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Exporting Power (again)

I'm about to send power to an outbuilding via a buried armoured connection. At the home end I will have an internal met...
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posted by not
7 comments posted 1yr posted by not

OT'ish: resin or block paving for driveway?

Resin or block paving for the driveway and turning area of a "traditional" house? I was thinking of herringbone pavers,...
30 comments posted 1yr
posted by nomail
30 comments posted 1yr posted by nomail

Macbook pro help needed

I’ve bollixed up my wife’s old laptop. There a a few windows programs that we want to use and as the laptop is essentia...
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posted by timdownieuk
3 comments posted 1yr posted by timdownieuk

Fibre

BT expected 8.00am tomorrow! I may be gone some time.. Large cardboard box delivered today. Two! battery power packs, o...
117 comments posted 1yr
posted by tim
117 comments posted 1yr posted by tim

BBC R4: Profile of Eben Upton

The man who gave the world the Raspberry Pi. Live now on R4, also BBC Sounds
0 comments posted 1yr
posted by Andrew97d
0 comments posted 1yr posted by Andrew97d

Ladder platform

Does anyone have one of these type of platforms which seem to double as either a shelf, or a step (the square rung ladde...
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posted by usenet
17 comments posted 1yr posted by usenet

Beds brain pick

My wife's parting words as she set off with her friends for 10 days in Uzbekistan, *you will sort out my bed*. Hmm. The...
14 comments posted 1yr
posted by tim
14 comments posted 1yr posted by tim

Replacing a Makita guide rail splinter guard

I decided to replace one damaged splinter guard and another that looked pretty worn down. Does anyone know what is the...
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posted by tricky.dicky
9 comments posted 1yr posted by tricky.dicky

Isolation Transformer

I picked up this isolation transformer some years ago at a boot sale but have only just noticed something unusual about...
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posted by cd
26 comments posted 1yr posted by cd

SOT: adding an icon to desktop

Could somebody remind me how to add an icon to the desktop. My 'BBC News' icon seems to have been replaced by some Googl...
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posted by newsgroups
7 comments posted 1yr posted by newsgroups

Beware the plastic isolation valve!

3 months ago screams emanated from my wife in our guest bathroom (that I fitted out about 25 years ago. Turned out that...
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posted by timdownieuk
11 comments posted 1yr posted by timdownieuk

Transporting water by sea

QUOTE Greenpeace UK’s chief scientist, Doug Parr, said: “Decades of neglecting its own infrastructure have left Souther...
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posted by aero.spike
8 comments posted 1yr posted by aero.spike

OT'ish Trailer size limit for recycling centre

My council has a 1.3m limit on the internal length of a trailer, above this length a trailer can only be used 12 times...
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posted by nomail
18 comments posted 1yr posted by nomail