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[Cheggers]

Some one told me that the water that comes from a tumble dryer is de-ionised, the same as in water for an iron or a car battery.

Is this correct or have I been fed a load of bollocks?

 

PS I don't want to put it in a battery, just curious to know.

Hmm...Assuming it's a condenser dryer, the water passing through the condenser will be plain old fashioned water, but the water collected on the condenser will be distilled/ de-ionised.

[doobietoo]

Distilled rather than deionised I believe... we use it for our older iron and for the car washer bottles and the plants. Personally I wouldn't use it for a battery not when a bottle of proper stuff is a quid and lasts years.

[scaryoldcortina]

Not distilled. Distilled water is boiled off then recondensed, the water from the drier trap is just condensation so any water soluble impurities will remain.

 

 

FWIW it isn't properly deionized either.

[Crusty Sills]

What special water do you have to put in an iron?

 

It is recommended to use deionised/distilled water in an iron to stop it scaling up.

[Pillock]

No, I don't iron clothes either.

[spike60]

What's an iron?

[steve_earwig]

A golf club?

[myglaren]

After ten or more years of not ironing anything at all I had a mad ratch and ironed everything in sight for a couple of years, then saw the light and hid the iron.

[Crusty Sills]

I don't buy it and use tap water like the rest of the world.

I do most of the ironing as Mrs Sills doesn't do my work uniform well enough so tend to do the rest whilst I'm at it.

[cort16]

If a tree falls in the forest and no-one hears it should I buy a cheap Citroen C6 from Ireland when I have no need for it but quite fancy one?

[Asimo]

If a tree falls in the forest and no-one hears it should I buy a cheap Citroen C6 from Ireland when I have no need for it but quite fancy one?

 

You only think that you don't need it. You are wrong.

[dugong]

If a tree falls in the forest and no-one hears it should I buy a cheap Citroen C6 from Ireland when I have no need for it but quite fancy one?

2, 17 and 58 please.

[sierraman]

The frost out of the freezer is de ionised. The errant stowaway garden peas might not do the water pump or the radiator much good though...

[steve_earwig]

Wasn't this for a car battery? Use a tea strainer then.

[Bobthebeard]

I've got an old-ish car battery in my house at the moment (in the absence of anywhere else to keep it). 

 

Will I die?

No, but the battery will.

[cort16]

You're certainly not the first to say it but yes.

[barrett]

Do Pug 405s and BXs have the same stud pattern? I'm way too lazy to look it up

[Lacquer Peel]

Yes.

[catsinthewelder]

But BXs need fairly narrow wheels to clear the rear arches.

[Matt]

I've got a battery here on a trickle charger and I'm not really sure if it's salvageable or not. The car it came from had zero electrical life. My multimeter showed 10.xV, I then plugged into my car, brought it back into the house and it then read 8.xV. It reads 14.6V on the charger which I guess is normal and if I remove the charger right now it reads 11.9V. What do we reckon, at what point should it come off the charger?

[Pillock]

Yes, it will have lost charge in that time but not capacity. It'll just need a full charge.

 

Li-Ion jobbies are normally shipped at 40% charge as for some reason, they keep that amount of charge best in transit. That's why computers normally turn on when brand new.

[Pillock]

If you were on about capacity, it'll likely be fine. It's the charging that cripple them usually.

[Craig the Princess]

Can you change the blub behind the display on a Rover R8 radio cassette player?

[sierraman]

I'm not sure you can. I've a spare in the shed if it's the Phillips cassette type as fitted to the rover 200?

[Craig the Princess]

I'm not sure you can. I've a spare in the shed if it's the Phillips cassette type as fitted to the rover 200?

I think that is the type, how much would you like for it?

[dollywobbler]

Do Pug 405s and BXs have the same stud pattern? I'm way too lazy to look it up

 

I've a feeling that the silver BX had a set of 405 wheels on it - because I stupidly sold the really smart 205 GTi 1.6 wheels it was wearing when I bought it. 

[sierraman]

I think that is the type, how much would you like for it?

 

I'd gladly send it for postage. At least that way if have some bizarre excuse for having kept it for 15 years. Let me check its in the shed still and the fun sponge hasn't binned it.

[DeeJay]

"Fun sponge"  actually laughed at that.

[KruJoe]

I recover about a gallon of water from dehumidifiers every day, I keep a few pints for the iron, and a few gallons to do coolant flushes and re-fills because the stuff from our taps is both salty and limey.

[Parky]

I have seen a lot of RHD cars on Bulgarian plates lately. I am pretty sure BG isn't a right hand drive market so are our new arrivals buying cars here and slapping Bulgarian plates on, or was there a market for RHD cars over there at some point?

 

Is is perhaps standard procedure over there to swap your plate onto a car you buy and they are just continuing that over here?

 

Strikes me that if you put foreign plates on a car it becomes nigh on impossible to trace and made me wonder why Plod isn't cracking down on it. Must be nice to drive through average speed areas at 80mph like the silver RHD 3 series yesterday morning on the A13!