Is it one RCD protecting the whole fuse board? If so, It could be that both appliances are leaking current causing the RCD to trip.

Aside from the usual dunnocks, blue/great tits, robins, goldfinches, doves, blackbirds and blasted ring necked parakeets, We’ve had a large gang of long tailed tits arrive along with some coal tits, and for the first time a group of redwings in south west London. Had a few red kites circling the area.

No sign of fieldfares yet like in previous years with snow.

Not in that part of the industry, but had dealings with UKPN, Scottish and Southern, and EDF, The engineers from UKPN were really good when we were dealing with Transformer/ service head upgrades.

Did get asked by the fellow from EDF if I was interested in joining them one evening when he was on site installing CT metering(UKPN had been in earlier upgrading the service head and jointing the existing supply cable to the new transformer), I declined as I enjoy what I do now.

Got a couple of Bamboo T-shirts, ok for a while but actually started to smell a bit.

On the other hand the bamboo padded under shorts I got from Madison have been grand.

It looks like Interserve may be in a spot of bother as well.

I thought it was ok, but then:

IMHO it is dire,

I saw it was upsetting loads of man-babies, so my opinion of it has gone up.

Foes are still going, as are Ventana. Jamis are still sold in the UK through Evans I think.

Watching thread with interest. I converted my Lumicycle halogen and HID to LED a few years back:

Halogen to LED

HID to LED

Still using them with the Original Lumicycle NIMH batteries, would like to upgrade them.

Peaslake in particular has benefited hugely from MTB’ers.

Has it? Apart from the bike shop owner, who else?

That’s the story (or the Mirror’s version of it) that prompted the thread…

I didn’t click on the mirror link.

Facebook recently shut down their AI after two of their machines created their own language to communicate with each other.

And google translate’s AI has created its own language to do the same. Article here: New Scientist[/url]

What happened to McLaren returning to Mercedes? That seems to have gone quiet…

Because its not going to happen.

Alonso’s only realistic option for a competitive car next year is a McLaren with a Renault or Merc engine.

Which isn’t going to happen. Mclaren have a contract with Honda until 2021, Honda are pouring into Mclaren tens of millions of pounds, and they are also paying Alonsos wages.

Alonso has two choices: stay with Mclaren, or retire, because he’s not going back to ferrari, Renault can’t afford him, and why would Mercedes want him?

For 2k you may not get something below 100,000 miles, So check the obvious like service history and any repair bills you can look at, check timing belt changes(some have chains which don’t need changing, others have belts which do), any gearbox repairs (pre-2006 models had problems).

I’ve got a 2003 vivaro, had 83,000 miles on the clock, its now just under 150,000 miles. This year I’ve had the alternator/power steering belt tensioner replaced(wear and tear), and one of the injector seals blew, which can be an absolute money pit to repair, fortunately was sorted quickly and cheaply.

The last major thing to go wrong was five years ago with a broken high pressure diesel pump, and that was expensive to replace. 😯

Had a pair of Bolle Spiders, which just bounced around on the end of my nose when going over anything remotely rough so Got these from CRC.

Last time I saw you on your MTB you were riding the Tamsin trail in Richmond Park, now that’s what I call soft!

Ha! Still “off road”, still on a mountain bike! 8) 😆

Everyone I used to ride with on the Surrey Hills now rides a road bike, me included.

Not everyone you used to ride with has “gone soft” Muddy. 😉

why depressing to provide better leisure provision in an highly populated area which has a pressure on the existing areas ?

Most of those area’s are true blue, and they cut those sort of services. Perhaps you should vote different?

And on Que, an injector seal pops, leaving the dreaded task of removing the injector from the block…fortunately sorted with low’ish expense.

Also have a 53 plate 1.9 dci 80, got it at 83 thousand miles, two previous owners, one of them was a builder. Think it had a hard life with the first owner, a few wear and tear issues, the two biggest being a gearbox leak and the high pressure diesel pump packing up.

But nothing major in the last five years, and its done 150,000 miles without me thrashing it. The only repair recently was a tensioner bearing replacement for the power steering/alternator belt.

trouble is, people had been advised to stay in their flats in the event of a fire, so whilst I dearly hope I’m wrong…..it sounds like there could be a significant number of people trapped and in all certainty, killed!

Doesn’t bear thinking about.

