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garden tool batteries
Didnt use batteries fr two years(medical reason) for strimmer and hedge trimmer. No they wont take a charge. Any solutions?
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Wood moulding channel section, where to buy?
I'm after a wood moulding channel section and I'm finding it difficult to find any. I want something like a 15mm square section with a 5mm slot in it, the dimensions aren't that critical though,...
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Satellite TV
The new house has a satellite dish. I've got a cheap DVB-S decoder from Ebay. It appears to work and identifies a satellite (Telecom 2 3.0 East) but its scan finds no channels. Where can I find what...
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Wall rebuild quote
Hi . A brickie gave me a quote to take down an old wall (about 13ft long by 6' 6" high)using 140mm concrete blocks, for (£790). This wall is connected to my neighbour's wall with an adjacent wall...
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Microwave odd-ball
The source I suspect is age - it's a 20 year old Panasonic - and it's more a case of 'when' we replace it rather than resolve but an opinion of the source of the problem would be interesting. About...
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Incralac brass lacquer
Has anyone any experience of using Incralac or similar lacquer on non-ferrous metal - if so has the finish lasted well outdoors. The blurb for the Incralac indicates that it should, but if anyone has...
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Bookshelves
I want to build some bookshelves. What's a good material to use for the shelves themselves - around 30 cms deep? I know this sounds like a daft question, but I want it to be reasonably cost-effective...
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Strong alternative to chimney corner bracket
I want to put a satellite dish plus motor on a tenement chimney, but unfortunately one south-west corner of the chimney is already in use for someone else's dish, and the other south-east corner is...
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Safety mods to an electric lamp bought overseas?
Just back from a family trip to Egypt learning to scuba dive. Boy, it was fantastic - best holiday *evah*, etc etc Anyway, while we were out there SWMBO and Offspring #1 managed to find the time to go...
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OT: Shoot the moon
An amusing thought landed on me last night while strolling to the pub. How about someone manfacturing solar cells that are actually fake? Like the stone cladding popular during the eighties, they...
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Battery-operated mains
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OT Copying/recording video.
I have a DVD player/recorder that has a hard disk as well as DVD slot. It also has an instruction book an inch thick. I can copy stuff from the TV onto the hard disk in the recorder. I can transfer...
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Nuts am I unfit...
Just digging a short 4 ft trench by 2ft deep (ish) to add a new gully drain connection to the main sewer chamber. Picture of moderate spoil heap: Picture of a 2ft high pile of concrete from the path:...
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new fire surround with cast iron fascia
Was thinking of a stove, but for various reasons decided to keep the open f ire. It is a Baxi Burnall fireplace with a 1930s tiled fire surround that is jus t about OK, but really does need to be...
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Gov web site doesn't like W's !!!
Sign of my age I know, but was trying to get a pension statement request logged onto the appropriate gov web site for which you have to register with the gov gateway: When I try and type in my name...
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