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One of those days...
First, the microwave went south last night (see post "Dead microwave oven"). This morning at M&S there was a power glitch while we were using the self-scan checkout. Nobody could pay until the server...
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Outside drain issues. First port of call?
My daughter has a concreted patio area behind her house which has drains passing beneath it. It has a largish sagging area that sounds hollow and it’s fairly clear that something is undermining the...
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Sticky Rubber Knobs
In the past, I have suffered the rubberised control buttons and knobs turning sticky over time, I used to use talcum powder to reduce this sticky feel, but it doesn't seem to work nowadays. Does...
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Back for a day
Sorry that I have been away for a while, and unfortunately will only be sporadic for the foreseeable future. My family has been crushed by the news of our sister Rivkah being murdered by Hamas scum at...
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Dead microwave oven
I just tried to use the 750W microwave oven and all it did was make a loud humming noise. So I assume it's the HV diode or perhaps magnetron which has gone south. It's around 20 years old, and the...
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How much fall,on 110mm waste pipe
At present the waste from my toilet pan is about 0.5m between pan and vertical stack originally it was in the kickspace of some bathroom fitted cabinets. I cannot measure the angle but it looks almost...
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Heat recovery ventilation units
Anyone fitted one? We have a relatively large house but most of the time there are just the two of us knocking about in it. We’re trying to reduce heat loss in our sitting room and bedroom but those...
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Thunderbird again
Trying to archive messages prior to the new box move. ctrl click is very tedious. Is there a better way?
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OT: question for Ipad owners on Facetime
Gentlemen, Does anyone know if it's possible to record the audio from a Facetime conversation without having to use a seperate recorder? I'd have thought there must be a setting somewhere to do this,...
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Adjusting the time (clocks go back) on a chiming clock
For a typical clockwork chiming clock that chimes the quarters as well as the hour, when putting the clock back in the autumn, is it actually necessary to advance the clock every quarter of an hour,...
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DIY Property Ladder
wonder if this is legal. The guy says there's a loophole.
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Rigid Foam PVC Sheet
I want to form plastic sheet iaround 2mm - 3mm thickness into a square cross section of 5" x 5" by making making 3 right angle bends using a strip heater. Can I do this with "rigid foam PVC sheet"? Am...
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New box. Next step
Quiet in here! Ok. So I now have the peripherals to power up my re-furbished Dell W11 box. All my existing software/data is 32 bit W7 as discussed earlier. What am I going to be able to do without...
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Draytek or FitzBox for Site2Site VPN
Until recently I had 1. a Draytek 2862 on FTTC in the UK 2. an old 2820 at my holiday home. The internet in my holiday home is 300Mb FTTP with CG NAT on a Huawei EG8145V5 router. The 2820 connects to...
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De Longhi Magnifica mystery
We have a bean to cup machine with an odd fault or feature, I’m not quite sure which. Whenever it makes a cup of coffee it spits out a compressed cake of used coffee-grounds into an internal bin....
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