BigWallop wrote:

Why the hell does everyone take things in the purely scientific scheme in
here.

If in here, you mean :
uk.d-i-y,uk.rec.cars.maintenance,uk.rec.cars.misc then I dunno.

But over on sci.chem, that's what the newsgroup is all about. Read the
charter for the group in question before you crosspost. You can edit
out groups even as you reply.