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  1. http://www.knickerbox.co.uk Have a click about ------ hmmm hope to see more of this type of thing. Well - I've just spent a nice morning in, must go and buy another box of tissues!
  2. Often these MCB's trip when new 'green' lighting fails, it's to do with the fact they often short as they blow rather than go open circuit. If the fittings and wiring are ok it may be the circuit is overloaded. There are 'powered' MCB's about - these have little servo motor's in 'em and allow you to operate the larger MCB with a small low volt and safe switch mounted at low level. A Pro sparky will be able to do them, also the help the aged type charity's etc have info on these and simlar. If they are able many use a stick? - that's what I do, ladders - blimy, you not heard of working at heights regs;)
  3. Ken - you really ought to have a 16A RCBO on that circuit as its outside and underground. It's for your own (and your workers) good - Yes even if you do have an RCCD device on the incomer. Type B should be fine for normal loads - if you had some big couple of KW pumps or a compressor then a C might be needed. (As it's 'industrial' I'd have gone for a C - just gives motors a bit more time to spin up). 6mm sq SWA cable can give you 60 odd amps where fitted properly - so no probs with that plumbing. And cos I'm a pro I have to point out any changes you make to outside leccy stuff comes under that infernal 'part P' of the building regs. But - methinks adding an RCBO where you had an MCB shouldn't be a problem - as long as you test it regular like. Glad you found the cause of the arcing:- I've been popping 32A trips at work all day - makes a bit of a fizz and have taken out 4 rectifiers doobris at £150 a pop, opps. (And that was being caused by an intermittent earth fault too).
  4. I make no excuse for digging up this old post of mine other than the fact I'm extremely lazy... Wishing you all the greetings of the season without prejudice to race colour or creed, sexual preference or perversion, hair colour or length , job of work*, favourite fish, tie or tieless, type of automobile driven* , PC or Apple* , young or old or somewhere in between, housed or homeless, married single or ‘civil partnershiped’, beer wine or sprits* , tall or vertically challenged, shamed or shameless, virgin or slut, speed of internet connection, playstation or Xbox, strictly come dancing or X factor , working or on the skive, landlord or tenant, normal size or painfully thin, ugly or not too bad after a few drinks, northern or southern or midern, shaved or razor shy*, rich or poor, alien or man, creature or plant, stilton or cheddar*, rock or pop. Yup I wish you all a very merry yuletide…. * excepting beardy ginger estate agents with powerbooks & wine swilling blonde wives who eat brie & drive Audi's – your all tossers
  5. Many thanks for your messages. On a 'fishy' note - the bridge that the engine is crossing on the 1st pic (and parked beside) is over 'The Bourne rivulet' of Test / Bourne fame - the one fished by 'Plunket Green' in his book 'where bright the waters meet'.
  6. Not been about on here to much lately - huge amount of work on and major upheaval in my home life - now divorced me. But to cap a fairly rotten year off my dad died from prostate cancer a few weeks back (he had been ill a long time). And although this was a very sad time for my mother, brothers and myself we managed to give dad the send off he deserved. The cortage was led by his Foden 'Timber tractor' Samantha - pulling a trailer carrying his coffin, my brothers - grandsons and myself walking behind followed by three other Foden wagons. We had a nice walk of 1 mile and a half and all the drivers we delayed were very understanding, many 'tradesmen standing beside their vans as we passed - the Police were also helpful and discreet, letting my brothers and myself control the traffic in problem areas and keeping the 'flou' jackets to a minimum. When we reached the centre of the village the front of the cortage waited outside the pub while the rear engines turned around at the church so we could pass and stop outside. This also allowed the many hundreds of my dads friends to view the cortage before entering the church. My three brothers and I carried my dad's coffin into the church - seemed like their was nothing on my shoulder? And my main worry during the 'bearing' was if the huge lump of steam coal on the coffin was going to end up on my head! My hand was sore at the end of the day from meeting so many of my dads friends and acquaintances, many of whom recalled tall tales of my fathers exploits (most nearly true). And although for our family is was a sad occasion it was made more bearable by the support of so many whom came to show respect for him. We even had a fairground organ outside the wake playing my dads favorite tunes - and requests, all in all a bit of a lighter side to the occasion. I know a few of you are interested in things steamy - a lucky few have had rides on our engines, we expect his full obituary to be in the February issues of 'Old Glory' and 'Vintage Spirit' as well as next weeks 'Worlds fair'. After the last few weeks I've not really been able to get into the Xmas spirit - but it felt like the season started for me last Friday, a Merry Xmas to you all. Mark (Tog).
