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How to find a quiet shaver socket?

Our (quite old) shaver socket hums, and it's getting louder. I'm not worried about it blowing up or anything but it's i...
60 comments posted 3yrs
posted by cl
60 comments posted 3yrs posted by cl

Crosby

Crosby dies...what a shame
11 comments posted 3yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
11 comments posted 3yrs posted by kinvig.netta

Braincell supplement needed

Last year I purchased a dowling jig. It is pretty good for 8mm and 9mm holes. But it has nothing to support small diame...
11 comments posted 3yrs
posted by pinnerite
11 comments posted 3yrs posted by pinnerite

Simple drawing or photo-editing program wanted

I regularly want to draw transparent coloured ellipses around chosen areas on photographs, maps etc to highlight them....
27 comments posted 3yrs
posted by me
27 comments posted 3yrs posted by me

Non smart lobby lamp

My brain hurts! We have a 3m x 3m external lobby linking to a store and garden access. Pressure is being exerted to ins...
18 comments posted 3yrs
posted by tim
18 comments posted 3yrs posted by tim

Amazon Return (high value)

I got a returns address for a laptop computer from Amazon just before Christmas, so I packaged it up, printed labels an...
7 comments posted 3yrs
posted by jon
7 comments posted 3yrs posted by jon

a first - locking petrol cap froze up

my locking petrol cap froze up this morning stopping me getting petrol...took until lunch time for it to thaw out regard...
22 comments posted 3yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
22 comments posted 3yrs posted by kinvig.netta

led pir floodlights

since when did the retail versions come with a bit of three core cable attached ?...ones I bought a few years ago didn'...
9 comments posted 3yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
9 comments posted 3yrs posted by kinvig.netta

Weird debit account

Trouble with a Nat West account... If I try to use the card, or the phone via Googlepay, at a certain cafe, it has alwa...
25 comments posted 3yrs
posted by a
25 comments posted 3yrs posted by a

Frozen wheelie bins

Is ther any easy way to free these up so they stay freed for a while? The local bin men have not had a great successful...
13 comments posted 3yrs
posted by brian1gaff
13 comments posted 3yrs posted by brian1gaff

Frozen garage door

Expensive mistake today. It was -6°C this morning and I went out and pressed the remote to open the roller garage door....
18 comments posted 3yrs
posted by Jeff
18 comments posted 3yrs posted by Jeff

washer/dryer on the blink

10+ year old Hotpoint (so it's really an Indesit, I think?) controls are not mechanical. It's not been any trouble, tho...
7 comments posted 3yrs
posted by usenet
7 comments posted 3yrs posted by usenet

Dismantling and reassembling flatpack wardrobe

We have a Lazio two-door sliding wardrobe (one door is mirrored) bought from Harveys/Bensons For Beds that needs to be...
24 comments posted 3yrs
posted by a
24 comments posted 3yrs posted by a