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  1. openspaceman
    They don't dye lpg so get a bulk supply for your hot air balloon
  2. openspaceman
    Something must be holding the needle controlling fuel into the diaphragm chamber open. Either the needle tip is worn or some crap has built up and pushing the diaphragm
  3. openspaceman
    12 years ago my LR 110 V8 did about 14MPG on LPG and 19 on Petrol. It paid me as I seldom traveled more than 40 miles round trip and the servicing costs were a fraction of a 200 or 300tdi for about the same performance. The difference in capital cost was vast which is what made it affordable. Nowadays all but one of the forecourts I used have had the lpg pump removed.
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    It would be no different; the crown estate is effectively the government now as the royal family gave up any interest in the crown estate in favour of the sovereign grant.
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    It's much more difficult now and you cannot register the land without the landowner being told and given the opportunity to put up a fight but it could become a negotiating point. It may be worth paying the land registry the few quid to ascertain whether the crown did get proper title, something similar happened to my dad's access drive but the title was passed to a trust before the developer liquidated and he was able to buy the land shared with his neighbour.
  6. openspaceman
    I've head of this happening, it's a shame they came back to you with a valuation you cannot afford. If no one else has an interest or likely to dob you inwhy not fence it off and maintain it for the next 20 years, then claim adverse possession?
  7. openspaceman
    Did you mean accepting? Apart from not being small or cheap I like the look of the Pug 3008 hybrid4 but it seems to be the only 3008 model that you cannot get a towbar for. Solo they claim up to 30 miles range on battery alone. Most of the summer that would mean running on free electricity for me but for the capital cost.
  8. openspaceman
    Works best with lady groundies
  9. openspaceman
    Yes no problem if the flue liner stays above the dew point ( which will be somewhat below 100C)
  10. openspaceman
    Too far for me to help but it looks like a norway spruce
  11. openspaceman
    That doesn't make a lot of sense to me as the turbulence would cause too much mixing as the cold air blew into the warmer air, thus overall diluting the heat. Assuming the air stratifies as hot at the ceiling of the upper room then logically suck air at ceiling level and pipe it to floor level downstairs but as I said this leads to moving a lot more barely warm air than if you take a smaller amount of hotter air directly from the stove and pipe it down. Also something I was unable to arrange was to vent the hot air out of a slot horizontally at floor level, the theory being the Coanda effect should let the hotter air hug the floor further before it rises.
  12. openspaceman
    I do something similar from one downstairs room to te next. I found using a duct to take air from the warm room to the other wasn't effective as you needed to shift a lot of air with very little temperature difference. So I made a couple of flexible metal ducts and sucked hotter air (about 30-40C directly above the stove convection vents and blew it to the room next door, my major mistake was not insulating the ducts but it works and as a result we did not use the central heating at all last year. Downside is we got through a 5m3 stack of mixed logs. The fan noise is a bit intrusive and consumes about 50W on its lowest setting, I need to measure this somewhen.
  13. openspaceman
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  14. openspaceman
    We had a shredder for the returns at a well known seller of flat pack furniture and that was burned in a licensed boiler, a magnet separated ferrous metal fittings but the aluminium just burned or melted, there were some issues with the acidic nature of the flue gases, from the glues and laminates I imagine. I agree with @Squaredy the burner would need to be licensed as an incinerator. I think the ones excepted from full incineration directive must be restricted to 40kg/hour. Where does your current output get burnt? I would have thought there was scope in extruding it with a flammable binder (glycerol. molasses, starch etc) and co firing it with the current fuel. Also it could be blown in at a velocity greater than the flame speed of the dust in still air.
  15. openspaceman
    Oh dear, my memory is a bit dim but there's a circlip retaining the shaft to that housing that is very awkward to get at.
  16. openspaceman
    You may have a case of Phytophthora ( looked it up for the spelling this time) Ramorum disease (Phytophthora ramorum) - Forest Research WWW.FORESTRESEARCH.GOV.UK Information, management advice and guidance on ramorum disease of forest trees and plants, and its causal agent...
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    For the 1" blackthorn it'll be a bit of a jolt with a mulching blade. A saw blade will be quicker but you don't get multiple cuts to mulch it. I have a 4mm 2 bladed mulcher on my 50cc brushcutter and wouldn't risk anything thinner, it will easily cope with any brambles. What benefit does a 3 bladed mulcher give? The guys used to wear out these stihl two bladed mulching blades but I think a lot of that was down to them not using the cup underneath to keep the vertical bits of the blade from constantly hitting the ground.
  18. openspaceman
    Both those uses because it resists splintering amongst other things. It does "bruise" easily.
  19. openspaceman
    so it doesn't even riddle? If so I expect it has jammed up with ash so a gentle tapping and riddling may loosen it
  20. openspaceman
    Lovely little fishing village and a good walk along the coast path from St Austell.
  21. openspaceman
    We made some char from seaweed for a project at East Malling. It was thoroughly washed and dried first but the analysis still gave a high sodium ion content so the experts said it should be limited to things that need the sodium, like sugar beet. I suppose over time in a free draining soil it would be washed down but...
  22. openspaceman
    Well I will and do start <50cc saws and some bigger saws with the poofter button pressed in with the brake on and the back handle between my knees if someone is looking but no way could I start the 084 that way. Mostly I yoyo start with left hand on front handle, That's for problem saws and is not the drop start I would normally use.
  23. openspaceman
    Yeah I remember on my last but one refresher.
  24. openspaceman
    None of my boots fit through the back handle, hence the attempted use of heel, I still manage best drop starting the bigger saws.
  25. openspaceman
    It's a small garden and they love playing tag. I try and take them out for decent long walks but I never know when they are going to descend on us.

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