Recent content by thomp1983

I've used both hollow and solid. I've no real preference but did find with the white hollow ones we used on our ceiling if the light reflects in the right way you can see the lines in the material where the hollow core webs are, I suspect this is due to them being white and on an angle so they...

I very nearly did the same thing in Thailand, had about 15 hours to get back to Bangkok from chiang mai which is about 13 hours in the train, I ended up having to travel in third class and just got back in time.

Any further help that's on topic?

Ok not all cars but my 5 series certainly switches the air to recirculation when the ac max button is used

That makes sense on reflection, cars do the same as they switch the air recirculation to the interior of the vehicle when put on max so it's constantly cooling and conditioning the same air

Hi all, I feel I'm bout to ask a question that may be a bit silly re. air con units. I'm looking into getting a split unit system installed to cool 2 bedrooms. In my daughters bedroom there's only 2 choices for mounting the internal unit as we live in a chalet bungalow so 2 of the walls...

I assume you earn the minimum wage? That's not even an hour at work to have the right part and know it'll work, how much time that you don't get paid for will you waste trying to find another solution that may not work? Yes 9 quid seems alot for 2 o rings but life's too short to spend time...

I'm very happy with it, it wasn't cheap at £160 but fortunately I've enough other project stuff I can put in it to justify it for now.

So following on from the what have you bought thread, I bought a yamaha r6 that required the carbs cleaning so I bought an ultrasonic cleaner. The cleaner was a bit bigger than I expected but the carbs fit in nicely which is the point. I stripped the carbs at work ready for cleaning, they...

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Thanks, there actually in decent condition to say they've been stood with old fuel in them, the ultrasonic cleaner will also come in useful on some other projects I have so I haven't bought it just for this job.

It's a delkovic exhaust. It's been stood a few years so I've removed the carbs today and ordered an ultrasonic cleaner for them but other than that it shouldn't need much.

Taping and filling the joints is perfectly acceptable and often done in Europe, you'll just end up with a slightly different finish to the paint compared to painting onto plaster but many people do it.

I did it when we first moved in 5 years ago so I could fit an isolator not heard anything since