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Cokin
I have an old Cokin 67mm sq filter holder. I need to get adapter rings for it but am confused by the Cokin terminology which appears to have changed since when I last used these ( pre digital) I'm...
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Electrical cable not conforming to standards - NZ - here?
A couple of articles: and . Apparently electrical cable is being imported into NZ and not tested because it has certification from overseas (medium risk). There is now a call for local testing as some...
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OT The DM is getting concerned about mumsnet
So bad that the National Trust are said to be concerned about their adverts appearing in the wrong place. One commenter has written :- "I always thought Mumsnet was another way of describing the...
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Car park collapse
There seem to be a distinct lack of rebar in the bit that's fallen off. That can't be right surely? Tim The front fascia wall of an NCP car park in central Nottingham falls away.
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Part P England Special Locations
I must have missed this: Page 6: 2.5 / 12 / 9 According to that, work is only notifiable in Zones 0,1 and 2 - the rest of the room is not covered... Interesting...
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6 years ago
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Floor paint
Son has built this huge 3-car+ garage/workshop on the piece of his garden where I used to park my big boat trailer. :-( :-( The new concrete floor is dusty, so he has asked me about painting it. I see...
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6 years ago
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Workshop dust extraction
I'm just starting to set-up a workshop at the "new" house. The floor is now concreted and painted so thoughts are starting to turn (in parallel with the zillions of other projects that I keep...
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OT: Smell memories
Why do we smell things and forget what it's a smell of? Yet you wouldn't forget what the sigh or sound of something was.
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Carpentry advice wanted please.
I'm fitting a kitchen workbench in a cupboard under the stairs which houses the washing machine and all the usual cleaning paraphernalia. Size approx 1400 x 1200mm. The bench will go all along the...
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6 years ago
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And another email funny
We used to be on Tiscali/talktalk, but now on Plusnet. TT still accepts and allows download of incoming email, but not sending. I am using Outlook 97, which is set to send and receive via several...
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6 years ago
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OT - ish - Video capture / editing
HI folks Continuing my thoughts about the Raspberry PI / video-wall installation.... - which will be kind of d-i-y, as I'll be doing it myself - and I know that there a people here with wide...
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6 years ago
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Roofing question.
Have a flat roof (standard roofing felt) that meets up with a sloping slated one. The flat roof is angled slightly so the slate roof takes all the rain water from it. The joint between the two is...
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6 years ago
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How to cover a large soakaway?
I have a Well soakaway (to pump water into before it runs clear and could be pumped into the loft tanks - all now redundant) and a soakaway that takes the septic tank output before (presumably)...
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6 years ago
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Dimmer spares.
Have lots of dimmers here, and the most common failure is the push on/off switch - part of the pot. And haven't been able to find a source of them.
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email funny
The email server has started putting up the following message on some addresses. An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: Please turn on SMTP Authentication in your mail...
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6 years ago
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