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Fixing a dishwasher all wrong
Just to show how romping off down a line of enquiry can lead you astray... SWMBO said, the dishwasher stopped mid wash, and now won't turn on. So I looked, and yup no signs of life, no power light,...
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Premium bonds
just found two £10 premium bonds taken out in 1981 is there an EASY way of finding out if they have ever won anything?
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worth money?
just found two ticket stubs for a beach boys concert my brother and I went to on May 9th 1967 Odean Glasgow...worth money or not ? ....stalls N28 15/- each....it was a great concert....
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Best alternative to cresote
Up intil fairly recently we could buy creosote in 5 gallon drums but now it is totally banned. In the past I tried alternatives but found they weren't wort a curse. has anyone found a good altenative?...
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Short term paper shredding
We have a couple of boxes of A4 plus lots of little bits which need shredding. All confidential. Far too many to do through an average office shredder. Far too many to feed into a fire. Options seem...
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New Brit Workshop and Festool Domino
in this video Peter Parfitt show how to assemble a strutted joint. What he doesn't show is how he cut the Domino slots in the cross brace withe the 45 degree face. Just to make myself clear. He is...
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car exhausts
can you buy one piece exhaust systems as fitted at the factory to most cars these days or do you have to replace in bits ?
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Well, that was silly
I spent most of today restructuring, reordering, and largely renaming a considerable number of data files on an external 3TB hard drive. I then dropped the drive onto a wooden laminated floor. It now...
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Temporary removial of solar panels
I have some solar panels on my roof which need to be moved to aid a flat roof repair. I was thinking of covering those that need moving, unbolting them, and laying them on the flat roof, or do they...
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Iceland 10% off
well had to use the barcode on the app on an android phone to get the 10% off this morning so there
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RCD Tripping
I have an RCD for the upstairs ring and a separate one for the downstairs ring. Lights, oven, boiler are on their own fused circuits. The downstairs RCD tripped three times yesterday morning but I...
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Clamp for washing-line post
The houses here have concrete posts for the clothes line. They're about 2m to the cross-rods for the line (and about 75 years old and in good condition). The line is too high for most people (I'm...
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v for frequency?
Since when did we start using v for frequency? v is velocity, f is frequency, lambda is wavelength. Using v for frequency is pure insanity....
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Semi-Seized Tap Cartridge
Hi Fellow DIYers I have a monobloc-style mixer tap with two quarter turn taps. The cold tap is stiff-to-seized. My thoughts are that this is limescale as we are is a pretty hard water area - East...
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Take your pick
does anybody remember the young girl who turned down a scooter to open box 13 only to win a holidwy to a place that held memories but she was too young to have a place like that and they gave her the...
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