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Kids need beating round the head with big sticks, they go on about reducing power consumption and yet the internet is the biggest consumer of power worldwide, they rave on about how we should use solar or wind power, how? I know the worl is changing but last time I looked there's no sun at...

Try telling that to the average family with a couple of teenage kids who drive, lol 'dad, my sister has nicked the charging point again' followed by 'Well he's always charging his car'. It's a bit like the bloody internet, I've turned sections of factories and hospitals off with less aggro than...

Ahh tenant's a bloody nightmare! I had one who decided to fit some outside lights, there was about 10 of them along a wall about 30 feet long, each had a 60W lamp in, they were wired in all kinds, bits of 2.5, bits of 1.5, even bits of lawnmower flex, but his connection to the mains was the...

I had this once witha guy who was trying to trace a leakage current down to earth, he was adamant that putting his clamp around the main earth cable would reveal the answer, then I pointed out things like metal back boxes screwed to brick walls would allow some leakage to go to earth that way...

We had a similar issue with our house a number of years ago, switching on the elctric cooker or the 8.5Kw electric shower would cause the lights to dim, so I decided to investigate. The earth loop value was within the limits and not at the higher end either, I attached a voltmeter to the incomer...

Most people do away with them to be honest, but since the diesel engine isn't subjected to the 'sniffer' test like a petrol is, they only look for heavy smoke on a diesel, you can get away with it. However if you don't have an EGR fitted and one was fitted at manufacture, then it will fail the...

I agree with what you are saying, remember 'love thy neighbour'? Well you had the white bloke taking the mick out of the black fella, calling him *****, or *******, but when you looked at it it was always the black fella who had the last laugh, same with 'in sickness and in health',  Alf...

I have a rather odd accent, or so I'm told, I sound a bit like Fred Dibnah, or at least I do when I'm away from the wife, she hates it and constantly tells me to 'speak properly' well that is how I speak. Some years ago my stepdaughter who worked in a factory asked if she could bring a friend...

Speaking of Landrovers, I had an interesting problem with mine, it's a Freelander 1 facelift with a TD4 engine in it. It ran ok when I bought it just under two years ago however when servicing it I noticed the MAF sensor was disconnected. I plugged it back in and it ran really rough, if it was a...

I had a guy who is honestly a multimillionaire, he's also a pain in the arse with it! He has a mate who works in IT, and 'knows about everything', it all started many years ago when he asked me to install some cctv at his house, he started off telling me what equipment to install, based on his...

Yes indeed, my cousin was very high up in a certain government department, one thing he told me, and I later saw it proved, was that all the computer databases are linked, In the case I knew about, a neighbour and his wife were defrauding the DWP by him claiming as living elsewhere and she...

Picking up an old thread I know, but, the thing with cutting seals, as I was once informed by someone from the DNO is this, quote, "we don't mind you cutting the fuse seal but cutting the meter seal leaves you open to accusations of fiddling the meter". Honestly, I kid you not. The best one...

I used to do a lot of work for this consultant gynaecologist, her husband was a government vet, worked fot the MAFF, right posh people they were, lived in a large house nearest neighbour half a mile away and enough land to build about 200 houses on. she spoke as we call it 'awfully far back'...

I did a lot of pyro stuff just after coming out of my time, the firm I was working for were really pulling some strokes, all the cables were specified by certain makers and had to be in 500mtr drums because they didn't want joints in the trunking and there was miles of it. They got around the...

I was getting plagued by 'those' people, you know the ones, you've either had an accident you were not aware of or they're trying to sell you something despite being told on the previous 10 occasions that you are not interested and never to ring again, then I discovered the answer, they all hate...

There are lots of regs that the DNO work to which are totally different to ours (BS7671) and I've worked with them a fair bit over the years, basically you want to play on their pitch with their ball, so you either play by their rules or not at all. I have a full copy of their regs somewhere on...

A quick update, I spoke to Tony today and he sounded a bit better, apparently he's having a nasogastric tube put in tomorrow, he didn't seem to know what they were going to be doing with him long term although there were three main points he told me about, "they've done bugger all since I landed...

This should have been here but ended up in I&T, typical me. Dear members, some of you may remember me,I've not been on here in ages so hello to you all. I received a message from Tony who I've known for many years , he has been in declining health now for several years as some of his close...

I won't be when Tony reads this, I've put it in the wrong part, should have been in general. lol

nice one, we keep going because we have to, lol. I'm still trendsetting though, I had that covid lettuced last year, before it became popular, I don't recommend it lol