Recent content by Harry Bloomfield

You can still get a good deal, if you can offer payment in full, by other means - cash, doesn't necessarily mean pound notes..

Legs on the lounger thingummies extended, to make the height more acceptable, today's task was to just finish that job off, paint them, and the tractors rusty bonnet. In fact both were rusty, and painted earlier, with a coat of phosphoric acid, to kill the rust. We extended the legs, with bits...

Here, it lasted from around 2pm, through to something past 6pm.

There are a few families like that around here too. Are they in fact subsidised? I didn't know that.

It didn't/doesn't have an alphabet as such, they use binary, eight data bits. The first four bits, allow a count from 0 to F in HEX, the second four likewise. FF = 256, or 11111111 in binary. The four bits count 0 to 9, then A to F.

Testing, finding syntax errors, then more testing. They tried lots of more direct methods, even flashing squares on the TV, to send data, and 'floppy records', you could play on a record player. My original partner, before she became ill, worked at the local hospital's patient record...

Mine had a special version of 8K BASIC, and 8K machine code Assembler, all in 1K 2708 eproms. I quite heavily modified both, myself. I don't remember there being a 26 letter variable limit, perhaps it used AA to ZZ? They were the fun, entertaining days of computers, everyone involved was an...

I think, you need to get actual trades in there, to look at the job, and decide just what needs to be done. You, need to be armed with some idea of what the end result is, that you want from the site. Any replies you get on here, are pure speculation.

No, that only applies to the indicated speed, the speedometer. There is no standard I am aware of, for the odometer accuracy. I have access three speedometers in my car - The default analogue dash, a digital version which is direct reading, and the satnav. The analogue dash reading is...

That should be simple enough, given enough information. What voltage, ac or dc, and current is powering the coil of the relay, and what current and voltage does the relay need to switch? Do you perhaps have a circuit diagram, which shows how this relay is installed?

Forward planning, would have made that so easy.

I did think about it, when I sold the Viffer, but its storage space is now occupied by my mobility scooter. Besides, it occupies me enough already, looking after the house, car, caravan, scooter, and tractor.

My mother - a proper, entirely home cooked Sunday dinner, always beginning with Yorkie puds, an occasional evening rabbit stew with homegrown tasty carrots. I've only once had rabbit stew since then and it was horrible. Sometimes, she would make a meat and potato pie. Years later, she would...

Nope, not at all!

Lag only where the pipe heat loss might serve no purpose in warming a space, or where less warmth is needed.