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What's all the gubbins on top of this turret?

Cheers 96701 🙂 That didn't come up with my searches, so your Google-fu is obviously far stronger than mine. Anyhow, there's no sensible way to get 3.5M headroom and underground's a no-no, so no point in getting sparkies out to quote.

I'm given up trying to find this in the regs themselves, so can anybody tell me what the score is nowadays about running a power supply overhead to a shed that's 1.5M away from the house wall? It would be 3-core 2.5mm SWA and I assume it would have to be on catenary, but what's the minimum clearance height above ground level? NB. I know that this is a job for a professional sparky and he would know the answer. My problem is that that height will determine if the job's a goer, and there's no point in getting quotes if it isn't.

The one I'm still waiting to actually see on a wall is the one that says "Nobody of note has ever lived in this building".

Why does that have to be the question?

In this context, what's the definition of parasitic load?

Thanks for that. Very informative 🙂

Yesterday I cycled past a house in Sussex that's being re-thatched and I enquired of the thatcher where his reeds came from, knowing that it was unlikely to still be Norfolk. The answer was some from Turkey but most from Kazakhstan. The previous day I'd learned that the trees that have been felled nearby to make yet another "exclusive development of luxury homes" are to be chipped on site. They'll then be taken by artic to Tilbury, where in due course they'll go on a boat up to somewhere in Scotland to be processed. They'll then come back down to power the biomass boilers in Terminal 5 at Heathrow. Apparently this is "green" and "environmentally friendly". What a strange world we live in nowadays.

The Lady Wife was looking over my shoulder when I was admiring a particularly nice snap of an old Velo and asked "What was the idea behind the fishtail?". I have no idea. Anybody know why they caught on when they did, and why only Velocette stuck with them into the 1960s?

It wasn't so much starting mine that took a while to get the hang of, more the matter of adjusting the clutch ...

Thought I recognised a Myford. A few years back, a bloke I know turned his toes up and left a Super 7 in his garage complete with suds pump, capstan attachment and god knows what else, plus a shedful of cutters, tool bits etc. Last I heard his missus had been trying to get shut at a sensible price for over six months, then let a bloke take the whole shebang off her hands for £250 ...

Is that a milling cutter in the chuck and the cover screwed onto a plate hung off a vertical slide on the cross slide, or am I looking at it wrong?

And I always thought tanks were built in factories ...

Thanks folks. I should have said that this will be Motorola G7 to a Samsung Galaxy A14.

Give over you cruel sod. That brought back memories of a problem I had in 1974 after my £30 vasectomy done under local in the GP's surgery one lunchtime (during which procedure, incidentally, he managed to polish off a cheese and pickle sandwich). The (black) A & E doctor made the same comment when I was carted there the next day ...

Like its owner, my smartphone is well past its best before, so I must buy a new one. This means of course that I will need to transfer all my gubbins to the new one. Am I correct in thinking that when I move the SIM card to the new phone, all that it takes with it is my phone number, leaving me to set up all the stuff like bank app and so forth on the new phone from scratch?

How very English ...

A some observations now that we've drifted back on track ... Last September I was picking blackberries. A young mother went past on the other side of the fence with a young girl, who was being told in no uncertain terms that she mustn't eat the berries. A bird might have pooed on them or a dog done a wee.. She should only ever eat berries from a shop. A pal of mine has been in catering all his working life. He reckons that until the 1980s, the only food allergy anybody ever mentioned was shellfish. Then within 20 years, it was not uncommon for at least a quarter of the diners in a restaurant to say that they were "allergic" to something or other. But he swears the number of folk allergic to shellfish remained about the same. And not far away from us is a farm that's locked in the early 1970s. The farmyard is essentially a very large shallow pond of slurry, to which various cows, turkeys, chickens and dogs add their droppings daily. Six kids have grown up on that farm, and the eldest is now in his mid-20's. Only two of them have ever been to a doctor: one on account of a broken arm and the other after he dropped a lump of concrete on his foot.

... after which a cruise liner must be always be a big disappointment ...

Thanks for that. It actually makes a lot of sense now ...

Hurrah! Well done sir.

Cheers for solving the mystery. I'd love to see the speedo cable route on some of these "tank-top" bikes. It's difficult to imagine - as is the perceived advantage from a production/profit POV, given all that extra metal-bashing and fairly intricate welding/brazing.

Another of the many things that have always puzzled me. How exactly did they route the speedo cable through the tank? And the wiring. Is there just a fair-sized hole under the triangular panel, or what?

Especially when you fitted a pair to your Tiger 100, then took it out later on a wet road, and nipped smartly round a bend in town having forgotten about the new tyres ...

Well one thing's for sure - that beard's certainly not right.