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tip of the day
I have a set of 2 in 1 aluminum step-ladder/ladder which I'm currently using while refurbishing my stair well and hall way. The ladder is topped off with two black rubber(?) bumpers designed to...
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The Morris battery. Again.
Well, I think the battery itself is OK. Went for a run Thursday afternoon to charge the battery, then left it until this morning (Tuesday) with the earth lead disconnected. Reconnected and an easy...
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Smelly Oil (Kerosene)
Hi All, We recently had our tank refilled and it was very smelly within about 5 meters in any direction of it over the weekend. My feeling was that this was just normal for the weather we had this...
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Getting rid of moths
Hi all We have moths in our bedroom (only room in the house oddly). Any idea how best to get rid of them? Have tried a moth strip which supposedly attracts them and then kills them but no joy. Anyone...
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How to prepare cedar for re oiling
Hi All Last summer I made some outside cupboard doors out of cedar planks. I finis hed them with Danish Oil and they looked great. A year later they are look ing grubby (muck splashed on them etc) and...
 
TV Aerial in Loft
I'm planning to put an aerial in a loft, slate tiled roof. The signal is pretty good where I am, and I can get all channels at the top of the house using a cheap internal aerial. Downstairs is less...
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Problem with old swing doors
Victorian house, nice swing doors in hall with Climax hinges. Lefthand door is a little lower than the other one and swings a tiny bit too close to the other door so that they bash against each other...
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Wood expansion
I have just installed a 1.4m X 150mm X 50mm spruce beam between the garage and house. At present it is a good interference fit but I am a little worri ed when it gets saturated it might expand and put...
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Hot weather warning
Based on something I saw in another place: Don't leave a can of expanding foam in a hot garage like they did, or (even worse) in a hot car. Owain
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For those that want to build arduino projects without programming try XOD.io
is an IDE which is like lego, join up blocks and set the data and uploaded it to your arduino and away you go. downloaded it yesterday and built a weather station using a temp and humidity sensor and...
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A cure for Insomnia?
1. How do you magnetise scrap iron? I put some magnets on a couple of radiators and noticed I have managed to get a some sleep recently. Now I want to overdo things if its possible. Hopefully it might...
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Ping Bill Wright and anyone else able to troubleshoot TV signal issues
We have a five-in eight-out (Triax?) multiswitch in the loft, receiving signals from a satellite dish and a terrestrial aerial, and feeding eight triplexer plates. Three of them have Humax Fox-T2 HDRs...
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Blackened washing machine commutator
The washing machine packed in this morning. Filled up with water, and then nothing. I expected I was going to need to replace the motor brushes (although they're only about two years old), but they...
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Fecking Belling-Lee connectors
Intermittent fault (no signal) with the spare room telly finally tracked down. Took the (visually fine) Belling-Lee off one end of the aerial lead and the centre conductor fell off where the inner...
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Moment of boredom OT
Am I slow to wake up or is there a determined effort to force online handling of accounts? Currently, British Gas are playing the *you supplied gas readings to our online site so we know you don't...
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