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Re: TOT about driving conditions the week

2010-01-07T22:45:35Z

It wasn't all that bad today. All 3 lanes were open and speedworthy.
Dave

Re: Boiler Scrappage scheme

2010-01-07T22:43:22Z

Les Desser <NewsDu...@dessergroup.com>
wibbled on Thursday 07 January 2010 21:30
Yes. Only happened a short while back.

Re: TOT about driving conditions the week

2010-01-07T22:43:06Z

Well, what can I say, but good for Ford :-)
For the first time ever, I got snow bound in the car park provided for
our daughters house. It took a fair bit of rocking and pushing to get it
out. Snow down there came quite thick, but I suspect that it thawed
somewhat and re-froze again. Until this point, I hadn't walked on the

Re: Air supply to open fire - and chimney lining

2010-01-07T22:40:58Z

certainly the victorians and even the tudors had one pot per fireplace.
Big mansions have billions of pots.

Re: lathes and table legs

2010-01-07T22:40:12Z

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:51:58 -0800 (PST), Andy Dingley
You many not had misworded it, it may be that I misunderstood!
Thanks for he explanation. I had naively assumed people bought squares
of rough sawn wood. I hadn't thought about cutting out the middle man
and chopping a tree down and using the branch direct, rather than go

Re: Laser

2010-01-07T22:39:17Z

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Steve Walker" <spam-t...@beeb.net>
saying something like:
Could get his fingers burned.

Re: Air supply to open fire - and chimney lining

2010-01-07T22:39:07Z

JimK wrote:
My two open fires are cracking out about 5Kw apiece right now.
CH has switched off in a sulk.

Re: chrome plated copper pipe: bendable?

2010-01-07T22:37:10Z

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 18:37:09 +0000 (UTC), and...@cucumber.demon.co.uk
IIRC I bought two, so unless someone put two clothes rails... hold on,
I suppose a Focus employee could have filled up the wrong space with
the wrong item. There's a thought!

Re: TV Aerial Rig

2010-01-07T22:31:52Z

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Burns
<usenet.aug2...@adslpipe.co.uk > saying something like:
That's the sound of depreciation.

Re: TOT about driving conditions the week

2010-01-07T22:29:11Z

You had me confused when you mentioned Portsea Island, I wasn't aware
that Portsmouth was separate from the mainland, but I have just got off
the phone to her and she agrees it is.
What a mess the roads are there. Both Portsmouth and Southsea are a mess
with snow and ice, Southsea particularly bad. I had to drive down the

Re: Banging boiler

2010-01-07T22:13:03Z

Until you can do this (when the weather improves) try adding a small
amount of washing up liquid to the system. It worked for me many years ago
Malcolm

Re: first router recommendations?

2010-01-07T22:16:11Z

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:57:15 -0800 (PST), Andy Dingley
Thanks for this list. I'll look them all up. I haven't done anything
yet because it's been too cold to go to the shops!
Which is what confused me: 1/2" is supposed to be m,ore useful but
everyone recommends the 1/4" for its lightness and maneuverability.

Re: Gluing problem - 'Dad, can you repair this please' !

2010-01-07T22:16:19Z

Many, many years ago I used Araldite in this sort of role - worked OK as
an adhesive. But it left a horrible smell in the refrigerator for a very
long time afterwards. Maybe if I had taken more care over mixing, or
curing, or something, it would have been OK? But I would choose
something else.

Re: Gluing problem - 'Dad, can you repair this please' !

2010-01-07T22:15:45Z

May struggle at those temps; once I just had a stubb left, so I
drilled
out and created hole (where stubb was) to match a wallplug diameter.
Then I found a suitbale plastic wall plug and cut to size so was held
in place
mechanically not glue.

Re: Frozen Fizz

2010-01-07T22:13:51Z

I'd go on this one too.
The freezing point of carbonic acid is -78C so the CO2 dissolved in the fizz
is a dilute carbonic acid. as it is still liquid when the pressure is
released the CO2 escapes leaving a more dilute solution which is then below
its freezing point. As it then is a supercooled liquid it freezes.