Recent content by hortimech

I think what the poster was saying was that he cleaned the cadac on his pitch rather than carrying it to the utilities, I also got the idea that he wiped up any slight spills from the cleaning. I don't think he set to with gallons of hot soapy water, splashing it everywhere. As for any grease...

I can probably say with confidence that I know more about fitting 50mm tow balls to ride-on mowers than anybody else on here. Why you might ask ? Because it was part of my job ;-) You need to have a fairly strong chassis or it will bend, the CC and CCC used machines that had a proper steel...

Nothing sprocket posted showed how to fully delete a gravatar account which as far as I can see is the same as a wordpress account. I have also found a wordpress page that says that you cannot delete a wordpress.com account, if this the case and I will need one of these accounts to post, then...

OK, I have looked into Gavatar, I not really happy about using this, there does not seem to be a way of deleting a gavatar account once it is set up. From a quick search of the internet (I could not find a way to search the gavatar site) it would seem that once you sign up, they will track you...

The problem with the end of XP updates is not so much concerned with virus problems, but with any 'holes' that can be exploited. Nobody knows if there are any and if there are any, they will never get closed, so the bad hats out there will try to exploit them and this could be huge problem. As...

Hi Parksy, have you thought about replacing XP with something like Linux Mint? You can download it from here: http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.linuxmint.com/pub/linuxmint.com//stable/16/linuxmint-16-cinnamon-dvd-32bit.iso Just burn it to a DVD and boot from this, It will not do...

If the lock is getting pressure on it when the wheel is lowered, then I would have thought the obvious thing to do is, fit the Al-Ko wheel lock into place, retain with the bolt, lower the wheel into place then fit the lock. There should be no pressure on the lock at this point.

Why not use a 5 pin relay? so that when whatever triggers the relay turns it off, so the relay is only powered when you want to turn the power off.

Well, you could start by reading this pdf: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/209278/guide-to-the-iva-scheme.pdf You cannot just make a trailer anymore, it has to be tested, a bit like building a kit-car.

ER, by the sheer fact that I could read your post means that you can post, so it would seem that you do not need any help, or am I missing something

What is more, agricultural trailers are explicitly exempt, so they can be falling to bits, have no lights etc and they still will not have to be tested!

And not all professionals are at the highest level. Some years ago we bought our first caravan, this was second hand and the owner had got an electrician (who normally rewired houses) to fit him a couple of extra 13amp sockets. The only problem was that he used normal twin & earth cable meant...

Our dogs got one of those and I used to fit them to lawnmowers. Only problem that I can see is, if the police find your stolen caravan and a traveller is living in it, you still will not get it back.

Me as well In fact I will have to use the word verification to post this hortimech

Hi, Just a bit of information first, a 'bolt' that is threaded all the way to the head is actually called a setscrew, to be a bolt it must have an unthreaded part of the shank. So you have numerous options here, get hold a die and thread a bolt to your sample as suggested above, Try your local...