If this is a fairly standard drain plug it is not designed to seal via the threads. If it were it would have a tapered thread and there would be some justification for using PTFE tape. It is the annular flat on case and plug flange where it must be sealed. If the surfaces were completely flat and ...

I have just got a Kia Niro and a couple of days ago I spent 15 minutes trying to understand how the USB player worked. It is unnecessarily over complicated because after it has digested the couple of thousand tracks it can select by artist/album/folder and this affects the random play options and ...

Once you can use fibre to premises internet speed limitations ( at least in the UK) are just a means of having a charging scale rather than a technical limitation. When it reaches your own home network external fibre speeds can broadly match ethernet speeds for wired networks. Wireless speeds are of ...

Would the rider be given insulated or water-cooled heat proof trousers? Call Wallace and Gromit!

Meaningless techno babble probably written by AI!

...But if I was a multi-millionaire I would still buy it and run it ( carefully!) on my private race track. The anti-dive front brakes are a blast from the past but those AP callipers probably couldn't match modern Brembos.

The "fairness" of taxation is as questionable as the fairness of insurance costs. I have three modern vehicles and two historic ones but the fact is that I can only ride or drive one at any given time. Paying five insurance premiums is as bad as paying three times for road tax. It is often proposed ...

I have tried a mechanical one similar to Crust's posted above. I agree that they help somewhat when precisely set up. But on an older bike everything else needs to be in best order. Its a simple trade off between more leverage and less movement so considering the bite point, the finding neutral when ...

In my area parking is usually free for two wheelers but they can get finicky about only using marked bays. One enforcement service tried to fine me for not parking in a proper bay but I appealed against it and won given that the location was actually not specifically marked at all and it turned out ...

I am of such an age that I only had to pass a round-the-block type of test to get a full license for bikes at 16 and cars at 17. These were no trouble because I had been driving tractors cars vans and bikes on a farm from the age of about 11!

Now very much older slower and stiffer I ride much less ...

10,000 rpm and variable inlet cam timing! From the photo it looks like double valve springs possibly different materials ( titanium?). Cross-over technology from racing still seems to have a place for bikes.

As a two finger typist I just make a choice between wired or wireless for each computer location then get the cheapest full size that I can. I also use Logitech wireless for armchair/tv use and it has good enough range for that. I've had only one disaster with a really cheap unbranded one which ...

Dynamic charging will come for all of us, sooner or later, for all electricity use.

eg
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d44ld97dyo

Given that my smart meter has only worked for about 30% of the time since it was fitted and EDF have failed to take a gas reading from it for more than a ...

I bought a mid-price Duratool D03122 a few years ago and it is still good. I have blown the odd internal fuse when measuring current but it still accurate enough for most purposes. I tend to make a mental note of any inaccuracy when measuring voltage but unless very small values are involved its ...

That's exactly what I found when I splashed out on the Creality K2 plus after giving up on the CR10S Pro. The new one is much faster and generally works first time producing much better quality parts. The remaining limitation seems to be the material properties of PLA and alternatives. When I can ...

This is a difficult issue which I am all too familiar with and the idea of a simple solution doesn't really hold up. I provide "support" for several members of my family, none of them older than myself! Problems can crop up, even on the latest machines. For example I had to download Canon printer ...

I have four of these ranging from an Asus NUC14 with Core Ultra i7, MSI Cubi N with N200 processor, GMKTec G5 with N97 processor, and finally an old Dell Optiplex 3050 bought second hand with Core i7 processor.

The Asus would probably be overkill but I use it as a high resolution music server and ...

I do like the old cops and robbers stuff from a few decades ago. Part of the reason is just nostalgia for the old cars etc. in the street scenes;



How old? :D

https://youtu.be/Db2FJslqUlk

I never really liked Z-Cars but the very mention of it sends that horrible theme tune jangling around ...

I do like the old cops and robbers stuff from a few decades ago. Part of the reason is just nostalgia for the old cars etc. in the street scenes; but somehow I can stomach the violence and mayhem because it seems like pure fantasy whereas modern ones are just too realistic and nasty.

The Endeavour ...

Landline yes. A copper one but only carrying the Fibre to Cabinet final stage. I then use an IP phone and generally don't share my mobile number.

If/when Openreach offer full fibre to my address I will probably switch but my IP phone service is not linked to any base ISP. Incidentally my primary ...