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Salts coming out of the bricks https://etbricks.co.uk/brick-articles/efflorescence-on-bricks-the-causes-prevention-and-cure/

Mine are made by Hispec https://www.hispec.co.uk/interconnectable-fast-fix-mains-smoke-detector-with-10yr-rechargeable-lithium-battery-backup-1794-p.asp mine are the older version though so don't know if the new ones will connect, might drop them an email to check as I am planning an extension...

Mine have battery backup. Not sure if that still triggers the others on the circuit or not though. I've got a heat alarm in the garage (attached to house on the side) that is linked into the house ones, so if my garage is merrily burning I know to get out the house. I posted a while ago about...

Indeed, so I assume we have dropped a much cheaper probe/rover like we did on mars to conduct further investigations of the moons surface that we weren't able to do with 1970's technology. I've googled but I can't seem to find such a thing...

52yrs ago and we haven't managed to do it again or even land probes there. Yet for some reason they keep talking about going to Mars? I guess we learnt everything we need to know about the moon in the early 1970's.

Not that it means anything as who knows how different my boards are to yours but I re-did my dining room floor in T+G about 6 or 7 years ago. Think they are 150mm wide boards. I just put them in straight away from memory, might have been a day or two from delivery but certainly not a long time...

I didn't argue that the moon landing didn't take place (that's for another day). Some of the photos were doctored, though. For what reason we'll never know but NASA certainly put out photos that had been tampered with.

I did a self assessment tax return one year and got a bill for £900, which was confusing as I knew I didn't owe any. Turned out I'd put all the right numbers, but in the wrong order! Measuring is the part of woodworking I dislike the most. I'll often keep my finger on the tape measure and...

Doh! I'm glad you can count, or at least read numbers as I clearly can't. Pretty sure I have Dyscalculia as I often mix numbers up, much to my other half's amusement. Thankfully I haven't bought an adaptor yet so will be careful to get the correct one From the lathe info page 'carried a nose...

aha! after some googling of 20x2mm adaptors I stumbled across a few machine names and after looking at the pics of each, it turns out it is a 'Tyme' brand and I think it is the Avon looking at the pictures https://www.lathes.co.uk/tyme/ and is indeed M20x2mm thread. I've managed to find an...

Hi, I've been given a wood lathe with no brand name, which is great as it's a bit bigger than my current one. But I seem to attract lathes with odd size headstock threads, as my original one has a M30 thread. I'm not sure what thread size this new one is though. I've measure the shaft...

It's well documented that the NASA moon landing photographs were taken with a camera that had crosses etched into the lens. Every photo therefore should have a crosses on top of every scene. There are numerous photos that NASA released that showed the crosses obscured by something in the scene...

I think one of the biggest problems is the advent of CGI and photo manipulation on a mass scale, coupled with the ease of dissemination. Sure back in the day powerful people could manipulate photographs and film (NASA cough cough) but it was incredibly hard to do, certainly not easy for a lay...

Don't forget the Jewish space lazers starting forest fires!

I had an old bmw years ago that had a recall on the airbags despite the car being over 10yrs old. I took it to the BMW in bristol which is huge glass fronted fancy building. I was greeted by a person in a suit who's job it is to greet people (not a receptionist, they were separate). Offered a...

unless the emissions are entering the cab and impairing the drivers ability, it is not a safety feature that is going to effect the NCAP safety test. " Euro NCAP introduced the overall safety rating in 2009, based on assessment in four important areas: Adult Occupant Protection (for the...

Is the stop/start actually counted as a safety feature in the ncap test though? It is there to reduce emissions, not for safety, as far as I am aware.

If you look at history you'll find (at least in america) that pedestrians had the right of way over cars. Once cars started running people over the automobile companies did a marketing campaign to put the blame on the pedestrian and labelled them a 'jay walker'. If you are talking about...

As above. I was thinking about the weight of oak sleepers. I bought one last year and made a mantel for my fireplace. It was flippin' heavy. It did twist a bit, but that's not so much an issue for a mantel as it doesn't need to be perfectly flat as such. I reckon you'd struggle to move a bench...

A handsaw will probably be quicker than you think. You will be cross cutting so much quicker and easier than along the grain. Unless you actually need a battery circular saw don't bother, just get a handsaw for <£10.