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After nearly three months on the road in our little motorhome we have arrived at a remote place called Gabriel's Gully which marks the southernmost point of our journey around NZ. Tomorrow we will alter course back to the north and head for home. I was a mediocre student at school, only doing...

If anyone knows what the item is then I would love to know as well. There are dozens of them tucked away in drawers, cupboards etc in my motorhome. Made of thin steel about 4cm long. Not identifiable by anyone in the motorhome fraternity.

In my motorhome all the lights are 12v LEDs. I want to reposition a couple of the lights and on opening up the panels on which they are mounted see that on the 12v feeds, just before the lights there is a small PCB with 'CSA' written on them. An internet search revealed two options for CSA -...

Haven't been on site for a while. The reason for that is that we have been travelling the country looking for a new place to live. There is nothing wrong with the beautiful place we now live at but it is a high maintenance property and an emerging medical condition is going to make that...

Too cold and wet for the workshop so having a read about maintenance requirements on my diesel truck. It has the compulsory EGR valve installed. The valve is a pain in the bum to get to and needs attention now and then but that's ok, save the planet and all that.. but does it really? Ignoring...

I need to repair some cracks and stiffen up areas on an ABS plastic sink splash back. First option is general purpose epoxy resin. Internet opinion is equally divided into 'epoxy works great/useless - didn't stick at all'. Possibly negative opinions are based on a lack of correct preparation...

Since I'm old, boring and predictable my daily internet usage never varied by more than a few mb. Recently I changed providers and noticed a marked increase in daily mb usage. Do different internet service providers have different ways of calculating this?

This is the early B.1 variant, my personal favorite as it doesn't have all the extra bits and pieces to wings and tail section of the later versions. No one asked me for it, I built it just out of admiration for the aircraft that I have had since my youth so I will keep the model for a while...

I intended to spray enamel paint through my airbrush and inadvertently reduced the paint with isopropyl alcohol instead of thinners. Realizing this I straight away ran thinners through the airbrush and stripped it down and cleaned it and did the same with the little glass mixing pot but notice...

I have a top feed airbrush which I am still learning to use and starting to get acceptable results from. Essentially all I am spraying is varnish onto wood and the thing that really puzzles me is viscosity. I read everywhere to thin the coating to the consistency of skim milk and I can't...

This for my good teutonic client who only ever orders obscure WW11 era German aircraft from me. And I'm grateful for that because his unusual tastes introduce me to many little known aeroplanes, little known to me anyway. The Storch hails from the mid 1930's and could be described as an aerial...

This is a combined whinge and genuine enquiry. What is it with IT people? I used to use an app called WeatherPro. This was a great program for getting accurate forecasts for any location for the forthcoming 10 day period. But then they came out with the new 'improved' version and as you have...

Stuck on this one. I need to turn a couple of detailed wheels 9mm in diameter for an aeroplane model. Normally this is not a problem as the wheels on the models are in the 'gear up' position nestled into the underside of the wing. Since I therefore only have to model one side of the wheel I...

Attached a photo of the top of my walking stick. I dont know what the timber is - it was made from a glut from under packets of imported Kwila decking so presumably some sort of very hard Asian hardwood. The finish is multiple coats of Boiled Linseed Oil. Once a year I do a recoat - the process...

A lot of years ago I assisted a neighbour in yarding a mob of cattle for TB testing. I recollect him as being a contemplative sort of man and as he surveyed his penned cows in typical farmer fashion, leaning his arms on the fence railing, one foot up on the bottom stile and chomping on a stalk...

Need some help with this one please, electricity is not my forte. I have a small heater dehumidifier box thing used for drying hearing aids overnight. The box is fed power from a 240v household socket via a little transformer with a standard USB outlet on it and a USB cable from it (the...

I sure this will be simple to folks who have electrical knowledge, unfortunately, I don't. I have a 36v 17amp hour battery that is loaded up through a charger connected to the 240VAC household supply. I also have a 12v 150amp hour deep cycle battery connected to a 500watt pure sine wave...

I need to put a fairly sharp bend in a number of lengths of 3mm thick x 7mm wide pieces of timber. An online search says a ballpark one hour steaming for 25mm thick. Mathematically 3mm timber would require 8 minutes in the steambox but I dont think it works that way. What would be an 'about'...

No one ordered this aeroplane. I built it just because I wanted to and I'm allowed. My wife said so.

This aeroplane is for a customer who only ever orders WW11 German aircraft from me, and the more obscure the better. Since I'd never heard of it this necessitated a bit of research and as it turns out the Heinkel HE.115 was universally considered to be the finest multi-role float plane of any...