UK Do-It-Yourself Forum

  1. Home
  2. UK Do-It-Yourself Forum
91875 Threads Posts
to

Worth reading in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum

LED lamps

I have a couple of early LED lamps, with fins and very heavy. Are these as good as (or better than?) the present generat...
31 comments posted 6yrs
posted by newsgroups
31 comments posted 6yrs posted by newsgroups

Electronic construction kits

Does anyone here remember what was the precursor to the Philips Radionic series? I am thinking of about 1963 which is a...
58 comments posted 6yrs
posted by headstone255
58 comments posted 6yrs posted by headstone255

Programming frequency inverter

Changed a blown frequency inverter, machine worked but motor was too fast for our application. Moeller Df4-120-37 It ne...
6 comments posted 6yrs
posted by rsandr
6 comments posted 6yrs posted by rsandr

Question for users of milling machines

What type of edge finder do you use (wiggler, split-cylinder or electronic) and can you recommend it?
7 comments posted 6yrs
posted by nothanks
7 comments posted 6yrs posted by nothanks

External hard drives...

I have all my stuff on a 1tb external drive....yesterday I bought another to back it up...doing it at the moment and it...
93 comments posted 6yrs
posted by jim.gm4dhj
93 comments posted 6yrs posted by jim.gm4dhj

external hard drives

I have all my stuff on a 1tb external drive....yesterday I bought another to back it up...doing it at the moment and it...
5 comments posted 6yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
5 comments posted 6yrs posted by kinvig.netta

Galvonic isolator position

where should the galvonic isolator be positioned in relation to a virginmedia modem/router?.....I relocated the box to...
40 comments posted 6yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
40 comments posted 6yrs posted by kinvig.netta

CCTV for drains

I could do with one of them gadgets where you shove a CCTV camera up a drain to find blockages. Has anyone found a reas...
4 comments posted 6yrs
posted by wrightsaerials
4 comments posted 6yrs posted by wrightsaerials

'Calibrating' a square

Trying to find out which of my assortment of squares and adjustable angle measurerers is, well, square. Not sure what t...
6 comments posted 6yrs
posted by giraffenos.pam
6 comments posted 6yrs posted by giraffenos.pam

Adjustable hole cutter

Looked at these on SF and the reviews are not good - flimsy etc. At work we had single-sided one that worked well but it...
13 comments posted 6yrs
posted by giraffenos.pam
13 comments posted 6yrs posted by giraffenos.pam

House plans

I am okanning to move to a bungalow. Adjacent to it is one has had an extension added. I might consider doing the same...
14 comments posted 6yrs
posted by pinnerite
14 comments posted 6yrs posted by pinnerite

Neff Microwave.

It's quite old, but a match to the double Neff Oven. The time display goes blank after use. Otherwise it works normally...
12 comments posted 6yrs
posted by dave
12 comments posted 6yrs posted by dave

Replacing a two-sided shower frame

How easy is it to replace a two sided shower frame onto an existing tray. The one there now is badly damaged at the bas...
1 comments posted 6yrs
posted by nospam
1 comments posted 6yrs posted by nospam

shed base

Putting in a concrete floor for a small shed (4m x 4m). This obviously involvee removing soil and if I go down 150mm th...
8 comments posted 6yrs
posted by tpmccann
8 comments posted 6yrs posted by tpmccann