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A crashing disappointment!
This being 50 years since leaving school to go up to Uni to read electronics, I thought I'd mug up on more recent subject matter and forked out £60 for a textbook on Mechatronics only to find that...
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Water damaged cabinets
The Base of my kitchen units have water damage which I need to repair. I was going to sand them to a smooth surface and paint them with an egg shell paint but I am worried that when I sand it will...
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Soft material to go in oven
What soft material would be OK in a domestic oven used for cooking. I want something that I could attach to the ends of the telescopic rails to stop them damaging the glass door if they have not been...
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# Bricks In English Garden Wall Bond?
I'm computing various types of masonry bonds & the # of bricks & amount of mortar consumed in each type. I'm a bit stuck on English Garden Wall Bond at the moment & hopefully someone can confirm my...
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What's this sticky tape called?
The sort that looks a bit like decorators masking tape, but used in engineering to establish what clearances lie between mating surfaces by looking at indentations when parts are assembled?
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Indians Hunt Through the Night for Water as a Megacity Runs Dry
Indians Hunt Through the Night for Water as a Megacity Runs Dry Population growth, poor planning and increasingly erratic monsoon rains leave public water supply more than one-third short of what is...
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Re: flourescent tubes
If the tube works fine with the starter out, we know the tube is fine. Don't just give it a very quick check, let it run a good 5 mins like that. If adding the starter it then keeps flashing, we know...
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Recommended treatment for Wooden Door Step
Getting dry and old varnish has worn off. With all the various oils and preservatives on the market wonder what the group would recommend as best treatment.
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New filling hose required?
I am about to get a replacement washing machine and noticed in one manual that it states the old filling hose should never be reused when the machine is installed. I can see that it /might/ be better...
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Re: whit?....
Barking mad! Salah Abdeslam, 29, faces multiple life sentences for his alleged crimes - but has been awarded the £450 payment for a breach of his privacy in prison
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Re: flourescent tubes
T12 florescent tube?
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Oncoming train. :-(
Yes, just when I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel I've cleared back the redundant wiring, treble checked I have the ring main, and cut into it to join the new part of the ring...
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flourescent tubes
Is the one you are using described as a "universal starter"?
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Wago 222-412 and enclosures and extending wiring
A couple of questions: (1) If Wago 222-412 connectors are out of reach under screwed down floorboards do they have to be in a protective enclosure? If so, what? (2) Due to false positives from a...
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Quick trivial question - masking screw heads in a painted floor.
I'm in the process of lifting floorboards which were painted after being screwed down Screwfix bulk pack posidrive screws. The painting has (obviously) filled in the screw heads and it is a right arse...
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