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Sir Joseph Whitworth and the Confederate Sniper

2nd July 2025 Tom Pudding 2596 Comments

Introduction In March 2024 I purchased a first generation, Birmingham-made Parker-Hale replica of a Whitworth military pattern muzzle-loading rifle of the late 1850s. These iconic rifles gained legendary status following their use in the American [more…]

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Digitising Old Audio Tapes

23rd June 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 2465 Comments

There were three tasks involved in modernising and preserving the family archive, the second of which was to digitise the audio recordings. Digitising the old photographs was covered in a previous article, while digitising the [more…]

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14th June 2025 Always Worth Saying 2270 Comments

As Energy Secretary Ed Milliband’s Net Zero cultural revolution gathers pace, this week he announced a nuclear renaissance. A new £14bn reactor is planned for Sizewell. Small modular reactors (SMRs) are being championed through a [more…]

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9th June 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 2101 Comments

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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3rd June 2025 Swiss Bob 2593 Comments

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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27th May 2025 Swiss Bob 2479 Comments

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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Home Backup Systems, Part One

20th May 2025 Swiss Bob 4903 Comments

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 2071 Comments

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…]

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The Case Against the F-35

10th April 2025 Patrick Barron 2232 Comments

In the past few months several reputable aviation magazines, such as Combat Aircraft Journal Magazine, have stated that the F-35 is not combat capable. Its April issue had many reports related to the progress of [more…]

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