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Duracell Industrial Batteries
Not sure that makes sense! Take one of your links below: That shows Energiser standard doing about 1800mAh, and VARTA HE Alkaline doing say 2250mAh. Adding results from more brands will not make that...
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OT: installing home charger for an EV
This is fairly OT but there seem to be quite a few sensible people who contribute here and some of you might have been through the same deliberations that I'm going through. Much to my surprise I'm...
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SupaBond
Anyone here have real life experience of this product: Looks too good to be true.
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An energy first as UK successfully transmits data via national electricity grid
An energy first as UK successfully transmits data via national electricity grid New technology is a significant step towards the creation of virtual power stations that would enable smarter...
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Butane soldering iron
Looking for an inexpensive but halfway-acceptable butane soldering iron. Be wonderful if it also was able to work on heatshrink and similar. Have got utterly sick of wading through descriptions like:...
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Which blowtorch?
Looking for one that will see very little use, but needs to solder 22mm copper pipe. So the cheap is good, as long as it can do the job. Any sugestions? The Rothenbergers got slated at Screwsatan, and...
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External and internal window frame caulks - cheap but durable?
I expect this question has been asked a million times before but maybe not lately re products cheaply available in the UK. I need to caulk around newly-installed PVC windows. I've heard people advis e...
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Central heating timer question.
Mum and dad's Randall 102 seems to stick on the last 'off' actuator, so that it doesn't move after 11PM, and the heating stays on all night. I'm considering whether to try and repair it, or replace...
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'Expanding' polystyrene
Lots of photos in yesterdays papers about the burst 32 inch water main in London and the effect on an underground carpark. For those who didn't see it (or hear the Jermey Vine phone-in), this was...
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O/T domain registration
For reasons to dull to go into it appears I am likely to shortly lose my tr usty old email address after twenty years (not the @newsguy one that is a s pam trapping fake). Can anyone recommend a...
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LPG tanks
I was getting my van fixed today something wrong with the gas contoler. I a sked the fellow doing it how much the cans they sell for caravans cost afte r asking him if they can be used on Calor...
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New Kitchen fitted but minor (?!) issues
New to this forum, however, I am looking for some advice. I am renovating a house but didn't want to tackle the kitchen; I forked out £2500 to have a £6000 kitchen fitted professionally. As it was...
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poxy two part glue
I didn't have any Araldite left so had to settle for some Araldite rapid to fix a broken plastic kettle lid. It never seemed to set as hard as original Araldite but worse than that it seems to have...
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Timber for arbour repair
I have an arbour with a roof very similar to this one: which, after 10 years, is now showing its age. The curved roof supports are made from laminated beams providing a groove into which is threaded a...
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Rikimbili
Cuban ideas for dealing with technological crises Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today! http://apple.co/1DWdc9d In 1991, Cuba's economy began to implode. "The Special Period in the Time of Peace" was...
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