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Has Sainsbury's lost it?
At the checkout this morning, the queues were three deep, apart from one with only a single customer and as I approached it the lady said that she was closing, and I had to queue elsewhare. Have...
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RCBOs
From the look of them, it seems to me when an RCBO trips, you would not know whether an over-current or earth leakage event had occurred. This seems a serious disadvantage, or is it me that's missing...
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Bathroom door lock condundrum
Just tell them to sing in the bathroom and everyone will know to keep out. SteveW
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What - electric car charging
On the local TV news - A taxi plugs into a rapid charger, which the interviewed 'expert' declared was rated at 50Kv. I watched it twice, to be sure of what the 'expert' had actually said.
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Mini-trunking and non-inflammable CUs - how is it supposed to work?
I sort of understand how cables going into round holes in a CU can have the gaps filled so that the non-inflammability requirement is fulfilled. ...or in the case of round cables they will fit snugly...
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cyclists
should this geezer not have stopped his fellow cyclist doing exactly the same at the start there..... A cyclist confronted two doctors who drove down the wrong side of a road in London and refused to...
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Anyone else -flooded with spam?
I am getting flooded with spam on one of my old email accounts from - anyone else?
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OT: Kirkby Moor wind farm
Kirkby Moor wind farm is visible from all over the Coniston lake area in the Lake District national park, although it isn't itself in the park. was approved over 20 years ago against furious...
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yellow plastic coin ...
was in a multi storey car park the other day and I was issued a plastic coin......on leaving the barrier was broken and I got to keep the yellow plastic coin......anyway just opened it up with a pair...
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Consumer units with lots of bottom entry options, are there any?
Or a nibbler. A cheap, hand operated one would do for such a one-off job - I managed to use one to cut the stainless-steel bonnet of my kit-cat in half along its whole length to insert a piano-hinge....
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highway code
Have to say I haven't read my higway code since 1968 so no idea if this is covered......going down the dual carriage way I come to a sign saying the inside lane is closed...Do I....immediately go into...
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Kitchen electrics
A couple of questions to help with someone I know not making some mistakes with additional costs associated with a partial kitchen reburb that is being planned. One of the changes being considered is...
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Fixed the leaking boiler
Regular readers may recall the eventual diagnosis of a leaking main heat exchanger on my boiler. However that was winter and it was easier to top it up each day than fix it then! So I fixed it the...
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Rothammels Antenna Book ...
Don?t forget Jim?s endless moaning about people reporting his stalking to the police, but then he went and stitched up Paul with those recordings. What a snitching hypocrite.
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Question about Motorola GM350 Channel Steering Inputs
Jim?s got experience of Gusset Smearing, if that helps?
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