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OT the headline writers simply gert worse every year
A motorist with a fear of *bridges* called police in a panic while travelling along one of the country?s busiest motorways after realising he was about to travel *under* the River Thames, it emerged...
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My grandad's clock
I have recently inherited my grandad's retirement clock. (Well, strictly, it's my wife's grandad's clock, but that's not material). It dates from 1950 and hasn't been cleaned for some time - likely...
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OT - Pointless
I may be behind the times here, but there was a contestant on Pointless tonight (BBC1) who was a handyman called Dave. Anybody we know? John M
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Refitting bath taps
I want to remove the bath taps so that I can reseal the edge with silicone. What do I seal between the tap and the bath? Long time since I last did this and I seemed to remember doing it with putty....
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OT: Rant - Cheap, nasty, shitty "zips"
Just bought the washing in off our rotary line - first use this year. Folded it down. Went to put the "Minky" cover (used once last year) back on, and the shitty nasty cheap plastic excuse for a zip...
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Bolt through or drill and tap?
I am about to have the builders fix some brackets to a 10mm square steel post. They are proposing to drill all the way through and have nut and bolt. Fine for the intermediate posts but it might be...
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[?] Dealing with wood rot in decorative house fascia.
As part of the fascia (if that's the right word) at the front of our 1930s built house is a wooden decorative piece, see picture of an identical one at:- I recently noticed that on our house the wood...
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Protect carpet from dining room table
Hi All Is it feasable to protect a carpet from the legs of my dining room table? Thanks Alec
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Frost damage to water butt feed pipe
For many years I've used a length of 22mm plastic pipe to feed a water butt. Despite freezing solid on several occasions (sufficient to push the end connectors out) it's never failed. Last year I...
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OT - Curiosity's lack of memory
This story intrigued me. See the last paragraph. " Due to capacity limitations on the craft, the rover launched with only the software needed to land. Once on the planet, new software had to then be...
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Trusteer Rapport problems [OT in uk.d-i-y]
Reinstall and uninstall is worth trying. Failing that visit: (will simply give you a file listing) and click on autoruns.exe Wade through (a list of every conceivable way a program can be...
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Corded screwdriver
Li Ion batts will auto discharge less than NiCd or NiMh...
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Will a Cast Downpipe into a Plastic Downpipe
Hi I would like to replace a cast gutter downpipe with plastic to fit water butt and diverter, the cast looks slightly smaller to my untrained eye and I wondered if I could just cut the cast downpipe...
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Wireable 4mm socket
I'm trying to make my own wander lead out of surplus 1.5mm single-core. I've searched high and low but I can't find 4mm sockets that you can attach to the end of a cable. I can find several 4mm plugs...
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Spiral (Engrenages)
Any fans out there ? Just finished watching Series 2. In the very last scene, in the last episode, the camera zoomed in on a body with the face wrapped in polythene. Whose body was this ? Would like...
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