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2-footed windscreen mount ?

(with the usual caveat I have googled for ages ...) Does anyone know of a windscreen mount which would be able to strad...
4 comments posted 9yrs
posted by jethro_uk
4 comments posted 9yrs posted by jethro_uk

Sticking wallpaper to ply

Not quite wallpaper - sheets of doll's house type paper, to attach to bare ply. Plan A is 50/50 white PVA and water, wh...
6 comments posted 9yrs
posted by News
6 comments posted 9yrs posted by News

Light switch location

I'm grateful for all the advice in my previous light switch thread. Another question has arisen: I'm positioning a larg...
65 comments posted 9yrs
posted by mail
65 comments posted 9yrs posted by mail

Best way of removing rust from tools?

Water has got into one of my tool boxes, these are mainly "heavy" tools E.G. Masonry chisels, large drill bits and plas...
14 comments posted 9yrs
posted by messageboards
14 comments posted 9yrs posted by messageboards

Electricity bill

"We?ve worked out you?ve used less electricity this period than in the same period last year. This is based on an estim...
23 comments posted 9yrs
posted by davey
23 comments posted 9yrs posted by davey

Timber cladding

I have only ever approved timber cladding up to four storeys...has anybody seen it in higher blocks ? ........
2 comments posted 9yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
2 comments posted 9yrs posted by kinvig.netta

MCB temp rise

Simple question. How warm (or not!) should a 40 A MCB to get when carrying around 35 A for 10 mins? RCD one side, 32 A M...
9 comments posted 9yrs
posted by allsortsnotthisbit
9 comments posted 9yrs posted by allsortsnotthisbit

Repairing a Nozatec GPS

My Chinese GPS died, seems normal for GPSs IME, except Garmin 1200. Anyway, I suspected that it's battery had died, so...
3 comments posted 9yrs
posted by spam
3 comments posted 9yrs posted by spam

gardeners in SW London

We need gardening work, viz garden clearance, levelling, applying topsoil, laying turf rolls, instlation of lawn edge,...
8 comments posted 9yrs
posted by invalid
8 comments posted 9yrs posted by invalid

OT Civil war?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXHipnQO1_I
0 comments posted 9yrs
posted by harry130747
0 comments posted 9yrs posted by harry130747

Metofiice web site not loading?

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/contact I'm unable to download any pages from the metoffice website. I am on Plusn...
12 comments posted 9yrs
posted by harry.m1byt
12 comments posted 9yrs posted by harry.m1byt

600

same stuff as Grenfell found in 600 blocks in England and Wales ....shocking
17 comments posted 9yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
17 comments posted 9yrs posted by kinvig.netta

cctv funny

Recently my internet remote viewing CCTV quad view picture is not showing 4 different pictures. Even over local wifi wh...
1 comments posted 9yrs
posted by spam
1 comments posted 9yrs posted by spam

Retention for gates purchase

I am having a set of wooden gates made for my driveway entrance. The supplier, a well-known local builders and farm sup...
10 comments posted 9yrs
posted by davey
10 comments posted 9yrs posted by davey

Another electrical question: sub main wiring

The large'ish 1930s house I moved to a few weeks ago has some "interesting" wiring that I need to sort out over the mon...
3 comments posted 9yrs
posted by nomail
3 comments posted 9yrs posted by nomail