Karl, search eBay - you need a keepnet bag from fishing tackle suppliers
Will cost about a tenner for a decent one, whereas a carpet cleaning supplier will flog you the same thing for more like 30
Len, I don't think I've been harsh at all mate. It wasn't really a very conversation-provoking topic to start?! Plus, note the liberal use of smilies
which means I'm not trying to get anyone's back up
or be deliberately abrasive
Craig, I completely disagree! It doesn't matter how old the last post in a topic is... if the subject matter is still relevant it makes perfect sense to add a post on. It is actually
better forum behaviour NOT to keep starting myriads of identical topics - rather to keep the information in one place as much as possible. Not only does that reduce load on the server, and disk space required (thus making the forum run quicker),
it also makes peoples' searches yield much better results. which is a massive part of a forum's usefulness.
(The search button - something that nobody ever uses, instead just starting the 100th identical topic on a subject because they can't be @rsed to do a bit of leg work
)
Forums are a huge, ongoing reference book. Imagine if someone ripped all the pages out of a dictionary and stuck them back in with sellotape but in a different order... and also scribbled over a few pages... it would be a nightmare of a dictionary to use! That's what it's like trying to use forums like this as a reference.
