Gurgling radiator-is key thing necessary?

Bossyboots

slade5x5 wrote:

Hi

I wouldn,t bother bleeding the radiators, i would just turn the key a little bit and you will hear air escaping. Then as soon as a little bit of water appears turn the key back and it should be done.

That's what I call bleeding the radiator.

greyteam1959

Hi ampersand
try this link should be easy for even you to follow !!!!!!
http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/connecthelp.php

ampersand

Syman and mervyn11 - how kind you both are!
Thankyou, hugely.
Have just spent another fruitless several hours, after buying extra forked scart lead thing(3 ends) and co-axial 4m lead. Had Struxns bklt avec moi and approached capable looking man lurking by display. He asked me ?s then gave me the above.
I have only just come back to 'putah having put leads in SUPPOSED right places, but I am confused. The 'RF OUT>antenna input of TV' as cited above gives me too much to decide. Does it mean into the little round aerial thing on top of the TV. Conflicting with this is Info in bklts for the TV-SharpDV3671H, the Video DVD bit-Phillips DVD755VR/05 and the Freeview box is Technika STB9005. I have carefully tried to place the correct plugs in places as labelled on the varying backview diagrams, but in the end have to extract them, as the available end of those axial bits ends up being the point bit, not the receiver, or vice versa. Am off to buy 2 pairs of ends - am going to call them male/female(no offence intended) Seems logical.
I have managed to get up a list of channels and all sorts, which I can mostly arrow up and down. But the sound and picture freeze, are wilful, static sporadically and do not obey the Struxn edicts. I do not know how I have produced this. The little remote for the Freeview box does not turn the TV on, as it's supposed to, if i am not over-laterally interpreting.

No radiator keys left this morning, so must now go further afield.
Thankyou all, once again - do want to triumph on this. I'm not a giver in, but would probably have all of you weeping in frustration at my ineptitude.
Now to look more at mervyn's site.

ampersand

Mervyn-have just looked and straight away am flummoxed as I am not sure of the difference between:Recorder (DVD or Video): (has 2 sockets) AND
Player (DVD or VCR): I thought the Phillips bit is supposed to do both?
TV has 1 socket and 1 aerial hole(also has a power point for electric plug-never been used).
Freeview box has 2 sockets and other little holes.
Phillips manual says 'DVD-Video Player/Video Cassette recorder'
re: Set-Up Advisor:
I have an aerial end on one bit of flex and a normal wall plug at the other. Do I use this? This had been unplugged before and the TV still worked, sort of, - I've just got used to sort of making it work. After vain attempts to record things though, it took me hours to get anything back again.
#From set-up advisor:
Step 1. Connect main TV aerial into set-top-box

Step 2. Connect an aerial lead from the set-top-box to DVD/video recorder aerial in

Step 3. Connect an aerial lead from the DVD/video recorder aerial out, to the TV aerial socket
#Does this mean with the plug in the wall+male conxn at other end?(which I presently have plugged into set box?Won't go anywhere else) Wouldn't this be the main TV aerial as cited in no. 1?
How can I do no. 3? Will I need to re-wire something for a double adaptor?
Back in an hour or so.

ampersand

Syman wrote:

the "TV TYPE" is widescreen(16:9) or normal(4:3) i would guess. so set this to whatever tv you have.

your aerial goes to the RF IN on the freeview box
FV BOX RF OUT goes to the video RF IN
Video RF OUT goes to TV Aerial socket.

Scart from Freeview box goes to video input scart ( look for a box with an arrow pointinig into the box)
the other scart socket in the dvd/vcr (look for a box with an arrow pointing out of the box) goes to your TV.


can you post the make adn model number of your items? it might make things easier.

Thankyou syman - have done this, but can't make the TV type respond at all. It's a small TV and has always chopped off writing at the bottom of the screen. Has done so with such Freeview msgs as I've managed to produce so far, too.
Video RF OUT goes to TV Aerial socket -
Do you mean the plug in the wall?
Must go and get these other bits - back later. Thankyou yet again, both of you.

ampersand

RADIATOR GURGLES NO MORE! - THANKYOU EVERYONE.
KEY BOUGHT FROM B&Q. FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH. OLDER ASSISTANT, FRANK, SAID 'DON'T TURN ANYTHING OFF'.
-so I didn't.
Then called at Curry's, only to be dazzled by flatscreen tellies partout.
Took all 3 manuals +all 3 remotes. Didn't need anything else, now know aerial socket means one going through my bedroom wall to lounge, where tv is.
Still trying to sort.........
BUT, have been grazing ebay for 14-18" flatscreen, cheapie if poss. Looking vairy keenly indeed. So unlike self to be doing this.
Budget doesn't really allow, so 150-ish MAX.

ampersand

cajef wrote:

Radiator Keys are all the same size, about 50p in B&Q.

Re your Technika cheap thing+500 points, it should have come with three leads, a mains lead with plug on, a thick one with the scarty things, and a thin one with that looks like the one that plugs into the aerial socket on your TV.

Await your reply with interest, if you can only count two we have problems.:rolleyes:

Only 2 leads(yes, did have key from B&Q, thankyou)as per contents list and bought co-axial earlier today.
Back to it I go.

ampersand

Syman wrote:

the "TV TYPE" is widescreen(16:9) or normal(4:3) i would guess. so set this to whatever tv you have.

your aerial goes to the RF IN on the freeview box
FV BOX RF OUT goes to the video RF IN
Video RF OUT goes to TV Aerial socket.

Scart from Freeview box goes to video input scart ( look for a box with an arrow pointinig into the box)
the other scart socket in the dvd/vcr (look for a box with an arrow pointing out of the box) goes to your TV.


can you post the make adn model number of your items? it might make things easier.

As on headline Syman, but have now tried all variations/combinations except, apparently, the correct one. Sometimes have bits of interrupted pic/sound on bits of Freeview.
Have only silent blue screen or noisy snow for analogue.Going in circles, no TV it seems.

cajef

OK we have established what a co-axial lead is as you have been out and bought one today.

You should have one co-axial lead from your wall aerial socket to the input socket on the FV box.

A second from the FV box output socket to your video input socket.

A third from the video output socket to your TV aerial socket.

You should now get your normal analogue TV picture, with the video and the FV box switched off.

P.S. glad you fixed the gurgle in the radiators.:j