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Had an interesting one recently, since my knees went I'm only doing odds and sods and this was how I met an elderley lady who needed a few bits and bobs sorting, while chatting she told me that her combi kept losing pressure and since she had the BG homecare she'd called them out, they'd...

Seeing that gas pipe reminded me of a job many years ago, I'd installed a central heating for an old couple and along the middle of the landing was a pipe just like that, anyway I did all the tests and everything was sound, both with the electrics and the gas. A few weeks later the old blokes...

16A appliance inlet, also available with a cover

I was discussing this the other day with somone, and we came up with a few interesting observations, now an RCD operates when it detects an imbalance in the circuit caused by either phase or neutral going down to earth, now ok we all agree this is a fault and so the RCD should trip.However...

the thing with all this, and its something i have wondered about for years is this, we had an ice age millions of years ago and all life on the planet was wiped out, ok I accept this, however when you look at the argument put out by the activists that its all the cars and stuff that cause the...

right so we know who it was lol, I'll get it on Monday and pop some pics up, its a really unusual thing, like I said it has shims instead of a wheel for the adjustment.

Hi chaps, having a blonde moment here, so need your help, well one member in particular! Recently there was a thread about someone having a clear out of old stuff, I seem to remember something about some old red, white and blue cable being mentioned. Anyway there was a picture of an old 'S'...

Ok chaps, looking for a bit of advice here, I've had something dropped on me at the farm and am looking for suggestions. The children (both 23) have decided that they want a man cave and daddy has asked me to sort it, it's going to be in the old hay loft, an area of about 30 feet by 90 feet...

We know this, but I'm trying to be optimistic, one day they may do something, one day, lol

Did he leave his horse loose on your lawn, or tie it to something? How anyone can say they've done an EICR without IR testing is beyond me, it's a basic and very fundamental test.not doing it is a bit like taking a car to a garage and the mechanic telling you your brakes need replacing, just by...

Yes, you will have to put a link in, otherwise it will not work, assuming and as I said, assuming, which I am because of a lack of further info, that it is as I would expect. You will need a link between L and common, then connect the black to the 'on' terminal. like I said without further info...

I have to agree with the comments about Qualifications and courses, there are far too many of them and in the words of the song, 'it's all about the money' . they say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and we all know how true that saying is, yet how many people out there do a short course...

We use gas guns at the farm, don't even go there, airports use the distress calls of the particular bird through a loudspeaker on a landrover, again it works but it isn't constant, perhaps something like that controlled by a pir? or a couple of large plastic hawks, make them move occasionally...

Oh come on, it's only a few wires! We do all our learning and spend all our money on test gear because we don't want to go out and blow it on beer and women. lol

I had a young lad a couple of years back tell me I wasn't qualified as I didn't have an NVQ!, Really, so a C&G and an apprenticeship is worthless now is it? lol

DNO again, probably a cable issue, we had something similar a while back, feeders from substations are on a ring, usually with link boxes to allow a section to be removed if there's a fault. It could be there's a fault and the ring has been broken leaving two radial feeders, in our case volt...

Well, as  I see it there are two options, either professional help now, or professional help later, potentially from someone driving a large vehicle with a bed in the back and blue lights on the roof, lol. I've seen loads of stuff that 'works', but like you said, they've lacked earths, or ring...

Or more importantly why it's important that a landlord has it written into the tenancy that the tenant does NOT carry out any work without the landlords approval in writing and the work must be done by someone competant! A landlord I did work for actually had it written in the tenancy agreement...

If I were you I'd get some cable and wire this thing up on the table and see what happens, I've worked on a fair few of these things and on the odd occasion I've had to ring tech support the conversation usually starts with, "have you got a multimeter?" followed by something like "have you got X...

I remember Tony had a friend, and she (long story) lived high up in a tower block, apparently she had a full size lathe, a drilling machine and quite a few other engineering items in there, Tony had known her for ages but only discovered it when he went round to couple up her 250A oil cooled...