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    Self-employed techie specialising in Lab and garage stuff. Biker, camera geek.
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  1. "tread lightly on the earth"
  2. I do a bit with Haier -80 lab freezers and they're very good indeed.
  3. with a duff expansion vessel, even 80c could be enough to blow something.
  4. Oddly enough my experience with safety valves- autoclave sterilisers as well as other pressure vessels and boilers- is that the insurance engineer absolutely *must* see them lifted at every statutory inspection and will often remove and pump test them as well to verify the opening pressure. It's not unusual to find a valve stuck badly enough that more than the chamber's safe test pressure is required to break it free which is more than a small worry. Yes occasionally one will weep after this, but replacement is the cost of doing business... I routinely lift the valve of any unit I'm working on to confirm it's *not* stuck...
  5. Do safety/ multi groups not normally have a gauge on? If none is fitted might it be worth the OP getting a gauge and screwing it onto the PRV?
  6. depends is it 16A real and continuous, or chinese...
  7. Befab, Hamilton Contracts, Fees, as a first try
  8. /board. A few years ago mind...
  9. when we were ordering ours, white EPS was £11.57 for a 50mm, vs £13.70 for graphite
  10. floating or sunk?
  11. graphite EPS takes it to 0.031 or so
  12. whilst/ as all the stats and cutouts look after the safety side of things, I'd personally be thinking more about the possibility of (say) a stuck contactor going unnnoticed and the immersion taking over tank heating duties unknown. I certainly wouldn't presume that an SSR was totally trustworthy... /but then I come from a place where accidentally leaving the Willis on was punishable by death
  13. is the oil/fuel ratio correct? What colour is the sparkplug?
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