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JIS #000 screwdriver
Anyone know where I can get a good quality one at a reasonable price? Best I have spotted so far is Amazon which is more than £12 including delivery. It *must* be JIS, not Phillips!
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Music from floppy drives
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/floppotron PayPalMe: https://paypal.me/floppotron John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads cover by The Floppotron, computer hardware orchestra (also known from...
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Who on here charges £120 an hour?
Following on from Adrian's piano moving thread, our new to us piano has just been tuned, £120 quid 45 minutes work, but a fair bit of that was chatting and explaining things, it was all interesting....
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9 way wagos for earths and neutrals in 6 way light switches?
I've got some 6 way double light switches... But how to connect the earths and neutrals in the back box? Are there available any 9 way wagos ? Are there available any deep back boxes? Or how? George
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Dr
It means that rogue antenna companies take advantage of people like Burt who don?t understand how antennas work or basic radio propagation theory, Jim. Thanks, Jim.
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OT: How do you make a cat eat its worm pill
Neighbours ginger cat (the one good at fishing) looks rather thin, always chewing grass and coughing. I suggested that cat probably has worms so he got 2 pills from the vet (£10 !!), but cat wont eat...
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Re: FLUSH 191 !!! Lines of Trollshit!
Agreed that Uncle Peter is a festering pustule on a weasel's rump.
 
MR16 lamps
I have a light fitting - bars with slidable lampholders - powered from a circular I changed one halogen for a LED. Can I continue to change all 4 - or will this cause problems due the reduced load on...
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Re: Sealing shower waste
Hi all I was going through the various sheets of instructions I had kept for the various bathroom fittings. On the shower tray one at the back was some instructions for fitting the trap (never thought...
 
pollyticks
Think I will come back when all this political crap has blown over....
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Moving a piano
Any tips? This is from one town to another town about a 150 miles away. How to get it on the van, secure it down etc. And how do you get it through a front door? Thanks
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To export an earth or to TT from an RCBO?
I have a couple of external sockets that are fed from an RCBO which also provides power (via about 30m of buried 3-core SWA cable) to a class II Well pump and controller. The SWA armour and earth...
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OT Giant model Concorde.
Otto Widlroither brings his giant homemade Concorde in the air for the very first time at the airfield of Mühldorf am Inn (Bavaria / Germany) Technical data: Scale 1/6 Span: 4 m / 13 ft. Lenght: 10 m...
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Acer laptop mouse pad buttons
I make heavy use of this and it doesn't have separate buttons as such, they are just a hidden part of the mouse pad nearest you, a clicky part. I have always found them difficult to use, because...
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Mortarfied
Sticking brickwork, at least for simple jobs, seems to an acceptable approach in the US: I've seen online references to "construction adhesive" which I assume is on the same lines at the sticks-all...
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