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Playing With Electricity – Part 2

11th June 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 0

T.I.B Or Not To T.I.B? PersonX: “Doc, can you just have a look at the vacuum cleaner it’s making a funny noise?” Doc: “Err…well..err…you see I’ve got…err…an appointment with the dentist…” PersonX: “There’s no mention [more…]

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Digitising Old Photographs

9th June 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 0

The first in a short series of articles, which are partly technical (going into a little bit of detail about how the family archive of photos, 8mm home movies, and audio tapes was digitised), and [more…]

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Home Backup Systems, Part Three

3rd June 2025 Swiss Bob 0

Four months on So far I am very pleased with it. No alarms, no problems and good customer service from both sales and technical support. I’m not saying other vendors aren’t as good but Pecron [more…]

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Playing With Electricity – Part 1

28th May 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Sponsored Introduction – SPAD Report Sir Montague Snoddgrass KC the special advisor to the Prime Minister’s Secretary’s budgie, Fred, has replaced his cleaner with a newer model. The old one, Elsie Dustall sucked-up one of [more…]

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Home Backup Systems, Part Two

27th May 2025 Swiss Bob 0

What You’ll Need A Home Backup System, in my case (AC300 + B300K) Solar panels 405w £50 each Solar cable, from Bluetti with connectors and 50m cable only from Electrical World Solar cable crimper Staubli [more…]

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Is there life on (somewhere other than) Mars?

26th May 2025 Northern Man 0

Once upon a time we knew our place in the universe.  The science was settled and the experts agreed.  The Earth was at the centre of the universe and everything we could see in the [more…]

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Home Backup Systems, Part One

20th May 2025 Swiss Bob 0

When I bought my first custom PC back in 1999, a Gateway machine with dual Pentiums (Only PC I ever had which actually did two things at once), one of the things missing living in [more…]

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Book Review: Concorde by Mike Bannister

19th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Introduction In response to Swiss Bob’s lack of articles, I have dashed this out, instead of a fuller version I had planned.  In short, I heartily recommend Mike Bannister’s book ‘Concorde’, which I listened to [more…]

20th Century

Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

2nd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Apologies for last week’s Railway Review, which was far too populist. An article on a mineral railway in Northern Brazil is exactly the type of thing you might read about in a 1960s edition of [more…]

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