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Ronaldo47

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  1. Last year a columnist in "Modern Railways" mentioned how, in times gone by, emergency maintenance at an inaccessible spot would mean a gang walking there, carrying their tools, lunch, water, a Primus stove for heating their kettle, and a pack of toilet paper. Nowadays H&S means they have to construct a temporary access road leading to a wheelchair-accessible amenity block, all of which results in delays and a vast increase in costs.
  2. That reminds me of a guy I used to work with who, when reminiscing about his days doing National Service, mentioned the sergeant who ordered his squad to dismantle some tables, take them to another hut, and mantle them back together again.
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  5. As it is being used to transport staff associated with a hydroelectric power station, presumably no problem with availability or cost of electric power. The Green Maritime plan envisaged that ferrys were likely to be the only class of vessel for which pure electric power would be practical. .
  6. I understand rhat the letter rating is important if you want to rent out a property, as you can only do so if you have a good-enough energy rating.
  7. The first bit about the first canals included some pointless brief shots of early trains a century before they were invented. It also underestimated the advantages of canals over roads by saying a single horse could pull a 30 ton barge, especially as it also included shots of broad beam barges that I think could carry at least 60 tons.
  8. On a radio phone-in last year, someone was complaining that, after having upgraded her insulation, putting in double glazing, and replacing her gas boiler by a heat pump, she had been rewarded by her house being awarded a lower energy rating than it had had with the gas boiler. This was because the star rating reflects running costs and the cost of the electricity required to run the heat pump was greater than the cost had been to run the gas boiler.
  9. I don't actually know what is eating the bait. I have now ordered a motion-sensitive nature cam to try to establish what is taking it.
  10. We have a rodent problem in the garden at home. I bought what is said on the label to be "Formula B+ advanced rat killer". I started putting it out two months ago, but judging from the undiminished rate at which the bait is continuing to vanish, the rodents seem more likely to die of obesity than poison. Its active ingredient is "0.0029%w/w (0.029g/kg) Brodifacoum." The label says it should eliminate them within 35 days and if that doesn't work, call in a specialist. Can anyone recommend a rat poison that works for them?
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  12. It has been mentioned on another thread about navigation lights that you can't just replace a filament bulb by a LED. The design of traditional navigation lights requires the presence of the compact filament of a tungsten bulb positioned accurately with respect to the refracting elements of the lens in order to produce the necessary sharp cut-off in beam angle.
  13. My uncle used to have a metal cage rat trap in his shed that he said they used to use before the war when they lived next door to a stable. He said they always used to drown them in a bucket of water. However, there was a newspaper report last year of someone being prosecuted for drowning a caged rat, as it was not considered to be a humane way of killing it.
  14. Gaffa tape can provide an effective quick fix in emergencies. Preferably degrease with meths first.
  15. You can get small tins (typically 14ml, = 1/2 fluid ounce in imperial) of transparent paint from shops that sell plastic model kits. I use it for restoring the colour of traditional incandescent christmas tree lights and for colouring clear bulbs when no coloured replacements are available.
  16. I would think that the land slip would be considered to be an Act of God as it is not a result of positive action by the landowner.
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  20. Yes, interesting. There is no commentary so you can mute the sound if you don't want to hear the music.
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  22. My experience is that, whenever a government encourages you to do something different, its not to benefit you, but to save itself money. So you are usually better of maintaining the status quo. As per the encouragement to contract out of SERPS and move your occupational pension to a private pension debacle a couple of decades ago.
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  24. I understand that the modern engineering drawing conventions that we use today, were first devised by the French, and were considered to be so much better than previous practice that they were originally classified as a State Secret.
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