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Practical Electrical Wiring and Contracting
Everything from "How Electricity Works" to "Repair Work" and "Wiring Industrial Apparatus" - Mr LC Greenwood's splendid 384 page book covers the lot. Some of it may not be completely up to date - it...
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Temperature/pressure relief valves - how do they work?
Our boat calorifier (silly boat name for a hot water cylinder) has a temperature and pressure relief valve. I can understand the pressure relief valve, it's simply a spring loaded thing that opens...
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Slow leak in CH/DHW system
Vaillant Thermocompact VU GB 226E condensing boiler 15 years old, propane; sealed S-plan CH and DHW system (i.e. no header tank). Single story bungalow, CH pipes in the roof space with droppers down...
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advice on remaking a leaking 15mm yorkshire fitting
Hi all we have had a minor plumbing drama here tonight - water dripping from the kitchen ceiling etc. I have traced it to the plumbing to the upstairs washing basin - the 15mm pipe to the hot water...
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Yet another Win7 Issue !!!
A few weeks back you may recall I had issues when I exchanged hard disks between two pretty well identical legally licenced Win7 machines as a diagnostic aid. (Compaq / HP SFF DC7600's) They then...
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Can you use an MCB on DC?
I have an old motorbike which blows a 20A fuse about once a year - no obvious fault, just replace the fuse and it's good for another year. Instead of keeping a stock of spare fuses in my jacket...
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Damn
I've found the shed key, but now my baccy tin of assorted plugtop fuses has gone missing. And I'd just bought some more 3A ones. Old age sucks.
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Another win 7 question...
I am coming to actually be annoyed with the search/start button and the loss of a normal file finder. Just what do i put in the search to just search all folders for a fragment of a file name and have...
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A simple Win7 question.
The question is simple but I'm b*****ed if I can find the answer. The time/date on my laptop (right hand bottom corner) has decided to add the day. It used to be:- 13.05 20/12/2014 now:- 13.05...
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OT - effectiveness of recycling?
Just something that has been knocking about in my mind for a while. With the current domestic recycling there are some plastics which can be recycled and some which can't. For example, moulded plastic...
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Use an angle grinder
A little challenge for the fans of AGs! ItemFix - Social Video Factory
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Class B distortion
Something I thought I knew, but am left puzzling... Take a simple class B output pair driven directly by an opamp. Result is na sty crossover distortion. Now, the nfb is taken from the circuit's...
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Removing GU10 lamp
Seems like a silly question but how do I do this? I have tried pushing in with the sucker removal tool and turning anticlockwise. The lamp is a low energy (Megaman?). What alternatives do I...
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DIN terminals AWG???
Went to RS componeents yesterday. Wanted 10mm DIN terms. At the trade counter they had to get an old catalogue out to find the things In the new catalogue all the terminals seem to be in AWG The 10 mm...
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OT: blacklisted email servers
My head is being well and truly 'done in' at the moment as for the last couple of days my ISP's email servers (VirginMedia) have been blacklisted by which means that some other ISPs sre refusing to...
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