If you have watched Jamie Olivers' show "Food Revolution", you already know about the poor state that many school lunches are in. After watching the first couple episodes, I was appalled to see pizza being served for breakfast, kids not knowing the difference between a potato and a tomato, the

How to make the Pipe reducer from M S Pipe, I want to make pipe reducer 2" NB TO 1" NB and 4" long, no hot process, cold forming only.

The falcon chicks are about ready to depart the nest. Mom just flew in with a bird for supper. Quite bloodthirsty little buggers; they were ripping shreds of flesh left and right.

http://www.aviary.org/cons/falconcam_cl.php

How much oil really is leaking from the broken pipe in the Gulf?

BP's numbers are far from the truth.

The oil slick is now covering about 50 square miles.

Thats a lot of oil.

Does anyone know where I can get 2 inch rollers with standard 7/16 bore, but without the shaft for garage doors. Everywhere I look they come with a shaft. My doors are old (antique) and the rollers are able to slide on the shaft rather than the shaft sliding in the hinge. I'm too cheap to buy new do

I'm trying to make a simple dc power supply w/ a full bridge rectifier, 2 caps, a pot, and a lm317. my transformer is a 120v to 25.2 v. I'm using this typical schematic and I know it works, but every time I turn the pot down to around 17v from a max of about 28v, the pot starts smoking, has any one

Hello, guys

Any of you are familiar with stainless steel screw who can pass 500 hours in salt chamber?

I NEED the UNS number designation like 321 (UNS S32100), 316L OR 347 (S34700)

kind regards

Mauricio

Dose any body have an operating manual for a PLH-3GKLH-UK air conditioning unit. Drawing number BG7R519H01.

This unit is coming up with an error code of, EO. The unit is no longer listed by the manufacturer. The current problem came when it had water running out of it.

This unit must h

At last, new Silicon Disk Drives are on the market, with capacities to rival old-school Hard Disks, and speeds to greatly exceed those. They are cool, literally emit no heat, and virtually silent.

Oh yes... And they are virtually indestructible. Made of solid-state monoliths, they are shock

I've installed a swimming pool pump and a booster pump in series . the two pumps are getting hot in a way that I can't keep my hand on the pump for more than 1 minute. I don't know why !!?? can I leave them like this or I have to do some thing ?? they are working 8 hours every day.

note : all t

I have a low power.. (about 20W per ch.) car stereo that uses a pair of small 4" speaker drivers.. A couple of small fans and a few led lights powered off of a BIG car battery.

I want to upgrade this system for better efficiency so that it will still sound good but require fewer battery swaps d

From Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now:

For two years, Charles Okeke, 43, was just another patient confined to a hospital while awaiting a human heart transplant. Now, he's the country's first test subject for a battery-operated, backpack-sized console,

Am looking for an industry standard for a 2.5mm Diameter 6-Pole Audio Plug.

From NPR Topics: News:

Another season, another sprout recall. The Food and Drug Administration said today that Caldwell Fresh Foods of California is recalling packages of alfalfa sprouts that have reportedly made up to 22 people sick in 10 states. The government says there ha

From BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition:

BP has pledged $500m (£346m) to study the impact on the Gulf of Mexico of the oil spill, as top US officials flew over the area to assess BP's response. A BP official said a bid to plug the leaking well with heavy mud and cemen

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It's the Great American Ritual-washing the car. You get your bucket of soapy water and a sponge, fire up the garden hose and go to work. Your neighbor in the adjoining driveway does the same. But he's assembled a whole array of car c

I've been asked to come up with a design for a crematorium for local construction - that is, the investors do not want to buy a packaged crematory furnace and ship it here from another continent. I've been able to find some information on-line, sometimes in odd places, but I wonder whether any CR4 s

Hello to everyone who joins this forum...can anyone help me in knowing the use of PIR in circuit breaker?

I had a new fuel pump, fuel filter put on my daughters 97 cavalier with 98000 miles. The car would stall sporadically, sometimes start again and pump made a loud whistling type noise. Now the car runs fine when the roads are dry, fuel pump still makes the loud noise, but when it rains and roads are

What is the advantage of using a 24V DC derived internally for local control voltage in an Electric actuator in for a motor operated valve (MOV) instead of 110V AC.. ? what is this voltage used for actually in local controls? thanks in advance