Downrating cable?

[AdamW]

Well, to avoid such hassles I picked up the 4mm and 30A JB today. I had considered fusing the cable down to 13A for a 2.5mm run, but I thought that wouldn't provide any benefit other than to let me move it a few days earlier.

Won't get to do it till Wednesday though, I am fixing my friend's bathroom tomorrow. I prefer electrics to plumbing, any smells you get are more 'interesting' than rancid

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I'll send you my recipe for sprout curry, and see if you still think that...

 

[securespark]

I am unfortunate enough to have an inspection manhole in my garage, and I frequently get wind of what next door have had to eat, if you get my drift.....

 

[ban-all-sheds]

That's more info than I wanted.

 

[AdamW]

Yet not as much info as Simon gets...

Don't let them know, if you fall out they might start eating rotten eggs and drinking cabbage water just to spite you.

 

[securespark]

Adam mate, our bedroom is over the garage. Tell me, does Rockwool stop pongs as well as noise??

Ps Is there an emoticon for throwing up?

 

[AdamW]

Perhaps if you put bags of charcoal between the joists: charcoal absorbs odours and I doubt it would be much of a fire risk.

I know people who can't get charcoal to burn deliberately in a barbecue, so in a house it is no doubt safe. Failing that, why not just pour a load of concrete down the hatch?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I know people who can't get charcoal to burn deliberately in a barbecue,

And I've heard of people who can.

For those of you who've not seen this before, the full story, with videos, is here:

http://www.doeblitz.net/ghg/

And a (naturally) very funny article about it by Dave Barry here http://www.thalia.org/comedian.html

 

[securespark]

Idiot!

He may know damn well what he's doing, but accidents happen - where's the safety kit?

 

[AdamW]

Safety kit? That would be the 4 feet distance between him and the barbecue

Note that the building behind the barbecue is built of wood, and is full of wooden tables.

I remember reading about a professor in america who did this (could be the same guy). Funny how academics have such eccentric ways: back in my school days I went to check out Bristol University, and the physics professor demonstrated how you can make 8 litres of ice cream in 2 minutes by using liquid nitrogen! Good ice cream too!

 

[securespark]

Yeah, our nutty chem teach at school showed us how to create a smoking fireball followed by a window-smashingly large explosion using a ping pong ball sized lump of sodium and a huge fish tank.... The only way I can describe him is to liken him to the Doc from Back To The Future.....

No, it definately was NOT responsible, with a class full of 15 yo's. Or any age, CTTOI.

 

[AdamW]

Everyone seems to have had a cooler chemistry teacher than me. My big bro had told me all about the sodium/water reaction and how big the bang was. Then my teacher went and cut off the tiniest bit you can imagine... I reckon we would have got more of a fiz if a flatulent goldfish had been in the tank instead.

He did redeem himself by his party piece mind: large balloon, inflated with 2/3 hydrogen and 1/3 oxygen. Tie a knot in it, float it to the top of the classroom then hold a lit taper up to it (with a very long pole, mind!).