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Barometers and average pressure
Why do barometers have different centre readings? I thought 1000 mbar was average, as that's what barometers always used to have as the central reading ("change"), but Wikipedia says it's 1013. I've...
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Washing line ground socket size
My next project is laying a patio, and I want to include a ground socket for a rotary washing line. It'll be concreted in, so won't be easy to replace later without damaging the slabs. Is there a...
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OT - Bowel Cancer Test
I have recently been sent a kit for a bowel cancer test. The previous one was a bit unpleasant and required several days of samples to be spread onto a card. The latest is so simple - one test only -...
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Gluing stone
I have a nice shaped limestone stone about a foot across. Trouble is a clumsy clot broke it in two. It's a rounded stone for going on top of a wall, and I'd like to use it again. Does anyone know if...
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Anyone got a laser engraver?
I could do with something that would mark text onto plastic. It would be light use. So wondering about a laser engraver. If anyone has one, which one and are you happy with it?
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Water stains
Burst pipe caused water damage to ceiling, been drying out for last 4 days and the ceiling appears to be intact apart from water mark staining. I have ordered some stain block which I will use before...
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Re: windscreens...
I'm guessing you mean resin stone chip repairs. If so, they're of very limited use. If there's even a single crack radiating even 1mm out from the chip, that crack will inevitably spread out, and UK...
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Removing Hammerite
Have a cast brass number plate for outside a house. Type where edge and numbers are raised, and the background is recessed by around 5mm. Initially raised letters and borders were polished brass, and...
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Joys of rural living.
This is proper rural living, not what Mumsnet calls rural living (anywhere Ocado won't deliver in Surrey). "Ken, who is in his 70s and lives off grid in a remote part of Lochaber, was injured when a...
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Under cabinet striplight with its own shade - anyone seen such a thing?
I have quite a lot of t4 tube link lights and have an application for a couple more (I might migrate to LED but that's a distraction really). However this latest use won't hide the lamps behind a...
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Apprentice fired
Not a particularly surprising event or outcome. A spokesman for the garage said: "The lads went on a test drive with the car and they decided to kill two birds with one stone and go and get their...
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Re: Questions about water pumped central heating design
In article >, says... At one time General motors had a problem with the radiator rusting through and leaking into the cooler for the transmission.. The antifreeze mix has a rust inhibiter in it.
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Metal Halide
Brother seems to have got lumbered with doing some of the maintenance work at his church. Although a retired maths teacher with a physics degree, he's no electrician. Tends to get most bits he needs...
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Pine to Oak
Any recommendations for staining (and varnishing) to natural oak some new clear pine internal doors? Cheers, Rob
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MCB Failure modes / ageing?
HI Folks Our domestic central heating is run by a ground-source water heatpump - most of the time this is very successful, it was installed about 12 years ago. In the last 24 hours, the MCB that feeds...
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