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For the benefit of others, the OP said his son was in year 10 which means he is 14/15 and next year will be taking his GCSEs. Perhaps him having a conversation with a careers advisor might help him get some idea of what he wants to do in the future. AS/A-Levels are not the only route available...

FMEA work should be used as part of the design process to identify potential areas of failure and mitigate a hazard. Unless there are specific standards that relate to a type of product, they would be required to put together a technical construction file which would include FMEA or FMCEA...

Is it a constant hum or variable? Constant at 50Hz would indicate some kind of electrical device with a transformer. Variable could indicate a TV mounted to the wall.

I suspect that in the end it all comes down to cost. For example in the case of the wiring of a washing machine. Good engineering practice would be to size wires 1.5 times the expected current being carried. This makes the fault analysis easy as you can say you have applied sound engineering...

As your chimney breast is old, the bricks will probably be crumbly, I would advocated drilling a pattern in the whole area to the depth you require before carefully removing the required with a bolster, my house has old bricks (1890) I found this is a fairly reliable way of not taking too much...

I am looking to get hold of a 1000V megger to test the windings of an alternator from a generator. As I am not really looking for calibrated accuracy, typically the windings will pass or fail obviously. Would a cheaper unit like this one on ebay be sufficient? This will be for occasional not...

+1 for the WN604. Use in access point mode, configure the WiFi security the same as your existing and devices will switch without issue. This will give you WiFi and 3 additional wired ports (the 4th being used to connect to the existing router) Much better than an extender, especially as you...

If it was a buy it now purchase, then the same consumer protections apply as if buying from a shop. (Consumer rights act if purchased after October 2015. Sale of goods act if before) Additionally (although not applicable in this case) the distance selling regulations apply. Being as it's a door...

There is to my knowledge quite a bit of regulation regarding lifting and mobile cranes. To the best of my knowledge, assuming that it was a simple lift that required no official recorded planning of the lift, then whoever was responsible for supervising the lift should be the responsible person...

Under consumer legislation, surely supplying the Trusses without calculations makes them not fit for purpose as without the specifications and calculations required by the BCO they are useless. This would mean that your friend should be entitled to a refund and entitled to claim for all out of...

As luck would have it, the only copy of Which I have in my desk draw is August 2015. Hope it doesn't break any rules but I have attached a scan of the test results.

When you say "on your laptop" where do you mean? Most browsers will store cached data on your machine to make loading previously visited pages quicker to load, typically these would be pictures etc. What is the folder name within which these pictures are located?

The simple answer is probably not as it will use a flash drive. One method is to totally overwrite the flash drive, although this will severely reduce its life span. A hard reset would probably make it far more difficult to recover old data i.e. Dissembling the tablet and using special tools to...

Just wondered what others thought of this. Someone drove into the front corner of my car in Dec '14. As it damaged the suspension, the garage my insurance used wrote the car off. (Not the organisation that became the owner of the car) Insurance pays out OK and I have had to get another car. Not...

I feel for you, thanks for sharing, it did make me chuckle. First DIY job I did when moving into our new house just before I got married was to put up a shower curtain rail that had fallen down. Drilled straight through the shower electric cable. Had a "temporary" junction box to join the...

Which way did you go into Basingstoke? The Black Dam roundabout just off junction 6 of the M3 is terrible at the moment as it is being redeveloped. 8.30am - 9.30am has always been bad with traffic queuing back onto the M3 in both directions. An alternative is to go one junction up to Junction 5...

1. Once having paid for a new BT connection, I realise that we shall have to take out a new contract with an alternative supplier. Any recommendations for a RELIABLE company? Get your BB with your phone connection, no need for separate BT contract, most BB supplier will include the line rental...

Just to round up what some have said and hopefully make it clear. (I am assuming Virgin Media is not available in our area as you haven't mentioned it.) There are 2 main technologies available. Freeview and Freesat. A freesat box uses your old Sky dish and serves up the free to air channels...

If going the Libre / Open Office route, go for Libre office. Open Office was owned by Sun which was taken over by Oracle and as of 2011 they donated it to the Apache Foundation. I believe that Libre Office is the best supported and fully featured of the open Office forks.

Friend of mine invited them in once for a laugh to stop them knocking on his neighbours doors. Kept them talking for so long they ended up asking to leave.