A practical guide to running three-phase equipment on single-phase electricity supplies Often model engineers buy industrial workshop equipment such as lathes drilling machines & milling machines which usually require a three-phase electricity supply Although ready-built phase converters are available they can often cost as much or even more than the equipment purchased This book provides an invaluable source of practical guidance on how anyone can find out the type of electrical equipment they have & how to convert it to run on a single-phase supply The book provides calculations step-by-step instructions with photographs & diagrams & covers electricity supplies in the UK North America Europe & the rest of the world Finally it also advises on which equipment cannot be converted at all ...

When young couple Mitch (Stephen Wight) & Alice&s (Amy Huberman) drunken threesome with their gay housemate Richie (Emun Elliott) results in an unplanned pregnancy the trio decide to raise the baby together After ditching their hard-partying lifestyle can the unlikely family settle down & become god forbid grown-up?! This release

Includes:: all seven episodes from the first series of the raucous British comedy

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The second book in the popular Boundary SF adventure series co-authored by multiple New York Times bestseller Eric Flint & Ryk E Spoor When the strange fossil she&d discovered gave her a trip to Mars Helen Sutter thought she&d gone about as far as any paleontologist would ever go in her lifetime But when you’re married to an overconfident super-sensor expert for the only private agency in space – the Ares Corporation – & your best friend is a former secret agent for the Interplanetary Research Institute of the United Nations there&s always somewhere farther to go Soon Helen’s new discoveries will lead her to the mysterious asteroid Ceres & beyond in a desperate race to reach Jupiter&s perilous miniature system of radiation-bombarded moons It seems the next gold rush is on–for alien technology & there are people willing to do anything to get it – even if they must start the Solar System’s first interplanetary war! About the Author Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history with over three million books in print He’s the authorcreator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “ Belisarius” alternate Roman history series including & with David Weber collaborated on 1633 & 1634 The Baltic War Flint was for many years a labor union activist He lives in Chicago Illinois Ryk E Spoor while earning his masters degree in Pittsburgh became a playtesting consultant & writer for the Wizards of the Coast the leading publisher of role-playing games & related novels He now lives in East Greenbush NY working as a technical proposal writer for a high-tech R&D firm & spending his non-writing time with his wife & sons Baen published his first novel Digital Knight in 2003 ...

Kneeling in front of an enchanted door in a forest a young red-haired fairy looks at you invitingly her yellow dress pooling on the ground Her clear fragile butterfly wings behind you she beckons you to step through the wooden door into an enchanted realm with her face Around the door the stone doorway is wreathed in ivy roots & climbing plants Careful watchers will see that hidden in the foliage are sullen goblins serene fairies & suspicious hamadryads peer out alerting you that this is definitely no ordinary door Cast in high-quality resin before being painstakingly h&-painted this statuette is perfect for adding a mysterious & enchanting portal to any room ...

The second book in the popular Boundary SF adventure series co-authored by multiple New York Times bestseller Eric Flint & Ryk E Spoor When the strange fossil she&d discovered gave her a trip to Mars Helen Sutter thought she&d gone about as far as any paleontologist would ever go in her lifetime But when you’re married to an overconfident super-sensor expert for the only private agency in space – the Ares Corporation – & your best friend is a former secret agent for the Interplanetary Research Institute of the United Nations there&s always somewhere farther to go Soon Helen’s new discoveries will lead her to the mysterious asteroid Ceres & beyond in a desperate race to reach Jupiter&s perilous miniature system of radiation-bombarded moons It seems the next gold rush is on–for alien technology & there are people willing to do anything to get it – even if they must start the Solar System’s first interplanetary war! About the Author Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history with over three million books in print He’s the authorcreator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “ Belisarius” alternate Roman history series including & with David Weber collaborated on 1633 & 1634 The Baltic War Flint was for many years a labor union activist He lives in Chicago Illinois Ryk E Spoor while earning his masters degree in Pittsburgh became a playtesting consultant & writer for the Wizards of the Coast the leading publisher of role-playing games & related novels He now lives in East Greenbush NY working as a technical proposal writer for a high-tech R&D firm & spending his non-writing time with his wife & sons Baen published his first novel Digital Knight in 2003 ...

