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Going to sound like I'm super tight but rather than replace a pair of worn rising butts, can you simply add a couple of washers over the hinge shafts?

Nearly done but for no white heatshrink! 😤 & redoing that 4,5,6 label...

Won't the electrolytes migrate to one end? 😉

You can also run earth tape in a trench. Think it's the French that like big, flat, buried copper plates. Here that equates to the old hot water cylinder having been run over a few times with the digger... My favourite, favourite, redneck earth electrode was the scaffold pole and mole grips for the earth clamp...

That chap the cameraman was following looked well insulated. "Jernay svollich" I think it is though I'm not going to Google the correct spelling.

I'd get my holes dug with a layer of tamped down rubble in the base - fairly level. Drop a flat 'ish piece of rubble in last. I'd then "hang" the 6"x6"s with the brackets bolted on, into the holes - the bracket sits on the flat 'ish piece of rubble. Then lift and pack under the legs. Knock 'em square with aid of the aformentioned post level (tweak one to the other by eye) and get the concrete in.

Forgot to add...the final duct into the gate pillar is only 32mm. I screwed up there. Should have made it "big" all the way. It was a fight to get the SWA and couple of smaller cables through the last metre. Hindsight! 😂

Worth having a look on Gumtree, eBay, Freeads etc for a short length of ducting. Or approaching another, local self builder: https://www.gumtree.com/search?featured_filter=false&urgent_filter=false&sort=date&search_scope=false&photos_filter=false&search_category=all&q=ducting&tq=&search_location= I scored a length (20m?) of black DNO ducting for a tenner. Goes from my garage to gate pillar in a 700mm deep trench. In that I've an SWA, then a couple of 20mm flexible ducts for wired video doorbell, separate CCTV etc. Though a bitch to dig the trench by hand and a fight to get the duct through an existing, reinforced concrete slab, it's done, in and has some future proofing.

Just the Monkey Pocs to sort...

The Bear & Twink, where we first met.

The pub is high up on the North Downs...205m above sea level in fact...

It certainly is. Just back from my local after 3 pints of Thistly Cross and a bag of steak ridge cut McCoys. Just me, the pub cat and a paperback in the sun trap garden.

Could you use some of the panel output to power a fan, blowing air under the panels. Would that cut it down to say 10% loss overall?

You can get a post level: https://www.screwfix.com/p/post-level-5-125mm-/6872V?

As I've said before the Yanks have been using pex to make bfo collectors for years. https://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/PoolHeating/TomCollector/TomPEXCollector.htm

Just seen that Anycubic have the i3 Mega S on a back to school sale. @PeterW put me onto Anycubic when I wanted a printer for my lad's 21st. To say he's had fun with it and learnt, whilst at the same time producing practical prints is an understatement. With hindsight I might have gone for an Ender but at this price you can't go wrong. https://www.anycubic.com/collections/anycubic-mega-3d-printers/products/anycubic-i3-mega-s

Time will tell! PETG stands up better to heat than PLA so far. Some stuff we've plastic primed and spray painted.

Just two wires here to each photocell. I've had them connected to the board on the bench and checked their function: As it stands I've just got photocells 3 & 4 fitted. The aforementioned red/black is if I fit a pair of photocells as "8" on the diagram. I'll likely get some wireless contact strips instead:

Plagiarist! 😂

Ginger beer with rhubarb here.

Or cared! 😂

The corner shop and back?

Illuminate with daylight lamps? 😂