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Some weeks ago our Quooker (boiling water tap) died and we were desperate, now we had to put the kettle on to make a cup of tea!
They refused to send someone to repair it, so I had to do it myself with a replacement tap they sent us 
Although only replacing the tap was a seemingly simple operation, things were complicated by the placement of the nut behind the sink.
Could not see a thing, and although I'm not religeous I was on my knees in a praying like pose for more than two hours.
Got it working luckily ...
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There is a special spanner for those nuts - it's called a "tap spanner" or "basin wrench":Silverline CB40 Adjustable Basin Wrench 280 mm : Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools[^]
Every time I need it, I'm so glad I got one!
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Doesn't look like any kind of tool I've seen before...I can't imagine how it would work.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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If you go to a hardware store and locate one, it'll be pretty obvious if you pretend your finger is a nut.
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If it takes you two hours to replace a tap, you are probably better off calling a plumber (or a handyman) to do the job. They have the tools to do it properly, and will do it in ten minutes. Don't forget that your time is also worth something!
Those of us with ten thumbs (like yours truly  ) don't really have a choice.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I keep a plunger as backup ... can't live without my black coffee...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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I just drink coffee Turkish-style - sweet, with the grounds at the bottom of the cup.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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At home when I was a kid, my Dad made what we call "cowboy coffee".
Ground coffee and water boiled in a deep pot or pan.
Pour carefully. I suspect it was WW2 and Korean War style coffee.
He worked in 24x7 MASH units so coffee was fuel.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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My dad used to make "Indian tea" 
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the full spectrum 
Back in the day, on old TV westerns in US,
coffee was made with pots of water and coffee grounds on an open fire.
Roughing it style.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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About the only thing I would trust the TV Westerns to get true to life was that the cowboys rode their horses (rather than the other way round). Everything else may have been sacrificed in order to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Just like french press or turkish coffee. With the press you physically separate gorund coffee and water after the extraction, with the turkish coffee you just let the powder deposit and drink it thorugh your front teeth, when you hit the gorund coffee you stop.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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jmaida wrote: Back in the day, on old TV westerns in US, coffee was made with pots of water and coffee grounds on an open fire.
Is that something particular to TV westerns in the US?
I consider that everyday (or everyweekend) practice when we go for a Sunday hike in the woods or mountains.
This refers to Norway. Maybe everyday practice in Norway is 'Roughing it style' by US standards 
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Early TV was just how the term "cowboy coffee' came to be more common. I agree. nothing unique. Roughing it or camp style was and is common.
I do recall my Mom would put egg shells in the pot to reduce acidity when it sat for a awhile.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Adding a raw egg to the boiling coffee will collect a lot of the grounds.
I heard this was a Scandinavian way to make coffee -- I don't know.
Best wishes -- Craig (I use a 1 cup coffee maker that heats the water and drips it through the grounds and into my mug.)
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Craig Robbins wrote: I heard this was a Scandinavian way to make coffee -- I don't know.
If you go 80-100 years back, it was common to use a 'clearing skin', giving off glue-like stuff that made the powder from the grinding stick together to form lumps that fell to the bottom, removing the 'fog' in the liquid coffee.
I thought that the clearing skin was fish skin (you can make glue from fish skin!). A couple of sources confirmed that, while others insisted that you use pieces of the swimming bladder from fish. One source claimed that clearing skin was made from the outermost 'skin' of boiled eggs, immediately inside the shell. Usually, when you shell a boiled egg, this skin follows the shell, not the white.
I wouldn't rule out that some may have used the whole egg, or more likely: The white. But in the old days, eggs were somewhat expensive foodstuff, while fish was cheap (/free from the sea if you lived by the coast). So I guess using eggs just to get your coffee clearer was limited to the upper classes. Middle and lower classes probably used fish products.
I have never seen anyone using a clearing skin (or egg) when brewing coffee in my lifetime.
(This is in Norway.)
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It's Alive!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Happened to me as well a couple of weeks ago, not the piston ring, a different seal, but you realize how dependent you get on those machines. 
The machine still has warranty, but a repair required me to order a postage box on the net, then post it to Italy, and receive it back god knows when.
So I ordered a ridiculously overpriced seal at a local hardware shop instead (with fast delivery).
And then I ordered a whole set of different seals on amazon to be prepared for the next breakdown.
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A moka pot will always have your back.
I also own a french press, because mokas can break too (also allows me a lot of freedom to experiment with my coffee).
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Wordle 519 6/6
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Started with possibility of 2/6... later looked like will not able to make it today! 
modified 19-Nov-22 22:44pm.
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Yeah, I know what you mean:
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Wordle 519 5/6
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Elusive last letters....
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Too many possibilities thought I wouldn't make it.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Quote: Wordle 519 3/6
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It seems that limited vocabulary helps sometimes...
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." ― Albert Einstein
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