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I'd say that given the biblical source a little artistic (read: religious) license woudn't be completely misplaced, although I...

If the 'Baghdad Battery' was used for electrolytic acceleration of acid-leaching, comparable to the Incas' acidic Andes streams, rather...

The ultrasonic transducer sits between the tank and a counterweight. The counterweight can usually be adjusted to match and work against...

I suspect it correlates with majority of cycles now being cool 'eco-washes'.. IIRC, everything except 'fragile' used to run on a 'hot'...

I had an extended battle with black mould both in and behind our front-loader's detergent / softener tray. Unfortunately, a family...

The best solution is to put the detergent in the drum on top of the clothes, and wash. With every front loader I have used, I put the...

We have one. Requires regular cleaning against mold: but it's not the drum or the gasket, but the detergent-feeding compartment is what...

Please DO NOT dispose of that lead-doped glass such that recycling *might* mix it with food-grade feedstock. Yes, yes, considerable...

Great! That's what this forum is for. Refreshing change from those who come here to argue that they can, or already have, broken the...

I think there must be more to this jack than it appears. Those conductors are going to wipe across other (the wrong) conductors as the...

A child could insert a metal object. Why not have a shutter to close the live terminal, as in the UK plug system?

Would the jack for it be big enough to admit the finger of a toddler? I see ground would be outermost, but that could still result in a...

Not necessarily. Don't forget some 'big' guns use 'bagged' charges. Technically, case-less... A magazine may include a small can of...

I gave ' Expansionist Imperial' antagonists in a story-arc 'Hybrid Rocket Guns'. Down-side of 'trad' rocket guns is slow exit from...

Life World Most galactic species call the Terrans 'Death Worlders', for the myriad ways their home planet will kill you. A few, wiser...