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DIY work for Idol hands
's always something useful to be done. How to Make Nail Polish: This instructable will teach you how to make your own nail polish colors using eyeshadow and glitter. It's an excellent way to get...
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Car battery
Changed my car a couple of weeks back and it has the push button start/stop rather than ignition key. It also cuts out if stopped at traffic lights and restarts when accelerator pedal is pressed. All...
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Re: shop hung
We fitted one in France many years ago. That was not a made to order one though, just a shop-stocked, standard size that we built the stud-wall around. It was supplied with temporary braces fitted to...
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Improving the humble surgical mask
Gentlemen, We all know by now that surgical masks are much better at keeping bio-nasties from escaping a carrier than they are at preventing said nasties from infecting a wearer who's attempting to...
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Work as normal on Monday for anyone else?
Or just me?
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OTish: plane maintenance
Any aviation buffs/experts out there have any ideas about how a prolonged open-ended shutdown might affect commercial air travel from a mechanical perspective ? Presumably grounded planes still need a...
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bathroom Isolator switches in attic?
Is it Ok to have the fused isolator switches for bathroom fan and heater a few feet above them in the attic? george
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“if that means some pensioners die, too badâ€
Government strategy summed up by Dom Cummings: ?herd immunity, protect the economy and if that means some pensioners die, too bad?... Is it just me, or is there then a glorious irony in Boomers...
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Are there wireless doorbells with 'Quinetic' type pushes?
Can you get 'wireless' doorbells with Quinetic type pushes? I.e. a push button that doesn't require any battery? We want to put a button out on our front gate so delivery drivers can more easily keep...
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Mothers Day
Boris says the best single present for mothers was to stay away. So following this official advice I phoned my Mum and asked for the chocolates back that I dropped off on Thursday (I was supposed to...
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All you chemists out there (quinine)
They say say chloroquine has an effect on co-vid 19 but I tried to research whether quinine bisulfate would work. Whatever way I phrase it every answer only mentions chloroquine and nothing on quinine...
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Fussy cat
How do you tell your fussy cat,no more chicken because of covid-19 ? because whenever I go to the supermarket the shelves are empty.
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Re: European "Union" shows its true colours now push comes to shove
1, are these masks dodgy? I see a lot of bona fide looking adverts around but most either don't exist or are sub standard crap. Brian
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poly bags
A cashier will not use a "customer bag" today, to bag groceries. They will only use a "clean" store-provided bag. If the bag is "free again", so much the better. In addition, Plexiglas shields have...
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jumpers
Not any knowledge that the private hospitals have allowed anyone to jump any queues during this current problem. One could see these people who pay for private healthcare as reducing the load on the...
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