Friday, April 20, 2007

Feeling a little irritated - I'd love to take a nice photograph for my employment pass, but guess what? I now look like I've got a giant gobstopper in my cheek, so says Yx. Which I think is quite an understatement. =\ So yeah .. no photo-taking for now. Been getting slightly stressed up, receiving all sorts of letters (most of them re: "you need to come for this and that briefing") and reading survival guides and all that tosh. Just realised that I didn't do my Slavery-In-Progress there, so I have ABSOLUTELY no idea where things are kept, and protocols etc. Dopey, EW - I may need a little help!! I'm hoping there are phlebotomists there?

A few pics (again! Been spending my last days of rest taking photographs??)

New (but second hand) Teco chiller, taken apart to top up refrigerant. Pic taken during a test run.

The cover for the unit is on the right, which had been taken off. The one on the left is my old, finally-defeated, made-in-China chiller.

GARDEN SERIES, PART II

Control module for entire garden, run off a single tap outlet. Ahh. I wish so much that I had 2 taps, it would make my job so much easier! The white hose was the problematic one that kept bursting. Notice the ends of the white hose have those nice, lurid yellow sockets? That was the solution - which was included in the package actually, DUH. What happens is that when the timer is off, the tap is still on and therefore there's a buildup of pressure within the white hose and the yellow, horizontal thing (the 4-way diverter), and obviously the diverter can't burst so the pipe did. Great.

Green line is to the hosereel, for car/floor/human washing. And Brownie showers.

Black line is UV-resistant hose that supplies the misting etc. Big fat yellow box with knobs is the waterproof timer. Oooh talking about these - I just found out that Home Fix DIY has another brand of timers etc that look so much sweeter, I regretted this yellow stuff at once! Hah .. but heck, whatever works. Had a fly time drilling the wall to stick the diverter on. And yes, the garden wall desperately needs a fresh coat of paint.