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[OT] Glasses case
Go and see a pensioner. They will have loads of the indestructible steel ones stashed away.
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OT: Android management
What do you use in the place of ES File Explorer?
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Now there are only five left - RIP John Young
The Wright brothers are both dead too.
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OT Gridwatch - demand slowly ramping up
Both... Aye, even if on the right side of the road. Not only in a vain attempt to see where the road goes but also to try and see the people that are probably nearby/in the road/WHY. Yep, this car has...
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Electrical work
I've seen some bad ones, but this is a biscuit taker NT
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Cadovius Royal System and similar designs
This is the Royal System: It's a modular, wall-mounted shelving system in teak, first created in the late 1940s by Poul Cadovius. The basic design, of uprights from which shelves are hung with brass...
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Do Boeing hand-make aeroplanes?
Look at this photo of a Boeing 737 engine: Notice the rivets (or whatever they are - the dots around the silver end to the engine) are not in a straight line! A machine would have them perfectly...
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Why metal granules from cast central heating boiler?
The heating engineer came today to clear a blocked condensate pipe in the central heating boiler. Seems that over time granules of aluminium from the cast block accumulate until they fill the trap in...
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6 years ago
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Proposal - rotating cars
Why can cars not be made so you can power one side backwards and the other forwards, so it could rotate like a tank? No more 3 point turns.
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6 years ago
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Jewson
I received their tool hire guide today. Hiring a sack truck for one day costs almost exactly the same as buying one from Screwfix. Why does anyone hire from them? Are there huge trade discounts I...
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6 years ago
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Local water supply
In a past life, I was quite involved in the water supply and drainage, but this puzzles me.... Our village is fed from a water tower, built on a hill. Every few months our normally good supply...
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6 years ago
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Power wheelchair batteries ...
Bought SWMBO a little powered wheelchair last year, which helped enormously. As instructed it was kept on charge when not in use. Expect when it was put away for 4 months (grrrrrrrrrrrr!) Batter(ies)...
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6 years ago
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Sebo X1 red light
Anyone here with a Sebo upright vacuum cleaner know why the "beater failure" light comes on after a few minutes of vacuuming hard floors, then goes out again as soon as you go onto a carpet/rug?
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6 years ago
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Circlip or C-clip?
Probably a waste of time but here is the mech of a pop-up bath plug control. On the other end of the shaft is a big knob that hides the bath overflow. The plug had stopped popping up and when I looked...
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Maxi Solo 3 60
Likely to be due to inadequate water circulation through it - probably due to pump failure or a blockage.
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