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That's e-bike batteries, they work hard all the the time. E-car batteries in today's heavy traffic conditions and on our UK roads rarely get any chance to work hard for more than a few minutes. E-car batteries used with a home fast charger and/or slow charger and avoiding rapid and ultra...

A program on radio is about to discuss the subject of Authoritarian Leaders and what can be done to prevent such a number like those at present occurring again: Xi Jinping in China, Kim Jong-un in North Korea, Vladimir Putin in Russia, Narendra Modi in India, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey...

But how much? They can only be fined up to the penalty at the time of the offence, and those started at £100, later rising to £1000 and finally to £10,000. For most of them the majority of these amounts are a joke. Sunak's missus can pay for his and Boris will probably claim it back as...

Thanks for the diagram Gary, so it is a band brake unfortunately, the worst for this sort of noise. That screw doesnt appear to do anything else so may be intended for adding grease but it would only apply grease outside the band. From there it would only spread to between the band and drum by...

I've posted previously about the serious ill effects this war will have on the world's food supplies. This current 28 minute radio program available on the BBC i-player is packed with details of the effects on Ukraine, Russia and the rest of us, albeit not covering the increased starvation...

Thanks for the photo Gary, it's not one I recognise though. It's definitely not a drum brake with linings. It will be a metal to metal one like a roller and ramp type, hence the screeching. They need grease to stop the noise. The Shimano one has an oiling hole and they sell the special type...

I think we need a clear photo of a brake area to know what it is. It's more likely to be a band brake or Shimano roller and ramp brake. True drum brakes with shoes and linings are as rare as hen's teeth these days. .

I didn't say anytime soon, I said quite the opposite, but I also think it's unlikely to happen though that might be a pity for huge numbers. Single party rule by wholly elected persons is neither dictatorship nor full democracy but as a compromise can have the distinct advantages of consistent...

Possibly, even probably, but it doesnt matter since their eventual political integration is a fundamental of Putin's and Xi Jinping's vision for their future, a future they recognise as not until long after they are both dead. Worldwide single party democracy, communist in Jinping's vision, not...

It's not me who should give up. Why do all of you persist in deliberately and dishonestly distorting what I post? I very clearly posted about Putin's vision for Russian and Chinese peace. That's all, not any of the mostly unproven irrelevancies you replied with. .

No, not inaccurate since I didn't say it was constant, note the plural "wars". But it could equally never be said that there was peace between the two during that whole period, especially after China's attacks on Russia and Russia later seizing much of China. There is no comparison between any...

DISHONESTY. Your post 106351: "You were doing fine until the last sentence. There is no movie set designer around capable of recreating the images of Mariupol etc. If these were movie sets etc, it is not beyond the wit of the Russians to fly a spy plane over and show the actual damage. .. Even...

Yes you did, you inferred that I believed that the destruction of buildings like that at Mariupol was faked, an utterly ridiculous accusation. You don't seem to realise how insulting and offensive you can be with your unjustified superiority complex. .

But his replacement could be far worse. Putin saw the military threat that Ukraine had become and was mindful of history, which is why he insisted to his inner circle that Russia had to act now before it was too late. In fact it was already somewhat too late as we are now seeing, and even more...

Probably all of us do not like Putin, I strongly dislike him and his methods of both war and politics, especially as he's got worse over time. I don't think he has the importance that many think he has. Russian presidents only rarely last long term, Putin like Stalin being an exception to...

Why do you always get the wrong end of the stick? From the very beginning I've made it absolutely clear in my posts that the war in Ukraine would mimick what happened in Georgia, i.e. massive infrastructure damage. So as I not only acknowledge that but predicted it accurately before it began...

Though initially intended for the deterrent of nuclear bombs, the B52 from the outset also had the launching facilities for continuous streams of conventional bombs to make it a more usable bomber and that was how it was used in North Vietnam and since in other theatres, carpet bombing. Some...

Things happening within living memory are entirely relevant. And you are once again being very selective in not mentioning Iraq and Afghanistan Those flying war planes are also combatants, so Libya and Syria are included. .

I didn't have in mind such a soft American alternative. You're perhaps too young to know of burning huge numbers of people alive with napalm, or using agent orange to defoliate, knowing it will result in generations of babies born with thalidomide like multiple deformities, actions equally...

I certainly have been equally appalled by the military direct actions and proxy wars of the USA, China and Israel, but I've felt very alone in that much of the time. For the USA to still be in the human rights council with Russia suspended ilustrates only too well the immense bias. .