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How to find/make/whatever things like this cheaply?
I have several hundred metres (maybe even a km or so) of electric fencing around our land. One of the things one often has to do is tie down loose folded over ends of electric fence tape and make...
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Short Dated food suppliers
Along with 'approved food', this bunch has popped on me radar... BTW, those approvedfood transistors are now a £5 black friday special... BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL Unbranded Transistor Assortment Kit
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cool
See more from the AT&T Archives at http://techchannel.att.com/archives There were two versions of this film made; this is the short version. Watch for footage of the ridiculously huge vacuum tubes...
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Orientation of lever ball valve
Is there any reason why a lever operated full bore ball valve, on a horizontal pipe, shouldn't be mounted with the lever on the side or bottom, rather than the top? Would meake access easier in my...
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OT Old electricity bill
Promised for a poster here but I though some others might like to see it. It was given to me by Terry Casey's widow and the bill would have been for his mother (Terry's Dad passed away when Terry was...
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Lost in the baffling Makita range
I'd decided to treat myself to a Mak 18V brushless drill (no hammer) and ID, but the range of model numbers is impenetrable and I haven't found a simple comparison page. Does such a thing exist, or...
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Extractor fan back draught shutter - one flap or two?
Having felt a cold incoming draught from the bathroom extractor fan I'm looking at adding a back draught shutter to the pipe run. As usual, nothing is easy. I can have one flap or two. Advantages of...
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In-line fuse holders - do they meet the regs?
One for our resident certified electrical installers ... I want to add a spur to feed a wall-mounted smart heating controller, which has a PSU as part of its wall-mount kit. I don't want to have a...
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wonderful diagram of an ASP on EDF website
the diagram showing the 'warm' and 'cold' sides make any sense ? Air Source Heat Pumps: A Complete Guide | EDF
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OT: Ping ex / current Peugeot 407 owners?
Daughters little 2001 1.2 16V Corsa has managed to put another 8,000 miles on top of the 200,000 since we got it though it's last couple of MOT's and it's due again in January. I stuck a new rad in it...
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3 years ago
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Charcoal BBQ indoors - restaurants do, extractor hood?
Having bought my tiny one burger BBQ I am wondering about the practicality of using it indoors. I wouldn't use it unventilated, but it has occurred to me that I could put it on a metal tray on top of...
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OT: quotas
With all this talk about trade deals, I am wondering how quotas actually work. Supposing we agreed a quota of 60,000 cars per year into the UK, what would stop Volkswagen exporting 60,000 cars in...
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DiY Memory saver??
Hi All, I need to change a car battery on a modern car, and don?t want to lose any settings. I?ve left it a bit late to buy a cheap ODB memory saver. I am considering making up a cable with some 1.5mm...
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Identify thermostatic valve
This is the thermostatic valve from a shower: mixer I removed it from has no markings, and this valve barely has any - just some numbers on the brass spindle at the left. When the unit warms up, the...
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OT: Microsoft Word - controlling space between photo and border around it (not between border and text that is wrapped)
Is there a way in MS Word of setting the spacing between a photograph and the solid/dashed border that you may choose to place around the photo? I've found loads of articles on Google which talk about...
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