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OT Don't quite see how this'll work???
AIRBUS has teamed up with Rolls-Royce and Siemens to develop a hybrid electric engine.
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Many a true word ...
From the website of spammers operating some sort of US stock market scam. "We've even found the tiny company that Amazon has bought into that creates hydrogen batteries? the company that could explode...
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LED & Fibre Optic X-Mas deco's
She's just dug out a fibre optic santa, purchased a good few years ago for silly money no doubt from QVC. Once again she's lost all the transformers for everything FFS. Same every year. removes all...
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Small laser printer replacement - recommendations?
Hi all I've had a Samsung ML-2010 B/W laser printer for about 10 years now and it has served extremely well. I do little printing, though every few weeks I do a "large" print of about 50 pages for...
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OT Car insurance Bloody crooks
Bloody Crooks! Car insurance was due for Roller. (Lancaster, specialises in heritage cars) Was quoted by post and Email £135 (This was up by £30 on last year). WHY? So went on line, (Gocompare)...
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Filling a chase
I'm about to start cutting some cable chases in a wall that's going to be painted, but when I last did this (a long time ago) I never managed to fill the chase so it disappeared completely. This house...
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used one?
Hmm another picture. I feel left out. Brian
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"This appliance must be earthed"
I'm in the Netherlands at the moment, looking at a piece of equipment (a hi-fi amplifier) and the mains sockets. The amplifier has a "This appliance must be earthed" label on it. The mains sockets,...
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Chainsaw purchase
I could do with a chainsaw .... have around 150 Leylandi to cut out The diam of trunk is typically 8" ... a few are larger Thinking I will take first cut at shoulder height (or maybe even standing on...
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MCB tripping
I know MCBs have two separate trips, a fast one for big faults and a slower thermal trip for moderate over-current. How quickly should the thermal trip reset itself? Not my problem, but at the livery...
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Replacing (chimney) flashing.
AS luck would have it, our roof sprung a leak a few weeks ago. A panicked run up the roof suggests it's the flashing - the bottomost strip - which runs up the roof along the chimney. For now, a heavy...
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water off this morning
I still have mine, but of course you have to boil any water from the tank these days as you might get some horrible disease from it otherwise. Having said that for many years nobody ever bothered and...
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Light fitting
I just fitted a new light to my dining room ceiling but wired it up wrongly which caused it to blow. I trimmed the ends of the wires and re-wired it back up correctly but now my light fitting isn?t...
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potting compound substitute for cdi unit.
Hi, the HT lead on the trials bike was held to the CDi unit with some sort of potting compound. There is only a spike to attach the lead to, no screw unfortunately. On the plus side there is a sleeve...
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Hmm..OT
Is this a trend? Mail notification of pending gas bill from BG. Nothing through the post for a week so I downloaded a copy. This morning an informative from BG that *as I am managing my account on...
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