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Insulate article in Green Lib Dem website
I've just published an article about insulation etcera on the GreenLibDem website: I hope i havent made too many mistokes! George I've heard the Conservatives are cutting building regulations 'red...
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Heating A Wooden Shed
I've just had a 6' x 6' shed erected in the garden to house a few stationary engines which I want to keep above freezing in the winter. I do have an electrical supply nearby. What are folks thoughts...
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TOT Coconut water and legal and general
2 mild rants Today I purchased a can of 100% pure coconut water. I recommend it if you prefer the taste of stagnant ditch water. It also had a somewhat overpowering unpleasant smell. Today I received...
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Sealant in a tube rather than needing a 'gun'
I often need small amounts of sealant for which the standard sealant 'gun' and 300ml tube is too big and too clumsy. I've looked a bit but I can't seem to find sealant in a tube like a tube of glue,...
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Ideas needed please
I have an analogue voltage 0-5v that I would like to look via an iPhone and depending on the displayed voltage, I want to manually send a command to toggle a relay contact. Some sort of widget at the...
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electrical expertise please
I want to buy a small 12v diesel transfer pump I won't always have it close to a car to allow me use the car battery. So the question is could the Bosch 12v batteries used in their cordless equipment...
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What temperature does gas freeze at
The box that surrounds my gas meter has got half full of water, which has now frozen solid around the supply pipe and on/off handle (quite why the box doesn't have a drain hole in it, I have no idea)...
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LEDs - getting there slowly.
Just bought some of these. Bit pricey but 140lm/W. Seems to be about right. Pity it's so difficult to get other envelopes in that sort of rating - most BC lamps seem to be 'vintage', 'retro' etc. and...
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Yaesu FT818
Did you really mean to post this here on the DIY list? Go on buy an Icom you know you want to. Brian
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Cordless drills
My 14 month old (and therefore just out of warranty) Hitachi cordless drill (with which I am otherwise very happy) has broke (the keyless chuck is jammed). It's the third one I've had in ~20 years - I...
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Kitchen mixer tap
Can anyone tell me how to remove the hot and cold knobs/taps each side of this mixer? I can remove the neck/spout (grub screw at back) but I can't get into the taps. They are working loose and the red...
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Morecambe and Wise footage
I remmeber them coming to our lab to ask about using our laser cutting which wasn't really suitable. An old Morecambe and Wise film from 1968 has been restored using a groundbreaking new technique.
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Remove wooden fence post 'stub'.
We've got wooden fence post stub which is set in a sizeable concrete lump. It is broken off 'flush' at the surface- a lorry hit the fence. Obviously I could break up the concrete etc but, owing to a...
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ABS Plastics Repair?
Not an urgent requirement- ie I don't have a current repair to do but it it is something that comes up from time to time. To be blunt, I've never found a sure fire way to glue/repair ABS. In...
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Lidl washers set
I bought a pack of 383 assorted fibre and "rubber" washers and O-rings from Lidl as future spares. Noticed later that they are not to be used "in foo d and drinking water pipes". Does anyone know if...
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