on the off-chance anyone's passing ...

[pault]

if anyone's ever passing near Manchester and fancies insulating and PIDing my Giotto Premium I'll happily reimburse them for their time and travel expenses, materials ...etc. and throw in a good bottle of red as an extra thank you (my main vice)

I'm sure it sounds lazy but believe me it's not - I have broken more machines, computers etc. than most of you have had hot dinners (talking of which the other day I broke a rice-cooker just out of its box by the simple act of using it as instructed [must have been the wrong type of rice]). In a reversal of the dogs in Terminator, machines sense me coming and I don't want to break a perfectly good Giotto (either directly through my tinkering or as it gets thrown through the window in frustration) - so there's an open invite to anyone who's nearby and unlike me knows what they're doing ...

I'm keenly awaiting delivery of a hottop so please expect messages like how do you get your finger out of the chaff-filter??

all the best,

Paul.

[phil]

PID-ing a HX machine isn't supposed to be very effective *I think* - I seem to remember someone bringing it up on alt.coffee a while back, and several well informed people (Jim Schulman springs to mind) arguing about why it wouldn't work too well.

I think I could construct that argument myself from first principles if anyone's interested in telling me I'm wrong (in my experience most people are )