AndyID

If its a four wire system (three phases and one neutral) you should get 230/240 by connecting the load between any one of the phases and neutral. Or maybe I'm missing something.

The discussion on the UK landscape is interesting. Prior to leaving around forty years ago I considered myself a good bit right of center. But now in the US I find myself a good bit left of center. I suppose it's all relative.

I wouldn't trust it anyway 😂

I always thought it was the right to have bare arms.

Shouldn't they really be referred to as 4.5 and 5.6?

Dad bought a Grundig TK 830 two track tape-recorder (with AUTO-REVERSE!) in the late 50's. Allegedly portable but it was a heavy brute. I figured out how to connect it to the pre-amp of his Bush radiogram so I could record the Top Twenty from FM. I was the the DJ for the DEN Disco in the scout hall run by my scout group. IIRC we had an amplifier that put out 15 watts of raw power. Happy days 😄

Ah! Looks pretty convincing 😃

For our hi-fi aficionados: Who made this circuit up for you, anyway? Bought it in a shop? Oooh, what a horrible shoddy job they fobbed you off with with. Surprised they let you have it in this room anyway, the acoustics are all wrong. If you raise the ceiling four feet... put the fireplace from that wall to that wall... you'll still only get the stereophonic effect if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard. I see... I see you've got your negative feedback coupled in with your push-pull-input-output. Take that across through your redded pickup to your tweeter, if you're modding more than eight, you're going to get wow on your top. Try to bring that down through your pre-amp rumble filter to your woofer, what'll you get? Flutter on your bottom! (Borrowed from Flanders and Swann "A Song Of Reproduction")

Erm, why is there a 1/4 inch tape spool on the turntable?

Hope you don't store your spuds there.

So not Fireball XL5 then?

Dang polar bears again! https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/estonia-says-chinese-ship-is-main-focus-probe-into-cables-damage-2023-11-10/

That's just as likely as all the other theories that try to explain it.

That seems unlikely. The expansion is accelerating. Neither option seems very attractive but it's not something we need worry about.

But galaxies are receding from each other and they ain't coming back.

It's counter to human intuition, but clocks (including atoms) are actually affected by speed and gravity. While it seems obvious that a second is a second everywhere, it really isn't and that has been proved by many experiments.

My spelling was always very poor but one word I always had a lot of difficulty was "grammar". That wasn't helped by the fact that it was spelled "Gramar" on the badges on my cap and blazer.

First day on the job in the US I asked the department admin Nancy if she had any rubbers.

A lot of the boat docks on the lake are supported on float logs. According to the dock builders the logs can last for a very long time as long as they are always immersed in water. The ones that rot fairly quickly are exposed to the air when the lake level is lowered to accommodate the Spring runoff. For that reason a lot of the docks are detached from the shore and parked in lake bays from November until May.

I have to replace some timbers on our deck and I will be using treated timber. I've been experimenting with splices held together with adhesive. Polyurethane seems to work extremely well. Clamped for 24 hours, no screws necessary.

Had my other at eye cataract surgery today. Hopefully no more glasses for me other than reading glasses. I just got the basic lenses and the whole thing is covered by Medicare. They don't cover the more sophisticated corrective lenses which can get rather spendy. Based on what I had heard I was a bit concerned about healthcare in the US before we came here but our experience has been very positive although health insurance is expensive until you reach retirement age.

The great thing about tartan is there are so many to choose from and you can double that number if you include both the dress and hunting versions. 😁

Sort of depends on which one.

The surgeon who did my recently cataract op was excellent. MrsID joined me on the follow-up visit with him. She concluded he had had his personality surgically removed.

Here's a sad example of "reluctance to pay". My childhood friend, best man and ski pal lived in Edinburgh. He made a lot of money and had all the toys. Lovely house, expensive cars and a beautiful yacht. He had not been feeling well for about a year and was being treated by a NHS doctor. He was 56 when died of a heart attack. No heart condition was diagnosed prior to his death. Had he shelled out for a better private doctor I'm pretty sure his heart condition would have been diagnosed. Of course, even if it had, he might still have succumbed.