₦airaland Forum

Chubhie:
PMB and APC don use mouth finish GEJ!!!! I wonder why GEJ and his handlers are keeping blind eyes to all these?

Probably because they are guilty as charged or even worst.

chukwudi44:
Dont be stupid dear!!! So the president can give out huge chunks of our money on long term loans without recourse to the NA!!That is why i keep saying the only way to be an APC supporter is to be vey skilled in lying and hypocrisy!! Face it dear!! Buhari is equally guilty of what this mgbati media is accussing GEJ of

How long is the loan terms? I guess you have no idea. Am sure you have no idea on alot of things you say.

chukwudi44:
Buhari spent 413Billion that was not appropriated by the national assembly on the bail out packages for states!! Now tell me who is dumber between him and GEJ?

Have you thought about the descrimination, why some states took the money and others didnt.

They all pay back every dime from their monthly allocations.

chukwudi44:
Buhari spent 413Billion that was not appropriated by the national assembly on the bail out packages for states!! Now tell me who is dumber between him and GEJ?

Thats a loan gaddamit! Please go back to school.

chukwudi44:
Quit ranting dear!! The raw truth is here , Buhari's team does not know anything about handling the economy!! The naira has kept depreciating over the last six months!! After the oil price fell ,okonjo Iweala was able keep the exchange rate at N197 to a dollar after the oil price started crashing but everything just fell apart as soon as this dullard took over.It has particularly worsened after this kemi woman was appointed finance minister!! That woman obviously knows nothing about handling an economy like ours.

All in your little mind is the economy must by hook or crook be made to work. If it were easy, Buhari will just revalue the Naira and for a month or 2, he will be a hero but later, we will pay dearly when inflation takes over.

All you seem to know is the price of dollar now and 6 months before now. You have no idea what drives the naira up or down. Please school yourself and stop displaying little mindedness.

callmenow:
GEJ has every right to approve this money to get the necessary arms to Nigeria soldiers to liberate chibok girls which ultimately cost him his presidency. He was far from dumb or clueless. Keep your two coins in your pocket next time GeJ was topical.

Even though buying arms is a legitimate reason, government is not run by spending money not appropriated by the national assembly. Money of that magnitude must passed through the National assembly.

If to say the money actually ended up with the purchase of the arms they claimed, it would have been better for him, now he seem to be either the most corrupt or the dumbest president Nigeria ever had. Its either one or the other.

chukwudi44:
spare me your sermons!!!!The naira was exchanging 197 to a dollar before your magician came to power and barely six months now ,it is now exchanging N251 to a dollar!!!

Seee the way you talk as if you were there " a whole room of dollars was found in the AKS govt house" !!! Did the DSS tell youn this? The story that has already been proven to be false!!!

Buhari should take charge of the economy and stop putting his blames on past governments,we are all waiting for him to do the magic he promised

I am not responsible if economics is hard to you. Measures that Buhari put in place is not to drop dollar. Undoing what GEJ did is not easy. They took money and Nigerian economy and Nigerians must feel the effects. There is no way to go about it. Dropping the dollar is not easy without replacing the monies taken out. You want magic, am sorry magic and economics dont go together.

Lastly, its not a blame game. When someone takes someyhing that brelongs to another, the person must be held responsible. If you were a true Nigerian and with thr right knowledge, you will be careful the kind of support you give GEJ.

chukwudi44:
So the illiterate Buhari is the one with agenda baa? I guess his agenda will be to drive the naira to exchane N400 to the dollar before he leaves office!! What has he done since he came on board six months ago.

Whether Buhari is an illiterate or not, i support him to do right.

About the dollar. We all know Naira took the beating during GEJ. The reason the Naira took that beating was GEJ. It is the simple principles of demand and supply. Alot of Dollars was taken out of Nigerian CBN and the black market through that last minute corruption of GEJ and his boys. We all know if demand becomes high and there is no matching supply, price will hike. Basic economics, GEJ and Dasuki are responsible. Others are still there. Dont forget a whole room of Dollars was found in Akwa Ibom state government house belonging to Akpabio. Dont also forget that at the heat of preparations for election, there were allegations of huge monies in dollars supposedly being shared as bribe to religous leaders and many others. Do not forget the millions of dollars SA government siezed. And much more i can go on and on. All these monies were cash and that is why Naira lost out.

It is not Buhari who took so much Dollar out of the banks, it was GEJ who authorised it. Until such monies return back into the system, the Naira will never resuscitate.

Please beg your GEJ, Oritsejafor, Iweala, Dasuki, Bafarawa, Dokpesi, Akpabio, Madueke etc to return their stolen dollars for Naira to survive.

