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It's a captive nut - the weld will just be to keep it in place, it does not contribute to the integrity of the assembly. You could use epoxy glue if you wanted! But as I said previously, just use a nut and bolt as the factory only use captive nuts to hasten and simplify assembly on the line...

Well you've given me a bit more confidence now, yes it was a big one that basically heated a building divided into three separate homes. Ta.

Yes, I thought I was maybe over-reacting a bit. This boiler was some sort of Swedish jobby I think and was a fair monster. What amazed me was the combustion chamber and the electric ignition system for the fuel pellets The guy showed me the minute quantity of ash that landed into a small hopper...

Needs plugging into VAGCOM to read the codes. There will surely be cloned vagcom cd's off the ebay which you can stick on your laptop....

I looked at a property with a biomass system installed a few weeks ago. TBO it frightened me stupid. The boiler alone was about 17K and had a heat store about the size of a kiddies swimming pool. A huge wooden hopper the size of a room for the pellets, an auger and a boiler control that...

To be honest an oil tank is very easy to hide with a few shrubs/trellis/WHY. A gas tank is a royal PITA to hide as the company have a hissy fit if combustible materials get placed near the tank, and that includes plants. I think your idea of so many years worth of savings is highly...

You just need a suitable nut and bolt and a thick washer under the strut tower top - you'll be able to hold it with an open ender while tightening from above.

That's not right, you have to account for that lost 6kw somehow. What I think you mean is that it's working at a COP of 1.5 So a 12Kw heat pump would be producing 18kw of heat?

What about one of those truck reversing siren/alarms? Available in 12 or 24 volt. They make a lot of noise but not enough to perforate your eardrum like that sound bomb thing :-)

Go for oil. I've had both. LPG suppliers tie you into two year contracts and there's no get out. Also remember that LPG and oil are priced by the Litre. Energy content of the fuel is closely related to weight. So LPG at about 0.6SG and oil at 0.8 Factor that into a cost comparison and...

4-10's are pretty good as they don't take chunks out of the buildings like a 12 gauge :-) I agree with the poison thing, it's a pretty horrible way to kill the bsuggers and I think there's some debate about owls and the like taking the almost dead rats and thus getting the poison in...

So long as you realise that your opinion is out of step with facts, statistics and professional opinion. We know the internet tends towards 50% twaddle on occasions, but do a little research on google and the overwhelming body of opinion points to the physical differences being the...

Not really. There's (for instance) plenty of black Americans that lead the same lives as white Americans and enjoy the same chances in life and thus scoop up plenty of medals and achieve records in the sporting world. But hardly ever have they achieved success on the world stage in the swimming...

And that was noted. So I ask again, was it one wheel or both that gave poor brake efficiency. And was that noted with the handbrake or the foot brake or both? You can't really determine the cause without some better information. For instance if the handbrake is good, but both rear...

I thought that was the reason they did better on the track than whites?

More or less. Blacks have denser bones on average, that's the reason blacks cannot set any swimming records.

A work colleague of mine has a wife who is one of those emergency doctors that does Cesarean sections at hospitals. She has the record of getting a baby out in about 25 seconds (or something like that) He tells me tales of how she has big meat-hook/anchor like devices at her disposal to hook and...

It sounds like they need adjustment or repair :D How can you say without stripping them down and taking a look? Handbrake or service (foot) brake? One wheel or both?

I've a few machine tools like lathes that are prone to sweat in mild weather following a cooler period. Best thing to do is to keep all the exposed steel surfaces coated in oil. I normally use some old sae 220 oil and thin it down with some kero so that you can spray it from a hand sprayer. Do...

Probably a good idea as I've read about the DVLA refusing to accept a simple photocopy of the license of evidence of previous entitlements. Still, if any one remembers, the DVLA staff are normally busy emailing each other pornographic images :lol: