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SHower hose screw thread?
Diolch yn fawr, Owain. Die ordered from Tracy Tools.
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TIP - Fix a liquid spray bottle
I tend to save a few of the cheap cleaner squirty bottles, to re-purpose these for spraying thin oil and even water to spray cool a weld down. Trouble is they soon seem to fail to spray. Problem -...
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Identify Pressure washer fitting
I have an old KEW Hobby 88 pressure washer A few years back lent it to a friend, came back with broken female fitting ... as KEW are no more replaced the hose. The company Valetech (Manchester)...
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OT: Car making spurious noise
Ford Focus 1.8 2010. I've had the car several years and had a longish run 120miles each way a couple of Saturday's ago. Just before I got home (it was a day that had chucked it down, moreso in the...
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Aluminium tube redux
Some of you may recall me asking about tubing for vacuuming out the spider webs in my vaulted ceilings. Picked up a 5M length of 40MM waste pipe from Screwfix yesterday and as I hoped, it fits on the...
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Attaching Castor to Wooden Bench Leg
I want to raise a workbench up by a few inches, and thought it would be han dy to do this usIng suitable braked castors so that I can move the bench ar ound more easily. The legs of the bench are 80 x...
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Toilet keeps filling
I've been asked to sort out a toilet cistern that keeps on filling and so overflowing. Photo of offending item here: Is it just a case of removing the circular blue bit and replacing a washer or...
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gas legal?
Is it legal for me to use a monometer to check the gas pressure at the meter and at the boiler ?
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Pump for boiler descaling
Hi all, I have a intergas boiler with a developing limescale problem on the domesti c hot water side. Taking the heat exchanger out looks to be impractical, so I thought I'd try the alternative...
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MagnaClean
For interest only 20 year old CH run with sludge remover approx 10 months ago. Images show the amount of magnetic material collected by a MagnaClean since. The material is collected in a spiral...
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OT fruit - oranges
For a few weeks, we have been buying regular small boxes of oranges from the local coop, described as 'grade 1 easy peelers' - Spanish mandarin. Having a sweet tooth, I found them quiet juicy and...
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Is it safe to touch an LED bulb without gloves?
The rule is, don't touch *halogen* bulbs with the bare fingers. Does this also apply to LED MR16s or GU10s? MM
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LG washing machine service manuals
Hello! Can anybody suggest, where one can find LG service manuals for washing machines? I tried google, but did not find service manual for my washer. Model is F1496ADP3, that isn't sold in Britain...
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OT: Linux HDD on Win10 not booting
Hi peeps, I?m trying to recover s9me files off a Linux HDD but when connecting the hd to the sata connections on the pc but the pc won? ?t boot. I?m sure I have done it before but stumped why it? ?s...
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Question about Electic Motors
Most motors seem to have the same proportions of length to diameter so there must be some theoretical principal there. However, I once operated a milling machine that had what was called a Pancake...
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