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Freeing rust-welded hinge

I have a plastic compost bin (so it is kept outdoors and gets rained on) which has a lid that is fastened to it by a ga...
7 comments posted 2yrs
posted by me
7 comments posted 2yrs posted by me

or £25k – it would cost £1.5m in England’

Paywall: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/bought-dream-home-france-cheaper-cost-england/ Unpaywall: https://a...
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posted by ottavio2006-usenet2012
1 comments posted 2yrs posted by ottavio2006-usenet2012

Modern frustrations, wallwarts, cables, solutions.

piddling short low voltage cables from wallwarts to Currently none of the 3 Mercusys mesh routers I recently acquired c...
11 comments posted 2yrs
posted by jethro_uk
11 comments posted 2yrs posted by jethro_uk

Dry weight of ash

I’m having a go at making a traditional hay rake out of green ash. At present it would make a formidable weapon due to...
12 comments posted 2yrs
posted by timdownieuk
12 comments posted 2yrs posted by timdownieuk

Sharpening a curved drawknife query

I have a drawknife with a curve in the blade. It’s bevelled on both sides. It has a long bevel about an inch in width o...
10 comments posted 2yrs
posted by timdownieuk
10 comments posted 2yrs posted by timdownieuk

Car battery polarity

I have found that I could buy some LED trailer lights but unlike my present incandescant trailer light bulbs the LED li...
67 comments posted 2yrs
posted by mUNDERSCOREnews
67 comments posted 2yrs posted by mUNDERSCOREnews

Mains Powered Hedge Trimmer - Cable Management

Rushing to get some trimming done before the brown bin goes out I managed to cut through the cable again - I went for m...
16 comments posted 2yrs
posted by jgnewsid
16 comments posted 2yrs posted by jgnewsid

'Smart' meter installation

Octopus came this morning to install 'smart' meters for electricity and gas at my flat near London. The electricity ins...
16 comments posted 2yrs
posted by davey
16 comments posted 2yrs posted by davey

Shed timber treatment and paint

My shed construction is about to start any day now. To current questions I would be pleased to have opinions on: 1 - mu...
6 comments posted 2yrs
posted by timw
6 comments posted 2yrs posted by timw

Used PC components

I have just cannibalised two personal computers. Apart from the motherboard (which might be OK) the remainder are perfec...
7 comments posted 2yrs
posted by pinnerite
7 comments posted 2yrs posted by pinnerite

equipotential bonding

Which edition of the regs first introduced the requirement for equipotential bonding?
6 comments posted 2yrs
posted by usenet
6 comments posted 2yrs posted by usenet

St Swithin's Day today.

Had some rain here in Sussex earlier on, and much more forecast for later. Bugger.
14 comments posted 2yrs
posted by Andrew97d
14 comments posted 2yrs posted by Andrew97d

Firefox master password

Does using a master password in Firefox give you more or less security?
3 comments posted 2yrs
posted by me
3 comments posted 2yrs posted by me

Beware Amazon AI review summaries

We need a replacement small electric item for kitchen use, so my wife and I were searching Amazon for suitable items, e...
11 comments posted 2yrs
posted by aero.spike
11 comments posted 2yrs posted by aero.spike

Free tools

I was attempting to clear up the workshop a bit and thought that actually having a place to put everything would be a g...
6 comments posted 2yrs
posted by see.my.signature
6 comments posted 2yrs posted by see.my.signature