{"id":4149,"date":"2015-05-06T00:03:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T00:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2017-07-08T06:51:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T06:51:55","slug":"tuesday-5th-may-2015-having-cursed-orange-telecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=4149","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 5th May 2015 – HAVING CURSED ORANGE TELECOM …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… with what can best be described as “an expletive-ridden rant” on Saturday, it’s only fair that I report on my visit this morning to the main Orange Telecom shop in the centre of Montlucon. And apart from not being open unti 10:00, I do have to say that the personnel in the shop could not have been more helpful. It was a stark contrast to Saturday, and had I had today’s treatment then, I would have been delighted.<\/p>\n

So now, after having been to Montlucon and back, reconfigured the new Livebox and made a couple of phone calls, I now have a proper working home telephone, a proper working mobile phone (and one of the guys in Orange helped me configure it so that I could access the internet) and my e-mail and website back up. So it’s all systems go here in Pooh Corner.<\/p>\n

As for the website, I finally managed to speak to someone at the Danish Domain Registration Service, and they were so horrified about my two-hour hold yesterday that they extended my domain renewal by 12 months free of charge. So all’s well that ends well there too.<\/p>\n

So having done that, I propped Caliburn up on axle stands, removed the spare wheel (and checked it over) and then made a start on rustproofing the underneath.<\/p>\n

\"rustproofing<\/a>As you can see, what I have done so far has come out quite well.<\/p>\n

The wire brush on the angle grinder was far too savage so in the end I cleaned it off by hand, and the rustproofing paint went on quite easily, giving a lovely finish. I let in dry for a couple of hours and then put the spare wheel back and dropped Caliburn back off the axle stands.<\/p>\n

I’ll be doing the rest of the floor bit by bit (there’s nothing cluttering the rest of the underside) and then going round to give it all a second coat. Once that’s been done and it’s all stabilised, I can underseal it all and that will keep it good for another 8 years.
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\nWhen that had been done, I checked over Caliburn to make sure that there was enough oil, water and so on and then gave the back a really good clear-out. <\/p>\n

\"french<\/a>While I was starting to load up Caliburn, I had spectators. The French Air Force came for a look around to see what I was up to. They’ve come round to check up on me a few times<\/p>\n

But in Caliburn there’s now about half of the stuff that I need to take with me, and I’ll do all of the rest tomorrow before I go. It shouldn’t take too long, I hope, and then I can clear off.
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I’m taking the horizontal axis wind turbine with me too. I’s never had a decent run out yet, and I reckon that parked up on the side of the autoroutes, or by the side of a big lake, it ought to do something, and this would seem to be a good time to try it.<\/p>\n

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