The problem is with a number of these buildings built in that time period, is that they only have a single stairwell.

The advice on people staying in their flat is relatively logical, as if a fire breaks out in a flat, it should be contained within the flat.

The fire brigade arrives and takes control, then deciding which floors to evacuate in an orderly manner. If everyone is trying to leave the building by the single stairwell at the same time the fire brigade are trying to get in, then chaos ensues.

Fire brigades across the country deal with several hundred fires a year in buildings similar to Grenfell, and the fire is generally contained in the flat.

Also, there is talk of no real fire alarm system, with that many flats the alarm system would be going off when someone burns their toast, and eventually someone will try to disable the system, or ignore it in the same manner people ignore car alarms going off these days.

In commercial and retail buildings there are fire wardens who should evacuate the building in an orderly manner, domestic buildlings don’t usually have wardens.

Edit: Alex Simon, social cleansing has been going on there for a good 20 years, As I said before I grew up around there, and its been eye opening how the place has changed in that time. I have absolutely no doubt that the former residents of Grenfell tower will not be returning after whatever is built to replace it.

This is Grenfell tower as I remember it:

Typical brutalist concrete construction for the period. there was only one stairwell in the building.

And this is what it looked like after the cladding had been put on:

Seen the live images of the fire spreading up the outside of the building.

Oh my god.

I grew up there. I used to play with the other kids in and around Grenfell in the 1970’s. I still have friends in the area, none in grenfell though.

I fear what the death toll will be.

One of the stipulations was that material could not be brought into the forest from outside. The ‘ginger’ is the best that can be quarried from within the forest……………

That is the case in other places as well. As I said, the trail design should have factored in the building material to be used, along with terrain, type and number of users etc.

One of the things they’ve said is that Swinley is different from your average trail centre because it attracts a lot of families, people with little or no abilities just out for a ride in the forest.

This is probably the most important point.

The trail designer/builder seems to have taken a design from a trail centre and plonked it in a forest that has a huge family contingent visiting it.

With them riding the trails, you will get damage to the surface/braking bumps and the like. But also, there are a great many experienced mountain bikers who drag their brakes as well.

Most of which could have been designed out of the trail from the very beginning. I haven’t ridden there for a few years, but my impression was it felt like what little height there was, was lost too quickly with a berm which a lot of riders would drag their brakes into/through/out of in an attempt to scrub off speed, followed by a climb back out.

It could have been designed to lose height more gracefully. This however would have taken longer to build and would have been more expensive.

What also wasn’t taken into account by the designer/builder was the building material. Ginger wears out quickly, and with the numbers of riders of various abilities using it, it was going to be an uphill struggle to maintain it.

Someone mentioned about a root being taken out, well these decisions have to be made by the trail pixies to prevent potential danger(consider the trails users and the land owner liabilities). If it is left, will it increase the damage to the trail?

I know my time as a trail builder we would get moaned at for ‘sanitising’ a trail, but all these factors play in.

As for the trail pixies, I have the utmost sympathy for them as they are fighting the trail design in terms of maintenance and are attempting to re-work what is a fairly lengthy trail with the limited time they have to do it…they are just volunteers after all.

Saw it in the distance from south west London, It looked like an avalanche of lightning strikes going on, the clouds were lit up all the time.

No rectal probing here, just after your organs…

Thanks…. leaning towards the M2 TBH as we are warming up.

Any deals about? I think I’m 59cm head… so on the boundary of size ranges….

Did have a trawl around the internet, and ended up getting one from Wheelies for £55. They may not have all sizes in all colours.

Helmet sizing appears to be spot on. (I’m 57cm)

7 iDP M2

Chain reaction have got some dayglo colour M2’s in XL/XXL which start at 60cm, for £38. Chain Reaction

You can also try Tredz

If you preferred the older On One Enduro Pro, then the 7 iDP M2 is available too, but with neon colours and a fancy peak.

Just bought a 7 iDP M2 in BLACK, jolly nice it is too.

Had a Sanderson Breath for the last seven years, 120mm forks wide bars and short stem, really like it.

When the time comes to replace it, I will be looking at the Town Crier.

I’ve only ever had Shere Drop though. Really must get to the brewery, or pubs that do more than just that one (bit like Hogs Back, a lot just do Tea… which is alright).

