Recent content by Malx

Seems like most people like the catalogues. Perhaps because of the difficulty in finding things using the website / app

£2.37, for a 30cm length! Someone nuts buy it! or go to Screwfix and get a 100m roll!

Definitely, if you don’t know what you want they should charge a consultation fee! Or go to B and Q

Must dash to toolstation to get a catalogue, but looked at the website last night, I remember they had, in the past, little thumbnails that showed the catalogue page an item could be found on. I couldnt see these, so assumed the catalogue is no more. Hope I am wrong.

Yes it’s all a learning experience for me as well. I suspect users are in two groups. The trade and. Those who know what they want, and those like me who know what they want to do and then find out what they need, learning and discarding products to you find what you want.

Yes it’s the 900 item results that I can’t cope with. I can’t figure where the nonsense items are related to my search. I was hoping the search engine would have got better. Doesn’t seem that way. good to see that it’s not just me has the problems!

I searched for a “6A junction lighting junction box” yesterday. I knew lighting circuits were protected by 6A MCB. Little dis d I know that the 6A variety doesn’t exist. I got loads of lights and junction boxes and products with 6 in them! I’m not a Luddite, most of my working life was...

Are you restricted by the filters at work so you can only order a limited range of products relevant to your work? That would make ordering much easier!

I really miss the Screwfix and Toolstation catalogues. I am experienced DIYer. when I wanted to do plumbing electrical work or whatever I would browse the appropriate sections of the catalogue, turning pages to look at what was available and what’s best to buy for what I wanted to do. I...

Obviously lighting? But lighting circuits are protected by 6A MCB. So 5A are under rated if protected by 6A So what’s the intended use?

whatever Have real cowboys in the Wild West done to to allow us to use the term on appallingly installations like this.

Then the power use drops by half and it warms up, fan still going and compressor hums. it seems to have a PSC motor .. Permanent Split Capacitor motor. I changed the capacitor, as it tested lower than the stated value, this increased power consumption, but it still only cooled down once...

My freezer “packed up”, or so I thought. It defrosted. so I pulled it out the next day (integrated under counter IKEA, Frostig SF98 …. It’s has electrolux parts. Had a look at it the next day plugged it and it worked. Then it stopped again after getting cold enough, as you would expect...