  7. Youtube Video -> Does it for me..............
  8. Yep, Mr Crabtree was buried in a wicker coffin a bit like one of these: http://www.wickerwillowcoffins.co.uk/ 'Green burials' are becoming more and more popular and Bernard was one of my 1st customers. Anyone interested in 'alternatives' to cremation and traditional graveyards can google for 'Green burial' or contact the 'Natural death center' http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk/ These people are full of info on alternatives to traditional burial / cremation. http://breachfarmwoodlandburialground.co.uk/ Is the site I have an interest in, anyone who wants info just drop me a PM here - or via the website A total an unmitigated plug I know! - But many on here know of my other existence.
  9. My girlfriends son is often aggressive if he's managed to sneak grand theft auto onto the PS2, but he does suffer from a few disorders - like 2 dads who don't give a damm - and I have to say it a mum who's not good with disciplining him. Any 12+ PS2 games are contraband when he's with us - and he's under no illuions, next time I find him on it I snap it in two. But - he is a 'monkey see monkey do' sort of kid, many kids do see that it's make believe and act accordingly. If I had to ban kids from anything it would be blackcurrant and fizzy drinks with crud in em, makes GF's cherubs into demons and my own kids used to be demented after 'em. Not yet 'proven' without doubt but the name and address of the aledged attacker in Kent is known right over here, seems this low life may out / be on probation for a violent robbery he committed in New Milton a few years back! I'm of the opinion that any looney or low life that gets out before 'time' should have to live with the twerp who says they are rehabilitated.
  10. And another 'OO' paw here. If you really want MSoffice 2000 and whatever it is - the student editions are often about £70.
  11. Should that no be 'what's the use of the BBC weather forcast Vags?? Had me a lovely late morning / afternoon here at Southbourne - exactly as forcast by Metcheck on Friday, and as forecast today is a washout - hence the beach trip yesterday.
  12. After many evenings of heated debate at the Philly, the Liverpool outer space agency finally filled in the forms for Lottery funding and obtained a grant of over 1 billion pounds sterling from the good causes fund. Half a billion was to be handed over to enable production to begin on Scousebird 1 – the 1st Lottery funded spacecraft ever to be built. The other half was to be handed over on proof of a moon landing by the elite team led by Capt Yosser of the LOSA agency along with the crack Moon lander team of Barry and Terry from ‘somewhere down near the docks like’. Yesterday they successfully produced the photographic evidence required to claim the 2nd payment:- A truly amazing achievement guys, it makes Britain proud…….
  13. Best wishes to Sue and yourself Tony, I wish Sue a speedy recovery and many more years of providing tinctures at the bankside. Mark
  14. Scats http://www.scatscountrystores.co.uk/scats/.../homepage.jhtml Do huge syringy things for dosing horses etc. I made the mistake of asking for a syringe in boots once:- 'We do a sharps exchange sir, would you like to come somewhere private?' hmmm - nope I want it for syringing glue under the wallpaper bubbles the wifey left.........
  15. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/02/bo...ooks_to_sewers/ We've had it here for over a year Newt! Nothing new tho - I subscribed to the H20 broadband TV over Xmas and it was just the same old sh1t.........
  16. Criky, all that money just to search the electoral role for how many Patrick Fitzmicheal's live in the same house as Micheal Fitzpatricks!
