Recent content by Harry Bloomfield

Nor me, but occasionally, I like to let it fly. Modern cars, include limiters on the engine speed, so you cannot over-rev the engine. It will not start bouncing the valves, like cars of old. I now drive a modern diesel, with masses of torque, but my first experience of a diesel, decades ago...

What if you then find you need to make an unplanned use of it?

You got a bit of a water leak there..

For years, I have repaired broken plastic parts, using an hot soldering iron, and office staples, just heating them and pushing them in with the iron. Then I saw, they now do a kit for the job, where a large current is passed through a shaped steel wire staple, made for the job, so I ordered...

I got the tractor deck welded, and back on, but it just wouldn't cope with the length, density, and wetness combined - so for the moment, it's parked out there, in the rain, waiting for some drier conditions to complete the first cut of the year.

Which is a 12v dc unit.

Wow! I've never suffered that bad, just the terrific sense of fear, originally because I didn't know what was happening to me, and no one seemed to know, and were ignoring it, making it even worse.

9 radiators here, with a constant head pump - all works absolutely perfectly.

Open vented fires, and air burning appliances, needed some ventilation back in the day. If that need has been done away with, so can the vents. I blocked most of mine up, on both the inner, and outer leaf, years ago - they can be very wasteful of heat. Sometimes, and if it builds up, it can...

It could be ac, or dc, suiting both. Test it on both, if it works, it works.

I think they will work with either a 20mm knockout, or a 20mm threaded steel coupling.

With a reasonable level of warmth in the building, proper insulation, a reasonable level of ventilation in the correct locations, and the generation of moisture properly controlled - internal damp, and mould, is never a problem.

Only really necessary, where every radiator is fitted with a TRV. Normally the room stat, is co-located, where the radiator has no TRV fitted, and that acts as a bypass.

I put an experimental scheme in, in the Black Mountains, Wales, where pumps ran on off-peak power, pumping water up to a reservoir, to then use the stored water during peak demand for water during the day.

That was how I first described them, when I first suffered them back in April 25. Since then, I've been down lots of rabbit holes, trying to put an end to them, including blaming statins, and my kidney problems, but yesterday was the first time that the medical profession agreed it might be a...