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[quote user="Rabbie"]Gluestick In the final analysis the Brexit vote was a narrow but decisive win for Brexit. We must all accept that and work towards getting the best possible result for the UK. It is not helpful when Brexiteers go on about Remoaners and other similar phrases. [/quote] Perhaps you might care, Rabbie, to espouse such views to the editors of the Guardian, Independent, BBC news, New Statesman et al? [:D] Personally, I was never a died in the wool "Brexiteer", but rather a pragmatist. Hoping that sanity might prevail, in Bruxelle, particularly; yet the idiot demanding all negotiations proceed in French - when it was established by common consent many years back that English was one of the official languages of the EEC/EU - is clearly not an adult. However, I shall refrain from using such terms in future. Edit: just checked: I actually wrote "Remainers", thus I cannot state, mea culpa, on this occasion.

[quote user="woolybanana"]Which banks will go where when the big pull out begins later this year and in 2017?[/quote] Sabre Rattling again, Wooly; stoked by Anthony Browne, head of the BBA (British Bankers Association). I well remember back in the days leading up to The Big Bang, an American international banking consultant friend and colleague calling me to impart a conversation he had just had with a senior Goldman Sachs executive he used to work with in Wall Street. They were discussing Goldman's plans. My chum was told, "We aim to gain control of the Brits bond markets; the rest is small potatoes and of no interest to us whatsoever." Personally, I do not buy in whatsoever to the myths surrounding the City of London and how it is an essential wealth generator for Britain yadder yadder yadder etc..... Many of the high earning traders are ex pats and pay no taxes in Britain. Unfettered venal bankers have destroyed much of Britain. Not added to it. Remember, I used to work there! [6]

[quote user="lindal1000"] Would the EU allow Ireland to negotiate a special arrangement with a non EU country? Would Ireland want to?[/quote] Agree Lindal. They ought pragmatically to build on the extant base of multinational transglobal trading major corporations they have already enticed with intelligent tax incentives and leave well alone.

[quote user="PaulT"]Our house has a 1500 litre oil tank - great BUT thematerial it is made from is thick and in a dark space you cannot see through it. As there is no level gauge it is a case of climbing up, removing the filler cap, peering in and with some light getting through having my able assistant run a finger up and down until it is at the oil level. Now, I can judge how much oil there is. Did think of two folw meters, one in the flow and one in the return and take the return from the flow to arrive at the oil used and then subtract from 1500 when the tank was filled. Did think that if there was a dial gauge with a string and float attached to the cap a quantity could be arrived at. Is there a solution?[/quote] Certainly is; in fact more than one. Bricodepot used to sell precisely the sort of contents gauge you are seeking. It is either a "Jauge Pneumatique télévar" or a Jauge Mécanique verticale". Mine is an old catalogue, now: jst checked my local Bricodepot site, not listed. However Chappie ought to have these. Standard kit on a cuve.

Personally, Mint, I find it rather arrogant; placing Southern Ireland's demands etc above Britain's. Let's remember, Eire, as it became to be called, achieved independence and separation from Britain way back in the 1920s and Eamon de Valera. See here: Also worth perhaps remembering, The Celtic Tiger (Southern Ireland's Economy) did exceptionally well - even being fined by the mighty idiot EU for being too successful! - until it allowed itself to believe property values could increase for ever at crazy inflated rates and allowing Irish and foreign bankers to screw everything up, as they tend to always do. The Grauniad, is of course a hot bed of whingeing remainers and Leftys and becomes worse by the day. Also perhaps worth remembering that as a result of the original treaty and subsequent agreements, Irish nationals have always enjoyed the right of abode and work in mainland UK. Much to the disgust of the security services and the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police, who agitated for, as a minimum, a register of Irish citizens living and working in Britain; in order to control IRA and Provo outrages and terrorism. This never happened. I spent some time in Southern Ireland, back in the late 1970s and early 80s, working on a major consulting project and thoroughly enjoyed my time. and the whistlestop  tour of the republic my clients kindly gave me.

