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Just recalled I found this in the old stable buried with other junk. No idea whether it works or not. Oh well, that's this afternoon's diversion sorted!

Stephensons in Bromley, Rapid in Eynsford, Filmers in Dartford....God I loved old school electronics shops! Bi-Pak, Greenweld, TK Electronics... Then Maplin came along and killed them all.

I just wondered if the Finder contactor was priced down to the bone then the (10K?, more?) neon resistance across the coil might have seen it not pulling in properly. Open it up and look at the contact faces?

I was about 12 I think and more interested in scavenging old tvs, hi-fis or anything with a plug from dumps and tips than anything at school. As payment for digging a neighbours footings me and a mate got breakfast bought for us in some cafe in Deptford opposite the doss house. He got cash on top, I got the whole E12 range of resistors from Garlands!

Could the resistance of the neon across A1/A2 have affected the coils ability to bring the contactor in properly? Is there a spare set of NO contacts on that ABB relay. I'd use them to feed the neon.

The manual that screen shot came from. Page 42: pdf2040.pdf What interested me was the pc connection option. You and a few others on here would have a field day with the source code!

It's the finish line eludes me! Why finish one project when you can start 10! Tbh the gate and to some extent the bathroom are just CAD drawings made real. I literally made the shuttering to the CAD dimensions, had the gate frame made again to the CAD drawing.

Swiss actually. I know that's splitting Herrs...

Italian lift we've just converted to 230V. Impressed with the components but awful wiring, not a ferrule in sight!

Are these the ones that like a water softener feeding them or they scale up?

It's nothing here that can be temporarily bridged to see if it is the overheat stat?

A Sunamp in the clearance section? http://www.bublshop.co.uk/mobile/sunamp-3kw/p2047

The old 4 band ones were easy, at a glance.

When they're finished: You just knock up some shuttering: Drop in a trench and level up: Some "conduit": Cover it all up with concrete: Add some 20mm rail: A bit of 20mm conduit and some wheelbarrow wheels to move the galvanised frame around 'cos it's bloody heavy! Erect, red special metals primer then Hammerite. Flag brand paint I think I used. Some reject scaffold boards turned into T&G with 6mm ply strips for the tongues: Slave labour: Lay the boards out on the lawn and cut the curve. More slave labour to transport the off cuts: Lots of drilling, stainless bolts: Simples!

They're actually at Harlech House in Dublin.

Me too but it's not mine and the owner's tight!

I'm erring towards it being 1k so brown/black/red... ???

Thanks all! Looks like @dpmiller found the same link. But is it brown/black/ORANGE? Looks almost brown/black/brown... Some confusion between 1k & 10K... http://www.fixya.com/support/t8214626-resister_r8_hitachi_uc18yrl_charger1st answer says:"Hi Mark,R8 Should be a 1000 Ohm 1/4Watt resistorRgds Ray"A bit further down:R8 looks like a 10K 1/4 watt resistor.Then:"The values that i read:R3 = 4.7 ohm, savety 1/4 WR4 = 47 ohm, savety 1/4 WR8 = 1 k ohm, 1/8 W (seen on working PCB) R9 = 0.47 ohm, savety 1/2 Wthese resistors and Fet: 2SK2996 were defective"

So close but no banana! Almost certainly different. Here's the complete board:

Where I am an old boy around the corner in one of the last remaining "shacks" would only drink rainwater. Even that he'd leave in jars to settle and off-gas of any impurities. In his 90s when he went. His huge, rain fed concrete water tank used for washing etc had a huge tree and it's roots growing through it.

Easily get his 60/40 split with a pair of differrent size ones and "instant gates". Zoot has the skills we know and could clad after at his leisure.

Can what I think is called grey water; bath / basin go into a soakaway? @PeterStarck , your reed bed, the purpose of that is to "clean" the water up bit more after coming out of the treatment plant? I've the space and like the idea of that. Didn't one of the companies designing them shut up shop after a guy cutting his nearly died from some nasty infection? Do I need to notify etc if installing a treatment plant? Part G maybe?

Just to show how sliding gates can look like a pair of traditional gates: https://www.traditionalgatecompany.co.uk/index.php/wooden-gates/wooden-gates/wooden-sliding-gates Why not go "full Welsh" with some nice, understated dragon themed gates? ?

My Mum used to enthuse about the rhubarb grown by an old Dutch fella up the road. One day he told her the secret to it. Every evening he'd wander up the garden and "mark his territory" so to speak! ? It's apparently a way of adding certain trace minerals or something too when doing a home biogas reactor on top of 50/50 "brown to green".

1953 this cess pit was apparently built I've just found out. Around then then time of the original iron water main I replaced a couple of years ago.