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General Car Chat / Re: EV's

« on: 22 February 2022, 20:45:42 »

Nope. Not sure I would want a French EV anyway. It sounds like the stuff of nightmares. 

Well, the wiring won't be any worse

No.. More Volts and more Amps won't make it any worse at all..

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General Discussion Area / Re: Power Generation

« on: 19 February 2022, 14:56:21 »

Californians do waste an awful lot of water by trying to make golf courses in the desert, mind.

318

General Discussion Area / Re: Chainsaw chain problem.

« on: 14 February 2022, 21:25:12 »

So the usual is the oiler, it gets blocked up with saw dust.

What then happens is the chain gets hot (made worse if its not sharp), expands and appears loose after some use (tends to recover as it cools).

The oiler should be chucking out quite a bit of oil, this helps cool the chain as well as lube it.

I would start by sharpening the chain well, check the oil passages (particularly in the chain bar), clean it well, adjust it all up, and having another go

Yep, run it in bright sunlight and if you can't see a generous mist of oil coming off the chain it's not oiling enough.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Abu Dhabi F1 wont contain spoilers

« on: 10 February 2022, 20:15:08 »

Surely, if there is a situation where an intervention has to be made in the name of safety, and there's no easy option, then the one that preserves the positions the drivers have raced for is the correct one? For a sport, at any rate. I keep forgetting this is reality TV, though.

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General Car Chat / Re: Albs is talking about getting a £3000 car.....

« on: 09 February 2022, 23:24:53 »

Blimey! If that lot are "soaring" in value, people must be getting desperate.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Highway Code Changes

« on: 08 February 2022, 16:16:23 »

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That is THE difference with hands free telephone conversations in a car as opposed to the 'other person' being in the car.  On the phone the other person does not break, or alter, their conversation to allow for what you the driver  is having to deal with for each second / minute.   ......

that's the same as having my Mum in the car ..... she just talks & talks & talks ..... 

  Well, there is that, the exception to the general rule.

She's no exception, they all do that.

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Omega General Help / Re: Lower headlight bolts

« on: 24 January 2022, 16:07:53 »

Indeed I do. 

A 20mm diameter bolt with an 8mm head would be somewhat unusual 

But not impossible on a German car.

Yeah, just to make sure you round it off when you come to undo it.

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Omega General Help / Re: Oil filter canister

« on: 24 January 2022, 15:52:42 »

Happy to be back to spin-on filters here, and, as it turns out, the filters for the Jag also fit Mrs. KW's MX5 and my Westfield, so a one stop shop.

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General Discussion Area / Re: 75% not 50%

« on: 24 January 2022, 15:49:28 »

Well, I'll be making good use of my log burner. Trees might get a bit sparse round here, mind.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dyson

« on: 24 January 2022, 11:14:33 »

as an example on the cordless bit, the Dyson V11 has 25v battery at 3.6Ah capacity, so that is a maximum of 90Wh of useage.

If it the vac ran for only 10 minutes on a charge than thats a max of 540W but, Dyson quote 20 minutes so 270W of suction (and all motors are in the 90% efficeincy range so no gains of note here). Compare that to say corded which typically has the EU max of 1600W, and its easy to see why the cordless convenience cannot match the corded power 

I fail to understand the fascination with cordless stuff. It will always be limited by the laws of physics.

Same with lawn mowers. Work out how much energy a decent lawn mower needs to cut a lawn and then tell me they can fit that in the battery!

Battery tech works very well in devices where other energy sources are awkward and where intermittent power is needed, even at quite high power levels, but no good when you need continuous high power. My Dad recently bought a Stihl battery chainsaw, and it's a great bit of kit. The 2 stroke probably trumps it for power on a really thick trunk but I know what I prefer climbing a tree with!

Vacuum cleaners, though? Nope. I probably use it once or twice a fortnight (I'm not house proud!). I plug it in once to do the upstairs, and twice for the downstairs. Hardly enough inconvenience to warrant a crap battery model.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dyson

« on: 23 January 2022, 21:25:56 »

Finally got fed up with unblocking the Dyson a couple of years back. Why they designed it with so many 90 degree angles in the dirty air path I'll never know.

Went to the hardware shop in the village who I like to support and he sold me me of these for £100.

https://www.homevac.co.uk/henry-as100g-vacuum-cleaners.php

Way more suction power than the Dyson. It actually lifts the carpets off the floor and sucks air through the pile!

Much lighter to move around the house and being a more commercially oriented design it's got a long mains cable and hose.

Great for cleaning the car too! I love it and would never go back. For the price of a Dyson I could get a new one of these every year.

All the parts and bags are compatible with the Numatic range so easy to get hold of, Not that I've ever needed to buy anything for it. I'm even still getting through the bags that came with it.

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General Car Chat / Re: 5th gear.

« on: 22 January 2022, 11:47:32 »

They are doomed to fail there will never be enough of a reserve to charge the infernal machines

I have a lefty/greenie mate who often enthuses about electric cars and the utopian days ahead when we are all trundling around in little milk floats, but when I point out inconvenient truths like Where is all the electricity going to come from? He gets mad and dismisses me as An effing denier! 

He's good sport! 

Ahh, yes, virtue signallers don't like seeing the inconvenient "big picture".

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General Discussion Area / Re: electric showers

« on: 22 January 2022, 11:45:58 »

If you have a suitable hot water supply  available but can't easily fit a mixer shower the Aqualisa Visage and Quartz ceiling fed showers might be worth a look although I notice they've facelifted them and considerably hiked the prices since I last bought one.

These have a mixer and optionally a pump that can be mounted remotely in a loft or cupboard avoiding the need to chase pipework into the walls and replace tiling, and so on.

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General Discussion Area / Re: electric showers

« on: 21 January 2022, 20:35:13 »

Electric showers just run at a constant heat output (so nothing in reserve - unless it has a low/high heat setting). Temperature is adjusted by changing the flow rate. A higher rated one will therefore just give you a faster flow rate (and electricity consumption) at a given temperature.

Worth checking what your electrical supply can cope with before getting a hugely powerful one, and if a circuit is already present, you'll need to consider its rating.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Oh Boris, oh Boris.Third Strike

« on: 20 January 2022, 22:17:44 »

Apparently Boris has Covid again, so I dont suppose he will be able to answer any more questions for a while. 

Has he ever actually answered a question?

Like how many kids he has? 

Try starting with one he knows the answer to.