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Thanks for the offer mate :D Unfortunately it seems I shouldn't be allowed anywhere near aerial connectors as I have a tendency to squash them into a mess of razor sharp metal! :lol:

So, I got the crimp plugs, received them in an order with some other stuff... I decided to make up a cable, looked at the plug and thought "Hmmm, looks a bit different to my other connectors". Tried it anyway... Squeezed the handles of my compression tool, didn't work. Squeezed a bit harder, the...

Probably because they play rock music... Just a wild guess. :wink: But seriously though, what else would you class them as? Rock is a very very wide net that covers pretty much anything that involves a guitar and drum-kit, plus a few things that don't.

Every decade has its mass-manufactured carp and its proper music. Taking the two extremes of the scale from my short list above: Boney M: mass-manufactured. Billy Preston: the only person outside of the Fab Four to be credited with writing a Beatles single. (BTW, how is it an...

That seems to be a general feature of electric cars: immense torque and quiet running lead to surprising acceleration. As you say, still too expensive now: for £23K after subsidy, when you can get a dinosaur-powered car of similar size and capability for about £13K... £10,000 buys plenty of...

I'm pretty interested in the electric cars that are being promised for the next few years... my commute to work is too far to cycle, public transport here is non-existent (unless accessed by car!!!), but my commute is well within the range of a battery-electric. I've been dreaming about doing...

My favourites that haven't already made it onto the lists above: Parliament - Give up the funk Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster Billy Preston - Outa Space Walter Murphy - A Fifth of Beethoven Sylvester - Mighty Real (You make me feel) Boney M - Rasputin The Village People - In the Navy...

Last episode I saw, they had to delay something while they moved the fall-arrest airbags! Although, the architect/project manager/owner (same person) on that one was used to commercial builds, so that was probably his usual working practices.

My dad always used to say that when it was his time he'd buy a Ferrari and drive it off a cliff... you don't understand this sort of statement (or rather shouldn't understand) when you're a kid. But, after you've seen a few people spend the last days or weeks of their life in a drug-induced coma...

I'm just wondering why this thread has ended up in DIY Disasters :wink: My OH is keen to learn and is happy to do any sort of DIY; like everyone starting out in DIY, she does a lot of learning and I'm trying to teach her the mistakes I made so she doesn't have to (e.g. not wearing proper...

I don't think you've told us the whole story here. I can see two possible ways of you asking him: 1) "The Council have told me you've raised some concerns about the garage, but didn't mention specifically what they were. Would you mind going through them with me?" 2) "I'm disappointed...

That was my first thought! Youtube has good videos of such magnets smashing stuff.

I'd say set up a CCTV cam. Doesn't need to be expensive, a webcam would do. Set the computer up near a window that's a good view of your car. Whoever it is has obviously fixated on your car so that's what you should film. Leave it running all night if need be, hard-disc space isn't much of...

I'd like to add a soil stack to service an upstairs bathroom. My house was built in the 1920s, and the plumbing is currently all on the ground floor. Everything except the toilet discharges into gulleys, which are also used for rainwater. The toilet discharges straight down into the floor...

Right, I'm sold. I think I'll go for the 6 inch base then... The reason for the new driveway is because the current driveway was bodged in by the previous owners... as it turns out they just chucked about 20-30 mm of gravel straight onto the soil. It started to show bald patches almost as...

For the dressing I was thinking either granite or limestone - 20mm chips. I'm pretty sure granite's OK, will car tyres end up crushing limestone? I understand the need for a decent sub-base with solid slabs of driveway to avoid cracks and disintegration, but on an aggregate-covered driveway...

Round here, a weekend of mini-excavator hire is about £150 inc VAT and delivery. I've no idea what local digger drivers charge, but assuming it's a full day's work I was thinking £300 (£200 for his time, £100 for diesel and running the digger) I didn't know about the no soil rule for big...

Tell that to anyone who bought an MG-Rover circa 2004-2005... Along with millions of others, my dad had bought a brand new MG with a 3 year warranty, then after a year when the company went belly up he was invited to buy a warranty to cover the remaining 2 years that he had already paid for...

I'm planning a new driveway, and having measured up I've realised it involves digging a rectangular area of about 45 square metres. As I've got Bedfordshire's heavy clay underneath me and a dodgy back behind me, there's no way I'm doing it by hand! So, I've got two options: 1) Hire a man...