RE: Swish @ B&Q

["Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

This is the attitude...

...I know, I'll change the world!

(Meanwhile my missus has decided that she doesn't like the powered curtain
rails because she can't just pull them open and closed any more ...
apparently pressing the switch and walking away is harder!)

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: keithwwyse@xxxxxxx [mailto:keithwwyse@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 March 2001 23:22
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Swish @ B&Q
>
>
> Hi all! I've just joined your group (thanks to the moderator for
> allowing me in).
> I live up in the cold and wet of Scotland, just near Edinburgh. I've
> done a fair bit in electronics, and come around to the thinking that
> some of the tasks in the house could be automated, which lead me
> here.
>
> Having just joined, I don't want to be cheeky and upset anyone, but
> in reply to this earlier post - move the radiator! This is one of the
> projects on my list, to move almost all of my radiators away from
> directly underneath the windows toward the centre of the room.
> This will reduce heat loss through the windows a good deal,
> especially if you do not have double glazing.
> This is a little OT, but my plan is to make new radiators entirely
> from 15mm copper pipe sprayed matt black, switched back and
> forth ladder style, but mounted vertical with the supply at the top
> and the return at the bottom (counter flow heat exchanger).
> Reflective and insulating enclosures which maximise the output
> into the room could be decorated and made a feature of
> (modifications for shelves, hanging pictures, sculptures etc)
> Care should be taken with pressurised water systems (mine is not
> at the moment)
>
> Hope that helps some.
>
> Keith
>
> "Someday Pinkie..."
>
>
> To:             	<ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Organization:   	Wintermute Consultancy Ltd
> From:           	"Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>
> Date sent:      	Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:13:07 +0100
> Send reply to:  	ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject:        	Re: [ukha_d] Swish @ B&Q
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> I found the tracks over beside the "normal" curtain tracks,
but had
> to
> rummage to find the motors.
>
> In one case, I found the motor hidden in behind a pile of net curtain
> rods,
> in another store they were in a battered "swish" display
box. one
> thing
> is
> for sure: these have not been flying off of the shelves. both of the
> boxes
> I
> got were about three inches deep in dust.
>
> okay, I'm exaggerating, but not by much!
>
> As an aside, I had to use a bit of Gaffer tape (as a temporary
> measure)
> to
> let the curtain slide msoothly past my radiators rather than
> catching on
> them, and not closing properly. Anyone have an ingenious solution
> to
> this?
>
> Also, I see in the archives a mention of the pinouts for the K400
> RJ11
> sockets. Does nayone have this info? Kwong?
>
> On, >yet< another note that's me and the Fully home automation
> compliant
> missus booked up for Hometech.. See you all there!
>
> Ian.
>
> Keith Wyse
>
> "Someday Pinkie..."
>
>
>
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