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Bob18

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  1. Have a look for a trade automotive paint supplier in your area. As others have said, cheap paint, particualry cheap zinc primer, is a lottery, you may be lucky, but more likely not :-(
  2. Just a couple of thoughts Steve. Would drilling a numbe of small, angled holes (at random directions) into the padauk help by giving a sort of random glue dowel work? Or, what about a sawn (or other roughend surface) on the padauk help. (butonly where you want to glue)
  3. They do exist, but they are a special, so will be vastly more expensive than either an M10, M12, or 7/16" Check with your local nuts and bolts supplier - they will probably have to buy a thousand to supply your handful, and will charge you accordingly....
  4. Failing the availability a "proper" army issue hay box you can always use a quilt or duvet. Simply get the nosh hot, seal it in a suitable container, then wrap it up in a quilt or duvet. After a few few hours, devour the contents, then use the now warm quilt/duvet to snuggle up in...
  5. The answer will depend on the local authority as much as CRT. Some authorities will be more amenable than others, some will threaten action after a matter of weeks, while others will be considerably more tolerant, still others will be quite happy so long as they get some money in the form of council tax...
  6. Simple - drink the beer in celebration of it having survived...
  7. No "toy" engine will give you the power you need to keep your batteries charged :-( You have to move up to the "model engineering" class, and that costs a fair bit more. As has been said you need a controlled output of at least a couple of hundred watts, at the input speed of your generator. Obviously you could use a direct coupled, low speed generator, but they come under the "not cheap" heading in most catalogues. That said rather than going to steam, with all the problems that brings with it I'd look at the small scale Stirling cycle engines that are around, these tend to be a it more efficient as you use the heat (energy) directly rather than converting it into steam first. TEG looks to be one of those things that is just around the corner. Just now it is expensive for the sort of power you need, but one day someone will crack it for small scale installations and it will become more price-attractive, but until then its not so good. The product in the earlier link will only give you an amp or so at 14V, so not much of a charge, even if you run your stove hard all day.
  8. Since you are using a domestic 230V fridge etc. there is no debate - get an AC generator. Generally AC generators are less expensive than DC ones of equivalent power rating, and more readily available.
  9. Find your friendly neighbourhood proper brick supplier. They (nearly) always have a few pallets of broken bricks of various sorts and will let you look through for a few dozen of the sort you want. You can tell engineering bricks because they are much heavier than ordinary bricks. Going price is about 10p each, but you have to be able to transport them away yourself, or pay over the odds for a courier to do it for you.
  10. Why wait until the rest of the house/street/moorings are up, just pretend you are their alarm call and go for it.
  11. A couple of things - first don't rely on a single detector, two, at different locations is far better, As others have said, the one in the bedroom should be just above pillow height, close to the bed, not in the pat of draughts which would probably cause false readings. Second, carbon monoxide will clear from the blood over a few hours, so did you feel better after a day at work? (Second thoughts, that's a silly question - who feels better after a day at work...) The toxicity levels for CO cover a wide band, depending on the level, duration and a myriad of other factors Wiki bits
  12. Many industrial batteries that use wet cells have single point top up systems available. They are far from cheap, but they do mean the fitter doesn't have to clamber over the top of a 50 cell battery to check the levels he just has to plug the supply of water in and turn the tap.... As for designing a battery that will use all the lead - it would work, but its capacity at the end of its life would be very small
  13. Open the curtain just enough to see out of the window without exposing too much skin. Are the ducks walking on the water or swimming in it? If they are walking on the water its too cold, stay where you are. If they are swimming it might just be warm enough to get up and get some logs for the fire.....
  14. Everything you think you might need, a few of the "Ooo that tool looks useful", plus two "sod off" sized magnets on decent bits of cord/rope Torch that lsts well, without falling apart - a Maglite (or several, in different sizes), far from cheap, but they do last better than most of the cheap imitations, and the 5-D sized ones can have come in useful when deterring boarders
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