Until then, Buhari cant manufacture dollars or do magic.
For now, i am satisfied that the DSS and EFCC is in hot trail of the looted dollars. And also that the CBN banned cash deposit of Dollars so that they looted amount doesnot get legalised through ilegal cash dollar deposits. Money laundering too is checked so that the full hunt will begin for the looters.

diegwu01:
No need to Bash GEJ here..He didnt know or perhaps he forgot. he was supposed to see approval b4 disbursing the funds. Let Forgive him, it was a mistake.

My 2 coins in this matter is that, since Iweala sought GEJ's approval to withdraw the cash and she went ahead to write him stating that he should monitor its use, she wanted to stay clear of the heat. She probably was force by powers beyond her such as that of GEJ. But for GEJ to approve that money he either knew what was up or was simply dumb (no offence to GEJ). Most times i wonder what he actually was thinking doing the stuff he did.

jogojogo:
Still can"t believe all these news concerning missing fund during the last regime.......but I need to state that if these news are by 10% true, then ex president Jonathan (GEJ) would have been the worst thing to have happened to Nigeria as the guy always present an innocent look and appearance.

He was just incapable of handling things. He had no personal vision for the country no will to do anything. He was just a president with so much power but had no agenda.

I learned he also stopped NDLEA from mounting stop and search points within Kaduna city.

I support this moves. These stop and search or check points are a nuisance. The police, military, NDLEA, NAFDAC, Customs etc are supposed to operate on intelligence and should only rely on intel gathering not stopping everybody mostly the innocent.

2 of my brothers in law abandoned their permanent teaching employment with the state goverment for casual VIO jobs in Kaduna. They are now jobless.

mannobi:
Ugo Chikieze wrote :

THE BAYELSA ELECTION, A LESSON FOR THE IGBOS:
I have been following events in the Bayelsa state since Saturday and I think it's high time we Igbos woke up and learn our lessons. What is happening in Bayelsa state shows that the Bayelsans have moved on. They are no longer tied to the apron of PDP and GEJ. That state is one of the smallest states in the country and it's the home state of the former president (GEJ), yet the result of the election held since Saturday have not been announced officially till now. I thought the PDP would have swept off the whole votes just like they did during the presidential election, but to my amazement the APC is also gathering considerable votes there. I know PDP may eventually emerge winner in the election, but my point is that we Igbos should wake up and stop crying more than the bereaved cos even the bereaved have moved on.
Other regions have moved on and have even started integrating themselves into this PMB administration to ensure they remain relevant and not schemed out if things, while some of my people are still holding themselves down and throwing hate speeches here and there.
Other region are already preparing for 2019, some are already gearing up for 2023, while my people have failed to arise and shake off GEJ and his failed administration. By 2019 now, we will begin to run helter-skelter and start last minute preparation and when we loose again, we will say we are hated by others but we forget that we are the ones holding ourselves down now that others are already preparing ahead.
The Igbos have enjoyed more "juicy" appointments in the past 16 years of this democratic dispensation, yet none of the appointees or elected officials performed exceptional well for us to present him/her as presidential candidate. But look at the likes of Fashola, Fayemi, Kwakwanso, El Rufai, etc they are all potential presidential candidates going forward cos their achievements speak for them. Tell me the achievements of. Orji Uzor Kalu, T.A Orji, Sam Egwu, Chimaroke Nnamani, Mbadinuju, etc.... none of them made a mark in their various states, yet we leave them and keep pointing fingers to other regions and saying they are our problem.
I advise we wake up and begin to align ourselves strategically with other region now cos we can never produce a president in this country if we continue like this.
While some misguided elements are busy shouting Biafra, and claiming that South south is part of their Biafra, the southsouth have denounced the whole Biafra thing publicly and I understand that just last weekend, Nyesom Wike of River State, named a stadium in River State after Yakubu Gowon. Does that not tell you something?
The golden rule says 'DO UNTO OTHERS WHAT YOU WILL LIKE THEM TO DO UNTO YOU'..... Love begat love, hate begat hate. Don't expect love from others when you give them hatred, don't expect them to vote for your candidate when you keep calling them animals that live in the zoo.
"Give and it shall be given unto you" whatever you give to others is what they will give back to you GOOD MEASURES, PRESSED DOWN, SHAKING TOGETHER AND RUNNING OVER.
He who has ears let him hear, Wisdom is profitable to direct.... I rest my case...

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Rex007:
Don't be deceived. Who does elections in the night? Why would INEC take forever to give election results of a state with only 8 local government with population of less than a million but in Kano and Kaduna of over 2 million votes gave their results in one day.

