Picture(s) of the day....

[myglaren]

[NewcastleFalcon]

Apparently the meter reader can read it through the door

nf own work

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Come on folks, lets have something more interesting or as equally uninteresting as my water meter.

Entries as always invited!

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

I had a strip down job in the garage today and this is what I found:

Own work

Own work

Any ideas what this is?

[NewcastleFalcon]

Short answer, No but all things are lookupable with the appropriate clues.

So domestic appliance or motor vehicle?

REgards Neil

PS Nowt like this, and a bit oily and metally for your modern washing machine

[bobins]

Pressue washer pump head ?

[Hell Razor5543]

Looks like a triple valve bypass operation!

[mickthemaverick]

Points go to Bobins, it is indeed the pump from a Hozelock 130 pressure washer. The lift part of the drive cam arrowed in the first picture had worn down to the point of no lift left on the three pistons, arrowed in second picture, when connected together. Result lots of spin but no pumping. I have removed the motor for future use in something as yet to be designed and recycled the rest. RIP!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

So in the tradition of parlour games the winner of the last one starts the next perhaps?

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

CitroJim from his karate activity did come up with this FCF coloured belt classification...

That tallies nicely with karate grading

So.. Blue for 1000 Posts, red for 2000 Posts, orange for 3000, yellow for 4000, green for 5000, purple for 6000, Purple and white for 7000, brown for 8000, brown and red for 9000 and for 10,000 black (Shodan) !!!

That makes me a Sandan...

This being my 9,000 th post, a celebratory POTD is required.


CNR 9000
Darren Kirby from Edmonton, AB, Canada [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

This is a CNR 9000 restored at Alberta Railway Museum in Edmonton....

Your mission should you decide to accept it is to follow on from this random picture and take us on a chain of further random links just for amusement.

REgards Neil

[bobins]

This will be obvious to some, and baffling to others


(NY Times / Warner Bros, fair use)

[Hell Razor5543]

Hello HAL!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Wouldn't have known but did stumble across it on the wiki "9000" page.

Minor detour to 9001 seeing as this is as of now my 9001' th post
appropriately presented as a load of balls


REgards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Congratulations on your RED belt Neil!!

Borrowed and edited

Now to take up your tenuous link challenge, I offer this quote:

At the 2011 census Edmonton had almost 9,000 residents of Turkish or Turkish Cypriot heritage

which both links to your picture and celebrates the achievement!!

The full article can be found at:

https://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/edmonton/

[bobins]

Wouldn't have known but did stumble across it on the wiki "9000" page.

Minor detour to 9001 seeing as this is my 9001
appropriately presented as a load of balls


REgards Neil

Shares a common link with this


Container 01 KMJ
KMJ [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons