Flyboy1950

Got our winter payment last week and also the £10.00 Christmas bonus, every little helps 🤗

Just wondered if any one has tried using a solar panel in their vehicles to trickle charge their batteries when the vehicles are not used for a while? Seems like it might be a reasonable cost option especially if you have minor parasitic losses in built into your cars etc. My Bro got me to fit one at his paddock some years ago to charge his battery bank that used to use 12 volt lights in his yard and power his electric fence around the grazing area.

This came up last year, which was very interesting. I wonder how its getting along? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7592485/Father-eight-invents-electric-car-battery-drivers-1-500-miles-without-charging-it.html

As much as I would like to think that Hydrogen powered vehicles would become a reality, I suspect that most of the inventions that have been developed by individuals have been bought out/supressed by the oil/motor industry.They didnt/dont want the competition. Also the Govt cant collect revenue from some one filling their car up from their home tap, unlike chaining the motorist to the fuel pumps or electric meters. As a boy in the 60s I read in a motoring magazine about a mini being run in the channel islands on water. British Leyland were doing the testing, but that disappeared.

Not to mention all those people that live in high rise blocks.

No experience myself as I just do to many miles per week. Presumably you will want to have to charge your new to you vehicle at home and will need to have a charging point. Have a look in the Toolstation catalogue (Page 658) it will give you an insight into how much home charging points are, with out the installation and running costs. Hope it works out for you. FB

I am not looking for any incoming flack for my post and wont reply. You can purchase from the evil bay/amazon, Baofeng multi channel transceivers from £20.00 delivered. They are perfectly legal to own and listen in on. You can programme them via your computer to set all the frequencies you wish including the coast guard emergency frequency etc etc. Several of my pals have them for emergency use only. One of my pals called the coast guard recently as he saw a boat in trouble, the lifeboat was launched and carried out a rescue. Incidentally he is a registered Ham operative but this does not have any bearing on the situation, he advised me to carry one when ever hunting or fishing. All the preppers in the states carry them as when you are in a no signal area, any port in a storm. I would say the same applies here, in an emergency and no phone signal, no one is going to take you to task for using one If you think life is threatened, use it if you have it. Any method to effect a rescue/save a life is valid. Along side of your phone/radio get the app what3words if you have a phone signal,it will pin point your location to about 3 yards any where in the world. There are lots of tutorials on youtube how to use them. Do not use the transmit buttons unless you are qualified or life is threatened. I cannot emphasise this enough. Just in the last few months a moron has been using several of these transceivers to disrupt shipping movements in the Southampton water area, the GPO nailed him and he has had his gear confiscated and fined.

I have got the same issue with Yahoo. Even though they keep sending me reminders , I have tried to sort out the new loggin stuff but G.d only knows if its worked. Will find out tomorrow when they pull the plug!

I have used Murom primers for years and found them to be totally reliable, cheaper than all the others as well. I generally buy around 4000 at a time from HPS Target rifles ltd. I use both large and small rifle and generally purchase for other members of my club at the same time. Not as far as Pudsey from you as they are near Ross on Wye. I have also used S and B before I found the Murom and they behaved faultlessly as well. I have never found a supplier of PPU primers but all their factory rounds I have purchased have been spot on, never had a miss fire or a hang fire. As Windswept has commented why not see what you can get locally, that way you can try several brands without buying by the 1000, then buy in bulk.

I was given a dozen factory 223 subsonic rounds with 69 grain soft point bullets about a year ago by a pal who works in a shooting shop and they were handed in by someone giving up. I dont know what the MV on them is but must be around 1100 ft/sec. The only clue on the brass cartridge case was R . P Just prior to lock down, I fired 5 rounds in the clubs indoor range at 50 yds. I didn't change my point of aim from my usual 50 grain SP ammo, shooting at 3300 ft/sec. From target centre they dropped about 4 inches and not to big a spread, I would guess around 3 inch MOA.

Just need before and after pics now.

As has been pointed out, why not just turn the barrel upside down allowing any gas escape to do just that. Fix a few legs on the bottom of the barrel to even up its level. Just need to drop the barrel over the gas cylinder. Easy to just extend the length of the gas pipe into the forge

It`s the only way the media will publish their views. Pun intended.

