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  1. openspaceman
    That reply hung fire for a long time Paul, do you still have a camaro engine sitting in the back of a landrover?
  2. openspaceman
    Think of all those glamping tepees you could sell
  3. openspaceman
    I was never against hunting with hounds and would not participate but yes the mess was enough to never want them on land in my occupation. Similarly I would never go to a driven shoot but happy to accept the odd brace, it has to be very occasional because of the lead risk . Mind unless I can mount and fire off my left shoulder my shooting days are over.
  4. openspaceman
    I'll go back to cooking some when I know the shoot uses steel shot
  5. openspaceman
    I was wrong about the poles on the rotor, it is one field coil but the iron is shaped to give 6 poles so the W terminal will see 3 cycles per revolution, . My guess is 3 if it senses ac with possibly just one diode. none of my working alternators have a w terminal.
  6. openspaceman
    Yes me too, not having played with AT carbed saws I didn't realise the implication as it was opposite to which an old fashioned carb would be.
  7. openspaceman
    I think you should edit that reply @spudulike
  8. openspaceman
    Yes but I thought it was named after the twist in the needles[1]. It grows straight in its home country [1]Just checked and that's what Mitchell said in Trees of Great Britain and Northern Europe
  9. openspaceman
    Which is exactly as I found lodgepole pines down here too.
  10. openspaceman
    I found much the same with scots and corsican thinnings, if not crosscut and split they go pulpy inside the bark, sitka bark splits and the wood seem to dry hard. Bigger scots have a resinous heartwood, so more heat, but I have never felled a big lodgepole.
  11. openspaceman
    Vic and Chris used to tie with birch withes not plastic baler twine.
  12. openspaceman
    I don't know about Stubby but I would always pick some up and eat them as I went by, they fill out nicely in a mast year. Someone told me they were poisonous but no ill effects with me and one of the chewing gum manufacturers had a beech nut flavour.
  13. openspaceman
    "As I understand it" because I am not qualified in domestic instalations
  14. openspaceman
    Definitive answer is in Appendix E of building regulations Part J which is available online. Smoke test with stove and flue exit sealed and flue pre-warmed AIUI.
  15. openspaceman
    Have you tried Lamberhurst engineering, they used to be dealers after Hyatt Adams packed up, mind I haven't bought any spares off of them for over 30 years.
  16. openspaceman
    You're a dab hand at this aren't you?
  17. openspaceman
    Not only brickies, research Ronan Point and missing bolts. I had much trouble with second fixings; vapour barriers and cold bridges on a couple of refurbs at work.
  18. openspaceman
    No not if the damper and air controls seal well. It's all a bit speculative with the details and description here, as mentioned you should have a CO monitor in the room in any case. Hold a burning taper near the stove when it is cold and see if a draught flickers it.
  19. openspaceman
    There doesn't need to be an extractor fan (good call though) if your house is warm enough to create a circulation from the room your stove is in and up stairs and out somewhere the hot air leaving has to be replaced and cold denser air pushing down your flue could do that.
  20. openspaceman
    Yes that was my thought by the texture but I cannot remember seeing any black lichen on trees, round here the air was too polluted for many lichen so I used to see it mostly in the west country.
  21. openspaceman
    Does @Ruskins Trees still post here? @dumper is right it's not just the size of the rootball it's holding it all together so the smaller root hairs don't break.
  22. openspaceman
    I see so it has happened again more recently. I would have liked some nice beech logs for next year, I have a m3 from the canal centre at the back of my logshed behind all the cedar which burns a bit fast. There was a fallen beech at the same spot earlier in the year. The canal always runs out of water in the deepcut section by June so you can only move around between there and greywall in the summer.
  23. openspaceman
    Deepcut by the broken sewer? I wondered who did it but didn't walk that way much in the last year and now the boat is sold.
  24. openspaceman
    you spoiled it by not using a seasoned cast iron skillet
  25. openspaceman
    I believe they should be segregated from pedestrians and still carry the forfeit-ability of a car or motor bike licence for dangerous use or without care or attention and mandatory road traffic insurance, especially if they exceed 15mph as most seem to.

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