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OT but interesting.question
Are the Taliban are not fazed by Covid 19? ?
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Strange FlightRadar24 'diversion' of Ryanair flight from Stanstead to Dublin
This evening, I just happened to be having a look at FlightRadar24, and I noticed that RYR7XN from Stanstead to Dublin had done an abrupt U-turn over Manchester. It was now retracing its course....
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2 years ago
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Industrial archeology question
In the NE, there is a wood, through the middle of which was an ironstone mine, workings and various remnants of associated buildings scattered along the site. Mostly brick built, but with some stone...
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2 years ago
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Impressive shelf life of Fischer Fast Bonding Foam
I bought a tin of this in Screwfix 10 years ago but have only just got round to using it. I didn't expect it to be any use but amazingly it still did what it said on the can, even though bottom of can...
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2 years ago
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Armoured cabling run
I have a need to run 25m of 10mm armoured from house to shed. Is it necessary to get 3-core (LNE) or is it still alright to use 2-core for LN and use the armouring for the Earth, like it used to be?
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2 years ago
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Roofing membrane
Am I right in thinking that membrane should overhang the masonry/barge board on the gable? What should happen at the boundary with the neighbours? (this is on a semi). Looks to me like the membrane...
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2 years ago
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somewhat OT - car windscreens
I am passing on an old car to a young adult son. A month ago I had noticed a stone had chipped the windscreen in two places making little starburst cracks about a half inch across so I wanted to get...
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2 years ago
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Online Chat rant
"Fun" with online chat. 1. I have been looking for years for an episode of Parkinson, with Phil Silvers and Oscar Peterson as guests. (This is mentioned in another NG). It was brilliant. The other...
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2 years ago
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That sinking feeling. Height adjustable chairs.
I set out to do a web search on remedies for the sudden descent of 3 of my telescopic, height adjustable chairs but couldn't think of the name for such mechanisms. Please help me out here.
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2 years ago
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Shocking day
Having a loft conversion done. For the sake of convenience, I'm getting them to do the electrics, even though I have a BN open on a full rewire. Otherwise, I wouldn't get the completion cert for the...
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2 years ago
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Another apprentice late for work
Pulled up outside his house at 6.40am and left at 6.46am. Got a text at 6.53am asking if I was having problems finding the house as it's a new housing estate. I replied that I had been and gone. He...
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2 years ago
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Bloody agency electricians
We are pulled out at work and so using agency electricians. If they turn up you have to sort the wheat from the chaff. So we have two in Rotherham and one in Wakefield. Rotherham needed another one so...
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2 years ago
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Weird Iphone SE
I have had this around three years and bought at a refurbed. It's the older version of the SE. Issue is it seems rather confused about the charge state of it's battery sometimes, maybe every few...
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2 years ago
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OT Today I was late for work - quiz
That is not me. It usually has to be a broken down van, closed motorway, mass flooding, locked up for the night etc to make me late. I set off on time, the same time I always set off at. 60 mile...
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2 years ago
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OT there's a gas pipe running through our drain!
We've had some problems with our drains I got a drain cleaning expert in and he sent a camera down - there's a bright yellow gas pipe going right through our drain pipe at right angles! Drain man says...
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2 years ago
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