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Thanks - I remember a friend used to work at AWRE rockoned that oiled threads = 1/2 recommened toque as a rule of thumb.... Colin

Couple of thoughts - surely he changed the oil filter as well? (didn't see that) Secondly, he olied the camshaft retaining bolts before torquing them up; I was told to fit dry - or halve the recommended torque if oiled. Anyone comment?

Possibly not a good car for the demo... I could swear that I saw the rust bubbles above the front bumper getting bigger! I've used a couple of spray-on, rinse & brush off cleaners - yhere hasn't been one (so far) that I'd noted as being better. Colin

Quite honestly, that amount of chain moving at that speed - you would need some pretty hefty shock absorbers to stop it tearing out the "Bitts" - or simple braking a link. (The Bitts are the fittings that the old sailing ships had for the end of the anchor cable (rope - not chain) - once all the cable was used, you reached the "bitter end" ...) Rope, of course has an amount of stretch which chain can't have. It looks like the winch was having problems with the motoer, and the band brake just wasn't intented to hold that load.

Hi, Step 5 should be "add 1015".... Basically you enter your shoe size and it multiplies it into the hundred & thousand part of the number. the rest of the addition/subtraction is just fiddling about. e.g. Shoe size = 8 x5 = 40 add 50 =90 multiply by 20 = 1800 - now your shoe size is x8xx (if you have a shoe size > 9, then the first digit will be "2") Add 1014 = 2814, (or 1015 = 2815) subtract 2000 (year I was born ) = 0814 (or 0815) so the "8" has been kept, and the age is simple a subtraction.... Enjoy!

Absolutely. The whole process is automated:- add capsules into one hopper, the powder fill into another, and the capsules are filled and closed automatically. The bulk is then taken to the packaging line where the plastic blisters are formed, filled with capsules (at this point there is a light sensor to check that the blisters have been filled), then sealed and packed into cartons. Obviously, there are QA checks in the process, but there is no requirement for the capsules to be all one way... The different colours used are for identification - the combination of size, body colour/cap colour and printing (if any) is registered and is intended to assist identification of the medication and there are tables to do just that. (similarly for tablets - e.g. Warfarin - comes in 3 strengths 1mg, 3mg, 5mg - all are the same dimensions, but are colour coded brown, blue, red respectively to assist identification) HTH Colin

Hi, At last a question I can answer! What you and I know as "alcohol" - the stuff in the Vodka bottle - is one of a series of compounds claaed "alcohols". Each one has a carbon "backbone" andwhat wewe chemists call a funtional group of "OH" where the O is oxygen, and the H is one hydrogen. The shortest carbon backbone = one carbon atom - one carbon atom forms methanol two carbon atoms forms ethanol three carbon atoms propanol and so on. Methanol has a low boiling point (it produces lots of vapour easily) - 65 C ethanol has a hgher boiling point - about 90C and so on. What you're seing is the vapour abovr the liquid burning - it's about the same density as air, and this has been carefully prepared. DON'T try this at home - vapour / air explosions are messy - especially with a glass vessel in the way. Interestingly, methanol is poisonous - ehtanol is less toxic (don't try for the third bottle of Vodka) but propanol starts to be more toxic again. The Meths that you buy is about 5% methanol, 92% ethanol - and the rest is the purple dye and stuff to make it undrinkable... HTH guys CP09