2017-02-12

Arnd

After unsuccessfully looking for an appropriate O-ring to repair a slow leak on my toilet, I decided to effect my own repair and used some silicone sealant to increase the volume of the O-ring seal to the aft toilet. Unfortunately all I managed to do was turn a slow leak into a fat leak. It turns out that the source of the leak wasn’t in the O-ring part after all, but in the main plastic mounting block; which had developed a crack that grew in size each time I tensioned the mounting bolts. And, of course, the replacement kit is not in stock anywhere on the island; so I will have to wait until I get to St. Martin before I can get a replacement and use the rear head. Luckily, I’ve got 2 other heads aboard to use as a backup!

Apart from work on the Jabsco toilet, I did more cleaning up and preparatory work.

Original hosting provider breaks my old website

My old hosting company, who will remain unnamed although their name starts with “go” and the end rhymes with “baddy”, changed their software with little notice and the original SV-ZANSHIN.COM site stopped working overnight.

Every. Single. Page.

So I’ve transitioned to another provider. These original pages have been migrated, but all the formatting and other features are gone and the will still contain numerous display issues and formatting anomalies.

The manual effort of conversion is too much and not worth the effort involved. Over 1000 blog diary pages like this one are going to remain in this condition. The pictures are full-scale, but won’t expand when clicked. But you can can copy them to view them in their original splendour.