They certainly interpret French planning laws rather, err, loosely when the commune Maire's palm has been well greased.............

IMHO experience, nectaraine, not a lot! I wrote two years ago to our Prefecture and still await an answer........ Some years back, I wrote to M. le President Sarkozy, to protest the then plans of introducing a punitive tax on second home owners; as I similarly wrote to Hague the Vague, then Foreign Secretary. I received a charming personal letter back from Sarkozy's Chef de Cabinet, reasonably quickly; no response whatsoever from the FCO.

[quote user="PaulT"]Always amuses me, some of the countries with large debts giving money to those with small debts. Perhaps Gluey you could explain why that is sensible. Most financial advice I have read is that if you have the money pay off your debts.[/quote] It is far from sensible, Paul. Point of fact it is insanity! The sheer desperation of the ECB and Draghi is well illustrated by the ECB's hoovering up bundles of junk debt instruments (bonds). See Here: Core problem, today, with the Western World is debt. Governments, politicians and people, have become addicted to debt, readily provided by banks which themselves are on the edge of insolvency. It has become a case of follow my leader; banks have themselves been creating fresh new money like fun. This is called Credit Money Creation; which has been uncontrolled by central banks. Now the core problem with Fiat Money ( Money which has no real intrinsic value and the backing of, e.g. bullion) is this falls outside of the ambit of central bank controls. A primary and critical function of central banks is to carefully monitor money supply against GDP. When money supply outstrips GDP (expressed as real value related production, such as work supplied, goods created and sold etc), then real i.e. "Monetary Inflation" follows, inevitably. Commercial banks today, instead of taking in capital to lend on, source their main financing from the now global Interbank Money Markets, on a day-by-day basis. This allows banks to grow at dizzying rate. All is fine until one fine day, they are unable to roll-over the debt with fresh lending. Which is precisely what happened to the American bank Continental Illinois in the 1980s. Luckily, the Federal Reserve were able to prevent the contagion spreading. See here: See Here: Paul Volcker, the head of the Federal Reserve warned that the Ultimate Domino Effect was bound to happen  sooner or later. This is when lenders refuse to continue to refresh debt and demand repayment in full. This process can spread rapidly and major banks collapse, insolvent, one after the other. It nearly happened in 2007/08 over the sub prime debacle: it could soon happen again with the ECB...

[quote user="woolybanana"]Gluey, you last message but one; please rewrite the first (four line) paragraph in words that the average Brexit supporter can stand - and Norman. Remember that most of us here are old and sozzled and generally don;t understand some of your lovely sounding words!!![/quote] OK Old Yellow long curved one. I believe you mean this one? [quote]The present Pound - Euro exchange rate, is simply a prototypical speculation on Forex markets; mainly since ALL economic and financial metrics are indicative of a reverse reality.[/quote] Speculators: these are now huge banks and financial institutions who each day trade vast chunks of currencies at small profits using computer buy-sell systems. The origins of the Foreign Exchange Market were where genuine importers and exporters needed to exchange a foreign currency in payment for goods they had sold as exports or needed to pay for imports. In other words a genuine exchange of value. Today, the majority of exchange trades are by gamblers, who then screw up the real honest true value equation: plus, of course, the major banks who have been found guilty of rigging the market. See Here: "All economic metrics": metrics in this sense are the various items used as measurement by economists and analysts to assess risk and the forecast probability. The main risk exposure in forex gambling or forex investment are loss of capital value, when the capital is changed back into the investor's home currency. At times, for example, interest rates can be higher in a foreign currency, than one's own and it can be profitable to change say Pounds into Dollars and gain a higher rate of return. A capital loss can clearly wipe out all interest earnings and more. "Indicative of a reverse reality". The driving down of Sterling against the Euro flies in the face of all economic indicators; i.e. employment, GDP, national debts of Eurozone states etc. Clear now?

