Stanleysteamer said:

Well.......... (ahem)( you were waiting for this!)

I left the stat switched on and came downstairs to do other stuff pricipally helping W make tomato soup, but also to make a coupla phone calls.
W had put a pan on a gas and I said to her, what's been burned or scorched? so we looked around couldn't see nuffin, so I went upstairs to check and, you guessed it, there was a faint trickle of smoke coming out of the back of the stat!

I moved the switch to "off" no diff, indicator lights were flickering, The original fault, so I went downstairs and switched it off at the mother board.
So on further investigation, the relay is toast, the new capacitor ditto, (it had been touched by molten stuff coming from the relay which is right next to it.
So I took the opportunity to nip off the two other capacitors which others had said could be dodgy, measured them and both were fine.

So, was the relay dodgy anyway, or had I been hamfisted with the soldering?
One of the six terminals to the relay is indirectly linked to the path that comes extremely close to one of the terminals of the capacitor. I have to imagine that it was this, or the relay was on its way out anyway.
I think I am going to have to modify my soldering iron, i.e. to grind the tip down so it is much narrower.

I think this was only to be expected from an amateur.
Doubtless I'll get better with practice.

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Hippo said:

Just bort meself a long reach scrubbin bog brush ont ebay cos yer can't gerrum int chop. Me normal can't get in enuff to remove worreye fort was pipe sealer int u bend.

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kevstar said:

My pal had this done recently he's 28 & has been passing blood, I mean big clots n loads of blood.

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Hippo said:

Just bort meself a long reach scrubbin bog brush ont ebay cos yer can't gerrum int chop. Me normal can't get in enuff to remove worreye fort was pipe sealer int u bend.

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kevstar said:

Yes do know about your bruv poor chap.
I only hear from my bruv when he wants somit or he wants to show off a new toy
He likes to borrow money then pay it back in dribs n drabs. I paid off his car which was on finance so he could sort his life
out then turns up with a new fancy motorbike & hadn't given me a penny back, bloody thousands of pounds I shelled out.
Lesson learnt lol

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Turktowner said:

What do you say..
I had a small intestinal bleed, turned out to be nothing, no nsaids for me anymore. Scary at the time, you think stuff happens elsewhere, especially when you are younger. Wishing him a good outcome.

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kevstar said:

Got one of these...........

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kevstar said:

Ive got a gas soldering iron so much better to use.

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Turktowner said:

"L'enfer, c'est les autres"

Night peeps

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Stanleysteamer said:

I have never used one. so have no idea, except that you keep having to buy gas fings for it.

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kevstar said:

They use lighter refill gas.

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