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Does a plant drink water from the leaf?

When we water the tomato plants does it matter if we water the leaves? Do the t...

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Can one fairly easily harden/toughen steel?

I have a couple of weed forks which have flat tines. These are much easier than...

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Photovoltaics - fixing to roof

Hi all, got an offer from the local council to have photovoltaics attached to o...

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In-window A/C Unit and Current Draw

My daughter wants to install a window type A/C in two different rooms in her ho...

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Changing Oil Interval

I've got a 2013 Dodge Charger that I hardly drive and I keep it garaged. The ca...

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Right to Repair

The legislation comes into effect tomorrow, the focus seems to be on domestic a...

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Lesser known SSDs

M.2 SSD in this laptop, previously had a 256GB lite-on that got too small, now...

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Looking for a cheap price on drive belt (rubber) for belt sander

I have a Ryobi belt sander that uses a Bando S4.5M drive belt (with cogs on the...

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Window air conditioner

Does it hurt to store a window air conditioner sideways, on it's back, backwards...

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"Grouting" between existing patio slabs: how to avoid dry powdery mortar

Our house has a patio of stone slabs (slightly irregular size, shape and thickn...

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Burglar alarms and home security

Because of a recent burglary, I am going to install an alarm system in my singl...

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OT'ish: Greedy plumbers?

I've been talking to a rural plumbing firm about a small job that I could do, b...

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