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  1. dpmiller
    I'd have wanted it fully supported accross the bottom (esp the ends) before any fixings were added, personally.
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    that's on the inlet is it not? I'm pretty sure that anything loose in the post-reg plumbing could make it's way back into the reg under gravity.
  3. dpmiller
    I'd guess there's nore chance of crap falling down into the regulator portion in certain orientations.
  4. dpmiller
    how many HP/kW/A is the pump motor? And is the heater electric or diesel?
  5. dpmiller
    there's not much room for adjustment between door and frame generally- anything more than a tiny adjustment at the hinge end and the door will either bind in the frame or miss the seals (or latch keepers!), in my experience. If door and frame matched previously, leave the hinges alone and just shim and pack the frame til all is well.
  6. dpmiller
    £150 extra? break their arm for it.
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    Cheapo pair of safety trainers form Shoe Zone for when it's too warm to need Riggers. Current riggers came from B&Q a while back to replace a pair from Lidl that lasted about five years.
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    I got a 14.4v Makita recently for pretty cheap with a broken battery contact in the handle, charger and two reasonable batteries. Not a hard fix for now (loadsa solder), but I should really hunt down a replacement socket. Anybody have a Makita tool with a duff motor going spare?
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    I've a small ST system currently- my own copy of a Solartwin- and while it will heat the top of the tank enough for the odd handwash from perhaps April-Oct yes, there's no way it's going to heat the whole tank in other than high summer. My guess is that if you size the system for enough early and late in the year you're going to be dumping boiling water in the summer. It would be nice to do something with that extra, and to have good efficiency under cloud. I'm going PV in our build.
  10. dpmiller
    so it's not just fridge doors that need an alarm then?
  11. dpmiller
    I'll put a vote in for a submain up the stairs.
  12. dpmiller
    It's an interesting document, and for a couple of reasons. AFAIK UOU Jordanstown has their own energy research centre so it makes me think that the report is more Copper Industries than theirs. Yet CI don't seem to have it on their website and their opposition- McDonalds- do?
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    Dunno if anyone local needs 'em, but I snagged a rather nice wallmount thermostatic bath/shower filler in Lidl Newtownards for a ten pound note and there's a few more left at that price. Score!
  14. dpmiller
    electrofusion?
  15. dpmiller
    No, it would attempt to shuttle at 50Hz and make a horrendeous noise. Contactors, solenoid valves and the like "stick" either because the laminations form a complete coil when closed or there's a "shading ring" acting as a second coil of sorts. Two diodes give you that 25Hz pulse and the diaphragms damp it sufficiently that it isn't clattering off endstops.
  16. dpmiller
    I think it'd still work if damp, but your RCD wouldn't like it. IIRC those pumps have some kind of safety contact that breaks if there's a problem with the diaphragm or springs; best check that out with the DMM too when you're probing the coils.
  17. dpmiller
    what would a TTRO do then?
  18. dpmiller
    Never went ham myself, but did a fair bit of CB in the early eighties. My teenage years had me in the local TV and video repair outfit on Saturdays, and we were also one of the better "legal" outlets for 27MHz stuff. Two of the three Directors of the firm were heavily into the Amateur end tho.
  19. dpmiller
    what about the more "lightweight" towers from the likes of BPS? http://www.laddersandscaffoldtowers.co.uk/acatalog/DIY-Scaffold-Towers.html
  20. dpmiller
    No shed in the existing RMs unfortunately, Dave. PC is busy next couple of weeks but we'll get a site visit organised after that and see what direction he goes in.
  21. dpmiller
    Is there a problem with the picture (stitched?), or do the last three posijoists in the bottom pic have a break in them towards the middle of the image?
  22. dpmiller
    Do you really need all that heat and consumtion tho- would binning them for LEDs not be a better call?
  23. dpmiller
    what are your ground conditions like wrt water table?
  24. dpmiller
    can you extend the air inlet to some kind of upstand? The Solido I'm looking at come with just such a thing.
  25. dpmiller
    rinse with distilled water before drying completely.
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