Any question answered...

As I drive up to ten different customers' cars a day I would say the most popular make is Nextbase. Whether they are any good or not is not for me to say as company policy is that we ask for their removal or being switched off.

Any suggestions for a decent but inexpensive torque wrench? Will be used for stems, carbon seatposts and bars primarily.

Edit: just found the entire dedicated thread. Stand down.

Do customers ever object?

5 years ago when looking for a new car I was disappointed to find out that although many had cameras for manoeuvres (eg parking) none could record. Hopefully next time I buy a new car that will have changed.

Cheers 👍

I think there was someone on here that takes bikes to be donated to healthcare workers, any idea who?

Other recommendations for somewhere to donate a bike welcome

@Thrasher collects bikes and parts for The Bike Project

Nice, cheers! What do you do, if you don’t mind me asking?

Before I do a deep-dive on the topic, has anyone successfully claimed for flight delay compensation? Flight from UK to EU, 3h45m delay to arrival time, 1680km distance.

My wood burning stove has a fan that works by the temperature difference between the base and the head to provide the motive power for the fan.

Why (particularly with ground source heat pumps) can the same principle not be used to run it rather than having to pump in electricity?

Why (particularly with ground source heat pumps) can the same principle not be used to run it rather than having to pump in electricity?

I'm guessing it's because electricity on tap is cheap, while making a generator to drive the compressor and fan in a heat pump is expensive. It's not easy to get motive power out of a system with such a low temperature differential, since the maximum theoretical efficiency of a heat engine is governed by the difference in temperature between the hot and cold sides.

Good point.

has anyone successfully claimed for flight delay compensation?

Yes. I filled out the form on the airline website, waited a few days and then received a load of money by BACS (in my case it was 4x €600 which at the time came out to £2220).

By the (Carnot efficiency) numbers:

Stove T_H ~600K (exhaust gas temperature), T_C ~290K (intake air temperature)

1-(290/600)=0.51

If you're not going to steal from the "house" side (which can't work, because you'd have to increase the refrigerant compressor power consumption more than the work you could get out of a refrigerant expansion turbine, to avoid violating the 2nd law), the temperature differential available from a ground source heat pump is at maximum
T_H ~280K (soil temperature), T_C ~260K (refrigerant compressor intake)

1-(260/280)=0.07

to avoid violating the 2nd law

What if you deny you are doing that and then apologize later?

What if you deny you are doing that and then apologize later?

Then you get a FPN which is more than the electricity bill would have been, thus confirming the inviolability of natural laws.

I'm not sure if it's the same thing but I got £400 compensation a few years ago for a flight that was cancelled. We also got put on a flight the next day and meals and accommodation paid for for the night.

Perfect, thank you!

Asking for a friend.

If I were to grow a few (ahem) plants and then give away the buds to friends and family, how much shit could I get into? Emphasis on give. No money involved.

I don't think intent to supply relies on an exchange of money
But fuck it
You and I are friends and family right

how much shit could I get into? Emphasis on give. No money involved.

14 years, doesn't matter if it's for money, production and supply is still production and supply.

I think @William. was doing this

Ah. Not a good idea then. Scratch that.

Repost.

FFS, just looked at that link. Potential life sentence for shrooms? What fucking country has this become?

Yet I can pour a triple shot martini in the street and toast the Jubilee.

Just don't get caught.