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Replacement wall light switches
Doubtless a daft question, but ... I want to replace some of our ordinary white wall light switches, some one way and some (landing light) two way. Seen a box of ten two way that would suit....
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Water and human proof bell push needed
Well says it all. I have a little door phone and after about 6 months trying to keep the call/bell button has been abandoned in favour of an old bell push I found in a drawer with a Woolworths price...
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alt.internet.talk.haven
Just found a vacant newsgroup that might suit a lot of us who post OT subjects in uk legal and the D-I-Y group. Shall we jump ship and use this group to save the annoyance of posters who don't like...
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OT: Making a knife
I don't know whether many people here watched the BBC4 programme about Owen Bush making a kitchen knife on BBC4 the other night? I would have liked to understand a bit more about what he was doing,...
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OT: What you can and can't do at a polling station
Can you wear political clothing? People shouldn't wear party political clothing. At the last general election Nigel Tonkin, then Westminster Council's head of administrative services, said that...
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Help with excel formula
I know wrong newsgroup but trying to get something I can understand So hoping one of you guys understands excel formulas. Using this formula: =AVERAGEIF(C3:AL3,"%",C18:AL18) What thats doing for me is...
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Torbeck (Again?!)
Just went to B&Q to get a replacement diaphragm, and just where you expect the little hole to be, is a sticking-up bit of plastic. Do I just snip it off?
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Colin Furze
Does anyone else follow Colin Furze on Your tube? I enjoy seeing how he builds most of his crazy machines. Mike The first video in my quest to build the best pulse jet powered go-cart the internet has...
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Re: OT (Australia) Tony Abbot sets up new schools
This has nothing to do with the uk or d-i-y.
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Re: OT NewRussian tank
Because they have something called "heavy industry", things called "factories", thousands of skilled workers, and making military vehicles is a strong tradition they won't let go of? Oh. And they have...
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Some people here will want to decorate their walls with this
Tim W http://paintwithnigelfarage.com/
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OT. Generic drug testing.
Last week I had occasion to look into a new generic drug. What I found was somewhat horrific. The generics used a sample of twenty people, ten on the new version and ten on the original. The test...
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Fixing a rad to thin air
Gentlemen, I slightly exaggerate, but not by much. I have to hang a rad to that lino-esque stuff you find more and more used in bathrooms these days. I *think* it's called panelboard. Anyway, it's...
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Brilliant diy video
Loving these hot DIY tips. Tim w Little DIY jobs around the house can add up to be quite expensive. But with my quick DIY hacks I’ll teach you how to save a fortune. These simple fixes to...
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Wind turbines a complete waste of money
We've all been spun bullshit about how efficient they are. The payback time is probably somewhere over a 100 years. They need to be renewed about every 20 to 30 years and many cost over a Hundred...
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