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Changing a bath tap washer
I haven't had a need to change a conventional tap washer for maybe 30 years, but when the cold-water bath tap needed to be turned off hard to stop the flow I reckoned it was time to replace the...
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Agricultural Trailer Renovation Project anyone? (East Yorkshire)
I've been using an old Weekes two wheel tipping trailer for many years to collect horsemuck and have it taken away by a local farmer. It's been patched up and kept going a few times but the tipping...
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Re: OT yes it has...
If I wake up feeling like football I go back to bed until I feel better!
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Re: WTF Happened In 1971? [By a website of the same name.]
Steve Forbes, June 18, 2014.: "As Brad indicated, the book is about money & monetary policy, & money, particularly monetary policy is one of those topics, that seems to intimidate a lot of people, for...
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Trolley Buses - any enthusiast?
Yes, during the house building boom of the sixties it was cheaper and quicker to provide diesel buses to all the outlying housing estates. The main road by our estate had trolley buses but a gas leak...
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Finishing treatment for external wood
In article >, Dave Liquorice wrote: I'd be amazed if you could shear an SS screw before brass?
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OT exploding tins
12 months ago, just before I scrapped the car, I went to the supermarket and bought a number of multipacks of tinned drinks Now I am suffering from these tins spontaneously "exploding" and depositing...
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TOT Mail tracking - rant
This time I have some packages to be delivered by Royal Mail and have a couple of tracking numbers and a link to their site. Since when have they started to use those picture verification grids, why...
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Fitting a gauge in a dash
I have a dash on a boat, in centre of dash is an oddment tray ... for sunglasses etc. This is the only free location to fit a 3'5" gauge. The back of this tray slopes away ... so if I just drilled...
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Help with Dobbies please
I ordered red geranium plants from Dobbies, way back, I had an email from them on the 8th to say they would be delivered on the following Friday. They never arrived, I can get no meaningful response...
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Re: Ring Door Bell with existing Chime
You sure about that? many old bells would work just as well off AC.
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Asbestos flue with black discolouration
Hi, When I bought my house (built in 84) a few years ago the survey flagged up that the flue was potentially made of asbestos. I didnt really worry about this as I had no plans to disturb it. However...
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Wireless remote relay question
I bought this cheap wireless relay just to mess about with and to maybe link to a door entry system. aerial is a small coil of wire that in the photos in the listing just hangs outside the enclosure....
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WTF Happened In 1971? [By a website of the same name.]
WTF Happened In 1971? [By a website of the same name.] In the late 1960s the US tried to have both guns and butter. It fought the Vietnam war abroad and launched the welfare state at home. They...
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Gas restrictor pipe
When piping up a gas fire with 8mm restrictor tube do the connections have to be sealed with paste if so what's it called
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