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  1. openspaceman
    Sez who? Mind mine is probably 40 years old and measures 8" across the top of the pocket and 8" deep in the pocket
  2. openspaceman
    Respect mate, I can safely say I have never got my knee down and don't intend to try but I'm still happy riding.
  3. openspaceman
    I noticed my Morso had much less draw than the Jotul 602 it replaced and I put it down to the more tortuous path the primary and secondary air take, especially the fact the flow over the glass is a downwash so it is running counter to heat rising and thus doen't really draw well until there is a good hot flow up the chimney.
  4. openspaceman
    Wasn't the traditional method to build the base with heather bales?
  5. openspaceman
    I have known a house where a newly installed aga or rayburn would not pass the draw test for the chimney, it was not lined and the flue exhausted directly to a 9" brick chimney. The house was centrally heated and there was an open fireplace in the sitting room and that chimney was some metres taller than the aga one in the kitchen extension. I surmised that the heat from the aga was not sufficient to overcome the cold air in the chimney exacerbated by the warm air exiting via the sitting room actually causing a downdraught at the aga. I never did get told the final outcome
  6. openspaceman
    is your council so inflexible they couldn't allow you to be seconded to the parks department for a while?
  7. openspaceman
    I didn't know whether to laugh, like or just await the incoming onslaught. Yes Harsh and unkind but with a fair amount of truth excepting the old bit.
  8. openspaceman
    Sounds like a draught problem as the one downstairs has a longer chimney. Are they both running at the same time? Are both flues lined and insulated?
  9. openspaceman
    I've no doubt the breweries get paid for it. Not including the word "grain" would have left "brewers" which would have been meaningless as brewers' grain is the term that was used for them when we fed them to cows, yes they would have contained vestiges of malt but it was the maltose that the brewer fermented to make the beer, so most of it would have been removed.
  10. openspaceman
    Brewers grains, it's the spent mash rather than malt which is in the beer, cows loved it. I get my logs for no payment because they cost time and transport off a job. Once they get to the yard I don't get offered them.
  11. openspaceman
    It's the same with the Dosko on the team I was helping with, I always ended up as the brash dragger chipper feeder, it does the job with care but it's frustrating when you have used a chipper that you can drop a piece in and just walk away. Also the fumes were becoming a problem with my breathing and the noise is an embarrassment in urban situations BUT it's better than nothing.
  12. openspaceman
    Docklands Light Railway is driverless, the attendant just opens and closes doors, I've not been on it as I preferred to walk from Waterloo to Canary wharf.
  13. openspaceman
    If you get a derisory offer is it worth selling? With the problems some have had with new machines why not keep it as a back up until you are confident you can manage without it.
  14. openspaceman
    In the absence of knowing what program or website you use for reading e-mail I cannot be more specific I'm afraid
  15. openspaceman
    Most email clients have filtering and you can filter on the field mailed-by:vps1.arbchat.co.uk to be whitelisted or simply have these emails go into a dedicated folder
  16. openspaceman
    I've a feeling almost any paint will suffice, old household emulsion, oil paint etc. the freer the better but I have no empirical evidence so may well be wrong.
  17. openspaceman
    That's a nice short butt, almost a shame to cut it TT. It's not likely an issue for the next month but, as RHewn has said, you want thinner softwood seasoned stickers. Also have the stickers strictly vertical above each other and I would have them in line with both ends and the ends painted (because by summer you don't want moisture loss from the ends to be much greater than overall moisture loss) and some heavy weights on the top (I am not a fan of straps).
  18. openspaceman
    Yes and both worn differently, the first on the tip like it was chopping logs and hitting the ground occasionally and the other, ex WTC?, on the opposite end. Could it have been mounted upside down at some time
  19. openspaceman
    One man's meat...
  20. openspaceman
    posh ones
  21. openspaceman
    I'm not over keen on copper beech in rural settings. As for this one ; it looks pretty green to me and not that old plus I wonder what the stem unions near the base look like.
  22. openspaceman
    Has that pole been spiked to death?
  23. openspaceman
    Yes it looks like one. They send 12V DC looking for a switch to close, then they start and when up to speed switch 240V AC to the load. Thing to be wary of is leaving a transformer on somewnere. I was fooled by a shaving mirror being left in circuit with its light switched off.
  24. openspaceman
    Looks like hornbeam to me
  25. openspaceman
    Interesting project, at least one of the regular posters on here has a dyson fan and filter to keep irritant levels down. Some researchers in America were using HEPA filters in front of circulating fans to cut pollution levels indoors during the wildfires. I've been considering a corona discharge type device for settling dust particles and producing an inevitable small amount of ozone to zap micrro bugs. 1 Yes I do often consider it but more in context of those 2billion people that regularly cook with open fires, because the particulates are implicated in a lot of infant mortality worldwide. It is not something I consider a lot in my own home. In the summer I was seeing about 9micro gram per m3, now with the wood stove: 10 Nov 2020 17:55:51.903276: PM 2.5: 7.1 μg/m^3 PM 10: 17.2 μg/m^3 2 not yet 3 No 4 Myself 5 Only for smokers and bad cooks 6 which pollutants are you considering?

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