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The cut-off switch on the compressor will be adjustable. Take the placcy cover off and there will be a kind of spring and screw affair that you can fiddle with, it might be marked as to which way to twiddle it, otherwise trial and error. It should be fine to take it up to around 10 bar, and then...

Peltor Protac III, noise cancelling (electronically), used for shooting they are brilliant and weren’t too expensive at around £100 IIRC.😃

4 1/2 inch angle grinder with plasma disc?

As long as you can keep the timber reasonably dry and have good air circulation, you don’t really need to split it all to size now. Ash splits fairly easily anyway, but as with most timber it splits more easily when green. It is worth considering your splitting method, hydraulics are your...

What you say is true to an extent, but even solar power has to obey the laws of thermodynamics. If you use panels to absorb the energy, it is no longer absorbed (fully) by the ground beneath. This, if done on a large enough scale would affect the weather. Admittedly, we have more than enough...

I did go to the trouble in the original post of pointing out the reason for the tyre recalibration, specifically that it is not related to the ‘satellite’ part of the navigation system, but rather the information that is available to it when satellite info is not, namely direction through...

And further, what is the justification for being required to enter your registration, other than the desire to be paid more than once for the same entity. That to me is further cause to use the justifiable recompense argument when it comes to ridiculous fines, sorry, charges.....

My mistake, I should not have used the word ‘illegal’ but perhaps the phrase ‘against their rules’.......

I’m pretty sure that’s what I said.......I specifically pointed out that it did not recalibrate the satellitey thingy bit😬

Some of these comments are very amusing🤣 Evolution has given us fingers and thumbs. It also gave some of our ancestors the brain power to design some truly jawdroppingly scary pieces of machinery, many of which are still around, albeit in sanitised versions. Evolution also didn’t create all...

The actual facts on speedometer accuracy and the law seem to be shrouded in mystery. The change in accuracy of a speedo is dependent on tyre wear. Some tyres have as much as 25 or 30 mm of usable tread so the percentage of the diameter is significant. Indeed some vehicles allow you to...

I’m sure you are right😃. We as a society are much more focussed on risk now. I wonder how the idea of a car would go down nowadays if it hadn’t yet been invented....... ”Here’s an idea....I’ve come up with an design for something that can deliver ten times the kinetic energy of a .50 calibre...

With regard to the idea of battery swapping and the complexity/safety.... I understand the issues re cooling, electronics etc, but surely we are missing the point to an extent. Whilst the manufacturers have their interests at heart, there is a case to be made for ‘government’ to dictate within...

Yes, sorry, didn’t mean to imply they were.... Again though, it is in part a solution to a problem that puts a limit of sorts on the use of technology.....someone else made the point about battery swapping, ie treat the batteries in much the same way as we treat petrol now. if you look at the...

Yes, the idea of spreading power demand to match available supply is nothing new. As a student I had a VIP trip around Dinorwig (apologies for the spelling). This is particularly relevant to wind and solar, so there are plenty of theories from electrolysis to hydrogen to storing compressed air...

I agree wholeheartedly, I think people’s expectations of what modern life looks like will have to undergo a serious review, particularly with regards to use of resources. The waste of water in the west in particular really upsets me, given how fundamental and scarce it is for people in other...

As far as I can make out (it’s actually quite difficult to know what information is reliable and unbiased), the power generation capacity in the UK has actually decreased over the last 10 years or so. This is also likely to get worse before it gets better. Hinckley Point C will not come on line...

If you have wood that’s been felled a while it’s going to be a bit of a pain to process. Your chainsaw will cope ok, but splitting it will be hard work. It’s best to at least ring and preferably split your wood as it’s felled, it’s surprising how much more easily it splits. Assuming of course...

For pities sake, listening to some of this you would think the UK had been part of the EU since the dawn of time, and that leaving was similar to crossing the outer reaches of the galaxy and forming an entirely new civilisation on a barren moon. It was never anything more than a bit of a club...

Could you explain your repeated use of the term “straw man”. It doesn’t really equate to my understanding of the term. But perhaps I’m just being a bit thick.