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Wotsit. Your stuff with the yellow flux coat is probably the same thing that I use. I used to use my Siverts for silver soldering. Over here I noticed the flux (Borax) residues were Black after an attempted at brazing and caused the pickle to have a black sludge in it. I came to the conclusion that Propane/Butane we get over here was dirty. I bought a ‘Flamefast’ gas/air torch from the U.K. –hence the Hoo-Har about the compressor. This burns at a much higher temperature and burns off the impurities –no more problems. I bought some flux over there called Stellar s.r.l Flux AG1. In use it does not foam up like hydrated Borax you buy from the chemist shop.

Can you tell me about thr Busses in Romania. In Hungary all citizens of the EU who are over 65 travel free on them. Is this the same in Romania?

Hi Richard. I have long thought that Hungary was the world's centre for all things crazy,but Romania sounds a close second. These stories are hilarious. Is there any chance of you and wotsit getting together to write a book. I'm sure it would sell well within this community. Regards, Colin.

Colin - Romania is not even in the same league as Hungary for stupidity and pure pig-headedness. Hungarians do not like being told what to do and what not to do. If a foreigner tells them something, then that is to be totally ignored (or reversed). If you tell them not to do something it is a test of manhood to go and do it. Romanians seem to listen and try to do what you ask. Someone once said “There is no life outside Hungary, but if there is life it is not real life”. Someone else also wrote “The Hungarians are a race of (charming) children”. I am not so sure about ‘charming’ I find them lazy little toads. I am afraid my general specification of a Hungarian is overweight, over muscled and under brained. As to the stupidities I encounter I could write a book a day on them. Where I live 3 meters of elevation is considered to be a hill. It is rather like the Fenlands. The beer and wine is both good and cheap –if you avoid the tourist traps-. The summers are warm. So come and see it.

The drivers here range from suicidal to homicidal. This is especially true since a Hungarian driver joined the F1 circuit. So I have given up driving. My car is a right hand drive and is now illegal in Hungary. Any way the busses are free so why pay for petrol. You can have quite an adventure with them.

Wotsit I too have a large house and garden I built for my late wife. I do not fly if I can help it. I seem to annoy the men from ‘Rent-a-Goon’, I always have.

Edited By Richard Parsons on 23/10/2011 11:12:58