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ebayer scam
won an item on ebait....message from ebay says "One or more sellers can't accept payments right now. Please contact the sellers for help."...so I contacted the seller and he gave me his paypal...
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OT: How things change.
Once upon a time, speech was free and only if you committed violent acts or put something nasty in a newspaper, did you face prosecution. Then came hate crime. Anyone could be prosecuted for saying...
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Installation tips wanted for FENCEMATE Swift Clamp Concrete-In Post Support
Yesterday I bought a FENCEMATE® Swift Clamp Concrete-In Post Support 100 x 100 epoxy brown, but there were no instructions with it. It looks this this: should think the installation is fairly...
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Interesting
How shoddy workmanship resulted in tragedy for the residents of a tower block in Canning Town. How shoddy workmanship resulted in tragedy for the residents of a tower block in Canning Town....
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Capital One
Now my account access has been changed...something fishy?
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Duty of care as a repairer - safety
This has come up on another forum. Let's say you specialise in repairing/servicing vintage hi-fi. A customer brings a system to you to repair the record deck but you see that the high voltage...
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End-to-end joints in timber window repair
Bay window has rot in the bottom of the 6 boards which form the boxes. Going to cut away and piece in new timber lower 6-12" or so each one. Could cut 90deg and put a couple of dowels in, or scarf to...
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Home brew for beginners
Hi All, I have bought some home brew equipment with the hope of initially making some beer and then maybe going on to some wine. I plan to buy a lager kit from Wilko as a starter and if successful...
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3 years ago
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Sorting news messages by date
How please? Mine, at the moment, are all higgledy piggledy, I'm sure they uesed to be in date sequence.
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FPS increased x3/4
I originally had several items on my LAN, with fixed IP's configured within the devices themselves, such as an IP cam, routers and printers. Everything else relied on the router's DHCP to allocate an...
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Recently discontinued tiles needed
Dear all, we are carrying out a renovation project and due to an ordering issue we are now short of 3 boxes of a tile which apparently has been discontinued from production. The mosaic tile is I-Zen...
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3 years ago
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LH slot mortising bit
I need a mortise bit for my slot mortiser, but finding one is not as easy as I'd expected. It needs to be LH and have a shank diameter of 10mm or less; the cutter diameter needs to be 8-10mm. All I've...
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Vaillant Turbomax fault
Vaillant Turbomax VUW boiler won't fire up - tries to but stops and then on/off light flashing. Manual just says this indicates the overheat themostat. Is this likely to be a failed part or something...
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more building words ..
Another great word Haffit .....
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3 years ago
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How many amps...?
I happen to glance at my mum?s electricity meter today (she lives in a tenement flat). The incoming wires look decidedly ?skinny?. Fortunately she?s not a heavy electricity user but I?m curious as to...
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