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by Yorkshire Andy
Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:22 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 273
Views: 17628

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

Hedges cut front and back

Lawn has had its first cut of the year just nipped the top off

All batteries now charging off the inverter solar system in the shed no more petrol to buy :mrgreen:
by Yorkshire Andy
Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:57 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 273
Views: 17628

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

Serviced the wife's car at the weekend it's now got a judder :? I replaced the plugs guessing one of the ht leads didn't like being unplugged by the crack I got when I did the give them a wiggle ripping my hand to bits as I recoiled from. 50,000 volts ISH :roll: guess the insulation is breaking down...
by Yorkshire Andy
Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:30 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 273
Views: 17628

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

Postman delivered my order of foam concentrate 3x 6l refill one shot bottles of concentrate add the concentrate to 5.9l of water making 6l of AFFF IMG_20240406_222652500_MFNR.jpg Obviously for a 3l extinguisher I'd add 50ml of foam concentrate to 2950ml of water So even now if the man bans foam I've...
by Yorkshire Andy
Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:29 am
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Charging 12v Lithium Batteries.
Replies: 1
Views: 49

Re: Charging 12v Lithium Batteries.

You've managed to post twice no bother I'll shut this one. And leave the other open for replies

https://www.uk-preppers.co.uk/forum/vie ... hp?t=19089
by Yorkshire Andy
Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:15 am
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Charging 12v Lithium Batteries.
Replies: 2
Views: 69

Re: Charging 12v Lithium Batteries.

Cheap solar charger units are a fire waiting to happen by all accounts should see the heat sink on the back of my renology mppt 20 controller it's huge... Lithium iron phosphate batteries are safer than lipo as in the thermal run away isn't as violent but in the event of them overcharging due to a f...
by Yorkshire Andy
Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:07 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 273
Views: 17628

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

Got the three new solar panels mounted on the shed .. Been revising the home fire preps replaced the older extinguishers in the wife's car .. I've had a sort out and dumped / gifted half a dozen random little extinguisher out of the shed randoms that got replaced due to age / plastic brackets breaki...
by Yorkshire Andy
Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:03 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 273
Views: 17628

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

Arzosah wrote: Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:03 am Very nice, Y/Andy, I must copy the electronic bits of the last few days :)
The basic set up
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by Yorkshire Andy
Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:02 pm
Forum: New Members Start Here
Topic: Re: New and planning on abandonning you all. . . .
Replies: 5
Views: 229

Re: New and planning on abandonning you all. . . .

Oh well dont let the door hit you on the arse on the way out.. want to play silly games as a new member deleting posts leaving dead links and wasting people's time who reply to you .. bye bye
by Yorkshire Andy
Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:12 pm
Forum: New Members Start Here
Topic: Greetings from PPrep.
Replies: 9
Views: 297

Re: Greetings from PPrep.

This may not be the right place to make this query, but it's the best I can do. I've received a private message and can't find a button or other means to enable me to reply; the sender may consider me discourteous. It may be that being as I'm on "probation", I'm not yet able to send priva...
by Yorkshire Andy
Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:09 pm
Forum: DIY and Handicrafts
Topic: Pallet Wood quality Question
Replies: 46
Views: 1026

Re: Pallet Wood quality Question

Just a caveat , this does assume the bases of the shed sides are intact and not rotted . They can also be replaced insitu but it's a fiddly job. The bottom of the shed sides ARE rotten! The frame and some of the bottom panels. So, raising the sides with wedges won't work. Hence the idea of stilts w...