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  1. EalingBadger

    Welcome to the new forum

    I had to on the old site. Bit annoying, but you can kinda see their point.
  2. EalingBadger

    Welcome to the new forum

    Held over from the "other thread" which got closed quite literally while I was typing. Seeing the tally of funnies and so forth building up was half the fun. Personally, I hope they come back (maybe minus the 'dumb' one).
  3. EalingBadger

    Gluing alarm cables to UPVC Window frames & Door architraves

    One word - "Frogtape": FrogTape® Painters Masking Tape,Treated with Paint Block Technology ® - https://www.frogtape.co.uk/
  4. EalingBadger

    The hoary old topic of PME, TN-C-S and earthing rods (not TT)

    Somewhere along the line I picked up a suggestion from a forum posting or two that the DNO does not like you to connect an earthing rod to his "earth" - even though it is effectively just creating yet another, local to your installation, earthing point for the multiple ones already assumed to...
  5. EalingBadger

    Working in (north) London

    Not true. Been there. Done that. Not a happy bunny. :(
  6. EalingBadger

    Gluing alarm cables to UPVC Window frames & Door architraves

    Have you solved your problem yet? If not then take a look at my link in message #100. It really is surprisingly informative if you dig around a little.
  7. EalingBadger

    Gluing alarm cables to UPVC Window frames & Door architraves

    A surprisingly informative link: adhesive for pvc - Google Search - https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&channel=trow&q=adhesive+for+pvc (Better late than never...)
  8. EalingBadger

    Future of euro 6Vans

    It may not be as far away as you suggest: Inductive charging - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_charging#Electric_vehicles Although I too remain a little sceptical but mainly on the grounds of efficiency and cost rather than the accidental disabling of pace makers. Clearly...
  9. EalingBadger

    How to Drill into Ceramic/porcelain Tile Without Cracking It

    I was doubting your assertion that tiles don't crack. Not the same as suggesting that you have ever cracked a tile. I know that I have (not in the last 25+ years or so though), and I am positively ---- about deploying the "correct" tool / fixing for the job.
  10. EalingBadger

    How to Drill into Ceramic/porcelain Tile Without Cracking It

    I am not doubting your personal lived experience. Just suggesting that it does not equate to the entirety of everybody else's, that's all. My experience and that of others would suggest that there are alternative possible outcomes. Outcomes which are best avoided by simply adopting a slightly...
  11. EalingBadger

    Chasing into engineering brick

    What I'd like to know is where can you get a decent ------ these days? Every butcher I try generally gives a response along the line of "there's no demand around here mate". Every time I find myself passing through a new town I try to find the local independent butcher to check out there...
  12. EalingBadger

    How to Drill into Ceramic/porcelain Tile Without Cracking It

    Probably okay to do this now with modern screws that have a neck that is substantially thinner than the threaded part of the screw or are threaded all the way up which allows the plug to easily plastically deform into the relatively large amount of empty space within the thread, but not so...
  13. EalingBadger

    How to Drill into Ceramic/porcelain Tile Without Cracking It

    And preferably knock the plug in until it is below the level of the plaster and into the main fabric of the wall as well. The amount of stuff that falls off of people's walls as a result of not understanding this simple fact is phenomenal. (This advice is obviously not applicable for simple...
  14. EalingBadger

    What is this gland for?

    I can see the plastic body of these splitting after a while in situ thus releasing the pressure on the brass ring holding the armour in. I come across plastic glands which have split as a result of slight overtightening when originally installed on a depressingly regular basis.
  15. EalingBadger

    Future of euro 6Vans

    Around here (West London) the councils are busy installing public charging points on the pavements like they are going out of fashion. I imagine this will spread to other areas soon, so it maybe that the problem of not having a driveway will become moot very shortly.
  16. EalingBadger

    Good deal on Makita drill if you don't need the 'BL' on the side

    FFX are doing a good deal on old stock of a Makita drill at the moment: Makita DHP453Z 18v Li-Ion Combi Drill Bare Unit - https://www.ffx.co.uk/tools/product/Makita-Dhp453Z-0088381661287-18V-Li-Ion-Combi-Drill-Bare-Unit It's cheap because it does not have a brushless (BL) motor. It would make...
  17. EalingBadger

    Help needed for buying the right 16a plug please!

    Never mind a so-called 4,000W amp, back in 2011 I repeatedly challenged Behringer to justify how they manage to supply 3,000W "RMS" via a 13A fuse given that no amplifier is ever 100% efficient. Naturally, I received no coherent reply and eventually they just stopped responding altogether...
  18. EalingBadger

    Help needed for buying the right 16a plug please!

    If the system is truly 4K RMS (and some are despite the generally valid comments from others above about the highly imaginative specs suggested by some manufacturers) then a single 13A socket will most definitely not be sufficient. I run my Turbosound rig (4.5K FOH + 1.5K of on-stage...
  19. EalingBadger

    Notre Dame Cathedral Fire

    Night watchman (or two) with heat sensitive IR cameras. Even so, the speed with which timber this old and dry, surrounded as it typically is by combustible detritus like old birds nest and so forth, can go up in smoke is incredible so a fire may very well have still become uncontrollable before...
  20. EalingBadger

    415v 3 phase sockets and rcd protection.

    Given the propensity of electric heating elements inside catering equipment to break down to earth I would want to fit RCD protection regardless. Better that (and an annoyed customer as the RCD starts tripping intermittently in the future!) than the black mess that will result from the circuit...

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