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Horwich ?
Looking for a tradesman or handyman who can do a property maintenance job for me on a property in BL6 area. Can't get there myself because of Covid restrictions.
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Kingsley Davis -- Zero Population Growth
Kingsley Davis (1908?1997) was an internationally recognized American sociologist and demographer. He was identified by the American Philosophical Society as one of the most outstanding social...
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Wiki offline
Just a heads up to say its down and the mo, and may be for few days... Normal service will be resumed shortly!
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Autotransformers - Regulatory grey area?
An item such as this were sold by Maplin with their name on it. How can this be a double-insulated class II applience if the output has (by definition) a metalic connection to the mains?
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Modifying a Canon XL1 Video Camera
I have an XL1 video camera I purchased for a company project in 2000 and it was never used, in fact it is still in pristine condition, having only a couple of hours use since new. It is not worth very...
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Weatherproof electrical enclosure
On an external wall I have a pair of weatherproof sockets, and from one of them I run a plug lead feed to a box housing a timer and the transformer for my water feature pump, which is off during...
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Using soaker hose
I have, with some success, been using a porous hose to water some of my flower beds, as they are rather dry because of clay soil, a neighbour's ivy hedge and trees in both gardens. The side border is...
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Antifreeze.
I take it the reason the rubber/plastic bulb/hose on my anti-freeze tester disintegrates between Winters is the alcohol? in the coolant? Might help if the manufacturers suggested rinsing with fresh...
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Careful with that axe, no, glue Eugene
The forever ponytail: woman shares ordeal after using Gorilla Glue on her hair Tessica Brown has gained a captive audience on TikTok and Instagram after mistakenly using super-strength adhesive on her...
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3 years ago
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Snow Chains or Socks
Hi Guys I have had a difficult two days, largely trying to get home from rather than to work. Our house is at the top of a hill and, although the gradients to travel home are not excessive, my Focus...
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Dummy Loads For Checking Welder specs
Can anyone suggest a suitable dummy load for this purpose? Needs to be able to handle up to 200A for at least half a minute. I suppose the ideal thing would be an arc light bulb out of a cinema...
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Attic Firewalls legal or not?
Our building was split into separate properties decades ago. You can get from one to another in the attic. I think modern Regs would insist in firewalls to slow the spread of fire. Is this backdated...
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OT: Coldest UK temperature for ten years....
... is barely mentioned (-17°C) Now if it had been the warmest...
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OT - under floor ventilation
Notice what seemed to be a strange thing on our deck out the back. Snow was clearing from between the gaps in the decking, and melting over the screw heads even though it was sub-zero. What I think is...
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Locked out!
For a number of reasons (at perhaps a reduction in security) I tend to have thumb screw locks on the inside of doors. Modern doors in particular though what's the crap where you can't unlock the...
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