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Power instability
We came home Saturday after a day out to find the main power breaker indoors had tripped and also another in a small CU in an outside building. We're at the end of a spur off a rural feed. What sort...
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Anyone imagine they know anything about this?
I think it is something I queried back to site but kind of lost hold of: NASA-ISRO SAR Mission Applications Workshop: Linking The Applied Science Co mmunity to Mission Data When: October 13-15, 2015...
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IP WiFi Camera
Just bought a cheap one and it works surprisingly well. To use it on the net you have to register it on a server. The software will do this semi automatically so I have no idea where this server is....
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OT - Still think it's not going to make any difference ?
Police prepare for violence as 500 migrants are moved to a German village with a population of just 102 Andy C Some 100 men, women and children stepped off two buses in the rural village of Sumte,...
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Algae & Moss Removal (corrected)
I recently posted about how to clean a lot of fencing panels prior to re-staining. I had tried Sodium Hypochlorite & Lauryl Dimethylamine Oxide mix, this worked very well on my sandstone patio, but...
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Algae & Moss removal
I recently put a post up on how best to prepare wooden fence for re-staining ....... I had tried Sodium Hypochlorite & Lauryl Dimethylamine Oxide - which was excellent at cleaning my sandstone patio....
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Jungle Camp Calais
BRITAIN-BOUND migrants at Calais have now become so violent that terrified truckers are arming themselves with TASERS and PEPPER SPRAY, it emerged today.
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Health and softy gone mad
"Christmas crackers not to be sold to people under the age of 12" - three months imprisonment for letting a kid make a popping noise - a heftier punishment than selling spray paint to someone under 16...
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Putting ladder on flat roof
I'm hoping to install a new aerial to an existing pole on a chimney stack on a bungalow. That side of the building has had an extension with a flat roof so it is very easy to get to the base of the...
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Smart meters
So what's going on with these? Why are we getting 50 million meters in half as many households? That's illogical. How come my neighbour just got their old spinning disk meter replaced with a basic...
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Vaguely OT: SIngle-mixer taps
Noticed in an episode of "Mad Men" - set in the mid 1960s, that an apartment had a single-lever mixer tap, which presumably uses ceramic 1/4 turn valves. Were such beasts available in the US in the...
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OT Came across this. (Monkey trial in USA).
Unbelievable how dopey Yanks are.
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levelling a stone shower tray?
I am just asking before I take out the old one (plastic) and replace with a stone tray. The floor should be wooden floor boards not chipboard But like most DIY in this house nothing is ever...
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Permissible inconvenience while council upgrades bathroom
The local council have approved a grant to upgrade my mother's bathroom. She is infirm and needs to have her bath replaced by a walk-in shower. She owns the house. I have been told she will have a...
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Ceramic cartridge replacement
Bloody ceramic cartridge tap started leaking at 5 this afternoon, just after the shops have shut. I took the cartridge out to have a look, and it leaked even more (after reinserting it). What...
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