Recent content by Nik_2213

I suspect it correlates with majority of cycles now being cool 'eco-washes'.. IIRC, everything except 'fragile' used to run on a 'hot' wash. Such attrition seemed to keep the dreaded bio-film at bay. Now, 30ºC eco-wash is routine --And effective !!-- with 'hot' washes reserved for 'Heavy Soil'...

I had an extended battle with black mould both in and behind our front-loader's detergent / softener tray. Unfortunately, a family member kept banging knee on drum's ajar door, would slam it shut.. And, without that minimal air circulation, mould set in..... There is usually a covert latch or...

Please DO NOT dispose of that lead-doped glass such that recycling *might* mix it with food-grade feedstock. Yes, yes, considerable dilution should occur, but the popularity of 'flat screens' means fragmented 'legacy' lead-fronted 'Bottles' may be over-looked...

Not necessarily. Don't forget some 'big' guns use 'bagged' charges. Technically, case-less... A magazine may include a small can of 'coolant' to better flush breech. Barrel heating is a bane of repeated firing, but a limited 'kick-charge' would mitigate that... Also see...

I gave ' Expansionist Imperial' antagonists in a story-arc 'Hybrid Rocket Guns'. Down-side of 'trad' rocket guns is slow exit from barrel. The 'Gyrojet' lacked lethality at short range. And, when it 'got going', was sub-optimally accurate due aiming / spin issues. Reloading required external...

Life World Most galactic species call the Terrans 'Death Worlders', for the myriad ways their home planet will kill you. A few, wiser, call that planet a 'Life World' {Spit_!!}, and shun Sol System as if about to go 'nova'. Consider how Terrans' mites, ants and roaches seem immune to most...

I'll not say 'DO NOT !!' but, IMHO, putting such electro-dissimilar metals into proximity is a very poor idea. IIRC, there are stiff-ish 'potable' grade polymer laminate pipe types which would side-step issues..

Note metal Cam lock dowels may even be double-ended, for joining panels end-on. A range of lengths available... Discovered such when needed to 'Frankenstein' two flat-pack kitchen units as '50' + '40' cm, when range did not include a '90' cm and '100' cm would be 'Just Too Long'... Yes...

Sorry, my Google-Fu cannot find any' reference... Silicon has stable isotopes '28' ~92%, '29' ~5% and '30' ~3%. Oxygen has stable isotope '16' at >99 %, so effectively mono-isotopic. Do the three Si isotopes have significant effect on melting point etc of their silica SiO2 ?? For a...

I sorta remember an analogous discussion about Martian time. That descended into near-farce as the embattled protagonists entirely over-looked the obvious... Do you live on / near a coast with non-trivial tides ? Then you may have a 'Tide Clock', A 'standard' clock variously re-tuned to...

The sad history of N-Rays was told to us at Uni as an object lesson... Just after the the discovery of X-Rays, a French scientist thought he'd found an analogous phenomenon, which he named as 'N-Rays. They could be refracted, diffracted etc. Truly, fun stuff !! However, Reproducibility proved...

IIRC, our school's cloud-chamber had an optional magnetic field via a pair of coils. Trails from the 'source' spiralled one way for electrons, other way for their anti-kin. And, if you were quick, measurement of curl's diameter allowed a useful estimate of energy etc... Our school had a...

My father, a keen gardener, would routinely bag his chain-smoking office colleagues' many cigarette butts, leach those with methylated spirits and dilute the filtered brew to spray our humble apple trees: One big 'bearer', two 'skinnies' for cross pollination. Apparently it was something he'd...

IIRC, Alcubierre found a loophole that moving matter at or FTL was impossible --By our math !!-- but moving a bubble of space with mass inside was not prohibited. Hard, very hard, energetically unreasonable at our development level. Much, much too hard. Bit like powered 'Heavier than air'...

May I suggest looking at 'bolster-type' pregnancy 'pillows' ? A rolled blanket may work as a 'test bed', such that you can throw an elbow and knee over the resilient roll...