uair01
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As Chuck Norris walks by and reads the sign...
Bit alarmist, eh? Maybe some concerned citizen putting them up?Remember my post about all the warning signs in the city park? We've got a new one: "Warning, slippery road!" I might avoid the area for now, it's really getting dangerous now! I think that city lawyers are running amok.
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Euphemism for busybody?Bit alarmist, eh? Maybe some concerned citizen putting them up?
.....He did a quick inspection and declared that the wheels and tyres were fine - they just didn't belong to her car. Some-one during the night hadn't just stolen her two Metro rear wheels, they had replaced them. I don't know if that was more strange or less strange.
It reminds me of an incident a good few years ago, reported in a motoring journal. A shall we say slightly worn car (can't remember make) was stolen from owners driveway. Reappeared several weeks later back on the drive with brand new flash wheels, new tyres, repainted and the interior cleaned up like new. The owner never found out what had happened. Generous friend or relative, or thief with a conscience?My mum was a night-shift Carer at a local Residential Home and would sometimes get a lift home from her colleague who had a Mini Metro (which dates this quite a bit). One morning on the way back the friend commented on the car handling and reckoned there was either a slow rear puncture or the wheel tracking was slightly out. So after dropping my Mum off, she carried on to her friendly Garage mechanic (who was a very nice young man). He did a quick inspection and declared that the wheels and tyres were fine - they just didn't belong to her car. Some-one during the night hadn't just stolen her two Metro rear wheels, they had replaced them. I don't know if that was more strange or less strange.
Rather odd!It reminds me of an incident a good few years ago, reported in a motoring journal. A shall we say slightly worn car (can't remember make) was stolen from owners driveway. Reappeared several weeks later back on the drive with brand new flash wheels, new tyres, repainted and the interior cleaned up like new. The owner never found out what had happened. Generous friend or relative, or thief with a conscience?
High heat randomises the atoms of the steel, so they can't form the groupings that allow magnetism to work.Maybe some one can answer this.
One way of checking that a piece of steel had been heated up sufficiently to harden it is to try to attach a magnet to it.
When the steel is at required heat, it loses it's ability to attract the magnet.
But when It cools down again, it attracts the magnet as usual. Maybe I should say the magnet attracts the steel.
So, where have the magnetic properties of the steel gone when it is hot ? and why do they return ?
INT21.
What you're referring to is usually known by the scientific term "Curie Point"So, where have the magnetic properties of the steel gone when it is hot ? and why do they return ?
Practical applications include highly-precise thermostatic electroswitch control systems, metallurgical foundry process pathways and nuclear power industry.In physics and materials science, the Curie temperature (TC), or Curie point, is the temperature above which certain materials lose their permanent magnetic properties, which can (in most cases) be replaced by induced magnetism. The Curie temperature is named after Pierre Curie, who showed that magnetism was lost at a critical temperature.
... The resin part starts moving randomly around the table totally on its own. I have to say I was a touch spooked (!). Get up and part flies off table. Only then did I notice that the magnet I had dropped had stuck firmly to my jeans and moving my legs under the table was causing the wild antics of the model part. I managed to peel the stuck magnet off and even under my jeans I could make the part dance around with only minute leg movement.
The possibility of fake paranormal effects is endless.
Might be, although I'm not sure how it would suddenly fail.Could it be the fitting itself???
Yeah, I might have a go at it tomorrow while it's still light. It might be a loose connection.Might be worth a try before you fork out for an electrician
Cable- no. Very unlikely. Check the ceiling rose in the first room *after* the bedroom, as you walk towards your fuseboard. Just tighten all the connections in that overhead rose, THEN all the ones in the affected bedroom.So - I'm guessing that the cable up in the loft has something wrong with it.