You should also try the Tillingbourne Brewery[/url]

They also run the stephan langton inn in Friday street. Been there on a few occasions and stopped off for a pint, as there are a few trails from the top of Leith hill heading in that direction.

And

And finally

Thing is, how on earth did he hide so many bodies without anyone noticing? Surely the smell would have been horrendous?

Competing smells I would think.

My parents were Children around there at the time. One of my grandfathers worked in the factory at the end of the street. All that housing was pulled down in the 1970’s.

Not enough fires. Or Godzilla

Going back a few pages:

I’m not totally convinced by McLaren being that much behind – they’ve been so crippled by the engine performance that they’ve been running lower downforce and on occasions it’s been clear that the chassis is actually very good.

Not really on two counts. The rear suspension of the car looked to be a problem. The drivers frequently spoke of getting the tyres to work in the temperature range, and getting the mechanical grip from the rear to desired levels proved difficult. This resulted in much higher levels of down force being used than anticipated to get the rear to work.

Mclaren did not run a low down force set up.

This in turn required more than anticipated adjustments to the front to offset increased under steer. If the back of the car wasn’t right, it would also show up at the front of the car. People think that the “pace of development” in view of the numerous front wing changes made from race to race shows how aggressive and progressive McLaren was…but sometimes the opposite is true.

Once again both drivers complained about under steer issues, and the numerous wings were trying to compensate for this.

While Honda’s engine wasn’t ripping up trees, they cannot solely be to blame for a slow car, as the chassis was also a problem, hence high down force and higher drag.

If you remember in 2014 they had the “butterfly” suspension blockers on the car, that suspension was going to be carried over to the 2015 car.

I suspect PP stopped that from happening, but the rest of the suspension was set, and putting a new suspension design on the car would result in a totally new car built from the ground up, which can’t really be done during the season, hence it is critically important to have the chassis sorted right from the start as everything else, good or bad stems from it.

MClaren only resorted to a “conventional” rear suspension for 2016, but it may take a while for them to optimize it. Hopefully for 2017.

got a washing machine playing up, and been looking online for solutions. seems to be a well-known fault with circuit board, replace capacitor C17 etc etc. i always try and fix things myself if poss, both for money saving and learning something new, so im looking at trying a 50p fix rather than a new washer.

Is this the flashing lights on the front of the machine scenario?

I changed the capacitor on mine a few months ago. All working fine. Solder sucker is the way to go.

Not that it really matters but I own a PCB assembly company and shown this to our senior assembly engineer…. He’s not normally a sweary bloke!!

Do tell, I used to work in PCB assembly for defence electronics and radar companies, eventually was a production manager for a sub contract company…

July.

I love Autumn and Winter.

If the consumer unit is in a cupboard with a door it would technically be classed as being in a separate room to the bathroom, and if the cupboard is outside the zones, the CU wouldn’t need a high IP rating, BUT

While the regs don’t say anything about this particular circumstance, I very much doubt ANY electrician would say that it was a good idea.

It’s only occasional when bulbs go etc

Still using incandescent bulbs?

The pub I went to most weekends in the 70’s when I was under 10 years old, my grandparents local in North Kensington, The Bridport Arms now housing.

The White Horse Sheperds Bush, Been in there occasionally since my youthful days, the decor hasn’t changed. Expected Regan and Carter to be in there propping up the bar.

Royal Oak New Malden, Meh.

The Mill Kingston Upon Thames, used to be a real alternatives pub in the days before kingston became gentrified.

T34 on the old Kent Road. Supposedly used against the czechs in the uprising in 1968 and brought here and used in the film Tricky dicky the third, then bought by some bloke and placed on the land he was going to build flats on.

The council refused planning permission. The turret is positioned so that the gun is pointing in the direction of the council offices apparently.

People come along and give it a new paint job every now and then.

People Just Do Nothing is pure genius.

This show has passed me by, but noticed the four tower blocks being the Green Dragon estate. Will now have to watch it.

I’ve got two sony minidisc recorders, one pioneer minidisc player that was an add on to my stereo system, and a Pioneer minidisc unit for the car, which is still boxed unused. All stored in the loft now.

I used to use the recorders to record in the studio, along with a Sony Microphone, which I latterly found out can only be used with certain Sony products. Which is very annoying.