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Glue before soldering

I am repairing a Corsa key this involves soldering a couple of microswitches to a PCB. Now these switches are soldered...
19 comments posted 9yrs
posted by cheesesoupnews
19 comments posted 9yrs posted by cheesesoupnews

hassles of DIY gas hot water repairs

a storm blew out pilot light on my water heater. It would not light again. I knew the cause was that there is a pinhole...
7 comments posted 9yrs
posted by bruce56
7 comments posted 9yrs posted by bruce56

Labels that have poor glue

I used to get all my labels from Able, but the latest batch seem to only want to stick to paper, not pvc or shiny cards...
5 comments posted 9yrs
posted by briang1
5 comments posted 9yrs posted by briang1

OT: What's the point in vibrating mobiles?

So you're somewhere like a cinema, or a meeting, where you don't want to disturb anyone. So you put the phone on vibrate...
28 comments posted 9yrs
posted by imvalid
28 comments posted 9yrs posted by imvalid

Temproary fix to caravan paintwork

Quick question whilst I research in parallel. I am about to mount a rear view camera to the back of the caravan using S...
12 comments posted 9yrs
posted by wibble
12 comments posted 9yrs posted by wibble

Paint stripper

Are there ANY decent paint strippers still available since the emasculation of Nitromors ?
11 comments posted 9yrs
posted by tpmccann
11 comments posted 9yrs posted by tpmccann

Chain Saw and Leylandii

Tried to cut through the truncks of a couple of Leylandii today. I had previously had sawed throught the upper suppleme...
24 comments posted 9yrs
posted by Somewhere
24 comments posted 9yrs posted by Somewhere

OT: Bins with other people's wrong stuff in them

Never had this myself as I live in a culdesac without through traffic, but I was walking along a long street today and...
37 comments posted 9yrs
posted by imvalid
37 comments posted 9yrs posted by imvalid

OT: Bladdy garages or unlucky coincidence?

Took my Focus car for MOT + Service a couple of weeks ago. Last week whilst out somewhere I noticed that the Ford logo...
3 comments posted 9yrs
posted by nospam
3 comments posted 9yrs posted by nospam

Velcro sanding discs.

I have a couple of multi-tools. A Fein and a Lidl. The triangular sanders on them are much better than the (older) tria...
4 comments posted 9yrs
posted by dave
4 comments posted 9yrs posted by dave

Do not do this

The walls in our hall were again painted white (over wallpaper) about four years using decent emulsion. We do not smoke...
10 comments posted 9yrs
posted by MrPounder
10 comments posted 9yrs posted by MrPounder

Today's DIY lessons

- Not all 68mm guttering systems are created equal. - Floplast 68mm downspout brackets are very fragile. Of the pack of...
19 comments posted 9yrs
posted by Huge
19 comments posted 9yrs posted by Huge

Which TV program is this?

I think it was on the Yesterday channel, they were advertising a forthcoming new program, it seemed to be something eng...
7 comments posted 9yrs
posted by harry.m1byt
7 comments posted 9yrs posted by harry.m1byt