[quote user="mint"][quote user="woolybanana"]But, surely, the Scotch will benefit.[/quote] the sticky tape or the whisky?[8-)] [/quote] Oh I love this, Mint! As a Scots friend instructed me at Grammar School - all those dim distant years ago, sigh [:(] - "Scotch is Whisky. People are Scottish or Scots!" P.S. 3M had not at that archaic time invented the clear adhesive tape!

[quote user="mint"]Paul, the politicians, Mark Carney, the business world all know that Brexit means  a weaker pound.  So, nothing really new to digest as such. Might just have to learn to live with it. [/quote] Mint; You have been reading too many idiot journalists! The present Pound - Euro exchange rate, is simply a prototypical speculation on Forex markets; mainly since ALL economic and financial metrics are indicative of a reverse reality. Unemployment: Core Eurostate unemployment is almost DOUBLE UK's figures: (EU - 9.6%: UK 5.4%): Youth Unemployment: See Here: Italy: Most banks are on the edge of insolvency. The state has failed to collect in excess of One Year's Tax Revenues! Germany: Deutsche Bank (the largest German Bank) is in serious liquidity troubles and its stock value has more than halved. Merkel refuses utterly to bail it out. EU States: GDP versus Debt. See here: Even the mighty Germany's Government Debt is now approaching Britain's! Furthermore, the cost of Merkel's folly de grandeur over allowing 1 million migrants is backfiring, badly and rapidly. Germany will spend in excess of $100 billion in associated migrant costs; as a very conservative estimate. Which translates into ever higher taxes on log suffering German taxpayers and a big hike in Sovereign Debt (Government borrowing). As posted earlier, one of the primary architects of the Euro now admits its core problems and flaws. However, this is an excellent further analysis of Otmar Issing's statement. See here: Despite Project Fear, the twin cheer leaders being Dave and Gideon ( Twee Georgie), the ensuing metrics went directly opposing, their, Carney's, the OECD and IMF forecasts of doom and collapse of the UK economy! FTSE went up to new highs; Inwards Investment continued, even a major FRENCH bank - Soc Gen, will invest in Britain! See here. See here: The IMF, not ably led by the tangerine-faced French lawyer (what the hell does she actually know about finance and banking?) Christine Lagarde, emerges very badly indeed in the whole financial meltdown and particularly concerning the Euro mechanism. See here: In its founding charter, from the Bretton Woods, new Jersey, conference in 1944, the IMF had a core tenet of destroying currency speculation, by IMF coordinating a defence against currency speculation by joining central banks together to jointly attack speculators, through the mechanism of hoovering up massive tranches of attacked currency and dumping on the market in order the speculators "lost their shirts". Of recent, this, they have singularly failed to do. It is yet another exemplar of why the IMF is no longer fit for purpose. Thus, do not frettle pettles! The forex (foreign exchange) markets will son settle and the Pound-Euro recover to sensible exchange level territory.

Surely, private land in France is precisely that? The proprietor seems to enjoy the right to ban hunting on their own land and the common practice seems to be putting up notices advising this. See here: Common land is somewhat different.

[quote user="cajal"] And it does demand a Grease Trap on the waste water: called a Bac Degraisseur. Only if the fosse is installed 10mts or more from the bathroom and kitchen waste. regards cajal [/quote] Which is fine. If one likes the concept of the grey water clogging up the outlets in the discharge field and having to dig it up etc every few years... I have been utterly horrified, over the years to see the gunge from detergents, bathroom products which reside in waste pipes; and that's without the gunge from sinks and dishwashers in kitchens.

[quote user="andyh4"]I am fairly certain that current norms do require grey water to be routed through the fosse, but if they are not so routed the world is not going to come to an end.[/quote] Yup; called a "fosse toutes eaux". And it does demand a Grease Trap on the waste water: called a Bac Degraisseur. The only water that must under no circumstances enter the fosse is gutter water. Ergo, a soakaway; or better yet a big reservoir tank for recycling and watering the garden.

