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I believe you can buy stainless steel polished to mirror quality in 8x4 sheets, or alternatively you could buy aluminium sheets and they might be shiny enough?

Thank god petrol isn't flammable then eh?

Like it or not, the police have to act with regard to the law and judgements that the courts have made. The courts have ruled time and time again that if someone gets injured as a result of something that could have been easily forseen then someone is getting severely punished. If the police...

I've had nothing but grief with the tyre pressure sensors on my current car.

While I understand the sentiment, I like to think the Queensferry Crossing I'll be driving over on my way home tonight was designed by someone with some higher education behind them. :nailbiting: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths ought to be front and centre.

My personal favourite is the post on the magicians' forum. https://www.themagiciansforum.com/post/hi-im-leah-in-the-peak-district-uk-12533251

I've got a Prusa Mk3 one and I get on well with it. Think it was about £700 all in when I bought it but I soon forked out again for the multi-material upgrade which allows it to change between 5 spools without you intervening. I haven't done anything terribly useful with it yet other than...

I've been using Yamaha's quite a bit at work and have been quite impressed with how they drive and feel. Having said that, they get a very easy life indeed yet they've been through at least three footwells across the fleet of four bikes over the space of a year. Clearly some issue there.

There are a great many areas in farming where technology could play a greater role but hasn't gained much traction. I'd put it down to both cost and old fashioned attitudes. One area where technology has gained massive traction is the use of GPS for more precise fieldwork, both to steer the...

One at Cruachan in Scotland as well. Pump-storage serves a very different purpose from Hydro power though and provides important services to the grid. One service is to be able to respond in seconds to feed demand spikes. Another more dramatic purpose is to provide a source of energy to...

Makes you wonder how high electricity will have to go before supermarkets put doors on the fridges!

Make no mistake, many of these types of dogs are bought to keep rival drug dealers away from the house and/or to leave plenty of time to flush the goods down the toilet while the police dog handler tries to get control of it. Edit: Not implying any direct connection to incidents in the OP, just...

A very fine soldering iron can actually make things worse as it can be difficult to get the heat in without a large tip area. As above, 2.54mm spacing is standard and should be possible to solder using most standard irons. A roll of solder wick can help if you're applying too much solder at a time.

Brilliant. Haven't done too much with my 3D printer yet but it really is a game changer limited only by your imagination.

Same here. Very much hit and miss and I've studied the instructions carefully. It went up in a blue flash a couple of days ago too!