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I've just bought a late 80s car with fully functioning cassette player. That said, the audio from the cassette is a little distorted. Hopefully not the belt, I'd firstly like to clean the head. I'd normally wipe over with cotton bud dipped in IPA but looking with a torch through the door, I...

We only have Freeview and not planning an upgrade. The current set-up includes a joined coax cable. We have 2-3m from aerial to inside the roof space. This is then joined, a simple joint of both inner and outer, to the cable running down the wall into a socket below. Reception around Greater...

My house was built in 1987 and still has the original central heating system. It knows! I'm about 2 months into a major extension which will shortly include a new boiler etc. Today, the control panel started making a "clockwork mechanism" sort of noise and I noticed that the timer stopped...

I heard a public info ad recently saying that if the hot water is too hot to bear when washing hands, the thermostat is set too high. This applies to me, despite my ACL HTS2 thermostat being turned fully counterclockwise. I'm assuming a problem with the thermostat, installed 1987. Is this a...

I have a Serpi Star cat 1 alarm system which was fitted almost 25 years ago. The car spends most of its life in a garage and hibernates over winter. Unsurprisingly, the siren battery backup is dead. The rest of the alarm works just fine. I've tried to split the alarm with the intention to...

This morning, the shower pump would not start when turning the flow valve, left side in the picture. Turning the temp control, right side in the picture, it started but only hot water. Turning the temp down, the shower pump stopped again. After a bit of rotary agitation, full cold, full hot...

House was built in 1987 and still has the originally installed conventional boiler and central heating system. A good few years ago I replaced the electrical half of the Honeywell 3-position valve. I now have the same symptoms and think it appropriate to replace the complete valve. Cold water...

I have a conventional hot water and central heating system, installed in 1987 when the house was built. The radiators appear hotter than the thermostat would suggest. There is no response to turning the thermostat down. The thermostat, mounted in the hall, clicks on and off when rotated, as...

We have a Bosch built-in oven, HBN531.0B, located below a Bosch 4-ring gas hob, installed around 8 years ago. A few months ago, steam/condensation/water from cooking seemed to cause the consumer unit to trip. With it turned back on, as soon as I tried to set the clock on the oven, it tripped...

This is a Quick, Italian, boiler installed within a boat. The thermostatic valve has failed (stuck fully open). I've bought a like-for-like replacement but I'd appreciate some advice before tackling the job. To remove the valve without a risk of breaking the fitting out of the boiler, I assume...

A bit of background. About a year ago, I had a problem with both TV and video recorder screen pixelation after some changes at Winter Hill, north Manchester. It was solved by the nice people at Freeview by replacing my aerial. TV is LG, video is Samsung, both more than 10 years old. Now, TV...

We live in south Manchester and the Winter Hill transmitter is about 20 miles as the crow flies. The TV aerial was installed in 1987, when the house was built. The aerial points towards some fairly high nearby trees, now showing a lot of new season growth. Recently, especially in windy...

These are the hot and cold water connections to an Italian made monbloc tap fitted to a French made boat. The tap has failed (small thread to hold the spout in place has cracked open) so I need to replace it. Does anyone recognise these fittings and know how to release them? Many thanks in...

The conventional central heating system was installed in 1987 when the house was built and has been largely untouched since then (pump and Honeywell valve changed over the years) Over the last couple of days we seem unable to reduce the temperature of the radiators (there are no TRVs fitted)...