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Guocera Ashton Beige Floor tiles

I have barely enough floor tiles by Guocera, in ASTON BEIGE. If the tiler is brill, he might just have enough to cover...
1 comments posted 6yrs
posted by alysongardner
1 comments posted 6yrs posted by alysongardner

Aging copper

How could you age a recently hard silver soldered joint in copper so that it blends in to the old copper and does not lo...
16 comments posted 6yrs
posted by haggisz
16 comments posted 6yrs posted by haggisz

wireless charging?

New 2020 Renault Zoe R110 ZE 50 5 Door Auto from £189.99 inc VAT a month!!! NO DEPOSIT from £244.99 inc VAT a Month!!!...
4 comments posted 6yrs
posted by jim.gm4dhj
4 comments posted 6yrs posted by jim.gm4dhj

Update - the Variac Went Up in Smoke!

Astute readers will recall I was attempting to get an old variac up to modern safety standards. Well, it just spewed ou...
12 comments posted 6yrs
posted by curd
12 comments posted 6yrs posted by curd

Cable clipping trunked T&E

I'm replacing wiring to a socket that was run on a spur underneath the carpet (!). I have some skirting trunking that w...
2 comments posted 6yrs
posted by theom+news
2 comments posted 6yrs posted by theom+news

Undated Kodachrome slides ? date

Just been looking through some boxes of other peoples old slides that I bought a few years ago in house clearance shops...
31 comments posted 6yrs
posted by Andrew97d-junk
31 comments posted 6yrs posted by Andrew97d-junk

Replacing (quartz) clock mechanism

Over the years our battery ticking kitchen clock has become - to use the technical term - f***ed. Presumably something...
12 comments posted 6yrs
posted by jethro_uk
12 comments posted 6yrs posted by jethro_uk

CH boiler installation - isolation valves query

This is a follow on from a previous post. I've got to the point of following the boiler re-build instructions and have...
7 comments posted 6yrs
posted by robkgraham
7 comments posted 6yrs posted by robkgraham

OT California Fires

in case anybody has friends or relatives in California,This site provides live monitoring of fires: https://www.sfchron...
1 comments posted 6yrs
posted by davey
1 comments posted 6yrs posted by davey

Smart meter situation

I'm looking at a smart meter for our Village Hall. Other than checking that the supplier will fit a SMETS 2 rather than...
17 comments posted 6yrs
posted by timstreater
17 comments posted 6yrs posted by timstreater

Mechanical battery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QLEERYS5C8
69 comments posted 6yrs
posted by harry130747
69 comments posted 6yrs posted by harry130747

Vomiting after ingestion, and how to do so?

To induce vomiting or not to induce vomiting? It does irritate me that bleach for example says "do not induce vomiting"...
60 comments posted 6yrs
posted by CFKinsey
60 comments posted 6yrs posted by CFKinsey

Wallpaper paste

It has probably been asked before, but does unopened, still-sealed wallpaper paste have a shelf life? The paste in quest...
6 comments posted 6yrs
posted by me
6 comments posted 6yrs posted by me

Zanzibar effect

Interesting one about multi-meters in a BL service instruction booklet. To set the TPS (throttle position sensor) as fi...
10 comments posted 6yrs
posted by dave
10 comments posted 6yrs posted by dave