As Promised

Yesterday my passing comment was “tomorrow’s blip may well be a thermostatic mixing valve ‘in situ’, or an AquaVac ‘in pieces’, either could be turned into an abstract.  Or maybe something completely different.”
 
Well I’ve managed all of that, sort of.  A collage of what started the problems plus the demised AquaVac PLUS its replacement (well that’s different).
 
It would have cost nearly forty pounds to get a replacement motor for our thirty five year old AquaVac (three or four hundred pounds new now), or fifty five pounds for something that does the same job.  No brainer there.  As it was I put another tenner to it and got the next size up with some useful extras like switching on and off automatically with a power tool if you are using the vac as a dust extractor (bit of a bummer if your power tools are battery powered though – wish I’d thought of that sooner).
 
I made the collage into an abstract for the blip, and the original is at extra.  I am impressed with the new telephone – the shot of the thermostatic mixer was taken in a dark airing cupboard without flash or other internal lighting, with the telephone set to ‘Night’.
 
Thanks to Ingeborg for hosting Abstract Thursday.