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Hi there I want to paint a metal roof with some thing that will reflect the sun best in summer Something like the surface of tin foil Any ideas please?

Hello there I had another thread going https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/back-boiler-for-stoves-and-open-fire-wanted.478849/page-2#post-3861527 I have not been able to find a back boiler and have given up on the idea But now I am considering the idea of buying a log burner soly designed for...

If you Google the term "back boiler" then it dose not exists, but everyone knows what one is The plumbers merchants say they are obsolete and old fashioned (even though log burners are back in fashion now!) and if you want one then you need to contact your fire stove supplier (or fob you off...

Hi there Is it possible for me to have a boiler/ heat exchange that would heat the water and send it to a storage tank higher up then the heat exchange its self? I mean I want the water to circulate from the heat exchange to the water tank and back round again on a constant loop with out a water...

Now this dose not look a very efficient idea to me to many gapes in between the tubing to allow heat to escape And the coil only raps round once and not many times inside and out of its self; meaning the fire is wider then the coil and heat inside and outside the coil will be lost. The video...

If I ran two load (LED light sets) in series and not parallel, would I half the voltage going to both loads?

OK so the project is beer brewing, and I need to keep the brewing temperature high enough for the yeast to work best The experts tell me the correct temperature is between 20-22C The plan is to find a broken fridge out of the scrap yard and use it as an insulation box to hold my 5 gallon brew...

Hello there I have acquired a rather old and used small log burning stove that I have just just finished fitting to my van As apposed to popping a kettle ontop of it I am considering making it a duel use log burning boiler I know the log burning stove in one of the pubs I drink in is used for...

Hi there I have a Sony 12 volt car radio which I have wired the red and yellow feed out of the radio to positive on my cigarettes light plug and black to earth. When I plug it into the radio and it comes on, it then gives me a message of high power received After using it a short while some of...

Hello there I have a Sony car radio that I wish to wire into some thing I don't have the correct wiring plugs On the power side there are 7 different wires red, yel, blk, orn/wht, blu 2 other wires that are not wired into the plug are blu/wht with "amp rem max 0.3A" written on it and the other...

I am looking at some hard standing pieces of ground for rent and for sale that have no mains electric And for me to rent or buy the pieces of land I am going to need electric. I have done some research online and found that for installing mains electric off the grid will be any where from £500-...

Hi there I have acquired a webasto night heater and I need to know how to wire it up The heater has 2 stickers on it ----------------------------------------------- One of them with a big number on top "1K0 065R" when I put this in the search engine it brings me up the correct heater off...

Hi there I recently purchased this item off ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152003289577?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT I wish to wire it up to the jack plug out of a stereo player like my laptop As you can see from the link there are 3 wires; red, black, yellow. (not the...

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Cutter wood with stihl saw Petrol disk cutter; can it be done Have some logs I want to process into firewood and cant get my hands on a chain saw but can on a still saw question is will it cut with a diamond or carbon disk and if so will it catch on fire Or can you get a proper disk for it...

Hi I have a boiler that runs on natural gas supplied from the national grid Its for central heating and hot water Its a Worchester 21i Junior The cooper gas inlet pipe looks like 15mm and the bore of the hose on my gas bottles are 5/16" My question is would my methane boiler work on propane...

Hi Im trying to find out what kind of gas comes trough our homes on the national grid propane butane or natural gas est. Many thanks AHC

I have a water softener please see the photos There are four wire to it; live in, earth and two that go too your water pipe that generate a magnetic field between the two of them There was no light showing on it so I did a continuity test on the live and earth with it switched off and it’s...

Hi Can anyone tell me the difference between a ‘cross member bush’ and a ‘trailing arm bush’ for a Vauxhall vectra Had a look on eBay and they bough look the same but got a printed quote a while ago can’t remember much about it them but they are two separate items One says trailing arm...

In the pix you can see a throttle box There is some kind of switch attached to it that is broken could be an oil pressure bypass switch, over ride switch or a momentary switch, not exactly sure what its purpose is But I do know it has something to do with the oil senor which is located on top...