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There are two ways to get black from a colour printer: use a black cartridge or overlay all three colours. There is no red ink. You get red by overlaying yellow and magenta. The third colour is cyan. If you don't have a black cartridge and cyan isn't working all your black stuff will come...

Thanks for that bit of info Eddie. I don't use nail varnish myself! Ethanone is also a new one on me. I just can't get my head around these new chemical names. In my school days we had good old stuff like ethylene, acetylene and the mysterious amylene. I wish I could remember what that last...

Sterose is correct. Last time I looked at any wiring regulations you couldn't have more spurs on a ring than sockets. I've always thought this a bit odd because if you want an extra spur you just put in a socket you don't need and might never use! Your plan is a good example of how general...

A common arrangement with integrated units is to have some extra electronics inside so that you can get Always On or PIR on a single supply. If you switch any of my PIR lights Off then On again within a second the light will go into Always On mode. Switch off for ten seconds and it reverts to...

If those taps have real gold plate on them the answer is "very carefully" because gold is as soft as clarts! Don't use anything abrasive. An advantage of gold - and the only one in my oppinion - is that it's immune to almost any chemical attack. If you're trying to remove lime scale try...

Acetone will clean PVC. Go carefully because it does disolve the plastic. Nail varnish remover is also worth a try.

I've often been in the position of needing to read my e-mails on somebody else's computer. They get onto the internet through their own ISP in the usual way. I then find my ISP's website (which anybody can visit) and go to the e-mail section. At this point I am asked to log in. If you've...

Forget it! The sky dish itself is just a reflector. The aerial is in that LNB gadget stuck out in front. It is completely useless for terrestrial TV.

Neither can I. That's how mine's done. The second flat twin and earth cable carries switched live to the boiler and over-run live back to the pump. The two earths are in parallel.

Breezer has a point. Some day you might want to isolate all the lights on your veranda at once. On the other hand I can see the advantages of a single switch to flip between the two lights. I had an almost identical problem. Solution: 1) Start with an FCU off the ring. I think it's...

You can get multi-core and earth mains cable - we use it a lot around here - but it's not easy to find. Moreover, apart from the earth, the cores are all black with little numbers on them. It's very easy to make mistakes with this stuff. I agree with Lectrician; use two lengths of flat twin...

A pertinent observation there from Stoday. The words "here and in the USA" are a clue. I've occasionally asked myself the question "How to you make a manager?" and I keep coming up with the same answer. You can't make a manager, any more than you can make an artist or an engineer. They...

Interesting bit of info there from Moz. This kind of observation invariably leads to accusations of racism which is most unhelpful if it happens to be true. If nobody dares mention a real problem there will never be a solution. I recall something from a TV series The Road to Riches which...

I recall a problem similar to yours. A builder was replacing our old cast iron soil stack with a plastic one. He dug down to the horizontal run, cut the socket right off a pipe section and used the rubber connector on the remaining straight length.

There's supposed to be a bit of new technology on the way that can end all this camera dodging stuff. It goes something like this: 1) You go past a camera. 2) It grabs a picture of your number plate and notes the time. 3) Many miles later you go past another one. 4) It sees your...

I'm sure I've said this somewhere before -- Since sexual love is the supreme human experience you're going to want to celebrate it (been there, done that). Have a party! Tell the world and his dog! No, the world is not enough. Anybody listening on Andromeda? That's as good an reason...

A little alarm just went off somewhere --- You said "main cooker isolation switch". Would that be a big, fat switch on the end of a big, fat piece cable going back to a big, fat 30/32 amp fuse/breaker in the box? Some are even bigger. Does your new fan assisted oven have a length of 13 amp...

I do like a good debate myself - anything from licensing from laws to sex education (don't get me started) will do - but this thread just made me think. I was a student for nine years in total during which time the students' union held regular debates. The strange thing is that the only one I...

While it seems obvious that we are a pair bonding species the origins of marriage are not so clear, at least not to somebody who didn't spend his student days doing sociology. As with Ninebob, my first question would always be "If we naturally form pairs why do we need a legal contract?" The...

I'm more or less with Plugwash. You can put your new socket on a spur off the old one and either keep both or replace the old one with a terminal block and a blanking plate. As for chiselling your way through concrete, if it's an upper floor make sure you don't break right through - and if...