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Agreed.

Unfortunately, sufficiently sensitive clamp meters which could measure the current in the CPC are rather expensive.

And yes, you could put a AVO meter in series with the CPC, but there are risks attached!

IIRC the one near Beccles on the Norfolk/Suffolk border is pronounced locally with a hard G.

What you need in this instance is a copy of the BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names.

Having worked there, I can certainly confirm that the "G" in "Gibraltar" is a soft g

Let us pity poor Johnny Foreigner who is learning English - how is he to know how to pronounce the language when we cannot agree amongst ourselves?

As does the online version of the OED. That is for British English, but apparently it is always a soft "g" in the USA.

Personally, I have always used a soft "g".

Well yes.

If we exclude an (earth) fault and inrush, what is left?

If the cables are T&E in plastic mini-trunking, how could they have been damaged? In any event, surely they can be inspected.

I still think that you need to look at the inrush current. It may be marginal, and it may be temperature dependent.

This may help.

Ignoring the angle!

I see what you mean - appropriate spacing might have helped. Given that the incomer is not tripping, that seems to rule out an (earth) fault.

Another possibility is excessive inrush current, which is tripping the type B MCB.

You haven't specified the type of "breaker". Is the relevant one an RCBO or MCB; and what is the type and current rating please?

I cannot answer the first question, but the grubscrews are filling the holes which are used to locate the ratchet of a 4-way tool post. They keep out your frass.

That'll test your household budgeting! I bought my first house circa 1986 with mortgages at that level. A modern car was out of the question, which meant that mechanical skills including welding were essential. How times change!

ETA: 5% MIR is normal.

Edited By Chris Pearson 1 on 08/09/2023 21:10:01

Ah yes. With the shadows moving around in time with the motion of the smoothing iron.

When we moved in, our house did not appear in the postcode database, which caused all sorts of bother when filling in our address online, etc.

Not only did it have a different name when it was built, but it was also in a different street. The water board still uses the old address, but the bills always find us.

So you didn't recognise your neighbour's front door?

The simple response to somebody who says that something is illegal is to ask them to cite the relevant statute.

(Edited to undo "autocorrect" yet again!)

Edited By Chris Pearson 1 on 06/09/2023 15:55:10

My sympathies. I have found DHL satisfactory until this week.

A consignment of wine arrived from Waitrose 4 days late. A dozen bottles were no longer in their cases and the labels are stained. No explanation has been given.

I have rejected the damaged goods today and await a response.

Good effort, but is a kit truly built from scratch?

Along similar lines, I would not call one of these cooking from scratch.

Edited By Chris Pearson 1 on 06/09/2023 15:47:27

Edited By Chris Pearson 1 on 06/09/2023 15:47:38

I have been a customer of BOC for decades. I have never had any difficulty obtaining gas or equipment. Undoubtedly, there will be restrictions in a workplace, but AFAIK, there are none at home. If there were restrictions in the domestic setting, I doubt that they would have made deliveries.

Screwfix (Plumbfix/Electricfix) will not sell me boiler thermocouples. Happily, the plumbers' merchant across the road will do so. I now have a few in stock.

I once had an "engineering" task which was to make a cardboard bridge of a certain width which was to be supported on tin cans (obviously, at each end) and to bear the weight of a third can with a minimum weight of 400 g. The aim was to maximise the length of the bridge.

Clearly, the nearer that I could get to 400 g for the load, the better.

Even ignoring the weight of the tin, I found no produce with a net weight of 400 g. 'Tis odd!

Edited By Chris Pearson 1 on 05/09/2023 18:48:09