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Outdoor Shower- help needed
Hi all - I have a outdoor hot water tap and a outdoor cold outdoor water ta p located close to each other. I would like to build a shower about 10 metr es away and run a hose between the taps and the...
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3 years ago
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Interesting HP processor circa 1974
Noticed this on CPUShack. This is only 5 year after the US landed on the moon remember. Andrew The Forgotten Ones: HP Nanoprocessor | The CPU Shack Museum
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3 years ago
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Road Pins to extend fire grate??
Hi All, A couple of years back we had a fireplace fitted. It was mostly a good job. But.... They fitted an 18? Fireback but put a 16? surround in front of it. So the only ready made grate that will...
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3 years ago
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Millennium bug. Part deux.
Quite right, but gosh, you would be a tough taskmaster.
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3 years ago
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Opening links to PDF files
In the past, when I've clicked on an Internet link to a PDF file, the file just opened (using Win10, Firefox browser and Foxit reader), but now, when I try and open an Internet link to a PDF file, I'm...
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3 years ago
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OT: VAT receipts
I have always wondered why there are VAT receipts and other receipts (marked 'Not a VAT receipt'). Why not print the required details (mainly, I assume, the VAT number) on all receipts as a matter of...
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Common bricks converted to batteries £0.50 each.
Researchers from Washington University found a way to convert simple 'red bricks' into energy storage units that could be charged to power lighting in a home.
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3 years ago
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Woodworm in rungs?
Old extension ladder rarely used as the aluminium one reaches most parts I need but a light at the top of the gable (bungalow) has gone. Noted that there are seem small neat holes in the rungs....
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3 years ago
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Radio 2 audio distortion on news
Up near Guisborough, in the caravan on holiday. My car type radio in the caravan auto-tunes the FM radio stations. Program content reception is absolutely spot on, no audio distortion, but the news is...
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3 years ago
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TOT: exam results (Scotland)
If the Scottish Government decides to recalculate and replace the exam results (as seems likely), will this mean for decades to come any exam grades from 2020 will be regarded as unreliable with job...
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3 years ago
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Ultrasonic cleaner
Just ordered an ultrasonic cleaner and, as I expected, you don't get any cleaning fluid with it. The cleaner will be used initially to clean jewellery such as gold earrings, gold chains and necklaces,...
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3 years ago
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Cool Off!
A few ways to go forth & cool off: 1. spray the roof with water repeatedly 2. put a fan in the window during the evening, it blows in outside air that's cooler I'll leave more for you... NT
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3 years ago
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Coach parking near South London
Random question..... A friend is going to be driving coaches to and fro Victoria and Amsterdam and will need to park up for 9 hours somewhere near Victoria to have a rest. Does anyone know where he...
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3 years ago
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school covid tests
There seem to be calls for all pupils and staff to be tested weekly, as far as I can make out that's about 12 million tests per week, compared to just over 13 million total covid tests since the...
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3 years ago
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OT: Driving on/off kerbs
Granddaughter took me to pick someone up from the bus stop. Nowhere great to park but there was a dropped kerb in a handy place and I suggested she straddle the pavement using the dropped kerb. She...
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3 years ago
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