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The recent high winds got the better of the gates centre and bottom bolts so I upgraded to a more "medieval" solution. 2 X 4 rectangular steel tube with a bit of err.. 2 x 4 in it. The 4 holes on the front of each part are to allow access to the holes at the back where the screws are, to hold...

Hi All, I've got an old Hydrovane 9PU and recently, I switched it on, pressure came up, there was an audible bang (maybe more like a really loud pop?) and pressure went down to about 20psi and it sounds.... wrong. Like air's going somewhere it shouldn't. Any ideas? Cheers, Wilson.

Agreed. The packing is likely 70yo and I guess, looking at it, replacement is probably quite easy. I have found the shut off so I might try replacing the packing myself.

OK.. the very nice man from Scottish Water just turned up. Apparently the unmarked cover IS my shut off. The two "W" marked ones are both (WTF?) for the property across the road. Apparently having two is good because if you need to work on the normal shut off you can shut that off at the...

I've got a dicey main water valve in my house. 25 years ago I shut it off to change the kitchen tap and when I switched it back on, it leaked pretty badly. I called a plumber and asked for it to be changed but its "lead" apparently (or the piping is) and plumbers don't do lead anymore. The...

Pffft. The accounting of the currency issuer has no relation to the accounting of the currency user. Do not confuse the umpire with the players. All Fiat currencies are unencumbered, irredeemable tokens. Go to the Fed and them what you can swap a dollar for. They'll tell you, another...

Increasing the wages of labour does not require "taking" anything from anyone. Where do you think people's wages end up? In the profit margins of Tesco, Esso, Ford, Taylor Wimpey, etc, etc. Their wages are your profit. As an industrialist, low wages are the road to ruin. You're cutting...

Its not MMT. Its pure Monetarism. MV = PQ is the central equation of Monetarism. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/monetaristtheory.asp Where I & Monetarism part ways is that Monetarism says that : “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it is and can...

That's as well known straw man. You can't increase the wages of the poor because they'll just consume more causing inflation. The economy is NOT a closed system. MV = PQ Money x Number of transactions = Price x Production The fallacy you re-iterated depends on Q being fixed. Which it...

So, lets say someone in Government wants to give "Michelle" some money. Government instructs the Exchequer to instruct the Bank of England to credit the reserve account of "Michelle"'s bank. "Michelle"'s bank then credits her deposit account. And that's it. That's the whole deal. The BOE...

Indeed, if you compare a pie chart of tax in the 1970s with tax now you can clearly see that VAT has replaced tax once paid by UK top earners. The thing that few people understand is that tax does not fund anything. The purpose of tax is the control of inflation. When governments collect tax...

The facts beg to differ.

"I didn't get where I am today by paying workers a fair wage" Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

I made some cupric nitrate solution (which is bright blue) a long time ago for ageing copper and brass by dissolving copper wire in nitric acid. You need to do it outside as it gives off a nasty brown gas (nitrogen dioxide) while reacting. I just kept feeding it copper wire till the reaction...

20 years ago I used to work for Chivas & Glenlivet. The replacement cost of a bottle of Chivas Regal including the bottle, label, capsule, closure & the actual whisky was 35p. I think the whisky element of that was 17p.