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Failed Honeywell Motorised CH Valve
One of our zone valves has failed in that the spring on the little lever has broken, or possibly come adrift. The lever moves across without any resistance in either direction with the result that,...
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Good portable emergency light?
I popped past Mums earlier and she's given me a couple of old torches to look at because she has seen mention of power cuts and 'she tried all the torches and none of them worked'. So, whilst I'm sure...
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Burst water main - how is water emptied out of a gas main?
My parents were one of the 400-odd houses which lost their gas supply near Aylesbury when a water main burst (which quite an explosion, from witness reports) and fractured an adjacent gas main,...
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PVA on outdoor wood
Can you seal outdoor wood by painting on waterproof PVA? I am thinking say if you had the roof of a bird table or chicken coop would it be a good plan to glue the wooden bits together and seal over...
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Painting a garage door
A quick question for the experts: I want to paint a steel garage door. Most of the old paint is intact but some is not. I have given it a fairly heavy rub down (power tool and wire brush). I have a...
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Repairing a tile
We have a tile at the entrance door to the common stairwell that has been damaged by repeated contact with the hook used to hold the door open. It is a semi-circular abrasion of the glaze. The tile...
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Breakthrough - superconductor
New superconductor found, works at room temperature. Most important discovery of the decade? A compound of hydrogen, carbon and sulfur has broken a symbolic barrier — but its high pressure...
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Hoovers for workshop dust extraction
In my shed I have a basic, noisy 1500w Screwfix table saw. When I use it I connect a 1000w wet and dry vacuum cleaner to the underneath extractor outlet and an old 1000W henry type hoover to the...
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Finishing Aluminium
Hi Guys I am profiling a bracket shape out of 12 thk aluminium. Got as far as the rough profile with a jig saw and a bit of chain drilling and will dress it to shape with a file next. The question is,...
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Triton pocket hole screws, what am I doing wrong?
above link shows a butt joint made with 1" Triton pocket hole screws and the Triton double pocket hole jig. The wood is 15mm thick on the short side. I did several test joints using thicker wood, e.g....
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Flymo Leaf blower slider stuck/stickly
My elderly (well older than me anyway) neighbour has a Flymo Scirocco Leaf Blower (2500w) which probably never has had a clean despite regular autumn use. He said it wasn't working and he was going to...
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Toolstation's search facility
I wanted some linseed oil putty - I put "putty" in the search box and got three pages of results, more than fifty items, only one of which (item 25 I think) was putty! They need to get someone who has...
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Unused aerial bracket?
The guy I mentioned recently who phoned me asking where he could get a replacement TV signal booster ... that he didn't actually need ... ( at the TV works fine without it, probably left over from the...
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