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Brake fluid in power steering?
My 2002 Renault Scenic has on the power steering cap "use DOT 4 brake fluid" so I did, then realised it was not the brake reservoir! Should I be concerned? It was just a small topup. Does it have the...
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Bastards
Van done over again. This time is the hand tools inc drill bits that are gone. Just spent £600 and still only seem to have half of what I need. The drill bits were expensive.
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TomTom problem
My TomTom has lost its postcode file. General advice is to find a replacement file and copy it into the root directory. Is there any need for all this? Could I just do a factory reset and set it up...
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Boiler Issue
I have an 8 year old Worcester Greenstar Heatslave 18/25 oil-fired boiler which has been misbehaving lately. Whereas previously the pressure gauge only moved over a very limited range during the...
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Drill charger diagnostics
I have an old B&D cordless drill; the batteries don't charge. Either the batteries or the charger are faulty. I've opened up the charger. At the input of the transformer, I measure 240V. At the...
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Shower Valve
since living in the current house we have had a Mira 415 Pressure Balancing shower. It works fine - no temp fluctuation due to someone flushing a toilet. As part of our refurb I am looking at...
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Mortise lock question
I needed to replace the mortise lock on a wooden patio door, so I bought another ERA brand one online hoping it'd fit without much adjustment. The lock fits just fine but the issue is the plate that...
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Freezer door left open alarm
Working fine. This one - was confused about the range of the settings for these things, because none of them suggested that their alarm systems were capable of being set to negative/ below zero...
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OT: electric cars (one for Brian?)
I believe rules are to be introduced for electric cars to be fitted with sound generators so pedestrians can hear them coming. I believe this has been the subject of a campaign. Yesterday I was...
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Gas Boiler lifetime
In 2010 my mother replaced her gas boiler. Old cast iron lump with vertical flue with a Glow Worm. Supplied by British Gas. Even though I told her not to... It's gone wrong, and the guy looking at it...
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OT Humour - Ground worker prank
Well I liked it. Elestrical foreman pranks young laborer into doing a fake seismic test with a voltmeter and a sledgehammer.
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Supplying power to a computer desktop
Checking my thinking for any gotchas. I am reorganising the office and putting a couple of kitchen drawer units with a desktop across up against one wall. There is only one double socket at the moment...
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replacing a plain flat roof section with some fancy glassfibre stuff
Hi all, Our house has a flat roof section (so called 'cold roof') running between two conventional diagonal gradient tiled roofs. It's 1.2m wide by 6.0m long and is currently covered in roofing felt...
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fire wall in loft missing
Hi all, Buying a house. Mortgage offer has come through and has one condition listed: "Our Solicitor must obtain, and place with the Title Deeds, an undertaking that the following works will be...
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‘This Is All We Can Afford’: Shrinking Lives in the English Countryside
?This Is All We Can Afford?: Shrinking Lives in the English Countryside In Cumbria, a bucolic landscape masks growing poverty and isolation. As bus lines are cut and services dry up under austerity,...
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