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...

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

Here's a 'Dummy Head' recording I made at Eastbourne Airshow this year (2022) This is a Binaural recording and only works properly on headphones. The microphones are placed inside a dummy head so that they pick up sound in the same way as you and I do. When listened...

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!

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...

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.

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

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...

There's a problem with Roller Saddle Bridges Over lockdown, I rebuilt the Les Paul copy which I'd made back in college around 1976. Originally the neck was one piece mahogany through-the-body (Honduras mahogany no doubt) but it got smashed very soon after completion...