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The rod that runs from the waste horizontally with the ball on it, should locate into a plastic insert in the waste. The insert is a snug fit in the brass and then shaped to accept the ball. There is generally a similar albeit smaller ring on the back side of the ball which sits between the ball and the chrome knurled nut. When assembled and screwed up firmly with finger strength, that shouuld be adeqaute for the plastics to make an adequate seal against each other. Generally there aren't any o-ring or similar seals in the pop up assembly.

LOL!!! It's true too! I also prefer Land Rovers, women and real ale...the alternative doesn't bear thinking about. I currently run a V8 Discovery with a gas conversion...it's about to be barstadised into an 88" coil sprung, disc braked, V8, Series III bodied ragtop!

Sounds idyllic Not jealous me, oh no sir, not jealous at all...in any way, oh no!

I must be getting old, because even though I don't find her particulary attractive, I still wouldn't think twice about having a go.

You'd get a scabby Series 3 Land Rover for that money. I picked one up for 500, needed a decent amount of chassis welding, a lot of gaskets replaced and most of the consumables. Did most of it myself and spent another 600 (including paint for a respray), but ended up with a half decent truck worth a couple of thousand (at least thats what it sold for). ...or, an early Discovery, likely to need a new boot floor, rear arches and sills repaired etc, but the diesels are good, spacious work horses.

Agreed! We never had teacher training days when I was at school, so why are they needed now? It's a major ballache as we both work so it means someone taking time off or getting childcare arranged, so now it costs ME money for our teachers to get trained on TOP of the tax I already pay. They get plenty of holiday, a few days of that should be used for training if required (half term etc). I don't think they get a particularly easy life, but at the same time it could be a lot harder. I'd take their hours for the time off TBH, and I am aware of the hours required, my sisters a head teacher.

What's the price mate, it's on here at £780 but at £700 on the Gunwatch ad.

What about these any good?

Dickies do a Safety Dealer boot thats cheap enough... Click here for a link Do me OK for work purposes. Edit: Scrap that, just seen the 'steel toe cap' comment.

Agree with pretty much all of the above. I would only use a wet system, it's too expensive as an electric system. As a retrofit in an older house it can be difficult with solid floors as you need to lay insulation ple another 75mm of screed over that, generally raises the floor level too high. It can b retrofitted in timber floors, I've done a few and they work surprisingly...not as well as in a solid floor though. The thing to bear in mind is that you don't use it in the same way as a radiator system. It's much more about maintaining a comfortable temperature all the time and 'topping' the heat up when required rather than blasting heat out and dragging the house up to temperature. You don't turn it off for several hours a day. This is more efficient, it's also why we are now being encouraged to fit programmable room thermostats on conventional systems which you also vary temperature at different times of the day rather than switching on and off. IMO it's also a better way of heating as the whole building gets heated and maintains that heat rather than heating and cooling and then having to blast heat in again. You don't suffer with 'cold spots' in a room, it's even heat all across the floor, all of the floors are warm so none of this putting shoes on as your feet are cold, you don't suffer with rads being to small, whatever the room size. if you cover the floor correctly with pipe it will heat that room, the bigger the floor the more pipe, simple as that. Combine it with a renewable energy source and IMO you are getting as close to an ideal system as you currently can.

What size are the clothes mate?

Sorry to hear of your loss fella, it's an absolute choker on you when you have to make that final vet visit, I too blubbed like a 10 year old, but looked at it as the least I could do as payback for 18 years of devoted service, made it seem a small price to pay despite the pain.

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She looks like a Georgie/Georgia to me.

Where did you see that it's to put it out of reach of the 'poor' yobs? I was told it was a matter of it costing more for the Police to administer than they were charging, a simple matter of economics, they didn't want your application for a SGC/FAC to cost them money.

Many younger Spaniards don't agree with the practice on cruelty grounds. It is a tradition, but it's a dying tradition that will peter out over the next few years as the older generation also peter out.

Jesus, that's my idea of high rise Spanish hell! Maybe next time be a bit more adventurous, get out of the tourist traps and go and meet some normal Spanish, who, I should add, have in my experience nearly all been far friendlier and politer than most Brits I deal with!

Well put and I couldn't agree more. How many times have I heard "Oh, he's great around the kids but not good with dogs" from a Staffie owner...what they actually mean is that it's an aggressive sod around dogs but it hasn't felt threatened by the kids yet...just a matter of time too often for my liking.

I'll have it if still available, PM me payment details if so. Paul

If the other dog attacked yours without provocation then, in your position I'd have been having some serious words with the other dog owner. Having said that, you've said that you are new to dog ownership and as such, are you sure that your dog wasn't at fault? Dogs don't generally bite without provocation. A dog on a lead is not necessarily a dog under control and vice versa, if your dog is pulling and straining on a lead toward a dog, then other dogs can take that as threatening?

Unless it's a very large garden it should be pretty precise. For certain a AA S410 is capable of consistent head shots at 30 metres so long as the shooter is.

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....and I'll third that. Picked up an as new A230 for a couple of hundred quid off ebay. Wasn't expecting too much of it, but what a brilliant camera! Cannot fault it for the money, the only thing it's missing is live view on the LCD, but the not much more expensive next up models rectify that if you need it. Picture quality, speed, and useability is all spot on. Big from me.

Working on that one too, will advise you if and when I'm successful.