Rabbit Hutch

IMG_2321Chester our ‘dwarf’ rabbit is growing up quickly and will soon need larger accommodation – like a hutch!

 

 

 

 

 

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He loves his outing’s in the cat run, everyone has fun.

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Having a rest and catching up on backyard gossip with Holly our Golden Retriever.

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Down to business in the garage workshop. I have a good supply of laminated chipboard from a shop refit so that’s what the hutch will be made of – easy choice.

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The boy will have a two story dwelling with sleeping quarters upstairs and daytime lounge on the ground floor.

 

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Adjacent to the spacious private bedroom is a balcony area that will have a nice view of the entry foyer.

A ramp provides access  down to the ground floor.

For added entertainment there is also a play shelf that extends into the bedroom.

 

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All this ex-shop timber is taking up a lot of room, need to move it out of the way – somehow?

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The doors are ready to install. Waiting or the iron to reach ‘cotton’ temperature.
Applying the iron-on edge tape requires some patience

 

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The boy has just moved in – lots of excitement!

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View from the stairs landing. Chester having a chat with Milo while he waits for mum to finish the house cleaning for the first time.

Vacuum cleaner turbo brush

When they get like this (see below) you really need to pull it apart!
I should have taken more photos but my hands were to grubby.
Bottom up remove all the screws and split the unit.
Pull out the roller brush and remove the plastic end bearings.
Clean the brush itself and also clean the end of each spindle.
It’s likely you will need a sharp knife of scalpel to cut off the crap.
With a pair of tweezers clean out the inside of the plastic bearings.
If the poor thing has been really abused the heat generated from friction may have damaged the bearings.
Check the toothed belt for damage and stretching, if needed get a new one.
Remove the clamp screws that secure the long impeller bush.
Remove the circlip and slid the bush off the impeller spindle.
Clean everything and lightly oil, slide the bush on replace circlip and put aside.
Clean all the crap out of both shells, use tweezers to pick out the stuff.
Position the impeller assembly and secure with clamps and screws.
Slide the bushes onto the brush, pre-align and hold with left hand.
Right hand picks up the belt, first over impeller and then the brush drive wheel.
Tension a bit the align and slide brush into end mountings.
Put on top cover and wiggle fiddle to sit it down, work around edges to bed down.
Holding everything together turn the thing over, drop in and screws and tighten – done.

 

Electrolux turbo brush.

Interruption to network services

To: The family

Subject: Interruption to network services

I wish to advise that one night this week there will be an interruption to our home network!
Going to swap the current D-Link DI-614+ wireless router for a DI-824VUP+

Reason:

Improved Internet connection speed. We are on Bigpond Extreme which allows for download speeds up to 30MBps The 614 has a 10MB WAN port. The 824 has a 100MB WAN port. Will do some speed tests before & after the swap to confirm expected speed improvements.

Storm weather April 2009

The wild weather hit us in Melbourne’s south east on Wednesday 15, April 2009.
We lost power when the neighbours tree brought down the lines.

 
Above: The tree that came down next door, lucky it fell away from us!
Did I say we lost power?…not all of it, we had some power. The lights were pretty dim and many electrical appliances dropped out.
I measured the voltage and it was varying around 80 volts; you could see the lights changing brightness.
The reason for this is that the power out in the street is three phase, so neighbour on one side had normal power, we (in the middle) had some and the people on the other side with the big tree had none. The partial power is a worry, incandescent lights globes are OK but electrical and computer equipment need to be switched off at power points, in particular the entertainment system in the lounge with the Panasonic plasma TV.
We have electric HWS so for the next few days up to the weekend we had to shower at MK’s place (older daughter), cooking and heating water for washing up and making a cuppa was OK with gas cook top, oven is electric but no need for that.

Power was restored in our street on Saturday 19th.

You can see from the shallow root system that we have been through many droughts.

 

Chester photos

 

   

Above: Chester with MK my older daughter in the lounge watching Foxtel.

  

Above: Going out to the backyard cat run.

 

Above: Chester and Phoenix in the cat run with Holly looking on.
A $39 gazebo from K-Mart converted into cat run with extra poles and chicken wire all around – plus gate.

Above: Checking out mother earth…

 

Above: Milo playing with Chester.

 

Above: Phoenix and Milo distracted by the Maggies.