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Thanks guys, I went for the Lunn's adapter solution before seeing the Toolstation one, but I'm sure it will do nicely - thanks again :)

Hello folks, well it's been many years since I posted here.... I've had a look at similar posts, but can't find anything on the exact issue that I have, so here goes: I have an old Shanks low-level cistern and I need a new siphon to go inside it. The bottom hole is 2 1/2 inches in diameter and...

Thanks spark123, that sounds like a good plan. I guess I can expect a 3-phase MCB to fit a standard TPN db in that it straddles all 3 phases and has just a single breaker switch? The shop owner is clearly the kind of DIY guy we've all come across who reckons if he can figure out how to make...

No RCDs, RCBOs at all - just a couple of MCBs, one for the shop power and one for lights. Didn't look at the earthing (as I should've!) but there's probably no main bonding. I think I'll meet with him and spell it out, though he'll probably just think I'm the electrical police...

Thanks, all very helpful. This concurs with my thinking that this needs to be wired on a more industrial level, with possibly trunking or tray and either 6mm singles or SWA. I guess a Ceeform socket outlet after a rotary isolator would be useful, then flexible cable with a plug to the cooker...

Hello gents - I would like to hear suggestions for best practice in wiring a 3PN Lincat commercial oven, model ESLR9. L1 & L2 draw 26A/6000W each and L3 draws 14A/3200W. There is a 3-phase supply in the shop and the owner has run 2 x (2x2.5mm2) T&E to supply 2 outlets next to the oven to...

To be fair, you do hear the term 'ring final' a lot, but not 'radial final' or 'lighting final'. You also hear 'cup final' but that's maybe refering to some other game :lol:

Fair comment guys :wink: but I always intend any fiddling I do to make things better, and as you know, computers are likely to start behaving badly, even if left alone. For what it's worth, I have built three 'high-end' computers to date and, apart from the odd motherboard going down, I...

Thanks gentlemen, I have taken your comments on board. I managed to recover 100% (as far as I know) of my 'lost' files on both drives using File Scavenger. I then reformatted the drives in Windows and checked them using the drive fitness utility: they both came out with no apparent errors. I...

Thanks Softus, had a look at the HDD regenerator...interesting. Seems to be suitable for a physically damaged drive, whereas I believe I just have corrupt files. So, I think I'm going to go with File Scavenger from QueTek. The trial download's already shown that most (if not all) of my files are...

No, that is helpful eggplant. Maybe I should go with the ontracks product (though they don't tell you in advance how much it will cost for the full product - hundreds? In which case, no way!). Seems to me there are two major things which make computers vulnerable: hard disk crashes and...

Good advice, eggplant. Thanks. The picture I'm getting is that the drives are fine, it's possibly just some system data that's become corrupt, rendering them unreadable in Windows. I've had a look at a few recovery sites and downloaded some trial software. Interestingly, 'Easy Recovery'...

Ah, what a way to spend New Year's day... OK, I ran the Drive Fitness Test on all 4 drives and, surprisingly, they all passed except for one which has bad sectors, and that's one of the working drives! So both 'faulty' drives seem good according to this DFT and appear OK in BIOS. It's just...

Thanks mate, I'll check it out. Happy New Year to all!

Sorry Igorian - how do I view your profile?!

Thanks Igorian. They're both IBM DeskStars (I thought at first one of them was a different make). I'll drop you an email shortly.

I appreciate your help with this one, guys. Yes, I found the check disk routine in Windows 2000 (as you say, right clicking on the disk icon and going into 'tools'). I checked a known good drive to see what is expected of this process. When I try to run it on one of the faulty drives, the...

No I haven't tried Scandisk yet - is that a DOS utility? (believe it or not I used to know more about this in pre-Windows days, but have forgotten!). The drives are on different IDE controllers (I have four available and have tried swapping them around and changing IDE cables but it doesn't...

Yes, the drives appear in the BIOS and both seem to be spinning. They also come up 'working normally' when I look at them in hardware manager. Any ideas?

Hi - am sure this is not the first post on this subject, but anyway... I have a Windows 2000 PC which has four IDE hard drives: one for OS , one for video, one for audio and one for general backup. Recently I discovered that the latter two drives had stopped responding (when I try to...