's the end of my tinkering, I don't have the eyesight or the coordination to do anything about the fiddly little bits nor would I think it viable to source bits for a budget TV these days, I'm done.

Problem two: The photo of me shows up a patch of hair on my forehead that was missed on my last trim.

Something in common.

I was checking out some of my toys and noticed my Goldfinger vintage Aston Martin DB5 model has something unusual and much in common with Daisy. In the real world you can't say power and handling are equal, Daisy has ample power, perhaps not my 21st century standards but most 1960s vintage cars would only see her exhaust pipe in a race, Daisy also handles superbly so that wouldn't be in common either.
The answer is simple.

Both are made in Malaysia, a country that should be applauded for standing up to a big neighbouring country bully a couple of decades ago that may well have helped to raise relationships overall in the region.

A short wander at TYTO and a wedding.

A cloudy rotten day for photos today but it was warm (winter may have broken for the year) and a bit of walking would be good for both our health.
Here I was about to set up a tripod to capture ourselves but a Japanese family came by and offered to shoot us, an offer gratefully accepted, a pity though that my new TF card seems to have a few bad blocks in it as we lost some shots at this point, it happened on the Walgett trip too so I'll need to act.

The water is not dead at TYTO, here's some wildlife.

A wedding was setting up when we wandered past, folk were doing a great job of setting up the place and the ambiance of TYTO will make for a great day for all.

Best wishes to Danielle and Scott, whom we know nothing about.

A door switch fix for Daisy.

I noticed on our trip that Daisy's door switches had become quite unreliable, I think due to a design that needs a slight alteration to provide more contact leeway.

My ugly fix is to solder a copper strip to the V tang to extend it a tad, I wad ideas to solder it to the mount but it didn't take to soldering and I suspect it's stainless steel.
I did all four doors and they now work reliably, at least for now.

Back to fixing again.

The shower head broke on Olivia last night, the plastic the Chinese use isn't very durable.
I gave it some thought and reasoned a jubilee clamp might hold it pretty well, and it does seem to work OK.....for now.
In this nanny state the law was relaxed a little while back to allow anyone to change shower heads, so I don't think I've even broken one of our punitive laws. Incredible the we have the word "free" in our national anthem when we have so many rules limiting what we can do.

Last picture.

Very pretty country near Carnavon George just after sunset, sadly for me by the time I got comfortable then set up the camera the magic light had ended.