[chbot] Shipping

Marshland Engineering marshland at marshland.co.nz
Wed May 12 00:35:14 BST 2021 

I could not find the parts I wanted on aliexpress and the USA made parts price
was very expensive. 

I found them on taobao.com. The site takes some navigation as it is in
Chinese. I think that taobao is the equivalent to ebay in China.  

I found there are several forwarding companies that collect the goods from
Taobao and forward to NZ. There are mixed reviews about them all but I tried
https://tbfocus.com. They also have English Taobao pages.  

I paid for the goods from 2 different suppliers, tbfocus received both items,
sent me photograph of each and then repackaged them and shipped EMS to NZ. The
freight was a bit high, $81 US but the bag did weigh 3.2 kg. 

It took about 3 days from the time of purchase to get to the warehouse, 3 days
to collate the goods and ship and I received them 7 days later so I cant
really complain.    

They can collate up to 32 items (from memory) and repack them if required. 

A good option for those non standard items.  I bought cam lock studs for my
lathe. 

There are several methods you can use to find your items. I use google
translate to translate into Chinese and then copied and pasted the translation
into my search bar. 

Will probably use them again. 

This may be a better option in some cases to aliexpress. Often, you cant buy
all the items from one supplier and end up paying postage several times.  Here
you can collate and pay once. 

I think they make their money in the freight charge but claim they don't. They
even have live online support for 2 hours a day where you chat to a real
person. !!!

Cheers Wallace    




--
Thanking you
Wallace Weideman
Marshland Engineering
704 Marshland Road
Styx
Christchurch
03 3237449
www.marshland.co.nz

 

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>Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 21:00:11 +1200
>From: Helmut Walle <helmut.walle at gmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: [chbot] TV aerial fitter
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>All sounds like good advice, Trevor.
>
>I would add to that: if an amplifier is already part of the installation
check that it hasn't
>yet burned out or expired in some other way... from experience, that does
happen a lot,
>particularly when under-spec'd amplifiers are installed for misguided cost
sensitivity, forcing
>that the amplifier then is set to maximum output. A broken amplifier often
doesn't disrupt the
>signal, but it may just stop amplifying it. You may still see plenty enough
under good
>conditions, but as the amplifier won't amplify any longer, it does make a big
difference under
>less than great conditions as described below.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Helmut.
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>On 02/05/2021 17:00, Trevor Wignall wrote:
>> It might not be related to the cable. Wet weather makes any leaves and
branches damp and if
>> these are between your aerial and the TV transmitter, the absorption of the
UHF signals
>> increases and you can lose reception. A higher gain aerial is one way of
improving the
>> situation. If you have splitters in the house, a preamplifier ahead of the
splitters can also
>> help. If your aerial system includes a VHF aerial and a VHF-UHF diplexer,
you may get some
>> improvement by removing both the VHF aerial and the diplexer, as there are
no VHF transmissions
>> any more.
>> Or you could grab a chainsaw...
>> 
>> Good luck
>> Trevor
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 10:54 PM Robin Gilks <gb7ipd at gmail.com
<mailto:gb7ipd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>     Can anyone recommend someone who can fit a new aerial/cable on a 2
storey house between
>>     Rolleston & West Melton? Some who won't charge a fortune to venture
outside the city!
>> 
>>     Wet weather again tonight has trashed several program recordings :(
>> 
>>     Cheers
>> 
>>     -- 
>>     Robin
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>Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 21:49:30 +1200
>From: Robin Gilks <gb7ipd at gmail.com>
>To: Christchurch Robotics <chchrobotics at lists.ourshack.com>
>Subject: Re: [chbot] TV aerial fitter
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>The aerial is a dual bander  (VHF+UHF) and about 18 years old which means
>the UHF part may be in the wrong part of the band for the Sugar Loaf DVB-T.
>The trees came down about a year ago and I can see the Sugar Loaf from the
>aerial position (well from a close by window, I'm no good on a ladder hence
>looking for someone to replace bits!
>
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>On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 9:01 PM Helmut Walle <helmut.walle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> All sounds like good advice, Trevor.
>>
>> I would add to that: if an amplifier is already part of the installation
>> check that it hasn't
>> yet burned out or expired in some other way... from experience, that does
>> happen a lot,
>> particularly when under-spec'd amplifiers are installed for misguided cost
>> sensitivity, forcing
>> that the amplifier then is set to maximum output. A broken amplifier often
>> doesn't disrupt the
>> signal, but it may just stop amplifying it. You may still see plenty
>> enough under good
>> conditions, but as the amplifier won't amplify any longer, it does make a
>> big difference under
>> less than great conditions as described below.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Helmut.
>>
>>
>> On 02/05/2021 17:00, Trevor Wignall wrote:
>> > It might not be related to the cable. Wet weather makes any leaves and
>> branches damp and if
>> > these are between your aerial and the TV transmitter, the absorption of
>> the UHF signals
>> > increases and you can lose reception. A higher gain aerial is one way of
>> improving the
>> > situation. If you have splitters in the house, a preamplifier ahead of
>> the splitters can also
>> > help. If your aerial system includes a VHF aerial and a VHF-UHF
>> diplexer, you may get some
>> > improvement by removing both the VHF aerial and the diplexer, as there
>> are no VHF transmissions
>> > any more.
>> > Or you could grab a chainsaw...
>> >
>> > Good luck
>> > Trevor
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 10:54 PM Robin Gilks <gb7ipd at gmail.com <mailto:
>> gb7ipd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Can anyone recommend someone who can fit a new aerial/cable on a 2
>> storey house between
>> >     Rolleston & West Melton? Some who won't charge a fortune to venture
>> outside the city!
>> >
>> >     Wet weather again tonight has trashed several program recordings :(
>> >
>> >     Cheers
>> >
>> >     --
>> >     Robin
>> >
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