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Treadmill oil v Silicone oil

Two questions: 1) Treadmill oil seems somewhat more expensive than d-i-y type Silicone Oil. Are there differences, eg a...
3 comments posted 2yrs
posted by nospam
3 comments posted 2yrs posted by nospam

Government gas hob warning

Just in case anyone here has such a hob, or may work on one. Cheers Dave R
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posted by wibble
5 comments posted 2yrs posted by wibble

OT: What is Virgin Media up to.

Round here there are so many road closures and traffic lights that one has to refer to one.network just to see if it's...
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posted by tim
13 comments posted 2yrs posted by tim

Migration of phone network to digital

I'm looking for examples of where this has caused hardship, especially for disabled or housebound people. Anone got any...
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posted by wrights...
91 comments posted 2yrs posted by wrights...

Any good for heating 3 room flat?

I saw this heating and cooling method mentioned on Reddit as a less expensive and more easily installable option for he...
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posted by mikehalmarack
32 comments posted 2yrs posted by mikehalmarack

Porch door closer

What is the best one of these. When I get a delivery I like to ask folk to put it in the porch, but quite often they ju...
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posted by brian1gaff
7 comments posted 2yrs posted by brian1gaff

LED lights, watts, lumens etc.

Following on from previous thread, one option seems to be a bedside LED reading light. For example The first few lights...
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posted by wibble
6 comments posted 2yrs posted by wibble

replacing fluorescent tube with LED

In our kitchen we've got two 58 watt 5 foot (1500 mm) fluorescent tubes, one of which is showing signs of age. I might...
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posted by usenet
40 comments posted 2yrs posted by usenet

Junk?

Salvaging saleable copper (transformer) from a scrap metre wide printer dumped by one of my tenants, I came across 3 of...
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posted by tim
0 comments posted 2yrs posted by tim

New Windows 7 install

Hope all I can still see here (not filtered out) are keeping well. Just catching up after time off doing never ending D...
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posted by noreply
7 comments posted 2yrs posted by noreply

Email host

My website is currently hosted by nativespace. After this year I will not need it but i would like to hang on the emaiu...
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posted by pinnerite
9 comments posted 2yrs posted by pinnerite

Google Groups ending 22 Feb 2024

Google Groups ending support for Usenet If you work with Usenet groups in Google Groups, support for these groups is en...
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posted by aero.spike
53 comments posted 2yrs posted by aero.spike

Unusual Failure of WC Soil Pipe

A flexible soil pipe fitted behind a WC has suddenly developed unusual holes in it which looks like its caused by rats...
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posted by mitchmunden
12 comments posted 2yrs posted by mitchmunden

Cordless tools :)

https://youtube.com/shorts/3vEmzOz3Yp4
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posted by tabbypurr
0 comments posted 2yrs posted by tabbypurr