' The Flavia de Luce novels are now a cult favourite' Mail on Sunday CURIOUSITY WON'T KILL THIS CATTwelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is back at Buckshaw at last but her homecoming is overshadowed by news of her father's illness Forbidden from visiting Colonel de Luce in hospital Flavia busies herself in the village but she soon makes a macabre discover the corpse of a reclusive woodcarver hanging upside down on the back of a door in a house empty but for a curiously uncurious cat While the local constabulary are stumped Flavia is soon piecing together a puzzle that connects a death by murderous gulls on a desolate island a local woman said to be a witch & a beloved children's author who terrified his own son
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Drop a stone into a pooland watch the ripples spread A prince saves a princess & they marry But then they have a daughter & perhaps the faeries are still interested A saint raises the dead & stops a war & years later the wealth of the pilgrimage site nurtures a hive of diabolists A maga recoevrs a mighty enchantment & her apprentice accidentally opens a gate to a regio Actions have consequences This Ars Magica book contains five sequences of three stories each
- issues & situations that cannot be fully resolved in a single story but which return to draw the characters back in years later These thrice-told tales weave Divine Infernal Faerie & Magic threads into the tapestry of your saga
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Learn how to reuse recycle restyle restore & revamp your old furnishings to create a stylish & unique home without spending a fortune! Whether you are on a tight budget or simply want to give your existing home a new look Thrifty Chic provides a treasure trove of ideas at your fingertips Divided into 7 chapters Thrifty Chic will take you through everything you need to know to jazz-up your home Starting with Elements of Design you will learn how to utilise fabric paint windows frames lighting & more to make the most of your environment Then room by room each chapter will show you how best to pull together mismatched items into cohesive schemes how to upcycle furniture & how to introduce some clever ideas for storage You will learn how to create certain styles in your home from French-inspired antique chic to the cosmopolitan eclectic & the steel-finished urban cutting-edge You will even gain insider tips on what to look for at antique markets & in thrift stores & how to care for & restore your bargain purchases Packed full of irresistible designs & with a final chapter detailing how to do the projects yourself there will be no stopping you from creating your perfect habitat ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Tom Merrick (Casper Van Dien) is a recently fired reporter who is assigned the grunt work of researching great disasters of the past He realises that in many photos of the disasters he can see the same unusual man lurking around Not long after he sees the same man on a flight to Washington Tom has to team up with another reporter to find out about this mysterious man & other people apparently travelling through time & lurking around terrible disasters ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Catch 44 Bruce Willis Malin Akerman (Watchmen) Nikki Reed (The Twilight Saga) Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood) & Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) star in the tough sexy story of three hit women sent to rural Louisiana to intercept a big money dope deal But when they get to the near-empty roadside cafe bullets blast apart what was supposed to be a simple transaction It could be a huge bloody misunderstanding but it might also be a deadly double-cross Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire) & Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo&s Nest) co-star in this intense crime thriller with a killer twist Switch This explosive action thriller starring Eric Cantona has a sting in its tail When Sophie Malaterre (Karine Vanasse
- Midnight in Paris Pan Am) is introduced to SWITCH by a new friend she thinks the holiday-home swapping website will be the perfect way to liven up a dull summer But soon after she arrives at her new apartment in Paris she realises she made the biggest mistake of her life A murdered man is found in the guest bedroom & when Detective Forgeat (Eric Cantona
- Looking for Eric Elizabeth) takes Sophie in for questioning
- she finds out she hasn&t just swapped houses she&s switched identities In an attempt to prove her innocence she goes on the run & it&s up to Detective Forgeat to find Sophie before she too turns up dead But things don&t go to plan & when the body count starts piling up Forgeat finds himself getting in over his head & operating outside of the law in a bid to save Sophie & hunt down the real killer Hijacked UFC legend & The Expendables star Randy Couture is Paul Ross a tough-as-nails government agent on the trail of the international crime syndicate known as & The Tribe& But when & The Tribe& hijacks the private luxury jumbo jet belonging to the world&s richest industrialist they demand 273 billion or will begin killing passengers Among their hostages are the tycoon&s new assistant (Tiffany Dupont of Greek) & her ex-fiance Ross The &fasten seatbelt& signs are off & one very pissed-off agent is now free to move about the cabin Dominic Purcell (Prison Break) Holt Mc Callany (Lights Out) Gina Philips (Jeepers Creepers) Craig Fairbrass (Cliffhanger) & Vinnie Jones (Snatch X-Men The Last Stand) co-star in this explosive thriller that takes action to whole new heights


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