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Escaping from a fire.
I see someone else got injured jumping from a first floor window in a fire. Completely unnecessary. If you are ever in that situation, climb out of the window and hang on to the window cill with arms...
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I.need AEG hammar drill.field
Aeg hammar drill I.need field 50hz
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Battery characteristics: Lithium, Ni-Cad and Ni-MH
Nicads as you surmise are lower Voltage 4.8 for a pack as opposed to 6 Flash units were often adorned with warnings about nicads being unsuitable. Possibly because the current drawn is high leading to...
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PIR priority
OK thanks for replies that answers my questions.
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B&Q to close over 60s card
B&Q will no longer accept new members for its over 60s Diamond Club discoun t scheme from 3 September - and will restrict the offer to gardening produc ts. Over 60s can currently get 10% off all B&Q...
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Door bottoms
drip strip, weather strip.
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Motorcycle carbs flooding ... ?
Hi all, Trying to help a mate with an old but cherished Kawasaki ER-5 (500cc twin). Long short, as soon as you turn the fuel ('Prime') on it floods both carbs. Now, I'm very familiar with carbs and...
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Wasps & wood ?
We have a barbecue shelter, made out of some sort of hardwood. Every summer, since I built it (2011) I've noticed that wasps seem attracted to it. In particular the upright pillars. Which appear to be...
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OT android P
Is google taking the P by having a monochrome mode so you aren't affected by blue light before you go to bed? Do they know that the white is R+G+B and that B stands for Blue?
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SDS Wood Bits?
I see that Lidl have some SDS-Plus bit sets (chisels, etc.) coming up soon - but one of the sets contains wood augers. Why would you use a wood auger in an SDS drill - or am I missing something?
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5 years ago
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Soil plumbing
The chalet bungalow upstairs bathroom. Are there likely to be any issues with arranging a short 45 deg. fall in the toilet waste pipe? The current plan is a vertical outfall terminated at a manifold...
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110mm push fit soil pipe fixings - two fitting methods?
It is a while since I messed around with 110mm soil pipe fittings. Digging a brown OSMA joint out of stock, I find it has a rubber seal inside a collar. First attempt to push in a length of grey pipe...
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5 years ago
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Name for Wall Construction
My 1988 house has the upstairs walls made of plasterboard. They are only 2inches thick. There were constructed by using a batten on the ceiling and on the floor and nailing a plasterboard panel to...
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Broken chuck on SDS drill
Something has gone amiss with the chuck on my ageing budget SDS drill (Ferm FBH620 from Screwfix many moons ago): tools no longer twist-and-lock. I've seen fixes online but the prospect of dismantling...
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OT; Speed of virtual computer
A chum has recorded lots of material via his dvr onto an external drive. As the dvr is Linux based, he, or it, formatted the drive with a Linux file system, probably EXT4. He now wants to watch the...
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