How many INEC or adhoc staff were kidnapped in Kano or Kaduna? How many gunshots were heard that every body had to run for cover? How many creeks are there in Kano or Kaduna that boats must be used for access? We know boats are slower than cars.

There is no comparison here. I am from Kaduna, on election day gun carrying police men and soldiers were only seen on the high way patrol and enforcing no movement at check points that were as far as 100km apart. It was entirely peaceful. The cop at the polling unit had no gun. INEC or adhoc staff did not go about with APC and a platoon of soldiers for protection like its the case in Bayelsa. For you info, i did my accreditation at 8.30am and voted around 2.30pm. It was not magic but because no one was kidnapped, no gun was shot there were no rivers or creeks to cross and definately no militants or violent PDP or APC supporters.

Dont blame INEC for not replicating northern elections, blame Bayelsans for making it difficult.

saint047:
Bayelsa Election: Is INEC shifting dates, to see if
Gov. Dickson will die?
Nigeria has 774 local government areas.
Know your mathematics!
Q1. If INEC under President Buhari, takes 3 days
to conduct election in 8 local government areas;
how many days will it take this same INEC to
conduct election in 774 local government areas?
Solution:
8LGAs is to 3days :: 774LGAs is to Xdays ; find
X, if Gov. Dickson refused to die?
It implies that 1LGA = 3/8days
Therefore 774LGAs ===
3/8 x 774 = 290. 25 days.
INEC will use 290.25 days, approximately 10
months, to conduct a presidential election in
Nigeria.

I dont care if it is APC or PDP. What i know is that Bayelsans are so violent that INEC conducted presidential elections in one day but takes 3 days to handle 8 LGAs. I know the terrain is difficult but the kidnapings and the violence makes every process difficult in the smallest state of Nigeria. Shame on both Dickson and Sylva.

Piyke:
AC vacuum pumps use oil to prevent their engines from going kaput.

You will see it both from the pictures and description on this page:
http://www.amazon.com/Single-stage-Rotary-Vacuum-R410a-Refrigerant/dp/B00BXMRP4I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449479339&sr=8-1&keywords=AC+vacuum+pump

I later saw some, now am aware.

There is something else i have been reading about. It seem vacuum pumps are very essential for A/C and refrigerator systems recharge but technicians in Nigeria are not aware of and have not been using. It means sourcing a vacuum pump locally will be hard.

So i thought of something, what is a vacuum pump. A vacuum pump is essentially the opposite of an air compressor. So if i can get any air compressor it must have a port where it sucks air and compresses it. The sucking side if connected well will in reverse be a vacuum pump. The only other matter will be capacity to suck up to 29inches of mecury.

One can liase with a road side vulcaniser and their air compressor may be a very effective vacuum pump. I have seen a video where someone converted his portable tire pump compressor to a vacuum pump.

Piyke:
You mean the pag oil for the AC system right? I mean the oil you add to the vacuum pump itself, I don't think it's the same with the oil for the AC system

Thats something i have neither seen nor heard.

The vacuum is to expel air and water from the system and no oil is needed. Except that in evacuating the gas, care must be taken not to expel the oil too. Any oil lost must be measured and replaced.

I am researching on vacuum pumps. I have found out that a tyre pumping machine can be converted into a vacuum pump.

Piyke:
@earthrealm how do you get steady supply of the pump oil? Or you're based in the US?
Will be good if one can get this locally in Nigeria

I have seen the pag oil on Konga.

On the refrigerant, i have seen several warnings to avoid products with additives such as leak sealant and others. The only additive that is recommended is UV dye to help trace leakage in future.

YourMain:
Lol okay. Withdraw your proposal. Let a good girl go because you're unwilling to stay without sex.

I am also a good guy she is leting go not because i asked her for sex but because she said no before i asked.

YourMain:
Yes! She is? What? Just because you have sex with someone doesn't mean you've to do it with another. It doesn't matter. If she doesn't want to have sex with you and you claim you love her. You'd let it go. And if you're not okay with then then leave her.

Btw you broke up with a girl you were happy with cause she wasn't a virgin... dude.

What have you said here that i didnt say in the comment you quoted.

Let me restress my point. Any girl who i propose a relatiinship to and she gives me no sex condition, i will withdraw my proposal immediately. I am not forcing neither should she give me conditions.

Think about if for a minute, if she gives me that condition , will she accept my condition for looking for sex elsewhere? What kind of relationship will that be. Besides i never asked her for a sexual relationship so she should not tell me no sex. Its plain ridiculous.

