09-08-2022, 05:53 PM
(09-08-2022, 04:59 PM)Dave Mann Wrote: Can't say I'm impressed, 60 years ago two fingers and a heavy duty rubber band always worked for me. That's the problem with tech savvy like my energy supplier who has introduced a new program with no ability to bring the balance forward from the old one. After two attempts to produce a statement they think I'm £250 in credit when I'm £150 in credit.
Ah! It's not the very simple catapults - it's demonstrating all the different tools to make them. He'd been asked so many times about the workshop that he decided to put up a "special" about them He has made some quite staggering devices - though how he managed so of them is beyond my computer and mathematical skills. But, as he says, when he was a kid "all he had was a corded drill and a rusty chisel". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWXZyfhQas
His day job was designing 3D printing machines - until he found YouTube. How about a 3D-printed rocket? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNbT21HZmdc
My neighbour managed to get 6 months of free electricity when his small supplier went bust - and a relative is still paying for his day electricity at the night rate, despite several letters, lots of emails and even legal letters telling the company that it's happening. They appear not to want to know.