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Where do I put my pint glass then?
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Paint: Eggshell v Satinwood
I feel I ought to know by now but what is the difference? mark
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OT How to find a reliable tradesman
I need someone to refurbish my patio and paths, I've become too old for all the bending. How on earth does one find a reliable tradesman? I know no one who has had similar work done, so...
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Hours Counters on Plant & Machinery
Equipment such as garden tractors, minidiggers, and so on, is often fitted with electronic hours counters these days. How difficult are they to reset? I'm not about to move into a new field of crime:...
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(OT) Censorship
Tried to do a lookup on Wikipedia to learn the colour of qat chewers' saliva (and to confirm my possibly unreliable recollection that qat was in fact something which one chewed). It was blocked! Not...
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10 years ago
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Alluminium Tape on Celotex
I'm having a garden studio built. 4x2 Construction builders paper and shiplap on the outside, plaster board and plastered skim on the inside. Insulation is 50mm Celotex. The plasterboard is Knauf...
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The possibilities.....
I've just realised that the porch outside the front door is inside the house so the far end of the little bedroom is directly over it. Now there must be something I can do with this. Simple thing like...
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10 years ago
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RC Driveshaft.
Can anyone think of a way to repair this driveshaft off my sons Remote control Off road buggy. It is about 30mm in length. It is used to connect the Driveshaft to the wheel, the wheel nut goes on the...
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10 years ago
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Exterior paintwork
Hi, I'm about to move into (buy) a recent build (2009) flat and the exterior wooden paintwork is in flipping appalling condition, in some places having completely weathered away back to bare wood....
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10 years ago
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Hyperterminal without protocols?
I want to send and receive text files to and from a machine tool of early 1990's vintage controlling the data flow using RTS/CTS handshaking. (This is called DNC). Now the software I've been using to...
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10 years ago
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TOT: How to examine end of 10GB log file on a Windows PC?
As per title ... I have an improvement I wish to make to a program, not one that I've written, but I did write most of the 680x0 emulator that now runs it on current hardware. I hope to discover a...
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10 years ago
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OT: touchscreen stylus
Does a stylus for a modern (capacitive) touchscreen have to have a rubbery bulb on the end, or can they be somewhat sharper? I've tried the bulb-on-pen kind: it's not much more accurate than my finger...
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10 years ago
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Heavy duty cable clips?
I have an armoured cable running down the surface of wall from a secondary consumer unit . Cable is about 14mm-15mm diameter. At the moment it is not fixed and I want to fix it straight and vertical...
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Ashes
Anyone know of a means of watching the Ashes cricket via the internet? Mike
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Amber Windows L plates needed.
Anyone know of this shower? Driving down to J6 of the M6 this morning at around 8:30, one of their cretins was bellowing a foul mouthed rant about my "cutting him up". Whether he was on a phone or...
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