Integrated valve amp with phono stage

[Greg.]

If I put up a shelf, the slots in the screw heads all line up the same way!!!!!

Ah, a man after my own heart. Attention to detail etc. Trouble is, it's this addictive perfectionist approach that keeps us all at it, striving to find the audio holy grail.

Just a thought though, if I lived in Scarborough and having seen Paul build an amplifier, would I consider employing him as my plumber........

Best wishes,

Greg

[Richard]

If I put up a shelf, the slots in the screw heads all line up the same way!!!!!

Wrong though unless it's by accident as they'll all have different torques on them.

Rich

[Mike G]

Ha, Spoil sport! Sounds like a cop out to me that Richard!!! A true tradesman can tell from experience when somethings over tightened!! Mind you wooden shelves are not quite so critical as say you engines cylinder head!!

[Greg.]

But Richard, you miss the point. Precission made screws will be torqued equally and the slots will of course, line up

Best wishes,

Greg

[IslandPink]

Next time we have an Eggborough meet we'll need a Combi-boiler on the table to identify the group ..

at this rate ..

MJ

[NickG]

When I worked for a company doing industrial control gear, we always left the site after making sure all the screw heads were in a line. That way if we were called back to fix something we could tell if anyone else had taken anything apart.

[Paul Barker]

Well aplaudable but completely irrelevant to competence. If you old hands were really that gopod how come I am triping over unsafe situations all the time many going back 30 years or more? Things are a lot tighter for us today, we can't fart without John Prescott's permission.

[Andrew]

Fascinating chaps....how a good thread can wander.

Anyway, I wouldn't buy a combi either....unrelaible and if they go wrong you're stuffed without HW and CH.

A combi is affectionally known in engineering circles as a SPOF (single point of failure). Not a good idea in Scotland as it brass monkeys at the mo'. If I had to get a a combi I'd get an decent electric shower fitted just in case. At least with a regular bolier/tank you can switch on the immersion if you get a failure. Ok no CH but at least you can washup/shower/bath etc.

Some of the latest regular boilers can be just as efficient as combi and although you loose the space of a tank at least you get warm linen cupboard and somewhere to get the homebrew started...

cheers,

-- Andrew

[Paul Barker]

On our energy efficiency training (one of the many courses we;ve had to pay for ourselves due to the nanny state) they told us that it has never been proven that a combi is more efficient than stored hot water.

Basically combis were massively oversold because installers made a fortune out of them. It's as big a scandle as the endowment policy scandal.

The latest marketing scam of the manufacturers is the unvented cylinder, another completely unnecessary piece of kit to make money out of you from

[James D]

The latest marketing scam of the manufacturers is the unvented cylinder, another completely unnecessary piece of kit to make money out of you from

So Plumbing and central heating really is like HiFi!!!

James