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Hi Chris, I've been away from Anglersnet for quite sometime now due to illnesses, so I've just seen your wanted article. I have a video camera for sale which I dont use anymore and its in excellent condition................................... Its a CANON G20 HI 8MM CAMCORDER Hi 8 video tape, 3 new 90 minute hi 8 tapes, 1 original battery and 1 brand new battery, a mains charger cable, seperate battery charger, TV connector cables, remote controle, everything for the camera including case and full instruction book, let me know if your interested... hoppy....(john hopkins)

If its not a combi type boiler, it must be an indirect heating system (cold water head tank, copper cylinder, and seperate gas boiler) your head tank in the loft or in the cupboard that fills the system where the domestic hot water cylinder is, which fills the system up, the head tank could be empty, meaning the ballvalve has stuck and not filling the sytem up. hope you get it fixed tonight...hoppy

Ferg, you did right isolating the radiator, but there seems to be a lack of water pressure in your combi boiler system, thats why the circulating pump sounds if it is running full belt and also the pressure drop will also stop the water inlet valve from opening to ignite the gas for your hot water. Open the door on the boiler, there should be a little dial with a red pointer and a black pointer, if the pressure has dropped the red pointer will be at zero or there abouts, so the system will need pressurising back up to 1.5 bar, underneath and next to the boiler should a little black plasic handle tap connected to the boiler by a stainless steel flexi pipe, open this a quarter of a turn and watch the dial creep up to 1.5 bar, then turn that little tap off, that should have re pressurised the system, but you may have to go round all the raditors and bleed them to release any air thats trapped, and that will drop the pressure again, so you will have to go over the above I mentioned, again. If you dont fancy doing what Ive suggested or not fully understand what to do, get the plumber in and dont try to repair the radiator, get a new one fitted. Im a retired plumber/heating engineer, so I know what the problem is which is basically what Ive mentioned above, any other problems as regards gas valves etc on the system would be too difficult to explain over the forum or phone, and besides, when gas is involved you need a qualified corgi registered plumber/heating engineer to correct or repair any problems with your combi boiler. Hope you get it sorted ok...John (hoppy)

Had my first attack when 39 yers old, (now 68) had stents and quad bypasses over the years now diabetic type 2, tumor in my bladder, but Im still here fighting on and still go out fishing. So get to your doctor and get things checked, especially blood pressure and cholosterol. Tight lines keep well....hoppy

Im stood back away from the window about 5ft into the room, if I stood up to the window my subject would fly off, I always have my camera set at auto, with no flash in case I get reflection. The selections are...Auto...P...S...A...M...icon for vid cam...icon moon/star...icon sportsman...icon mountains...icon human head, those are on the selection dial on the top of the camera. finepix E510...hoppy

I have a large window looking out onto the garden at the rear of my bungalow, with a few shrubs and small trees and leylandi hedge, so I have frequent visitors to the garden, now I dont want to frighten the wildlife away by rushing into the garden and trying to take photos of them, and I dont have equipment to set up my camera on a tripod and take remote photos, Ive tried to take the photo's through the window glass, especially when a kestrel has come into the garden with its prey, but the photos always come out blurred, no matter what I set my camera to on the dial I cant seem to get a decent photo, and Im only about 30-40 ft away from the subject, is there a special set-up for taking pictures thro a window glass so they dont come out blurred? My cameras a Fuji Finepix E510... cheers...hoppy

More upgrades here http://www.nero.com/nero6/eng/nero-up.php

Getting back to Newts start of the thread, how about the days of our National service in the army. When a “Squaddie” was put on a charge, either one of these orders had to be carried out... “Whitewash those Coals” “Cut the Grass with Scissors” “Sweep the Parade Ground with a Toothbrush” I'm sure there's many more out there that could be remembered. One instance I recall...... The squad Sergeant inspecting the early morning parade, noticed one squaddie with a “Staybrite” cap badge in his beret, Sarge ordered him to remove it and said, If the army wanted you to wear staybrite badges, they would have issued you with them, then a retort from somewhere in the rear rank, shouted,...If the army wanted us to have “Bulled” boots, they should have supplied us with them. how true

Thats the one Nick

Hi lid, there should be no need to strip your computer to check whats installed. All the installed component instruction should be in the box/packaging when you get it. Motherboard make and instructions, same with graphics card, hard disk, sound card etc. When you first "fire" you computer up, everything will instal. Then you can check whats installed in your system by...clicking on...START....then CONTROL PANEL... then double click on SYSTEM...then click on HARDWARE button...then DEVICE MANAGER... There you will see a list of devices installed on your system, open each one by clicking on the + in the little box, that will show you what is installed...DONT Alter anything AND DONT Delete anything. Just make a note of whats installed and check with what you asked for. There is some software that can check this out for you, just load it up and it does a full sytem check, then just print it out...but Ive forgotten what its called, somebody will come on here and tell you what its called..hoppy somebodys just posted a link to the last part of my answer

I dont know of any shortcuts, but there's options in>>>>>Start>>Control panel>>Power options I dont use it so I dont know...hoppy

Ideal for washing your feet in them Judith ...mind you, those taps look a bit dangerous too hoppy

Sorry Ste for the late reply, been away a few days. I didnt make any hardware changes or added any, software maybe for the hardware I've already got, I'm always adding updates to my computer from bonafide websites, but Ive been doing that for years, so it puzzles me, why I should get the message up on my screen, unless its a new alert thingy from bill gates?

