Recent content by ged

A few things come to mind. 1. Be aware that it's brake etc. cleaner that you want, not what I've always known as brake and clutch "fluid". Brake and clutch "fluid" isn't the same thing at all. 2. If I use the brake and clutch cleaner in my Optimus 8 pure, just as it comes from the supplier, it...

Back in the '80s my girlfriend (now wife) got some temporary work at a stately home. While she was working there she lived in the grounds in a caravan some way from the house. The caravan had gas for heating/cooking and for the 'fridge. She used to get through about one bottle of gas a week...

I think it's a bit of both. An upright fridge/freezer isn't very efficient I suppose. I keep thinking I should invest in some solar panels, I could be selling electricity instead of buying it.

If you'd really gone green you'd have ditched the fridge. It never ceases to irritate me that refrigeration accounts for more than half of my electricity usage, and this despite the fact that the fridge/freezer is in an unheated shed outside.

What could possibly go wrong?

My preference is something light and breathable with big pockets. In one of the pockets I'll stuff a lightweight poncho. If it's just drizzling then I don't bother with the poncho but it it's honking it down then I know that with the poncho on top I'll always be perfectly dry. The...

Let's see now... Three on my person as I write - five if you're counting blades because they include a Leatherman Charge Tti and a Victorinox Officier Suisse; three more within easy reach (one's a Gerber multi-tool, so that's really four blades); and two work-horse types by the wood-burner, both...

Yeah, there are regulations which require temperatures over 130C in commercial canning plants. You probably won't get that sort of temperature with a domestic pressure cooker (probably only 120C or just over, even at sea level - and the boiling point of water is reduced by almost 2C for every...

Poetic! With you all the way on that. For anyone struggling with the harvest, I find I can bottle fruit about three times quicker than I can make jam with the same amount of fruit, and it keeps just as well in used jam jars as it does in the relatively expensive, usually bigger and always more...

Startpage user here. It's basically a front-end to the Google search engine. I think using DDG successfully might be an art, and I haven't got the hang of it. I gave up with it years ago. My wife uses it for more or less all her searching. Occasionally she'll ask me to do a search for her...

This thread has been an eye-opener to me. I haven't looked at any of this stuff in years, and it looks like I'm paying twice what others are paying and yet I'm getting a much worse service. Getting a bit away from the topic, does anyone here have a contract which includes a static IPv4 IP...

Must agree with Mr. Budd that kettles left to be colonized by spiders can take some effort to get back to serviceable condition. I think the key is not leaving things in storage for years, but getting out and using them. When I'm at home I use a Trangia kettle every morning on the wood-burner...

I have two British Army Goretex bags - the old style laced laced ones. Nothing comes close in my experience. If I use a tent - rare thesedays - I still use a bag, just so that the condensation inside the tent doesn't soak into my sleeping bag. Once upon a time I went to sleep in a dry hollow...

That's it! Rope Rail. Never heard that term before but that's exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you!

Thanks again all. Toddy, as I said in my OP I don't want to punch holes. I have used and still do use eyelets on these tarps but they're what I'd call high maintenance and obviously once they're fitted permanent, so the leak that you've made is permanent too and thesedays the job is frequently...