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Ah... thanks very much. That makes a lot of sense. The windows are 30 years old so I guess wear is a definite possibility. I have two windows bottom and top at the front, the rears are a different design. So I need 8 hinges total. A brief google shows replacement hinges, two pack, from...

Hi All, Is there an adjustment for top hung windows to bring the top of the window in? I have two top hung small windows in my front room window. The fit at the bottom is.. OK but at the top there's a noticeable gap. I noticed when I was replacing the window seals. I can see screws...

Shark. I was in a fishmonger in Reading in 98 and I saw something that looked like tuna but was much paler. It looked good and it was cheap. It was cheap for a reason. It tasted like very fishy pork. Ghastly.

Socialism literally fights the evolutionary desire to other. Any Socialist will tell you we're all brothers regardless of colour or station. The neo-liberal ideology which is the centre point of Tory belief is that there is no society, we are all individuals and we must all strive to...

I have an old Eisele pull down cut off saw and a load of blades that have a 30mm centre hole. The 40mm blades that the Eisele takes are £150+ I made a jig to hold the 30mm blades and used a 40mm annular cutter to enlarge the centre. You could do this on a drill press if you can get someone...

Point of order... rolled threads are harder. Cold working of steel increases the hardness, yield strength and tensile strength at the expense of ductility. Cold rolled Hot rolled Brinell hardness 167 137

Why do we not allow police and the judiciary to accept gifts? Because they're inherently less trustworthy than politicians? Or because the practice carries inherent moral hazard? I would say that if the police cannot be trusted to accept gifts then neither can politicians. Yes, it may very...

No, when Bevan set it up, he set it up to be free at the point of use. Interestingly, he also specified that the NHS would NOT rely on general taxation for finance and that it would be financed wholly from the public fisc. I don't have the exact quote but basically he said that the operation...

And in a world where tax worked properly, you would be correct. But it doesn't. The deck is stacked in the favour of wealth and inherited wealth. Hugh Grosvenor, The Duke of Westminster, inherited his fathers estate of about £9Bn when aged 25. On this estate he pays 6% of the value of the...

There is a lot of complete guff spoken about how a country is funded. Primarily because 99.9999% of people have no idea about what money is, where it comes from or how it works. Which is fair enough. We never think about *where* money comes from. You do work, you get paid, there's the money...

+1 on the Peltor ear defenders. I've had mine for about 8 years I think.

Some people, a very tiny number of people, benefit directly from UK tax havens. The rest of us just suffer. First, there's the tax evaded and second (more importantly) there's the effect that evaded tax has on the UK economy. What do you think people do with this money? Stuff it in a...

Because you're creating a multi-generational Plutocracy. I've no objection to people leaving enough for their kids to have an education and a home but I object to leaving them enough to go through life having never lifted anything heavier than a trust fund cheque. <mod edit - image deleted -...

Its funny... no one ever asks... what legitimate place do tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions have in a modern democracy? AFAIK there is no legitimate purpose. You're either avoiding tax or hiding the proceeds of crime. Or both. And yet... everyone just accepts the existence of such...

We had a guy that worked with us in sales who had been privately educated. He had been a Forex salesman in London. He was thick as mince. He used to say the damndest things... like "are sheep mammals?", is "Ecuador in Europe?" Lovely, lovely boy. Very well spoken. Reminded me strongly of...

Importing more workers because yours are getting older just A) kicks the can down the road B) makes the eventual problem bigger C) suppresses wages which causes D) poor productivity No one can use automation if labour is cheaper. A car wash in the UK used to be a machine. Now it's 6...

Fair play. People don't like FPTP but if you have PR, you end up with an ungovernable mess (Italy, Greece) or a vaguely centre right coalition that rules in perpetuity (Germany). FPTP can give one party a huge majority and it gets S**T done. Ask Attlee. He managed to nationalise Coal, Steel...

The recent high winds got the better of the gates centre and bottom bolts so I upgraded to a more "medieval" solution. 2 X 4 rectangular steel tube with a bit of err.. 2 x 4 in it. The 4 holes on the front of each part are to allow access to the holes at the back where the screws are, to hold...

Hi All, I've got an old Hydrovane 9PU and recently, I switched it on, pressure came up, there was an audible bang (maybe more like a really loud pop?) and pressure went down to about 20psi and it sounds.... wrong. Like air's going somewhere it shouldn't. Any ideas? Cheers, Wilson.

Agreed. The packing is likely 70yo and I guess, looking at it, replacement is probably quite easy. I have found the shut off so I might try replacing the packing myself.