Year: 2015

  • How To Make Safe Financial Transactions

    How To Make Safe Financial Transactions

    Warning NOTE: “I am trying to help people make safe financial transactions but I take no responsibility for anyone’s financial loss. Reading and following this information is done at your own risk.” — HC Introduction This Article About Safe Financial Transactions Covers: How to avoid being persuaded to send money to a fraudsters account,

  • My Weight Is Reducing Slowly But Surely

    My Weight Is Reducing Slowly But Surely

    Introduction Since my last post on body weight (Excel Templates for Body Weight Records) I have continued to try and lose weight. Well slowly but surely my weight is reducing and I have my latest graph to demonstrate it below (select it to enlarge it): I have struggled to lose 35 pounds (2½ stones) over…

  • Lighting Charts – Which Lamp Do I Need?

    Lighting Charts – Which Lamp Do I Need?

    Introduction We are all trying to reduce energy costs and CO2 emissions by choosing modern alternatives to incandescent lamps. Here are some lighting charts to help you select the best lamp for your situation. Since the decline of incandescent lamps there have been many alternatives made available based on fluorescent tubes bent in many ways to…

  • Repairing Rotten Garden Seat Legs

    Repairing Rotten Garden Seat Legs

    Preface This post describes: How to repair garden seat legs that have gone rotten where they come in contact with the ground. The basic method is to remove the rotten wood and replace it with polyester resin. In particular: See the update for 3rd October 2019 entitled, “Replacing The Cap On A Leg.”

  • WordPress Fatal Error Out of Memory

    WordPress Fatal Error Out of Memory

    How I Resolved ‘Fatal Error Out of Memory’ For A Single Post After much editing  of my WordPress post entitled ‘How A Toilet Silent Fill Valve Works’, since I wrote it in May 2014, (there must have been at least 150 edits, and I changed it from a page to a post too) I suddenly had this ‘Fatal…

  • Postures And Movements To Test Agility

    Postures And Movements To Test Agility

    Introduction As people grow older they often lose their agility and so lose their ability to take up certain postures and movements to test agility. This article offers a list of postures and movements to test agility which I have concocted and tried. I would expect these postures and movements to test agility to be easily formed by…

  • Bionic Prosthetic Hand For The 21st Century

    Bionic Prosthetic Hand For The 21st Century

    Introduction I listened to the BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine show on 23rd June and heard a great article about a young woman who had been given a bionic prosthetic hand. A 21st century creation. Her name is Nicky Ashwell and here she is in the following video tweet being interviewed by Jeremy Vine who…

  • Magnetic Levitation Using A Superconductor

    Magnetic Levitation Using A Superconductor

    Introduction Before demonstrating magnetic levitation this video shows a small magnet being cooled to a superconducting temperature using liquid nitrogen. Once cooled the superconducting magnet is shown levitating above a section of magnetic track as seen in the featured image. Further in the video the magnet is kept longer at superconducting temperatures by building a container of …

  • Using Bread Maker Panasonic SD206

    Using Bread Maker Panasonic SD206

    Introduction I made this video of myself using a bread maker (Panasonic SD206) in 2001 but had no means of publishing it back then. So I have decided to publish it now so that the effort wasn’t completely wasted. I hope it helps people who are considering getting a bread maker but are not sure how one…

  • Kitchen Appliance Connection Points

    Kitchen Appliance Connection Points

    Introduction Everyone has to design their kitchen or utility room to suite their circumstances but when my kitchen came up for renewal in 2003 I made specific use of the considerable space behind my pan drawers. I discarded my pan drawer carcase back panel and brought together many of my kitchen appliance connection points onto this large area…

  • Give Dog Tablets Wrapped In Pastrami

    Give Dog Tablets Wrapped In Pastrami

    Introduction If you have ever tried to give medicine to an animal you’ll appreciate how hard it can be to give dog tablets to a dog. Our dog Leo (a Border Collie) is required to take two worming tablets every three months. These are large as tablets go. Large enough to be shaped like a bone.…

  • A North Norfolk Railway Journey On The Poppy Line

    A North Norfolk Railway Journey On The Poppy Line

    Introduction The North Norfolk Railway (NNR), known as The Poppy Line, runs from Holt to Sheringham via Kelling Heath Halt (for Kelling Heath Park) and Weybourne. A total distance of 5¼ miles. It runs along the eastern section of the North Norfolk coast but stays inland from Holt to Weybourne at the western end. After Weybourne it runs nearer…

  • Mira Shower Thermal Switch Replacement

    Mira Shower Thermal Switch Replacement

    Introduction This article advises how I have replaced a Mira Shower thermal switch in a MIRA Sport 9kW Thermostatic Shower on several occasions. Originally I installed a MIRA Sport 9kW Thermostatic Shower as part of a new bathroom and had it tested and certified by a qualified electrician on 1st May 2007. I was very pleased with it…

  • Tiled Bath Panel Construction

    Tiled Bath Panel Construction

    Preface I could write an article about Building A Bathroom or Tiling A Bathroom but I have decided to just cover a Tiled Bath Panel in this article even though some detail of the tiles on the walls is mentioned. Bath panels can easily be made from painted hardboard or plywood, or boards, but a tiled panel…

  • Dishwasher Rinse Aid Dispenser Catch Repair

    Dishwasher Rinse Aid Dispenser Catch Repair

    Introduction It must be nearly two years ago that I first had a problem with my Dishwasher Rinse Aid Dispenser Catch. The tab that has to be pushed towards the top of the door to open the rinse aid dispenser, so that more rinse aid can be added, had somehow broken and disappeared. I found I could continue…