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Thread cutting 3/4" galvanised tube
I am thinking about making some things for my workshop. In among them, I shall need some fairly stiff metal - probably tube. Trouble is, cost of P&P makes online prices quite high. I can get suitable...
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Tap tails onto compression fittings?
I learned something this week.... If i'm connecting a screw on tap tail to, for example, an isolator valve i'll use a both end compression one and do away with the nut and olive on one end. But you're...
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3 years ago
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Plastic pipe, composite sink, earth?
The answer must be, you don't, surely, obviously? But i've replaced a sink and some pipework, none of it is metal, i'm looking at the earth that was strapped to the copper and assuming I do away with...
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3 years ago
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Angle grinder question (yes, really!)
I want to cut some steel reinforcing bars for a neighbour, that stick up through the edge of their patio. I have diamond and bonded grit disks for the AG, but which should I use? I ask, because a car...
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3 years ago
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Stripping lead-based paint
I've spent the last couple of days cutting-out and replacing rotten oak and pitch pine from a large window frame, which means stripping and repainting the whole thing. The house is 1930s so underneath...
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3 years ago
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Wardrobe Door Replacement Question
Hi, I'm getting six replacement overlay doors for a wardrobe. 2270 x 548mm. At the moment, they all hinged on the left. I'd like to have 3 pairs of L/R hinged ones. The existing gaps between each door...
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3 years ago
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3,6,12,13,24
Can you spot the missing number ? It's 9. As in 9V. I've just trawled through three boxes of odds and sods and out of 15 accumulated wallwarts, not one is 9v. I am *this* close to putting the whole...
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3 years ago
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Old BT 2Wire router as wireless repeater ?
Following on from finding my PLA *and* router Wallwart fucked, and looking at a drawer with 3 old 2Wire routers from BT I find myself wondering if they can be pressed into service as a wireless...
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3 years ago
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Powerline oddity
Last night, the PLA which feeds our TV hub "went funny". Just showing power light. It's one of a pair. After a brief mess around, I discovered the TV can use the house WiFi (as can the TiVo) so no...
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3 years ago
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Microsoft Edge
I thought Microsoft had scrapped Edge, so how come it has just reappeared on my PC after an update?
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3 years ago
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Potted PCB
Am attempting to map out a pretty simple through hole PCB. It's the central locking controller for late Rover SD1, and the complete unit NLA as NOS. Made by Kiekert. Basically, two standard micro...
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3 years ago
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18V tools: Makita, Ryobi, or DeWalt?
I'm tempted to spend some of the kid's inheritance on 18V tools (they'll probably be less-than impressed to inherit used tools instead of cash - kids today! ;-) ) and would like some advice from those...
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Electronic components requirement.
Hi. I am fancying a little project using electrical components. I want to make a mini-mini-table saw. I've looked at the RS Components website and its all bit out there for me. I think I'd like it to...
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3 years ago
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OT: Paying in a cheque by phone.
Decided to try this using my quite old Galaxy 5. Took the pic of the front of the cheque just fine, but refused to take one of the back, which was blank. Tried writing on the details of the account it...
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3 years ago
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Cutting circles with a jigsaw
Given: plywood, jigsaw wanted: circular bit of plywood, diameters 60-80 cm, small hole in the middle is OK. Yeah: "make a jig", i.e. an arm with the wanted radius, attached to the jigsaw base, screw...
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3 years ago
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