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OTish Replacement Garage Windows
The FENSA requirement is a nice little earner racket for installers. At the end of the day the main required specifications are met by the window manufacturer in the majority of cases all the...
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Todays food boxes...
Dunno but I imagine it would be quite a view.
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Retooling around Roomba
In article >, alan_m > wrote: The main problem with SCART was the near rigid cable. Same really as some HDMI too. SCARTS using ribbon cables were much better. But a battery only has three terminals?...
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Sorry - no AG!
I asked a couple of weeks ago about cutting up the pring base of a double matress. Well, finally got it round to my place and had a good look at the construction. Plan was to weigh it down with slabs...
 
How to annoy the entire street
If you can't be bothered replying, then don't. >>>>>
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Car door protector strip (ish)
Hello. I'm sure that many will be familiar with these. A flexible plastic 'U' moulding to fit onto car door edges to prevent damage. Does anyone know where I might get a longer length of this? I need...
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older/newer GCH radiator efficiency?
In article wrote: If it isn't visible light, you won't see it. But it's the case that simply nothing is 100% efficient. May come very close, though.
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OT: Fingerprint recognition oddity
I was re-stacking a lot of dry firewood the other day and afterwards I couldn?t unlock my Samsung phone using the fingerprint sensor. I wasn?t *that* surprised but then I realised that my iPad was...
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Re: THE FUZZ CHASED ME TODAY ...
European Association of Preventive Cardiology
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angle grinders .
Plenty of people still selling them Screwfix being one! Richard
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Stopping taps rotating?
HI all, Daughter picked me up a pair of 1/4 turn taps from Screwfix for our bathroom basin yesterday and I was wondering if we bed taps down in anything these days to stop them leaking / moving or...
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OBD2 ECU Memory Saver
Donno, I just made up a open end to lighter plug made sure the lighter socket was powered and connected a 12 V SLA to the open ends. With a modern car one might have to be quick changing the main...
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I made something...
And not in the workshop either. Don't get your hopes up, it was only dinner: (someone asked me for the recipe - I figured it was near enough to DIY to warrant inclusion here for any spice heads out...
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Caboose with wings
I have just been watching an old film (1997 crime, thriller) which involved a US railroad passing through snow covered mountainous area. The Caboose, was fitted with a heavy steel wing on one side,...
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OT: Commercially available face masks
Any views on something (apparently wecan brand) like: 's the point of the valve? Seem to allow breath out but small in comparison to the whole area. Have I just wasted some money? Seems as if they've...
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