I've got better base.

[Greg.]

Only 'some sort of god' would be increasing the platter mass with a role of plumbers solder........and then talking about it

[James D]

Work, work, work....

where's that going to get you?

[Paul Barker]

Yes I must put some lube in the bearing I've just got gas cock glue in it at the moment.

It's a cross between vision on and plumber's turntable (blue tack and lead soulder).

I'm not home a lot just at the moment.

My trainee passed his corgi exams today, shame he has no skill.

[Black Stuart]

Paul,
he won't be killing people like here in Spain. An apartment block more or less blew up in a suburb of Barcelona a couple of weeks ago. 4 or 5 people died and they have to demolish the surrounding apartment blocks, 5 in total.

The Catalans blames it (I kid you not) - on escaping water. As far as I know with all boilers in the UK (in fact anywhere else other than Spain) - if the water does'nt flow the gas is cut off - hey but this is - we like to keep our heads firmly impacted up our rectums Spain. Like the 18 who died in the Hotel Rural - no one will face any charges. We have an ugly little ****e of a landlord - it's hard to imagine him as a qualified electrician but that is what he says he is. The apartment block is now 10 years old and he had to have the gas boiler serviced - I demanded it - it was the first time in 10 years - he almost cried when he had to pay. Luckily for me or unluckily for him - I had a near fluent English speaker to translate for me, I speak reasonable castillano - he only speaks Andaluz - basically what I said was that if I came home one day and found Angela and our dog and cat dead - he would'nt be but he will have really wished that he were.

He did all the electrics in the apartment - that's why I can't listen to the excellant Spanish Classical radio station.

Black Stuart

[Paul Barker]

Yes on the continent they deal with the expansion of water as it heats up in an unvented hot water cylinder by allowing it to drain from the tpr valve. So that is one less line of defence against explosion than is required by building regs in the UK. Also wasteful of water.

Over here you lines of defence against an explosion which would blow your house apart, no drama a three story house would come tumbling down if an unvented cylinder exploded. Your lines of defence are 1/ expansion vessel or air bubble (internal expansion) 2/ your expansion valve 3/ your tpr valve (temperature and pressure relief valve) 4/ your two port valve which shuts if there is a power cut (fail safe) and 5/ your normal thermostat and finally 6/ your overheat thermostat.

Now I would want that line up. On the continent these things are not taken so seriously.

Any appliance that is left 10 years without a service is a death trap. An integral part of the service is checking of safety devices.

Unvented explosions are more common place and just as damaging as gas explosions, yet we have clown over here without the required qualification fiutting them incorrectly and never servicing them.

I had one call in middle of the night from 70 miles away, noises I heard I just told them just to get out of the house, call fire brigade and get the neighbours out of bed.

On arrival it was fit to explode.. house was a new build, builder had just said to them a year ago when he built it... you don't need to know about what's in there (the cupboard with the unvented cylinder and the sealed system kit for the central heating). No benchmark logs completed, no evidence of qualifications two of which required, unvented qualification and corgi.

Installation was dangerous, I put that one right and wrote to local building control about the situation. Never heard back, I expect a few houses in Pontefract to go bang any time now.

[IslandPink]

...and meanwhile, your speakers got better ?

MJ

[Paul Barker]

Ribbon tweeters.

[Greg.]

Which ones?

[Paul Barker]

Decca Kelly 30

Girl.