Last year (2023) the Government decided to give away £7500 of Public money to anyone who replaced their gas boiler with a heat pump. Sounds like a great deal so why has the take up of this grant been so abysmal? Well, there are a few caveats to qualifying for the...

Made a 90° bend jack plug for a guitar lead. I just removed the barrel from a normal jack plug, re-soldered the lead and moulded Sugru around the whole thing with the cable coming out of the side. The brown coloured Sugru gives a nice retro look and I pressed an old...

An extensive guide and comment thread to help repair the Logitech G25 Force Feedback steering wheel. Essential reading if your wheel doesn’t calibrate.

Xerox drop support for Phaser 6180 Colour Laser Printer and many others*Here's how you can get it back and working with all the correct options. Find the printer's IP address on your network. Install the printer as a Generic Postsctipt Printer. Log into CUPS...

A binaural recording of Augustine Leudar’s installation at Wakehurst Place, East Sussex. This is where Kew’s Millenium Seedbank is housed and the experience was part of their “Nourish: art to feed the senses” exhibition.

The power steering (PAS) on my 2012 SEAT Ibiza 1.4 FR suddenly became intermittent. After a 30 mile trip and fortunately only a few miles from home I stopped to refuel but on restarting the car there was no PAS whatsoever. Testing it out on the driveway, it came and...

As totality approaches and the sky rapidly darkens, everyone realises that they are about to witness something special. …this is how people react to the sight of a total solar eclipse!

This is a problem that we had been living with for a while now: when using the ice dispenser a solenoid bangs away all the time the delivery motor is running. The front panel and the light also flash at about 10 times a second. It does eventually dispense ice but VERY...

The RH headphone channel was humming, no audio signal but a DC voltage present! Here’s the fix.

An easy upgrade for any Seymour Duncan single/two wire Humbucker pickup – mine was a Seth Lover bridge pickup.