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ahh yeah those makeup/jewellery stands are great for all sorts of stuff but rarely are they much use for the stated purpose

mart166 I know what you mean about the quality of kit from the likes of Lidl i bought something called "electro grill" from one 13 years ago variable hotplats that can be swapped over to give either flat hotplates or gridle style, not much good as a toastie maker but excellent for crépes or high fat meat cooking, honestly we used it all the time for the first 5 years but rarely get it out of the cupboard more than twice a year now..... of course i have also bought lots of other relectrical goods from lidl's and aldi in the past and most of them outlast similar priced gear fro mother vendors

on the other hand their stores are often difficult to get to now that i don't drive so i rarely get to go there and consequently have to get a friend to take me once every few months for my quarterly fix of frikadeln (I used to eat one every morning off the bratty wagon) or a few jars of bockworst.....

if only they did online delivery, although apperntly the local store is looking into making that happen, hopefully they will do a similar no frills service to the one Iceland already provides.

it also leaves scope for all the parts that make up the device to be listed and sold separately, take for instance the tfv4, as a kit it would require the notification, however if it was split down to tip, top gear, glass sleeve, airflow base, rba, it requires zero notification, it could even all be sent in the same packaging so long as its all separately packaged as parts ..... which would neatly sidestep regulations on size as well, given that glass sleeves can be used in any number of applications and its not the manufacturers fault if they supply plumbing parts (visual indicator flow valves) that then get used for home build e-cigs....

can you imagine shoving coil in this wee beauty(rofl)

actually thinking about it, the same is true of most of the mixing parts and equipment, it has other uses totally separate from e-cigs (medical /baking) and the mod units could be used for a wide range of stuff (some even come as power bars with several output ports) makes you wonder if they are implementing the TPD purely because they have to and are building in enough ways round it to make it pointless at the same time

self builds are different to bought pre built systems, a useful overview blog www.howtogeek.com/175649/what-you-need-to-know-about-using-uefi-instead-of-the-bios/ that explains a bit about UEFI and its problems, having systems that came prebuilt and trying to upgrade or change their hardware is a complete nightmare when the manufactures preinstalled and setup uefi with secure boot on custom mobo's

one out

todays little gems

some liquid that I hope tastes as good as it sounds a few anti spit drip tips and some heat sinks




now if only those @~#@~~@~@@ batteries from GB would arrive I might be able to try some of it .....

the last time I bought a toaster from Sainsbury's the electronics inside it detonated 30 seconds after it was first switched on..... luckily it was facing the wall and all that got damaged was a plastic chopping board and my ears were ringing for half an hour scared the crap outta me but I rang them up after disconnecting it and resetting the trip switches, I rang up Sainsbury's to complain and they had one of their dimwits unbox one and plug it in dunno what store it was but that was another loud bang and lots of people rather upset the lights had gone out they pulled it off the market and gave me back my money + a sorry about that £50 voucher for the store ..... that was about 5 years ago though it was bloody funny them killing the store's main cct breaker, just lucky they had their network on a separate supply ......