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OT _ Manholes in Roads
Good road surfaces often seem to be ruined by sinking manhole surrounds which then accelerates due to the pounding of wheels. What is the cause? Is it the brickwork of the chamber that is sub-standard...
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OT: Upside down envelopes?
Anybody had any upside down envelopes? A few banks seem to be sending them with the flap at the bottom. Weird.
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Astra H door mirror glass fell out when car was parked
Odd one this, I left the house yesterday to walk to the shops and noticed that someone had lifted up the nearside wiper and a mirror was lying on the screen. When I looked more closely it was the...
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Door to garage - building regs
I need to cut a doorway from a utility room into a garage but would prefer not to have a 100mm step, or to slope the garage floor away from the access door. It seems that the spirit of the regs could...
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Window Furniture
I'm having some (6) sash windows fitted, and I was wondering about sash fasteners and any other bits. I'd imagine they fit whatever's cheapest as standard - does anyone have any...
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service light flashing no heating or hot water
Baxi solo,service due in August,service light flashing and beeping,can I overide this to get hot water and heating please
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warning to virgin customers
There is a very convincing phishing email around pretending to be from Virgin media payments. Most is spelled correctly and reads well. It is aimed at those who manually pay using quickpay. As I pay...
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[Power] Offshore gas storage plant caused hundreds of mini-earthquakes across Spanish coast
Interesting. "Spain will not reopen a giant underwater gas storage facility in the Mediterranean because of the risk that it could trigger earthquakes if it resumes operations, the government said on...
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Re-using alkaline batteries
I've just taken 3 x AAA batteries out of a torch as they are down to about 1v each and not enough to shine nicely. But in series that's 3v. So a box with suitable connectors for AAA and AA batteries...
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Build my own power station
I was watching the early development of electricity generation and houses had their own coal fired generators before power distribution became widespread. Now is the time of year my fuel contracts...
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[OT] Another gem (from the women who cannot say "I don't know")
Future home secretary? The shadow home secretary gave another car crash interview just days after claiming putting 10,000 more police on the streets would cost just £300,000.
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Runners/Rollers for 4x8 OSB shelf doors
I have some big shelves in my store room, thinking of making doors out of vertical 4x8 OSBs to stop dust getting in.. some sort of runners or rollers from ebay or what would they be called and how to...
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OT: Tarmac sticking poorly ...
Vampire Rips up runway at Halfpenny Green Vampire WZ507 rips up RWY10 at EGBO/Halfpenny Green. Quite spectacular, but looks like a lot of damage. Afterwards, the vampire landed on another (undamaged)...
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Mending a remote control
I have one button of a tv type remote control that is not working. I can get the remote control apart and have cleaned the bottom black bit of the button and the surface of the PCB where the button...
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One for the geeks - story of Britains H bomb
inside-story Liked the use of paint tubes as cheap pressure sensors :) Also a nice demonstration of the challenges of creating the explosion to trigger an A-bomb.
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