OK Fellas, got it sorted now ok, there were more options in the popup windows, and went through the web to reactivate without special phone numbers, and a pop up answered and confirmed that my windows xp home had been reactivated. Now....I dont know why this happened, the only clue I got was in one of the messages that said, .....Due to changes in your systems hardware etc etc, you need to reactivate Windows? Anybody else had this message? puzzling....cheers....hoppy

Hi all, I wonder if anyone could help, I keep getting a window product activation message everytime I start up windows XP Home, asking/telling me to reactivate windows, it started 4 days ago, saying, 3 days left, 2 days, 1 day. I registered when I first bought the machine new nearly 2 years ago, so why is it asking me to do it again after nearly 2 years,? its puzzling me. will my puter stop operating if I dont do anything. The other thing thats puzzling is, when I have filled my details in, it goes on to tell me to insert certain tel Nos which are of the european and american type, with prefix codes in the end I just abort and click on remind me later Heres some pics I took of the prob, hope you can see them...best I could do with my camera. Cheers Hoppy

My Avatar, is the one that did'nt get away here in Hartlepool And....We still have plenty of rope left, so beware ...hoppy

Right fellas, I thought you might be interested in this piece of info. Did you know that recent Government legislation changing the Freedom of Information Acts gives you access to speed camera offences registered within the last twelve months and placed on a freely accessible website? Did you know that every time your car goes even over a mile or so over the speed limit, it is registered and placed on the database? They only send a ticket if you are way over, OR (and here is the catch!) if you receive over 20 "near misses") You can now check how many you have against your car's registered number. Check this webpage out http://www.e-database.co.uk It will ask you for a password - but just click on the 'need a login' link and you'll be given one in a pop-up window. In the top right hand corner there is a "click-on" window and it even shows the picture taken by the speed camera. Hope it checks out for yoos lot, mine was ok except for a couple of times by about 3 mph...PHEW...Sweat Over...hoppy [ 20. October 2005, 12:06 AM: Message edited by: hoppy ]

Light the blue touch paper and stand well back...its Goosed

Residents had reported a hissing noise in the toilet and thought it was a leak and the janitor said I'll see to it AS a P [ 19. October 2005, 03:45 PM: Message edited by: hoppy ]

Good Idea Dan and a sensible one, to re-route around the skirting to you utility cupboard, could have done with a chap like you working with me years ago, (if you had been old enough then ) Im not sure, but I think there's some white plastic trunking with 15mm (1/2") clips that attach inside, to take 2 15mm pipes, then you snap a capping piece on the top, we use to use it a few years ago when surface mounting pipes down interior walls and around skirting, when some houses had concrete floors. Well you seem to be getting there Dan Anyway THE CAT LOOKS SATISFIED ... cheers...hoppy :cool:

Hows the repairs going Dan?

Thats a good plumbing site for viewing AJ and Elton, take a look at this page from AJs link, this bottom entry ballvalve might be the one you want http://www.plumbworld.co.uk/1666-98

If the thread is "goosed" (knackered) Elton, its def a new bottom inlet ballvave or, pedestal ballvave some will call it. Best to take the old one out and take it to a plumbers Merchant or BQ to get a comparison one so it will fit. You will have to loosen off the main inlet pipe nut to the ballvalve thread, then where you see the large plastic nut Ive drawn on the cistern Elton, well that holds the ballvalve inside, then that will have to be unscrewed, dont forget to empty the cistern of water first,(there's always about an inch of water left in the bottom when flushed),then lift the old one out. Make sure the inside of the cistern is perfectly dry, then put the new one in with the rubber washers supplied with it so as to seal it, then reconnect the water supply with new washer as previously explained...cheers...hoppy [ 18. October 2005, 02:05 PM: Message edited by: hoppy ]

If its a plastic thread on the inlet to inside of the cistern and the nut is brass on the water inlet pipe, You could have stripped the thread Elton, you have to be carefull tightening to plastic threads. Turn the water off and loosen the nut off again and check the threads, you may get away with it if you realign the threads and put a new 1/2" fibre washer on as per my sketch, thats if its a low level toilet cistern and not a bidet your on about. hoppy [ 18. October 2005, 12:33 PM: Message edited by: hoppy ]

I see you've done a good job there Dan, glad your getting sorted. In the first place, the builders should have laid 4x2 timbers on the concrete base pror to screeding, then when the screed had set, lifted the timbers to leave a 4x2 duct throughout the ground floor so that pipes could been laid in them then covered with "Vermiculite" and then a duct cover of ply on top would have finished the job off, and left easy access and the pipes wouldnt have corroded either or burst through freezing. Its a total mess, the way those pipes have originally been laid in concrete like that, and I cant understand why a gas pipe was laid in concrete, its not allowed, there's no access in emergencies. Still, a fine job you've done there Dan..cheers. To hell with the biccies, have a penguin [ 17. October 2005, 06:38 PM: Message edited by: hoppy ]