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Oops
Error code on washing machine - drain pipe blocked. Running the pipe outside doesn't work in winter.
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strimmers - dual or single ?
My brother has asked for a strimmer for Christmas. I believe the bump feed heads are more reliable than auto feeds, but is a double feed head required on anything that is decent ? ** This looks good...
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Safe zones for electic cables
Safe zones totally ignored by BMBC (ie BarnsleyMBC) The rewire was done 10 years ago and now they are doing some damp proofing work that shows the signed off Part P registered electrical installers...
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The world's most outrageously inefficient amplifier?
http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/rm-bla-350-15-30mhz-linear-amplifier-r52ce
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Honeywell ST7100 Randomness
We have an old boiler, and an old Honeywell ST7100 controller. The other week, I replaced the batteries in the ST7100 - the old ones were well and truly flat. Since then, the heating has been...
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OT What do the Japanese do-
With all those photos we see them everywhere snapping away?
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No power rating for electric oven/grills?
Maybe a bit OT, but it may be of interest. We have just replaced and old (10 to 15 years? it was here when we moved in) and faulty "Cookers" fitted double oven with a new AEG one. The new one's fan...
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I just thought of a product for Russ..
Yes special hi dfi air for the listening room. It has to be an air tight room, and needs to be replenished every so often. Why is it better than normal air? Ah well, it has precicely the right...
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Very poor suppression
Two devices bought this week. Both work OK but the problem is that their power supplies being of the switch mode kind push out lots of annoying RF at frequencies between 100khz and around 20mhz. One...
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Re: Chuckle brothers are at it again in the "Flooding" thread.
En el artículo , bm escribió: 120 posts in the thread, 72 auto-deleted. Lossless compression.
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OT: Russ Andrews outclassed
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Plumbing Flow Rate Problem
A question on this new cistern I've just bought. How long will it take each of two pipes to fill the cistern if one of them alone takes 9 minutes longer to fill it than the other, and 25 minutes...
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Stupid cat
Two of my cats tried to exit the cat flap simultaneously. There was a loud yelp from both of them as they got squashed, then they eventually managed to get through. The end result is the cheap shit...
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OT Fly geyser Nevada.
https://vimeo.com/107168720
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deloghi dehumidifier compressor not switching on
I suspect my dehumidifier has much the same problem as this one: Trouble is I don't understand what he says the cure is, is it the capacitor needs replacing or the yellow capacitor? Compressor works...
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