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It's a Sony CFS-B31. Thanks for the GB Audio link, seems to be the place to go. I will call them on the morrow.

What ho one and all, I have a Sony cassette/radio unit and not surprisingly, the belts on the cassette have disintegrated. There are two belts and they appear to be the same size. Around 1mm square (1.2mm?) and about 150 long, which means the circumference is 150mm and therefore, the diameter...

I have tried a bit of vinegar in the past but it did not appear to make much difference. On the other hand, I also did not look inside with an endoscope. Hard water scale usually looks white (ish) but this looks black and the residue that I empty out looks like black sand. What is Milton?

What ho one and all, I have a Morphy Richards Grime Buster steam cleaner. It does the job, but I have noticed the condensed steam to be 'dirty.' Thought it was because the steam was cleaning the vinyl, and it probably is but .... In fact the steam is slightly 'dirty.' When I 'flush' the...

Thanks for your reply. There was a bit of scale in the impeller housing that is at the bottom where one can access. There is even a drain hose, which the neighbour had used to drain the machine sufficiently to allow her to open the door with the by-pass thing next to the drain. But when I...

Yes, I know the cells are spot welded and that would be another problem! I have seen some YouTube vids on how to construct a DIY spot welder but don't think I can be bothered for the few times. And like many things on YouTube, looks good on the vid, but in reality, never stood a chance of...

Thanks for the reply. Seemed like a good idea until I looked on eBay and can buy a replacement NiCad with 3 Ah for around £12 (ish) Not worth buggereing aorund trying to buy Li-Ion and then get them fitting into the battery pack.

What ho one and all, I have a couple of old but good, DeWalt 14.4v 2.0aH drills. I am considering replacing the batteries; I know I can buy replacements off Ebay, but wondered if it is worthwhile buying Li-ion cells and doing a bit of soldering? There are 12 cells in the battery pack...

What ho one and all, I help out an elderly neighbour with bits and bobs. Today, she asked about her relatively new Bosch washing machine, that is giving an E18 code and resulted in her not being able to open the door. She followed the instructions, drained the machine and has retrieved her...

Installed the COB LED via a chock-block and the output looked very similar to when running through the dimmer. Using the above linked calculator, seems that the original 300 w halogen is around 6000lu. so I am unlikely to get that kind of output from a 12w LED. So will probably reinstall the...

Thanks for the link to the lumen calculator. Quite useful. Certainly, I did not expect the output to be similar to a 300w halogen, but did expect it to 'appear' more than it does. The other issue of course, is with downlighters, they appear bright and are illuminting via direct light. With...

What ho one and all, Another LED question. I have a wire light with 5 halogen MR16 bulbs, of course, running via a transformer. I would like to replace with LED bulbs, but don't know it the replacements would run with the halogen transformer. Is there anything special that i should be doing...

What ho one and all, We have a couple of floor lights that have 300w halogen bulbs running through a dimmer. The give a lovely light when bounced off the ceiling, but the cost of running 300w sets my teeth on edge. So I recently bought a 12W LED / COB (dimmable) replacement, that apparently...

Thanks for the replies. As I say, it is an old studio flash unit, basically, filled with capacitors. Not used in many year and when I came to use it recently the insulation on the cables from the flash heads had given up. have replaced one and reformed the capacitors and it appears to be...

Plug / socket; I assumed it is called a plug, but what do i know? Thanks for correcting me. It's a power connector on an old studio flash pack. The existing socket is just fine but I have a plan and a second would be useful. Just found and bookmarked the PX0430/SE. How vital is the male...

What ho one and all, I am after one of these. Have been searching with Mr google but don't even know what kind of plug it is. Grateful for any pointers. Thanks and toodle pip.

Just thought I would give another heads-up. Yesterday, as part of reforming the caps, having run the unit at 1/4 power, I switched to full and with the 150w bulb in series, it was taking around 13 seconds to fully charge with regular clicking. Today, I removed the 150w bulb and it is charging...

Thanks for the switching options. Just wondering if it is possible before getting an electrician along to do the work. The plant was small when initially planted but is doing what plants do. Moving the PIR is a possibility but the only local would be in the middle of the beam above the...

What ho one and all, When the house was built, I put four external lights (one either side of the garage door and a pair on the side alley) all activated by a PIR beside the garage. There is a switch inside the garage that switches the light from PIR activated to all on. Unfortunately, SWMBO...

Thought I would give a heads-up on reforming the caps and the replacement of the cable. Cable arrived from China and is very flexible. Silicone insulated and does not seem sufficiently resilient but I am sure that as it will not receive excessive use and abuse, will be more than adequate...