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Those are very similar to the system I have (Maplins!). I was intending just to move receiver electronics into the NVR housing but that is impractical. If I am having to do it properly, I will look for a contactor or motor control relay to do the heavy current part...

There is another excellent argument for doing this: Problem: the cheap remotes have a small, single relay usually rated at about 10 amps. But that rating is for a resistive load, which motors are not. The inductance of the motor causes voltage spikes ("back EMF") on switch off, which in turn...

I really hate the way Russian bad guys in American spy movies always have Land Rovers rather than Jeeps or, er, Russian vehicles. I think someone did a portal axle conversion for the 110. You can certainly still get track conversions for them* where the axles get sprockets instead of wheels...

The oven I was complaining about (above) blew up in the week before lockdown. The failure took out the main logic board, making it uneconomic to repair. I paniced, and rang round locally to source a replacement. Ended up back at our usual white goods supplier, Horders, who I can't praise enough...

I wrote off our VAG people carrier by (I think) causing hydraulic lock by driving it on a flooded road (only about 9" of water). Common-rail diesel. In contrast we were standing on Tarr Steps a few years ago when a 110 went through - nearly got knocked off the bridge by the bow wave :-)

That's a bit unfair (only a bit!): I got 200 housebricks in the back of mine - gert posh Salisbury rear axle & uprated springs on them 110s, see. Seriously, I agree: it's not the most useful load space - the rear door is narrow, and the rear wheel arch covers waste a lot of room too. But with...

I too had a Defender 110, for over a decade. Whilst I loved it, I would caution that they are stupidly expensive to run. This comes down to two issues: chassis and engine: They are built to rust The factory chassis is full of holes and crevices and things like the outriggers under the...

If you do a scoring cut (I too have a Makita, and like it lot), don't forget to go backwards: that way the teeth enter the work downwards and the finished cut is extremely crisp. You also get a better cut with "enthusiastic" dust extraction, too. I have no definite reason, but suspect it's...

That last bit is key. In my very limited experience, the contractor/developer can be quite keen to backfill ASAP, inspection or not. It recently happened next door (last year). We are on heavy clay, and I advised my neighbour that the new pipe run needed to be bedded well on heavy chippings...

Like all the best-run projects, start from where you want to end up and work backwards: You have to decide if you will let them connect to your drainiage (upsized if necessary), or not. If you can be persuaded that's OK, given the "issues arising"* from long runs of shared drainage on private...

In the interests of accuracy, I think it was actually 3/4" BSP (female) to 15mm compression. I do tend to get 3/4" and 1" muddled up because of the ID and OD measurements (no longer do plumbing very often these days). Sorry. It wasn't how it was specified (precious little info available on the...

I quite understand - a rather different problem to mine!

I gave up on rainwater storage because the butt's tap kept blocking up (plastic butt and 1/4 turn plastic tap with reasonably wide orifice). The tap was fitted about 3" up from the bottom, so you'd think that would allow the carp to settle out, but not so. We used the diverters that go into...

I know, but often nowadays cheap fittings have straight threads where they should taper. For example the 1" BSP to 15mm compression fittings sold by two major "sheds" should taper, but don't. I ended up using 15mm bath tap fittings, grinding down the lip of the flange that takes the fibre washer...

On correctly made plumbing fittings, some threads are straight but some taper. I find the PTFE tape is very good for tapering threads (such as outside taps as above and radiator bungs/valves, etc.), but not so wonderful for parallel threads. Thicker PTFE tape is supposedly for gas fittings, but...

That looks really solid and smart! I particularly like the colour and lippings. If you have, or know anyone with a sheet metal bending brake, you might offer your client some section dividers (like book-ends). The ones we used were simply 3-4mm thick aluminium sheet rectangles, bent through a...

They're not mutually exclusive - waney edged has the bark on it, but it could either be rough sawn or (conceivably) planed, although the latter is unlikely. That said, I think Yandles used to plane up some of their exotics - waney boards but smooth-ish face grain so you get a good idea of the...

In years past they certainly were useful, so recent ones might also be. Reading your question, I realised that our one is probably 35 years old now, and still running fine. Like yours it only gets used occasionally, as we have a walk-in airing cupboard where the boiler is, so it only usually...

Not saying you are wrong, but I've never seen one. I have seen a variety of adapters though, all of which involve a 13A fuse in the bit with 13A pins on it. P'raps I ought to get out more...

Those are both good ideas. Messy and probably would take a while, but do-able.