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    Neeves reacted to S04's post in the thread 12v lighting in a workshop with Like Like.
    To be fair, the title does say "12v lighting in a workshop"
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    Neeves replied to the thread Battery to battery charging.
    If Geem does not add to the thread - I recall he reported adversely to a Victron unit (one of the few adverse Victron comments and...
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    Neeves replied to the thread 12v lighting in a workshop.
    If its a workshop - what do you work on or with that does not need power. If you are using battery powered tools - then use battery...
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    Neeves replied to the thread Toast on an induction hob?.
    Surely it depends on one's meaning of burnt and the degree of burn. Lightly burnt ...? Its a bit like the sun, some sunshine is good...
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    Neeves replied to the thread Toast on an induction hob?.
    For 'burnt' use whichever technical term suits, singed might be a better word, or 'lightly coloured' - the problem is how to define...
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    Neeves reacted to ylop's post in the thread Toast on an induction hob? with Like Like.
    Toast is not burnt bread. Toast is created by the radiative heating of bread so that the centre is cooked whilst the browns from the...
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    Neeves replied to the thread Toast on an induction hob?.
    lots of options. One way to make toast if all you have is a hob, or hobs, was simply to make the toast in a frying pan, dry. The...
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    Neeves replied to the thread New standing rigging option.
    Like much marine, or specifically yacht development, the 'innovation' is the application of a known practice to single filament, or a...
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    Neeves reacted to Roberto's post in the thread New standing rigging option with Like Like.
    With all respect, hardly an"innovation", Colligo has probably just bought the machine to make continuous filament elements :)...
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    Just buy a motor vehicle emergency jump start, as back up to the engine start. Relatively cheap, small and many of them will pump up...
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    Neeves replied to the thread New standing rigging option.
    I think Zoidberg has the answer. The device, say stay, has a specified length and they simply (I bet its not simple) loop the single...
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    Neeves replied to the thread UV damage and webbing jackstays.
    Dyneema has no elasticity, the shock loads could be enormous damaging the jack stays, specifically the stitching, the individual and the...
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    Neeves replied to the thread New standing rigging option.
    From a brief and cursory Google search using 'Dyneema DM 20' my understanding is: Colligo are using parallel fibres, of DM20, so a low...
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    Neeves replied to the thread New standing rigging option.
    I agree with the last statement. Depends on the rigging but it would not be uncommon for rigging to suffer from repetitive 'sawing' -...
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    Neeves replied to the thread New standing rigging option.
    What are 'normal operating conditions'? and what is, or are, 'almost no creep' Standing rigging, for a yacht that is used, is not under...
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