If i really love her and she tells me no sex and gives me reasons while we are dating, i will understand but a girl cant accept my proposals on condition. No way!

YourMain:
lol no im just disagreeing. theres so much more a woman has to offer than sex. and if shes not ready to have sex and youre in a relationship with her regardless of anything she has a right.

She has a right because the guy is not allowed to rape her.

You probably didnt understand the op. A girl who ask for no sex wants to be in a relationship with the guy. The op means if she is having sex with another guy and going into a relationship with a new guy, she has no moral right to deny this new guy what she is giving the other guy at the same time. If she quit sex entirely, thats understood.

She cant be morally right to be milking a guy og his cash when she knows he wants sex but she wont give. She should leave him.

For me i have never had a no sex relationship and would never. A girl who tells me that i will dump immediately. When i start a new relationship, sex is not discussed neither is it the only need from the relationship.

I went out with a girl back in the days, we never had sex for almost a year and we were inseparable. We did everything but no sex. When we finally tried to have sex (there was no penetration and i thought she was a virgin) and it wasnt successful, i broke off with her the next day. I knew she did it deliberately when she offered a BJ but would pushed me off when its about to enter. She cried her eyes out after but memories of that night kept me away.

Sex is not an issue to me as it is mutual, but if a girl wants to play me on it, i walk away. Sometimes i run away fast.

I am learning from this, thanks for you contribution.

1. I dont even want to mess with this side. Just like i read, its dangerous to open valve on the high side when compressor clutch is engage. For me, as long as the engine is running, i dont have anything to do with the high side. I will only have something to do with it when the system has a fault.

2. The only place i saw watering was mentioned is the Honda service manual and it mentioned it for trouble shooting purposes. In line with this, it also mentions that watering will drop the low side pressure. In other words, recharging is related to ambient temperature which is directly proportional to low side pressure. If water is applied on the compressor, the relationship between recharging and ambient temp is altered and no longer reliable, so is the pressure. That means if recharging refrigerant is not charged by weight, recharging is effectively blind and the tendancy to overcharge is high.

For such a system like mine that may not be leaking but probably lost charge through a long period which is normal, i may not need to empty the system of its remaining refrigerant. I can top it off. If thats the case and i cant know exactly how many grams i have left in the system pressure chart is the next best thing. In this case watering is a big no.

Just like you said, when recharging by weight which is mostly for empty systems, water is allowed to make the process faster.

3. I really do not want to empty my system unless am replacing a part or i have a leak. According to the manual, there isnt any need for the oil unless a part is being replaced or when there is a considerable leak where some oil leaked out with refrigerant. Other than that a simple recharge will suffice.

I remember when i was the one driving my mums 97 accord years ago, a bolt dropped from a car ahead of me and hit the condenser. I parked and refrigerant gas was hissing and the green oil was leaking with it. Upon all the money spent on that A/C, it never came back to life as good or as consistent as it was before the incident. Now i know why.

Am considering replacing the condenser in future, then i will put in the exact quantity as stated in the manual for cindenser replacement. Before i must do that i have to get a vacuum pump.

Lasty, am so in for DIY. I adjusted my valve lash just days ago, the mechanic said i cant do it but i did. Just this afternoon, i did my plumbing works on my W/C that water refused to flow into the tank for a month now. Am planning a big DIY of kitchen cabinetry/wardropes/ entertaiment console/bed frame and side drawer/ dressing tables etc of a new house. The A/C may be my immediate next DIY depending on when i get the manifold guage. If i get the single guage, i will be ok with for now.

I have waited long to see this work done, i got my eyes here.

The guage below is an qually good tool that could help a DIYer like me to recharge refrigerant sucessfully. Thats because the other manifold type is more professional and the second dail guage is used for diagnosis purposes of the high pressure side of the system and not used during recharge process.

This small one is all you need.

Some of them come with the temperature marks against the pressure marks which make it by far easy. See second pic.

The last pic has one with reusable dispenser. So the refrigerant can be kept and reused even after a year if there isnt any leakage.

I went on research to find the bestway to charge A/C refrigerant, i have read threads on automotive sites, read instructions of manifold guage, read my car's service manual and watched videos. I found alot of interesting things, most of which our A/C technicians do wrong which eventually leads to compressor damage.

Those that were very important are; using a vacuum pump before charging a empty system, adding appropriate weight of pag oil whenever any part of the system is replaced and purging the manifold pipes of air before recharging. Others that our technicians do that isnt necessary or bad practice are; turning the refrigerant can up side down, spraying water or soapy water on the condenser while charging and probably over charging.

