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Paging ARW
Have you not had an apprentices recently? I enjoy reading about their intrepid goings on! Or have I missed your posts?
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TOT watches
I was looking at some (analogue) watches today. On around 90% of them I found it very difficult to actually tell the time despite them being in a well lit display. White hands on white backgrounds...
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Earlex Filters
Time has come a round for some new filters for the Earlex WD1000 wet/dry vacuum cleaner. It's one of these: but they don't seem to make it any more. Anyway, has anyone experience of the various foam...
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TotalCare, again.
So, having been told by some drooler on BT Sales that TotalCare wasn't available for residential lines, I ranted about it on Twitter (*). Surprise, surprise, someone from BT just called, within the...
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Strange floor tiles
Having removed a brick fire place with a brick hearth, I found under the he arth a number of white tiles, which are 9x9" in size, very thin, and extrem ely brittle. Is there a possibility that these...
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Possible combi boiler fault ..
This has happened twice now ... Boiler is a Vaillant TurboMax. Symptoms are that when hot water is running (like last night when I was showering) and there's a pressure drop (when SWMBO uses the...
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burglar alarm tripping on power cut
Just bought a house with Eurosec CP8L LCD burglar alarm system, new built i n 2003 along with a handful of matching ones down the road. Whenever there is a power cut, most of the alarms go off...
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Help with LED lights (currently have halogen)
I am somewhat confused by these LEDs, I am currently running inherited halogen lights in this house and would like to convert to LED if it makes economical sense. The problem is I get more confused...
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Wickes Summer Vouchers FYI
Went into Wickes today & spent £40, they gave me 2 'Summer Vouchers', one for £10 off if you spent over £50 and one for £20 off if you spend £100. Could save a few quid if you have a project...
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Electric shock from an iPod!?
Odd one. Using an iPod in our travel speaker dock on holiday, powered by i ts own wallwart as usual (9v IIRC), via an extension cable. Working perfec tly, at the end of the evening I removed the ipod...
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2,4-D and reeds
Does 2,4-D (the active ingredient of selective weedkillers that kill weeds in lawns) kill reeds? Only, I have nettles invading the reed-bed that processes the output of my sewage system and I'd rather...
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Venting two bathrooms
I have two bathrooms, one above the other which makes plumbing very easy. I am planning to refit the upper one which has a large roof light with ventilation slots (1897 method) and it needs no...
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OT Poor windmill!
A wind turbine that cost the Welsh government £48,000 to buy has been generating an average of just £5 worth of electricity per month. Now gone missing in action. LOL
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Community Defibrillator provision
I live in North Yorkshire and the ambulance response time to remote regions varies from slow to piss poor. There is a joint NHS initiative to install community defibrillators in such locations...
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Re: Bloody cheek!
[x] Other "Because it's a steaming pile of shit" My favourite one like that was a piece of software I installed for a client. It was utterly _dire_. The vendor seemed unable to figure the problems,...
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