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[OT] Economics of cheaper slower postage from suppliers
I guess I'm a bit of a stingy old git, because I will always pick the free postage option unless I really need the product in a hurry. But what amazes me is just how slow some of the free postage...
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Tiny brass crimps?
Need a source for a few tiny brass crimps for repairs to a kettle. The originals are about 4.5mm long and crushed down to about 2mm x 1mm. Used for connections from the element terminals to a resistor...
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Switching gas supplier
I have a flat, which is used as occasion arises, ie not regularly, but when we or friends or family need it. The heating is switched on all the time, at a sensible maintenance temperature. The gas...
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Strong magnets and handling of same
Just received a bunch of strong magnets supposedly for fixing the sliding curtain/door. Wrong part as it happens, but anyway. They came all stuck together in an ungainly clump (not in a nice package...
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Cuprinol or some other timber preserver
A few years ago I used Cuprinol Wood Preserver Clear such as these $ Although the product was applied thoroughly I heard years later that one of the pieces of wood was rotting. Perhaps that piece was...
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OT Ants
I dug over the flower beds last week. The next day I found a few ants on the bathroom window ledge. We live in a bungalow, the kitchen is on the same wall as the bathroom. Killed the bathroom ants,...
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5V PSU for TENS Foot Plate
My FIL managed to spill water on his TENS machine Foot tinger thingy and to ok out it's 5V wall wart. I was asked if I could sort something out (Which I did by joining s 5V Wall wart of the right...
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tea
milk, two sugars please. Ta... Has their been a sudden breakout here of the single word subject syndrome? :)
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age
Would I be correct in assuming that most of the posters and readers on this ng are of a mature age. i.e. 55 - 80 yrs. It is difficult to guess age from a posting, but from the info given out, there...
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diy
for all you thatchees out there, but not all at once,you may crash the server. http://www.playamiguel.es/webcam/index.htm
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Rumours
Will smart meters alert the user of the date and time the meter is read by the energy company? I have heard conflicting reports on this one. also offgen say that if you are registered as blind with an...
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Modernising room heatng controls - what's available?
The other "boiler replacement" thread has produced some useful ideas (thanks to all!) so I've started this new thread just for room heating controls. I plan to divide the new house into multiple...
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Chainsaw
Hi all I have a pile of logs/ slices of tree trunk in the garden which i have no u se for other than to chop up and use for outdoor heating. This is going to be a one off event so thought i would hire...
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Vinyl Interlocking floor times and planks
I have a T & G Bathroom floor and don't want to put ceramic tiles down as it would need to be overboarded and then tiled - this would lead to an annoying little step. Saw some thin interlocking (like...
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Weird network issue resolved!
#1 router was a newish DSL 3780 as provided by Talktalk and the one acting as modem to connect to broadband, plus providing one access point at the top of the house. #2 used a wired LAN to connect to...
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