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woolyhead

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  1. My tenor trombone is old but it plays. However, as the slide approaches its maximum length it starts to judder. It has to be moving but it doesn't make any difference whether I'm blowing or not. Why might it judder like this?
  2. If a parcel or a letter with no franking on the stamp arrives, you can get the stamp off without leaving the small oval shape behind by soaking the stamp in water then carefully unpeeling it, being especially careful with the small oval part and not letting it separate from the rest of the stamp. A penknife or a scalpel can be useful here. Stick it on the next letter you post using a clear adhesive. I'm not sure but reusing stamps like this may be illegal, although how anyone would prove it had been used before I don't know.
  3. Thanks the bloke and medusa. I will take a better look at it.
  4. My electric oven has a fan inside and when cooking, hot air comes out into the room. Are fan ovens supposed to do that?
  5. Hi Onewheeldave. What I'm asking was contained in my post. Here it is again.....why does that make it unlikely that present day British captains of nuclear submarines would do the same thing?
  6. So, just because one, maybe two, Russian submarine captains (and maybe a rogue British sub officer - who knows?) refused to press the nuclear launch button, why does that make it unlikely that present day British captains of nuclear submarines would do the same thing? And since they are selected for the job they now do, what connection is there with young people in general (who haven't been selected or trained for launching British nuclear weapons)?
  7. I'm a qualified electrical engineer with many years experience. I've even worked on the design of alternator electronics for vehicles but I must confess I have no idea what this discussion is all about. If my car battery ever went flat I would connect a 12 volt battery charger to it and inject a few amps for an hour or so. The connection used big croc clips straight on to the battery terminals. What are these 3 pin adapters you are discussing? What do they adapt and to what and what is the adapted output applied to? Please explain. It's the 200mA bit that intrigues me. Surely that isn't the battery recharge current? Is it the mains current? 1 amp battery current at 12 volts corresponds to 50mA at 240 volts. That's 50 mA mains current per amp of recharge current. So are you working on having 4 amps battery recharge current? All these figs are approximations of course.
  8. Mr Fisk, now that you have clarified things for me by saying "there is NO difference between Muhammad and Jesus- both were messengers of God," I understand. I previously thought you were implying that Muhammed is somehow seen as the true messenger and Jesus a lesser one. Thank you for explaining this.
  9. Mr Fisk, you said Jesus is A messenger of God in Islam, son of Mary. Earlier you said that Muhammed is THE messenger of Allah. Why the subtle differences in your uses between A and THE?
  10. Sorry, I made an obvious mistake. What I meant was Why isn't Muhammed just one of the messengers and Jesus another?
  11. OK Loob, he said it but you brought it to this forum. And why does the personal opinion of a single ex submarine commander carry any weight? I did my National Service 65 years ago and the situation then was similar to what happens now with Trident, ie a lot to do with nuclear warheads. I don't believe that young people have changed so much during that time that they wouldn't do what they were ordered to do. They might not like it, I know, but with a bit of educating and some training they would soon come round.
  12. The five pillars of wisdom says Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. This seems to leave Jesus out in the cold, doesn't it. Why isn't Allah just one of the messengers of God and Jesus another messenger of god?
  13. It has something in common with the order to launch Trident. That is that people would obey the relevant instruction, no matter what Loob says.
  14. No, apelike, I don't think it does. They haven't been ordered not to do it. only advised not to. And if the navy were ordered to launch, do you think they would fail to do so? Of course not. And if people were conscripted and didn't turn up the police would pretty soon be round looking for them. "What they wanted" wouldn't come into it.
  15. El Cid, I also had this problem and through neglect it grew into real knee pain! In the end I went to a NHS physiotherapist who prescribed daily exercises as shown on three sheets of paper. I tried these and they worked well. I can't recommend it enough.
  16. Apelike, you said "People are now so addicted to social media now they would be rioting and committing suicide if their ideal life on the social media platforms suddenly stopped." This is an exaggeration of course but in any case what makes you think that "what people want" matters if conscription into the armed forces, or orders to launch nuclear weapons should occur? We do what we're told, don't we?
  17. Thanks both. What Google told me was something about a settlement pond and a special type of valve. I didn't read either things for obvious reasons. Just as well I didn't use it as a glue or a filler!
  18. Wen raking through all the bottles and tins of liquids in my shed I discovered that I had quite a lot of something labelled RP7. It has virtually no smell, is a white coloured thick liquid which separates into the white base and a brown, thinner liquid which floats to the top, after standing for a couple of hours. I couldn't find it on Google so I tried experimenting with it to see if it was either a glue or a filler or a paint. I painted it onto the rough edge of a piece if chipboard and it soaked into the shipboard and felt slightly sticky as it did so but I still cannot find out what it is or what it's for. It did not set hard and you wouldn't even know it was on the chipboard after it soaked in. Can anyone help me please?
  19. What happens if you do start the engine with petrol in the tank rather than diesel? Does it blow up or something?
  20. The number of new cars sold last month was a mere 1000, according to The Mail. Even if they aren't quite accurate, what are the chances for driving schools getting going soon after the lockdown?
  21. Can you prove that YOU exist?
  22. A few nights ago we looked out at the moon and it had a blue halo around it. And the moon wasn't pink or anything like pink. Did anyone else see the halo? What could have caused it?
  23. That sounds dangerous! I know the actual correcting of DNA is guided by a synthetic RNA strand and implemented by a Cas 9 bacterium. Finding your own DNA is done quite a lot nowadays and because it only involves taking saliva and placing it in an analyser it seems like quite an innocuous thing to do to yourself. But making the right synthetic RNA, called gRNA, seems to me to be very problematic. You would need to know which piece of the DNA you wanted to change and what to change it into. Changing it sounds simple … you just inject Cas 9 and that does the job for you. But it can't really be that simple of course. And the next question is how many of these gRNA strands are needed? None of the videos I've seen on the whole subject so far tell us this degree of detail. Maybe this is just part of what these DIY experimenters are doing?
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