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Did he replace it with one of those "maintenance free" jobbies?

The fact that there's no hot water suggests that there's no power to the element. Those neon lamps do have a habit of failing but if there's no hot water, it's an effect rather than a cause. Immersion heaters do indeed have a habit of failing too and if nothing has changed on the circuit, then...

I'm trying to work out what use one would have for a hold button. It's not so hard to remember 2-3-0 while you write it down. Zero is even easier to commit to memory. I guess it's perhaps useful if you have one of those fancy meters that can report the PD to 10 decimal places. I don't think...

That would be me posting in the wrong topic again.

Quite so, although I suspect the 13.8V 6A bench PSU I had it plugged into should be more than sufficient for its needs.

I have a quad sound bomb and frankly it's a bit naff. It scares the cat and irritates the YL but that's about it.

I'm no expert. I make it about 2 tonnes of load, which is about what my car weighs, so I'd make it about as deep as a driveway. Probably would make the base 6' x 6'. How much concrete? No idea, is it sold by weight or volume? You probably need to work out 6x6x depth for the volume and then...

I think http://www.screwfix.com/search?search=plasterboard+spring are about the strongest fixing you'll get for plasterboard if you don't have a nogging available. No idea of their load bearing ability though nor if it's the right way to do it.

[/url] Please be mindful that the cable before the master socket is the property of BT. They'll likely be ****ed if you interfere with it. Putting a joining kit on it is a bit of a give away!

Depends if the OP only has wireless devices or not.

BT own the external drop-10 cable and the master socket in the bedroom, so you can't touch the cable or the backplate (officially). You can remove the faceplate from the master socket and there is a punchdown plate for running extensions off. Then you can run a cable via whichever route you...

Of all the tools I've got, I think my angle grinder terrifies me the most.

It's possible to design a system for offsite recovery with millisecond failover. I wouldn't want to try though. So what does a dosing pump do if it loses connection to the main pharmacy computer? Say for example if it does the old "blue screen of death"? Or the link gets hit by the old...

I think possibly the interpretation is that it's not so much giving people the wrong medication, more not being able to give them the medication that they need, as it's not known what they need to be given. One would hope, of course, that this information is recorded (cached?) on each ward.

I believe the last line of defense is a SCRAM, which involves lowing the control rods into the reactor to absorb the neutrons and suppress the chain-reaction. That doesn't really solve the problem of decay heat and most reactors require active cooling to keep the reactor from melting even...

Probably best to nail them during the Q&A. "I note that you said x, y and z. Isn't it actually the case that...?"

It stands for "Yourself". I see the point which you are making, that the OP should do the work himself and not seek the help of others. This is somewhat an irreconcilable incongruity with your previous statement that the OP should get someone else to do the work. Nevertheless, that's...

Used to know a spark who had a 1K inverter and a 5-way CU in his van. Also had a length of wood to keep the throttle at 3k rpm while using the microwave/kettle.

You seem to be missing a wire. I see 2x bare copper, 2x red and 1x black. Is there another black wire in there somewhere? Also, do my eyes deceive me or is that 4mm2 cable?

If I'm ever stupid enough to renovate a house again, I have a whole catalog of cable management plans. Wifi comes with its own joyous set of problems.