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Update on mixer tap/shower attachment for bath
I thought I'd hold off ordering anything until after everyone is back from the Christmas/New Year break, so this morning I enquired at two separate places this morning, the local family-run bathroom...
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lubrication for oven fan
As per header. What's the best stuff to use? Bill
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Cheap/easy surfacing for drive
The drive in front of my garage is really starting to break up - it was only every nastily laid tarmac about 1mm thick. Now luckily, I don't keep a car in the garage, nor use the drive to keep a car...
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Twitter rules
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Tacky rubber/plastics
You can't do much to slow it down as environmental as factors like UV and ozone are mainly responsible for causing the rubbery plastic to depolymerise. My Psion3 failed exactly the same way -...
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Fluorescent tubes flickering (sort of)
tubes, and previous tubes. cloudy / boiling effect that you see in CGI films of the surface of the sun, if you see what I'm scratching at. epilepsy-inducing, but enough to be frustrating. Another...
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un-deforming rubber parts
Can anything return deformed rubber parts back to original shape? (perhaps just application of heat, but what about castor oil or some other magic?) Background: The rubber weather-stripping around an...
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It doesn't happen often.....
SWMBO said this morning "are you going to Wilkinson's to get the paint for the bathroom"? TMH; Wickes, not Wilkinson's. SWMBO; It was Wilkinson's. TMH; Wickes. SWMBO; It was Wilkinson's. TMH; Wickes....
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OT: USB Printer Prevent PC remaining in Sleep State
Hi, Sorry for the OT post but I've had good advice in here previously with OS issues :). I've a USB printer that is stopping my PC from staying in the sleep state, powercfg seems to think it is my...
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Making a Shunt Resistor
for around 80-100A >> The issue will be obtaining a suitable shunt ... assuming I use a 1 ohm s= hunt, anybody made one of these ? These shunts are very low resistance and made by the manufacturers to...
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Kitchen worktop problem
In message , The Medway Handyman writes Just heading towards this job... so what sealant should I use?
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OT: methylated spitits
does the typo in your swub line basically say it all.. Not been emulating the less than recommended use I hope. Brian
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One of Fred Dibnahs
Not one I do not remember seeing before? So its one you do remember seeing before then, or is my binary screwed due to me not being awake yet. Brian
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Simple washing machine waste query
I want to put my washing machine into my new utility room and have a query = about how to fit the waste pipe. Normally, I would just buy a standpipe with a u-bend and fit that to the ex= isting...
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BRK 670MBX smoke alarms
I have two 670mbx smoke alarms interlinked. I have just returned to the property and noticed one had been removed. After checking the expiry dates I decided to purchase two new units. Both units work...
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