[quote user="f1steveuk"]Can I just throw in the words, series and parallel, which can also bugger up an equation set in stone! Auto electrics, I gave up on doing my own years ago, a field now totally on it's own, and no fun at all!! Anyway according to my Merc' wiring diagram, the three "power sockets" are two in parrallel, and one in series, this series one having the lower rating............... [/quote] Actually, Steve apart from such as ECUs etc, it is very much the same: if one considers the dynamics as main digital stuff, such as ECUs, and all the sub-systems and senders, etc which are still mainly analogue. Most of the peripheral bits, even where some solid state devices have been used, can usually be repaired. Luckily, I have an excellent contact in Norfolk who is electronically whiz enough to repair ECUs etc. The only problem thus far has been Air Mass Metering Devices: since to re-fettle these and set 'em up, needs an accurate air flow bench. Resorting to first principles, recently, allowed my son (with a bit of help from his poor old Dad) to recently sort out a problem with his Porsche Boxter S. The car was suffering from a spurious battery discharge, for no good reason. There were certain strange phenomena, too; such as the so-called Audio-Visual module, which consists of Sat Nav; Computer; CD/Radio and onboard cell phone would crackle and his through the speakers when not in use... Also, the Audio-Visual Module would either work or not, as it felt at the time. The Phone sub-assembly was under the driver's seat; a pig to remove. He doesn't need or want the phone, as he has a very good hands free iPhone system. The phone module was at fault. The Audio-Visual Module uses Fibre Optics instead of plain ol' wire. Solution: purchase a fibre optic loop, which removes the phone from the audio-visual module but still allows the rest to function correctly; and disconnect power from the phone. His previous vehicle was a Mini-Cooper Turbo R56 or summat: always going wrong as detectors, senders and sub-systems gave many problems. All far too complicated for a simple man such as myself. I adore simplicity! K.I.S.S

Was not near anything such as Umbelliferae family, Andy. Interesting family of plants: See here: Now the swelling has gone down, I can see one central hole. No fun, whatever!

Interesting area this, Steve. In the UK the majority of the Boy Racers fail to realise (Did they ever?) that by modifying - chipping included - their pride and joy fails type approval, operated in UK by VOSA. See here: Additionally, if modifications are made, then their vehicle constitutes a breach of the Road Traffic Act: their insurance can also be repudiated by underwriters. "Modifications" includes wider wheels and tyres which do not conform to the type approvals granted. Presumably, the glitzy LED lights would fail too... Chipping, for more grunt, would breach European emissions, as well. One small item of possible interest... Happened on a website, when I was searching for 50 m.m. ID ally expanding air hose, on this outfit. They sent me a large catalogue with my order. See here: Headlight reflector paint?? See Here:

Not really wildlife, except I was pretty wild about this! Ten days or so, (last day in France) Mrs Gluey and I were picking fruit from what we laughingly call our orchard and I was bitten by summat. Not that I knew at the  time..... Driving back to Blighty, in my usual fashion - right arm resting on the top of the door- it was pretty hot and sunny and my right arm started itching like mad. It gradually swelled and discoloured... Went to the quack first day I was back and it was diagnosed as a Horse Fly Bite. Huge doses of antibiotic over seven days (which does my old tum tum and lower bits no favours) and now almost normal again. Not a good "Selfie": tricky to take a pic of your arm. Apparently the bad infection caused a massive bout of cellulitis. No fun...

