opinions on Sharp fridge-freezers & reliability of frost-freeness

Our Bosch fridge-freezer, just over 3 years old, has a failing frost-free system that a local technician has deemed uneconomical to repair; he also said that he has a non-frost-free fridge-freezer at home, because the frost-free gubbins, while usually reliable, are so ...
Posted by Adam Funk in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 14 years ago 
Free Flashlight Coupon

If you have trouble getting free light, print this and show it to them: http://doesitallmatter.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/race-card-06.jpg They are guaranteed to give in ;)
Posted by Frank in Home Repair 16 years ago 
New woodworking shows

American Sycamore Woodworkers' Retreat will be doing free demonstrations right on the main floor. We will have many of our instructors at each show around the country doing open workshops and free demos. We will have many of the pieces of furniture that we build here at the school on ...
Posted by Mike at American Sycamore in Woodworking Forum 23 years ago 
really old phone lines

Well the center pins on an ethernet card (in a computer) are shorted, for whatever THAT's worth.
Posted by Jim Redelfs in Home Repair 17 years ago 
Celing material for garage? (Drop ceiling or soffit)

It's a shop/garage, right? Go look at your local auto repair shop and you will metal panels, and CONDUIT! Trying to wire a shop like a house is simply futile. Your insulation will lay on the metal panels perfectly, and the conduit will sit snug to the ceiling.
Posted by Joe in Home Repair 16 years ago 
Anti-Gloat - How my dogs ruined my day...

The shop cleaning episode actually happened. I embellished the divorce part, but it was not far off! It took months before I found everything back again. Her sense of organization and mine are at totally opposite ends of the spectrum!
Posted by Greg O in Woodworking Forum 19 years ago 
How To: Make Your Own Short Metal Rulers

I can attest to a cool way to divide a shop vac electrical cord into equal halves: 1. Drape the shop vac cord over the the back of a contractor's table saw, without paying close attention to exact placement (i.e. resting on the drive belt). 2.
Posted by Zz Yzx in Woodworking Forum 15 years ago 
Students raise money with woodworking

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 11:43:06 -0800, "Lew Hodgett" When I hear the phrase "shop classes" it makes me think of high school, grades 7-9. At least, that's the way it was when I attended high school.
Posted by Dave in Woodworking Forum 14 years ago 
Compression slip couplers

19.75mm to That changes the nature of the problem from finding a machine shop to modify the couplings to finding a tool shop which stocks the right size of adjustable reamer. On a Friday afternoon in a one-horse town while the CH system is in bits.
Posted by Medallion Man in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 21 years ago 
OT: "They come over here...."

I said to an Indian woman who ran a shop in the next village that my local pub needed Indians to run it, as it could do with a coffe shop and PO. She said that Indians are shopkeepers and not publicans. Shop has now closed - pity that, as I did rather fancy her!
Posted by PeterC in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 4 years ago