  17. what's the notebook connect like when sat next to the desktop PC giving hassle Chris? Notebooks have the advantage of having the antenna go right round the screen and often get a better signal than a PCI card hanging out the back of a PC. bigger twiggy aerials (even the 8" cheapo ones) work a lot better than the little sticks that cards come with, I've a pair doing over 300M here (mind you I've line of sight and got em damn high outside!) Your antenna should unplug from your PCI card with a quick CCW twist. If you have a USB Wireless dongle try connecting that to the PC - but up high , eye level or better may improve things. I tend to stick routers upstairs, they seem to give good downstairs coverage with one twig up and one parallel if a twin stick type. Stick to WPA encryption and use a password thats easy to remember for each PC - a number and a word, don't use the 'pseudo random' kak that some routers provide on setup, far too easy to get wrong. Yep Windows wireless setup does seem to work better than the belkin connect stuff, same thing with my sons PC, kept asking for the code so I disabled the belkin software and only use XP to configure it - works fine.
  18. put some decent 'twigs' on it all Chris, standard aerials with most PCI cards and routers are pants.
  19. Best to do all adding up and stuff in a spreadsheet SW - Openoffice has a nice 'excel' clone (calc) and is free! Once you've played with it a bit design your invoices and then save as a template, then when you press 'new' it will offer up a blank invoice for you to stick your info into, I use 'em for my expenses and all sorts of 'addyup' stuff.
  20. My tuppen'ce worth? Early Easter = nice weather Late Easter = snow and ice gloom and doom summat to do with the moon?????
  21. If you have a bit of space and distant neighbours you can 'get away with it' - but you will need to know a totter with a crane truck to come and clear up every 6 months or so. Thank god peeps don't break motors in their front yard any more (well - if I was the neigbour I'd feel that way). Licensing for a real yard costs a bomb now as well as having your blokes do loads of H&S and EA courses. Lots of 'recycling' of the fluids and dismantling and return to maker, rather than good old burn and crush. (hehe - setting 100 odd motors aflame cant be beat when your 15;) You can still take your old motor to the scrapyard yourself - as long as it's yours! If not you are a waste collector - and them needs all the 'tickets'.
  22. What have our laws got to do with anything any more? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...d=1770&ct=5 Mind you - WTF have more than one wife???!!!!!
  23. Girlfriend was most peeved with airport security this week - took her 'sugar drinkie' off her - even though she had her 'letter from doctor' for her sharps etc on the aircraft, apparently being a diabetic is no excuse for taking over 200mls of any liquid onto an aircraft. What a load of tosh, methinks the airside shops are in cahoots with the security bods. BTW- I've been working a lot in 'secure' premises this lately - any restriction on liquids? - ha bloody ha! So - you popping round to see this lady 'for a spoonful of sugar' on a regular basis then Chevin
  24. Looks like the 'Poleaxed' ship that took on the Sheerness to Flushing run in the late 90's for about 6 months, run by a bunch of wazzoks. Quite interesting going down on the big lift to the side - takes a truck & trailer into the bowels. Had me a free dinner too - they could'nt get the CC terminals to work. Given the wicked forecast yesterday and the fact that near all other crossings were canceled would you have put to sea?
  25. Chris, persevere with OO you will get there! The toughest bit is 'de yanking' it - getting the UK English stuff working as default etc as the help pages can be patchy. Also same with paper and page margins etc - set the defaults before you start tryping. As for 'mucking about with the pages' - Well I've given up with MSOffice when doing destructions etc with piccys and use OO to write them before saving as word docs for lesser mortals, the PDF export is excellent. The 'writer' is much more of a 'publisher' type application than a word processor, change the way you structure documents and do them more like newspaper and magazine pages and you will love it. I use 'frames' (text boxes) almost all the time to allow decent wrapping around pictures etc. Lots of good websites with tutorials etc on the web as well. As for speed - looks like you need to do some housekeeping, have a look at your processes and CPU usage to get a handle on where your speed's gone, also turn off as many things in your taskbar as you can.
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