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OT Youtube downloaders
On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 19:06:27 +0000, "Jim GM4DHJ ..." <> wrote: just fine the last time I used it. You can choose mp3 or mp4 downloads. ytdownload.net is a free service created to help you find and...
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Portable Carbon Monoxide tester?
We have a mains powered CO tester in the same room as our log burner. However I am wondering if there is a sensitive portable CO tester which is good. <>is an example after a quick search. The main...
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3 years ago
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Crikey. We have a little gas capacity left
It's cold. FUCKING cold. The Dutch interconnector is borked. French and Belgian interconnectors running flat out. Wood burners flat out. Hydro and pumped nearly flat out. Nuclear as flat out as the...
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3 years ago
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Lidl plus app - life hack?
Just about worth having but a faff messing with your phone at their already frenetic checkouts! Anyway I was wondering... I launched the app, took a screenshot, got it onto my PC, cropped & printed it...
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Was someone after a stubby cordless screwdriver?
I recall a post...... These are in Lidl, Chorley at least. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KmIv0_3YQM-6Dl8ZDgssTI3FNHqYSWlr/view?usp=sharing
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3 years ago
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Naming Taps, first, second, bottoming
Can plug tap sometimes mean second and sometimes bottoming? Here is RS's plug taps selection, some of them look like they get close to the bottom, others less so. names seem to vary from website to...
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3 years ago
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Click mechanic
A bit below the belt in a d-i-y newsgroup but has anyone any experience of using the above? I had planned to replace the silencer box on our Fiesta myself, bought the box, borrowed axle stands and...
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3 years ago
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android 6 issue
My old phone has suddenly started to display something - samll - in the top right of the screen. Looks like memory and app useage: 5.75/6.3/5.98 Not sure how it got there or how to make it go.
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3 years ago
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Testing a 14 pin audio IC
Ten years ago I bult a low-noise pre-amp based on a 1970's article in Elektor magazine. It used a TBA231 dual op-amp IC. It didn't work but I did not have time to test all the copper runs etc before I...
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3 years ago
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Double Countersunk
Countersunk screws I understand, they have been around a long time. But double-countersunk - what does that mean? I am looking at the screw supplier's web page and they look like countersunk, only...
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3 years ago
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Decorating - hairline crack
Hairline crack I have a couple of fine cracks in the skim of my kitchen from when it was extended. (skim on Plasterboard) Just wondering what to do before redecorating (emulsion). Do I need to rake...
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3 years ago
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OT: Purveyers of animal suffering 'fighting back'.
It was interesting to see an advert on TV earlier: 'Eat balanced', showing the highly glamorised ideal of beef cows grazing on green pasture with the commentary telling us they will be eating plants...
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3 years ago
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Two Internet questions
The first concerns Thunderbird and sending emails, the second concerns Firefox, Google Street View and screen shots. In the past, when I sent an email via TB, it put a copy directly into my 'sent'...
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3 years ago
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OT: Digital Speedometer
My latest car has a screen instead of the traditional instrument binnacle, so far so good. It displays all the information in the main fairly easily to read. It also displays your speed digitally...
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3 years ago
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Old electrician
I wonder if this will apply to Adam one day. I just heard about a guy (for real, apparently) who was an electrician who didn't want to give up work, and worked way beyond retirement age. He got the...
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3 years ago
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