Our little family moggie, was not a biter or scratcher, apart from little "Love Nips" at certain times. Except............. Mrs G and I had to take her along to the Vet. I borrowed a cane cat basket from friends, arranged to collect Mrs Gluey at the local station. Now the cat hated going in cars! She loved cars and would walk around all over the engine if I was working on it: particularly loved sitting between the V block between the cylinder heads if it was warm! At this time I had a Rover V8 3.5: they had a nice V8 growl from the engine. So, I set off, cat in basket on the seat net to me: reached the end of the road and the cat turned into a berserker! Managed to sneak her paw through the air-hole nearest to me and claw my left arm open........ Parked at the station to wait for and collect Mrs G, she immediately became docile. Set off for the vet, berserker; however safely on the back seat this time! Reached the vets, sat in the waiting room; docile. Weird. Into vet's consulting room, cat out of basket on large stainless steel examination table; nothing untoward. Vet shoves lifts tail and thermometer up her rectum and I am waiting for the blood! Nothing. Vet feels her all over; no reaction at all apart from a questioning look - vet decides to see if cat has any tooth decay. Vet has large nose. Opens cat's jaw, wide and sticks his large proboscis deep into cat's mouth and sniffs, loudly. No reaction. Back in car, start engine; Berserker again! [8-)]

[quote user="Jonzjob"] V over IR is set in stone [geek] [/quote] With the exceptions of Maxwell's Equations and Kirchhoff's circuit laws. Which came later and modified, qualified and defined Ohm's work. I am still pondering this question. Consider: If a resistance be added to a circuit, then this causes both current limitation (e.g. LED current limiting resister): However, adding a resistance lowers voltage in the circuit: a given dynamic. However, again, using Georgie Ohm's Law, if voltage is lowered, the since (in the case of the car kettle) it still demands to operate at 170 watts and is a resistive load: Ergo, again Ohm's law, since the voltage is lower, then therefore the current must increase. Puzzling... [8-)]

[quote user="mogs"]Having just been bitten my one of my own cats, when the vet was trying to take blood, it put me in hospital for 3 days, emergency surgery and now on penicillin for another 10 days, I can tell you I'm not very happy about cats atm. I've always been a cat lover, and adored my own cats but this just takes the biscuit. A cat we've loved, given a good home to, rescued from a house fire 6 years ago and he turns on me like that. Oh back to your own problem - I've heard citrus peelings scattered about helps deter them as they don't like the smell of that.[/quote] Sorry to learn this, Mogs. Rather worrying recent data has emerged from CDC (Centre for Disease Control) in Atlanta, Georgia. See here: Personally, by nature, I am a dog lover and speak fluent dog! That said, years ago we also adopted a young neutered queen and she became a core member of the family. That said, owners allowing cats to roam freely has become a damned pest: and quite a concern with disease.

I thought TCP smelled rather like that anyway, Chancer! [:D]

[quote user="Jonzjob"]But that apart you don't get very much in the way of AC in a car init [blink] [/quote] Alternator apart.......

Woolly: buy a water blaster gun. You know one of those things kids use to drench each other. Fill with a mixture of TCP and water; not too strong. Drench cats. They hate it 'cos the TCP smell lingers. This will not injure the moggies, Good ploy as the jet can reach quite a distance.

Not totally convinced adding contact resistance would actually lower the current, Jonz and Chancer. Since by adding in yet more - spurious - resistance would increase the current demand from the kettle. Since as the voltage would drop, significantly, the current trying to flow in te circuit would increase. This was practically reinforced to me back in the early 1980s... In those far off days, amongst other things, I owned a Data and Telle Comms company I founded. I gained a contract to install an advanced Blik intercom system by desk telephones system in a City of London office. The system was powered by a mains PSU, with a 13 amp standard plug. Standard current draw probably around 8 amps, maximum. The system kept blowing 13 Amp fuses. My installations manager had sourced a  cheapo  nasty plug ( I always insisted upon MK or similar). Fool! In the end, I travelled up to the client's offices to diagnose the problem. The damned mains plug! [:@] Poorly machined prongs; high contact resistance: BANG! Ad infinitum. Replaced with a brand new MK unit; no more problems. Food for thought, perhaps?