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No experience of PV but very good experience of hot water. Bought a large but leaky house about 15 years ago. first 2 years was filling oil tank 3 times a year. Professional quotes for solar panels were very expensive even with grants. After some research designed and bought the stuff to do it...

it‘s possible that the less worn one was the problem causing the intermittency if either the carbon or a bit of the spring catches on the side, but I have only seen that once. Any which way replace the pair. Check if it’s possible that the commutator isn’t damaged as if damaged they can quickly...

Can anyone explain the proviso in the product details about being not suitable for a low voltage...... supply? Does it come with a 13A 3 pin plug or not?

Do you have much to do? The chair doctor glue with syringes has tended to be my fall back for inserting a bit into tight places. Not cheap though.

We all do it. Whenever I do it. it reminds me of that brilliant jape on a candid camera show in the late 60’s where they asked a carpenter to finish installing some shelves between a wall and a chimney breast (I think). it had been engineered so that they could shift one end a shade I either...

It’s not the first time that he has used PVA where l wouldn’t. A few years ago I was commissioned to restore an old singer machine from around 1890 that had been in the family and used professionally for a lot of its life.... until left at the back of a shed for a few years. I had to complete...

If putting in new led lights, i recommend avoiding spots and even tubes. with flat panels e.g.600 x 600 the light is reaching any single point from many more directions, and shadows are effectively eliminated. My old eyes are now crap and I used to have local led spots anywhere it mattered, if I...

I remember saying years ago that I’d buy a CD player if I had digital ears, but until then I’d stick to analogue. The friend I was with said, your ears may be analogue, but they pass the signal to your brain to interpret it, and whilst the brain isn’t simple binary, it is effectively digital.

You are going to keep saying that tracksaws are no good for this until you have the last word I guess. But it doesn’t make it any truer than the first time you said it.

Then you have a very weird track saw! and you have rather ignored the OP‘s opening comment that he wasn’t impressed with a handsaw and was looking for something better.

By the time you have drawn your felt tip line Jacob, the rest of us will have already made a guaranteed straight cut, and it won’t have small air leaks that need taping or foaming.

This might generate some howls but it works really well. Before trying this method, I dad previously gone through trying handsaw and knife approaches that needed foam or other filler to plug small gaps. and during lockdown l needed to celotex my 20M x 5M workshop. I measured every slot precisely...

I can’t help you, but you have just rekindled some long forgotten memories for me. As a 13 year old (now 67) I played violin in a Leicester schools orchestra. It moved to a new venue and all the cellos had issue with th hard slippy floor. Next Saturday I turned up with a present for each of...

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Personally I would recommend getting away from the 360 long tube and get 600 x 600 led panels which shine light down and outwards north south east and west. If your joists happen to be 600 x 600 centres ( many are) you don’t need any special fittings. I fitted mine by routing a length of scrap...

Re sagepay, they are purely a middleman, known as a payment service provider. Typically used by merchants to process card payments securely, so that the merchant doesn’t have to do the highly secure processing of card data. using them doesn’t impact your normal credit card rights in anyway at...

A few years ago, I needed to find a buried water pipe in a 150 yard run across my small holding. I had already expended a lot of energy digging down 4 feet for a length of about 20 feet, with a spade in the most obvious place it was likely to find it. No luck, so a friend came round to show me...

A year or more ago I built a workshop about 10M x 5M. In my old one I had a lot of fluorescent tubes and struggled to see what I was doing even after buying individual led lamps to e.g. Light the blade on the bandsaw etc. In the new place I put up 10 led panels 600 x600. They are in 2 rows down...

I used to fly gliders. It’s astonishing how slowly you can fly. A two seater with two people in it can weigh about a metric ton and not stall at 40 something knots. The wings are each longer than 8 feet but narrower than 4 feet. Perhaps one sheet for each wing to lift about the same weight as...