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Which Makita cordless jigsaw?
Which Makita cordless jigsaw has the best battery power and life? Is it bound to be the newest model?
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Extending a cable with crimps
I have buried crimps in walls before. Whether or not they are legal is open to question. If wet plastering over, obviously waterporoof them
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Sealing an old wooden front door
Just looking for some advice on how best to draft-proof my original wooden front door. It's the original 1930s door with the oval stained glass, which I don't want to replace, as it looks great. It's...
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Removal of sockets (on a ring final cct)
Need to remove some double sockets in a kitchen due to rearrangement of where appliances are - some have to go. So looking for a neat solution that I can terminate (to keep ring continuity) within the...
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DC generator works OK as a Motor, but does not generate?
DC generators depend on "residual magnetism" in the field coil to "boot them up" The field coils are an electromagnet driven from the armature. But on initial start up they depend on the bit of...
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LPG gas bottles and heating.
We have electric heating (E7) which I supliment with convector heaters during the day/night when the heating is not on if necessary and frankly it does what I want happily . It cost me £1429 for the...
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Potatoes storage - OT but maybe not
Store them in your cauldron?
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OT:Vancouver Wnidow Display from 1959 (features tools)
it works, the above link should show a Vancouver window display from 1959. Leaving aside the grumpy looking kid in the middle, if the picture magnifies o.k, it shows the sort of items sold in the sort...
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Hoping to de-modernise flat heating system.
The previous occupants of my newly acquired electric only flat had the night storage heaters removed. They were replaced with these fairly insubstantial panel heaters from Aldi. "EasyHome Panel...
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OT Think be fore you give (RNLI)
Chief executive Mark Dowie warned last week that it is 'facing some major challenges' after making a loss of £6.3million. But demand for the RNLI's services is at record levels.
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OT: from Twitter today
1) Verhofstadt comes clean: at the LibDem Conference today he admitted that the EU is building an empire. No surprise there then. 2) Gilets Jaunes protests approach a year of protests. Tear gas and...
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Tradesmen - arrogance or ignorance
Recently had a kitchen extension and fit, More recently a bathroom. Both lots of tradesmen did a decent job but did not refer to the instructions with the fittings I had chosen. With the bathroom the...
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Stop/ start - fail
Doesn?t your hybrid have a ?hold? function- almost like and automatic handbrake? When you stop, it comes on. Put your foot on the accel. and it releases. You have to select to use it each journey but...
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OT One of the reasons we need renewable energy/
Fires raged at the plant in Abqaiq, Bugayg, and the arab country's second largest oilfield in Khurais this morning after mounting tensions between Riyadh and Tehran boiled over.
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Car seat adjustments
There are a lot of drivers around who don't know that the seat is adjustable for height!
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