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Running a freezer intermittantly musings...

Currently looking an an interesting electricity tariff that has just 3 ?on peak? hours per days, all the rest are charg...
31 comments posted 6yrs
posted by tim.downie
31 comments posted 6yrs posted by tim.downie

FUBAR

Scotland appears to be well fecked...
3 comments posted 6yrs
posted by jim.gm4dhj
3 comments posted 6yrs posted by jim.gm4dhj

LBC inspection

You may recall from previous threads that in the process of renewing our ki tchen and permanently wiring up the garage...
15 comments posted 6yrs
posted by tricky.dicky
15 comments posted 6yrs posted by tricky.dicky

Sand day

I felt like helping Jim. He?s helped me enough times. So ?Can I borrow your big stepladder? ended up with me going roun...
1 comments posted 6yrs
posted by wrightsaerials
1 comments posted 6yrs posted by wrightsaerials

Outdoor Shower- help needed

Hi all - I have a outdoor hot water tap and a outdoor cold outdoor water ta p located close to each other. I would like...
9 comments posted 6yrs
posted by baronofthecourt
9 comments posted 6yrs posted by baronofthecourt

Interesting HP processor circa 1974

Noticed this on CPUShack. This is only 5 year after the US landed on the moon remember. http://www.cpushack.com/2020/08/...
4 comments posted 6yrs
posted by Andrew97d-junk
4 comments posted 6yrs posted by Andrew97d-junk

Road Pins to extend fire grate??

Hi All, A couple of years back we had a fireplace fitted. It was mostly a good job. But.... They fitted an 18? Fireback...
6 comments posted 6yrs
posted by cpvh
6 comments posted 6yrs posted by cpvh

Millennium bug. Part deux.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2229238-a-lazy-fix-20-years-ago-means-the-y2k-bug-is-taking-down-computers-now/ ht...
53 comments posted 6yrs
posted by jethro_uk
53 comments posted 6yrs posted by jethro_uk

Opening links to PDF files

In the past, when I've clicked on an Internet link to a PDF file, the file just opened (using Win10, Firefox browser an...
1 comments posted 6yrs
posted by me
1 comments posted 6yrs posted by me

OT: VAT receipts

I have always wondered why there are VAT receipts and other receipts (marked 'Not a VAT receipt'). Why not print the re...
21 comments posted 6yrs
posted by newsgroups
21 comments posted 6yrs posted by newsgroups

Woodworm in rungs?

Old extension ladder rarely used as the aluminium one reaches most parts I need but a light at the top of the gable (bu...
17 comments posted 6yrs
posted by nospam
17 comments posted 6yrs posted by nospam

Radio 2 audio distortion on news

Up near Guisborough, in the caravan on holiday. My car type radio in the caravan auto-tunes the FM radio stations. Prog...
20 comments posted 6yrs
posted by harry.m1byt
20 comments posted 6yrs posted by harry.m1byt

TOT: exam results (Scotland)

If the Scottish Government decides to recalculate and replace the exam results (as seems likely), will this mean for de...
45 comments posted 6yrs
posted by newsgroups
45 comments posted 6yrs posted by newsgroups

Ultrasonic cleaner

Just ordered an ultrasonic cleaner and, as I expected, you don't get any cleaning fluid with it. The cleaner will be us...
20 comments posted 6yrs
posted by a
20 comments posted 6yrs posted by a