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Very low car tax on big cars?!
Am I reading this wrong? If I buy a 3.5 litre V8 4x4 that's 1 year old, or a Nissan Micra that's = 1 year old, both have the same =A3140 car tax? -- = "You might show me a little more respect"...
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Now you be very careful and afeared of that new smart meter;!
Its out to fry yer brains;!! With growing evidence of harm to physical and mental health caused by continuous pulsed em radiation from 'smart' electricity meters, Lynne Wycherley asks: have we...
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OT Those crazy Crazy Californians
Coffee sold in California must carry a cancer warning, a court has ruled. The judge in Los Angeles said Starbucks and about 90 other coffee sellers had failed to warn customers about a potentially...
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Stopcock turns off, needs closing off then back on to regain pressure
The house stopcock under the sink appears to be closing off when there is a sudden demand in the house, toilet flush for example. I have replaced the stopcock and fitted it the same way as the...
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OT: Overlarge Firefox icon in Ubuntu / Unity?
Yo. The other day, I think after doing an update on my Ubuntu / Unity box I noticed the Firefox icon on the desktop was massive, about 4 times the normal size and didn't respond to any 'resize' type...
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Trimming doors to fit new carpets
A good quality jigsaw with a bit of pendulum action on can usually cut a door fairly straight IME - so long as you don't try to force a cut line along a batten. Oddly enough the egg box doors can be...
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HDD question
The HDD on my desktop computer is getting noisy. As part of my backup procedures, I regularly clone it to an external HDD. If I swap the two drives, will the cloned version be bootable straight off,...
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Making a bath panel
Hi All, I am looking to build a bath panel to close off my spa bath so needs to hav e some access (via a tool to meet electric regs) to get to the pumps etc in case they need replacing. The surround...
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Slightly more manly Wago box
Just spotted this: Probably a bit more usable in a number of situations... Must admit I had not spotted the Wago "buttons" before - I was looking at one of the boxes the other week thinking "what are...
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Steel tube
Made some speaker stands using Speedfit push together square steel tubing some 4 years ago. Materials cost 115.50 plus VAT. Just re-ordered the same to make another pair. 133.90. So about a 15%...
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sealant in lieu of PTFE tape
In view of my historic , and generally lost battles with PTFE tape, I am now contemplating the use of LS-X compound with my new radiator valves, and I would value comment on this please.
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OT: House buying/selling
Firstly, has anyone managed to sell/buy a house in under 3 months? Because in all my years i've never witnessed anyone manage it. Secondly, does the whole process need a good looking at? We were at...
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Pump over run and Vaillant 418 install.
The proposed installer for my 418 boiler has pointed out that my present boiler does not support a pump over run output, nor is my present system wired for one. He did mentioned an extra bit of loom...
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OT: Wave energy projects off Cornwall postponed or cancelled
It's just been announced that the Australian wave energy company Carnegie has cancelled its plans to test a wave-energy device at the 'Wave Hub' off the Cornish coast. An American company, Gwave, was...
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bearings
I'd imagine the real ones use some sort of self-lubing plain bearing.
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