Paul Evans

Cleaning brass is more effective than any rain dance.

Not that well endowed. Many years ago, we took my daughter (then about 6) to one of those animal "farms". In a paddock was a male donkey and in the next paddock were a pair of females. The male was more than mildly excited by the closeness of the ladies. He had what looked like a hoover hose sweeping the ground. Made me feel distinctly inferior!

Is it that they don't produce a ticket from automatic machines or that the driver/conductor has refused to accept your pass? My London Freedom pass has, on occasions, produced no ticket from automatic machines in Southend, Leeds and Sheffield. On other occasions it works fine. When it hasn't worked to produce a ticket, the driver/conductor has always accepted it as valid for free travel. If the driver/conductor attempts to refuse it as valid for free travel, point out that the bus pass scheme is a national scheme that gives you free travel on buses across England. The fact that the machines in a particular area do not recognise that is no excuse to refuse you free travel. If the driver still won't accept the pass ask him/her to check with their manager.

Just lost your argument as far as I'm concerned. When you have to liken CRT to Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, you really are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

David (see Post #5) did a limited test that indicated Milton Fluid had no effect on metals (despite the "warning" on the bottle). I have used Boots sterilising tablets in an integral tank with some metal and mainly plastic pipework with no ill effects. Have a go!

If the boat has an automatic pump - perhaps. If not .........

ETA: Well that worked just fine for me.

Some people recommend using yeast as a starter for bacteria. Just make up a solution of bakers yeast and flush it down.

The OP has set his location as London in his profile; this shows under his avatar (or where is avatar would be if he had one). What would you advise him to do Kris?

I think that should be anti-clockwise. Admittedly, I'm sitting in front of the screen twiddling my fingers in imitation of doing up and undoing nuts and bolts but I think that's right. Beaten by Biz!

If you "hover" over the words just after the "tag" you are offered the chance to find other similar topics. I don't know how the tags get added tho'.