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Dual 505 record deck sticking
There's bound to be some hi-fi guru here to help me (I hope!) The deck was bought in the late '60's when I worked for Plessey and I could get it on discount. It doesn't get used all that much these...
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Flexible, putty like adhesive for food preparation tools?
I've got a flexible plastic siphon tube that tends to curl up in use. I also want to prevent it from getting too close to the sediment in the bottom of a brew bucket. So I'm running it through a...
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Question for Brian re screen readers
Morning Brian, A question if I may ... An aged aunt, who may or may not be slowly loosing the plot, is talking about 'changing her computer' (sic) I think she means installing sight- loss assistive...
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Peltier
Anyone know about peltier devices? Can you drive them at half voltage? I wish to make a container that is limited to ideally between 18 and 20 centigrade and apparently they do not like to be cycled...
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Plugging network router into another router?
Wishing to plug a TP Link WR340G remote box, provide wifi at location into main router Fon La Fonera, don`t appear to immediately like each other... Take it need to either tell the TP Link box to act...
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Oven load rating puzzle
Our double oven has just died - it was rubbish from day one, so time for a new one anyway. Had a look at quite a few replacement candidates that can be had by next week, and all apart from one were...
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OT: fracking bias
Shocking bias here: 1. Fracking will not change the landscape of the national parks because it won't be allowed there. No surface equipment will be allowed in the national parks. 2. "Fracking could...
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why do women think we can hear them through walls?
Why is it? You can be two rooms away with the telly and the chip pan on and they'll issue some instruction and expect you to hear what they're on about. Then when you don't they get the hump. Bill
 
Laying tiles ?
Not how to as such but wife has got retangular floor and wall tiles for shower room. I never thought before but is it best to lay them brickwork fashion or inline above one another?
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Sleeving pipe
What can one use as a sleeve for 22mm Copper pipe? That's 22mm OD. It should be plastic, but I don't see anything of nearby size. NT
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Physics lectures on line for those with an interest
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
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stripping down whiteboard construction to mount onto wall
Hi All I have recently acquired S/Hand a large, good quality (Nobo) whiteboard. It is around 10mm thick and from what I can see from one edge, the construction is a bit like: (back) ----- layer of...
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OT Life in Sweden, (socialist paradise)
Socialism always fails because socialist are inherently brain dead. "You have to understand that Swedes are really scared when an asylum house opens in their village. They can see what has happened in...
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How can I wood file under a door (without removing the door).
Hi I have a door that I want to slide a cable 's a mains power cable, but the door is really close to the floor. There isn't much room under the door. I can get a thin file under there but then there...
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Seal for slate
I've had the better-half at me for some time to make a Lazy Susan and have put it off because I couldn't get an idea of the right size for us. Problem has been solved by Aldis stocking slate ones at...
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