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Fluorescent Tube Ban Sept 2023
Just been to to TLC to purchase some comfort components, and noticed a poster saying Fluorescent Tubes will be banned from Sept 2023. Presumably the sale, but after Googling there's suggestions that...
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Wood Glue
One of the drawers under my bed has fallen to pieces. Not sure if I can fix it well enough to use again, may just be a cosmetic fix to fill the space. There are zillions of PVA glues, many made by Evo...
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[OT] A hailstorm in June!
Outside temperature 23 C! Darkness! Car alarms sounding! It must be the End of the World!
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Reddit
Some Reddit users have noticed that they can't sign-in to their accounts anymore on mobile, as the option to do so has been removed for them. Reddit has made it difficult in the past for users to...
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Talking microwave stopped workingyesterday.
Now I'm not nowadays the sort of person who would open a Microwave, considering how high the capacitors inside might be charged, but yesterday my Talking Microwave from Cobolt just stopped. The fuse...
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Low-profile horizontal sliding mechanism
Following my earlier thread, I want to mount two computer monitors side by side on a base which can slide across the surface of a desk to bring either monitor into a central position. I'd like the...
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Fire incident
(Having a bit of a mutter here...) There was a fire a couple of weeks ago down the road from us which destroyed the roof and top floors of a 3-storey block of flats and (I assume) waterlogged the...
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Sun sail Installation ideas
Hi all, I have a sun sail that I have never installed. It is a bit like this one end it would be at the house wall but there is nothing on the 3 sides to attach it to. I am trying to think of a way of...
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Amplifier used at 6 volts and not the correct 9 volts.
Have an external Sony Speaker Amplifier SRS T1 that can plug into a Radio. It runs of four AA batteries. It could also run off a 9 volt power supply mains transformer, but i don't have one. I do have...
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That's annoying!
Now happily recording daytime TV film offerings for evening watching using my BT set top box. Recently some films have acquired an annoying *voice over* explaining trivial actor movements during non...
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photoshopping
Or rather gimping ... I have a paper document I want to scan and clean-up, unfortunately it's printed on government department (not very well bleached) paper, and was badly photo-copied at some point...
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Solvent
I made the mistake of peeling off one of those stickers they put on book covers for unknown reasons. I got most of the sticker off but much of the glue from the sticker remains and it's sticky....
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UK National Electric Grid has changed to DC
At the moment, shows the mains frequency as 0.000Hz. G. B. National Grid status G. B. National Grid status
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Car/Caravan breakdown cover
Renewal time, so what's worth having? I need the option of recovery back to home, of the entire outfit, even if the caravan is on a site, at time of breakdown/not on tow.
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Shoe heel repairs with mouldable rubber type material?
There seem to be a number of variations on mouldable type rubber (synthetic?) but is there a particularly hard wearing one that could be used for shoe heel repairs? I have a couple of pairs of...
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