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I just wondered if any of you have experience in re-jetting a stove to run on bottled gas, for example butane / propane mix, instead of methane? Am I right in thinking the jets are smaller for LPG? If this is the case it means you can't just drill them out slightly (assuming suitable drills...

When I moved from Scotland to Hungary in 2011 I had to leave my old Tricity Tiara electric cooker at the cottage, as the letting agents said a cooker was required equipment for unfurnished lets. It would have been no good in the Hungary house in any case, as the electric supply is too low...

I have just bought a couple of water filters from Screwfix but I'm not sure about what fittings to use to connect pipes to them, as they have 3/4" NPT threads. Most plumbing parts available in Hungary are actually imperial sizes rather than metric but I think the threads are all BSP, the British...

I have just bought a house in Croatia and it comes with a Gorenje cooker with 2 gas burners and 2 electric plates. It looks like it has been used just on gas, as the mains cable is missing. Did these just come with a normal mains cable and plug, like you would have on a washing machine? I've...

I have one of those Thetford porta-potty chemical toilets which I want to use for a few days but I don't have the chemicals. I was just reading an Australian caravan forum and most people use stuff called "Napisan". They say this is sodium percarbonate. Caravans are not popular here in Hungary...

Must be the cooking version:

I was just wondering what sort of vacuum cleaner Freddy Mercury used?

I seem to be having all sorts of cooking problems lately. This started with a bag of frozen burgonyanudli. This literally translates as potato noodles but they are actually a type of dumpling which you put in boiling water and remove when they float. You can then coat them with fried breadcrumbs...

I was just watching a bunch of old clips from Candid Camera and found a few that might appeal to the members here including this one:

I had an email from Homespares today, saying they are selling off remaining stocks of heaters for some Servis and Hoover machines for £1 each, trade price. I had a look at their retail website and they are charging £7.77 for the Servis ones: http://www.unifit.co.uk/products/3523/heater-wm-servis

My grandmother had a couple of sayings meaning that she needed to stop chatting and get on with some chores. One was "This won't get the babies bathed.", the other was "This won't get the range black leaded". In her younger days most people would have cooked on a coal fired, cast iron cooking...

Further to the thread about the unusual washer seen on the Austrian classified ads site, I had a look for anything else of interest and found this Miele spinner. I am on the lookout for a spin dryer but will probably find one nearer to home. http://www.willhaben.at/iad/viewimage?adId=66806304#2

I bought a 2 kg bag of Tide Lemon powder a couple of weeks ago and opened it today. The machine is still going so I don't know if the results will be good or bad. Like most packages here, the writing is in a few languages, not including English but in one corner of the bag it says something...

Here in Hungary they sell a brioche type sweet loaf and sometimes they are sold off cheap on the sell-by-date. If I see them reduced like that I buy them to make bread pudding. Yesterday I visited a fruit farm and was told I could help myself to some cherries which were ready to pick. Today I...

I have been asked for advice on repairing this machine but I'm not familiar with the make. I did find some YouTube videos so I now know what it looks like. Owner is in Budapest which is too far for me to go and fix it. He says that when it is filling, water comes out of the overflow instead of...

I am in UK at the moment and am starting to sort out my appliance spares shed. There are various parts for older models including bearing kits, belts and door seals. There are also some twin tub parts, mostly Hoover but possibly a few Hotpoint items. I'm wondering if any UK member has spare...

I don't watch TV so I often watch YouTube videos in the evenings. I happened to think about the old Galloping Gourmet food programmes so I had a look for them. It makes me feel old now I see that these were made from 1969 to 1971 but the appliances do look to be from that era.

I met this guy when visiting a friend who lived in Scoraig, a remote community on the west coast of Scotland. Scoraig has no roads, electricity or mains water and can be reached by boat or a 2 hour walk around the top of cliffs. I did not see his washing machine but I got a similar description...

I realise this subject is off-topic but no more so than discussions of extreme weather events. For some time I've been looking to invest in property to get a rental income, to fund my retirement. I have had a search going on Ebay for over a year and it has turned up properties in most corners of...

I thought I would start a new thread for this rather than continue to hijack the existing one! The discussion on sewing machines prompted me to unearth my old '50s Singer 15K80 and have another go at getting it to work properly. When I bought it a few years ago I found it kept breaking the...