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The problem with Shore Power is that the Protective Conductor (old name "Earth") will be connected to an Electricity Board copper earthing rod somewhere. When you connect the "Earth" to your steel boat you have effectively made a battery with one plate made of copper and the other plate (your...

Hello everybody! Firstly take the H***** Manual with a ton of salt as much of it is bunkum. I've been messing with the brakes on this S reg Pug 406 that I bought recently and I now know why they sold it! Firstly the front tyres were down to the Tread Wear Indicators and possibly illegal...

With some French cars the bleed nipple is not at the top! This can be a problem! Allegedly they are designed so that when the car is on ramps the bleed nipple is at the top. Years and years ago I had a Lancia Flavia and this had spongy brakes. (It had a Dunlop-Girling system with the discs...

If you know what you are doing it is very easy. Recently I had to unscrew some 85 year old hinges that were on a window opening light. The hinges had rusted and broken and were only hanging on by virtue of interlocking asperities. The wood was some kind of pine and the screws were steel...

The voltage spikes can be easily dealt with by wiring VDRs across the motor. Farnell Electronics have huge stocks. These devices prolong the life of all the electricals in the house. In effect they behave like a safety valve on a steam boiler. Only snag is Farnells minimum order charge...

A friend has a similar problem. Their entire house is on a 30mA trip. A while back they had a trip caused by plugging in a dusty convector heater that had not been used for six months. The slight leakage through it was the last straw that broke the camels back. IMHO (and this agrees with...

Why was there voltage on the blue wire? That's supposed to be neutral isn't it? I know that one can get colour problems with two way circuits but I seem to remember seeing special wire (with a yellow wire in the cable) for jobs like this. How many dimmers have you got? It sounds like one...

Compressor motors have a hard life. Hopefully your machine will have a non-return valve in the air delivery pipe and a solenoid dump valve (wired to the motor starter) that dumps air whilst the motor is getting up to speed. As to testing the capacitors with only a basic digital multimeter...

You can pull and print an Alpha Service manual for free from their website. It has a nice flow chart for diagnosing faults, in fact I diagnosed the exact fault on my sisters boiler from 300 miles away. (the first plumber wasn't up to it). Re CORGI, being Corgi registered doesn't mean that...