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Edging for melamine coated chipboard
It is many years since I built furniture (Contiboard). The edging in this days was pretty poor. I have no experience of what's on offer these days. I really would like advice on what to avoid. TIA
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Loft aerial masthead amplifier
Please can anyone help with a loss of signal to my daughters TVs? I'm not at her house but she's sent me pics of the kit. In the loft is a downlead into a SAC AE5035 which has 3 outputs to two bedroom...
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make sure your brickie can handle them....some are woosies these days ...
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Talking of eyes.
I have a blue LED digital clock. Gives internal and outside temperature too. Situated close to the TV. Look at it with one eye, and the digits appear larger and a less saturated blue than with the...
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Is it safe to use a QLED TV as a monitor ?
I always thought not, but Richer Sounds emailed me with an offer for the Samsung 32 QLED 'frame', with this comment in the description - "Sit back and imagine a beautiful TV that allows you to display...
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Manhole covers lifting with excess rainfall
Would anyone have any input on what "pressure" of rainfall in a combined sewer system is required to lift a steel manhole cover in road surface. Yesterday about 3 inches of water jetting thru a vent...
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Fixing a broken Anglepoise
As an alternative to the frequent complaints here, here's a note of recent excellent service: I've had an Anglepoise lamp on my desk for many years. A week ago when I grabbed it a bit roughly, a...
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Varifocal lenses
Is there a limit to the size, top to bottom, of varifocal lenses. What is the max size available ?
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Dimming LEDs (in bulbs that are designed to be dimmed) - why the minimum brightness?
I've noticed that various LEDs which are designed to be dimmed have a minimum brightness - if you dim them from bright, they go gradually dimmer and then turn off while still partly lit; if you...
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Working PSU for Philips Hue "Lightstrip" gives open-circuit (even at 200 M ohm range)
I'm curious. We found a Philips Hue "Lightstrip" that was not working, and it turned out to be a duff 240 V AC to 24 V DC PSU. When I measured the resistance across the mains input pins, it gave "open...
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Disc management question
I have a spare HDD that I would like to use as a back-up. Seagate 500GB nominal capacity. Examining it in Win10 Disc Management, it has three partitions: two, labeled X and Y, are primary partitions,...
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2 years ago
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new wagos
I see that (from next month?) Wago are doing an inline version of their 221 series connectors. <>They're just catching up with what the chinese clones have made for a while ... not sure why they don't...
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SOT Mice
Anyone else suffering from a surfeit of these rodents? We usually trap only one or two in the loft once every couple of years, but this year in the last fortnight we've trapped a couple in the loft...
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Useless so called Samsung 'smart TV'
Tried to get it to connect to several sites. Couldn't 'find' about half. That's it. No more smart TVs. plugged the laptop into the HDMI and got the video streams that way. It's a cheap way to get a...
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OT: Anyone else seeing lots of missing articles on giganews/plusnet?
Last few weeks I seem to be getting lots of blank expired messages, or threads missing their original posts, and also some followups. Anyone else seen similar? (just connected via eternal september,...
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