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Decent mpact driver bits?

A while back a mate gave me his spare (Makita) impact driver because he'd upgraded all his power tools to the same make...
33 comments posted 5yrs
posted by news
33 comments posted 5yrs posted by news

Repairing an electric Oven

I am in the process of repairing my Zanussi ZCV667mx lower oven, it has two ovens. Basically the thermostat has failed...
10 comments posted 5yrs
posted by stevejones47
10 comments posted 5yrs posted by stevejones47

Toilet fill valve

Anybody any idea where I can buy a bottom fill toilet fill valve with a 70mm long tail, 1/2? thread. Struggling to sourc...
7 comments posted 5yrs
posted by bevbrooks11
7 comments posted 5yrs posted by bevbrooks11

OT youtube reporting

Has anybody tried to report a video on you tube?...there is one at the moment that encourages travel to a holiday locat...
47 comments posted 5yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
47 comments posted 5yrs posted by kinvig.netta

Tidying cables

I'm about to add a security camera to the back of the house which will mean a fourth Ethernet cable running parallel to...
40 comments posted 6yrs
posted by news
40 comments posted 6yrs posted by news

OT: Radar interference?

In a car group I follow a number of members have had problems with the collision avoidance systems in their cars. I bel...
13 comments posted 6yrs
posted by tim.downie
13 comments posted 6yrs posted by tim.downie

Cost of an AVO in 1966

Just looking back at an old record of department purchases since 1957. Tracked done one of our remaining AVO's 8 mk III...
26 comments posted 6yrs
posted by whisky.dave
26 comments posted 6yrs posted by whisky.dave

Computer app for draing wiring

A friend needs some assistance on a 12v wiring task. I was going to do it for him, but have really locked myself down b...
20 comments posted 6yrs
posted by robkgraham
20 comments posted 6yrs posted by robkgraham

LED TV Back light inverter

Problem with Bush BLED42FHDAE TV I think the issue is with the back light inverter, with the board plugged in the TV do...
21 comments posted 6yrs
posted by joe.blogs
21 comments posted 6yrs posted by joe.blogs

Zanussi cond'sr dryer ZDP7207PZ drying time

This has just replaced old model which we had for many years & could set for short time 15 mins on the manual dial sett...
7 comments posted 6yrs
posted by david
7 comments posted 6yrs posted by david

OT: video editing, Win10 Photos

Just got a new toy (GoPro Hero 9) so I thought I'd try the Win10 Photos app just for viewing and trimming some clips. T...
16 comments posted 6yrs
posted by newshound
16 comments posted 6yrs posted by newshound

Mobile phone

Follow up to the previously discussed Vodafone outage. After nearly 2 weeks Vf grudgingly admitted there had been an is...
48 comments posted 6yrs
posted by tim
48 comments posted 6yrs posted by tim

Opening tight jar lids.

Maybe I got lucky and this was a one off and I've checked Google - and nothing. As before grip the lid with all your fo...
47 comments posted 6yrs
posted by mjadams25
47 comments posted 6yrs posted by mjadams25