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Manhole covers lifting with excess rainfall
Would anyone have any input on what "pressure" of rainfall in a combined sewer system is required to lift a steel manhole cover in road surface. Yesterday about 3 inches of water jetting thru a vent...
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Fixing a broken Anglepoise
As an alternative to the frequent complaints here, here's a note of recent excellent service: I've had an Anglepoise lamp on my desk for many years. A week ago when I grabbed it a bit roughly, a...
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Varifocal lenses
Is there a limit to the size, top to bottom, of varifocal lenses. What is the max size available ?
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Dimming LEDs (in bulbs that are designed to be dimmed) - why the minimum brightness?
I've noticed that various LEDs which are designed to be dimmed have a minimum brightness - if you dim them from bright, they go gradually dimmer and then turn off while still partly lit; if you...
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Working PSU for Philips Hue "Lightstrip" gives open-circuit (even at 200 M ohm range)
I'm curious. We found a Philips Hue "Lightstrip" that was not working, and it turned out to be a duff 240 V AC to 24 V DC PSU. When I measured the resistance across the mains input pins, it gave "open...
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2 years ago
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Disc management question
I have a spare HDD that I would like to use as a back-up. Seagate 500GB nominal capacity. Examining it in Win10 Disc Management, it has three partitions: two, labeled X and Y, are primary partitions,...
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2 years ago
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new wagos
I see that (from next month?) Wago are doing an inline version of their 221 series connectors. <>They're just catching up with what the chinese clones have made for a while ... not sure why they don't...
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SOT Mice
Anyone else suffering from a surfeit of these rodents? We usually trap only one or two in the loft once every couple of years, but this year in the last fortnight we've trapped a couple in the loft...
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2 years ago
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Useless so called Samsung 'smart TV'
Tried to get it to connect to several sites. Couldn't 'find' about half. That's it. No more smart TVs. plugged the laptop into the HDMI and got the video streams that way. It's a cheap way to get a...
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2 years ago
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OT: Anyone else seeing lots of missing articles on giganews/plusnet?
Last few weeks I seem to be getting lots of blank expired messages, or threads missing their original posts, and also some followups. Anyone else seen similar? (just connected via eternal september,...
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Henry Hoover brush head
Hi how do you put a henry red turbo brush head back together 😀 I tool mine apart to clean and forgot how to put it back
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Back solo 3pfl turns off and on
Bali solo 3plf 50 Boiler fires up ok and runs then flame goes out and then turns back on immediately stays on for about 2 minutes then goes out and fires up again No air in the radiators I have...
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Bloody useless Yodel.
They just sit on deliveries and make excuses.
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2 years ago
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USB 3 ports
Just a quick question, are USB 3 ports backwardly compatible with previous USB standards? I have just ordered a new laptop which only has USB 3 ports, I have just one device that requires a USB 3 port...
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best joke for a while
Funny Joke - My Wife Thought I Went Fishing, But I Climbed Back In Bed 👇The Joke👇 Saturday morning I got up early, put on my long johns, dressed quietly, made my lunch, grabbed the dog, slipped...
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