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  1. Have a look here 10 x 12V DC CCTV Female Male Power Connector Adapter Plug Jack Socket Cable UK | eBay UK WWW.EBAY.CO.UK 5.5mm x 2.1mm Female power plug connector. Male Jack Female Jack 2.1 x 5.5mm DC Power Plug Connector. DC... If you drive off attached they should pull apart
  2. Yes you can, I have been doing this with my tractor batteries. I think it is wise to put a germanium diode in one leg to each battery then in one is duff it doesn't discharge the rest, with most chargers putting out 13.5 to 14V the loss of 0.4V isn't significant. I had been using a 50W solar panel and very cheap charge controller I was fixing, it was very good until the owner collected it. A year ago I was given three 12 year old solar panels. I have one rigged up by my niece's stables to run the electric fencer using old batteries and a good 15 quid charge controller, even though it has been shaded by trees in this sunny weather , it managed 20Wh which is plenty enough to overcome the self discharge of several batteries.It does better when slightly overcast but when the sun is above the trees it puts out 90W even though it is vertical, A lady down the road has a Merc she seldom uses, I have to jump start it occasionally, she has now bought a 6.5 Amp intelligent charger which seems excellent. I can get details if you like.
  3. Mate of mine had the original picture disc. The vinyl was softer and we wore it out.
  4. Yes but the real cost to the economy will develop over the next decade or more. The russian and ukrainian people will suffer even worse than during the first cold war. Remember the cost of supporting their puppet government in Vietman cost the american economy such they had to curtail visits to the moon but their economy was already rich enough not to have to disgruntle their population.
  5. Do you fire it? There's a place nearby that has a gathering of black powder enthusiasts, the whoomph sound is quite different from the crack of guns on the adjacent army range.
  6. I don't recall having to top up a chipper during work, if it's a dual fuel conversion you could add petrol. Yes it is likely to be a niche but the market will decide, I'm long out of it.
  7. Yes but when we used an LPG forklift it was always a faff swapping cylinders and quite expensive. A chap I knew flew a hot air balloon and in bulk it was much cheaper. I used to fill with autogas but whilst cheaper than petrol it did seem expensive compared with red diesel. Given the problems with DPFs and adblue I doubt it. LPG burns very clean compared with petrol which should benefit engine life. If an engine is designed for it it can stand a higher compression ratio without pinking (though this may increase NOX) which could offset a bit of the loss of calorific value. No but this is less of an issue with change in licence rules so anyone could tow more than 750kg.
  8. She reminds me a bit of Sonja Kristina but can she do sums like the math queen?
  9. I wish. Bulk LPG and refill at the yard may work here, cheaper servicing costs and better engine life as a benefit. As long as a tank lasts all day.
  10. Yes 80 years after the need for lebensraum was seen off we enter the need for control of resources. Russia largely has its own and so does China, having bought most of African ones.
  11. I knew he lived into his nineties but did Lucy predecease him?
  12. Yes. At the time, 87ish, I used peugeot 504 pick ups. I preferred their better visibility but mostly for the limited slip differential.
  13. It was about time someone offered a decent water cooled petrol/lpg engine for chippers
  14. Very much so, his brothers were still in the tree business after the 1987 storm.
  15. P100??
  16. Freddie Gear and his dad were converting ex army matadors for timber work over by Ripley, I think I worked alongside three of them. Cawley sawmill's purple one, Dalrymples black one, Ted Bakers and the last one was Huggy's about 1990. Freddie had the yard next to Ken Tyrell's racing team, incredible what he could do with only one arm.
  17. Behave It's been years since it has caused me grief, probably since I retired, I'm just generally grumpy now.
  18. Yeah, at the time there is no hope, you can't go forwards, backwards or sideways, you're stuck but you get out the other side and can't see a reason for feeling so down.
  19. I was in my early twenties and already worried in crowded places then. Not to mention Grenfell, some things don't change when there is money to be made.
  20. Same happened in UK or Isle of Man many years ago, a clear plastic roof and blocked fire exits, people killed by melted burning plastic. Resulted in a law change Summerland 1973
  21. Was the Horizon Post Office system early AI, it certainly seems to have a degree of fuzzy logic built in?
  22. Lovely 4x4 with torsion bar suspension and the engine was part of the MOD plan to standardise spares by having parts in common with bigger engines. It made it all rather expensive compared with the cruder, simpler land rover offering which won out.
  23. All the best for 26 to you and everyone here Eggs but remember it works both ways its best to be nice to people. Mick's one of the few contributor's to posts on current arb practice and I read most of his posts.
  24. So much for the season of goodwill You asked for an apology and got it Are you intent on hounding out another member?
  25. A high lift jack can be handy for shrubs like that but you do need something to grab with a chain or get under with the beak.

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