I cant confirm over charging since i dont know the pressures they actually watch for to stop charging but i have seen alot. For the act of putting water on the condenser, i personally concluded it isnt a good idea even thought it was mentioned on the service manual as a test procedure for condenser/blockage, cooling fan and compressor. Watering the condenser during recharge drops low side or suction pipe pressure which will encourage the technician to add more than required refrigerant leading to overcharge. From my understanding, watering the condenser like most technicians do leads to over charging. During daily use, the condenser does not get sprayed with water so why treat it specially during recharge when it will later face worst conditions on a very hot day in traffic. That is why there is a chart as i found out. The ambient temperature tells the technician the specific pressure level to charge to at any particular time. Using water scrambles that table.

It is easier to recharge a system from empty that recharging since you cannot tell the exact weight of refrigerant in the system. Honda service manual states refrigerant capacity is 500-550grams and i saw two small cans of refrigerant on konga with both not less than 300grams. Using one may be over charge or under charge so the only check is the pressures.

Adding oil is also tricky as the service manual considers a new oem compressor as replacement which comes with full quantity of oil. Here, we replace with used compressor so the quantity to add will be tricky.

From the info i have now, i would recharge my system closer to spec than most Naija techs would. Unfortunately, non of them will listen to me like they always do.

My only confusion right now is that all i have read says to charge by opening and letting refrigerant flow through the sunction or low pressure side while only the Honda manual says Discharge or High pressure side. Note that Honda manual considers use of Honda tools and equipment that isnt accessible to me or most techs and DIYers.

One warning i saw was never to open the high side or discharge valve while the compressor is engaged.

Piyke:
There's no risk in checking the charge, you just need a a set of manifold gauges or even some refill cans that come with a gauge.
If you do refill, I will ask that you steer clear from those local small cans. My technician used the big green cylinder and it's been more than a year with no issues

Thanks.

In average, i use 3 boxers a week.

I no longer have white boxers so i wont comment on it. But i have others that are either just off white or their inner sides are white. Those in this category i will never use more than 24hrs so as to avoid permanently staining them. Others i use for 2 days and some times 3 days.

There are times i dont wanna change but my memory says i have used that boxers too long, i smell it to confirm.

Lest i forget, if i had cause to poo away from home and i wasnt comfortable with the toilet i used or if i wiped myself with tissue paper, that calls for immediate change of boxers even if i used that boxers for 30 mins only.

Modified:
Those days i used to do quickies, i would change immediately.

earthrealm:
yeah radiator is behind the condenser...my take is still a per airflow...may be wrong though..

i think if the rad is dirty/clogged...it may b blocking the air pushed by the fans which off course spins faster at higher rpm from reaching the condenser

my ac chills artic winter on the highway ...but is just plain cold/chilled within the city......gat a new compressor and condenser,,,and system was vaccumed prior to refill and i refilled excat qty as per manufacturer 0.65kg or so..used a weight scale

so am wondering whats up, funny enough the only time my car ac gave me artic winter within the city was a day or 2 b4 the compressor locked up......probablly due to lack of oil dunno

This is exactly why am scared of even checking the refrigerant charge. My car is 4 yrs in Naija and A/C has not been topped or worked on. Thats why am not considering a new condenser, the best is to recharge.

Naija ac technicians dont seem to do well. My friend recharged his refrigerant on a 2005 Tacoma and the system melted. The evaporator, pipes, condenser melted and the compressor went up in flames. Imagine that, every part of his AC system was affected and everything was replaced but refrigerant never lasted a week thereafter.

I dont see how the radiator will clog up with dirt when the condenser is positioned right in front of it. The condenser usually takes the dirt and hit from debri. Anyways, the way to test is to hold a polythene bag in front of the condenser while fan is only. The pull of the bag unto the condenser will tell you. Dirt and debri can be visually inspected and cleaned easyly so i wont consider it as a serious issue.

earthrealm:
ur symtoms i s usually caused by weak compressor or condenser as u stated..dirty condenser or even radiator might b the culprit

Agreed except for the radiator.

Out of desperation for a quiet engine I rechecked all valves and adjusted were necessary. I found the 25mm too free on some intake valves which i adjusted such that the drag on the guage was very much to probably achieve 23 or 24mm. On the exhaust side, i adjusted all with the same 25mm but having too little drag to achieve 28mm.

This morning's DIY was a huge success. The engine is quiet but with just 1 valve set probably a little too loose. It can barely be heard and ok its for me.

I arrived my mechanic's workshop and stopped next to him. I left the engine running and he actually thought it was turned off not until i asked him to make a comment he asked 'on what'. I said on my running engine!