HP27 9NU, United Kingdom N 51°41’03.58″, W 0°49’48.28″ http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:51.68433%2C-00.83008
My Location Camber Sands
7, The Suttons N 50°55’52.55″, E 0°48’13.97″ http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:50.93126%2C00.80388
Fleetwood Garland 165/5 Caravan Damper
So had a problem with my 1993 Garland since I bought it 2 years ago, when braking the caravan seems to over run and and there’s a clunk and a thud. The same goes for when pulling away from stationary. I narrowed it down to a knackered damper. I tried to push the hitch in to test it but it wasn’t budging at all.
I took the A-Frame cover off but couldn’t find any reference to the damper part number which is apparently stamped on some caravan chassis. I found two plates one that was on the A-Frame
And one that was on the hitch.
I googled 48.24.571.002 and all I could find was an old ebay ad stating (Ref;275E) BPW Damper 02.3722.08.00.0 for BPW coupling 48.24.571.002 P92535 Genuine BPW Hitch Damper 02.3722.08.00.0 BPW coupling 48.24.571.002 P92535 and then hit a dead end.
However I had identified that the hitch/chassis was made by BPW. I dropped BPW an email and they told me that that I needed part 02.3722.07.00 the cheapest I could find this was £81.16 plus postage which was a little high for my liking so I decided to do some digging. After matching up lengths/operating weights etc I found that part number 87000709 for the Avonride/Knott chassis was a match, I found this for £41.96 plus postage which is half the cost of the BPW one from the same supplier.
Due to the bargain hunter I am I pursured my search on ebay and found item number 201166665608 described as KNOTT AVONRIDE TRAILER DAMPER 750-1300KG 576000 87000709 FITS IFOR WILLIAMS for £39.25 with free postage.
Surely I should have been happy? but wait a minute I don’t buy manufacturer parts for my cars unless I can’t avoid it so why should I for my caravan? after a bit more searching I found item number 201322048394 described as REPLACEMENT TRAILER DAMPER FOR KNOTT 87000709 750-1300kg KFG13 & IFOR WILLIAMS for £27.25 posted!
So for a bit of investigating and perserverance I managed to save £65!. I ordered today and will hopefully be fitting it at the weekend.,
So for reference the BPW damper is
545mm with damper
Body length 330mm
Rated upto 1300kg
There is also a Ifor Williams matching part number which is P00937
I hope this post saves someone some effort/money let me know if it has!
Installing golang under Linux Debian Wheezy
Now I had a headache installing golang as using via apt-get in wheezy installed an old version which wasn’t compatible with the software I wanted to install. Luckily I manged to stumble upon a tool called Go Version Manager (gvm) installed under the root user so modify to meet your needs.
Find IP address of a jenkins slave
Manage Jenkins -> Nodes -> Select a node -> Script Console
in the box paste
println InetAddress.localHost.hostAddress
hit ‘run’ and after a short wait the ip will be returned.
My Location Hearing Dogs The Grange
12, Wycombe Rd N 51°41’04.40″, W 0°49’47.35″ http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:51.68456%2C-00.82982
Hearing Dog Update
Just had some awesome news from the people at Hearing Dogs, they have found a potential match for me and would like me to visit them so we can meet and see how we get on. He’s a 19 month old black Labrador.
Embeding Monowall Traffic Graphs Into A Webpage
I had a situation where I needed to embed a monowall interface stats into a webpage so thought i’d do a quick how to.
Create a user group
Login as an admin and navigate to System > User manager > Groups
Click the + to add a new group Choose a group name and description ie ‘stats’ Scroll down and select the field marked Status: Traffic graph status_graph.php
Click ‘Save’ Click the ‘Users’ tab Click the + to add a new user
Add new user details and under the ‘Group Name’ select the group you just created ie ‘stats’
Click ‘Save’ Navigate to Status > Traffic graph Choose the interface you want to monitor.
Right click on the graph and select ‘View Source’ Search the page ‘Ctrl+F’ for the word ’embed’
Put the embed tag into a webpage with the user details and ip address of your monowall device along with your usernam and password ie
src=”stats@YOUR-IP/graph.php?ifnum=re0&ifname=WAN”” >http://stats:stats@YOUR-IP/graph.php?ifnum=re0&ifname=WAN” etc etc
If you enter stats:stats@YOUR-IP/graph.php?ifnum=re0&ifname=WAN directly into a browser a full page will open showing your graph.
My Location
IP13 0QN, United Kingdom N 52°9’47.57″, E 1°23’02.42″ http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:52.16321%2C01.38401
Grive sync API now defunct
I noticed my files were no longer being sync’d using the grive application. Further investigation revealed the following errors. ./grive Reading local directories Synchronizing folders exception: /usr/bin/grive/libgrive/src/protocol/AuthAgent.cc(174): Throw in function long int gr::AuthAgent::CheckHttpResponse(long int, const string&, const gr::http::Header&) Dynamic exception type: boost::exception_detail::clone_impl