Which shop did you purchase the mounts from so we can also avoid? Very poor after sales service. Name and shame as per your email to them. FB

Often used a long screw driver pressed to the ear to listen for tappet noises and as a heating engineer water flowing and pump rotors spinning. A decent length screw driver is a must to keep your head/hair away from spinning fans etc. You really dont need any thing sophisticated, a long dowel rod pressed against the ear will do just fine. I believe that the Dr`s stethoscope was developed from just this method as it was realised that sound amplified through a wooden carrier and further developments brought us to where we are today.

I use the Google maps on my phone, it constantly updates and gives you options so you can divert if there is traffic congestion ahead and also gives the increased time and distance. I also use it when using hire cars abroad, don`t want to pay their stupid prices to discover they are programmed in Spanish, did that once. Tip here is to switch your mobile phone off, then on again and Google loads up with the country you are in and it's also in English. Just take a 12 volt car charger with you, job done. Remember when you arrive back in Blighty to switch off and on again or you find your routes starting in Gran Canaria or where ever!.

I have used PPU brass in preference to any other for 10 years or more for reloading, 308,243 and 223. Very few issues, hardly any have suffered with neck splits and I am not overly fussy with annealing or cleaning the cases. I also full length size each case and crimp each cartridge. I also use murom primers and buy them 3 or 4000 at a time both small and large so that takes care of batch differences, not that I have found any perceived differences as I retain all my shot targets when testing. I also purchase vast amounts of PPU bullets and they work just fine as a bread and butter bullet. When going onto live quarry I use Hornady SST or Sierra game as they do have the accuracy edge, but as in life you get what you pay for. Use with confidence I say, most of my reloading pals do the same with 222 and 30-06.

There are a couple of used ones on the Evil Bay if your in a hurry. Get an alignment tool as well, then you will never need to worry about blowing the thing apart. Had mine over 15 years.

Had mine years and only ever had to change the batteries. Use it regularly in an airgun club I run. Make sure you buy the Bore guide with it (If it is still available, it works great with 177, 22 and 25 steps machined into it so you can`t miss align it. Also has a flash light on the other end. I never bothered with the computer link). Excellent bit of kit, worth every penny especially if you like to tinker with your rifles and know you are safely below the legal limit.

Just logged on to 3 sites to check that all is ok, which it is. Try a reboot as suggested. FB

My bro and I used to buy a box of .177 for 3 old pence. (A very long time ago). When the fairground people turned up at the local park we headed to the shooting stalls. The stall owners had some old Diana's that had a small piece of tube braised on the front end of the barrels to accomodate a cork, which was then fired to knock the prizes off of the shelves.The corks just weren't man enough with the clapped out rifles, but with pellet assist, did the job ok at 6 feet. The stall owners often used to remark that the boxes of liquorice allsorts had a small hole in them? Didn`t affect the taste though.

That brings back memories, my Nan used to use it in the cotton washes in the old gas boiler on a Monday morning to keep the whites white. If I remember it was in a cube about the size of a snooker cue chalk, except she kept it in a cotton bag. Boiler used to steam the Christmas puddings as well, minus the dolly blue of course. FB

The nest foam works a treat. I had a wasps nest in an old green house, that was about about the size of a rugby ball. I gave it a long blast of foam (from around 10 feet away, and it instantly began to dissolve the nest, the wasps were sticking to the foam, returning wasps were also sticking to the goo. Less than an hour later no problem. Go get em. FB

As said before can be very serious for some and even fatal. Knew a farmer that died besides his tractor some years back, he had forgot to take his eppi pen. Was gone before help reached him. Stay safe, it`s dangerous out there for the unwary. FB

I have ordered one one these from the evil bay this morning. Even though the blurb says it wont work on Win 10, my pal who has one says it will with a small app down load. Also works on the more modern mobile phones. Not teaching my granny etc etc, there are two bore sizes, I have ordered the 5.5mm. 133089880066 Hope this helps. FB