[Clive McDonald]

Yes wire and crocodile clips, i bought some from halfords and have fixed one variestream and pump and treated another to new wires and connections.

I had a few things go wrong to make them stop working.The cause seemed to be bad connections and fuses where i am constantly diconecting and getting working bits wet. Anyway it all works now (three lots) with nice new wires.

Also got that blue gunk off the terminals.

During the week i never have time to fix things properly, just bang a spare on, but even that had stopped.

The wire and clips were a bit pricey at halfords i wondered if there was anywhere better?

[matt]

halfords will be pricey

if you go to any motor spares suppliers you will half the price

[Clive McDonald]

There were different colours and ampages and i had to get red that was a bit too thick and not very long.Blue was fine. The colours are important because if i hook it up the wrong way it's broke.

[ftp]

I chucked a spare battery on my varistream last week - the wrong way round 

Just blew the fuse, no problem.

[Clive McDonald]

The fuses do have a purpose then.

It's occured to me that I could have tried out Matts idea of running the drill off the battery buy i have run out of wire now.

Another little task i did that i have been meaning to do was order an address stamp £43. I've been printing them off on sticky back and then choping them up and affixing to envelopes, this will be easier.

[Ian Lancaster]

Why not just buy sheets of precut labels and print them on your computer?

[Clive McDonald]

I printed ones i cut myself because i assumed it was cheaper and could get things lined up with out going off the labels.Even precut you still have to affixe and these sheets are expensive.

The stamper is self inking, i had a choice of fonts, and have gone for blue ink(the other choices were black and red).
I got the biggest.

I have a stanp that i hit the back of my cheques with and the writing is too small,partly because there are too many lines, and partly because i trusted a girl at staples to be able to do the spacing 'because she knew all about them and did loads'.In fact she was an idiot and i would have altered it if i had been consulted.

[matt]

i have numerous stamps

i have changed my mobile number and now stamp the new number on me " slip "

they work well